The impact of early giftedness identification on long-term academic success: a cross-sectional study in King Abdullah II schools for excellence in Jordan by Hassan Rafi’ Ali Shaheen

“…This study investigates the relationship between these factors and academic success among students in King Abdullah II Schools for Excellence.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted with 250 gifted students selected through convenience sampling. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of self-reported substance use among undergraduate students in a medical college of North India: An observational study by Happy Dagar, Mithilesh Kumar, Lokesh Parashar, Erika Rana, Mansi Tyagi, Gaurav Nimbria, Kritika Handa, Khushi Singla, Mitasha Singh

“…Two hundred and twenty-four students were approached using stratified random sampling. Stratification was done according to the year of admission of students. …”
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF DELAYS ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF CONCRETE PLACEMENT BY CRANES IN NIGERIA by Olaoluwa Olatunde, Ojo Stephen Okunola, Adesanya David Abiodun

“…The results showed an average delay of above 23% of the pour time while the productivity is reduced by more than 2.5 m3/h for every 10% increase in delay. …”
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THE EFFECT OF BOOKLET MEDIA HEALTH EDUCATION ON MOTHERS’ KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PICKY EATERS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN by Ajeng Salsabila Putri Kirana, Dadang Kusbiantoro, Harnina Samantha Aisyah

“…Using total sampling with a population of 40 respondents. The data collection method uses a questionnaire with 20 question items whose validity and reliability have been tested. …”
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Prevalence, Patterns and Predictors of Physical Inactivity in a Rural area of Goa: A Community Based Cross Sectional Study by Ronald Robin, Vanita G Pinto Da Silva

“…At a proportion of 22%, 95% confidence interval and 5% absolute error the sample size was 300. Systematic random sampling was employed. …”
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Hygiene and food safety practices among mothers as predictors of diarrhea risk in toddlers in Purwawinangun Village, West Java, Indonesia by Suparmi Suparmi, Muhammad Faris Sasman, Ratnawati Ratnawati, Ninik Rustanti, Ninik Rustanti

“…This study investigated specific risk factors for toddlers’ diarrhea related to mothers’ personal hygiene and food safety practices.MethodsIt utilized a cross-sectional design with consecutive sampling, involving 36 mothers with toddlers in Purwawinangun Village, Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. …”
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Sequence-Aware Vision Transformer with Feature Fusion for Fault Diagnosis in Complex Industrial Processes by Zhong Zhang, Ming Xu, Song Wang, Xin Guo, Jinfeng Gao, Aiguo Patrick Hu

“…This paper proposes a novel global and local feature fusion sequence-aware ViT (GLF-ViT), modifying feature embedding to retain sampling point correlations and preserve more local information. …”
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Enhanced streamflow prediction with SWAT using support vector regression for spatial calibration: A case study in the Illinois River watershed, U.S. by Lifeng Yuan, Kenneth J Forshay

“…The spatial calibration and leave-one-out sampling methods were used to calibrate and validate the hybrid SWAT-SVR model. …”
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Blood Pressure Profile and Risk Factors for Hypertension among Secondary School Adolescents in Abakaliki, Southeast Nigeria by Sunday A. Otubo, Fortune A. Ujunwa, Chukwuka Manyike, Ikenna C. Nwokoye, Clement C. Ezechukwu, Omeje K. Nnaemeka

“…Objectives: This study was undertaken to determine the blood pressure (BP) profile of apparently healthy secondary school adolescents in the Abakaliki metropolis and to determine the association of BP to risk factors for hypertension among the adolescents. Materials and Methods: A multi-stage sampling method was used to select 2401 adolescents aged 10–19 years. …”
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Spatial inference of Culex pipiens abundance and biting activity distribution in the Netherlands using citizen science by Ayat Abourashed, Catuxa Cerecedo-Iglesias, Martha Dellar, John R. B. Palmer, Frederic Bartumeus

