Ready, steady, who do we know? Internationalization intent among emerging market SMEs in Central Asia by Matevž (Matt) Rašković, Nurgul Daminova

“… Objective: The objective of our paper is to examine the determinants and moderators of managerial internationalization intent of not yet internationalized emerging market small and medium-sized enterprises (EMSMEs) from Kyrgyzstan, a country in Central Asia. Research Design & Methods: Analyzing a sample of 178 non-yet-internationalized SMEs in Kyrgyzstan collected through a survey questionnaire, which have indicated willingness to internationalize, we use an OLS regression model to analyze the impact of government support, international market outlook and various kinds of resources, as determinants of two types of internationalization intent: simple internationalization intent (i.e., establishing first contact) and sophisticated internationalization intent (i.e., corresponding to more intense resource commitments). …”
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Bottom Trawling and Multi‐Marker eDNA Metabarcoding Surveys Reveal Highly Diverse Vertebrate and Crustacean Communities: A Case Study in an Urbanized Subtropical Estuary by Jack Chi‐Ho Ip, Hai‐Xin Loke, Sam King Fung Yiu, Meihong Zhao, Yixuan Li, Yitao Lin, Chun‐Ming How, Jiezhang Mo, Meng Yan, Jinping Cheng, Vincent Chi‐Sing Lai, Leo Lai Chan, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, Jian‐Wen Qiu

“…However, monitoring these complex ecosystems using conventional trawling methods is destructive, costly, and labor‐intensive. …”
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A Reaction-Based Approach to Colorimetric Detection of Organic Analytes in Water Using a Chlorine-Containing Carbocyanine Dye and Hypochlorite by Anna V. Shik, Evgenii V. Skorobogatov, Ramil M. Akhmetov, Irina A. Doroshenko, Tatyana A. Podrugina, Gleb K. Sugakov, Mikhail K. Beklemishev

“…Water quality control employs techniques mostly targeting individual analytes; group detection is also practiced, but the choice of group methods is limited, which supports interest in developing such methods. …”
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Evaluation of a newly developed ELISA against Widal, TUBEX-TF and Typhidot for typhoid fever surveillance by Moustafa Abdel Fadeel, Brent L House, Momtaz M Wasfy, John D Klena, Engy E Habashy, Mayar M Said, Mohamed Abdel Maksoud, Bassem Abdel Rahman, Guillermo Pimentel

“…Rapid and accurate laboratory methods for diagnosis of this disease are needed for both patient care and surveillance situations. …”
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Classification of Dyslexia Among School Students Using Deep Learning by Alia Hussein, Ahmed Talib Abdulameer, Ali Abdulkarim, Husniza Husni, Dalia Al-Ubaidi

“…The CNN accurately identified dyslexic individuals based on the spectrogram features, outperforming traditional diagnostic methods. Spectrograms and CNNs provide a more objective and efficient approach to dyslexia diagnosis, enabling earlier intervention and support for affected children. …”
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Relationship between the BRAF V600E and tumor size, lymph node, and distant metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma by Edmond Rukmana Wikanta, Yan Wisnu Prajoko, Benny Issakh, Hermawan Istiadi, Dik Puspasari

“…Aim – This study aimed to analyze the association between B-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase (BRAF) V600E and tumor size, lymph node, and distant metastasis (TNM) status on patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma. Material and Methods – This research is a cross-sectional study. …”
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The telomerase effect. Oncological aspects of gastric stump cancer (methodology and literature review) by S. A. Aliev, Zh. A. Gasanguseinov, K. H. Omarov

“…To assessing the prospects for the integral interdisciplinary characteristics of the modern strategy of oncological surgery for gastric stump cancer (GSC), which allow us to formulate the concept of a more physiological surgery.Materials and Methods. …”
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JEDAN: Joint Euclidean Distance and Autoencoder Network for Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection in Radar-Based Hand Gesture Recognition by Muhammad Ghufran Janjua, Kevin Kaiser, Thomas Stadelmayer, Stephan Schoenfeldt, Vadim Issakov

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first OOD detection architecture specifically tailored for radar-based gesture recognition that integrates the strengths of Euclidean distance-based layer and reconstruction-based OOD methods in a unified framework, paving the way for more robust real-world applications.…”
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Adults with typical and atypical development: Aspects of self-realization by N. S. Shipova, T. P. Opekina

