Detection of Cutaneouse Leishmaniasis species via PCR in Salah Adeen and Baghdad provences by Maysaa Ibrahim Al-Jubori, Abd Alrahman A. Al-Tae, Mohammad A. Al-Faham

“…Conclusion: The study found that males were more likely to be infected than females. The study revealed that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the most effective and sensitive method for detecting types of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. …”
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Evaluation of glycemic control, quality of life and psychological characteristics in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus by Yuliya Andreevna Shishkova, Oleg Gennad'evich Motovilin, Elena Viktorovna Surkova, Alexander Yur'evich Mayorov

“…Results.  In the studied sample, better glycemic control was associated with higher QoL and more favourable ES. …”
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The impact of local government debt governance on carbon emissions: evidence from Chinese cities by Yan Zhang, Jun Kong

“…IntroductionIntegrating debt risk mitigation and carbon reduction is essential for superior economic development.MethodsThe study has selected panel data from 274 Chinese cities from 2009 to 2020 as the research sample. …”
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Hardware Acceleration of Division-Free Quadrature-Based Square Rooting Approach for Near-Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Images by Amal Altamimi, Belgacem Ben Youssef

“…Recent advancements in hyperspectral imaging have significantly increased the acquired data volume, creating a need for more efficient compression methods for handling the growing storage and transmission demands. …”
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Are food taxes for healthy eating acceptable? A survey of public attitudes in the UK by Franco Sassi, Mario Martínez-Jiménez, Hannah Brinsden

“…This study aims to investigate public attitudes, knowledge and policy preferences regarding food taxes for promoting healthy eating in the UK.Methods A survey was administered through YouGov Plc to a nationally representative sample of 2125 adults, gathering information on: acceptability and support for different types of food taxes, awareness and knowledge of existing taxes and preferences for the characteristics of possible new taxes.Results Overall, 48% of respondents support higher taxes on unhealthy foods, rising to 72% if taxes made healthy foods more affordable. …”
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Association of Myianoetus sp. (Acari: Histiostomatidae) with necrophagous fly Compsomyiops fulvicrura (Diptera: Calliphoridae), in the Prepuna ecoregion (Jujuy: Argentina) by María Laura Fernández-Salinas, Marcia Luciana Matoz-Fernandez

“…These findings in forensic ecology are relevant for their potential contribution and application in the development of more precise methods in specific forensic cases.   …”
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Enhancing Firm Value through Green Accounting and Environmental Performance: The Mediating Effect of Profitability by Sayu Made Anggreni, Eka Ardhani Sisdiyani, I Dewa Nyoman Badera

“…Increased profit makes a company more valuable to investors and other stakeholders.…”
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Enhancing EFL Prospective Teachers' Classroom Management Skills Through the implementation of Flipped Classroom by Israa Ramadan

“…Numerous endeavours have been detected to improve new techniques, strategies, and methods for enhancing teachers' classroom management skills, both in the pre-service and in-service settings. …”
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Comparing Classification Algorithms to Recognize Selected Gestures Based on Microsoft Azure Kinect Joint Data by Marc Funken, Thomas Hanne

“…In addition, we explore supervised learning methods to increase the accuracy of gesture recognition in gamification. …”
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Test-Retest Reliability of a Measure of Independence in Everyday Activities: The ADL Profile by Élisabeth Dutil, Carolina Bottari, Claudine Auger

“…The three tasks with only moderate agreement were more novel and complex (e.g., making a budget) for the participants. …”
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Random Ensemble MARS: Model Selection in Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines Using Random Forest Approach by Mehmet Ali Cengiz, Dilek Sabancı

“…The MARS model, which works better in the larger data set, provides more reliable results with smaller data sets utilising the proposed method.…”
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The daunting challenge of Artificial Intelligence in Education: a systematic literature review by Rubén Arriazu

“…In pedagogical terms, the need to adapt teaching methods and curricula to leverage AI capabilities is highlighted, as well as the importance of maintaining a balance between AI-assisted teaching and human interaction. …”
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Determination the Risks Factors of Tuberculosis and Its Clinical Outcome during the Year (2022) in Al-Hilla City, Iraq by Sadiq Salam H. Al-Salih, Mohammed Malih Radhi, Nada Khazal Kadhim Hindi

“…A non-probability “purposive sample” of (N = 127) patients diagnosed with tuberculosis. …”
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Factors Influencing Nursing Interns' Engagement in Fall Prevention Activities in Saudi Arabia by Saeed Asiri, Ali Kerari

“…Design This study used a cross‐sectional design. Methods This was a cross‐sectional, descriptive, correlational study. …”
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3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Inequalities: social, economic and political; Paper 2: Media conver-gence and blogging in exposing corruption and fraud in India by C.S.H.N. Murthy

“…This study therefore follows multiple methods of inquiry, besides the case studies, including surfing the existing web-portals/blogs for the mobilized public views on exposure of corruption through the ‘convergent’ media and conducting  interviews with the convenience sample of media experts in the field as also analyzing the secondary documents (for case studies). …”
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Development of a Chemiluminescence-Based Ribonuclease Protection Assay by Christopher Rosenau, Barbara Kaboord, M. Walid Qoronfleh

“…Most importantly, our streptavidin/HRP-based chemiluminescent technology enables us to achieve sensitivity results similar to radioactive RPAs and to detect multiple transcripts in a single sample more efficiently. Furthermore, this new protocol addresses and eliminates the one major drawback unique to using biotinylated probes in chemiluminescent RPAs: a confounding artifact, not seen when running radioactive RPAs but commonly detected when using certain biotinylated rare message probes.…”
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Internationalisation and Innovation Intensities of Polish Manufacturing Firms: A Close Nexus? by Tomasz Brodzicki

“… Objective: The paper aims at the empirical identification of the nexus between innovation and internationalisation intensities in a sample of Polish manufacturing companies. Research Design & Methods: Using a unique dataset combining micro-level financial data from InfoCredit and results from an extensive survey we follow the approach of Altomonte, Aquilante, Ottaviano & Bekes (2013). …”
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Do altruistic tendencies lead to the persistence of voluntary behavior? A moderated mediation analysis by Shujie Yuan, Zengzhen Zhao

“…BackgroundIn the postpandemic period, more attention has been given to the sustainability of volunteering in China. …”
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An AI-Driven Particle Filter Technology for Battery System State Estimation and RUL Prediction by Mohamed Ahwiadi, Wilson Wang

“…The main contributions of the AI-PF technique are as follows: (1) A novel dynamic sample degeneracy detection method is proposed to provide real-time assessment of particle weights so as to promptly identify degeneracy and improve computational efficiency. (2) An adaptive crossover and mutation strategy is proposed to reallocate low-weight particles and maintain particle diversity to improve modeling and RUL forecasting accuracy. …”
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Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? by Václav Hrnčíř, Angela M. Chira, Russell D. Gray

“…Here we test this hypothesis with a global sample of 186 largely non-industrial societies, purpose-built dataset on intoxicants and causal inference methods. …”
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