An examination of the relationship between self-confidence and bullying among adolescent athletes and non-athletes by Satmyrza Mamikov, Ainur Abdullayeva

“…Methodology: a quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted with 300 adolescents, categorized as athletes and non-athletes. participants completed a structured questionnaire on bullying and self-confidence. analyses included logistic regression, Chi-square tests, One-way ANOVA, MANOVA, and multiple linear regression for moderation effects. …”
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Effect of Adoption Intensity of Climate Smart Agriculture on Farming Households’ Food Security in Ethiopia: Empirical Evidence From Guna Begemider District, South Gonder by Mekdes Teklemichael, Abate Mekuriaw

“…This paper assessed the adoption intensity of CSA practices and their effect on food security among farming households in Guna Begemider district, South Gonder Zone, Ethiopia. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered among 217 randomly selected households from four kebeles of the district. …”
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Analyzing Uncertainty and Hesitation in Refereeing Decision using Neutrosophic Vague N-Soft Sets: A Case Study of Officiating Ability Evaluation for National-Level Volleyball Refer... by Haikui Zhou, Xiang Zhong

“…Our framework integrated expert linguistic evaluations across multiple criteria into a structured NVNSS decision matrix. Then, we propose a risk-aware degree of support to quantify each referee’s performance under uncertainty, followed by a discrete rating assignment. …”
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The statistical relationship between sweet consumption and academic achievement among Palestinian university students: a cross-sectional study by Inad Nawajah

“…Data on academic performance (self-reported GPA), sweet consumption frequency, and potential confounders (demographics, BMI, parental education, income, breakfast consumption, physical activity, and mental health via the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) were collected using structured questionnaires. Multiple linear regression models were used to assess associations. …”
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THE INVISIBLE HANDS IN THE PRODUCTION OF GHANA’S PREMIUM COCOA: WOMEN AS KEY CONTRIBUTORS by Tania Ayine Akolgo, John-Eudes Andivi Bakang, Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum

“…Data were collected through the use of structured questionnaires. Descriptive and inferential statistics such as percentages, mean, standard deviations, frequencies, multiple linear regression were used for the data analysis. …”
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Optical neuromorphic computing via temporal up-sampling and trainable encoding on a telecom device platform by Manuylovich Egor, Stoliarov Dmitrii, Saad David, Turitsyn Sergei K.

“…Our up-sampling approach utilizes a trainable encoding mask, where each input symbol is replaced with a structured sequence of masked symbols, effectively increasing the representational capacity of the feature space. …”
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Boosting Barlow Twins Reduced Order Modeling for Machine Learning‐Based Surrogate Models in Multiphase Flow Problems by T. Kadeethum, V. L. S. Silva, P. Salinas, C. C. Pain, H. Yoon

“…BBT‐ROM builds upon Barlow Twins reduced order modeling that leverages self‐supervised learning to effectively handle linear and nonlinear manifolds by constructing well‐structured latent spaces of input parameters and output quantities. …”
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A New Technique to Solve Game Matrix with Neutrosophic Payoffs by Jitendra Singh, Ritika Chopra, Ratnesh R. Saxena, Pankaj Kumar Garg

“…This article develops a more structured technique to solve neutrosophic game matrix with payoffs as Single Valued Trapezoidal Neutrosophic (SVTrN) numbers. …”
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The impact of fall armyworm on subsistence farmers in the Limpopo Province of South Africa by Tlou D. Raphela, M. Mafadza

“…Lastly, the study assessed the impact of the fall armyworms on the food security of the farmers and their families. The study used a structured questionnaire to collect the data and applied several Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and one ordinal Regression to analyse the data for this study with a sample size of 82. …”
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Verification of fast ion and rotation effects on turbulence through comparison of GENE and CGYRO with L-mode plasmas in KSTAR by Donguk Kim, Taeuk Moon, Choongki Sung, Eisung Yoon, Sumin Yi, Jisung Kang, Jae-Min Kwon, Tobias Görler, Emily Belli, Jeff Candy

“…These findings indicate the necessity for further investigation into these discrepancies and the novel phase angle structures observed, contributing to the advancement of accurate transport predictions in fusion plasmas. …”
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Fractal approach to geological and economic assessment of germanium-bearing lignites by O. I. Bilous, M. S. Burlutskyy

