Potassium Inwardly Rectifying Channel Subfamily J Member 11 (KCNJ11) RS5219 Gene Polymorphism as a Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Indonesia: A Case Control Study by Annisa Septiani Putri Putri, Tiar Masykuroh Pratamawati, Donny Nauphar

“…Aims: This study aims to examine the KCNJ11 rs5219 gene polymorphism as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Cirebon population. Methods: This case control study involved 29 cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus and 29 healthy controls with purposive sampling technique. …”
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Behçet's syndrome patients' perception of the health system's accountability to care needs: A content analysis study by Neda Sayadi, Simin Jahani, Elham Rajaei

“…These insights should inform healthcare policymakers to develop more effective healthcare policies, allocate resources more efficiently, and create a more equitable healthcare system. …”
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The Effect of Virtual Tour on the Intention to Book Tourist Destination by Manijeh Haghighinasab, Samira Narimanyfandoghloui, Nazila Niakan Lahiji

“…The research population includes all students of Tehran universities. Sampling is done using the available method, with a minimum sample size of 120 participants distributed among four experimental groups. …”
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Impact of an improved random forest-based financial management model on the effectiveness of corporate sustainability decisions by Jianhui Zhang

“…With the development of the economy, more and more electronic manufacturing enterprises are emerging like mushrooms after rain. …”
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The Relationship of Health Literacy with Health status, Preventive Behaviors and Health services Utilization in Baluchistan, Iran by Hossien Izadirad, Iraj Zareban

“…Inadequate health literacy was more common in older people, ones with fewer years of schooling or lower household income, and females. …”
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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

“…Results: Among 340 children, more than half of participants 180 (52.9%) were female. …”
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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

“…We identified 12 African immigrant entrepreneurs through purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews with the participants. …”
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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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Analog Ensemble Forecasts of Solar Wind Parameters: Quantification of the Predictability and Time‐Domain Spectral Performance by Pauline A. Simon, Christopher H. K. Chen, Mathew J. Owens, Chaitanya Sishtla

“…The AnEn predictions were found to be as accurate as persistence for short‐term forecasts and climatology for long‐term ones, and performed better than both baselines for more than 60% of the samples for a particular lead time. …”
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Designing and Validating a Survey for National-Level Data During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka: Cross-Sectional Mobile Phone Surveys by Rachael Phadnis, Udara Perera, Veronica Lea, Stacy Davlin, Juliette Lee, Casey Siesel, Dhanushka Abeygunathilaka, S C Wickramasinghe

“…The surveys were conducted through interactive voice response using automated, prerecorded messages in Sinhala, Tamil, and English. The sample design involved random sampling of mobile phone numbers, stratified by sex, proportional to the general population. …”
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Ergonomic Risk Assessment for Refuse Collectors at Chitungwiza Municipality in Zimbabwe by Norman Gumbo, Jonathan Chisvo, Taremba Chirigo

“…For inclusion, participants were supposed to have worked for a period of one month or more in the Refuse Section, who were at work on the day of sampling. …”
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Clinical and Epidemiological Characterization of People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus at the Playa Teaching Polyclinic by Diana Serret López, Armando Rodríguez Salvá, Addys María Díaz Piñera, Geominia Maldonado Cantillo

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> type 2 diabetes mellitus is the most common form of the disease, accounting for 90 % of cases. More than 536 million adults between 20 and 79 years of age live with this condition; the global prevalence is 10.5 %. …”
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