The impact of teaching materials on instructional design and teacher development by Lola Garay Abad, John Hattie

“…Teacher-created materials were rated as most useful (90.1%), and teachers reported high autonomy (94.1%) in selecting and adapting materials — a factor closely tied to increased classroom confidence. …”
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User Preferences of Airbnb Accommodation Spatially in The Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia by Azis Musthofa, Arief Wicaksono, Raden Rijanta

“…Spatially, it shows that Airbnb accommodations in the Jetis and Kraton sub-districts achieve the most favorable ratings for amenities, location, hygiene, host and staff performance, as well as room and toilet conditions. …”
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Consumer preference and food values: can consumers in Tanzania play part in driving a sustainable food system? by Roselyne Alphonce, Yun Yun Gong, Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Lise Korsten

“…A mixed-method approach was employed, including interviews with six key food system actors, two focus group discussions with 16 consumers, and a survey of 750 consumers from urban and rural towns across three regions in Tanzania. Participants rated the importance of 16 food values such as hygiene, nutrition, taste, and price—using the Best-Worst Scaling method. …”
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The other in me: interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the self. by Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Stephanie Grehl, Manos Tsakiris

“…Finally, synchronous, as compared to asynchronous, IMS resulted in significant differences in participants' ratings of their experience, but unlike other bodily illusions, positive changes in subjective experience were related to the perceived physical similarity between the two faces, and not to identification.…”
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Enhancing Education with Machine Learning: Predicting Student Readability Scores by Claire Bell

“…The research leverages a dataset of 1,000 English texts to evaluate and compare the performance of RFC, the Sooty Tern Optimization Algorithm (STOA), and the Gold Rush Optimizer (GRO) in predicting readability ratings. Key metrics, including accuracy, precision, and F1-score, are employed to assess and benchmark the models. …”
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Critical review of healthcare financing and a survey of system quality perception among healthcare users in Nigeria (2010-2023). by Blessing Osagumwendia Josiah, Emmanuel Chukwunwike Enebeli, Brontie Albertha Duncan, Prisca Olabisi Adejumo, Chinelo Cleopatra Josiah, Lordsfavour Anukam, Muhammad Baqir Shittu, France Ncube, Kelechi Eric Alimele, Mercy Emmanuel, Oyinye Prosper Martins-Ifeanyi, Fawole Israel Opeyemi, Oluwadamilare Akingbade, Abosede Peace Adebayo, Busiroh Mobolape Ibraheem, Ubiebo Ataisi Ekenekot, Mudiaga Sidney Edafiejire, Solomon Oluwaseun Olukoya, Ufuomaoghene Jemima Mukoro, Siyouneh Baghdasarian, Joy Chioma Obialor, Gloria Oluwakorede Alao, Blessing Onyinye Obialor, Ndidi Louis Otoboyor, Oghosa Gabriel Josiah, Joshua Okonkwo, Precious Ebinehita Imoyera, Ajao Adewale Gbolabo, Blessing Chiamaka Nganwuchu, Olukayode Joseph Oladimeji, Timothy Wale Olaosebikan, Marios Kantaris

“…Results show that the average rating of healthcare experiences did not vary significantly over the last decade. …”
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Examining a brief web and longitudinal app-based intervention [Wysa] for mental health support in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic: mixed-methods retrospective observational... by Chaitali Sinha, Dyuthi Dinesh, Creighton Heaukulani, Ye Sheng Phang

“…Users who used the longitudinal intervention after first using a brief intervention demonstrated significantly higher engagement and retention (P < 0.001). In user ratings received for mindline.sg (n = 8,959), 83.03% rated the app 3 or higher (out of 5) on helpfulness. 91.6% of the users (n = 862) who attempted cognitive restructuring (n = 790) on the app successfully reframed a thought. …”
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AI usage among medical students in Palestine: a cross-sectional study and demonstration of AI-assisted research workflows by Mahmoud Yousef, Salahaldeen Deeb, Khaled Alhashlamon

“…Time management was highly rated (mean score: 4.6, SD = 0.5), highlighting AI's ability to automate repetitive tasks. …”
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Posterior hip dislocation associated with a femoral neck fracture and posterior acetabular wall fracture by Marcus Vinícius Bianchi, Ary da Silva Ungaretti Neto, Cristina Vicioli, Ramesses Akamefula, Márcio Balbinotti Ferrari

