Thinking styles as predictors of psychological readiness of students for innovative activities by Elena A. Suroedova

“…Predictors of psychological readiness for innovation are creativity, realistic and critical thinking styles. The preference for activities that require innovation is influenced by creativity, initiative, idealistic and realistic thinking styles. …”
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Effect of Gastric Acid on the Surface Properties of Different Composite Resin Restorative Materials: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Evaluation by Cemile Kedici Alp, Cansu Dağdelen Ahısha

“…As a result, if these restorative materials are to be preferred in patients with reflux, they should be checked frequently. …”
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Or else, or so or what? A few Examples of the Staging of the Implicit in English by Bertrand RICHET

“…However, such ‘spectrum interpretation’ is confronted to the tyranny of discourse linearity, to the speaker’s possible willingness to provide a situation-specific presentation order and fundamentally to the necessity of a unique preferred option to be selected from the original choice, hence the second, ‘closed’ reading of the word.With that starting point in mind one can now consider how alternation can be literally staged in language and discourse, offering a syntax-based open surface whilst imposing a pragma-semantic restricted choice, as seems to be the case with such constructions as or else, or so and or what among others. …”
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Une nouvelle procédure d’expérimentation comportementale à l’interface entre les approches « Naturalistes » et « Généralistes » de la cognition du primate by Joël Fagot

“…While Naturalist researchers prefer natural or semi-natural conditions for their science, the context favored by the Generalist researchers is the laboratory allowing the test of isolated primates. …”
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Same or Different? Comparing the Coverage Rate of Five Different Approaches for Testing the Difference of Two Groups Means by Bittmann, Felix

“…We utilize the coverage of confidence intervals as it corresponds to nominal type-I-error rates (Alpha), yet is more adequate since confidence intervals are preferred in contrast to p-values, which often facilitate binary conclusions. …”
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Selenium and Thyroid Disease: From Pathophysiology to Treatment by Mara Ventura, Miguel Melo, Francisco Carrilho

“…The organic form of selenium seems to be the preferable formulation for supplementation or treatment. …”
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A preliminary study on tourist willingness to pay for marine safety improvements in Nusa Penida by Habibah Siti Nur, Rahman Ari, Lee Chun-Hung

“…The results revealed a clear preference for moderate safety investment, with a significant drop in WTP as the proposed enhancements’ costs increased. …”
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Establishing how social capital is studied in relation to cardiovascular disease and identifying gaps for future research-A scoping review protocol. by Marie Parker, Xiangming Fang, Shannon Renee Self-Brown, Ali Rahimi

“…<h4>Results</h4>Our findings will be reported in accordance with the guidance provided in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P) statement.…”
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Yield and horticultural performance of seed-oil pumpkin in south Florida by Geoffrey Meru, Yuqing Fu

“…Unlike conventional hulled pumpkin seeds, naked seeds lack a complete seed coat, thus are preferred for snacking and oil production because they eliminate the need for manual de-hulling prior to use. …”
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Revisitando Maquiavel sob a ótica da ambivalência by Carlos Eduardo Bao

“…Foi possível constatar que a ambivalência se apresenta já nas raízes do pensamento político moderno, desde Maquiavel, que, no entanto, prefere jogar com sua contingência em vez de tentar suprimi-la definitivamente.…”
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Awareness and Practice of Deep Margin Elevation among Dental Practitioners in India: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Mythri Padaru, Preethesh Shetty, Namith Rai, Raksha Bhat

“…However, 50% of participants prefer to use DME as a substitute for surgical crown lengthening. …”
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Three Extensions of Tong and Richardson’s Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Path in Schedule-Based Railway Networks by J. Xie, S. C. Wong, S. M. Lo

“…Third, as high-speed railways have low-frequency running patterns, their passengers may prefer to wait at home or at the office instead of at the station. …”
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Maternal Perceptions of Self-Weight and Child Weight May Influence Milk Choice of Participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) by Loan P. Kim, Nelly Mallo

