FACTORS AFFECTING LISTENING ANXIETY OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM by Khairani Ade Guswita, Sugirin Sugirin

“…In conclusion, the students feel anxious in doing the listening task which resulted in their listening skills getting lower when learning English in the classroom…”
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Question Wording Matters in Measuring Frequency of Fear of Crime: A Survey Experiment of the Anchoring Effect by Aubrey L. Etopio, Emily R. Berthelot

“…We hypothesized that the year condition would yield lower frequency and higher intensity reports, followed by the month condition, and then the week condition. …”
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The extent of sleep deprivation and daytime sleepiness in young adults by Alexandra Rubin, Rohan Mangal, Thor S. Stead, Joshua Walker, Latha Ganti

“… # Results In total, 9% of people qualified as having lower normal daytime sleepiness, 34% qualified as having higher normal daytime sleepiness, 26% qualified as having mild excessive daytime sleepiness, 17% qualified as having moderate excessive daytime sleepiness, and 17% qualified as having severe excessive daytime sleepiness…”
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Transnational Coalition Building: The Role of The Yes I Do Alliance in Preventing Child Marriage Practices in Kediri Village, West Lombok by St. Amaliah Ramli

“…However, fundamentally this has not been accepted by the actors involved in the Yes I Do Alliance itself.…”
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Knowledge and Attitudes Relating to Women's Rights to Land Ownership by Lilian Oryema, Colbert ZZiwa Tamale, Brian Makabayi

“… Context and background In many societies including Uganda, land ownership is intricately linked to power, identity, and socio-economic status. Despite legal reforms, women in Africa, particularly Uganda, face discrimination and barriers in land ownership due to sociocultural norms and implementation gaps which has caused a problem of low numbers of women engaged in matters of their rights to land ownership yet women’s rights to land ownership are very important in the development of the country given their role in agriculture and the role they play in society. …”
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Biochemical Status of Beta-Thalassemia Major Patients in Erbil City by Omar Surchi, Sarkawt Ali

“…Mean serum Hepcidin, PTH, Osteocalcin and IL6 were significantly lower in thalassemic patients in contrast to the control subjects (P< 0.001). …”
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Statistical and machine learning based platform-independent key genes identification for hepatocellular carcinoma. by Md Al Mehedi Hasan, Md Maniruzzaman, Jie Huang, Jungpil Shin

“…Finally, six KGs (CDC20, TOP2A, CENPF, DLGAP5, UBE2C, and RACGAP1) were selected by intersecting the overlapping hub genes, meta-hub genes, and hub module genes. The discriminative power of six KGs and their prognostic potentiality were evaluated using AUC and survival analysis.…”
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Retrospective Analysis of Seasonal Changes in Semen Analysis Parameters by Sinan Ates, Cem Yener, Mehmet Gurkan Arikan, Ersan Arda, Deniz Cokay, Koray Elter

“…The total motility rate of sperm was significantly lower in winter months compared to other months (p<0.05). …”
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THE EFFECT OF THE ACCESSIBILITY TO MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS YOUNG GIRLS' HEALTH AND EDUCATION IN NIGERIA by Doris Lami Madugu, Rosemary Onchi Daniel

“…Educationally, many girls miss school during their periods, leading to lower academic performance and widening gender disparities. …”
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Enhanced crayfish optimization algorithm: Orthogonal refracted opposition-based learning for robotic arm trajectory planning. by Yuefeng Leng, Chunlai Cui, Zhichao Jiang

“…In practical robotic arm trajectory planning experiments, ECOA demonstrated superior performance, reducing costs by 15% compared to the best competing algorithm and 10% over the original COA, with significantly lower variability. …”
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The Reliability and Validity of a Clinical Measurement Proposed to Quantify Humeral Torsion by Paul A. Salamh, William J. Hanney, Lauren Champion, Connor Hansen, Kari Cochenour, Celine Siahmakoun, Morey J. Kolber

“…The 95% limits of agreement between the two measurement methods were -24.80° and 19.80° with a mean difference of -2.50° indicating that on average the diagnostic ultrasound measurement was lower than that of the BFA method. # Conclusion The BFA is a reliable clinical method for quantifying HT, however, demonstrates moderate to poor convergent validity when compared to diagnostic ultrasound…”
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Subclinical systolic dysfunction in children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome identified by speckle tracking echocardiography by Mohamed Hashem Mahgoob, Amr Mostafa Setouhi

“…The left ventricle global longitudinal strain (LV GLS) was markedly lower in children with SRNS than in healthy controls and NS patients (the diseased controls) (P = 0.001). …”
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THE CHARACTERISTIC OF PATIENTS WITH FEMORAL FRACTURE IN DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDIC AND TRAUMATOLOGY RSUD DR. SOETOMO SURABAYA 2013 – 2016 by Riswanda Noorisa, Dwi Apriliwati, Abdul Aziz, Sulis Bayusentono

“…Fracture is a neuromuscular damage due to tissue trauma or discontinue of bones. Fractures of the lower limbs due to accidents have the highest prevalence among other fractures in Indonesia. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on COMPI Fertility Problem Stress Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Scale in Patients Undergoing IVF/ICSI by Arzu Yurci, Saban Karayagiz

“…The results also showed that public officials, health professionals, and educators showed lower state-trait anxiety scale (stress-related anxiety) scores. …”
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Enhancing navigation performance in unknown environments using spiking neural networks and reinforcement learning with asymptotic gradient method by Xiaode Liu, Yufei Guo, Yuanpei Chen, Jie Zhou, Yuhan Zhang, Weihang Peng, Xuhui Huang, Zhe Ma

“…Considering the inherent lower computational cost of SNN, this work contributes to advancing the fusion of SNN and reinforcement learning techniques for energy-efficient autonomous navigation tasks in real-world mapless scenarios.…”
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Acanthosis nigricans and its association with cardio-metabolic risk factors in children with overweight/obesity: A school-based cross-sectional study by Rashmi R. Das, Manaswini Mangaraj, Saurav Nayak, Amit K. Satapathy, Samarendra Mahapatro

“…Children with AN had higher body mass index [BMI] (P < 0.01), waist circumference [WC] (P < 0.01), systolic (P = 0.03), and diastolic BP (P = 0.02), hyperglycemia (P = 0.02), hyperinsulinemia (P < 0.01), and a higher HOMA-IR (P < 0.01) compared to those without AN. HDL level was lower in children with AN. Conclusions: Children with overweight/obesity who have AN have significant elevations of BP, insulin level, and HOMA-IR. …”
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Global patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic endemism in liverwort assemblages by Hong Qian, Shenhua Qian

“…Areas with higher endemism in liverworts tend to have higher temperatures, precipitation, and environmental heterogeneity, but lower temperature seasonality and lesser impacts from Quaternary climate changes. …”
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Computational Study of Some Urolithin Derivatives-based Biomass Corrosion Inhibitors on the Fe (110), Cu(111) and Al(111) Surface by Rebaz A. Omer

“…UroM5 demonstrates superior stability and lower reactivity due to its high band gap energy. …”
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Geothermal heat advected by the recharge of underground conduit. Case study of the karstic spring of Lez (Hérault, France) by Vasseur, Guy

“…When estimated with available thermal data, the amount of geothermal energy captured by the flow system in steady state conditions is significantly lower than the actual energy output of the spring. …”
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Incorporating Machine Learning in Capture-Recapture Estimation of Survey Measurement Error by Maaike Walraad, Jonas Klingwort, Joep Burger

“…The design-based survey estimate was considerably lower than the CRC estimates, which are based on multiple data sources and statistical models. …”
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