Outcome Mapping as a Monitoring and Evaluation Tool for Livestock Value Chain Interventions: The Case of imGoats by Hailemichael Taye Beyene, Kees Swaans, Birgit Boogaard, Ramkumar Bendapudi, Saskia Hendrickx

“…Moreover, OM can have parallel positive effects on how partners are conducting project management and monitoring activities. …”
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Adaptive image encryption approach using an enhanced swarm intelligence algorithm by Sachin Minocha, Suvita Rani Sharma, Birmohan Singh, Amir H. Gandomi

“…ICO-HO algorithm improves the Hippopotamus Optimization (HO) by integrating a new phase (Phase 4) to update the position of the hippopotamus. ICO-HO updates the position of hippopotamuses using ICO and opposition-based learning, which enhances the exploration and exploitation capabilities of the HO algorithm. …”
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Swin‐YOLOX for autonomous and accurate drone visual landing by Rongbin Chen, Ying Xu, Mohamad Sabri bin Sinal, Dongsheng Zhong, Xinru Li, Bo Li, Yadong Guo, Qingjia Luo

“…In this paper, we address these problems and apply deep learning methods to target detection in the UAV landing phase. …”
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Deep Belief Networks for Fingerprinting Indoor Localization Using Ultrawideband Technology by Junhai Luo, Huanbin Gao

“…Unlike common geometric localization methods, fingerprinting localization techniques estimate the position of target by creating a pattern matching model or regression model for the measurement. …”
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A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT by Nusrat Husain, Karina Lovell, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Farah Lunat, Penny Bee, Matthias Pierce, Najia Atif, Saadia Aseem, Kamaldeep Bhui, Peter Bower, Traolach Brugha, Nasim Chaudhry, Akbar Ullah, Linda Davies, Nadeem Gire, Deepali Sharma, Jahanara Miah, Waqas Ahmed, Joe Kai, Ilyas Mirza, Jillian Morrison, Naeem Mohmed, Atif Rahman, Shanaya Rathod, Najma Siddiqi, Waquas Waheed, Christopher Williams, Nosheen Zaidi, Richard Emsley, Richard Morriss

“…Health technology being assessed Positive Health Programme, a culturally adapted group intervention, based on the principles of CBT. …”
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Multi-Strategy Improved Red-Tailed Hawk Algorithm for Real-Environment Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Planning by Mingen Wang, Panliang Yuan, Pengfei Hu, Zhengrong Yang, Shuai Ke, Longliang Huang, Pai Zhang

“…Additionally, we proposed an optimization method for frontier position updates based on a trust domain, which better balances exploration and exploitation. …”
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Modern historiography of the movement for Ukrainian education in mainstream of national and cultural enlightenment (the second half of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century) by Nataliia Semerhei

“…It has been concluded that the active study of national philosophy, ways and methods of establishment of the movement for Ukrainization of education by modern historians has informative as well as practical-oriented meaning for the context of positive experience mainstreaming of Ukrainization of education under the modern circumstances of state and innovative development of national educational space.…”
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Comprehensive Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training for Foreign Medical Students by S. Rocha Ferreira, S. A. Perepelitsa, Sh. A. Narode, K. Yu. Koreshkova, A. M. Harer, K. S. Borate, N. R. Tuklia

“…The purpose of this study was to assess acquired knowledge and practical skills in foreign medical students (FMS) after theoretical and practical training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Material and methods. We conducted a prospective randomized trial «Simulation-based CPR training among international medical students: perspectives for medical education» envolving students undergoing training in the 31.05.01 specialty — General Medicine in English. …”
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Temporary migration of Romanian Roma people to European countries by Luiza Meseşan-Schmitz, Claudiu Coman, Diana-Cristina Bódi, Mihaela Gotea

“…They also encounter high levels of poverty, lower levels of education, housing conditions, and health care, high rates of unemployment, and so on. Based on the push-pull theory, the present study examines the phenomenon of international migration of the Roma population from Olt County, Romania, capturing the specific factors that led to their migration and return to the country, and also the effects of this phenomenon on the community at the place of origin.Methodsour study used a mixed-methods approach, applying a non-standardized questionnaire to 796 Roma people who have experienced international, temporary migration and currently live in Olt County from Romania and semistructured interviews with 15 managers and representatives of the local public and socio-cultural institutions from the same region.Resultsthe results show us that the main push-pull factors of external migration of Roma people from Romania, as well as of their return home are economic and socio-cultural ones. …”
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Correlation of Imaging Characteristics of Carotid Plaque with Clinical and Histopathological Features and Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Identifying Carotid D... by G. Satyendra Ramnadh, Pritee Sharma, Vamsi Krishna Yerramsetty, Y. V. Satish Kumar, Rahul Agarwal, Prem Chand Gupta

“…Positive predictive value (PPV) for VP was highest for DU (95%), followed by MRA (89%) and CTA (73%). …”
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DisConnect: Characterisation of Screen Use and Perception of Health Problems in Students from Aveiro, Portugal – A Cross-Sectional Study by Fábio Sousa Gomes, José Chen-Xu, Cristina Conceição, Fátima Claro, Emídio Abrantes, Dulce Seabra

“… Introduction: Digitalisation has made technologies an important vehicle for development and learning, especially for children and young people. …”
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Evaluating the performance of kindergarten teachers according to quality assurance standards in the Kurdistan Region / Iraq by Shaelan Ahmed Hamadameen, Salwa Ahmed Ameen

