Farmers' pesticide use, disposal behavior, and pre-harvest interval: a case study from Nigeria by Mesay Yami, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Richard Maiwad, Tesfamicheal Wossen, Titilayo D. O. Falade, Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Futoshi Yamauchi, Jordan Chamberlin, Shiferaw Feleke, Tahirou Abdoulaye

“…To address this gap, we leveraged data collected from 1,556 tomato producers in Northern Nigeria to investigate the determinants of pesticide use behavior using a sequential-exploratory mixed-method approach. …”
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The commuting behavior and perception correlates of commuting trips: a comparative study on the Egyptian and migrant populations in Cairo and Alexandria by Randa Khalil, Dina Noseir, Yasmin Kandil, Ahmed Shehata, David G. Farid, Aly Elrefaei, Houshmand Masoumi

“…<p>The circumstances of commute travel behavior in a large part of developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa as well as the preferences of the main populations and the recent migrants are unclear. …”
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Smoking cessation behavior, nicotine addiction, and mental health among current smokers in Klang Valley, Malaysia– a cross-sectional questionnaire survey by G. Sri Yogaprita Gunasegran, Palanisamy Sivanandy, Pravinkumar Vishwanath Ingle, Priya Manirajan, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy

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Use of open-text responses to recode categorical survey data on postpartum contraception use among women in the United States: A mixed-methods inquiry of Pregnancy Risk Assessment... by Nicole K Richards, Christopher P Morley, Martha A Wojtowycz, Erin Bevec, Brooke A Levandowski

“…Our findings contribute to survey questions that can lead to more accurate depiction of postpartum contraceptive behavior. Additionally, future use of these qualitative methods may be used to improve other health behavior survey development and resulting data.…”
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Blended Ensemble Learning for Robust Normal Behavior Modeling of Wind Turbines by Jianghao Zhu, Tingting Pei, Le Su, Bin Lan, Wei Chen

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Financial Literacy and Credit Card Payoff Behaviors: Using Generalized Ordered Logit and Partial Proportional Odds Models to Measure American Credit Card Holders’ Likelihood of Rep... by Christos I. Giannikos, Efstathia D. Korkou

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Artificial Polytropic Behavior of Plasmas Determined from the Application of Chi-squared Minimization Analysis to Data with Significant Statistical Uncertainty by Georgios Nicolaou, George Livadiotis, Charalambos Ioannou

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Google Location History as an Alternative Data Source for Understanding Travel Behavior in Medan, Binjai, and Deli Serdang (Mebidang), Indonesia by Arif Wismadi, Mohamad Rachmadian Narotama, Gary Haq, Steve Cinderby, Deni Prasetio Nugroho, Jan Prabowo Harmanto

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Attitudes towards migration in a COVID-19 context: testing a behavioral immune system hypothesis with Twitter data by Yerka Freire-Vidal, Gabriela Fajardo, Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, José Antonio Muñoz-Reyes, Oriana Figueroa

“…This study aimed to test if people tend to enhance their rejection of minorities and foreign groups under the threat of contagious diseases, using the users’ attitudes towards migrants in Twitter data from Chile, for pre-pandemic and pandemic contexts. …”
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Does behavior mediate the effect of weather on SARS-CoV-2 transmission? evidence from cell-phone data. by Elise N Grover, Andrea G Buchwald, Debashis Ghosh, Elizabeth J Carlton

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Using common data elements to foster interoperability of research on health disparities by Megan Chenoweth, John Kubale

“… Common data elements (CDEs) are standardized questions, variables, or measures with specific sets of responses that are used across multiple studies. …”
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Unraveling Spatial Dynamics of Urban Complexity Between Land Use Patterns and Travel Behavior Using Structural Equation Modeling by Abdulla Al Kafy, Md. Abdul Fattah, Mahir Shahrier, Hamad Ahmed Altuwaijri

“…This study employs structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the interplay between land use patterns and travel behavior in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. …”
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Data-Driven Approach to Safety Control in Jacket-Launching Installation Operations by Sheng Chen, Mingxin Li, Yankun Liu, Xu Bai

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Discovering spatiotemporal patterns of human outdoor activities with crowdsourced trajectory data by Ju Peng, Jianbo Tang, Min Deng, Huimin Liu, Zhiyuan Hu, Xingxiang Jiang, Jianbing Xiang, Xia Ning, Wenzhe Zhao

“…A case study using crowdsourced outdoor activity data from four cities in China revealed as follows: (1) Outdoor activities exhibited exponential or lognormal distributions in distances and durations, which differs from scale-free distributions commonly observed in human daily activities. …”
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The Analysis of Customers’ Transactions Based on POS and RFID Data Using Big Data Analytics Tools in the Retail Space of the Future by Marina Kholod, Alberto Celani, Gianandrea Ciaramella

“…In today’s business landscape, the volume of transaction data is rapidly increasing. This study explores the integration of Point of Sale (POS) and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies to enhance the analysis of customer transactions using big data tools. …”
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A Trip Purpose-Based Data-Driven Alighting Station Choice Model Using Transit Smart Card Data by Kai Lu, Alireza Khani, Baoming Han

“…Automatic fare collection (AFC) systems have been widely used all around the world which record rich data resources for researchers mining the passenger behavior and operation estimation. …”
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Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory: Parent version by Ryusaku Hashimoto, Keitaro Sueda, Yui Tsuji, Yota Nakashima, Kazuyori Yagyu, Toshinobu Takeda

“…Finally, we established normative data to adapt the CABI for use in the Japanese population. …”
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Evidence of self-care tooling and phylogenetic modeling reveal parrot tool use is not rare by Amalia P.M. Bastos, Scott Claessens, Ximena J. Nelson, David Welch, Quentin D. Atkinson, Alex H. Taylor

“…Summary: Putatively rare behaviors like tool use are difficult to study because absence of evidence can arise from a species’ inability to produce the behavior or from insufficient research. …”
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A Data Mining Approach to Consumers’ Choice of Retail Market: The Case of Urban Retail Markets in Iran by H. Hashemzadeh, N. Yousefian, S. Esfandiari Bahraseman, A. Karbasi, A. Firoozzare

“…The data were collected using a random sampling method through a survey of 189 consumers, focusing on the population of Mashhad, Iran, during 2019-2020. …”
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The influence of technological defects on the mechanical behavior of CFRP during buckling under compression based on DIC data and acoustic emission by Stanislav Slovikov, Dmitry Sergeevich Lobanov, Ekaterina Chebotareva, Valeria Melnikova

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