Knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation of clinicians at a South African tertiary hospital by L. Botha, M.M. Geyser, A. Engelbrecht

“…Setting and subjects: The subjects were doctors who worked in clinical disciplines at a South African tertiary hospital. Using convenience sampling, doctors from each clinical discipline were invited to participate. …”
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Healthcare-seeking intentions of middle-aged and elderly individuals with critical diseases: an expanded TPB model in the post-pandemic era by Po-Chun Lee, Ching-Yuan Huang, Meng-Jun Hsu

“…A cross-sectional study design and purposive sampling method were employed, collecting 526 valid questionnaires. …”
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Determinants of the factors affecting the governance structure choice of the pineapple value chain: A case study on market-based agroforestry in Bangladesh by Bapon Mankhin, Mst Esmat Ara Begum, Mohammad Shamsul Hoq, Mohammad Ismail Hossain

“…To evaluate the factors influencing farmers' decisions to participate in spot markets, bilateral agreements, or association transactions, the study utilizes both quantitative and qualitative approaches, including surveys of 200 farmers, 15 focus group discussions (FGDs), and 2 key informant interviews (KIIs). …”
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The status of food insecurity at the household level in the North-Eastern highlands of Ethiopia by Umar Demisse Mohammed, Arega Bazezew Berlie, Simachew Bantigegen Wassie

“…Therefore, policymakers and concerned development partners should prioritize addressing this issue and take more decisive actions to alleviate it.…”
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Investigating the Relationship Between Spiritual Health and Identity Styles in Patients Referred to the Baharenko Center by Maryam Momeni

“…Methods: The current study descriptive-analytical was done on 912 individuals who were referred to the Bahar Neko premarital education and counseling center in 2022 and selected using random cluster sampling. Paloutzian and Ellison’s spiritual well-being scale (SWBS) and Berzonsky’s Identity Style Inventory were the research tools. …”
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Crop diversification in Bangladesh: Public policy provisions, practices, and insights for future initiatives by Ravi Nandi, Timothy J. Krupnik, Wais Kabir

“…The objective is to inform future policy and operational decisions to enhance the effectiveness of crop diversification efforts. …”
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How do social media marketing activities enhance online purchase intention among Jordanian consumers? The role of brand trust and brand engagement by Muneer Alrwashdeh

“…The current study utilized a quantitative approach design, using a questionnaire as a tool to collect the data from 542 e-commerce consumers in Jordan during the period from February 7, 2024, to July 28, 2024. Purposive sampling was applied to collect the data from participants. …”
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The nexus between spirituality and personal financial behavior: a study of students with entrepreneurial intentions by Jatin Jangid, Bhawana Bhardwaj, Dipanker Sharma

“…Originality/value – The existing literature on personal financial behavior has lacked in establishing a relationship between spirituality and investment decisions. The present study is novel in substantiating this void. …”
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Influence of soft skills on career development: Exploring performance appraisal as a mediating mechanism by Rosa Rodrigues, Andreia Dias

“…This investigation checked the significance of these competencies in career development, employing performance appraisal as a mediating mechanism. The sample comprised 262 employees in Portugal. Data were collected from a convenience sample using the snowball sampling method, in which participants were asked to invite their contacts to participate in the study. …”
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'I cut toenails with scissors and trim it with sand paper'. Patients’ perspectives on diabetic foot complications by Suliana Saverio, Masoud Mohammadnezhad, Filimone Raikanikoda

“…This will help guide patients to make life-altering decisions that can help reduce the rate of diabetes related lower limb amputations, which are easily preventable. …”
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Exploring the impact of social influence on parents’ intention to use institutional childcare: a cross-sectional study by Bo Yu, Difan Zhang, Yin Sun, Yuna Yao, Yingji Li, Huiling Hu

“…Few studies have explored the role of social influence in parents' childcare decisions. Therefore, this study will construct a research model to explore the mechanisms of social influence on parents' intentions to use childcare institutions. …”
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Leadership behaviours and practices assessment among nurse managers in riyadh second health cluster by Salman Mohammed Alharbi, Ahmed Mansour Almansour

“…A total of 342 nurse managers working in Riyadh Second Health were recruited using convenience sampling. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, and ANOVA to examine differences across their demographics. …”
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The impact of new population policies on women's reproductive health pattern in Ardabil, Iran: a comparative cross-sectional study by Nazila Nejhaddadgar, Afrouz Mardi, Maryam Zare

“…BackgroundFamily planning helps couples make voluntary, informed, and responsible decisions about having children based on their economic, physical, and psychological capabilities. …”
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The impact of social media marketing efforts on buying intentions within the brewing sector by Lima Ana, Cruz Marco, Pacheco Jorge

“…The use of a non-probabilistic convenience sample limits the generalisability of conclusions.…”
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Pragmatic and Semantic Analysis of Anti-War Protest Utterances (on the Data of Public Opinion Discourse in the Spring of 2022 in Russia) by O. V. Dreifeld

“…A content analysis, pragmatic and semantic analysis of 455 utterances are carried out, utterances are obtained by continuous sampling method in the Telegram channel “OVD-Info” in the period from 02.24.2022 to 05.31.2022 and from the opened media sources indicated in the open database “Illustrative Material”.Results and discussion. …”
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GDSMOTE: A Novel Synthetic Oversampling Method for High-Dimensional Imbalanced Financial Data by Libin Hu, Yunfeng Zhang

“…This means that our method has the characteristics of improving the recognition accuracy of minority-class samples without sacrificing the recognition accuracy of majority-class samples and has good adaptability to data decision-making tasks in the financial field.…”
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Ex-ante determinants of IPOs: A dataset for the Malaysian IPOsMendeley Data by Ali Albada, Soo-Wah Low, Rabie A. Ramadan, Khalid Al Qatiti, Muataz Salam Al-Daweri

“…The data in this dataset plays an important role in providing insightful decision-making tips for prospective investors operating in an environment characterized by high information asymmetry. …”
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Generative Adversarial learning with Negative Data Augmentation for Semi-supervised Text Classification by Shahriar Shayesteh, Diana Inkpen

“…Consequently, the NDA samples increase the discriminator's power to find the optimal decision boundary. …”
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Individual prediction of the reliability of high power transistors for electronic devices of medical purposes by S. M. Borovikov, V. O. Kaziuchyts

“…To perform prediction, the values of the informative parameters are measured at the initial moment of time for a particular sample of interest, they are converted into binary numbers (zero or one) using the threshold values found from the results of the training experiment, and the decision on the correspondence of the sample to the class of highly reliable transistors is made by a set of binary numbers. …”
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Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Fault Detection and Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Benchmark on the Tennessee Eastman Process by Vitaliy Pozdnyakov, Aleksandr Kovalenko, Ilya Makarov, Mikhail Drobyshevskiy, Kirill Lukyanov

“…Our results highlight the strong vulnerability of models to adversarial samples and the varying effectiveness of defense strategies. …”
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