Bedside Teaching in Undergraduate Surgical Education: A Pilot Study of Students’ Perspective by Mohammed Alfehaid

“…In recent years, studies have shown that this tool has witnessed gradual deterioration due to various reasons. Hence this pilot study was conducted to assess the students’ perspective about this tool and suggest remedies for the deficiencies. …”
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Estimating the cost of producing grid-connected solar PV in Indonesia by Firdaus A., Amrina U.

“…Although solar PV is the fastest-growing renewable generation source worldwide, Indonesia has hardly started to install it. One of the reasons for the slow development of solar PV in Indonesia is the lack of information for investors regarding the cost required to build and operate a solar PV over a specified cost recovery period. …”
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Perceived value of organizational foresight processes: effects of the illusion of control and individual foresight by Natália Borges, Raquel Janissek-Muniz

“…This research proposes an investigation into the reasons for low adherence for foresight processes in organizations. …”
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RUBBER DAM PLACEMENT: WHY MAJORITY OF SENIOR DENTISTSPRACTICING IN HA’IL, SAUDI ARABIA IGNORES IT? by Asaad Javaid Mirza et al

“…The young dentists between 24–35 years of age were found using rubber dam in majority (74%) whereas the 75% senior dentists (age above 35 years) responded as not using rubber dam isolation. The most responded reasons for non-use of rubber dam were difficulty in placement and time consumption …”
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Performance of Secondary Schools in Rukungiri District. by Alphonse, Byamukama

“…Lack of motivation by teachers and students delayed fees payment and remittance of teachers due allowances, inadequate teaching materials and limited strategies to improve academic performance by school authorities and students level of discipline were said to be some of the main reasons why schools perform averagely and poorly at UCE. …”
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Elementary school teachers’ understanding of unit fractions by Arthur Powell, Muteb Alqahtani, Özlem Temur, Daniela Tirnovan

“…In semi-structured interviews, 19 teachers engaged the task and reasoned whether the shaded portion equals 1/3 of the frame. …”
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Hypercoagulation syndrome at liver cirrhosis by I. A. Kurkina, M. V. Mayevskaya, B. V. Silayev, V. T. Ivashkin

“…There is always potential risk of both hemorrhage and thromboses. As the possible reasons causing clotting, decrease of plasma anticoagulants level, elevation of von Willebrand factor level, decrease of ADAMTS13 protease level, changes of vascular wall and decrease of profibrinolytic factors level are taken into account. …”
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New opinion on the issue of proton pump inhibitor-refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease by Yu. V. Yevsyutina, A. S. Trukhmanov

“…For the present moment it becomes clear, that low compliance of patients to PPI treatment, cytochrome Р450 isoenzyme CYP2C19 polymorphism and other known reasons are unable to explain growing number of refractory GERD cases. …”
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Isaiah 3:16–23: Dress, pride, ostentatious items or syncretism? by Paul Nyarko-Mensah, Dirk J. Human

“…The study investigated Isaiah 3:16–23 using the historical-grammatical methodology for the following reasons: to explore the author’s aim in writing the passage, ascertain the socio-psychological significance of dress and outward appearance, determine whether the items listed are exclusively female dresses and examine the contribution of the women of Zion to national sin. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of calculated serum osmolarity to predict dehydration in older people: adding value to pathology laboratory reports by Lee Shepstone, John F Potter, Lee Hooper, Asmaa Abdelhamid, Amy Jennings, Paul R Hunter, W Garry John, Neil P Walsh, Adam Ali, Diane K Bunn, Susan Kerry, Gregor Lindner, Carmen A Pfortmueller, Fredrik Sjöstrand, Susan J Fairweather-Tait

“…Of 39 osmolarity equations, 5 showed reasonable agreement with directly measured osmolality and 3 had good predictive accuracy in subgroups with diabetes and poor renal function. …”
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Die Behandlung von Zentralen Orten im kommunalen Finanzausgleich unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Funktionsteilungen am Beispiel des möglichen Oberzentrums Harz by Stefan Greiving, Marisa Fuchs, Thomas Terfrüchte

