Comparison of Finasteride and Dutasteride on Risk of Prostate Cancer in Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Pooled Analysis of 15 Real-world Databases by Dae Yul Yang, Won-Woo Seo, Rae Woong Park, Sang Youl Rhee, Jae Myung Cha, Yoon Soo Hah, Chang Won Jeong, Kyung-Jin Kim, Hyeon-Jong Yang, Do Kyung Kim, Ji Yong Ha

“…Results: A total of 8,284 patients of new-users of finasteride and 8,670 patients of new-users of dutasteride were included across the 15 databases. …”

Fuzzy-Based Adaptive Countering Method against False Endorsement Insertion Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks by Hae Young Lee

“…However, to apply this solution to a WSN, the users must carefully select 10 or more security parameters, which are used to determine the occurrences of FEIAs. …”
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Method for Detecting Manipulated Compilation of Sensing Reports in Wireless Sensor Networks by Hae Young Lee

“…Therefore, the event can be properly reported to the users. The performance of the proposed method is shown with analytical and experimental results at the end of the paper.…”
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Being there but where? Sense of presence theory for virtual reality applications by Stefano Triberti, Caterina Sapone, Giuseppe Riva

“…We contend that presence is primarily a psychological phenomenon shaped by three critical dimensions that extend beyond mere technological sophistication: (1) the impact of content and narrative structure in virtual environments, (2) the influence of users’ individual characteristics and socio-cultural contexts, and (3) the relationship between presence and users’ intentional structures. …”
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Le jardin partagé est-il un paysage ? by Olga Pashchenko

“…The objective of the comparison between the community gardens of Paris, Marseille and Lille is two-fold: to understand whether these territories can be defined as landscapes; to show the intentions of those who created these spaces, as well as those of their users. …”
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Nouvelles migrations sud-américaines au Chili : Rapports de sexe, classe, et « race » en santé by Nanette Liberona

“…The arrival of new South-American users of the public health system in Chile has created new inter-ethnic relationships between agents, administrative staff and professionals of the health system and the patients. …”
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Introduction: AI for and in Urban Planning by Tong Wang, Neil Yorke-Smith

“…Future development of AI in urban planning shall address the ethical, inclusive, and just implications of AI applications for urban planning while navigating human and AI agents’ interactions and intra-actions to facilitate a better understanding of the intentions of AI development and use, and the impacts on the behaviour of designers and users in complex urban planning practices.…”
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Prosthetic Hand Based on Human Hand Anatomy Controlled by Surface Electromyography and Artificial Neural Network by Larisa Dunai, Isabel Seguí Verdú, Dinu Turcanu, Viorel Bostan

“…To validate the method, 100 signals for three gestures with 64 samples each signal have been recorded from 2 users with OYMotion sensors and 100 signals for three gestures from 4 users with the MyWare sensors. …”
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Legal implications for the regulation of ownership, storage and control of narcotics in Indonesia by Hatarto Pakpahan, I Nyoman Nurjaya, Setiawan Nurdayasakti, Nurini Aprilianda

“…The findings suggest that despite their noble intentions, these articles often lead to severe punishments for individual users without distinguishing them from large-scale traffickers. …”
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The revival of spiritual practices: factors influencing the “seeking deities and offering prayers” behavior of China’s Generation Z on social media in an atheistic context by Jing Wang, Balamuralithara Balakrishnan, Xiaohui Wan, Qirui Yu, Qiqi Ye

“…This study aims to deeply explore the social and psychological factors generated by digital religious activities on social media platforms, particularly how they stimulate Chinese Generation Z youth to participate in digital religious activities.ResultsThe results show that attitudes toward digital religion, perceived behavioral control, social identity, and empathetic willingness are predictors of intentions, while social norms are not. Intentions significantly predict users’behavior on social media platforms such as Weibo and Douyin. …”
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Considering Participants’ Personal Wellness in Conservation-Based Extension Programs: Opportunities for Integrative Development and Evaluation by John Diaz, Erica Odera, Laura Warner

“…The effectiveness of these efforts centers on designing programs with considerations of the factors that will change relevant decisions and behaviors among residential landscape water users. We conducted a statewide study to explore the concept of wellness and well-being, and these characteristics' relationship to water conservation behaviors. …”
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Considering Participants’ Personal Wellness in Conservation-Based Extension Programs: Opportunities for Integrative Development and Evaluation by John Diaz, Erica Odera, Laura Warner

“…The effectiveness of these efforts centers on designing programs with considerations of the factors that will change relevant decisions and behaviors among residential landscape water users. We conducted a statewide study to explore the concept of wellness and well-being, and these characteristics' relationship to water conservation behaviors. …”
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Интерсемиотический и прагмасемантический анализ цикла мемов „Дворец для Путина” by Żanna Sładkiewicz

“…It considers verbal, iconic and metagraphic ways of realizing the pragmatic intentions of the participants in the communication process. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Relationship between Religion and Technology and Its "Islamic Technology" Project by Mahmoud Mokhtari

“…In fact, the author's view focuses on the intentions of the designers and users of technological artifacts, not on the structure and physical properties of the artifacts, and thus the concept of "religious technology" is reduced to what the author calls "non-religious technology" (as opposed to anti-religious).…”
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An emerging trend in Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPSs): designer THC by Cristian Caprari, Elena Ferri, Maria Angela Vandelli, Cinzia Citti, Giuseppe Cannazza

“…The unintended consequence of this noble intent has been the proliferation of these compounds for recreational use. …”
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Exploring pattern-specific components associated with hand gestures through different sEMG measures by Yangyang Yuan, Jionghui Liu, Chenyun Dai, Xiao Liu, Bo Hu, Jiahao Fan

“…Abstract For surface electromyography (sEMG) based human–machine interaction systems, accurately recognizing the users’ gesture intent is crucial. However, due to the existence of subject-specific components in sEMG signals, subject-specific models may deteriorate when applied to new users. …”
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Professional competence assessment of dispensary pharmacy technician. A methodological strategy. by María Cristina Núñez Martínez

“…The individual satisfaction level express by strategy users is high and consulted experts approve it by major consensus. …”
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Digital chefs and intelligent cooking systems based on multimodal large language model by LI Xinyuan, LI Bai, SUN Yueshuo, ZHANG Tantan, TIAN Yonglin, YIN Zhuyan, WANG Fei-Yue

“…A low-rank adaptation method was applied to fine-tune a pretrained multimodal large language model, enabling it to understand cooking intentions. In the online phase, real-time sensory data were converted into image-text inputs for the fine-tuned model, which then generated cooking instructions to guide users through the cooking steps. …”
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Les ressorts territoriaux de la gestion de l’eau : le cas de la Drôme (1980-2013) by Sabine Girard

“…The role of water managers seems determining and their intentions, their power and their skills in territorial matters are discussed.…”
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Perfunctory gamification in the world of second language learning by Opacki Marcin

“…As a result, hardcore gamers are for the most part functionally excluded from the pool of potential CALL app users. The present work outlines several potential solutions to the problem of perfunctory game design practices that alienate hardcore gamers. …”
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