Mixed-methods study assessing the accuracy of verbal autopsy and sociocultural determinants of infant mortality in Gujarat, India by Monika Patel, Bhavesh J. Khandhar, Niketkumar D. Satapara, M Yogesh, Samarth Rabadiya, Soumya Sharma

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a mixed-method study with a retrospective cohort component for which data from 661 infant records were extracted from the main health office’s database, with a subset of 328 infant deaths selected for verbal autopsy analysis. …”
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Virtual Reality Simulation for Undergraduate Nursing Students for Care of Patients With Infectious Diseases: Mixed Methods Study by Wen Chang, Chun-Chih Lin, Julia Crilly, Hui-Ling Lee, Li-Chin Chen, Chin-Yen Han

“…MethodsThis 2-phased mixed methods study recruited third-year undergraduate nursing students enrolled in the Integrated Emergency and Critical Care course at a university in Taiwan. …”
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Potential for reducing confirmation bias using the OMP model “6-microskills” with verbalizing discordance: a cross-sectional study by Jumpei Kojima, Takanori Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ohira, Tomoko Tsukamoto, Kiyoshi Shikino, Daiki Yokokawa, Yu Li, Yasutaka Yanagita, Rurika Sato, Masatomi Ikusaka

“…Methods In this cross-sectional study, changes in learners’ confidence in their predicted hypotheses were measured and examined to modify confirmation bias and diagnoses. …”
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Improving the E-Commerce Ecosystem to Support Online Sales for SMEs: A Case in the Leather Bag and Shoes Industry by Alifah Dian Rahmania, Eko Liquiddanu, Muh. Hisjam

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Quality Evaluation of Sizeable Surveying-Industry-Produced Terrestrial Laser Scanning Point Clouds That Facilitate Building Information Modeling—A Case Study of Seven Point Clouds... by Sander Varbla, Raido Puust, Artu Ellmann

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Transformative mixed methods evaluation of a recovery-based intervention for adult suicide reattempters in Chile: study protocol by Oriana Arellano-Faúndez, Pablo Méndez-Bustos

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Self-Potential Studies in Volcanic Environments: A Cheap and Efficient Method for Multiscale Fluid-Flow Investigations by N. Grobbe, S. Barde-Cabusson

“…We demonstrate the value of using the self-potential method to study volcanic environments, and particularly fluid flow in those environments. …”
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Embodied Conversational Agents in Extended Reality: A Systematic Review by Fu-Chia Yang, Pedro Acevedo, Siqi Guo, Minsoo Choi, Christos Mousas

“…We also summarize the evaluation methods employed across studies and discuss future research directions for developing more adaptive and human-like ECAs in XR environments.…”
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Some Notes on Lexicographic Criticism and Biblical Hebrew Studies. Revisiting David J. A. Clines’s Method by Clara Carbonell Ortiz

“…The theory is illustrated through the reevaluation of two case studies extracted from Clines’s own research: the significance and position of the Aramaic language in mediaeval dictionaries of biblical Hebrew and the origins of the interpretation of חֵיל as “outer wall.” …”
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Efficiency of Multi-Terminators Method to Reveal Seismic Precursors in Sub-Ionospheric VLF Transmitter Signals: Case Study of Turkey–Syria Earthquakes Mw7.8 of 6 February 2023 by Mohammed Y. Boudjada, Patrick H. M. Galopeau, Sami Sawas, Giovanni Nico, Hans U. Eichelberger, Pier F. Biagi, Michael Contadakis, Werner Magnes, Helmut Lammer, Wolfgang Voller

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Positioning the Appropriate Areas in Order to Build the Artificial Urban Ponds Using the Combining Method of Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Logic (Case Study of the North West of Tehran Metropolis) by Amir Karam, Ezzatolah Ghanavati, Farzaneh Derakhshan Babaee

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New data-driven method to predict the therapeutic indication of redeemed prescriptions in secondary data sources: a case study on antiseizure medications users aged ≥65 identified in Danish registries by Kristian Kragholm, Carla Carnovale, Emilio Clementi, Maurizio Sessa, Israa Mahmoud, Vera Battini

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Effect of compositions and hardness on wheel-rail contact analysis and wear behavior of wheel materials using finite element method: a case study of Addis Ababa light rail transit by Leul Fenta Demisie, Matiwos Getachew Wedajeneh, Aychew Asratie Ejigu

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Do explainable AI (XAI) methods improve the acceptance of AI in clinical practice? An evaluation of XAI methods on Gleason grading by Robin Manz, Jonas Bäcker, Samantha Cramer, Philip Meyer, Dominik Müller, Anna Muzalyova, Lukas Rentschler, Christoph Wengenmayr, Ludwig Christian Hinske, Ralf Huss, Johannes Raffler, Iñaki Soto‐Rey

“…The study was a heuristic evaluation of five XAI methods. …”
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A randomised study to compare Cu T 380A and Cu 375 as postpartum intrauterine contraceptive method by Dolly Chawla, Attulori Loukya, Charvi Chugh, Shikha Chadha

“…To compare side effects, expulsion rates, acceptability and problems experienced while using the two intrauterine devices. Method: A randomized case control study was conducted on 320 postpartum women willing for PPIUCD insertion after normal vaginal delivery.160 women each group A and B were inserted with IUCD Cu T 380A and Cu 375 respectively. …”
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Cervical Cancer Prediction Based on Imbalanced Data Using Machine Learning Algorithms with a Variety of Sampling Methods by Mădălina Maria Muraru, Zsuzsa Simó, László Barna Iantovics

“…The studied resampling methods include seven undersampling methods and four oversampling methods. …”
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An experimental study of the application of the spectral acoustic method to the advance detection of geologic structures in tunnelling working site by Jianguo ZHANG, Zhicheng FENG, Fengqing WEI, Ji MA, Kai ZHAO, Man WANG, Minggong GUO, ШИЛОВ Владимир Иванович

“…The distances from high-stress zones to fault planes typically ranged from 3.2 to 28.0 m. The findings of this study will provide a new monitoring indicator and method for continuous online early warning in the advance detection of geologic structures in tunnelling working site.…”
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Identifying the Banking Challenges of Qard-Al-Hasan and Providing Solutions (Case Study of Qard-Al-Hasan Resalat Bank) by Mohammad Tohidi, Hossein Mofidikia, Milad Ansari

“…This research, using a mixed explanatory approach, believes that in the first stage, with a quantitative method, it will extract the case study strategy and the trend analysis of various data of the financial statements of Qard-Al-Hasan Resalat Bank in a period of 8 years. …”
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Seed Dormancy and Germination Responses to Different Temperatures of <i>Leptochloa chinensis</i> (L.) Nees: A Case Study with 242 Populations Collected from Rice Fields in East Chi... by Kai An, Ling Chen, Yiyang Liu, Haiyan Wei, Guoqi Chen

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Quantifying of spatio-temporal variations in the regional gravity field and the effectiveness of earthquake prediction: A case study of MS ≥ 5.0 earthquakes in the Sichuan-Yunnan r... by Weimin Xu, Shi Chen, Yongbo Li, Jiangpei Huang, Bing Zheng, Yufei Han, Zhaohui Chen, Qiuyue Zheng, Hongyan Lu, Linhai Wang, Honglei Li, Dong Liu

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