Influence of inhalation device, active substance, and drug formulation on the compliance of patients with obstructive pulmonary diseases. A physicians’ perspective by S.G. Theodorakis, G. Kolios, V. Tzilas, D. Bouros

“…Aim To investigate the perspective of physicians treating chronic airway diseases on the importance of device and substance characteristics influencing the compliance of patients with chronic obstructive airways diseases.Objective We surveyed physicians... perspective on the impact of device and substance characteristics on patients... compliance.Methods This study was carried out by running a structured questionnaire, to a total of 144 physicians, conducting personal interviews and evaluating answers on a scale from 1 for most to 6 for least important influencing parameter.Results Overall, the most important parameters influencing patients... compliance according to physicians... perspective were rapid onset of action, type of inhalation device and duration of action. …”
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Bullying Prevention Strategies Through School Capacity Building (SCB) in Integrated Islamic Schools to Support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by Irman Suherman, Abraham Yazdi Martin, Imam Kurniawan, Asep Thobibudin Qolyubi, Radif Khotamir Rusli, Lise Purnamasari

“…The research highlights that a comprehensive approach, integrating structured school policies, strong leadership, and active participation from teachers and parents, is essential for effective bullying prevention. …”
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Men in White: A Narrative Inquiry of Male Nurse Stereotype in Nursing by Chenn Martin L. Antiporda, Jhoechell P. Francisco, Generey G. Lagrama, Brent B. Maghirang, Jorge Dwight L. Malicad

“…Thus, this narrative inquiry aims to explore the men’s experiences, the challenges they faced, and the coping strategies they used in the field of nursing. A semi-structured questionnaire was used for in-depth interviews with the four participants; ages 32 to 37 years old, who were selected through snowball sampling. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Fundamentals and Theory of Religious Knowledge Management and its Applications by Rasoul Ranjbarian, Zainab Delrobaei

“…Accordingly, the main strengths of the book are the comprehensiveness of the content, systematic approach, coherent and structured view of the issues, compatibility of the work with Islamic wisdom and modeling in scientific-academic sources according to Islamic sources. …”
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Does motivation theory really play any significant role on explaining university teachers’ performance: Understanding Bangladeshi context by Rebaka Sultana, Mohammad Faruk, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Asif Khaled

“…A convenience sample of 200 randomly chosen informants is obtained via structured survey. To evaluate the study's hypotheses, factor analysis is used. …”
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Sociolinguistic Factors Influencing the Acquisition of English Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts: Insights from Selected Secondary School Teachers in Dodoma, Tanzania by Godson Robert Mtallo, Gerald Kimambo

“…Selected teachers participated in semi-structured interviews to gather qualitative data, which underwent content analysis through Nvivo 12. …”
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Pathology of Measuring and Managing Customer Satisfaction in B2B Companies by Gholamreza Tavakoli, Omid Heidari, Majid Feyz Arefi

“…Data collection tools included a semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire; its reliability was calculated as α = 0.906 after validation. …”
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Integrating Cultural Heritage into Smart City Development Through Place Making: A Systematic Review by Elika Tousi, Surabhi Pancholi, Md Mizanur Rashid, Chin Koi Khoo

“…The proposed framework integrates cultural heritage with smart city development through place making and provides structured guidance for policymakers and urban planners by outlining four key areas—digital infrastructure, community participation, spatial design, and heritage preservation—while also acknowledging the challenges of applying it across diverse socio-cultural and technological contexts.…”
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Innovation and Technology in Urban Transformation: An Analysis of Frameworks, Stakeholders, and Key Performance Indicators for the Development of Smart Cities by González Rubio Isaura, Rolón Julio C., López-Leyva Santos, Bermúdez Juan Carlos

“…This work lays a preliminary foundation for practical approaches to smart city development, offering a framework that supports informed decision-making and structured evaluation of progress toward urban intelligence.…”
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Farm entrepreneurship among emerging farmers under the land restitution program in Limpopo Province, South Africa by Lesedi Molefe Maesela, Grany Mmatsatsi Senyolo, Abenet Belete

