Isolated Fracture of the Coracoid Process by Ali Güleç, Harun Kütahya, Recep Gani Göncü, Serdar Toker

“…In conclusion, in the current case of isolated fragmented coracoid process fracture showing minimal displacement in a patient engaged in heavy manual work, surgery was preferred as it was thought that nonunion might be encountered particularly because of the effect of forces around the coracoid.…”
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A Data-Driven MCDM Approach-Based Spherical Fuzzy Sets for Evaluating Global Augmented Reality Providers in Education by Phi-Hung Nguyen

“…Subsequently, the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (SF-TOPSIS) is systematically applied to evaluate and rank ten global AR providers. …”
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Russian Initiatives in Internet Governance by S. S. Shirin

“…Russian policy is assessed as a policy of preferring loud statements and PR rather than real influence on development of Internet technologies. …”
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Effect of Fishing Season and Size on the Physicochemical and Microbiological Characteristics of Salted Sardines (Sardina pilchardus) by Charifa Aoua, Bouchra Yacoubi, Abderrahmane Zekhnini

“…Salting is the preferred method used by manufacturers to preserve the quality of fish. …”
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Next-Generation Potentiometric Sensors: A Review of Flexible and Wearable Technologies by Mahmoud Abdelwahab Fathy, Philippe Bühlmann

“…Potentiometric sensors, leveraging a range of different solid contact materials, have emerged as a preferred choice for wearable chemical or biological sensors. …”
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L’accompagnement par les pairs au doctorat pour socialiser les femmes au métier de chercheuse by Catherine E. Déri, Cynthia Vincent, Émilie Tremblay-Wragg

“…The findings reveal that participants prefer to join forces with their equals by joining academic writing groups to normalize their challenges faced in academic settings. …”
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IMPACTUL LUCRĂRII ÎN ECHIPĂ ASUPRA PROCESULUI DE MOTIVAȚIE ȘI IMPLICAREA ACADEMĂ A ELEVILOR by USM ADMIN

“…Analiza metodelor de lucru preferate ale studenților a relevat faptul că munca în echipă are un impact favorabil asupra creșterii motivației intrinseci pentru stimularea cunoașterii și experienței, asupra motivației extrinsece de identificare și reglare, precum și asupra angajării academice a studenților. …”
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Teaching and Learning English in Times of the Pandemic – A Case Study in a North-Macedonian Primary School by Rashit Emini, Sharon C. Lee

“…Moreover, the school was unprepared for the pandemic; yet, the school managed to shift the mode of teaching and learning from an on-site to an online scenario very quickly, as neither teachers nor pupils had any previous experience with online teaching and learning, and both parties preferred the on-site to the online mode. …”
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Nitrofurantoin Drug Resistance Among Gram-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Urinary Tract Infections by Puranik VS, Balaraju T P, Pavitra T

“… Background Nitrofurantoin is a preferred choice of antibiotic for treating urinary tract infections UTIs caused by vancomycin-sensitive and vancomycin-resistant strains including cases associated with catheter use. …”
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Tuning block-parallel all-pairs shortest path algorithm for efficient multi-core implementation by O. N. Karasik, A. A. Prihozhy

“…To tune the algorithm to the target multi-core system, the preferable block size can be found once for the graph size whose in-memory matrix representation is larger than the size of cache shared among all processor’s cores. …”
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A Qualitative Analysis on the Definition of Zakat in the Turkish Tax System and Institutionalization of Zakat by Mehmet Cural, Esra Berika Dönmez

“…A qualitative method and semi-structured interviews are preferred in the research. Accordingly, interviews are conducted with 21 income taxpayers who pay zakat. …”
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Drivers’ Interaction with Adaptive Cruise Control on Dry and Snowy Roads with Various Tire-Road Grip Potentials by Ioana Koglbauer, Jürgen Holzinger, Arno Eichberger, Cornelia Lex

“…The results show that on snowy roads the drivers set in average a lower ACC speed and preferred a larger ACC time gap. Drivers’ workload and effort were higher when using the ACC on snowy as compared to dry roads. …”
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Impact of the Aversive Effects of Drugs on Their Use and Abuse by Anthony L. Riley, Hayley N. Manke, Shihui Huang

“…In support of this position, the present review describes the aversive effects of drugs (assessed primarily in conditioned taste aversion learning), the fact that they occur concurrently with reward as assessed in combined taste aversion/place preference designs, the role of aversive effects in drug-taking (in balance with their rewarding effects), the dissociation of these affective properties in that they can be affected in different ways by the same manipulations, and the impact of various parametric, experiential, and subject factors on the aversive effects of drugs and the consequent impact of these factors on their use and abuse potential.…”
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Searching, Navigating, and Recommending Movies through Emotions: A Scoping Review by Nuno Piçarra, Eduardo Reis, Teresa Chambel, Patrícia Arriaga

“…., ratings, tags) were the preferred source of information. The documents examined approached emotions from both a categorical (n=35) and dimensional (n=18) perspectives, and nine documents offer a combination of both approaches. …”
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Video clubs in physics teaching assistant training: Teaching assistants’ experiences by Antti Lehtinen, Sami Lehesvuori, Jussi Maunuksela, Raija Hämäläinen, Pekka Koskinen

“…There was tension in the experiences as some teaching assistants appreciated the positive feedback but others would have preferred more constructive feedback. As the teaching assistants’ experiences were positive, the use of video clubs in teaching assistant training warrants more research. …”
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Mechanisms of cage noise generation in machine tool bearings by Kazuho Takeshima, Keisuke Mutoh, Kenji Imanishi, Shunichi Oshima

“…In machine tool spindles, which require high rotational precision, outer ring-guided cages are often preferred over common ball-guided cages. While outer ring-guided cages suppress instability modes caused by sliding friction between the cage and balls, increased interaction between the cage and outer ring can introduce other instability modes, leading to noise. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Local Anesthesia in Arteriovenous Fistula Surgery: A Single-Center Study by Mustafa Cüneyt Çiçek

“…Regional anesthesia is a safe and effective technique and may be preferred for more sophisticated arteriovenous fistula procedures.…”
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CONTEMPORARY ENERGY SECURITY STUDIES: THEORETICAL ASPECTS by K. V. Trachuk

“…Although proponents of neorealist and neoliberal frameworks disagree on several key points, a large number of scholars, both in Russia and abroad, prefer a combined approach based on elements on neorealist and neoliberal theories. …”
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Drought Monitoring and Analysis over Haihe River Basin Based on GRACE and MODIS Datasets by DU Yichen, CHEN Jiangzhaoxia, ZHANG Yuqi, SUN Ruiqi, YANG Haibo

“…This paper analyzes the spatial and temporalevolution characteristics of groundwater and surface vegetation coverage in theHaihe River Basin with the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) data,MODIS data, precipitation and evaporation data of 23 sites from 2003 to 2015,and builds a drought comprehensive index evaluation model by TOPSIS (Technique forOrder Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method to reflect the droughtdynamics. …”
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Strategies to innovate emergency care of status epilepticus by Jaideep Kapur

“…Although three different benzodiazepines, diazepam, lorazepam and midazolam terminate early SE, midazolam is preferred. It is administered via the intramuscular route, which saves time and is at least as practical or more effective than intravenous lorazepam. …”
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