“…This region has so far lacked an upper centre that is reasonably accessible and could help to ensure equal living conditions. …”
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“JAPA” IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN SOCIETY, THE EXPORTATION OF NIGERIA’s INDIGENOUS CHURCHES AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS by OGHENEKEVWE KATE JIBROMAH, OGHENEKEVWE KATE JIBROMAH, TUNDE OLANREWAJU AJANI, SEYIFUNMI DAMILOLA BADEMOSI

“…“Japa” euphemistic way to explain the departure of one’s birth country, especially Nigeria. For several reasons, Nigerians have seen the need to leave the shore of the mother land in droves. …”
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RL4CEP: reinforcement learning for updating CEP rules by Afef Mdhaffar, Ghassen Baklouti, Yassine Rebai, Mohamed Jmaiel, Bernd Freisleben

“…Our experimental results based on three financial trading rules and eight financial datasets demonstrate the merits of RL4CEP in improving the overall profit, when compared to baseline and state-of-the-art approaches, with a reasonable consumption of resources, i.e., RAM and CPU. …”
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Making »Un Tribunal para la Constitución«: A Documentary on the Creation and First Years of the Spanish Constitutional Court (1980–1986) by Miguel Beltrán, Daniel Sarmiento

“…Section I explains the context and the reasons that moved the authors to undertake the project. …”
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Characterization of Vegetation Changes in Jiangsu Coastal Wetlands and Analysis of Their Causes by LYU Lin, YU Lingcheng, QIAN Linfeng, CHEN Yanyan, ZHANG Ke, GU Rong, ZHANG Dong

“…The human activities, such as the reclamation of wetland and the process of urbanization, are the reasons of the area shrinkage. At the same time, the expansion of Spartina alterniflora and the implementation of policies of wetland protection and restoration make the wetland area increase continuously.…”
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Effect of deformation temperature on microstructure and corrosion properties of hot-compressed 347H stainless steel by Qiushuang Wang, Ruidong Li, Junchen Li

“…The changes of grain boundary density and Σ3 boundaries caused by deformation at different temperatures are the fundamental reasons for the fluctuation of corrosion properties. …”
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Potential Implementation of Economic Waqf in the State of Kelantan: A Preliminary Survey by Mujiburrahman Muhammad Saleh, Nurul Akma Mohamed, Hamidi Abdul Ghani, Suraini Saufi

“…The Islamic social finance sector, including waqf, is growing rapidly but is still too small compared to its true potential and has yet to be fully explored. One of the main reasons that hinders this growth is the lack of innovation in the management of waqf property to work on the real potential of the property to provide optimal impact to the economy of the ummah. …”
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Dissemination of Rejected Hadith among The Malaysian Society: Causes and Solutions by Nur Afifi bin Alit, Shumsudin Yabi

“…The dissemination of rejected hadith has been a continuous challenge since the emergence of hadith literature in the 19th century. There are several reasons behind this phenomenon which, if not treated seriously, can hinder the search for appropriate solutions because Muslims depend highly on these hadith in their daily worship. …”
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Influencing factors of adherence to sustainable diets: a systematic review of behavioral theories by Seyedeh Fatemeh Fatemi, Seyedeh Fatemeh Fatemi, Hadi Tehrani, Hadi Tehrani, Maryam Khosravi, Maryam Khosravi, Hassan Doosti, Niloufar Rasaei, Seyyed Reza Sobhani

“…We searched four databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Science Direct, for observational studies assessing sustainable food consumption according to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), and the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) up to December 01, 2023. …”
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Chronic Synthetic Marijuana Use: A Case of First-Onset Seizures as a Withdrawal Symptom by Amber N. Edinoff, Prithvi Doppalapudi, Juliana M. Fort

“…Synthetic marijuana (SM) or "mojo" use has been increasing in the past decade for two reasons; It is considered an herbal product and has been legal. …”
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