“…Where it was chosen by a stratified random method, and after applying the measures of building the scale, the researchers built a measure of performance standards parameters consisting of (87) paragraphs in the form of declarative phrases, distributed on (10) areas (16) standards, and these areas included each of: Effective education strategy: (9, paragraph), planning and follow-up (8, paragraph), classroom activities management and positive interaction: (8, paragraph), learning methods that respond to children’s needs for their development (8, paragraph), environmental awareness (8, paragraphs), child health and safety (8, paragraphs), professional development and knowledge of specialization: (10, paragraph), enhancing communication with the child: (8, paragraphs), the teacher’s partnership with the family and society (10, paragraphs), evaluation: (10, paragraphs) and it consists of ( 5) Five answer alternatives, which extracted the appropriate psychometric characteristics of the scale items, which included: (discriminatory power, item reliability and item stability), and extracted the psychometric properties of the scale, which included: (apparent honesty and constructive honesty), and stability: (retest method and Cronbach's alpha equation), and to apply the scale in its final form, the researcher chose the sample application from the original population with a percentage (10%), with a number of (732) parameters, which were chosen by a stratified random method, and based on the (SPSS) program (Statistical Portfolio for Social Sciences) to analyze data, the current research reached the most important results according to the objectives of the research as follows: Building criteria Performance of kindergarten teachers in the light of quality assurance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq - consisting of (87) paragraphs in the form of declarative phrases with appropriate psychometric characteristics, and that the kindergarten teachers in the center of the governorates of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are characterized by the performance of female teachers in general and at a high level, and in conclusion and in In light of the research results, the researchers reached some recommendations and suggestions. …”
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Interventions to support the psychological empowerment of nurses: a scoping review by Liebin Huang, Ming Liu, Xin Wang, Meihua Hsu

“…The intervention format was based on offline training. The participants included both nurse managers and nurses. …”
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Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images Using Siamese Affinity Network by Zheng Chen, Yuheng Lian, Jing Bai, Jingsen Zhang, Zhu Xiao, Biao Hou

“…To address the issues of inaccurate and incomplete seed areas and unreliable pseudo masks in WSSS, we propose a novel WSSS method for remote sensing images based on the Siamese Affinity Network (SAN) and the Segment Anything Model (SAM). …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and its psychological impact on nursing students in Palestine by Rebhi Bsharat, Nawaf Amro, Hamdallah AbuKallid, Abdallah Alwawi

“…Background: Understanding individuals' knowledge, attitudes, and practices concerning preventive measures for COVID-19 is crucial for controlling the disease's spread.Objectives:  This study aims to evaluate nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to the pandemic while assessing its psychological impact on them to inform future interventions.Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted through an online survey in May 2020. …”
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Association between admission Braden Skin Score and delirium in surgical intensive care patients: an analysis of the MIMIC-IV database by Meiling Shang, Meiling Shang, Ailing Shang, Yu Xu, Yu Xu

“…RCS models demonstrated a non-linear positive relationship between BSS and delirium. Based on RCS curves, the optimal threshold for BSS was established at 16, thereby categorizing participants into two groups: those with BSS < 16 and those with BSS ≥ 16. …”
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Automated analysis of clinical interviews indicates altered head movements during social interactions in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis by Juliette Lozano-Goupil, Tina Gupta, Trevor F. Williams, Amy E. Pinkham, Claudia M. Haase, Stewart A. Shankman, Vijay A. Mittal

“…Segments when participants were responding to questions were processed using an open-access machine learning-based head tracking program. This program extracted target variables such as total head movement, amplitude, and speed in each direction (x, y, and z). …”
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Prediction of hemolytic peptides and their hemolytic concentration by Anand Singh Rathore, Nishant Kumar, Shubham Choudhury, Naman Kumar Mehta, Gajendra P. S. Raghava

“…These models outperform existing methods and are implemented in HemoPI2, a web-based platform and standalone software for designing peptides with desired HC50 values ( http://webs.iiitd.edu.in/raghava/hemopi2/ ).…”
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INNOVATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM OF AZERBAIJAN IN 2005/06 – 2022/23 ACADEMIC YEARS by Abasova Samira Huseyn qizi

“…Taking into consideration the research findings, the author has recommended the following: creating joint information resources for higher educational institutions, which will contribute to the development of educational technologies and the introduction of electronic learning; building up online interaction between students and the professional community; more widely introducing ICT for the organization of interaction in social networks, establishment of social contacts in distance learning, working with electronic sources; forming interuniversity laboratories as centres of collective activity, which will ensure the elaboration of academic cooperation; constantly updating and improving educational programs, plans and study content; establishing a system for assessing knowledge and testing students’ competencies, forming a unified national system for assessing knowledge; creating an information base of specialists who have obtained degrees abroad in order to make teams for the implementation of scientific projects of an international level; developing scientific and technical cooperation in the direction of elaboration of joint training programs with post-Soviet countries.…”
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Improving women's team performance on corners through video training and ball trajectory anticipation by Clement Libreau, Clement Libreau, Nicolas Benguigui, Nicolas Benguigui

“…Furthermore, we observed that the performance of professional football players during corners in actual matches improved, suggesting a positive effect of the video-based perceptual-cognitive training.…”
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