Maternity care providers' perspectives on late-term gestation management (LATE-study): A cross-sectional survey. by Anna E Seijmonsbergen-Schermers, Fatima Hammiche, Hannah de Klerk, Judit K J Keulen, Caroline J Bax, Lilian L Peters, Corine J Verhoeven

“…<h4>Methods</h4>An online questionnaire was developed, improved on the basis of four semi-structured interviews, piloted, and distributed to primary care and hospital-based midwives, residents, and obstetricians. …”
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Modélisation des objets historiques selon la fonction, l’espace et le temps pour l’étude des dynamiques urbaines dans la longue durée by Xavier Rodier, Laure Saligny

“….- Space, the most formalized of the three sets, is structured on the model of a planar topological graph without isthmi.- Time, always considered as continuous and linear, will be modelled by analogy with space using temporal topology defined in the field of artificial intelligence.The relationships between these three sets each characterize an interaction (social use-space, social use-time, time-space, or function-space-time). …”
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INTERNAL AUDIT EFFICIENCY AND PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF SELECTED MDAs IN KWARA STATE by Aminat Arike ARIYO-EDU, Ibrahim Ayodeji WOLI-JIMOH, Muhammed Lawal SUBAIR

“…Primary data was sourced through the administration of well-structured questionnaire using five-points Likert scale to measure the question items. …”
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Determinants of Nurses’ Compliance with Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Critical Care Units by Raghad Batran, Ahmad Ayed, Ahmad Batran, Moath Abu Ejheisheh, Bahaa Alassoud, Mohammed F. Hayek, Ali Batran

“…Data were collected using a structured questionnaire that measured sociodemographic characteristics, compliance, knowledge, and perceptions of infection prevention and control (IPC) practices. …”
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Association between physical activity level and cardiovascular disease: An empirical analysis based on CHARLS data in 2018. by Haiwei Li, Liang Luo, Jing Zhang, Yanhao Zhao, Peipei Cheng, Dan Liu, Liwei Guo

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The diagnosis of CVD was based on self-reported physician-diagnosed heart disease or stroke, while PAL were classified using calculations derived from a structured questionnaire. Both datasets were obtained from the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) survey. …”
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Passive social media use and depression among college students during public health emergencies: a chain mediation approach by Lin Wang, Shuhe Li, Yajing Liu, Lu Cheng

“…This study investigates the impact of passive social media use on depression among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically examining the mediating roles of vicarious traumatization and fear of missing out (FoMO).MethodsA structured survey was conducted among 322 college students. …”
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Schiff Base-Functionalized Melamine Sponge with Hierarchical Porous Architecture for High-Efficiency Removal of Organic Dyes in Wastewater by Xiaoyu Du, Hailiang Nie, Yanqing Qu, Jingyu Xu, Hongge Jia, Yong Zhang, Wenhui Ma, Boyu Du

“…In this study, a stable linear polymer network structure was constructed on the surface of melamine sponges via an in situ polymerization strategy based on the Schiff base reaction mechanism. …”
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Circular Economy as a Management Model in the Paradigm of Sustainable Development by Skawińska Eulalia, Zalewski Romuald I.

“…The following paper explores circular economy as a model of management within the framework of sustainable development. Its structure comprises 4 parts. The first part illustrates the role of sustainable development as an emerging paradigm in the theory of modern economics and in the recent policy of the European Union. …”
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Modeling and simulations of hydrodynamic shocks in a plasma flowing across randomized ICF scale laser beams by Hüller, S., Ludwig, J. D. T., Rose, H. A., Bruulsema, C., Farmer, W., Michel, P., Milder, A. L., Swadling, G. F., Rozmus, W.

