The Effect of Utilitarian and Social Motives on the Perception of the Quality of the Mobile Phone Application Brand through the Value and Type of Use by Tourists (Snap Food Case St... by Yazdan Shirmohammadi, Neda Sotoudeh

“…And it has been more than the average amount of use of this application during the past three years. …”
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Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study by Barbara Hanratty, Rachel Stocker, David Sinclair, Katie Brittain, Karen Spilsbury, Daniel Stow, Louise Robinson, Fiona E Matthews

“…The group met twice per year, with an average attendance of eight (plus the study team). …”
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Impact of frailty in older people on health care demand: simulation modelling of population dynamics to inform service planning by Bronagh Walsh, Carole Fogg, Tracey England, Sally Brailsford, Paul Roderick, Scott Harris, Simon Fraser, Andrew Clegg, Simon de Lusignan, Shihua Zhu, Francesca Lambert, Abigail Barkham, Harnish Patel, Vivienne Windle

“…At least one transition between frailty categories was observed in 32.7% (n = 709,377) of the cohort over a median follow-up of 7 years. The average age of transition from fit to mild was 69 years, fit/mild to moderate was 77 years and any category to severe was 81 years. …”
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Cervical ripening at home or in hospital during induction of labour: the CHOICE prospective cohort study, process evaluation and economic analysis by Mairead Black, Cassandra Yuill, Mairi Harkness, Sayem Ahmed, Linda Williams, Kathleen A Boyd, Maggie Reid, Amar Bhide, Neelam Heera, Jane Huddleston, Neena Modi, John Norrie, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Julia Sanders, Gordon C S Smith, Rosemary Townsend, Helen Cheyne, Christine McCourt, Sarah Stock

“…Economic analysis of ‘spill over’ costs found that the average transport cost was higher among the mothers who had hospital cervical ripening (£23.10) than mothers who had home cervical ripening (£18.74). …”
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Evaluation of parenting interventions for those with additional health and social care needs during pregnancy: THRIVE a multi-arm RCT with embedded economic and process components by Marion Henderson, Anja Wittkowski, Katie Buston, Karen Crawford, Alice MacLachlan, Alex McConnachie, Emma McIntosh, Claudia-Martina Messow, Catherine Nixon, Rosaleen O’Brien, Shona Shinwell, Daniel Wight, Yiqiao Xin, Rachel Calam, Ruth Dundas, James Law, Helen Minnis, Lucy Thompson, Philip Wilson

“…These scores suggest the mother–infant scores in THRIVE were slightly below average in terms of maternal sensitivity and baby’s co-operativeness. …”
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Analysis the effects of monetary policy in Iran's economy with the existence of shadow banking, using dynamic stochastic general equilibrium method by ashkan makipour, Ahmad Salahmanesh, Ebrahim Anvari, Ebrahim Bahraminia

“…Comparing the actual values of the mean and standard deviation with the estimated values based on the model Standard deviation of simulated dataAverage of simulated dataThe standard deviation of the actual dataActual averagevariable(gap)scenario0/06130/0660/0690/63ProductionScenario (1)No shadow banking0/0740/100/0960/13inflation0/06550/640/0690/63ProductionScenario (2)With shadow banking0/0830/160/0960/13inflationWith special attention to the shadow banking sector in Iran and considering the credit channel as the most important channel of monetary policy transmission in Iran, this article has investigated and analyzed the effects of the presence of shadow banking in Iran's economy using the DSGE method. …”
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Interpersonal counselling for adolescent depression delivered by youth mental health workers without core professional training: the ICALM feasibility RCT by Jon Wilson, Viktoria Cestaro, Eirini Charami-Roupa, Timothy Clarke, Aoife Dunne, Brioney Gee, Sharon Jarrett, Thando Katangwe-Chigamba, Andrew Laphan, Susie McIvor, Richard Meiser-Stedman, Jamie Murdoch, Thomas Rhodes, Carys Seeley, Lee Shepstone, David Turner, Paul Wilkinson

“…The health economic measures appeared to perform well and were completed. Implementation and theoretical fidelity of interpersonal counselling for adolescents were analysed from four participant recordings. …”
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Multimodal versus non-contrast computed tomography for assessment of acute ischaemic stroke: the PRACTISE RCT by Keith W Muir, Salwa El Tawil, Alex McConnachie, Alicia Murray, Ian Ford, Grant Mair, Joanna Wardlaw

“…Day 90 outcome was based on mRS completed via telephone interview done by a team member blind to group allocation. …”
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Effect of Intermiscibility on Internal Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics of R32-Oil Mixture by Li Guang, Zhuang Dawei, Xie Liyi, Ding Guoliang, Hu Guoxin, Zheng Liyu, Liao Siqing, Lu Yaoshan, Kan Wang, Long Chunxian

“…To cover the working conditions of air conditioners and reflect the different intermiscibilities of the R32-oil mixtures, the test conditions included evaporating temperatures from -5 ℃ to 15 ℃, vapor quality from 0.2 to 0.7, and averaged oil concentrations of 1% and 5%. The results showed that partially miscible oil had the highest heat transfer coefficient and the lowest pressure drop; at an evaporating temperature of 5 ℃, vapor quality of 0.7, and averaged oil concentration of 5%, the advantage of a partially miscible R32-oil mixture over that of the completely miscible and completely immiscible mixtures increased. …”
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Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) by Adam W A Geraghty, Taeko Becque, Lisa C Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Nadine E Foster, Lucy Yardley, Beth Stuart, David A Turner, Gareth Griffiths, Frances Webley, Lorraine Durcan, Alannah Morgan, Stephanie Hughes, Sarah Bathers, Stephanie Butler-Walley, Simon Wathall, Gemma Mansell, Malcolm White, Firoza Davies, Paul Little