“…To analyze the specifics of self-realization of people with typical and atypical development, its resources and consequences.Methods. The sample included 93 people with normative and impaired development (impaired vision, hearing, musculoskeletal system, somatic diseases). …”
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Discordant experiences of food insecurity within households in Cameroon: an examination of data from the 2018 Demographic and Health Surveys by Caroline E. Owens, Zhenan An, Craig Hadley

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ANALYSIS OF ERRORS IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS OF DYSPLASIA AND STOMACH CANCER by Владимир Владимирович Анищенко, Анна Александровна Архипова, Сергей Евгеньевич Титов, Татьяна Львовна Полоз, Олег Аркадьевич Краснов

“…Materials and methods. We carried out a retrospective analysis of the results of endoscopic and morphological studies of 89 observations of patients with stomach ulcers with dysplasia and performed a molecular genetic study of samples of archival histological material of these patients in the form of paraffin blocks. …”
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Association of Smoking Cessation and Intentions to Quit: Role of Occupational Status, Health Professional’s Support, and Perceived Risk by Sunil Mathur

“…</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multivariate statistical analysis methods were used which showed that employed participants were 6 times more likely to have intentions to quit than participants with other occupational statuses were.  …”
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Reaching deaf and hard-of-hearing people in audiovisual research by Motiejūnienė Jurgita

“…Selecting appropriate recruitment methods is crucial for ensuring a representative sample, which enhances the validity and reliability of the research findings. …”
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Cancer phylogenetic inference using copy number alterations detected from DNA sequencing data by Bingxin Lu

“…However, there have been no systematic reviews on these methods. To summarize the state-of-the-art of the field and inform future development, this review presents a comprehensive survey on the major challenges in inference, different types of methods, and applications of these methods. …”
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Application of droplet digital PCR in detection of seed-transmitted pathogen Acidovorax citrulli by Yu LU, Hai-jun ZHANG, Zi-jing ZHAO, Chang-long WEN, Ping WU, Shun-hua SONG, Shuan-cang YU, Lai-xin LUO, Xiu-lan XU

“…The 26 positive samples were identified in 201 commercial seed samples through ddPCR, which was the highest positive number among all the methods. …”
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Uptake and correlates of modern contraceptive use among women aged 15–49 years in Botswana; evidence from the Botswana demographic survey 2017 by M Keetile, BK Masisi, P Lefadola, M Monnaatsie, T Kgolo, N Swart

“…Results From the 1,120,008 women included in the analysis, contraceptive prevalence was estimated at 80.4%. The most used methods of contraception among the sampled women were condoms (64.2%), followed by injectables (17%) and pills (12.6%). …”
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Crop classification with deep convolutional neural network based on crop feature by Mohamad Reza Gili, Davoud Ashourloo, Hosein Aghighi, Ali Akbar Matkan, Alireza SHakiba

“…The lack or absence of ground truth data is another cause. Therefore, methods that are less dependent on ground samples and use phenological features derived from time series of bands and vegetation indices to classify crops will be more appropriate (Ashourloo et al., 2020). …”
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Validation and Reproducibility of a Web-Based Dietary Assessment Tool—MyFood24—In a Danish Population: A Cross-Sectional Validation Study by Sadime Basak Kisi, Sidse Ida Ingemann Rasmussen, Caroline Filskov Petersen, Mette Friberg Hitz, Inge Tetens

“…Background: The validation and reproducibility assessment of dietary assessment tools are needed in order to assess the precision and accuracy of the methods applied when estimating habitual intake. Using objective biomarkers in these validation studies is a further strength. …”
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Multicultural values: meeting point of two forces in developing Islamic education by Dwi Mariyono

“…Future research could aim for larger and more diverse samples to enhance the robustness of the results. …”
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Rationale for Intervention and Dose Is Lacking in Stroke Recovery Trials: A Systematic Review by Karen Borschmann, Kathryn S. Hayward, Audrey Raffelt, Leonid Churilov, Sharon Kramer, Julie Bernhardt

“…We extracted data on 16 quality items covering intervention dose (n= 3), trial design (n= 10), and risk of bias (n= 3) and 18 items related to trial method. Logistic regression analyses were performed to determine whether (1) reporting of trial quality items changed over time; (2) reporting of quality items was associated with the likelihood of a positive trial, adjusted for sample size and number of outcomes. …”
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