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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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MINDFULNESS AND ACADEMIC RESILIENCE IN STUDENTS OF SYIAH KUALA UNIVERSITY, INDONESIA: CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY by Siti Sarah, Kartika Sari, Iskandar, Zaujatul Amna

“…Purpose: This study aims to determine the relationship between mindfulness and academic resilience in Syiah Kuala University students. Method: This study design used quantitative research with a sample of 330 students selected using the probability sampling method with disproportionate stratified random sampling technique. …”
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Efektivitas layanan konseling kelompok untuk mengurangi kecemasan berbicara di depan umum pada siswa SMK Islam Wijaya Kusuma by Nelawati Airunnisah, Devi Ratnasari, Mulyadi Mulyadi

“…Data and sources of data in this study were students of class X AK-2 and X AP-1 Wijaya Kusuma Islamic Vocational School Jakarta, the total population of 64 students and reseach subjects or samples as many as 10 students with sampling using purposive sampling technique. …”
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Implementation of Online Teacher Professional Development Programs: Physical Education Teacher Perspectives by setiawan21

“…The sampling technique employed is census sampling, involving all members of the population in the survey, thus including 245 teachers from across Indonesia who are participating in the online development program. …”
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An analysis of the latent classification and influencing factors of the characteristic symptoms in patients with maintenance hemodialysis by FENG Meiqin, CHEN Hongfang, ZHANG Jiayang, ZHANG Layin

“…Objective To explore the potential subgroups of symptom characteristics and their influencing factors in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients.Methods Patients with MHD in the hemodialysis department of Shaanxi Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine from November 2023 to April 2024 were selected by convenience sampling method, and survyed with the general data questionnaire and Dialysis Symptom Index. …”
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HRM Practices in Indonesia: the Contributing Power of Embeddedness and Support by S Martono, Vini Wiratno Putri

“…Sampling uses the survey method, with the number of respondents 480 (response rate 87.27%) academics in Indonesia. …”
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A human activity recognition model based on deep neural network integrating attention mechanism by Feng Xu, Xuchen Gao, Weigang Wang

“…Existing HAR techniques include manual feature extraction, codebook-based methods, and deep learning, each with limitations. …”
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Dignified motherhood? Women experiences of abusive treatment and condemned care during childbirth in the health facilities of urban India by Saddichha Dilip Marathe, Suresh Jungari, Monika Phadake

“…Using a simple random sampling method recruited 260 recently delivered women from low-income communities in Pune city India. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS IN COASTAL AREA OF WAWATU VILLAGE, MORAMO SUB DISTRICT, NORTH OF SOUTH KONAWE, SOUTHEAST SULAWESI by Hariati Lestari, Hartati Bahar, Pitrah Asfian, La Ode Ali Imran Ahmad

“… Aim: This survey study aims to assess and describe environmental risk factors in Wawatu Village, Moramo sub district, North of South Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi. Methods: There 43 respondents selected using convenience sampling. …”
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Digital Platforms and Supply Chain Traceability for Robust Information and Effective Inventory Management: The Mediating Role of Transparency by Muhammad Khan, Amal Nasser Alshahrani, Julija Jacquemod

“…Using the snowball sampling method, the software was used to collect data from Pakistani supply chain (SC) specialists; <i>Results:</i> According to this study’s conclusions, robust information and inventory management using digital platforms and SC traceability depend greatly on transparency; <i>Conclusions:</i> Even though investing in digital platforms is a complex process including multiple internal and external parties, this study will be helpful for the decision-makers who make such decisions. …”
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Comparative study of five-year cervical cancer cause-specific survival prediction models based on SEER data by Yuping Pu, Jundong Liu, Kei Hang Katie Chan

“…This study aims to develop and compare machine learning models for predicting five-year cause-specific survival (CSS) in CC patients and evaluate their performance against traditional methods like the Cox Proportional Hazards model. Using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, we applied the Synthetic Minority Over-Sampling Technique to address class imbalance and used stepwise forward selection, feature importance, and permutation importance for feature selection. …”
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Investigation of breast cancer screening among the women of Khorramabad (west of Iran): A cross-sectional study by Khatereh Anbari, Seyyed Amir Yasin Ahmadi, Naser Sahraei, Parastoo Baharvand

“…In the present cross-sectional study, the study population included 457 number of 20 to 65 year old women referring to the health centers of Khorramabad during the second half of 2015 to receive health care services. The sampling method was multistage random-cluster. A multi-part questionnaire were used. …”
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Latent profile analysis of fatalism and its influencing factors among community-dwelling disabled elderly individuals by Jinlei Du, Xiaoling Wu, Qiyu Zhang, Yuanxia Wang, Yao Chen, Chencong Nie

“…The findings will provide valuable insights for formulating tailored care management strategies for this population.DesignA cross-sectional survey study.MethodsA random sampling approach was used to survey disabled elderly individuals residing in 109 communities across eight urban districts in Sichuan Province. …”
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Autobiographical memory specificity, childhood abuse and neglect, and emotional dysregulation in dissociative disorders: A cross-sectional study by Sheeba Shamsudeen, Prakriti Sinha, Nishant Goyal

“…Results: Individuals with dissociative disorders showed more overgeneral memories and had difficulties in emotional regulation compared to healthy controls. …”
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Incidence and Pattern of Road Traffic Accidents in Emergency Department of Selected Hospitals by Sadhana Adhyapak, Priyanka Jawade, Pratiksha Katmore, Pratiksha Waghachvare, Swapnil Panchal, Omkar Saygunde, Khurshid Jamadar

“…Objectives: This study aimed to determine the incidence and pattern of RTAs in the emergency departments of selected hospitals and to identify associations with demographic variables. Methods: A non-experimental observational survey research design was employed, using non-probability purposive sampling to collect data from the emergency departments of four hospitals. …”
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Reliability analysis of seismic subsidence of loess foundation based on Kriging surrogate model by Changming HU, Simeng ZHANG, Jiazhi QIAN, Yong ZHANG

“…In order to evaluate the safety level of seismic subsidence of loess foundation during earthquakes, this paper proposes a reliability analysis method based on the Kriging surrogate model. The sample points of random variables are extracted based on Latin hypercube sampling (LHS). …”
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INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES IN STUDENTS OF NURSING IN LEVEL II STUDIES – A DIAGNOSIS by Anna Maria Jeznach, Renata Piekarska

“…Introduction The aim of the article is diagnosing components of intercultural competences in students of nursing in graduate studies. Material and Methods Method – a diagnostic survey. The sampling involved 100% of graduate students of 1st and 2nd year, The Nursing Collegium Mazovia Innovative University, Siedlce Results Students define culture as values, beliefs, norms guiding human thinking and activity. …”
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Mobile Devices for Arabic Learning in Junior High Schools: The Teachers’ Perspective by Azkia Muharom Albantani, Imam Fitri Rahmadi

“…Employed a qualitative method with a case study, 24 Arabic language teachers from various junior high schools in the South Tangerang City involved in this study selected by using a random sampling method. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Cognitive Distortion and Fear of Negative Evaluation with the Quality of Marital Relationships of Female Teachers in Taibad Schools by Zeinab Jalambadani

“…Background and Aims: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive distortion and fear of negative evaluation with the quality of marital relationships of female teachers in Taibad schools in 1402. Materials and Methods: The descriptive-correlation research method was cross-sectional and the statistical population was 330 married female teachers of Taibad city in the academic year of 1402-1401, who were selected by targeted and accessible sampling method. …”
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