The motivation behind Egyptian youth subscription to video on demand services and excessive use: a case study on WATCH iT! by Aya Alaa Eldin Abdel Fattah, Lamiaa Shehata, Sofia Zohir Moustafa Kamel

“…An online questionnaire was distributed and data was gathered from 350 respondents with age range between 16-39.…”
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Disparities in Access to Dental Care in San Francisco During COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of RAPID-SF Survey by Jay Shah, Sepideh Banava

“…The surveys, distributed across San Francisco, consisted of three baseline and three follow-up surveys. …”
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Cloud Properties in Simulated Galactic Winds by Orlando Warren, Evan E. Schneider, S. Alwin Mao, Matthew W. Abruzzo

“…In this work, we investigate the properties of a population of cool clouds in simulated galaxy outflows. Using data from the Cholla Galactic OutfLow Simulations (or CGOLS) isolated galaxy simulations, we generate catalogs of ∼10 ^5 clouds. …”
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Analysis on the decoupling of China’s economic development and water resource utilization under the rigid constraint of water resources by Chuanjian Li, Siyu Qian, Jianxu Liu, Yameng Wang

“…China faces severe water scarcity, with water resources unevenly distributed across country-abundant in the south, and to better understand the degree of decoupling between China’s economic development and the water resource utilization, this study uses panel data from prefecture-level cities between 2010 and 2019 to examine the degree of decoupling between economic growth and the ecological footprint of water resources, providing a more comprehensive description of water resource consumption. …”
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Preventing water pollution using importance-performance analysis and terrain analysis by L. Sulistyowati, N. Andareswari, F. Afrianto, A. Rais, M.F. Hafa, D. Darwiyati, A.L. Ginting

“…The terrain analysis data were derived from the surface elevation data in the form of a digital elevation model.FINDINGS: According to the importance-performance analysis community assessment, urban trash management was one of the crucial yet low-rated features. …”
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New design paradigm for federated edge learning towards 6G:task-oriented resource management strategies by Zhiqin WANG, Jiamo JIANG, Peixi LIU, Xiaowen CAO, Yang LI, Kaifeng HAN, Ying DU, Guangxu ZHU

“…Objectives: To make full use of the abundant data distributed at the edge of the network to serve the training of artificial intelligence models, edge intelligence technology represented by federated edge learning emerges as the times require. …”
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Effects of diurnal temperature range on first-ever strokes in different seasons: a time-series study in Shenzhen, China by Ji Peng, Cunrui Huang, Qiong Wang, Yanfang Guo, Lin Lei, Junzhe Bao

“…We fitted a time-series Poisson model in our study, estimating the associations between DTR and first-ever strokes, with a distributed lag non-linear model. …”
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Association of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality and Ambient Temperature Variation in Shanghai, China: Beyond Air Quality Index PM_2.5 by Qi Li, Shizhen Li, Ting Zhai, Shan Jin, Chunfang Wang, Bo Fang, Tian Xia

“…In this study, we collected 308,116 CVD mortality cases in Shanghai from 2015 to 2020. The distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) was utilized. …”
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PREVALENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE TOWARDS TOBACCO USE AMONG HEALTH PROFESSIONS’ STUDENTS by R Rajalakshmi, K.N. Jayanthi

“…Tobacco smoking prevalence among health professions’ students are relatively low; however, majority believed that health-care providers serve as role models for their patients and the public.…”
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Design and Application of GISC Beijing Global Cache by Gu Wenjing, Guo Ping, Zhang Laien, Xue Lei, Han Xinqiang, Gao Feng, He Wenchun, Wang Huaile, Wang Peng, Wang Bo

“…The global cache leverages the message notification-driven global data active discovery technology inherent in MQTT (message queuing telemetry transport) protocol to establish a high-performance, low-latency, and highly available model for message collection and transmission. …”
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The risk of myocardial infarction, and social support among the population of 25-64 years in Russia/Siberia by V. V. Gafarov, E. A. Gromova, I. V. Gagulin, D. O. Panov, E. A. Krymov, R. R. Suleymanov, A. V. Gafarova

