A study on traditional food practices and taboo during pregnancy and lactation in tribal population of Eastern Gujarat by Niyati Harshadkumar Zaveri, Shivaji Dnyandeo Patil, Mohabatsinh Baria, Divya Bharatkumar Barot, Anup Kharde, Rahul Tahilramani

“…Being a tribal community, taboos are more prevalent and this was the main aim to do the study regarding food taboos. …”
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Burnout pada Tenaga Kesehatan di Kabupaten Karawang: Peran Dukungan Sosial dan Perceived Stress by Bimo Pratomo, Cempaka Putrie Dimala, Anggun Pertiwi

“…Participants in this study were early to late adults aged 20 to 45 years and domiciled in Karawang Regency with a total of 102 participants, the method used was quantitative with causality design and cluster sampling technique. …”
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Examining Trait Anger and Anger Expression Styles of Pro-Licensed Football Coaches by Alparslan Ünveren, Cemal Polat

“…This study aims to determine the trait anger and anger style levels of football coaches with prolicense in Turkey.The sample group consists of 171 participants selected from within the determined universe by means of easy sampling method.Trait anger and anger expression style scale and personal information form ,developed by Spielberger and colleagues (1983) and Turkish validity and reliability study conducted by Özer(1994) was applied to the sample group.In the scope of the study ,descriptive statistics were used to summarize the demographic characteristics and personal information of the sample group.Data in this study show that there is a significant difference between the groups of the anger control and anger out subdimensions according to the age variable;trait anger and anger out subdimensions according to the educational level; anger control and anger out sub dimensions according to foreign language variable and anger outward subdimensions according to coaching experience.…”
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A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluate the Performance of Rural Bank by Jun Wei, Tao Ye, Zhe Zhang

“…Aiming at the characteristics of commercial bank data, this paper proposes an adaptively reduced step size gradient boosting regression tree algorithm for bank performance evaluation. In this method, a random subsample sampling is performed before training each regression tree. …”
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The Effect of Information, Fear, and Risk Perceptions to Pro-Environmental Behavior among University Students in Indonesia by Dyah E Noor Fitri, Anindrya Nastiti

“…A 77-item questionnaire was completed by 415 students from the Faculty of Arts and Languages, Science, and Education, randomly selected using the cluster sampling method in their last lecture class. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling showed that information, fear, and risk perception (reward, perceived severity, and perceived vulnerability) are both directly and indirectly mediated by motivation. …”
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Islamic work ethics and accounting practices in Indonesia: a study on fraud by Wuryaningsih Wuryaningsih, Novi Lailiyul Wafiroh

“…The target population included accounting practitioners and future accountants in Indonesia. Purposive sampling was employed, resulting in a sample of 147 respondents. …”
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Pengalaman Pasien Diabetes Mellitus yang Tinggal Sendiri dalam Melakukan Manajemen Diri by Sovia Susianty, Mahathir Mahathir, Fitri Mailani, Hema Malini, Chong Mei Chan

“…The number of participants was six,  namely solitaire DM who have been diagnosed with DM for more than 1 year,  able to communicate well. The technique of taking participants was using purposive sampling  according to inclusion criteria. …”
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SFEF-Net: Scattering Feature Extraction and Fusion Network for Aircraft Detection in SAR Images by Qiang Zhou, Zongxu Pan, Ben Niu

“…Compared to traditional convolution, sparse convolution offers more flexible sampling positions and a larger receptive field without increasing the number of parameters, which enables SFEF-Net to better extract discrete features. …”
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The role of sustainable growth rate in mediating liquidity, profitability, and company size on financial performance by Teguh Erawati, Hadri Kusuma, Stefania Dai Suban, Fuadhillah Kirana Putri

“…This study uses purposive sampling method to obtain relevant samples resulting in a total of 2365 company observations. …”
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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies in Education According to Primary School Teachers: Opportunities and Challenges by Ahmet Erol, Mustafa Erol

“…The participants are 16 primary school teachers determined by the criterion sampling method. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview form and analyzed with content analysis. …”
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Dark Triad Personality and Student Anti-Corruption Perceptions by Adi Heryadi, Ariesta Wibisono Anditya, Diah Suci Rahmawati

