Influence of Residential Area on Social Media Usage and Sleep Problems among Young Adults by Thongam Victory Khanganbi, M. Priya

“…A study emphasized the notable effects of engaging with social media at night and emotionally investing in it, particularly affecting young adults’ sleep and general well-being. Methods: In the middle of 2022, 1150 data were gathered from 8 government college students aged 18–24 years in Imphal, employing both offline and online methods. …”
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The challenging role of theory of mind in the mothers of children with attention deficit - hyperactivity disorder by Azar Mohammadzadeh, Anahita Khorrami Banadaki, Atefeh Nezamolslami

“…This study aimed to investigate understanding intentionality as an important component of ToM ability in ADHD mothers and typically developing children’s mothers.   Methods:  Through available sampling, (50 mothers), 23 ADHD’s mothers were compared to 27 age and IQ matched typically developing children’s mothers. …”
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Designing diverse and high-performance proteins with a large language model in the loop. by Carlos A Gomez-Uribe, Japheth Gado, Meiirbek Islamov

“…BADASS requires less memory and computation compared to gradient-based Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, while generating more high-fitness and diverse sequences across two protein families. …”
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Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Menopausal Women: An Online Survey of Iranian Menopausal Women by Masoomeh Latifi, Nader Alishan Karami, Sepideh Miraj, Leili Allahbakhshian, Forough Rahimi, Afsaneh Karbasi

“…This study aimed to gain deeper insights into the health information-seeking behavior of Iranian menopausal women. Materials and Methods: This descriptive–analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in 2023. …”
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Probabilistic design strategy for improved Austin-Moore stem used in artificial cementless hip prosthesis considering material property uncertainty by G. Kharmanda, I. R. Antypas

“…The used hollow stem is called “Improved Austin-Moore” (IAM) model. Materials and Methods. Probabilistic methods allow variations in factors which control the biomechanical effects of the implanted femur to be taken into account while determining its performance. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Hand and Finger Contractures in Postburn Patients: A Single-Center Retrospective Analysis at a Top Referral Hospital in West Java, Indonesia by Wafiq Wibawa, BMedSc, Arif Tri Prasetyo, MD, MClinMed, Betha Egih Riestiano, MD, Hardisiswo Soedjana, MD, PhD, Raja Iqbal Mulya Harahap, MD

“…The sampling technique used was total sampling, and the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. …”
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Identifying residual transmission of lymphatic filariasis after mass drug administration: Comparing school-based versus community-based surveillance - American Samoa, 2016. by Meru Sheel, Sarah Sheridan, Katherine Gass, Kimberly Won, Saipale Fuimaono, Martyn Kirk, Amor Gonzales, Shannon M Hedtke, Patricia M Graves, Colleen L Lau

“…Data were weighted and adjusted to account for sampling design and sex for both surveys, and for age in the community survey.…”
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Examining Quality of Work Life in Atlantic Canadian Long-Term Care Homes: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Janice M Keefe, Rose McCloskey, Marilyn J Hodgins, Caitlin McArthur, Adrian MacKenzie, Lori E Weeks, Carole A Estabrooks

“…The objective of this paper is to describe the approach needed to examine the quality of work life and health of care staff in LTC homes. MethodsStratified random sampling will be used to recruit homes in Atlantic Canada. …”
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Analyzing the level of river sediment pollution with heavy metals using Geo-accumulation Index and Enrichment Factor by Sepehr Akhlaghifard, Toraj Nasr Abadi, Hassan Hoveidi

“…Also, the highest average amount of Geoaccumulation for copper in 9 sampling stations was 0.23. On the other hand, these anthropogenic activities have significantly increased the arsenic Enrichment up to 17.81 in station P4 and the average Enrichment Factor of Arsenic in 9 sampling stations up to 13.12. …”
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RIDGE LEAST ABSOLUTE DEVIATION PERFORMANCE IN ADDRESSING MULTICOLLINEARITY AND DIFFERENT LEVELS OF OUTLIER SIMULTANEOUSLY by Netti Herawati, Subian Saidi, Dorrah Azis

