The Consequences of Digital Storytelling-Based Customer Engagement in Social Media for the Tourism Industry by Meysam Ahmadnia, Taher Roshandel Arbatani, Abbas Nargesian, Seyed Mahdi Sharifi, Khabat Derafshi

“…Concurrently, the rise of social media has presented an opportune platform for managers to facilitate communication and engage customers through innovative methods such as digital storytelling. Employing digital storytelling as a business strategy and model in branding, advertising, and product marketing results in improved customer retention, loyalty, and engagement. …”
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Photochemical oxidation and landfarming as remediation techniques for oil-contaminated soil by M. Mambwe, K.K. Kalebaila, T. Johnson

“…Photochemical oxidation is a promising eco-friendly technique that can be employed as an alternative remediation method. The speed at which natural attenuation, photochemical oxidation, and landfarming could remove oil from contaminated soils was examined. …”
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Penerapan Metode Simple Additive Weighting dalam Pemeringkatan Kinerja Keuangan Perusahaan Sektor Teknologi yang Terdaftar di Bei by I Made Satya Sundara, I Gst. Agung Pramesti Dwi Putri, I Nyoman Yudi Anggara Wijaya

“…Therefore, this research aims to assist prospective investors in making decisions in selecting companies with the best financial performance in the technology sector using the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method. The SAW method is employed to generate a ranking of technology companies that serve as a reference for prospective investors in making investment decisions. …”
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Prevalence of asymptomatic Leishmania donovani infection and associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Habtamu Belay, Adugna Abera, Esayas Aklilu, Tesfahun Bishaw, Ayinalem Alemu, Geremew Tasew, Berhanu Erko

“…Six types of laboratory testing methods were employed. Prevalence of asymptomatic L. donovani infection per individual study ranged from 0.9 to 15.8%, while district-level prevalence varied from 0 to 31.1%. …”
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Multi-Class Guided GAN for Remote-Sensing Image Synthesis Based on Semantic Labels by Zhenye Niu, Yuxia Li, Yushu Gong, Bowei Zhang, Yuan He, Jinglin Zhang, Mengyu Tian, Lei He

“…To integrate these generators, we design a shared-parameter encoder for consistent feature encoding across two branches, and a spatial decoder that synthesizes outputs from the class generators, preventing overlap and confusion. Additionally, we employ perceptual loss (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>V</mi><mi>G</mi><mi>G</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) to assess perceptual similarity between generated and real images, and texture matching loss (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) to capture fine texture details. …”
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Performance of seawater-derived Mg(OH)2 as a sustainable coating solution for hydrogen sulfide-induced corrosion mitigation in concrete pipes by Janelle Patricia S. Moa, Bea Angela C. Gaw, John Louis O. Co, Kyle Anderson C. Coo, Kenneth Jae T. Elevado, Cheryl Lyne C. Roxas

“…A life cycle assessment was also conducted for the different coating ratios, and response surface methodology (RSM) was employed to determine the optimal coating ratio. Results indicated that samples with pure Mg(OH)2 coatings exhibited the highest weight losses, while increased proportions of the commercial coating resulted in progressively lower weight losses. …”
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Autistic and transgender/gender diverse people’s experiences of health and healthcare by Kate Green, Elizabeth Weir, Lily Wright, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen

“…Unadjusted and adjusted binomial logistic regression models with FDR correction were employed to assess healthcare experiences and rates of co-occurring mental and physical health conditions. …”
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The impact of teacher emotional support on learning engagement among college students mediated by academic self-efficacy and academic resilience by Wenjing Guo, Juan Wang, Na Li, Luxin Wang

“…Standardized scales were employed to measure teacher emotional support, learning engagement, academic self-efficacy, and academic resilience. …”
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Enhancing Semi-Supervised Learning With Concept Drift Detection and Self-Training: A Study on Classifier Diversity and Performance by Jose L. M. Perez, Roberto S. M. Barros, Silas G. T. C. Santos

“…The experiments conducted to test the proposed approach used Hoeffding Tree (HT) and Naive Bayes (NB) as base classifiers, which were also employed as members of the ensembles used in this research. …”
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A new method for detecting mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and reconstructing constituent strains provides insights into transmission by Benjamin Sobkowiak, Patrick Cudahy, Melanie H. Chitwood, Taane G. Clark, Caroline Colijn, Louis Grandjean, Katharine S. Walter, Valeriu Crudu, Ted Cohen

“…This allows these samples to be included in downstream analysis to gain insights into the epidemiology and transmission of mixed infections. Methods We employed a Gaussian mixture model to cluster allele frequencies at mixed sites (hSNPs) in each sample to identify signals of multiple strains. …”
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Enhancing Soil Moisture Prediction in Drought-Prone Agricultural Regions Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Approaches by Xizhuoma Zha, Shaofeng Jia, Yan Han, Wenbin Zhu, Aifeng Lv

“…This study introduces a novel approach that, for the first time, employs a continuous time series of near-surface soil moisture as the upper boundary condition in the Richards equation to estimate high-resolution root-zone soil moisture in the North China Plain, thus enabling its large-scale application. …”
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Disproportionality analysis of upadacitinib-related adverse events in inflammatory bowel disease using the FDA adverse event reporting system by Shiyi Wang, Xiaojian Wang, Jing Ding, Xudong Zhang, Hongmei Zhu, Yihong Fan, Changbo Sun