“…This research involved 125 respondents who were students at the Unjaya Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and were selected using a non-random sampling method. The data collection tool in this research was the Dark Triad Personality Scale. …”
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TOURISM BROKERS' PERSPECTIVE ON TURKEY'S IMAGE: MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS AND SUBJECTIVE NORMS AS MEDIATORS by Mohammad Najjarzadeh, Nazanin Amirzade, Mohammade Reza Asadi Zarch

“…The research population includes all the tourism brokers in Iran (travel agencies, tour operators, and travel agents) who provide outgoing Turkey tours. The samples (including 250 tourism brokers) are selected using a convenience sampling method and data were collected by using a questionnaire. …”
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Nicotine and cannabis routes of administration and dual use among U.S. young adults who identify as Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White by Kim Pulvers, Nessa Jamalian, Edleen Suh, Peter Faltaoos, Susan L. Stewart, Elizabeth R. Aston

“…Vaporization was the most common method for using nicotine (40.2%). Disposable nicotine vape products were used more than any other method (27.1%). …”
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Clustering analysis of risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury behaviors in adolescents: a cross-sectional study of western China by Xin Hou, Yuhang Wu, Jiayu Zhao, Jing Luo, Jinglong He, Qian Kang, Xuehua Li, Ling Yu, Lei Tang, Na Yong, Jiaming Luo

“…Background and objectivesThe analysis of clustering characteristics of disease risk factors makes for the formulation of corresponding prevention and control policies, but the risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors in adolescents is not covered, so this study is intended to explore the clustering characteristics of risk factors for NSSI behaviors in adolescents in the multi-center primary and secondary schools in western China.MethodsUtilizing random cluster sampling method, a total of 13,784 primary and secondary school students who met the research standards were randomly selected as the survey subjects from January 2020 to January 2021, and the clustering situation of the seven risk factors (depression, anxiety, stress, low social support, tolerance, avoidance, and emotional venting) among the students was analyzed. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Anemia Among Conflict-Affected Populations in Sudan: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ibrahim Nagmeldin Hassan, Mohamed Ibrahim, Ahmed Abdulsamad

“…We included 323 participants selected through a systematic random sampling method. We used a modified validated standard questionnaire to collect demographic information. …”
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Discrepancy between self-assessed hearing status and measured audiometric evaluation. by So Young Kim, Hyung-Jong Kim, Min-Su Kim, Bumjung Park, Jin-Hwan Kim, Hyo Geun Choi

“…Compared with specialized workers, service workers, manual workers, and the unemployed were more likely to be in the overestimation group (1.48 [1.11-1.98], 1.39 [1.04-1.86], and 1.50 [1.18-1.90], respectively), and service workers were more likely to be in the underestimation group (AOR = 1.42 [1.01-1.99]). …”
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Factors associated with utilization of skilled birth attendance among women of reproductive age in North Horr Sub-County, Northern Kenya, 2021 by Qabale Anna Duba, Elvis Omondi Oyugi, Paul Nyongesa, Joseph Obiero Ogutu

“…A multistage, sampling technique was used to identify women with children aged below 5 years. …”
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Age and gender differences in the association between depression and body mass index among Saudi adults by Mohamed O. Nour, Khulud K. Alharbi, Tamara Abdulrahman Hafiz, Hatim A. Natto, Ali Mohsen Alshehri, Tassnym H. Sinky, Baraa Sami Quronfulah, Muath Ahmed G. Aldomini, Mohammed Ahmed Alharbi, Abdullah Ahmed Alghamdi

“…They had lower family income, were more frequently non-smokers, had a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, and had higher BMI. …”
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Investigating Falls Risk Awareness in Hospitals Using the Self‐Awareness of Falls Risk Measure (SAFRM): Empirical Research Quantitative by Elissa Dabkowski, Simon J. Cooper, Jhodie Duncan, Karen Missen

“…Setting Three rural/regional hospitals in the State of Victoria, Australia. Methods Using a purposive sampling strategy, patients were eligible to participate if aged ≥ 40 years, English‐speaking, and have ambulatory capacity prior to hospital admission. …”
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Effect of liver biopsy size on MASLD fibrosis assessment by second-harmonic generation/two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy by Daniel T. Field, Yayun Ren, Kutbuddin Akbary, Elaine Chng, Dean Tai, Nikolai V. Naoumov, David E. Kleiner, Jonathan A. Fallowfield, Timothy J. Kendall, Arun J. Sanyal

“…Conclusions: Longer (>20 mm) and wider (>0.9 mm) biopsies provide more accurate fibrosis assessment using SHG/TPEF. …”
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