An Updated Systematic Mapping Study on Usability and User Experience Evaluation of Touchable Holographic Solutions by Thiago Campos, Maria Castello, Eduardo Damasceno, Natasha Valentim

“…The study also reveals a preference for empirical validation through controlled experiments and case studies, although few technologies have undergone such validation. …”
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Charging Station Distribution Optimization Using Drone Fleet in a Disaster by Zohaib Hassan, Syed Irtiza Ali Shah, Ahsan Sarwar Rana

“…We consider the relative priority of locations where a preference is given to locations with higher priority levels. …”
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Impact of multifaceted interventions on pressure injury prevention: a systematic review by Usha Rani Kandula

“…Methods A systematic search was conducted following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines across multiple databases, including studies from Google Scholar (332), Science Direct (14), grey literature sources (45), PubMed (0), Cochrane Library (437), and Hinari (322). …”
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A Qualitative analysis of parturients’ experience of spinal anesthesia and postoperative complaints by R Arunachalam, DS Sudhakar, R Selvakumar, T Prathiba Bharathi, K Murugesan, Rakesh Anbazhagan, Rashmi Dhungana

“…Background: Cesarean deliveries have increased globally, with regional anesthesia being the preferred technique. Despite the advantages of the procedure, parturients experience apprehension regarding pain, mobility, and complications. …”
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Influence of shortest path algorithms on energy consumption of multi-core processors by A. A. Prihozhy, O. N. Karasik

“…Our goal is to find out how each of the algorithms influences the processor energy consumption, how the processor and operating system analyze the workload and take actions to increase or reduce operating frequency and to disable cores, and which algorithms are preferable for exploiting in sequential and parallel modes. …”
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Primary pulmonary meningioma: a case report and literature review by Jun Cheng, Chunfen Guo

“…Most cases are benign with a good prognosis, and wedge resection is usually the preferred surgical approach. A small proportion of malignant cases may require lobectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy due to tumor invasiveness.…”
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The development of a task to study advice taking across nations and its application in a China-Germany comparison by Thomas Schultze, Zhijun Chen

“…This greater reliance on advice was driven by Chinese participants’ greater preference for averaging their own and the advisor’s judgments. …”
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Managing Emergencies in Rural North Queensland: The Feasibility of Teletraining by Tarsh Pandit, Robin A. Ray, Sabe Sabesan

“…Access to peer teaching over videoconference was requested by rural generalist registrars. There was a preference for interactive training sessions, over didactic lectures with little mention of technical barriers to engagement. …”
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Research Methodology and Management on Transport: Main Issues at the Final Stage of Russian Transport Sector Reforms by V. A. Persianov, A. A. Stepanov, T. M. Gainochenko

“…The form of state participation in the process of overcoming a banking crisis and the extent of state involvement in solving the problems of insolvency of banks can be different: the government may restrict the measures to promote and support organization of private capital, to prefer the formal financial support of some banks, to take the banks under state control (control) or eliminate part of banks.…”
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Optimizing the WEEE Recovery Network Associated with Environmental Protection Awareness and Government Subsidy by Nonlinear Mixed Integer Programming by Yanan Bo, Yanqi Wang, Zhong Wan

“…Scenario analysis and numerical experiments indicate that: (1) appropriate capacities of transfer stations can be provided by the proposed model for designing an environmentally and economically efficient WEEE recycling system, especially for alleviating the existing overcapacity or insufficient recycle. (2) An optimal governmental subsidy can be obtained in virtue of the proposed model and algorithm. (3) Diversity of transportation modes and permission of more than one mode in the same delivery route can greatly reduce the cost of recycling WEEE. (4) Preferred awareness of environmental protection can increase the profit and the recycled quantities, as well as reduction of the total recycling cost.…”
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How effective is undergraduate palliative care teaching for medical students? A systematic literature review by Jason W Boland, Jane Gibbins, Megan E L Brown, Gabrielle M Finn, Angelique Duenas

“…Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of palliative care teaching for undergraduate medical students.Design A systematic review was prepared according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidance. …”
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PORTRAIT OF THE ROMANIAN LEADER by Elena Mihaela ILIESCU, Roxana Alina STAMATI