“…Qualitative interviews revealed a cultural preference for larger size children, and mothers defined healthy weight for their child as a function of (1) the child’s ability to be as active as other children their age, regardless of child’s BMI, and (2) the pediatrician’s opinion of the child’s weight status. …”
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Trajectory and communication scheduling optimization for the rechargeable UAV aided data collection system by Qianwen LI, Jianfeng CHEN, Miao CUI, Guangchi ZHANG

“…A rechargeable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless sensor network was considered, which consists of multiple ground terminals with a large amount of time-sensitive data to be collected.Due to the limited battery capacity, the UAV cannot collect the data from all terminals through a single flight mission, and it needs to return to the charging pile to replenish its flight energy several times during the whole mission.The optimization of the terminal scheduling, trajectory, flight speed and transmission rate for the UAV was studied to maximize the number of terminals whose data had been collected within the data lifetime limit.Due to the variable coupling and the existence of discrete binary scheduling variables, the considered optimization problem is difficult to solve.To tackle such a difficulty, an efficient algorithm was proposed based on the stochastic optimization and the feature engineering.Specifically, the flight hover communication protocol was introduced to simplify the UAV flight process.And then a terminal scheduling algorithm was innovatively proposed with the influence factor and the stochastic preference, which extracted the features that affect the service time of the UAV, optimized the weights of the features, and further simplified the optimization problem into multiple subproblems.The subproblems were then solved by using the block coordinate descent and successive convex approximation techniques.Simulation results show that the proposed optimization algorithm achieves significant performance gains over several benchmark schemes in the scenarios with different data lifetime requirements and different numbers of ground terminals.…”
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Forces Influencing Technical Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: Departmental Heads’ Understanding of Their Practices to Enact Roles and Responsibilities by Mfundo Mondli Khoza, Annatoria Zanele Ngcobo

“…While in theory, DHs seem to believe in collaboration, they prefer working in silos and perceive that the success of the TMAT curriculum implementation should be at the hands of seasoned mathematics teachers. …”
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Impacts of the Feeder-Related Built Environment on Taxi-Metro Integrated Use in Lanzhou, China by Qixiang Chen, Bin Lv, Binbin Hao, Xianlin Li

“…The results reveal that (a) people prefer to use taxi as feeder mode for metro access during morning peak hours and for metro egress during evening peak hours; (b) the transfer distance of taxi-metro integrated use is about 3.8 km; (c) higher mixed land use generates more taxi-metro integrated use during evening peak hours. …”
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The United States Supreme Court and Business Elites: Gilded Age Origins of Modern American Liberalism by Paul Kens

“…Only at the very end of the nineteenth century did this interpretation give way to a new one, raising entrepreneurial liberty to preferred status under the Constitution. This was the result of the persistent efforts of lawyers for the corporate elite, who aimed to produced three changes: a tendency to equate regulation of business with confiscation of property; a trend toward expanding the constitutional rights afforded to corporations; and a reversal of the rule that economic regulation should be presumed valid. …”
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THE CONTRIBUTION OF J. M. KEYNES TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVES OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR by M. A. Kozlova

“…The main psychological tendencies in the actions of the consumers and investors described by Keynes (the basic psychological law, liquidity preference, the influence of the «market psychology» on the investor's decisions) and their relevance nowadays are examined. …”
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Use of Expectation Disconfirmation Theory to Test Patient Satisfaction with Asynchronous Telemedicine for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection by Christina I. Serrano, Vishal Shah, Michael D. Abràmoff

“…Patient satisfaction is influenced by both patients’ expectations (P<.001) and disconfirmation of expectations (P<.001), and patient satisfaction has a positive impact on patient preference for telemedicine services (P<.001). Overall, patients who received telemedicine services were highly satisfied with telemedicine and developed a favorable disposition towards telemedicine services. …”
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A Case Study on the Evaluation of WhatsApp Groups Established for Managerial Purposes by Academicians by Onur Doğan, Alev Elçi, Zeliha Seçkin

“…WhatsApp has become a powerful professional communication tool that organizational administrators preferred, has become to serve organizational purposes as an alternative to formal information and document sharing platforms. …”
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