MODELING CHRONIC FILARIASIS CASES IN WEST JAVA USING A MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE APPROACH REGRESSION SPLINES by Ardi Kurniawan, Mochammad Firmansyah, Toha Saifudin

“…Reinfection occurs in places that have implemented POMP. Therefore, monitoring operations must be carried out to track the emergence of new cases and risk factors for transmission. …”
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DEVELOPING AND CONDUCTING AN INTELLECTUAL GAME 5 MINDS: MOTIVATIONAL ASPECTS by R.Sh. Chermokina, G.A. Gryzlova

“…This extracurricular practice of teaching students from non-linguistic faculties creates conditions for the implementation of the main goal - increasing communicative competence and readiness to solve communicative intellectual problems in English in classes.…”
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How to Encourage Student Voice: Obtaining Effective Feedback from Law Students in Course Evaluation by Vicci Y.J. Lau

“…This article reports on the findings of an empirical study on both the students’ and teachers’ perceptions on mid-term student evaluations implemented in a few post-graduate law courses at The University of Hong Kong. …”
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Resistance Response of Drought and Heat Tolerant Spring Wheat Lines against the Cereal Cyst Nematode, Heterodera filipjevi by Gul Erginbas-orakci, Osameh Atiya, Halil Toktay, Abdelfattah Dababat, Sukhwinder Singh

“…Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is extremely affected by several abiotic and biotic stress factors. Drought and/or heat alongside the parasitism of cereal cyst nematodes of the Heterodera genera can have a combined destructive impact on wheat. …”
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The Impact of Career Plateau on Employee Performance: An Exploratory Study of Employees' Opinions at the Northern Technical University by Haithem Ahmed Yaqoup

“…The study recommends implementing promotion and rotation strategies, among other measures, to combat career plateau and career alienation. …”
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Effectiveness of a Program to Improve the Verbal Response of Football Coaches: A Delayed-Intervention Experimental Design by Federico Leguizamo, Antonio Núñez Prats, Elena Gervilla, Jordi Llabrés, Alex Garcia-Mas

“… The pressure that coaches usually apply on their athletes, alongside injuries and the lack of enjoyment during sport practice, are key factors involved in sports abandonment. Behavioral interventions through psychoeducational programs have proven to be useful to improve coaching behaviors, providing appropriate context in sports. …”
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Prosumer Cost Efficiency and Ensuring Grid Stability Through a Hierarchical PPO Framework in Decentralized Community Energy Management by Ajay Singh, Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

“…To maintain grid stability, a suitable reward function is implemented to prevent overloading of the transformer connected to a particular community. …”
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Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection in Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Eleanor M King, Soonita Oomeer, Richard Gilson, Andrew Copas, Simon Beddows, Kate Soldan, Mark Jit, W John Edmunds, Pam Sonnenberg

“…Vaccination of MSM in the UK has been recommended and, if implemented, baseline estimates of oral HPV prevalence will be useful.…”
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Pricing and Coordination of Remanufacturing Supply Chain with Government Participation considering Consumers’ Preferences and Quality of Recycled Products by Yanhua Feng, Xuhui Xia, Xinyi Yin, Lei Wang, Zelin Zhang

“…For remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain under different circumstances, many factors are considered, such as consumers’ different preferences for the purchase and payment of remanufactured products and the quality of recycled products. …”
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An improved EAE-DETR model for defect detection of server motherboard by Jian Chi, Mingke Zhang, Puhon Zhang, Guowang Niu, Zhihao Zheng

“…Abstract This study addresses the challenges of missed and false detections in server motherboard defect identification, which arise from factors such as small target size, positional rotation deviations, and uneven scale distribution. …”
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Exploring the contribution of self-help groups to sexual and reproductive health and HIV outcomes for female sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. by Gracious Madimutsa, Fortunate Machingura, Owen Nyamwanza, Frances M Cowan, Webster Mavhu

“…Further research on the formation, structure, leadership, sustainability of SHGs and contextual factors, is required for understanding the best practices of their implementation to achieve long-term success.…”
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Modélisation géomatique par évaluation multicritère pour la prospection des sites d’agriculture urbaine à Ouagadougou by Conchita M. G. Kêdowidé

“…There, we can notice that potential areas should be used for cultivation because the adjustment of the risks among factors (criteria) confers them a good truck-farming or horticultural capacity. …”
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The impact of a workplace dental-health program on glycemic control in Japanese working adults: a cohort study by Takumi Kitamura, Yoshihiro Shimazaki, Hiroko Hashimoto, Manabu Ito, Tetsuya Fukumori, Yoshinori Inamoto, Yutaka Okuno, Akemi Maruyama

“…Abstract Background This study implemented a workplace dental-health program to encourage those at risk of diabetes to visit a dentist, and examined factors associated with changes in glycemic control. …”
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Healthcare professionals’ representation toward optimal palliative care provision for COPD patients: a cross-sectional survey by Filipa Alexandra Baptista Peixoto Befecadu, Paola Gasche, Dan Adler, Ivan Guerreiro, Sophie Pautex, Lisa Hentsch

“…Objectives: This study aimed to describe the perceptions of HPs working with COPD patients in Switzerland in different settings on PC provision, implementation, access, and organization. Additionally, we aimed to identify gaps, barriers, training needs, and solutions for HPs related to PC needs. …”
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Workload Forecasting Methods in Cloud Environments: An Overview by Samah Aziz, Manar Kashmoola

“…We also examine the particular difficulties and factors involved in LSTM-based workload forecasting implementation in cloud systems. …”
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Social empowerment in informal urban settlements based on assets by Rahim Hashempour, Mahsa Seyfaei, Negin Salehi

“…Different approaches have been implemented in the planning system in different countries to reduce this problem. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of violent disciplinary practices for children in Bangladesh: Evidence from a nationally representative survey. by Raisa Rashid Mim, Mohammad Shahed Masud

“…This study aims to identify the prevalence and factors associated with different violent disciplinary practices toward children of 1-14 years age in Bangladesh. …”
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Creating private criteria for A-CDM effectiveness to take into account the interests of decision-making participants in a dynamic environment by G. N. Lebedev, V. B. Malygin

“…The proposed mathematical apparatus has this ability and prospects for implementation.…”
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Fundamentals of legal policy in the field of antimonopoly regulation in the conditions of digitalization of the economy by A. Yu. Sokolov, O. A. Lakaev

“…This article identifies the main shortcomings of the legal policy in the field of antimonopoly activity in the conditions of digitalization of the economy, due to the emphasis of the subjects of legal policy on the technologies themselves, and not on a systematic approach to its development, which assumes consideration of positive and negative factors of their application and complex interaction of public authorities in this area. …”
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Burden and predictors of peripheral neuropathy among cultivators and laborers using biothesiometer at primary healthcare setting: A cross-sectional study from Nutakkhi, Guntur, And... by Shanmukh Krishna Kopuru, Arti Gupta, K Mohammed Shoyaib, Rajeev Aravindakshan, Nalukurthi Midhun Teja

“…The study-associated risk factors, early detection, and prevention strategies can be implemented to improve their health outcomes. …”
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