Programme administrators’ views on barriers in the Cuban-South African medical collaboration at UKZN by Valerie Chinniah, Ashika Maharaj

“…Conclusion: Addressing these barriers is crucial for improving the overall experience of the cohort students, who play a vital role in enhancing human resources for health, driving health reforms and supporting primary healthcare in South Africa. …”
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Assessment visual discomfort among office staff of Tehran university of Medical Sciences who working with computers continuously at works by SA Zakeriyan, M Abbassinia, R Soltani gerdefaramarzi, M Asghari

“…Using SPSS.18, descriptive statistics (like frequency counts, percentage distributions) and inferential statistics like Pearson correlation coefficient, student's T-test and variance analysis were done for data analysis. …”
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Clinical characteristics, depression, anxiety, and stress of medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey by Xue Li, Qian Zhang, Wenkun Li, Jian Wei, Jie Xing, Xun Yang, Peng Li, Shutian Zhang

“…The proportion of anxiety was significantly higher in the infection group (52.32%) than in the non-infection group (28.45%) (p < 0.001), as was the proportion of stress (41.47% vs. 31.90%, p = 0.046). Medical students (odds ratios (OR) 0.54, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.31–0.93) and other staff (OR 0.63, 95% CI 0.40–0.98) had a lower risk for depression than doctors (p = 0.024), and attendant and infective situations of workers was the risk factor for depression (p = 0.007). …”
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Biology Article Retrieval from Various Databases: Making Good Choices with Limited Resources. by D. Yvonne Jones

“… If the top tier indexing resource in a discipline is not available on an ongoing basis for undergraduate student use, can acceptable article retrieval be obtained using other available resources or combinations of resources? …”
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“Unveiling the Cinematic Artistry: Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Spaghetti Westerns in Higher Education” by Marco Lettieri

“…The best Spaghetti Westerns movies allow students to question longstanding myths of American heroism and reflect the disillusionment of Italian society with its own political realities. …”
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O tempo e o espaço e a educação a distância by Mirza Seabra Toschi

“…It ends asking if this kind of education can include students of any age, and shows how Distance Education is still depreciated.…”
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POTENTIAL FOR COOPERATION WITHIN BRICS AND THE CULTURAL-CIVILIZATIONAL FACTOR by S. I. Lunev

“…It is also very important to develop comprehensively cultural subsystem, first of all, the cooperation in the educational sphere (the strong increase in Chinese and Indian student enrollments to Russian universities, and medicine and natural science should be priority directions; the strengthening of the ties in the sphere of higher education and science). …”
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the design thinking mindsets questionnaire by Zahra Vaqari Zamharir, Morteza Karami, Jamshid Jamali, Mahmoud Saeidi Rezvani

“…The present study was carried out with the aim of translation, cultural adaptation, and evaluation of the psychometric characteristics of the design thinking mentality questionnaire for Iranian students.MethodsA four-step study was performed in the current work. …”
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Unveiling the superior analgesic: Thoracic epidural versus intrathecal morphine in open live donor hepatectomy – A randomized controlled trial by Rohit Saini, Gaurav Sindwani, Neha Garg, Mahesh K. Arora, Viniyendra Pamecha, Nihar Mohapatra

“…Data were analyzed using the Student t-test, Mann–Whitney U test, and Fisher’s exact test. …”
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Between Lifestyle and Financial Responsibility: The Moderating Effect of Financial Imprudence in Islamic Higher Education Contexts by Indri Perdana, Iiz Izmuddin

“…The population consisted of PTKIN students in West Sumatra. A total of 288 responses were collected, with 271 valid after data screening. …”
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Makerspace in Education - Disruptive Technology or Just Another Passing Fad? by Jane Gilbert

“…This idea, which originated outside education, is being advocated as a way to improve student engagement in learning and/or to foster creativity and/or innovation. …”
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Quantifying Visual Navigation in Campus Open Spaces Using a Computer Vision Model by Nabil Mohareb, Abdelaziz Ashraf

“…The results aim to guide urban designers in better understanding university students’ open space needs by exploring the connections between natural movement patterns and visual preferences. …”
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MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING STAKEHOLDER-ORIENTED STRATEGIES IN TOURISM ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT by Оксана Роїк, Ліля Бублик, Мирослава Габа, Оксана Макар, Василь Михайлишин

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Investigating epistemic emotions experienced while reading refutation texts through a fine-grained measure of emotion by Yi-Lun Jheng, Leen Catrysse, Sander Van de Cruys, Panayiota Kendeou, Karolien Poels, David Gijbels

“…It broadened the participant pool beyond well-educated college students and introduced a novel dynamic measure, “DynamicEmo”, to capture epistemic emotions experienced while reading refutation texts in a more fine-grained way. …”
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Determinants of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in healthy young adults living in the Western Cape, South Africa by J. Visser, K. Knight, L. Philips, W. Visser, M. Wallace, D. G. Nel, R. Blaauw

“…Results: Results of 242 students indicated a mean serum 25(OH)D of 63.80 ± 41.35 ng/ml and a high prevalence of vitamin D sufficiency (88%). …”
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THE FEATURES OF PROCESSES OF SKILLS (SPECIAL COMPETENCIES) FORMATION by A. N. Pechnikov, A. V. Prenzov, A. A. Mashoshina

“…A starting point of the latest investigation stage has been a gap between the available models of formation and diagnostics of special competencies and the tasks for predicting a degree of success of development student’s skills in order to take adequate decisions on managing the process.The aim of the article is justification of a new methodological approach to formation of skills (special competencies) of students.Methodology and research methods. …”
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Role of Angular Impulse Exerted on a Moving Electron in a Magnetic field by Sami Al-Jaber

“…The present treatment is suitable for undergraduate students as it deepens their understanding of the dynamics involved in electromagnetic systems.…”
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Integrating Imagination and Design Thinking: Pedagogical Approaches for Postgraduate Creativity by Rahat Varma

“…Examining the function and possible effects of the "Imaginative Design Thinking" courses created for postgraduate Master of Design (M.Des) students, this paper places its inception within the changing context of higher education. …”

Personal resilience to socio-cultural threats in the context of digital transformation of society by P. A. Kislyakov, I.-L. S. Meyerson, E. A. Shmeleva, M. O. Aleksandrovich

“…The study showed that students in general have a sufficient level (above average) of socio-cultural identity, critical thinking when working with information, moral norms of loyalty and respect for the authorities, as well as students demonstrate psychological well-being and a low level of virtual autism. …”
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Development of a prototype of multi-agent system of network interaction of educational institutions by Yu. F. Telnov, A. V. Danilov, R. I. Diveev, V. A. Kazakov, E. V. Yaroshenko

“…In modern conditions of digital transformation of education the organization of network training of students on dynamically formed educational programs in accordance with the needs of the labor market and the individual requirements of students is becoming increasingly important. …”
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