“…Traditional methods of estimating lignite reserves and predicting germanium content frequently fail to consider the complex structural and genetic heterogeneity of coal deposits. …”
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Experimental study on the mechanical properties of freeze-thaw cycled sandstone under dynamic loading by Hanhua Xu, Sugang Sui, Junpeng Zou, Xun Bao, Weijie Tian, Shijing He, Quan Zhang

“…However, factors such as freeze-thaw erosion, earthquakes, rainfall, and mining disturbances have weakened the strength of rock masses in alpine mine slopes, leading to structural weathering. These issues severely compromise the safety and stability of rock slopes and hinder the safe, efficient production of mineral resources. …”
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The Role of Extratropical Pacific in Crossing ENSO Spring Predictability Barrier by Yingying Zhao, Yishuai Jin, Jianping Li, Antonietta Capotondi

“…The evolution of the extratropical optimum initial structures illustrates the different roles of the northern and southern extratropical Pacific in crossing EP and CP ENSO SPBs and demonstrates the decisive role that the South Pacific initial condition plays in ENSO diversity. …”
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FE Models of GFRP and CFRP Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams by Kasidit Chansawat, Tanarat Potisuk, Thomas H. Miller, Solomon C. Yim, Damian I. Kachlakev

“…Analysis results are compared with data obtained from full-scale beam tests through the linear and nonlinear ranges up to failure. It was found that the FE models could identify qualitatively trends observed in the structural behavior of the full-scale beams. …”
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Madness in Teleorman: Chaos and Order by Eda Bayrakcı

“…Numerous studies have been carried out in the West to interpret literary texts from different aspects –thematically or structurally- based on Chaos theory. This article aims to analyze Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest issuing the Romanian Revolution from a modernist and surrealist way via key terms of Chaos theory with respect to theme and structure. …”
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Causal Directions Matter: How Environmental Factors Drive Convective Cloud Detrainment Heights by Dié Wang, Simon Lee, Tao Zhang, Christian Lackner, Daniel Kirshbaum, Michael Jensen

“…Through a novel application of the Linear Non‐Gaussian Acyclic Model (LiNGAM), we discover causal structures between environmental variables and LMD, observed at six tropical sites operated by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. …”
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Dusty streaks on the Moon: fingerprints of multiphase flow instabilities by J. Sebastian Rubio, Neil S. Rodrigues, Yinghe Qi, Meet Patel, Matthew T. Gorman, Miguel X. Diaz Lopez, Jesse Capecelatro, Paul M. Danehy, Rui Ni

“…This instability creates vortical structures that entrain and eject particles. The number of streaks exhibits an interesting scaling with the jet pressure ratio, which can be modeled with linear instability theory and shows excellent agreement with scaled-down experiments, simulations, and actual observations in landing videos. …”
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Influence of polypropylene masterbatch modified with silver nanoparticles additions on the mechanical and electromechanical properties of cementitious composites by Barış Şimşek, Tayfun Uygunoğlu, Uğur Fidan

“…Polymer composites have long been a subject of interest to researchers due to their ability to offer distinctive advantages in design, flexibility, mechanical properties, and piezoelectric properties to structures. The present study is the first to investigate the effect of polypropylene masterbatch modified with antibacterial silver nanoparticles (AGPP) on the mechanical and electromechanical properties of cementitious composites. …”
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A modular and adaptable approach for automated morphological feature extraction in meibography images by Itziar Fernández, Andrea Novo-Diez, María J. González-García

“…The proposed method leverages piecewise linear modeling to derive clinically interpretable metrics that capture key structural characteristics of MGs. …”
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Bluetooth-sensed social presence is associated with immediate vigor and delayed fatigue: A multi-method time series analysis by David Willinger, Stefan Stieger

“…We examined these patterns through an experience sampling method study with 80 participants over two weeks (k = 3,716 assessments), combining Bluetooth device counts (n = 123,574) as a social presence proxy with self-reported emotional states. Using linear mixed-effects models, continuous-time structural equation models, and multi-state Markov analyses, we uncovered complex temporal relationships between social presence and emotions. …”
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