Documenting Cooperative Extension’s Family Resource Management Impacts: Insights and Outcomes from a National Effort by Suzanne Bartholomae, Elizabeth Kiss, Maria Pippidis

“…The paper highlights the processes of the initiative, lessons learned, and the next steps. A reporting system that allows FRM program impacts to be shared with a broader audience, whether stakeholders, funders, or the research community, is timely and important for the viability of the FRM program area at a time when FRM content is being subsumed into or replaced by other programs.…”
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Global Distribution Adjustment and Nonlinear Feature Transformation for Automatic Colorization by Terumasa Aoki, Van Nguyen

“…In particular, our work concentrates on solving the second problem (designing a descriptive feature vector); namely, we will discuss how to learn a descriptive texture feature using scaled sparse texture feature combining with a nonlinear transformation to construct an optimal feature descriptor. …”
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Empowering Non-Specialist English Teachers: Self-Efficacy Enhancement Through Classroom English Proficiency and Collaborative Support by Shoichi Matsumura, Yushi Hinoki

“…It also explored sources influencing self-efficacy during the in-class implementation of what they learned in the workshop. Quantitative results revealed that the immediate impact of the training was substantial, leading to a rapid increase in self-efficacy. …”
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L’entrée en jeu des familles : prélude à la co-construction d’un jeu sérieux sur l’énergie by Dany Lussier-Desrochers, Laurence Pépin-Beauchesne, Marie-Andrée Leduc, Marie-Ève Dupont, Karine Lavigne, Isabelle Simonato, Rosalie Ruel

“…The participants also believe that the use of a game inspired by their daily life would be a relevant and effective way to promote the generalization of what has been learned. The addition of challenges and rewards also seem to be winning game elements for participants. …”
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Role of Low FODMAP Diet and Probiotics on Gut Microbiome in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) by Shabnam Mohajir Selvaraj, Sunny Hei Wong, Hooi-Leng Ser, Learn-Han Lee

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The Usefulness of Intrapartum Transperineal Ultrasonography for the Prediction of Mode of Delivery by Erdinc Saridogan, Ozlem Moraloglu Tekin

“… OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the accuracy of intrapartum transperineal ultrasonography that is non-invasive, easy to learn, rapid to perform, comfortable for pregnant women, and low-cost method to evaluate the progress of labor objectively. …”
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Improving research milieu in the medical colleges in India: Challenges and solutions by Gitanjali Batmanabane, Rituparna Maiti

“…The thesis has been a part of the postgraduate curriculum with the idea that as the resident does the project, they will also learn how to do research. In a bid to translate the thesis into publications, many professional bodies conduct workshops and courses during conferences on various aspects of scientific writing. …”
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Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England by Dorota K. Gaskins

“…Qualitative analyses further reveal that abstract meanings, when acquired first, were learned in highly emotive contexts.…”
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Recursive Sample Scaling Low-Rank Representation by Wenyun Gao, Xiaoyun Li, Sheng Dai, Xinghui Yin, Stanley Ebhohimhen Abhadiomhen

“…Specifically, the cosine scaling factor is a similarity measure learned to extract each sample’s relationship with the low-rank representation’s principal components in the feature space. …”
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Not Your Usual Analog Electronics Course—Generalized Analysis of Single-Transistor Amplifiers Uncovers Hidden Reciprocities and Equivalences by Brian Hong

“…Unlike the formulas that students typically learn and designers typically use, the equations presented in this tutorial assume the most general set of conditions: finite output resistance and base-collector current gain, a load resistor at each non-input terminal of the transistor, and a “feedback” resistor between the base and collector terminals. …”
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Poética de los Valores y sus metáforas by Francisco das Chagas Amorim de Carvalho

“…Through a comprehensive language and its metaphorical processes, it is possible to learn about the truth and participate in a world in projection. …”
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Paysage, pratiques « habitantes » et aménagement des interfaces ville-fleuve à N’Djamena (Tchad) by Mounsi Febo

“…Spatial planning and socio-economic development based on local practices." The lessons learned from this disaster could inspire new ways of managing areas where public policy, community action and the practices of inhabitants interact.…”
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELIABILITY OF INTUITIVE MORAL DECISIONS by V. V. Nadurak

“…The main kinds of intuitive moral decisions are identified: 1) intuitively emotional decisions (i.e. decisions made under the influence of emotions that accompanies the process of moral decision making); 2) decisions made under the influence of moral risky psychological aptitudes (unconscious human tendencies that makes us think in a certain way and make decisions, unacceptable from the logical and ethical point of view); 3) intuitively normative decisions (decisions made under the influence of socially learned norms, that cause evaluative feeling «good-bad», without conscious reasoning). …”
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Cosmology of Saint Victorinus of Poetovio: from the Creation of Light to the Creation of Adam by Nikolay A. Khandoga

“…However, this does not mean that Victorinus did not know anything about the Holy Spirit, since in the treatise "On the Creation of the World" and the interpretation "On Revelation", He is repeatedly mentioned, starting with the events associated with the incarnation of the Son of God into the world. As a result, we learn that the world, or the universe, was created by God in six days from nothing and for the glorification of His greatness by the primordial man, or the first people, the primordial and other angels, as well as animals. …”
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COVID-19: Gastrointestinal Manifestations and Complications by Angel Yun-Kuan Thye, Priyia Pusparajah, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Learn-Han Lee

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Realization of High Dynamic Range Imaging in the GLORIA Network and Its Effect on Astronomical Measurement by Stanislav Vítek, Petr Páta

“…Student should be able to learn principles of CCD imaging, spectral analysis, basic calibration like dark frames subtraction, or advanced methods of noise suppression. …”
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Formation of research skills of future engineers in the process of studying material science by Natalia V. Kosareva, Elena V. Kuznetsova

“…Students were asked to briefly describe in writing their impressions of the work done: what they learned, and what they liked (or did not like), what difficulties they had in doing the work. …”
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Community Partners in Evaluation and Change by Jeffry Will, Tracy Milligan, Timothy Cheney

“…In this paper we reflect on our role as evaluation partner for the Magnolia Project, and discuss how Program Representatives and staff, Evaluation Partners, and Community Partners joined forces over the past 25 years to implement the Magnolia project, and how they made a difference in their community. The lessons learned from this process are informative to other programs seeking to expand their community impact through partnering with university-based researchers. …”
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DSP: A tool for probabilistic sex diagnosis using worldwide variability in hip-bone measurements by Pascal Murail, Jaroslav Brůžek, Francis Houët, Eugénia Cunha

“…This method is very easy to learn and apply; it provides sex diagnosis for any anatomically modern human, whatever population the specimen belongs to. …”
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