“…The complexity arises from the cumulative complication rates associated with each injury, leading to an elevated overall risk.Case Presentation: A 30-year-old male was involved in a motorcycle collision, presenting with a shortened left lower extremity in adduction, internal rotation, and flexion. …”
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Toward Fiscal Decentralization: Assessing the Performance of Internally Generated Revenue Collection for Local Development in Ghana by Charles Nicholas, Charles Dwumfour Osei, David Kwao-Sarbah

“…The findings reveal a striking pattern where property rates emerged as the most consistent and high-performing source of IGF, while revenues from land royalties and administrative fees lagged significantly. …”
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Children supervising children across low- and middle-income countries: the role of mothers’ education by Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Ruo Ying Feng, Negin Zamani, René Iwo, Magdalena Janus, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz

“…In 90% of the countries across all regions, higher maternal education was associated with lower prevalence rates of children supervised by another child. No clear pattern was found among the eight countries across four continents displaying the opposite trend. …”
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Fatty acid filled polyaniline nanofibres with dual electrical conductivity and thermo-regulatory characteristics: Futuristic material for thermal energy storage by Tanwar Surya, Varshney Gunjan, Kaur Raminder

“…In addition to exhibiting reliable thermal performance over numerous cycles, PANI/UA NFs showed excellent TES and release rates. This work addresses key challenges in TES applications by introducing a PCM based on renewable materials that offers enhanced thermal reliability and efficiency. …”
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Analysis of Factors Affecting Social Participation in Municipal Waste Management by Farhad Afshar, Madjid Abbaspour, Akram al-Muluk Lahijanian, Reza Azizinezhad

“…Cities around the world face many challenges in urban waste management, the most important of which are increased energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, unsanitary public spaces and bad odors, and low recycling rates and limited spaces. Benefiting from social participation, along with integrated urban planning and strategy, can be a safe and physical solution in the optimal management of municipal waste. …”
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Zonation of macrofauna across sandy beaches and surf zones along the Dutch coast by Gerard Janssen, Saskia Mulder

“…BSI ranged from 1.4 to 1.1 for the northern and western Dutch coasts respectively and had an overall value of 1.2. The rates of exposure of the beaches varied between 8 and 12, and are therefore regarded as sheltered to moderately exposed. …”
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INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE SEISMIC HAZARD OF URBAN AREAS IN SOUTHERN PRIANGARIE (CASE OF THE LEFT BANK OF THE ANGARA RIVER IN IRKUTSK) by A. Yu. Eskin, V. I. Dzhurik, S. P. Serebrennikov, E. V. Bryzhak

“…The experimental methods provided the data on the seismic properties of the reference and investigated soils, the propagation rates of seismic waves in such soils, and the pattern of microseism levels, as required for a valid estimation of seismic effect parameters by the seismic rigidity method and the microseism technique. …”
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THE CURRENT STATE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADIOLOGY – A REVIEW OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS, APPLICATIONS, AND CHALLENGES by Mariana Yordanova

“…The adoption of radiological AI faces several challenges, including substantial hardware requirements, data quality and quantity limitations, high false positive rates, the "black box" problem, and the narrow focus of current AI applications, which restricts their clinical usefulness. …”
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Use of Computational Intelligence in Customizing Drug Release from 3D-Printed Products: A Comprehensive Review by Fantahun Molla Kassa, Souha H. Youssef, Yunmei Song, Sanjay Garg

“…Computational intelligence (CI) mimics human intelligence by expanding the capabilities of machines in data analysis, pattern recognition, and making informed decisions. …”
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Inaccurate DNA synthesis in cell extracts of yeast producing active human DNA polymerase iota. by Alena V Makarova, Corinn Grabow, Leonid V Gening, Vyacheslav Z Tarantul, Tahir H Tahirov, Tadayoshi Bessho, Youri I Pavlov

“…Finally, we demonstrate that the mutation rates in yeast strains producing human DNA Pols ι and η are not elevated over the control strain, despite highly inaccurate DNA synthesis by their extracts.…”
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Impact of selective evidence presentation on judgments of health inequality trends: an experimental study. by Sam Harper, Nicholas B King, Meredith E Young

“…We randomized participants to see either a difference or ratio measure of health inequality alongside raw mortality rates in 5 different scenarios. At baseline there were no differences between treatment groups in assessments of inequality trends, but selective exposure to the same raw data augmented with ratio versus difference inequality graphs altered participants' assessments of inequality change. …”
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SynergyBug: A deep learning approach to autonomous debugging and code remediation by Hong Chen

“…The system demonstrated exceptional detection strength for functional and performance, and security bugs, where the detection rates reached 94% and 90% and 92%, respectively. …”
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