Whole-body vibration training reduces erector spinae stiffness by ultrasound shear-wave elastography: a randomized controlled trial by Ryo Miyachi, Takaaki Nishimura, Yoshinari Fujii, Yuji Kanazawa, Akio Goda, Kazuho Ishizaki

“…Methods This single-blind randomized controlled trial included 36 healthy university students who were assigned to either the spinal neutral position training group, spinal flexion training group, or whole-body vibration (vibration conditions: 35 Hz, 4 mm) + spinal flexion training group. …”
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Evaluation of facial soft tissue parameters for Palestinians using Holdaway analysis by Emad Hussein, Susan Al Khateeb, Nezar Watted, Alev Aksoy, Ahu Acar, Mahmoud Abu Mowais

“…Material and methods: Cephalometric radiographs of 93 Palestinian university students with normal occlusion (63 women, mean age: 20.1 ± 2.1 years; 30 men, mean age: 20.2 ± 2.4 years) were traced and evaluated. …”
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The determinants of self-care behaviors and calcium–vitamin D intake in elderly women: a comparative study of osteoporosis and healthy counterparts by Azizeh Farshbaf-Khalili, Elahe Malekmirzaei, Soraya Babaie, Vahid Pakpour

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The Semantic Analysis “Considering God’s Knowledge and Its Effects on Men’s Conducts” from the Perspective of the Quran Verses and Islamic Traditions by Abdul Hadi Masoodi, Abdul Hossein Kafi

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Prevalence of Neck Pain and its Related Factors in Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units of Hospitals in Northern Iran by Ali Ashraf, Zoheir Rehanian, Kamran Ezzati, Roxana Mahdavi, Habib Eslami Kenarsari, Sedigheh Samimian

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Development and Demonstrational Instantiation of a Method for the Structured Content Analysis of Smartphone Apps by Tobias Weiss, Susanne Strahringer

“…This provides a helpful procedure for researchers, practitioners, and students and ensures consistency across studies. The feasibility of the proposed method and assessment standard were confirmed by a successful demonstrational instantiation based on an app review of energy information systems for private customers.…”
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Examination of Pre-Service Teachers' Educational Philosophy Tendencies by Emel Tüzel İşeri, Sevda Gök

“…The tendencies of reconstructionism, essentialism, and perennialism significantly varied among fourth-year students compared to other levels. As pre-service teachers' overall grade point averages increased, their tendencies toward reconstructionism and perennialism increased slightly, whereas their tendencies toward essentialism decreased slightly. …”
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Innovative Assessment of Dance Teaching Effectiveness Using the ELECTRE Approach and Neutrosophic HyperSoft Sets for Comprehensive Performance Analysis by Pei Yao

“…The focus is on examining students' improvement in dance skills, artistic expression, mastery of theoretical knowledge, teaching methods, and the learning environment. …”
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Applying the Semantics of Spatial Prepositions and Error Correction to Teach the Spatial Prepositions “In” and “On by Assma ATHMANI

“…The results presented in this paper will show whether using error correction, presenting the semantics of spatial prepositions or using both techniques in combination would help teachers and students at the Department of English at the University of Constantine 1 in teaching and learning the spatial prepositions in and on. …”
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Identifying academic phrases in self-compiled corpora: A case study from mathematical sciences by Dana Therova, Andrew McKay

“…However, multi-word patterns often present a challenge to students at various levels of academic study. This paper reports on a case study exploring how a data-driven learning approach drawing on self-compiled corpora can enhance student writing in preparation for their doctoral study at a British university. …”
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Review—Seed Treatment: Importance, Application, Impact, and Opportunities for Increasing Sustainability by Simona Paulikienė, Domas Benesevičius, Kristina Benesevičienė, Tomas Ūksas

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Potential of Professional Thinking and Emotional Burnout in the Professions of Socionomic Type by I.V. Serafimovich

“…The method of content analysis and expert evaluation alongside with mathematical statistical methods, such as correlation method of Charles Spearman and Student’s t-distribution, were used. Participants: 55 people, the members of professions of socionomic type, 25 teachers and 30 doctors, length of time worked – 10-25 years, men – 30%, women – 70%. …”
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Enhancing Natural Resource Programs with Field Trips by Julie Athman, Martha C. Monroe

“…Monroe, explains how to maximize learning during the field trip to ensure that students gain its cognitive and affective benefits. …”
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Mechanical properties of basalt: a study on compressive loading at different strain rates using SHPB by Jan Falta, Nela Krčmářová, Tomáš Fíla, Martin Vavro, Leona Vavro

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Investigating Facilitators and Barriers in the Tendency of Older Adults to Third-Generation Universities by Sara Maghare Dehkordi, Samaneh Pourhadi, Masoud Lotfizadeh, Shima Sum

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A two-stage model for enhanced mango leaf disease detection using an innovative handcrafted spatial feature extraction method and knowledge distillation process by Mohammad Manzurul Islam, Mst. Nasrat Jahan Niva, Abdullahi Chowdhury, Saleh Masum, Rifat Ara Shams, Taskeed Jabid, Md. Sawkat Ali, Md. Mostofa Kamal Rasel, Muhammad Firoz Mridha

“…In the second stage, we introduce a Knowledge Distillation (KD) process to further enhance model performance by transferring knowledge from a larger teacher model to a smaller student model. Our results demonstrate significant advancement, with the KD-enhanced model achieving an improvement in detection accuracy from 89.2% to 95.6%, sensitivity from 7.8% to 4.1%, and specificity from 71.2% to 88.9% for Anthracnose disease. …”
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Bonifier les pratiques enseignantes pour favoriser la prise de parole des étudiants : Un suivi pédagogique par la recherche-action by Choueïla Amel Myessa Ilhem TALEB

“…As a result of this support, the students indicated in their answers to the questionnaire that the teacher's new pedagogical practices had improved their ability to speak. …”
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Asymmetric and sexist polarization: political self-positioning as a moderator of the relationship between extremism and the justification of violence among adolescents by Francisco Villegas Lirola, Pilar Rodriguez Martinez, Antonio Jesus Segura Sánchez, Lucia Martinez Joya

“…For a sample of 1,170 students aged 12–19 years, a hierarchical regression analysis was conducted for a multicategorical moderator variable. …”
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ABYSSAL Database: an integrated WebGIS platform for deep-sea information from the South Atlantic by Gilberto Bergamo, Orlemir Carrerette, Bruno H. M. Souza, Thomás N. S. Banha, Paula D. Nagata, Paulo V. F. Corrêa, Arthur Z. Güth, Paulo Y. G. Sumida

“…The WebGIS format provides an open access, cost-free, feature-rich, and easy to use database through any Internet browser to reach the greatest number of researchers and students possible. The ABYSSAL database can be accessed at http://abyssal.io.usp.br. …”
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Cultural approximation and didactic strategies:the case of the Chicano literature by Aura Luz DuÉ Montalván, María del Suñén Bernal

“…Finally, we present the learning processes that have been implemented and which have found that the study of literature (in our case, Chicano) arouses interest in learning about a culture and with this motivation and development of language and communication skills, the student will develop critical thinking making him or her an autonomous, competent and creative learner in learning a target language, in this case Spanish.…”
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