“…This study evaluates upadacitinib-related adverse events (AEs) utilizing data from the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS).MethodsWe employed disproportionality analyses, including the proportional reporting ratio (PRR), reporting odds ratio (ROR), Bayesian confidence propagation neural network (BCPNN), and empirical Bayesian geometric mean (EBGM) algorithms to identify signals of upadacitinib-associated AEs for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).ResultsFrom a total of 7,037,004 adverse event reports sourced from the FAERS database, 37,822 identified upadacitinib as the primary suspect drug in adverse drug events (ADEs), including 1,917 reports specifically related to the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). …”
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Phytochemical investigation and assessment of the anti-inflammatory activity of four Heracleum taxa growing in Turkey by Ekin Kurtul, Esra Küpeli Akkol, Büşra Karpuz Ağören, Büşra Yaylacı, Özlem Bahadır Acıkara, Eduardo Sobarzo-Sánchez, Eduardo Sobarzo-Sánchez

“…Inflammation models induced by carrageenan, prostaglandin E2, and serotonin were employed to evaluate anti-inflammatory activity, using indomethacin (10 mg/kg) as the reference standard. …”
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Associations of combined exposure to selected metal mixtures with thyroid hormones in children: a cross-sectional study in China by Yuhan Cao, Shiting Xiang, Yuwei Du, Meiling Chen, Rumeng Xue, Qi Li, Jun Qiu, Yanying Duan

“…Generalized linear regression (GLR) model and Quantile-based g-computation (QGC) were employed to estimate the association between metal exposure and thyroid hormone homeostasis.ResultsGLR model showed that a unit increase in ln-transformed Fe was associated with increases in TT3 (β = 0.163; PFDR &lt; 0.001), TT4 (β = 12.255; PFDR &lt; 0.001) and FT3 (β = 0.615; PFDR &lt; 0.001), as well as decreases in TSH (β = −0.471; PFDR = 0.005) and FT4 (β = −1.938; PFDR &lt; 0.001). …”
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Anxiety and burnout in infectious disease nurses: the role of perceived stress and resilience by Yalan Huang, Zonghua Wang, Yongguang Li, Zhihan Zhao, Weiyi Wang, Changxia Cai, Xiushuang Wu, Li Liu, Mengting Chen

“…This study aimed to explore investigate the association between anxiety and burnout among nurses working in such environments and scrutinized the mediating role of perceived stress and the moderating influence of resilience on the principal relationship. Methods Employing a cross-sectional study using a web-based design, data were collected from 1,579 clinical nurses working in infectious disease ward across 50 hospitals in China. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of AI-Based Multi-Spectral Imaging and PCR-Based Assays for Early Detection of <i>Botrytis cinerea</i> Infection on Pepper Plants by Dimitrios Kapetas, Eleni Kalogeropoulou, Panagiotis Christakakis, Christos Klaridopoulos, Eleftheria Maria Pechlivani

“…However, symptoms often appear after the pathogen has begun to spread. This study employs the Deep Learning algorithm YOLO for single-class segmentation on plant images to extract spatial details of pepper leaves. …”
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UAE pharmacists’ perceptions of the causes of unwanted or unused medications, their practices, and barriers to promoting safe medication disposal by the public by Maram O. Abbas, Semira Beshir, Doaa Kamal AlKhalidi, Eiman Shamseldin Al Gailani Ali, Yosra Lozon, Rizah Anwar Assadi, Hana Ghdaiba, Rahaf Adnan AL-Zeer

“…Moreover, factors such as pharmacist age, type of pharmacy, country of education, pharmacy location, employment status, and years of experience were significantly associated with pharmacists’ level of involvement in promoting safe medication disposal practices. …”
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Novel CAD/CAM-splint-based navigation protocol enhances intraoperative maxillary position control in orthognathic surgery: a case control study by Felix Schrader, Leonardo Saigo, Norbert Kübler, Majeed Rana, Max Wilkat

“…The experimental group employed surgical navigation with modified CAD/CAM splints, while the control group used standard CAD/CAM splints. …”
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Correcting forest aboveground biomass biases by incorporating independent canopy height retrieval with conventional machine learning models using GEDI and ICESat-2 data by Biao Zhang, Zhichao Wang, Tiantian Ma, Zhihao Wang, Hao Li, Wenxu Ji, Mingyang He, Ao Jiao, Zhongke Feng

“…Random Forest (RF) and Monte Carlo-based uncertainty analysis were employed to evaluate the most suitable spaceborne LiDAR dataset for CH estimation. …”
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Exosomes and their distinct integrins transfer the characteristics of oxaliplatin- and 5-FU-resistant behaviors in colorectal cancer cells by Zeynab Vakili-Ghartavol, Hoda Deli, Amir Shadboorestan, Roxana Sahebnasagh, Elahe Motevaseli, Mohammad Hossein Ghahremani

“…Western blot analysis was employed to identify exosomal markers. The effects of exosomes on parental cells were examined using various methods, including MTT assay for proliferation, wound healing assay for migration, flow cytometry for cell cycle and apoptosis analysis, Matrigel-coated transwell inserts for invasion, and western blot for integrin expression evaluation. …”
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