“…Using a stratified sampling procedure, data was collected using a structured questionnaire from a sample of 200 emerging farmers. …”
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A GIS-Based Multi-Tier Framework for Assessing the Ecological Potential of Urban Vacant Land by Izyan Ayuni Mohamad Selamat, Sreetheran Maruthaveeran, Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof, Mohd Fairuz Shahidan

“…However, the absence of structured and adaptable frameworks for ecological assessment limits its effective integration into urban planning. …”
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Machine learning models to predict onset of dementia: A label learning approach by Vijay S. Nori, Christopher A. Hane, William H. Crown, Rhoda Au, William J. Burke, Darshak M. Sanghavi, Paul Bleicher

“…Abstract Introduction The study objective was to build a machine learning model to predict incident mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and related dementias from structured data using administrative and electronic health record sources. …”
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Visual Place Recognition Based on Dynamic Difference and Dual-Path Feature Enhancement by Guogang Wang, Yizhen Lv, Lijie Zhao, Yunpeng Liu

“…The global branch employs a dynamic fusion mechanism with a multi-layer Transformer encoder to strengthen the structured spatial representation to cope with appearance changes, while the local branch suppresses the over-response of redundant noise through an adaptive weighting mechanism and fuses the contextual information from the multi-scale feature aggregation module to enhance the robustness of the scene. …”
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Reducing Medication Errors through Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration: A Quality Improvement initiative by Davide Paccagnella, Rachel Isaac, Bhavee Patel, Pramodh Vallabhaneni

“…Materials and Methods: To achieve our aim, we devised a structured educational program was devised by a tripartite alliance (Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacology) and rolled out to nursing staff and medical trainees. …”
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Women’s lived experiences of intimate partner violence progress after breast cancer: a hermeneutic phenomenological study by Leila Sheikhnezhad, Hadi Hassankhani, Erika Metzler Sawin, Zohreh Sanaat, Mohammad Hasan Sahebihagh

“…Methods This is a qualitative study conducted using the hermeneutic phenomenological method. A semi-structured in-depth interview was conducted. 11 women diagnosed with breast cancer who experienced partner violence and were referred to Tabriz Oncology Clinic in Iran for treatment and fallow up were selected using purposeful sampling method. …”
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Primary School Teachers' Experiences in the Identification of Gifted Students and Nominating Them to Science and Art Centers by Mustafa Erol, Osman Gedik, Berat Demirtaş

“…The study data were obtained through semi-structured interview forms developed by the researchers and personal interviews conducted with the study group. …”
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Comunicazione Digitale XR: Assessing the impact of extended reality technologies on learning by Daniele Zolezzi, Saverio Iacono, Luca Martini, Gianni Viardo Vercelli

“…Additionally, qualitative data was gathered through semi-structured interviews. Quantitative data from surveys and log files were analyzed using descriptive statistics, while qualitative data from interviews were subjected to thematic analysis. …”
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FINANCIAL DECISION-MAKING POWER AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR IN INDIAN HOUSEHOLDS by Suresh Gopal, Jothi Munuswamy, Prakash M

“…Further, the study employs the primary data collected through a structured questionnaire. The snowball sampling method was adopted to gather data from 312 retail investors in the study area. …”
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The impact of parental involvement, social support, and peer relationships on L2 learning motivation: A mixed-methods study of Chinese university EFL students by Zikai Guo, Chen Chen, Ruifang Guo

“…Quantitative data from 326 students and qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with 20 students were analyzed. …”
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Revisiting the Energy-Saving Behavior of Hotel Guests: An Integrated Model of TPB and NAM in Vietnam by Van Hao Hoang, Phuong Mai Nguyen, Huong-Linh Le, Thi-Hoang-Yen Tran, Lan Huong Vu

“…SmartPLS 4.0 software was employed for structured equation model testing. Our findings showed that TPB variables and NAM variables jointly explain the energy-saving intention and energy-saving behavior of Vietnamese hotel guests. …”
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