Understanding the Contributing Factors of School Violence and Intervention Strategies Used in the SADC Region: A Scoping Review Protocol by Gift Khumalo, Nosipho Faith Makhakhe, Bokang Nephtali Lipholo

“…Guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s five-step framework, this proposed scoping review sought to explore the contextual factors that contribute to school violence and examine intervention strategies that have been used to mitigate school violence. …”
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OUTSOURCING OF R&D AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN SMEs: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA by Barbara Bradač Hojnik, Miroslav Rebernik

“…This paper examines the basic characteristics of outsourcing R&D and innovation activities in SMEs, based on a survey among Slovenian companies in the manufacturing and service industries. We tested five hypotheses. Empirical results show that one third of SMEs outsource R&D and innovation activities in different forms, and that small companies outsource these activities more often. …”
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Między oczekiwaniami a rzeczywistością – perspektywa zawodowa kandydatów do zawodu i początkujących nauczycieli wczesnej edukacji by Justyna Kosz-Szumska

“…The aim of this study was to determine the motives for choosing the profession of early childhood education teacher by students of early childhood pedagogy, graduating with a bachelor’s degree, and early childhood education teachers working in the profession for no more than five years. A diagnostic survey method was used, with a questionnaire technique. …”
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Dark QCD perspective inspired by strong CP problem at QCD scale by Bin Wang, Shinya Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki Ishida

“…This ALP can be ultralight, having the mass less than 1 eV, to be a dark matter candidate. The QCD × dark QCD symmetry structure constrains dark QCD meson spectra, so that the dark η′-like meson would only be accessible at the collider experiments. …”
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Vitamin C <i>in-vivo</i> Effect on Liver Enzymes and Some Endogenous Antioxidants in Paracetamol-Induced Model of Liver Toxicity on Wistar Rats by E.G. Moke, K.K. Anachuna, P.O. Onyilo, M. Emosivbe

“…The rats were grouped into four groups of five animals each; groups 1 and 2 were control (positive and negative), while group 3 and 4 received vitamin C 500 mg/kg and silymarin 100 mg/kg respectively. …”
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MIGRATION IN WEST AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF PULL AND PUSH FACTORS by OLUWAGBENGA EMMANUEL ADEBAYO, MARY MOMSISURI BOTESO

“…Panel data on variables like net migration, wage rate, and unemployment in four selected West African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leonne and Senegal), spanning a period of twenty-five years (1997-2021) were collected from secondary sources like the World Bank, and analyzed using the fixed effects model with cluster- robust standard errors. …”
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Parental mediation and the use of social networks: A systematic review. by David Sevilla-Fernández, Adoración Díaz-López, Vanessa Caba-Machado, Juan Manuel Machimbarrena, Jessica Ortega-Barón, Joaquín González-Cabrera

“…Following the PRISMA protocol, this review was submitted to Prospero (ID: CRD42022345033), five electronic databases were examined (WOS, SCOPUS, ERIC, ProQuest Psychology, and PubMed), and to assess the risk of bias the ROBIS tool was used. 32 papers were selected. …”
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A clustering-metaheuristic-simulation approach to determine air taxi operating site location by Varshini Priyaa Senthilnathan, Mohanapriya Singaravelu, Suchithra Rajendran, Sharan Srinivas

“…The results indicate that the number of operating stations required for efficient air taxi services is five (Central Park, JFK International Airport, lower Manhattan, Columbia University and Bronx), with an average customer time in system being about 32 min and a waiting time of 13 min per customer.…”
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IM- LTS: An Integrated Model for Lung Tumor Segmentation using Neural Networks and IoMT by Jayapradha J, Su-Cheng Haw, Naveen Palanichamy, Kok-Why Ng, Senthil Kumar Thillaigovindhan

“…The model integrates two architectures, MobileNetV2 and U-NET, for classifying the input lung data. …”
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The role of IELTS teacher’s metapathy in IELTS candidates’ overall band score, language learning orientation, and active/passive motivation by Hamed Ghaemi, Robert Kirkpatrick

“…Ten IELTS teachers from five language training centers and 100 IELTS candidates participated in the mixed methods design. …”
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QeMFi: A Multifidelity Dataset of Quantum Chemical Properties of Diverse Molecules by Vivin Vinod, Peter Zaspel

