A Case Study of Students’ Barriers in Passive Voice Sentences by Zahratul Idami, Diah Ayu Pratiwi Pratiwi

“…The external factors were lack of parental attention, lack of supporting media in the learning process, inadequate school infrastructures, and the road to school was difficult to pass. …”
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An Integrated Method for Selecting Architecture Alternatives and Reconfiguration Options Towards System-of-Systems Resilience by Zhemei Fang, Hang Li, Dazhi Chen

“…An application to an air and missile defense SoS illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed method. The generated Pareto optimal set of solutions that have non-dominated recoverability and survivability provide useful decision support for SoS composition and initial architecture configuration, based upon which an SoS can also respond effectively to disruptions by computing the reconfiguration decisions.…”
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Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden by Lotta Vikström, Helena Haage, Erling Häggström Lundevaller

“…Having access to micro-data that report disabilities in a population of 8,874 individuals from the parish registers digitised by the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, we employ sequence analysis on a series of events that are expected to occur in life of young adults: getting a job, marrying and becoming a parent, while also taking into account out-migration and death. …”
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LA RELATION ENSEIGNANT – ELÈVE / ETUDIANT DANS LE CADRE DU PROCESSUS INSTRUCTIF-ÉDUCATIF D’ÉDUCATION MUSICALE by Constantina BOGHICI

“…The few failures we recorded were caused by external causes, unrelated to the teaching process: the lack of native talent as far as the pupil/student was concerned, the family’s lack of interest for the artistic aspects, defectological elements, poor health, etc. …”
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A Green Demand-Responsive Airport Shuttle Service Problem with Time-Varying Speeds by Ming Wei, Binbin Jing, Jian Yin, Yang Zang

“…Since this task is an NP-hard problem, a heuristic-based nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is also presented to find Pareto optimal solutions in a reasonable amount of time. …”
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Massive Subchorionic Thrombohematoma (Breus’ Mole) Associated with Fetal Growth Restriction, Oligohydramnios, and Intrauterine Fetal Death by Miyuki Miyagi, Tadatsugu Kinjo, Keiko Mekaru, Hayase Nitta, Hitoshi Masamoto, Yoichi Aoki

“…Because MST is rare, it must be considered in the differential diagnosis of parental conditions. Magnetic resonance imaging can be optimal for diagnosing MST when ultrasound diagnosis is difficult.…”
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Determinants and Perception of Incest in Family Relationships in Uyo Capital City, Nigeria by Victoria Nkan, Enwongo Abasi Udofia, Deborah Uduk

“…Using a cross-sectional survey of 800 respondents (382 males, 418 females), the research identifies key determinants of incest, including poverty (15%), depression (14%), and alcoholism (16%), as well as factors like single parenting (15%) and divorce/separation (20%). A factor analysis groups these causes into psychological, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors, revealing that emotional instability, financial hardship, and environmental vulnerabilities significantly increase the risk of incestuous behavior. …”
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Automated Volumetric Milling Area Planning for Acoustic Neuroma Surgery via Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization by Sheng Yang, Haowei Li, Peihai Zhang, Wenqing Yan, Zhe Zhao, Hui Ding, Guangzhi Wang

“…Finally, a multi-objective optimization algorithm is used to achieve a Pareto-optimal design. Compared with manual planning on six volumes, our method reduced the potential damage to the scala vestibuli by 29.8%, improved the milling boundary smoothness by 78.3%, and increased target accessibility by 26.4%. …”
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Childhood Mortality: Trends and Determinants in Ethiopia from 1990 to 2015—A Systematic Review by Yohannes Mehretie Adinew, Senafikish Amsalu Feleke, Zelalem Birhanu Mengesha, Shimelash Bitew Workie

“…The corresponding decline in neonatal and postneonatal mortality over the same period was 64% and 68%, respectively. Parental sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral variables and nutritional, environmental, and sanitary factors have been identified to affect child survival. …”
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Mobility, ICT, and health: a built environment investigation of older Chinese migrants’ social isolation and loneliness by Amber DeJohn, Bochu Liu, Xinlin Ma, Michael J. Widener, Zhilin Liu

“…Methods Using a survey of older Chinese migrants in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) during the extended COVID-19 lockdown, we investigate how community mobility and ICT use, two mechanisms of socializing, relate to the built environment and influence loneliness (De Jong Gierveld 6-item scale), as well as mental and physical health (SF-12). …”
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Acute Rheumatic Fever: Findings of a Hospital-Based Study and an Overview of Reported Outbreaks by Upton D Allen, Michael Braudo, Stanley E Read

“…To review the characteristics of reported outbreaks of acute rheumatic fever in the United States, and to determine if there is an increase in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever in the population served by the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, the authors conducted a literature search and a retrospective review of inpatients and outpatients, satisfying the revised Jones criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever, from 1972 to 1988. …”
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Walter Ong’un Düşünce Dünyası ve Medya Ekolojisi Geleneğine Etkileri by Ali Hasan Hamut