“…The processed results outline a leader strongly influenced by his culture and social position, who prefers to make spontaneous decisions in the face of events that arise. …”
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First scientific research on common bottlenose dolphins in the Calabrian (Italy) Ionian Sea by Maria Assunta Menniti, Adriana Vella, Jessica Alessi

“… Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suffer from multiple anthropogenic pressures due to their habitat preference in coastal waters. As this vulnerable species is protected under the European Habitats Directive and various other conventions (Bern, Barcelona, Bonn) and agreements (ACCOBAMS), it requires MPAs (such as SCIs—Sites of Community Importance and SACs—Special Areas of Conservation) for their protection. …”
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Composite Sand–Clay Infrastructural Soil Fills: Characteristic Consolidation and Hydraulic Properties by Burcu Dışkaya, Tanay Karademir

“…In the design construction of infrastructural projects comprised of geotechnical applications, including composite soil fill layers, compacted sand-clay soil fills are widely preferred as barrier layers, particularly in solid waste landfills, to minimize leakage, to prevent leachate from entering into groundwater. …”
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How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

“…Besides presenting the preferred destination brands for Brazilian and Portuguese tourists, the results confirm a basic assumption supporting this research program related to the geographic polarization of the most valued destination brands: “dream destination brands” correspond to destinations located farther from respondents’ home-places, in other continents, requiring long-haul air travel, while “favourite destination brands” are predominantly destinations located nearer, in respondents’ own countries or neighbouring countries.…”
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Comparative analysis of phytochemical properties in preserved and non-preserved butterfly pea flower beverages during storage by Puspitojati Endah, Rahayu Novia Aristi, Fatimah Nur, Sumarna Sumarna

“…Sensory properties, including color and aroma, remained generally preferred by the panelists for both preserved and non-preserved beverages. …”
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Tumor Biomarker In-Solution Quantification, Standard Production, and Multiplex Detection by Nicole C. Japp, Joshua J. Souchek, Aaron R. Sasson, Michael A. Hollingsworth, Surinder K. Batra, Wade M. Junker

“…This differs slightly from the R&D setting, where serum samples are often limiting; therefore, multiplexing antibodies to test multiple biomarkers in low serum volumes may be preferred. This review summarizes the development of historical biomarker “standards”, paramagnetic particle assay principles, chemiluminescent or fluorescent biomarker detection advancements, and multiplexing for sensitive detection of novel serum biomarkers.…”
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Spatial Modeling of Travel Demand Accounting for Multicollinearity and Different Sampling Strategies: A Stop-Level Case Study by Samuel de França Marques, Cira Souza Pitombo, J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández

“…The main contributions are as follows: by accounting for the spatial heterogeneity of the predictor dataset, the GWPCA can identify the most important factor affecting transit ridership even in bus stops with no information on boarding and alighting; the spatial modeling of stop-level ridership data using GWPCA components as explanatory variables allows visualizing the spatially varying effects from predictors on ridership, supporting the land use planning at a local level; GWPCA coupled with kriging simultaneously addresses the multicollinearity of predictor data, its spatial heterogeneity, and the spatial dependence of the stop-level ridership variable, thus enhancing the goodness-of-fit measures of the transit ridership prediction in unsampled stops; and a balanced sample on predictor data and well-spread in the geographic space might be preferred to accurately estimate missing stop-level ridership data. …”
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among marginalized populations in the U.S. and Canada: Protocol for a scoping review. by Peter A Newman, Luke Reid, Suchon Tepjan, Sophia Fantus, Kate Allan, Thabani Nyoni, Adrian Guta, Charmaine C Williams

“…It will comply with reporting guidelines from the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). …”
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Primary Treatment for Graves’ Disease Complicated by Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis by Rita Yuk-Kwan Chang, Brian Hung-Hin Lang, Ai Chen Chan, Kai Pun Wong

“…To minimize future relapses, more definitive primary treatment such as RAI or surgery is preferred over ATD alone. If RAI is chosen over surgery, a higher dose (>550 MBq) is recommended.…”
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