Scrolling and Stress: Exploring Internet Usage for Social Media and Psychological Distress in Young Adults by P C Pradeep Kumar, M Kishor, Archana Anthony Raj, M. Murugappan, Dhanabal S. Palaniswamy

“…This study aims to explore how much young adults use the Internet for social media and its link to psychological distress. Methods: The study included 423 UG and PG students from two private colleges in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. …”
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Behavioral and Functional Changes Due to Smartphone Overusage among Under-five Children in Rural Puducherry: A Community-based Cross-sectional Study by Sheeba Ravi, Kannan Krishnamoorthy, Rajini Senthil, Premnath Dhasaram, Monisha Venkatesan, R Iswarya, T. Manjubairavi

“…Subjects and Methods: A semi-structured questionnaire was used to assess the pattern of exposure and physical, social, and behavioral changes among study participants. …”
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Invulnerability bias in perceptions of artificial intelligence’s future impact on employment by Felipe Barrera-Jimenez, Jose Luis Arroyo-Barrigüete, Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Gonzalo Grinda-Luna

“…This study investigates the presence of the Invulnerability Bias (IB), where workers perceive that AI will have a greater impact on others’ jobs than on their own, and Optimism Bias by Type of Impact (OBTI), where individuals perceive AI’s future impact on their own job as more positive than on others’. The study analyzes survey data collected from 201 participants, recruited through social media using convenience sampling. …”
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An emerging issue: Social media addiction and its ill effects on medical students of Punjab by Aditya Ahuja, Paresh Prajapati, Ruchita Lunagariya, Rohit Bhowmick, Sachi Jain, Tanvir Kaur Sidhu

“…Aim and Objective: To find the prevalence of social media addiction among government and private medical college students across Punjab and uncover the ill effects of social media addiction on physical and mental health, relationships etc. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 717 students were included by convenience sampling technique. …”
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THE CONSIDERATION OF ATTITUDE AND MOTIVES RELATIVE TO LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES IN STUDENTS OF GUILAN UNIVERSITY, IRAN by Benar Nooshing, Behrozi Ayoub, Mansor Sadeghi Manizheh, Mohammadi Mahdi, Yosefi Maryam

“…Aim : The purpose of this research is consideration of attitude and motives relative to sport activities during leisure times in male and female students of Guilan University. Material and methods of research : a sample of 200 male and female students of Guilan University that had physical education 1 and 2 in 2011 and spent two sport activities in three times, they were selected as a sample by using classified sampling and answered to LAQ and LMQ questionnaire. …”
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Extending Equivalent Circuit Models for State of Charge and Lifetime Estimation by Limei Jin, Franz Philipp Bereck, Josef Granwehr, Christoph Scheurer

“…It facilitates not only a mapping of the state of charge dependence with robust boundary conditions but also an extension towards a more abstract SOH description is possible. Such methods can bridge the gap between the experiment and purely data‐driven techniques that do not rely on fitting of experimental data using a priori defined models. …”
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Relationship between Stress Levels and Blood Sugar Levels in Diabetes Mellitus by Veolina Irman, Ratna Indah Saridewi

“…Muhammad Zein general hospital Painan. The sample was taken as many as 79 respondents with accidental sampling technique. …”
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Understanding the importance of home-country skills of African immigrant entrepreneurs in South Africa by Bernard Lama Ngota, Elroy Eugene Smith, Pamella Ayanda Deliwe

“…Furthermore, the article investigates how home-country entrepreneurial skills affect immigrant entrepreneurial motivations, activities, and outcomes. Research Design & Methods: Following an interpretivist research paradigm, we applied a qualitative research approach. …”
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Fusion of Masked Autoencoder for Adaptive Augmentation Sequential Recommendation by SUN Xiujuan, SUN Fuzhen, LI Pengcheng, WANG Aofei, WANG Shaoqing

“…Then, an adaptive graph augmentation module is designed to extract important self-supervised signals based on an adaptive sampling strategy, learning more accurate item representations and effectively avoiding the interference of noise signals. …”
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Power and predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores. by Frank Dudbridge

“…Therefore, polygenic scores currently have more utility for association testing than predicting complex traits, but prediction will become more feasible as sample sizes continue to grow.…”
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Hazards and Safe Housekeeping Practices among Healthcare Sanitary Workers in South India by Jayanthi Mahendran, Rajalakshmi Mahendran

“…Simple random sampling was done, and 101 was the sample size. Training was conducted for all the participants, and knowledge was assessed after the session using the questionnaire. …”
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A novel approach for DNA extraction of white spot syndrome virus detection in penaeid shrimp by Vernita Priya, Raja Sudhakaran

“…We used identical sample volumes to compare the DMSO-based method with the traditional phenol-chloroform and Guanidium Hydrochloride techniques. …”
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Sustainable Tourism and Duality of Nature and Sports; Compilation of Tourism Development Strategies in Kermanshah Province by Mehrnaz Molavi, Amir Hosein Azimpour

