Efforts to enhance the achievement motivation of amputee football athletes using the goal-setting module by Eka Kurnia Darisman, Mulyono Mulyono, Moh Hanafi, Gatot Margisal Utomo, Agatha Candrika, Wahyu Indar Pramuji, Salsabila Maghfira

“…The data indicate that athletes with more experience in terms of achievements and age tend to have a greater ability to determine multiple goals they wish to achieve. …”
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Social Media Impact on Young Consumers’ Behavior: A Consideration of Purchase Decision-Making Drivers, and the Mediating Role of E-Marketing for Achieving Business Leadership by Nadia Hima, Djamel Benarous, Bilal Louail, Walid Hamadi

“…Second, there were differences in gender: 55% of female respondents reported significant influence from social media marketing as opposed to 45% of males, indicating that females are more susceptible to such marketing strategies. Finally, even within the relatively homogenous sample of students, there were age-related differences: 65% for the 18–21 age group as opposed to 35% for the 22–25 group, indicating that the younger the individual, the more the influence. …”
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A cross-sectional study of the experiences of distressed callers when accessing financial assistance from a telephone-based cancer information and support service by Elizabeth A. Fradgley, Paula Bridge, Katherine Lane, Danielle Spence, Della Yates, Melissa A. Carlson, Jo Taylor, Christine L. Paul

“…Results: Of the 508 patients and caregivers in this sample, 107 (21%) people who recalled discussing financial support used the service. …”
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Longitudinal changes in grey matter and cognitive performance over four years of healthy aging by Nicole Neufeld, Ashleigh F. Parker, Heather Kwan, Erin L. Mazerolle, Jodie R. Gawryluk

“…Objective: The aim of the current study was to investigate changes in cognitive performance and grey matter atrophy in a sample of healthy older adults over four years. Methods: MRI and cognitive data were retrieved from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database for 35 participants in the cognitively normal cohort at two time points separated by four years (mean age at baseline = 75.02, SD = 6.51, 54% female). …”
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Carotid Atherosclerosis, Endothelial Disfunction, and Arterial Stiffness in Young and Middle-Aged Men with Coronary Artery Disease by Sergey Kozlov, Tatyana Balachonova, Heda Machmudova, Marya Tripoten, Marina Andreevskaya, Anatoly Rogoza, Valery Kuharchuk

“…Carotid plaques were present in 45 (91.8%) patients with CAD and in 8 (27.6%) men without CAD (𝑃<0.001). Patients with CAD more often had multiple plaques (86.7% versus 13.8%, 𝑃<0.001). …”
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Rationalization of Energy Expenditure: Household Behavior in Poland by Elżbieta Stańczyk, Katarzyna Szalonka, Małgorzata Niklewicz-Pijaczyńska, Wioletta Nowak, Piotr Stańczyk, Katarzyna Witczyńska, Justyna Ziobrowska-Sztuczka

“…It formulates the following research hypothesis: households invest in energy-saving appliances to rationalize energy expenditures and/or change their behaviors to reduce energy consumption. Methods: The paper is based on primary research conducted using an online questionnaire survey on a sample of 331 respondents in Poland in March and April 2023. …”
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Cross-Domain Adversarial Learning for Sea Surface Temperature Super-Resolution by Wenhui Li, Jingyi Wang, Dan Song, Zhengya Sun, Zhiqiang Wei, An-An Liu

“…Finally, a random adversarial classifier is proposed to dynamically alter adversarial samples during training, enabling the model to focus on global properties and intrinsic patterns rather than specific regional characteristics, thus achieving more consistent and generalized performance across different areas. …”
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Overweight and Obesity among Palestinian Adults: Analyses of the Anthropometric Data from the First National Health and Nutrition Survey (1999-2000) by Ziad Abdeen, Christine Jildeh, Sahar Dkeideek, Radwan Qasrawi, Ibrahim Ghannam, Haleama Al Sabbah

“…A cross-sectional survey was designed to provide a baseline data on the prevalence and distribution of overweight and obesity and their associations among adults in Palestine. Methods. A random representative sample of 3617 adults aged 18–64 years was collected between October 1999 and October 2000. …”
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Mitigating matrix effects for LC-MS/MS quantification of nitrosamine impurities in rifampin and rifapentine by Qiyao Li, Qun Xu, Nadine Lo, Allan T. Leeks, Jr., Mark Han, Marcela Nefliu, John T. Simpson, Jennifer L. Belsky

