Mercury and gold mining in Colombia: a failed state by Leonardo Güiza M, Juan David Aristizábal

“…To diagnose the country’s gold mining activities and the excessive use of mercury in them, we used six information sources (semi-structured interviews, 2011 Census on Mining Activities), nine dependent and 21 independent variables. …”
Get full text

Socioeconomic dynamics of beedi rolling in a Southern Indian state: implications for tobacco control by Praveen Kumar, Muralidhar M. Kulkarni, Eshwari K., Yash Alok, Satish Kumar, Rohith Bhagawath, Radhika Nayak, Priyanka Bantwal, Ambigai Rajendran, Mark Goodchild, Praveen Sinha

“…Key insights were obtained through 14 semi-structured Focus Group Discussions with beedi rollers and 11 In-Depth Interviews with stakeholders comprising of government officials in three districts of coastal Karnataka between January and March 2023. …”
Get full text

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum in Health Professions Education by Laura L. Wolford, Mirza J. Lugo-Neris, Callie Watkins Liu, Lexi E. Nieves, Christopher L. Rodriguez, Siya S. Patel, Sol Yi Lee, Keshrie Naidoo

“…Semi-structured interviews explored their experiences with their programs’ hidden curricula. …”
Get full text

Enhancing financial reporting quality in village-owned enterprises: The role of organizational competencies by Sudarlan Sudarlan, Surahman, Nurita Affan, Putri Maghfirah Vidhiyanty, Lutfilatul Hasanah

“…Specifically, the study finds that educated personnel and well-structured training programs enhance the accuracy and reliability of financial reporting. …”
Get full text

Empowering Higher Education Funding through Cash Waqf: A Case Study of IPB University by Ahmad Furqon, Achmad Arief Budiman, Yunita Dewi Septiana, Narong Hassane, Nasrul Fahmi Zaki Fuadi

“…The findings emphasize the significance of structured waqf management in optimizing its benefits and ensuring long-term impact within the academic and social domains.…”
Get full text

The Impact of Sports Training on the Spinal Cord Injury Individual’s Balance by Cristina Chieffo, Giorgia Chini, Tiwana Varrecchia, Irene Gennarelli, Alessio Silvetti, Vincenzo Molinaro, Ida Poni, Andrea Mariotti, Simone Tiberti, Annamaria Tamburro, Ilaria Calabrese, Sara Felici, Marco Bartoli, Loredana Gigli, Roberto Minella, Barbara Lucia, Aldo Toscano, Alberto Ranavolo

“…In conclusion, our findings confirm the potential of sports to enhance balance in SCI individuals and suggest that integrating structured sports programs into rehabilitation can improve stability and postural control.…”
Get full text

Normal Metabolic Levels in Prefrontal Cortex in Euthymic Bipolar I Patients with and without Suicide Attempts by Marlos Vasconcelos Rocha, Fabiana Nery-Fernandes, José Luiz Guimarães, Lucas de Castro Quarantini, Irismar Reis de Oliveira, Giovanna G. Ladeia-Rocha, Andrea Parolin Jackowski, César de Araujo Neto, Ângela Miranda-Scippa

Get full text

The Effect of the STAD Model Supported by House Game Animal on Elementary School Students' Learning Interest by Nurul Latifah, Anni Malihatul Hawa

Get full text

Pedagogical Relationships and Identities in Research Incubators: Reconceptualizing Research Training for Language Teachers by José V. Abad, Jennifer Daniela Regalado Chicaiza, Isabel Cristina Acevedo Tangarife

“…Conducted over two years in an English teaching program at a Colombian private university, the study included semi-structured interviews with four research incubator coordinators and two focus groups with eight students. …”
Get full text

Environmental Management of Larg Supply Chain: A Diagnostic Instrument Proposed for Assessing Suppliers by Josiano Cesar de Sousa, Murilo Barros Barros Alves, Leonardo Leocádio, Jaqueline Rossato

