Etiology of Tendency Toward Using Cannabis: A Qualitative Study of the Lived Experiences of Teenager’s Consumers by Soodabeh Rostami, Atousa Kalantar Hormozi, Mohammad Asgari, Ezzatollah Kordmirza Nikoozadeh

“…Participants were selected by convenience and purposive sampling methods. Data collection continued until reaching the theoretical saturation stage, and the collected data were analyzed by the coding method. …”
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Chest drainage and its associated factors in patients who undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery and admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) by Shadman Reza Masouleh, Nezam Ahmadi, Arezoo Monfared, Ehsan Kazem Nejad Leili

“…Objective: This study aims to determine the amount of chest drainage and its related factors in patients undergoing CABG. Methods: This descriptive cross – sectional study was conducted on 288 CABG patients admitted to intensive care units in Rasht city who were chosen by gradual sampling method. …”
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An accurate and efficient semiautomated approach to counting birds: Estimating Northern Gannet colony size in Canada by Jacob Walker, Trevor S. Avery, Francis St‐Pierre, Jean‐François Rail, Danielle E. A. Quinn, Matthew English, Stephanie Avery‐Gomm

“…The CountEm program uses a geometric sampling method which overlays a grid of quadrats onto photographs in which the user counts objects of interest. …”
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Evaluation of integrated modular & traditional curriculum learning environment in medical education by Uzma Kausar, Muhammad Sohail Anjum Noor, Muhammad Usama Sohail, Muhammad Hamza Rana

“… ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Most medical schools in Pakistan follow a traditional teaching methodology but a newer and refined method named Integrated teaching methodology has been introduced and proven to be more effective than the former method. …”
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Modeling the challenges affecting the internationalization of the Persian Gulf Pro League by Sajad Soroush, Geoff Dickson, Nasrollah Sajjadi, Ebrahim Alidoust Ghahfarokhi

“…Aim: The main objective of this research was to develop a model of challenges affecting the internationalization of the Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL). Materials and Methods: We conducted twenty in-depth interviews with expertise involved in the functioning of the PGPL who were recruited using a convenience sampling method. …”
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The Influence of Atmospheric Cues on Impulsive Buying Behavior: Exploring the Roles of Utilitarian and Hedonic Browsing by Mehmet Ozan Karahan, Fatih Şahin

“…The convenience sampling method was used to select 363 participants as the target population, consisting of individuals 18-65 years old living in Turkey who had experience using two prominent e-store platforms. …”
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A field study on the concepts of job burnout, work-family conflict, psychological capital, and mental health of teachers with an emphasis on gender roles by Fereshteh Niksirat, Molouk Khademi Ashkzari, Zahra Naghsh

“…Statistical society in this research consists of all elementary school teachers in Tehran (12656 teachers) and sample was 400 teachers (233 female & 177 male) were selected by equal assignment Stratified sampling method (each region 50 teachers). …”
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Comparative evaluation of oral hygiene status by using oral hygiene index, simplified oral hygiene index, and modified oral hygiene index: Revalidation of modified oral hygiene ind... by Subhash Garg, Sumbul Nasir

“…Aim: This study aims to comparatively evaluate oral hygiene status using OHI, OHI-S, and OHI-M and revalidate the OHI-M. Materials and Methods: 221 patients (119 males and 102 females) were randomly selected through simple random sampling. …”
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The Impact of Adversity Quotient on Students' Problem-Solving Skills Based on Bransford-Stein’s Theory by Vina Istiqomah, Budi Astuti, Sugiyanto Sugiyanto

“…The aims to analyze students' problem-solving ability based on Bransford-Stein theory by considering the Adversity Quotient (AQ) factor. The research method used is a quantitative method with simple linear regression analysis. …”
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Examining Social Representations of Prisons: Experiences, Space, and Daily Productions by Mehmet Karasu, Remziye Yeşilyaprak, Sercan Karlıdağ

