Benchmarking Mentorship: Creating and Validating a Quality Scale for ELT Mentors by Ali Kondori, Mitra Zeraatpishe, Hamid Ashraf, Khalil Motallebzadeh

“…The results of the Rasch rating scale model and Cronbach’s alpha indicated that the developed questionnaire had satisfactory validity and reliability indices. …”
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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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COVID-19 vaccine evidence monitoring assisted by artificial Intelligence: An emergency system implemented by the Public Health Agency of Canada to capture and describe the trajecto... by Su Hyun Lim, Mona Hersi, Ramya Krishnan, Joshua Montroy, Bonnie Rook, Kelly Farrah, Yung-En Chung, Adrienne Stevens, Joseline Zafack, Eva Wong, Nicole Forbes, April Killikelly, Kelsey Young, Matthew Tunis

“…Analysis of COVID-19 vaccine research patterns supports projections of research volume, type, and rate that will help predict resourcing and information needs to plan future emergency vaccine guidance activities.…”
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Leveraging a disulfidptosis-based signature to characterize heterogeneity and optimize treatment in multiple myeloma by Bingxin Zhang, Dong Zheng, Shuxia Zhu, Xinyi Zhang, Quanqiang Wang, Zhili Lin, Ziwei Zheng, Shujuan Zhou, Zixing Chen, Sisi Zheng, Enqing Lan, Luning Cui, Hansen Ying, Yu Zhang, Xuanru Lin, Qiang Zhuang, Honglan Qian, Xudong Hu, Yan Zhuang, Qianying Zhang, Zhouxiang Jin, Songfu Jiang, Yongyong Ma, Yongyong Ma, Yongyong Ma

“…Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most prevalent hematologic malignancy characterized by a high synthesis rate of disulfide bond-rich proteins and chronic oxidative stress. …”
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Discovery and molecular identification of a new orthophasmavirus in the Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri) by Song Zhang, Song Zhang, Jing Chen, Jing Chen, Luqin Liu, Luqin Liu, Zhipeng Xie, Zhipeng Xie, Jiamei Liang, Jiamei Liang, Fulin Yan, Fulin Yan, Yaqin Song, Xuefeng Wang, Xuefeng Wang, Changyong Zhou, Changyong Zhou, Mengji Cao, Mengji Cao, Jinxiang Liu, Jinxiang Liu

“…It was also detected in progeny of infected ACPs and in the leaves fed upon by infected individuals. The infection rate of CLas was reduced in ACPs infected with DcBV2, and vice versa.DiscussionDcBV2 was fully sequenced and represents a new Orthophasmavirus species. …”
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Anaesthetic profile of thymol and menthol in zebrafish larvae model by Raquel S.F. Vieira, Diana Sousa, Luís M. Félix, Carlos A.S. Venâncio

“…Following the determination of the effective anaesthetic concentration, three concentrations (100, 200 and 300 mg/L for thymol and 200, 400 and 500 mg/L for menthol) were further tested by focusing on mortality rate, heart rate, behaviour features of induction and oxidative effects in comparison to MS-222 and eugenol. …”
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Climate, soil and management factors drive the quantitative relationships between soil fertility and spring maize water productivity in northern China by Jiao Shi, Minggang Xu, Xinhua He, Huaiping Zhou, Jianhua Li

“…To improve spring maize WP through enhanced soil fertility, the NW region, dry years, and NPK were parallelly optimal, while such WP increases were increased with N rate in NE and NW or planting pattern change in NC, each of them could efficiently benefit for using scarce water resources in dryland northern China and other dryland areas.…”
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Probing the Impact of Seed Coat Removal on the Germination Performance of Bitter Gourd (<i>Momordica charantia</i>) Using an Image Analyzer by Roopashree Byregowda, Nethra Nagarajappa, Kadurappa Madhusudan, Thimmappa Krishnappa Nagarathna, Sharankumar Ashok Kesaratagi

“…This was shown as a correlation between the mean germination rate and the perimeter of seeds.…”
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Visible Light Channel Modeling for Gas Pipelines by Farshad Miramirkhani, Murat Uysal, Omer Narmanlioglu, Mohamed Abdallah, Khalid Qaraqe

“…We further investigate the maximum achievable link range to ensure a given bit error rate.…”
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Numerical study on ion migration in concrete under the influence of salt solution by Xianyuan Chen, Zhaocai Meng, Xinjiang Zheng, Zirui Gao

“…The findings reveal that the sulfate ion concentration within concrete increases with time but at a decreasing rate, with the compaction process significantly affecting this growth. …”
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Alfvén Wave Propagation in the Io Plasma Torus by P. C. Hinton, F. Bagenal, B. Bonfond

“…Abstract Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, fuels a plasma torus around Jupiter with dissociation products of SO2 at a rate of ~1,000 kg/s. We use a combination of in situ Voyager 1 data and Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph observations to constrain a diffusive equilibrium model of the Io plasma torus. …”
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Transient Analysis of a k-out-of-n:G System with N-Policy, Repairmen’s Multiple Vacations, and Redundant Dependency by Wenqing Wu, Yinghui Tang

“…Under such assumptions, the availability, the rate of occurrence of failures, and the reliability of the system are derived in transient regime by applying the quasi-birth-and-death process. …”
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Development of Mobile Social Network Systems Using Real-Time Facial Authentication and Collaborative Recommendations by Hyeong-Joon Kwon, Dong-Ju Kim, Kwang-Seok Hong

“…To verify the proposed system, we performed experiments to determine the recognition rate for a user's facial image on a real-world smartphone and the preference prediction accuracy of a collaborative filtering-based recommendation system. …”
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