“…The quantitative process evaluation study showed that the use of the intervention was higher in the intervention + support arm (86% completing at least session 1 of the internet intervention) than in the intervention without support arm (66% completing at least session 1), where session 1 was the core session introducing rationales and core activities. …”
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Grower and operational characteristics of US passion fruit farmers by Benedict C. Posadas, Eric T. Stafne, Trent Blare, Laura Downey, Joshua Anderson, Jonathan Crane, Romina Gazis, Ben Faber, Dara G. Stockton, Daniel Carrillo, J. Pablo Morales-Payan, Manjul Dutt, Alan Chambers, Dario Chavez

“…Of the fresh fruit sold, 34.9% were sold directly to consumers. The respondents averaged 53.2 years old. More than eight out of ten respondents completed at least a college degree. …”
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Direct oral penicillin challenge in secondary care with low-risk patients: the SPACE mixed-methods study with cost-effectiveness analysis by Mamidipudi Thirumala Krishna, Yogini H Jani, Iestyn Williams, Ruben Mujica-Mota, Rebecca Bestwick, Michele Siciliano, Robert Michael West, Rashmeet Bhogal, Bee Yean Ng, Kornelija Kildonaviciute, Rachel Pollard, Nicola Jones, Louise Dunsmure, Mairead McErlean, Neil Powell, Chidanand C Hullur, Ariyur Balaji, Jonathan Sandoe, Amena Warner, Ron Daniels, Caroline Thomas, Siraj A Misbah, Louise Savic

“…Workstream 3 Total costs of the full DPC pathway averaged across the three study sites, from screening to de-labelling, were £940 per de-labelled patient. …”
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How is Intraday Metro Ridership related to Station Centrality in Athens, Greece? by Athanasios Kopsidas, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou

“…The findings suggest that centrality and ridership usually move in opposite directions, morning peak-hour boardings are completely uncorrelated with station centrality, and metro stations can be classified as ‘central destinations’, ‘averagely central origins’, and ‘underutilized peripheral stations’.…”
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استراتيجيات التحويل الرقمي للمعلومات وأثرها في تحسين الخدمة المقدمة للمستفيدين دراسة حالة في ديوان محافظة النجف الأشرف... by حاكــم جبوري الخــفاجي, هدير محمد الجواهري

“…The researcher adopted the accounting principles in calculating the total costs, percentages and averages for obtaining the results. The research reached many conclusions, the most important of which is that the digital conversion strategy reduces the time of completion of the request for beneficiaries, the speed of service delivery, as well as the reduction of the total costs. …”
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Acceptability of the content and functionality of a just-in-time adaptive intervention for gambling problems: a mixed-methods evaluation of gambling habit hacker by S. N. Rodda, S. S. Merkouris, C. J. Greenwood, A. C. Thomas, D. I. Lubman, N. A. Dowling

“…Intervention fidelity was evaluated by examining adherence to the EMA protocol, strategy selection, and action plan completion. Results Participants (n = 174) completed 4382 EMA entries over a 28-day period, averaging 25 EMAs each, with the highest completion rate observed in Week 1. …”
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Long-term variability of the spring taryn-aufeises by V. R. Alekseev

“…The volume of pereletoks (shortterm permafrost) varies within the range of 5–25%, averaging 16% of the spring ice reserves. In the southern geocryological zone, a clearly pronounced dependence of activity of the aufeis processes on the snow thickness was found: when the snow depth increased from 70 to 100 cm, volumes of aufeises decreased by a factor of three, and the aufeises disappeared completely under the thickness larger 120 cm. …”
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Stress and resilience of nursing students in clinical training during political violence: A palestinian perspective. by Ibrahim Aqtam, Ahmad Ayed, Othman A Alfuqaha, Mustafa Shouli

“…Completion time averaged 10-15 minutes total. Analyses included Pearson correlation, t-tests, ANOVA, and multiple regression.…”
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Continuous positive airway pressure versus usual care for obstructive sleep apnoea in pregnancy: a two-step pilot trial by Rachael Nugent, Caroline de Costa, Leonie Callaway, Shiv Erigadoo, Elise Gilbertson, Chris Brown, Joanna Perry-Keene, Rebekah Shakhovskoy, Lauren Kearney

“…Nine women withdrew prior to full completion of OSA screening and one following an inconclusive sleep study. …”
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Implementing adaptive e-learning for newborn care in Tanzania: an observational study of provider engagement and knowledge gains by Peter Andrew Meaney, Christine Lynn Joyce, Ambrose Agweyu, Joseph R Mwanga, Marc Berg, Adolfine Hokororo, Hanston Ndosi, Alex Dahlen, Theopista Jacob, Florence Salvatory Kalabamu, Rishi Mediratta, Boris Rozenfeld, Zachary Haines Smith, Neema Chami, Namala Mkopi, Castory Mwanga, Enock Diocles

“…Efficacy was 42% (SD ±17%). Providers averaged 78% (SD ±31%) completion of initial learning and 7% (SD ±11%) of refresher assignments. 130 (67%) providers had ≥1 episode of inactivity >30 day, no episodes were due to lack of internet access. …”
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Stock Market Prediction Based Multi-Attribute Decision Making Model Using Picture Fuzzy $${\hat{Z}}$$ Z ^ -Information by Shahzaib Ashraf, Amna Khalid, Bushra Batool, Mehdi Tlija, Chiranjibe Jana, Dragan Pamucar

“…This integration is to enhance the ability of the model to address completely unclear decisions utilizing the peculiarities of $${\hat{Z}}$$ Z ^ -numbers. …”
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