“…It conducted a field study using the cognitive mapping method and semistructured interviews with 50 participants (18 women, 32 men) from various cities in Turkey selected via the purposeful, snowball, and convenience sampling techniques. …”
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Three-Dimensional Pulsed-Laser Imaging via Compressed Sensing Reconstruction Based on Proximal Momentum-Gradient Descent by Han Gao, Guifeng Zhang, Min Huang, Yanbing Xu, Yucheng Zheng, Shuai Yuan, Huan Li

“…However, traditional CS-based methods suffer from insufficient range resolutions and poor reconstruction quality at low CS sampling ratios. …”
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Investigating the relationship between emotional intelligence and motivation to learn practical courses in architecture Case Study: Practical lessons. Faculty of Art and Architectu... by َAmirhosein Mostoufizadeh Azhari, Gholamhossein Naseri, Mouhsen Baghdadi

“…Therefore, the statistical population of art and architecture students of Azad University of Rodhan branch was used to sample the statistical population, which was 400 people and was calculated based on Fidel and Tabachingpish formula, and 70 people were selected by random sampling method. …”
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Application of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Augmented Reality Technology in the Development and Promotion Sports with the Moderating Role of Consumer Inertia by Alireza Nazemi Bidgoli, Samaneh Alipour, Zahra Sadeqi-Arani

“…This research explores the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) of augmented reality technology, considering the moderating role of consumer inertia in the advancement and promotion of sports.Methodology: This research, designed in an applied-descriptive manner, utilized the non-random sampling method, and the data collected through online questionnaires were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method. …”
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The relationship between mindfulness and depression: examining the chain mediating role of shyness and core self-evaluation by Lin Liu, Hailing Jia, Baiyang Qiu, Anbang Zhang, Qian Zhang

“…This study aims to examine whether mindfulness affects depression through sequential pathways involving shyness and core self-evaluation. Method We adopted a two-phase sampling method, recruiting an initial sample of 646 college students (Sample 1). …”
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Light Field Angular Super-Resolution via Spatial-Angular Correlation Extracted by Deformable Convolutional Network by Daichuan Li, Rui Zhong, Yungang Yang

“…However, existing LFASR methods based on DNNs fail to extract SAC features accurately and completely. …”
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The Impact of Blended Learning an Educational Innovation as on Student Character Building in Islamic Religious Education by Salim Salim, Mohamad Aji Prasetia, Muhammad Bagas F., Fatkhur Rohman, Abdurrahman Abdurrahman

“…We conducted this research at MAN Medan School, which has a student population of 720. We used the Slovin method for the sampling technique, resulting in a random sample of 258 students. …”
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Nutrition knowledge and health vulnerability of mothers of pre-school children in north-central, Nigeria. by Bosede Alice Omachi, Annette van Onselen, Unathi Kolanisi

“…<h4>Design</h4>The study is a descriptive cross-sectional design using a quantitative data collection method.<h4>Setting/participants</h4>A multi-stage sampling technique was used to recruit 450 mothers of pre-school children across Niger state, Nigeria. …”
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Comparing the Effects of Paracetamol and Pethidine on First-stage Labor Pain Relief and Their Maternal and Neonatal Complications by Masoumeh Khammar, Zohreh Ghorashi, Azita Manshoori

“…Materials and Methods: This single-blind, parallel group, randomized clinical trial conducted on 100 nulliparous pregnant women referred to a maternity hospital in Rafsanjan Iran in 2018 who were selected using a convenience sampling method and by assigned into two groups Paracetamol (n=49, receiving 100 mg intravenous Paracetamol) and Pethidine (n= 51, receiving 50 mg intravenous Pethidine) using the minimization method. …”
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Encrypted traffic classification encoder based on lightweight graph representation by ZhenWei Chen, XiaoXu Wei, YongSheng Wang

“…Ultimately, comparison are made with more than 12 baseline models. The results show that the F1 scores reached 0.9938 and 0.9856 on ISCX-2012 and ISCX-Tor, respectively. …”
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Social Portrait of a Student of a Non-State Higher Education Institution of St Petersburg (on the Example of AN НЕО “University associated with IA EAEC”) by N. P. Kirsanova, V. A. Glukhikh, A. S. Gonashvili, A. E. Geger

“…The main research method in the work is a survey.  Results and discussion. …”
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