“…Ong, iletişim ve medya çalışmalarıyla öne çıkan Toronto Okulu geleneğinin önemli bir temsilcisi olmasının yanında iletişim ve medya çalışmalarına yeni bir bakış açısı sunan medya ekolojisi geleneği için de önemli bir isimdir. …”
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Impact of interventions on mpox transmission during the 2022 outbreak in Canada: a mathematical modeling study of three different cities by Fanyu Xiu, Carla M. Doyle, Jorge Luis Flores Anato, Jesse Knight, Linwei Wang, Joseph Cox, Daniel Grace, Trevor A. Hart, Terri Zhang, Shayna Skakoon-Sparling, Milada Dvorakova, Rita Shahin, Herveen Sachdeva, Nathan Lachowsky, Hind Sbihi, Darrell H.S. Tan, Michael A. Irvine, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

“…Methods: We estimated changes in sexual behaviors during the outbreak using 2022 data from the Engage Cohort Study, which recruited self-identified GBM in Montréal, Toronto, and Vancouver (n = 1,445). We developed a transmission dynamic model to estimate the fraction of new infections averted due to the three interventions in each city. …”
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Factors affecting the design of the management dashboard framework with an emphasis on the components of human resources productivity by Hassan Barmaki, Farshad Faezy Razi, Ehtesham Rashidi

“…Among these, group dynamics and team spirit, success motivation and talent assessment and completion of talent banks of employees, documentation and continuity in learning, creating motivation and success among employees with a weighted average of 4.9 are among the most important factors identified.Extended abstractIntroductionToday, fierce competition has prevailed in various jobs. …”
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Effect of maturity status on lower-limb strength testing reliability in academy football players from an elite professional club by Maxime Violin, Abd-elbasset Abaïdia, Guillaume Rave, Sébastien Ratel

“… Introduction: In top-level football, clubs seek to identify young talent. This identification requires using tests to notably evaluate the lower-limb strength, which is a decisive physical quality in football performance. …”
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Mapping and Analysis of Exit Strategy Research: A Bibliometrics and Systematic Review by Alireza Valipour, Ali Heidari, Mohammad Ali Shahhosseini, Asadollah Kordnaiej

“…Financial research focuses on the exit's impact on subsidiary performance and parent company financials, while economics explores industry factors influencing exit decisions. …”
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Heterosis and inbreeding depression in Aus Rice (Oryza sativa L.) for yield contributing traits by S. G. Sarna1, Ekhlaque Ahmad2 and A. K. M. Aminul Islam1*

“…Heterosis for filled grains/panicle was significant positive in (P3 × P4) over mid parent and better parent. The highest significant positive RH and BH was exhibited by crosses P8 × P3 (34.08 and 18.65), P2 × P6 (23.58 and 8.53), P6 × P3 (16.97 and 15.27), P3 × P4 (11.66 and 11.10) for panicle length. …”
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Eu-Substituents-Induced Modifications in the Thermoelectric Properties of the Zintl Phase Ba_1-<i>x</i>Eu<i>_x</i>Zn₂Sb₂ System by Daewon Shim, Junsu Lee, Aziz Ahmed, Ji Hee Pi, Myung-Ho Choi, Kang Min Ok, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Tae-Soo You

“…A series of density functional theory calculations were performed using a hypothetical model with the idealized compositions of Ba_0.75Eu_0.25Zn₂Sb₂, and the results were compared with the ternary parental compound BaZn₂Sb₂ to understand the influence of Eu substituents in the Ba_1-<i>x</i>Eu<i>_x</i>Zn₂Sb₂ system. …”
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Removal of Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate from groundwater by sodium persulfate activated by hollow micron zero-valent iron: Reaction mechanism and degradation path by Chunyang Gao, Bing Wang, Jingjing Zhao, Jvfeng Li, Xianyuan Du, Jin Zheng, Quanwei Song, Jiacai Xie

“…There were three degradation pathways of DEHP in H-mZVI/PS system, and the toxicity of DEHP degradation products was significantly lower than that of the parent.…”
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A Utilização de Sites de Rede Social no Trabalho: um Estudo de Caso em Empresas Brasileiras by Marcos Hideyuki Yokoyama, Tomoki Sekiguchi

“…Nós realizamos um estudo de caso qualitativo e propusem os um modelo que classificou as empresas em três grupos de acordo com seus posicion amentos em relação ao uso de SRS no trabalho. O grupo de criação de conhecimento privil egia o capital social e intelectual gerado por discussão on-line , enquanto o grupo de marca corporativa procura for talecer a imagem da empresa perante os consumidores. …”
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