“…As more nitrosamines and drug samples are analyzed, method accuracy is increasingly recognized as a major analytical challenge. …”
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Comparison of Culture, Direct Microscopy, and Polymerase Chain Reaction Results for Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex in Clinical Specimens by Zainab Khairullah Sedeeq, Hatice Türk Dağı, Duygu Fındık, Salih Maçin, Rugıyya Samadzade

“…In the rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis, PCR method gives more reliable results than EZN method. …”
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Evaluation of Multicomponent Changes of Schisandra chinensis Fruits with Different Drying Process by UPLC-QQQ-MS-Based Targeted Metabolomics Analysis by Yan-hua Sheng, Rui Wang, Yi-kai Wang, Meng-meng Li, Fang-xin Liu, Xin Huang, Chang-bao Chen

“…The results showed that the drying time of natural drying method was much longer than the other methods using instrument. …”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences by A.V. Kuzmin

“…For a successful study of the genetic structure of the population of stray animals, more productive methods should be used, for example, tissue biopsy. …”

Chemical and Toxicological Diagnosis of Acute Poisonings with Phenazepam by M. V. Belova, E. A. Klyuyev, E. S. Melnikov, D. M. Yeliseyeva

“…A technique has been developed for the detection of Phenazepam by TLC, which gives more objective results than ICA. For confirmatory analysis, it is advisable to use LC-MS/MS method for the native substance and GC-MS for the products of hydrolysis after derivatization. …”
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Exploring awareness of hearing loss and ear health in Jordanian adults. by Yazan Gammoh, Rama Alasir, Laila Qanawati

“…Participants between 18 and 28 years of age comprised 29.7% of the sample population. More than half of the participants (52.6%) held a university degree. …”
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Fingerprint recognition using convolution neural network with inversion and augmented techniques by Reena Garg, Gunjan Singh, Aditya Singh, Manu Pratap Singh

“…Deep neural network architectures are used with proposed inversion methods and multi augmentation methods to classify the samples of fingerprints for personnel identification and verification. …”
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Transcriptome analysis of archived tumors by Visium, GeoMx DSP, and Chromium reveals patient heterogeneity by Yixing Dong, Chiara Saglietti, Quentin Bayard, Almudena Espin Perez, Sabrina Carpentier, Daria Buszta, Stephanie Tissot, Rémy Dubois, Atanas Kamburov, Senbai Kang, Carla Haignere, Rita Sarkis, Sylvie Andre, Marina Alexandre Gaveta, Silvia Lopez Lastra, Nathalie Piazzon, Rita Santos, Katharina von Loga, Caroline Hoffmann, George Coukos, Solange Peters, Vassili Soumelis, Eric Yves Durand, Laurence de Leval, Raphael Gottardo, Krisztian Homicsko, Elo Madissoon

“…We compare these methods on FFPE tumor samples in Breast, NSCLC and DLBCL showing 1) good-quality, highly reproducible data from all methods; 2) GeoMx data containing cell mixtures despite marker-based preselection; 3) Visium and Chromium outperform GeoMx in discovering tumor heterogeneity and potential drug targets. …”
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Dynamic Relationship between the Iranian Stock Market and Commodity Markets: A TVP-VAR Approach and Portfolio Optimization by Hadi Esmaeilpour, Emad Sharifbagheri

“…Furthermore, the Minimum Correlation approach calculates the weights of the investment portfolio using a conditional correlation matrix. A more contemporary method, known as Minimum Connectedness, has gained prominence as it allocates greater weights to assets that exhibit minimal connectivity and influence on other assets. …”
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DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS OF ZOOPLANKTON IN TYULENIY ISLAND WATERS OF THE CASPIAN SEA by Magomed M. Osmanov, Nukhkadi I. Rabazanov, Ruslan M. Barkhalov, Fangiz Sh. Amaeva, Murad M. Aligadzhiev, Aishat A. Abdurakhmanova

“…In this regard, the main objective of the research is to study the biodiversity and the quantitative assessment of the zooplankton communities of the coastal waters of Tyuleniy Island and its lagoon areas. Methods. Zooplankton samples were selected seasonally using quantitative methods in order to assess the hydrobionts and current recommendations for material processing. …”
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Household-income trajectories and mental health inequalities in Germany before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a quasi-experimental panel study by Ibrahim Demirer, Heike Krüger, Timo-Kolja Pförtner

“…Females experienced a more generalized mental health decline across all trajectories. …”
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Potential of Lignocellulosic Agro-Waste to Produce Value-Added Products by Uloma Onyeka, Egwu Kalu, Damaris Okafor

“…The OAC samples had a higher ash content range (8.24–18.6%) compared to MFC samples (7.37–9.89%). …”
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