“…With the use of multivariate modeling, an increased risk of MI is found in people with low social support: among men with unfavorable family situation engaged in physical labor, and among women with a low level of education. …”
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COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among community members and health workers in Ebonyi state, Nigeria: study protocol for a concurrent-independent mixed method analyses of intention... by Ugwu I Omale, Osarhiemen Iyare, Richard L Ewah, Chidinma I Amuzie, Onyinyechukwu U Oka, Victor U Uduma, Azuka S Adeke, Cordis O Ikegwuonu, Olaedo O Nnachi, Okechukwu O Ukpabi, Ifeyinwa M Okeke, Glory E Nkwo, Ugochi IA Nwali

“…Quantitative analyses will involve descriptive statistics, generalised estimating equations (for community members data) and generalised linear model (for health workers data). …”
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Nexus between uncertainty, innovation, and environmental sustainability in BRICS: an analysis under the environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework by Md Qamruzzaman, Abdulateif A. Almulhim, Abdullah A. Aljughaiman

“…The research is driven by the global imperative to address climate change, with predictions of a 2.7°C rise in global temperatures by the century’s end, surpassing Paris Agreement targets. The study uses data from 1995 to 2023, employing unit root tests, cointegration tests (Bayer-Hanck and Maki), Augmented Autoregressive Distributed lagged and nonlinear autoregressive distributed lagged models, and the Fourier Toda-Yamamoto causality test to capture long- and short-term dynamics. …”
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Cost performance analysis of green chemical industrial buildings using blockchain-BIM by Lastarida Sinaga, Albert Eddy Husin, Eka Juni Arif, Kristiyanto

“…The research, conducted at a chemical facility in Cilegon, Banten, Indonesia, utilizes Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS) to analyze questionnaire data and identify influential factors. …”
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Uncertainty CNNs: A path to enhanced medical image classification performance by Vasileios E. Papageorgiou, Georgios Petmezas, Pantelis Dogoulis, Maxime Cordy, Nicos Maglaveras

“…The low-complexity design of the model enhances its robustness against overfitting, while it is also easily re-trainable in case out-of-distribution data is encountered, due to the reduced computational resources required by the introduced architecture.…”
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The Effect of Problem Based Learning Teaching Method on Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in Physics Lesson at SMA Negeri 4 Singaraja by Ni Putu Ayu Lisniandila, I Wayan Santyasa, Iwan Suswandi

“…The sample of this study was 67 students distributed to two different classes. The data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis and one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). …”
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Dental anxiety and empathy among undergraduate oral health students in Norway, South Africa and Namibia by Faheema Kimmie-Dhansay, Ann Catrin Høyvik, Ahmed Bhayat, Faezah Hussain, Arannikah Karunakaran, Besime Kaya, Pagollang Motloba, Cathrine Malau, John Rutabanzibwa, Shenuka Singh, Vivienne Wilson, Ingvild Johnsen Brusevold

“…Dental anxiety was assessed using Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS), and empathy level was assessed using Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ). Data were presented as means or medians and analyzed using a linear regression model in STATA with a 5% level of significance. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Driving Forces of Landscape Ecological Risks in Highly Urbanized Areas: A Case Study of Suzhou City by Lingyue LU, Dawei SHAO, Dianming WU

“…The LERI exhibits a pattern of increase followed by a decrease, characterized by phased recovery, and has gradually improved since 2010. The proportion of low-risk areas remains consistently high, widely distributed, and stable. …”
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Wealth and wealth inequality in adult HIV prevalence by Gary Gaumer, Roya Sherafat-Kazemzadeh, Monica Jordan, AK Nandakumar

“…To adjust for sample selection bias in the observational data, an inverse probability reweighting (IPW) technique was used to create sample weights and estimate model parameters…”
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A Biologically Inspired Cost-Efficient Zero-Trust Security Approach for Attacker Detection and Classification in Inter-Satellite Communication Networks by Sridhar Varadala, Hao Xu

“…In next-generation Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite networks, securing inter-satellite communication links (ISLs) through strong authentication is essential due to the network’s dynamic and distributed structure. …”
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