Polarized Cityscapes: Gathering Electronic Waste and Its Malcontents in Dar es Salaam by Samwel Moses Ntapanta

“…Crucially, walking exposes the ethnographer to physical obstacles, ingenuity, valorization processes and violence of post-modern consumerism that waste collectors experience during their endeavours. …”
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The Effect of Nitrogen as a Co-Dopant in p-Type NiO:Nb Films on the Photovoltaic Performance of NiO/TiO₂ Transparent Solar Cells by Chrysa Aivalioti, Maria Androulidaki, Katerina Tsagaraki, Emmanouil G. Manidakis, Charidimos Koliakoudakis, Nikolaos T. Pelekanos, Mircea Modreanu, Elias Aperathitis

“…The AN2 film was found to be the most transparent of all films, exhibiting the widest band gap, 3.72 eV, and the narrowest Urbach tail states’ width, 313 meV. …”
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Managing Retractions and their Afterlife: A Tripartite Framework for Research Datasets by Renata Curty

“…Retractions serve as a critical, albeit last-resort, post-publication correction mechanism in scholarly publishing, playing an important role in upholding the integrity of the scientific record. …”
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An action research study on AI video vs. written feedback: enhancing undergraduate academic writing and critical thinking by Sandra Baroudi, Nida Mubeen, Suha Karaki

“…Additionally, students completed post-surveys to capture their perceptions, engagement levels and use of AI tools in the learning process. …”
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Embodied conversational agents for multimodal automated social skills training in people with autism spectrum disorders. by Hiroki Tanaka, Hideki Negoro, Hidemi Iwasaka, Satoshi Nakamura

“…In this paper, we create and evaluate a social skills training system that closes this gap by considering the audiovisual features of the smiling ratio and the head pose (yaw and pitch). …”
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Performance measurement systems in primary health care: a systematic literature review by Carlos Jefferson de Melo Santos, Ava Santana Barbosa, Ângelo Márcio Oliveira Sant’Anna

“…However, there remains a significant gap in the literature regarding their development, implementation, and impact on primary health care (PHC). …”
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Reporting feedback on healthcare outcomes to improve quality in care: a scoping review by Mariam P. Ali, Elyke H. Visser, Rachel L. West, Desirée van Noord, C. Janneke van der Woude, Welmoed K. van Deen

“…Interventions targeting outcome measures were reported as less successful than those targeting process measures, or both. Feedback interventions appeared to be more successful when supplemented with post-feedback consultations, reminders, education, and action toolboxes. …”
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Exploring the Applications of Explainability in Wearable Data Analytics: Systematic Literature Review by Yasmin Abdelaal, Michaël Aupetit, Abdelkader Baggag, Dena Al-Thani

“…While wrist-worn wearables are widespread, there is a notable gap in making the data they generate explainable. …”
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Improving quality of care for pregnancy, perinatal and newborn care at district and sub-district public health facilities in three districts of Haryana, India: An Implementation st... by Manoja Kumar Das, Narendra Kumar Arora, Suresh Kumar Dalpath, Saket Kumar, Amneet P Kumar, Abhishek Khanna, Ayushi Bhatnagar, Rajiv Bahl, Yasir Bin Nisar, Shamim Ahmad Qazi, Gulshan Kumar Arora, R K Dhankhad, Krishan Kumar, Ramesh Chander, Bhanwar Singh

“…These indicators were compared between baseline (pre-intervention) and endline (post-intervention) cycles for documenting impact.…”
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Exploring machine learning approaches for precipitation downscaling by Honglin Zhu, Qiming Zhou, Jukka M. Krisp

“…Additionally, the environmental variables utilized in these approaches and the post-processing of residual correction and calibration after downscaling were categorized and analyzed, in which meticulous comparisons of their performance in various study areas were conducted. …”
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Combining biometrics and self-reports to better understand perceptions of source trustworthiness, expertise, and believability in HPV blog messaging by Laura Crosswell

“…Using eye tracking technology and post-test surveys, I look at how different source stimuli (“actress,” “blogger,” and “doctor”) impact viewer processing of HPV health messaging. …”
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Standardising the administration of joint injections across the Wolverhampton NHS Trust: a service improvement project in rheumatology through the lens of medical education by Hirushi Jayasekera, Tamaraudubamo Agunbiade, S. Venkat Chalam

“…Pre-course surveys collected quantitative and qualitative data on performance challenges, confidence, and baseline knowledge. Process mapping (Fig 1) and radar diagrams (Fig 2) highlighted gaps for intervention. …”
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Adapting the group traumatic episode protocol approach as a paraprofessional-led early intervention for law enforcement personnel by Monika Ozga, Maryjo Hart, Theo Niyonsenga, Larissa Coulter

“…Their role bridges the gap between informal peer support and professional mental health services. …”
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Optimising access to vocational rehabilitation through multiple sclerosis charities: Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial. by Blanca De Dios Pérez, Denise Kendrick, Roshan das Nair, Nikos Evangelou, Ian Newsome, Kate Radford

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>This novel study will provide insight into how existing services from MS charities can fill a service gap by providing employment support to people with MS. …”
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Effects of adopting IFRS 9 for the audit of financial instruments in non-financial companies by Shirley Franco da Silva, José Alves Dantas

“…The statistical tests were conducted in two stages: i) a descriptive analysis, through a comparison of the number of references to financial instruments, including the reasons for any alteration of opinion in the pre- and post- IFRS 9 periods; and ii) hypothesis testing of research by means of logistic regression estimates. …”
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Polarization-driven dynamic laser speckle analysis for brain neoplasms differentiation by Vahid Abbasian, Vahideh Farzam Rad, Parisa Shamshiripour, Davoud Ahmadvand, Arash Darafsheh

“…The effectiveness of our system is shown by analyzing the collection of polarimetric images of various tissue samples, utilizing a variety of adapted numerical and graphical statistical post-processing methods.…”
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Exploring AI Ethics Syllabi Through NLP Cluster Analysis by Kerrie Hooper, Stephanie Lunn

“…Some of these include patterns from syllabi across various academic departments and the pre-post Chat-GPT era. This study is insightful as it acts as a baseline for investigating various AI ethics topics that converge across academic departments, as well as uncovering potential gaps in AI ethics syllabus contents.…”
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Integrated intra‐ and intercellular signaling knowledge for multicellular omics analysis by Dénes Türei, Alberto Valdeolivas, Lejla Gul, Nicolàs Palacio‐Escat, Michal Klein, Olga Ivanova, Márton Ölbei, Attila Gábor, Fabian Theis, Dezső Módos, Tamás Korcsmáros, Julio Saez‐Rodriguez

“…However, knowledge of intercellular communication is scarce, scattered across resources, and not linked to intracellular processes. To address this gap, we combined over 100 resources covering interactions and roles of proteins in inter‐ and intracellular signaling, as well as transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation. …”
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Aflatoxin Risk in Pepper Crops and Flaked Pepper in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey by Hayrettin ÖZER, Fatma KAPLAN, Ayşin BİLGİLİ

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FEATURES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN THE UK: EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY FOR UKRAINE by Olha Andrieieva, Nataliia Larina, Yurii Ruban

“…The focus is on the environment, agriculture and fisheries, three policy areas in which the powers devolved to the regions in the process of decentralization are in significant conflict with post-Brexit EU law. …”
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