Enhancing EFL Students’ Speaking Skills Through the Debate Technique: A Classroom Action Research Study by Anggit Laesa Oktaviani, Tubagus Udong Rapiudin, Mahyati Mahyati, Edy Supriyanto, Asep Suryadi

“…Data was collected via observation, documentation, and speaking tests, and analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The population of this research is 180 students in the XI science classes, while for the samples, the researcher selected 36 students from XI A3 because this class is considered to be the most passive one compared to others . xxxxx The findings revealed that the debate technique was effective in enhancing students’ speaking performance, self-confidence, and classroom interaction. …”
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Italian adaptation of the Workplace Ostracism Scale: A psychometric analysis based on item response theory by Giusy D. VALENTI, Palmira FARACI

“…The current study aims to examine the psychometric properties of the Workplace Ostracism Scale (WOS), the most commonly used tool for WO evaluation. Methods: A sample of 441 Italian employees (53.3% males; Mage = 35, SD = 9.98) was recruited via the Prolific Academic platform. …”
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Asymmetric transfer between the learning of the complex stimulus by Yangyang Du, Hui Kou, Huijie Liu, Taiyong Bi

“…However, limited understanding exists regarding the plasticity of the representation of complex stimuli in visual working memory (VWM) and its specificity.MethodsTo address this question, we adopted a delayed match-to-sample task to train the working memory for faces and houses. …”
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Image-Based Malware Detection Using Deep CNN Models by hawraa omran musa, Muhanad Tahrir Younis

“…This research shows that CNN-based methods can have a high level of effectiveness in detecting obfuscated malware.…”
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Foot and ankle angioleiomyoma: a systematic review by Michaël J. Matos, Sérgio Soares, Joseph M. Schwab, Moritz Tannast, Angela Seidel

“…Results Angioleiomyoma is more prevalent in middle-aged women, and pain is the most common symptom. …”
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Chronic Renal Disease in the Older Adult by Maislete Gutiérrez Rufín, Chanel Polanco López

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> chronic renal disease was diagnosed in 90.3 % of the old patients, it was more frequent in stage 2, in the female sex, mixed race. …”
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Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance in Urinary Tract Infection Pathogens: Analysis in a Provincial Hospital in Zimbabwe by Mufaro Manyawu, Maibouge Tanko Mahamane Salissou

“…Results: More females (56.4%) than males (43.6%) had UTIs, with age groups 0–9 and 20–29 years most affected (16.6% each). …”
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The Relationship between the Need for Security and Its Personal Meanings among University Students by V.G. Tylets, T.M. Krasnyanskaya

“…The research possibilities of methods of associative experiment, analysis of products of activity, subjective scaling are used. …”
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Incorporating Family Function into Chronic Pain Disability: The Role of Catastrophizing by Fatemeh Akbari, Mohsen Dehghani, Ali Khatibi, Tine Vervoort

“…Three different models were examined. Methods. A total sample of 142 patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain was recruited to examine the role of fear of movement, pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and depression in relationship to family functioning as predictors of disability. …”
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Corrosion measurement of thermally sprayed carbide coatings on stainless steel pipes by Roshan Kuruvila, Jayakrishnan R, Thirumalai Kumaran S

“…Traditional corrosion monitoring methods frequently fail to provide accurate and reliable results. …”
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Bacteriological profile in patients having chronic dacryocystitis presenting for cataract surgery in a tertiary care centre by Mrunal Dhiran, Hina Rahangdale, Rajesh Joshi, Sunanda Shrikhande Zodpey

“… Background: the clinical research specifies that patients with clogged Nasolacrimal Ducts (NLDs) are more likely to cause infectious endophthalmitis secondary to cataract surgery. …”
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Is cardiac autonomic control affected in major depressive disorder? A systematic review of heart rate variability studies by Federica Goffi, Eleonora Maggioni, Anna Maria Bianchi, Paolo Brambilla, Giuseppe Delvecchio

“…Aim The objective of this review was to provide any reproducible insights on autonomic regulation characteristics of MDD through the selection, revision, and joint interpretation of a restricted sample of studies based on systematic criteria. Methods The literature research resulted in thirty eligible articles that reported the comparison of short-term resting-state HRV measures between drug-free MDD patients and healthy controls, excluding subjects affected by cardiovascular diseases. …”
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Physiological Status of Some Selected Salivary Antioxidants in Dental Caries by Sulafa Khair Al-Deen Banoosh Alayoubi, Intesar Jasim Al-Kaysi, Hadeel Ayad, Esraa Azawi

“…Dental caries was divided into three categories based on scores: mild (0–10), moderate (11–20), and severe (21–and more). Salivary uric acid and salivary total protein concentration were assessed via chemical analysis of unstimulated saliva sample collection. …”
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Is Ventilator-associated Event Algorithm Ideal for Surveillance? – Experience from a Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit in Kerala by Lisha Pallivalappil, Daksh Sharma, P. S. Nishanth

“…Twenty-one patients had respiratory sample culture positivity and 14 were clinical VAP. …”
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Nutrition services by health providers during antenatal consultations in Senegal: a comparison of observed versus self-reported practices by Elhadji Alioune Badara Ningue, Isabelle Galibois, Sonia Blaney

“…This paper aimed to compare health providers’ self-reported practices to their actual provision of nutrition services during antenatal care (ANC) consultations. # Methods A comparative study was conducted in a random sample of 27 health providers in the Kolda region. …”
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The association between waist-to-height index and prostate cancer risk: evidence from the NHANES study by Qinghe Gao, Zongqi Lin, Yihua Zhang, Jiantong Cai, Shaopeng Li

“…WWI may reflect the distribution of body fat more accurately. However, it is unclear whether WWI is associated with the risk of developing PCa.MethodsSeventy thousand one hundred and ninety participants took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). …”
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Active nudging towards digital well-being: reducing excessive screen time on mobile phones and potential improvement for sleep quality by Thao Hanh Vu, Marco Tagliabue

“…Increasingly, digital users are becoming more aware of how smartphone use impacts their productivity and well-being. …”
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Furosemide’s Preventative Role in Contrast-Induced Nephropathy among ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Mostafa Ariafar, Parvin Ghorbani, Seyed Masoud Seyedian, Farzaneh Ahamdi, Leila Sabetnia, Elham Farhadi

“…We investigated whether post-treatment with furosemide decreases CIN risk. Materials and Methods: We designed a clinical trial and included 234 patients with STEMI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). …”
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Utilizing transformative learning theory to enhance professional identity formation by Christine Pan, Jennie B. Jarrett, Kathryn Sawyer

“…Three PSIQ-9 questions, communication, using patient records, and teaching others, were significant at baseline and midpoint.ConclusionThe TLT-based toolkit had a minimal impact on students’ self-evaluation of PIF based on the PSIQ-9 and MCPIS-9 questionnaires over a 15-week course. Studies with larger sample sizes and longer durations are needed to provide more conclusive results.…”
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Flexibility in Pragmatic Nuance: The Cognitive Edge of Bilingualism in Language Comprehension and Production by Nurasia Natsir, Nuraziza Aliah

“…This study uniquely explores the disparities in pragmatic marker comprehension and production between bilingual and monolingual groups, aiming to elucidate the cognitive advantages associated with bilingualism. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the research incorporated standardized linguistic assessments and observational analyses to evaluate 200 participants, equally divided between bilinguals and monolinguals, ensuring demographic balance. …”
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