“…We provide the Quantum chemistry MultiFidelity (QeMFi) dataset consisting of five fidelities calculated with the TD-DFT formalism. …”
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Design and Implementation of Automatic GSM Based Fire Alarm System. by Waiswa, Abudallah Mujaasi

“…This was achieved by the fabrication of 12 V power supply system that powers the device using step down transformer, programming Arduino Uno Microcontroller using C++ programming Language in the Arduino software platform, and integrating the program med Arduino Uno Microcontroller with GSM SIM900 module. …”
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Financial accountability mechanisms in local governments in Uganda: a case of Kabale District Local Government by Perpetua, Arinaitwe, Eton, Marus, Moses, Agaba, Abanis, Turyahebwa, Benard, Patrick Ogwel, Fabian, Mwosi

“…Quantitative analysis was aided by software for document analysis (SPSS V 20.0). The study found out that service delivery was the most commonly used financial accountability mechanism, followed by financial reporting, expenditure control and budget. …”
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Financial accountability mechanisms in local governments in Uganda: a case of Kabale District Local Government by Eton, Marus, Moses, Agaba, Abanis,Turyahebwa, Perpetua, Arinaitwe, Fabian, Mwosi, Bernard, Patrick Ogwel

“…Quantitative analysis was aided by software for document analysis (SPSS V 20.0). The study found out that service delivery was the most commonly used financial accountability mechanism, followed by financial reporting, expenditure control and budget. …”
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Diplomacia científica aplicada a la economía - Scientific diplomacy applied to economics by Vicente René Encalada Encarnación, Mayra Paola Mizhquero Jaramillo 

“…Introducción/objetivo: la pandemia SARS-CoV-2 aumentó la pobreza y la inestabilidad económica a nivel global. …”
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Analisis Sentimen terhadap Kebijakan Kuliah Daring Selama Pandemi Menggunakan Pendekatan Lexicon Based Features dan Support Vector Machine by Natasya Eldha Oktaviana, Yuita Arum Sari, Indriati Indriati

“…Adanya virus baru yaitu COVID-19 atau SARS-CoV-2 yang berasal dari Wuhan, China pada awal tahun 2020 telah menggemparkan seluruh warga dunia salah satunya Indonesia dan memiliki tingkat penularan yang tinggi. …”
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The Association of Emotional Blackmail and Adjustment to College Life Among Warned Female Students at Al-Balqa University Students by Raed A. Al-kreimeen, Nedal Ahmad Alghafary, Fadi Soud Samawi

“…The collected data were analyzed statistically using the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) (v. 26 IBM Corporation). The study's findings showed that warned female students had a high level of emotional blackmail (2.90±0.799). …”
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PENENTUAN NILAI MOMEN MAGNET NEODYMIUM YANG BERGERAK DI DALAM PIPA ALUMINIUM DAN KUNINGAN DENGAN METODE ANALISIS VIDEO by Albertus Hariwangsa Panuluh, Yohanes Jeverson Bulu

“…Salah satu beban yang digantungkan di ujung  tali direkam pergerakannya menggunakan kamera panasonic Hc-V30. Kemudian file video tersebut dianalisis menggunakan software Logger Pro. …”
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Optimization and Performance Analysis of a Geothermal-Based Power Generation System Based on Flash-Binary and Dual-Pressure Evaporation Organic Rankine Cycles Using Zeotropic Mixtu... by Mojtaba Nedaei, Abolfazl Keykhah, Borzo Kamary, Ehsanolah Assareh

“…The system’s performance is estimated via thermodynamic and thermoeconomic analyses. Five different zeotropic mixtures are considered the D-ORC working fluid, and their performance is compared at the optimum state. …”
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Predicting Postoperative Re-Tear of Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair Using Artificial Intelligence on Imbalanced Data by Zhibin Zhang, Zhewei Zhang, Zhaoxiang Peng, Yihong Dong

“…The classification performance of the proposed method is tested on the dataset of whether rotator cuff is re-torn after surgery, and the results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in a five-fold cross-validation setting.The code of this work is available at <uri>https://github.com/nishuihan111/WL-GCN.git</uri>.…”
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