“…For data analysis, SWOT and QSPM methods were used, while snowball sampling addressed the sample populous, consisting of 15 individuals knowledgeable in tourism and the province, including five university professors, seven tourism experts, and three tourism group officials. …”
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Adversarial example defense algorithm for MNIST based on image reconstruction by Zhongyuan QIN, Zhaoxiang HE, Tao LI, Liquan CHEN

“…With the popularization of deep learning, more and more attention has been paid to its security issues.The adversarial sample is to add a small disturbance to the original image, which can cause the deep learning model to misclassify the image, which seriously affects the performance of deep learning technology.To address this challenge, the attack form and harm of the existing adversarial samples were analyzed.An adversarial examples defense method based on image reconstruction was proposed to effectively detect adversarial examples.The defense method used MNIST as the test data set.The core idea was image reconstruction, including central variance minimization and image quilting optimization.The central variance minimization was only processed for the central area of the image.The image quilting optimization incorporated the overlapping area into the patch block selection.Considered and took half the size of the patch as the overlap area.Using FGSM, BIM, DeepFool and C＆amp;W attack methods to generate adversarial samples to test the defense performance of the two methods, and compare with the existing three image reconstruction defense methods (cropping and scaling, bit depth compression and JPEG compression).The experimental results show that the central variance minimization and image quilting optimization algorithms proposed have a satisfied defense effect against the attacks of existing common adversarial samples.Image quilting optimization achieves over 75% classification accuracy for samples generated by the four attack algorithms, and the defense effect of minimizing central variance is around 70%.The three image reconstruction algorithms used for comparison have unstable defense effects on different attack algorithms, and the overall classification accuracy rate is less than 60%.The central variance minimization and image quilting optimization proposed achieve the purpose of effectively defending against adversarial samples.The experiments illustrate the defense effect of the proposed defense algorithm in different adversarial sample attack algorithms.The comparison between the reconstruction algorithm and the algorithm shows that the proposed scheme has good defense performance.…”
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Identifying effective factors on employee performance management with the approach of human resource development in research and technology organizations by Reza Shariati, Alireza Afshar Nejad, Maryam Majidi, Sirous Tadbiri

“…The statistical population of the study included experts in the field of human resources management and public administration, as well as senior managers of the Oil Industry Research Institute with high experience and work experience; reaching theoretical saturation after conducting 19 interviews, and using purposive and snowball sampling methods. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT OF THE NORMAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE PERITUMORAL AREA IS AN ADDITIONAL INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC FACTOR IN GASTRIC CANCER by N. V. Danilova, V. M. Kkomyakov, A. V. Chayka, I. A. Mikhailov, N. A. Oleynikova, P. G. Malkov

“…The aim of the study was to study and evaluate the predictive value of the immune microenvironment of gastric cancer and morphologically normal mucous membrane of the peritumoral area using an automatic morphometric analysis system on the example of CD 8+ cells.Material and Methods. Surgical samples from 130 patients with a verified diagnosis of gastric cancer were used. …”
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Exploring the Role of FDG PET CT Scan in Detecting High Grade Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma by Marzieh Azmoun, Mohammad Moeini Nodeh, Maryam Emadzadeh, Kamran Ariana, Habibollah Dadgar, Amirreza Khorosanchi, Emran Askari, Eisa Nazar

“…Currently, the standard method for evaluating patients at the initial stages of cancer diagnosis in Mashhad oncology centers involves computed tomography scans (CT scans), histopathological evaluation of tissue, bone marrow sampling, and cytogenetic studies, all of which are time-consuming and costly. …”
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Density, age and sex structure of goitred gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) in Golestan National Park by Hossein Varasteh Moradi, Meysam Madadi

“…The transect line sampling method was used to survey the population dynamics of Goitred gazelle, during the survey at each of the 24 transects, in 3 visits were conducted between February 2016 and July 2016. …”
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Strong Association of Waist Circumference (WC), Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR), and Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR) with Diabetes: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional... by Fu-Liang Zhang, Jia-Xin Ren, Peng Zhang, Hang Jin, Yang Qu, Yao Yu, Zhen-Ni Guo, Yi Yang

“…The purpose of this study is to compare the correlation between four anthropometric indices and the prevalence of diabetes. Methods. A total of 4052 participants aged 40 years and above were selected in Dehui City, Jilin Province, using a multistage stratified whole group sampling method. …”
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Determinants of maternal near miss among women admitted to maternity wards of tertiary hospitals in Southern Ethiopia, 2020: A hospital-based case-control study. by Aklilu Habte, Merertu Wondimu

“…At the time of their discharge, cases were recruited consecutively, while controls were selected using a systematic sampling method. The cases were women admitted to hospitals during pregnancy, childbirth, or 42 days following termination of pregnancy who met at least one of the WHO near-miss criteria. …”
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