“I learned a lot about me as a person”: University students’ development as non-formal education professionals by Amber Simpson, Jada McCann, Diana Murtaugh, Laurie E. Miroff

“…This group of professionals includes university students who volunteer their time in educational and youth-service organizations.MethodsIn this collective case study, we utilized Cultural-Historical Activity Theory to (a) understand how undergraduate and graduate students negotiated their development as a non-formal educational professional within an afterschool program and (b) consider how contradictions influenced their growth as educators, if at all. …”
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An OFDM Signal Enhancement and Demodulation Method Based on Segmented Asymmetric Bistable Stochastic Resonance by Gaohui Liu, Xiaqiang Chu

“…Using the adiabatic approximation theory, the Kramers escape rate and output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the SABSR system are derived and analyzed. …”
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Field‐Aligned Currents Induced by Magnetopause Motions Under Pressure Perturbations by Boyi Wang, Xinyu Xu, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Yen‐Jung Wu, Zhonghua Xu, Primož Kajdic, De‐Sheng Han, Yi Wang, Xueshang Feng

“…Abstract In this work, we identified 65 auroral arcs that stretched out from the equatorward boundary of auroral oval with azimuthal extensions, and investigated their upstream triggering, by utilizing conjunctions between the THEMIS probes and the all‐sky imagers at AGO P1 and South Pole stations. …”
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A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial: Diagnostic and Public Health Implications by Annalisa Bargellini, Isabella Marchesi, Patrizia Marchegiano, Luca Richeldi, Roberto Cagarelli, Greta Ferranti, Paola Borella

“…The description of this culture-proven case of Legionnaires’ disease has major clinical, legal, and public health consequences as the complexity of hospitalised patients poses limitations to the rule-of-thumb surveillance definition of nosocomial pneumonia based on 2–10-day incubation period.…”
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Multi-Instance Contingent Fusion for the Verification of Infant Fingerprints by Tiwalade O. Odu, Moses O. Olaniyan, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Isaac A. Samuel, Joke A. Badejo, Aderemi A. Atayero

“…The objective of this study is to demonstrate the potential for future identification of infants using fingerprints obtained from a 500 ppi fingerprint reader by employing a fusion technique that combines multiple instances of fingerprints, specifically the left thumb and right index fingers. The fingerprints were acquired from babies who were between the ages of one day and six months at the enrolment session. …”
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Rupture of Extensor Pollicis Longus Tendon Caused by Scaphoid Nonunion Advanced Collapse Wrist by Takahito Kojima, Masataka Yasuda, Shunpei Hama, Makoto Fukuda, Kenta Minato

“…He could not actively extend the left thumb interphalangeal joint and visited our institution for an examination. …”
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It’s the Social Interaction That Matters: Exploring Residents’ Motivation to Invest in the Community-Shared Charging Post Co-Construction Project by Junchao Yang, Ziyang Peng

“…This study, grounded in the theory of planned behavior (TPB) from social psychology, incorporated factors such as community identity, perceived green value, economic benefit, uncivil behaviors, and perceived risk to construct a structural model explaining community residents’ intention to invest in the CSCP co-construction project. …”
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Replica wormholes and entanglement islands in the Karch-Randall braneworld by Hao Geng

“…Such a black hole lives on a brane and is highly quantum yet has a holographic dual as a higher dimensional classical theory that lives in the ambient space. Moreover, such a black hole is coupled to a nongravitational bath which is absorbing its Hawking radiation. …”
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Authorial Narratives in the Work of Middle Eastern Directors by Галина Погребняк

“…It enables their use in educational courses on the theory and history of culture, cinema and directing. …”
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La pensée de Carl Gustav Jung et les courants néo-gnostiques de la première moitié du xxe siècle by Christine Maillard