“…The proposed model was structured to measure, through a graph, the level of involvement of the suppliers of an SC with the environmental management requirements based on ISO 14001: 2015. …”
Get full text

Self-regulation and strategies of learning in students’ workers in continuing studies by Ma Antonieta Vera González, Úrsula Ibáñez Paredes, Hugo Sandoval, Rhonny Fuentes, Evelyn Palacios Paredes

“…A sequential mixed research methodology is used, in whose quantitative stage the MSLQ questionnaire is applied in its learning strategies construct to 65 engineering students from a continuing studies program. In the qualitative stage, the 16 top-ranked students are selected and semi-structured interviews are conducted to deepen their learning strategies. …”
Get full text

English Language Student-Teachers Developing Agency Through Community-Based Pedagogy Projects by Wilson Hernández Varona, Daniel Felipe Gutiérrez Álvarez

“…The data were gathered through semi-structured focus group interviews, individual journal entries, and video-recorded talks about their inquiries. …”
Get full text

Statistics in the field of creative industries: review of methodological basis by Z. S. Temerbulatova, A. S. Zhuparova, A. A. Nussyupayeva

“…To achieve this goal, a structured literature review was carried out, as a result of which the existing methodologies for monitoring and evaluating creative industries, methods for calculating indicators of creative industries and the creative economy in international practice were analyzed. …”
Get full text

Artificial Intelligence-Powered Integrity: Unveiling Students’ Techniques for Plagiarism Management in Thesis Proposal Writing by Zulkifli Zulkifli

“…Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and document analysis. The findings reveal that students utilize paraphrasing strategies to manage the plagiarism concern regarding to writing thesis proposal with the assistance of artificial intelligent. …”
Get full text

EXPLORING THE ROLE OF FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN SUPPORTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: EARLY RESULTS by Sanja Selimović, Stanko Blatnik, Gina Škulić, Luka Dobrović

“…There is limited research on structured physical activity programs, especially swimming, where children with disabilities train together with their parents. …”
Get full text

Understanding Affective, Normative & Continuance Commitment through the Lens of Training & Development by Ali Junaid Khan, Furrukh Bashir, Ismat Nasim, Rashid Ahmad

“…Training and development and three facets of organizational commitment are studied using a quantitative survey research design. Structured equation modelling using Smart PLS 3 was used to analyze 290 of 313 responses from public sector hospitals. …”
Get full text

Impact of wearable-assisted walking on sarcopenia and body composition in older adults by Cheng-En Wu, Yankuba B. Manga

“…Methods Eighty healthy older adults (40 men and 40 women), aged 65 and above, were randomly assigned to either an intervention (experimental) group, which participated in a structured walking program utilizing wearable devices, or a non-intervention (control) group, which maintained their habitual activities. …”
Get full text

342 Acceptability of a Mobile K-12 School-Based Clinic for pediatric diabetes and obesity care by Melanie Bryan, Bockstruck Pamela Stone, Lynnell Patton, Brandy Markley, Melissa Sicard, Ana Maria Arbelaez

“…Collaborated with school districts to define needs, enrolled them through a memorandum of understanding, and subsequently recruited and consented existing patients attending these schools. Phase 2 piloted the program to refine logistics and workflows. Semi-structured interviews and surveys were conducted with caregivers to assess program acceptability and satisfaction. …”
Get full text

Evaluability Assessment: Clarifying Organizational Support and Data Availability by Joseph Hare, Timothy Guetterman

“…The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews and analyzed the data using thematic analysis. …”
Get full text

DETERMINANTS OF POOR HOUSEHOLDS IN SOUTH SUMATRA USING A MULTILEVEL LOGISTIC MODEL by Aida Devanty Putri, Erni Tri Astuti

“…To simultaneously capture the effects of individual and regional level, we perform a Multilevel Logistic model using hierarchical structured poverty data from SUSENAS. The result shows that 4 (four) variables at individual level, which are the number of household members, the status of residence building, health insurance, and saving ownership, had a significant effect on the poor household. …”
Get full text