“…This signifies that RLAD is more precise in estimating the regression coefficients for each sample size and various outlier levels studied.…”
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Reliability of Acoustic Pharyngometry and Rhinometry Examination in Children and Adolescents by Camilla Hansen, Liselotte Sonnesen

“…Material and Methods: The study sample included 35 healthy subjects in the age of 9 to 14 years. …”
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MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE ASSESMENT IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA BY MULTICOLOUR FLOW CYTOMETRY (LITERATURE REVIEW) by T. I. Lobanova, I. V. Galtseva, E. N. Parovichnikova

“…Both methods have advantages and disadvantages. The molecular diagnostic method is more sensitive, but it takes more time to get the result (from several days). …”
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Enhancing radiographic interpretation: effects of gamification on medical students' knowledge, skills, and satisfaction — a quasi-experimental study by Zahra Karimian, Mohammad Momeni, Nahid Zarifsanaiey

“…However, when comparing post-test scores between the two groups, the results revealed that the gamification method was significantly more effective than In-person rotation (P < 0.001). …”
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A Phenomenological Study of the Semantic Representation of Leisure Experience among Adolescent Girls of Different Social Classes by parvaneh alaie, Fahimeh Vajde

“…The sampling method was purposeful-snowball and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 45 female adolescents from poor, middle and prosperous social classes, 15 people from each class participated. …”
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Hypertension and COVID-19 in conditions of desynchronizing factors when working in the Arctic by N. P. Shurkevich, A. S. Vetoshkin, M. A. Kareva

“…To study the effect of hypertension (HTN) on the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to evaluate the impairment of the chrono-structure of 24-hour blood pressure (BP) rhythm as a risk factor of infection in men working in the Arctic on a rotating basis.Material and methods. In the village of Yamburg (Nadymsky district), 517 medical records of inpatients treated at the medical unit of OOO GAZPROM DOBYCHA YAMBURG in 2020-2021 were retrospectively analyzed by random sampling. …”
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Food intake and influencing factors among primary and secondary school students in rural areas covered by the nutrition improvement program by Wenshuo YOU, Peipei XU, Wei CAO, Mulei CHEN, Qian GAN, Hongliang WANG, Ruihe LUO, Titi YANG, Hui PAN, Jianfen ZHANG, Xiaoning WANG, Qian ZHANG, Juan XU

“…ObjectiveTo analyze the food intake of primary and middle school students in areas implementing the Rural Compulsory Education Student Nutrition Improvement Program in 2021 and its influencing factors. MethodsFollowing the principle of random sampling, in 2021, in 727 national pilot counties in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps, approximately 10% of primary and middle schools were selected in urban and rural areas, respectively. …”
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Did dingo control cause the elimination of kowaris through mesopredator release effects? A response to Wallach and O'Neill (2009) by B. L. Allen

“…Wallach & O'Neill (2009) understandably chose these useful methods to assess populations, but their application of them did not follow the sampling principles that ensure their reliability. …”
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METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPING THE STRUCTURE OF A DICTIONARY ENTRY FOR A “DICTIONARY OF THE LANGUAGE OF ORAL FOLKLORE” (STABLE AND TEXTUAL AND FIGURATIVE UNITS) by Ruslan L. Serdeha

“…In the future, we plan to pay more attention to various textual and figurative units of folklore and present more or less detailed samples of the parameterization of the abovementioned oral means. …”
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Focal Extraction of Surface-Bound DNA from a Microchip Using Photo-Thermal Denaturation by Kenji Yasuda, Kazunori Okano, Shin'ichi Ishiwata

“…Confirmation of the amount of eluted DNA by PCR amplification after collection indicated that more than 10-20 mol DNA/μm2 area was eluted from the microchip, representing more than 70% of the chip-bound sample DNA. …”
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The effect of urban sprawl in emerging of transportation flows and urban air pollution in Tehran metropolitan region

“…The article studied the role of transportation in emergence of urban air pollution in Tehran metropolitan region, have population more than 15.98 million. The method of this paper is of analytical and is based on the secondary data and traditions of the Quantitative research methodology. …”
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