“…Elle reconstitue au préalable l’histoire de la réception d’idées gnostiques dans l’espace germanique aux XIXe et XXe siècles, puis situe l’approche qu’en propose Jung par rapport à celle d’autres auteurs contemporains et acteurs de cette « récidive gnostique» (Blumenberg) dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, qui privilégie les thèmes et mythes de la chute, du monde créé par un démiurge mauvais, de l’homme comme étranger dans ce monde… L’étude interroge ensuite la construction des notions les plus originales de la théorie jungienne du psychisme (l’inconscient collectif, l’anima, le Soi) dans leur relation à des représentations issues de cette tradition. …”
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The impact of corporate social responsibility on cybersecurity behavior: The crucial role of organizationally-prescribed perfectionism by Byung-Jik Kim, Julak Lee

“…It specifically examines the mediating effects of psychological safety and job stress, as well as the moderating role of organizationally-prescribed perfectionism. Drawing on theories of social identity, social exchange, and the job demands-resources model, we postulate that CSR influences cybersecurity behavior in employees in a positive way, first through psychological safety and then through job stress as a sequential mediator. …”
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Decision Processes about Condom Use among Shelter-Homeless LGBT Youth in Manhattan by Geoffrey L. Ream, Kate F. Barnhart, Kevin V. Lotz

“…Health behavior interventions based on Theory of Planned Behavior address participants’ personally-held beliefs, perceived social norms, and control over the behavior. …”
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A Study of Millisecond Blasting on High Bench at Barun Iron Ore Operation by Pengfei Zhang, Runcai Bai, Xue Sun, Haoran Li, Honglu Fei, Shijie Bao

“…However, the relative blasting parameters need field calibration and further investigation of theories on these techniques are required. This paper studied the open-cut bench blasting at Barun Eboxi Mine of Baotou Iron and Steel Group via theoretical analysis on shock wave, numerical simulation, and field test. …”
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Homeostatic model and job-organization related factors as predictors of subjective wellbeing of Mizan-Tepi university teachers by Michael Emru adesse

“…Accordingly, the study employed the homeostasis theory of SWB as a theoretical framework and tested two major hypotheses. …”
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Decision Tree Algorithm for Visual Art Design in a Psychotherapy System for College Students by Han Wang, Xiang Ji, Dandan Zhang

“…This study is aimed at using data mining principles and methods to excavate the factors that lead to psychological problems of college students, to purposefully carry out psychological interventions, use visual art design methods to promote college students’ psychological health treatment, and build a perfect system of college students’ psychological treatment. Based on the theories of data mining, we built a data analysis model, elaborated the data preprocessing method, and applied the Apriori algorithm to analyze the data of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and interpersonal sensitivity symptoms, and various psychological problem attributes extracted the strong association rules and analyzed the results. …”
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INTERROGATING THE EFFECTS OF ARMED BANDITRY ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA’S NORTH-CENTRAL REGION (2015-2022) by YUSUFU Ahmed Audu, ODAUDU Alfred Idachaba, ILEVBARE Igheoise Trust

“…Theoretically the paper deploys Routine Activity Theory as its framework of analysis while methodologically it employs a cross sectional research design in which copies of well-structured questionnaire were administered on the target respondents to elicit relevant data. …”
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Power beacon-assisted energy harvesting symbiotic radio networks: Outage performance. by Tran Cong Hung, Bui Vu Minh, Tan N Nguyen, Miroslav Voznak

“…Subsequently, we carry out a series of numerical results to verify the developed theory frameworks on the one hand, and on the other hand, analyze the COP performance against the variations of system key parameters (transmit signal-to-noise ratio, the time-splitting coefficient, the energy conversion efficiency factor, the reflection coefficient, and the coexistent decoding threshold). …”
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Stable-to-unstable transition in quantum friction by Daigo Oue, J. B. Pendry, Mário G. Silveirinha

“…Here, we develop a fully quantum-mechanical theory without perturbative approximations, and we unveil the transition from stable to unstable regimes of the quantum friction setup. …”
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The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Intoxication and Medieval English Felony Law by Elizabeth Papp Kamali

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