LncRNA in gastric cancer drug resistance: deciphering the therapeutic strategies by WeiChi Liu, WeiFa Wang

“…Chemotherapy is commonly employed during the middle to advanced stages of cancer, although it faces frequent treatment failures attributed to drug resistance. …”
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Exploring Relationship Marketing Tactics & Customer Loyalty: Issues in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunication Sector by Lennora Putit, Mohamad Fariz Abdullah

“… Most of today’s business firms are facing numerous challenges in sustaining customer loyalty due to a ferocious competitive environment. …”
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Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Tourism Sector: Benefits and Challenges of AI-Based Digital Tools in Tourism Organizations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Sweden by Gita Šakytė-Statnickė, Laurencija Budrytė-Ausiejienė

“…Tourism organizations implementing or already using artificial intelligence in their activities are usually faced with the challenge of ensuring data privacy and security, the high costs of implementing artificial intelligence systems, etc.…”
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Health Catch-UP!: a realist evaluation of an innovative multi-disease screening and vaccination tool in UK primary care for at-risk migrant patients by Jessica Carter, Lucy P. Goldsmith, Felicity Knights, Anna Deal, Subash Jayakumar, Alison F. Crawshaw, Farah Seedat, Nathaniel Aspray, Dominik Zenner, Philippa Harris, Yusuf Ciftci, Fatima Wurie, Azeem Majeed, Tess Harris, Philippa Matthews, Rebecca Hall, Ana Requena-Mendez, Sally Hargreaves

“…Abstract Background Migrants to the UK face disproportionate risk of infections, non-communicable diseases, and under-immunisation compounded by healthcare access barriers. …”
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Navigating Social Identity: A Study of Acculturation Processes among Afghan Adolescents in Yazd, Iran by Ali Ruhani, SeyedAlireza Afshani, Khadijeh Fuladi, Shakila Moradi, Bahar Amini Lari, Saba Samadian

“…Naturally, this second generation experiences a different cultural adaptation process compared to their predecessors. They face more pronounced value and cultural conflicts due to the dual influences of their parents' culture and the society in which they live. …”
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Handbag de Mark Ravenhill (1998) : réincarnation de The Importance of Being Earnest à la fin des années 1990 by Xavier Giudicelli

“…The play Handbag by Mark Ravenhill (one of the quintessential writers of so-called “in-yer-face” theatre), first produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1998, is a rewriting of The Importance of Being Earnest which shifts the emphasis from the verbal to the physical. …”
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Augmented-reality-driven medical simulation platform for percutaneous nephrolithotomy with cybersecurity awareness by Yonghang Tai, Lei Wei, Hailing Zhou, Jun Peng, Qiong Li, Feiyan Li, Jun Zhang, Junsheng Shi

“…Training percutaneous renal access on SimPCNL is reliable and versatile through the face, content, improvement construct, and criterion validations. …”
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Contraceptive access experiences and perspectives of Mexican-origin youth: a binational qualitative study by Ashley Mitchell, Abigail Gutmann-Gonzalez, Claire D. Brindis, Martha J. Decker

“…However, youth in many countries still face substantial obstacles to contraceptive access and use. …”
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Student reflections on emotional engagement reveal science fatigue during the COVID-19 online learning transition by Emma R. Wester, Lisa L. Walsh, Sandra Arango-Caro, Elena Bray Speth, Kristine Callis-Duehl

“…Here, we use qualitative analysis to examine how and why the emergency shift from face-to-face to online classes during and after the pandemic-induced emergency remote transition impacted student emotional engagement. …”
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A Qualitative Research on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nurses: Public Hospital Example by Oğuzhan Tiryaki, Elif Tiryaki, Birsel Canan Demirbağ, Fatma Güdücü Tüfekci

“…Data were collected by face-to-face in-depth interviews. Content analysis method was applied to analyze the data. …”
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Social Work as Laboratory for Normative Professionalisation by Harry Kunnemann

“…Instead of furthering the dependency of clients in the name of solidarity, social workers should stimulate them to face their own responsibilities and help them to function more adequately in a world where individual autonomy and economic progress are dominant values. …”
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SPARK Resilience in the workplace: Effectiveness of a brief online resilience intervention during the COVID-19 lockdown. by Ilona Boniwell, Evgeny Osin, Larissa Kalisch, Justine Chabanne, Line Abou Zaki

“…This paper presents a mixed-methods study exploring the effectiveness of group coaching using SPARK Resilience training, a model and a structured coaching protocol that have been administered in educational and workplace settings in face-to-face format and remotely. The study used a non-randomised controlled design with a pre-test and a post-test in a sample of French adults (N = 101 in the intervention group and N = 86 in the waitlist control group). …”
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Family Caregiver’s Perception of Resilience in Caring for Stroke Patients: A Qualitative Research by Ahmad Nooreddini, Efat Sadeghian, Seyed Reza Borzou, Masoud Ghiasian, Alireza Sotanian

“…Participants were selected through purposive sampling, resulting in 22 face-to-face interviews with 15 caregivers. Data saturation was ensured by conducting additional interviews with three more participants. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Seismic Behavior of Traditional and Eccentric RHS X-Joints Under Brace Axial Cyclic Loading by Shaoqi Zhong, Bida Zhao, Lianglin Liu

“…Test results revealed that joints with β = 0.83 primarily failed due to chord face tearing, while those with β = 1.0 exhibited failure modes, including chord face tearing and significant sidewall buckling. …”
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Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design: A Preliminary Assessment of the Efficacy of the Participedia Data Archive as an Analytic Tool by Graham Smith, John Gastil, Matt Ryan, Robert C. Richards

“…We explain and confront the challenges faced in coding and analyzing the Participedia cases, which involves managing reliability issues and missing data. …”
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ANFIS Models with Subtractive Clustering and Fuzzy C-Mean Clustering Techniques for Predicting Swelling Percentage of Expansive Soils by Mehdi Hashemi Jokar, Ali Heidaripanah

“…Civil engineering faces significant challenges from expansive soils, which can lead to structural damage. …”
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Modeling Mobile Game Design Features Through Grounded Theory: Key Factors Influencing User Behavior by Chang Ma, Jingbo Shao

“…The mobile gaming industry has undergone remarkable expansion alongside advancements in mobile and information technologies. Facing intensified market competition due to user number saturation and product homogeneity, industry practitioners require actionable insights into design features that drive user engagement and in-game payments. …”
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Unmasking Machine Learning With Tensor Decomposition: An Illustrative Example for Media and Communication Researchers by Yu Won Oh, Chong Hyun Park

“…As online communication data continues to grow, manual content analysis, which is frequently employed in media studies within the social sciences, faces challenges in terms of scalability, efficiency, and coding scope. …”
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Exploring faculty members and medical sciences students’ experiences of E-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by Zahra Borzabadi Farahani, Nazi Nejat, Ali Jadidi

“…Method: A qualitative approach involving face to face interviews conducted in Arak University of Medical Sciences. …”
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Exploration of Collective Coexistence and Social Governance of Water: A Study of the Citizens of Semirom by Mahmoud Ghasemi, Azimeh Sadat Abdelahi

“…IntroductionWater scarcity is one of the most critical challenges facing Iranian society in recent decades. This issue has impacted most regions across Iran. …”
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