“…Future research integrating longer temporal datasets and human behavioral factors will further improve predictive accuracy and support more effective MBD prevention efforts. Graphical Abstract…”
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Satisfaction with public-private partnership in solid waste management in Ghana by Millicent Abigail Aning-Agyei, Prince George Aning-Agyei, Patrick Osei-Kufuor, Stephen Bugu Kendie

“…The study was underpinned by the pragmatist paradigm and mixed-methods design. Purposive and stratified random sampling techniques were used to engage 777 respondents for the data. …”
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Rapid Situation Assessment of Dental Caries and Its Risk Factors Among High School Students in Erbil City; A Cross-Sectional Study by Zana A. H.Ameen, Khalis B.M. Ali

“…The caries was more among males 228 (76.5%) than females 242 (58.8%) with a statistically significant difference (P 0.028). …”
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The association between the level of institutional support for dementia care in primary care practices and the quality of dementia primary care: A retrospective chart review by Mary Henein, Geneviève Arsenault‐Lapierre, Nadia Sourial, Claire Godard‐Sebillotte, Isabelle Vedel, for the Research on Organization of Healthcare Services for Alzheimer's (ROSA) Team

“…Practices were chosen using a purposeful sampling method with varying levels of institutional support for dementia primary care (e.g., financial support, training, interdisciplinary team). …”
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Emerging paradigms of sexual harassment among healthcare workers in India: A cross-sectional study by Rina Tilak, Suraj Kapoor, Swati Bajaj, Gautam Mukherjee, S. K. Kaushik, A. K. Yadav, Prabhakar T. Teli

“…The present study was planned in healthcare institutions across India to study the emerging paradigms of sexual harassment. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted using a web-based self-administered anonymous questionnaire (pretested on 20 healthcare professionals using think-aloud technique and modified thereafter) through the snowball sampling method from August 15, 2021, to October 30, 2021. …”
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Periodical Medical Examination of Elderly Population in Moscow by E. V. Zemlyanova, A. A. Savina, A. M. Podchernina

“…., undergoing periodical medical examination, in Moscow compared to the Russian Federation as a whole.Materials and methods. The authors used the microdata sets from the study of the population’s health status conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (ROSSTAT) using the representative sampling method in 2023.Results. …”
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Sleep problems and childhood adiposity: a cross-sectional study among third-grade students in Shanghai, China by Shuman Li, Zhe Zhang, Yani Zhai, Liting Chu, Dongling Yang, Chunyan Luo, Lijing Sun

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the association between sleep problems and overweight or obesity among third-grade primary school students in Shanghai, China.MethodsA total of 3,640 students aged 8–10 years were recruited in 2023 using a random cluster sampling method. …”
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Global and local path planning of robots combining ACO and dynamic window algorithm by Yaping Lu, Chen Da

“…Therefore, a global and local path planning method combining improved ant colony algorithm and improved dynamic window algorithm is proposed. …”
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ThermOptCobra: Thermodynamically optimal construction and analysis of metabolic networks for reliable phenotype predictions by Pavan Kumar S, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt

“…ThermOptCOBRA also facilitates efficient loop detection and removal from flux distributions, improving predictive accuracy across flux analysis methods. Moreover, it enhances sampling algorithms by enabling loopless sample generation. …”
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Rapid loss of plastid ndh genes in slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae, Orchidaceae) by Victoria E. Ringelmann, Natascha D. Wagner

“…Our study aimed to analyze the loss of ndh genes within Cypripedioideae, a subfamily that is assumed to be fully autotroph. MethodsBased on a comprehensive sampling of 100 published plastomes representing 60% of Cypripedioideae species, the phylogenetic relationships were revealed on three levels. …”
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Relationship between parenting practices and behavioral problems of children attending a Tertiary Mental Health Institute of North East India by Amina Ahmed, A Baruah, L B Siddeswara

“…Results: Overall 55% of the participants had scored toward more positive parenting practices and 56.2% toward less negative parenting practices. …”
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