“…Such beams have usually a speckle structure generated by optical smoothing techniques that reduce the spatial and temporal coherence in the laser field pattern. …”
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Family protection motivation and economic vulnerability: a network analysis of public influenza risk perception, education and mitigation strategies in China by Cheng Yang, Cheng Yang, Jiawei Li, Jiawei Li, Xianqiong Feng, Xianqiong Feng, Shaoyu Su, Shaoyu Su, Qin Zeng, Qin Zeng

“…This gap impedes effective interventions targeting critical behavioral nodes in influenza mitigation.ObjectiveThis study employs network analysis to uncover the core structural features of influenza risk perception among the Chinese public, examining the association between science literacy and risk perception to inform targeted mitigation and intervention strategies.DesignA multicenter, cross-sectional network analysis study using convenience sampling.SettingFifteen provinces across mainland China, covering eastern, western, southern, northern, and central regions.Participants1,416 individuals aged 18–70, representing diverse occupations, education levels, and income groups.ResultsThe public’s influenza risk perception network exhibited a “family-knowledge-economy” triadic structure. …”
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Noise Reduction Evaluation of Multi-Layered Viscoelastic Infinite Cylinder under Acoustical Wave Excitation by M.R. Mofakhami, H. Hosseini Toudeshky, Sh. Hosseini Hashemi

“…The dynamic viscoelastic properties of the structure are rigorously taken into account with a power law technique that models the viscoelastic damping of the cylinder. …”
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Research on Fatigue Strain and Fatigue Modulus of Concrete by Fangping Liu, Jianting Zhou

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Effective decoupling method for derivation of eigenfunctions for closed cylindrical shell by Hlib Yudin, Igor Orynyak

“…In spite that the general structure of eigenvalues for this equation was known starting from 60-s of last century, they were derived only to some simplified versions of the shell theory. …”
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THE TAX COMPLIANCE PARADOX by Kurnia Mahanani Wijaya, Mahameru Rosy Rochmatullah

“…Data were obtained from www.idx.co.id and company websites and analyzed using multiple linear regression in SPSS 25. Thin capitalization denotes a debt-heavy capital structure, intellectual capital reflects intangible resource utilization, capital intensity measures fixed asset investment, and institutional ownership indicates institutional shareholding proportion. …”
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Spatial Multifractal and b Value Characteristics of Mine Earthquakes under High Tectonic Stress by Hongguang Ji, Dongsheng Chen, Xiaobo Su, Zhen Fu, Daolu Quan

“…In terms of D∞ and D2-D∞, the seismic aggregation degree and fractal structure uniformity are discussed, respectively, and the parameter variation is related to rock burst events. …”
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The Acoustic Field Distribution Inside the Ultrasonic Ring Array by Wiktor STASZEWSKI, Tadeusz GUDRA, Krzysztof J. OPIELINSKI

“…By the use of MATLAB software, a unique algorithm was developed, for a numerical determination of the distribution of pressure of an ultrasonic wave on any surface or area of the medium generated by the concave curvilinear structure of rectangular ultrasound transducers with a geometric focus of the beam. …”
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The Effect of Taste on Papuan Local Consumption by Panni Genti Romauli Pardede, Aris Ananta

“…This study aims to determine the effect of tastes on local food consumption in an econometric analysis of the food demand structure in Papua Province. This study used the 2019 National Social and Economic Survey (SUSENAS) with 13.151 households conducted by Statistics Indonesia (BPS). …”
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Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy Reveals the HAS3-Induced Dorsal Plasma Membrane Ruffles by Kirsi Rilla, Arto Koistinen

“…The study of these thin and fragile protrusions is challenging, and they are difficult to preserve by fixation unless they are adherent to the substrate. Thus their structure and regulation are still partly unclear despite careful imaging with different microscopic methods in several cell types. …”
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Characterizing Subjective Noisiness in Hospital Lobbies by Chiung Yao CHEN

“…As an advanced approach, for hospital noise that consisted of 12 audible noise events, subjective noisiness were evaluated by the noise time structure analyzed by autocorrelation with loudness and levels variation.…”
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Morphological evidence supports splitting of species in the North Atlantic Sebastes spp. complex. by Ingrid Marie Bruvold, Agneta Hansen, Arve Lynghammar, Hannes Höffle, Tanja Hanebrekke, Caroline Aas Tranang, Kjell Nedreaas, Einar Nilssen, Atal Saha, Torild Johansen

“…Accumulating genetic evidence suggests a more complex structure within this genus in the North Atlantic, which has recently inspired the hypotheses of cryptic species within S. norvegicus. …”
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