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Research on how patients and family carers experience their relationships with physicians and healthcare staff is limited, particularly regarding the gap between ideal expectations and actual care. This study explored patients’ and carers&rsquo...

Paleoclimate records have long documented the existence of multicentury hydroclimate anomalies in the Altiplano of South America. However, the causes and mechanisms of these extended events are still unknown. Here, we present a climate modeling exper...

A gradient-tracking generalized vertical coordinate (GT) for ocean models is proposed in the study. The movement of the grid height surfaces is based on a simple Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) method ensuring that the discrete representati...

Radiation management (RM) has been proposed as a conceivable climate engineering (CE) intervention to mitigate global warming. In this study, we used a coupled climate model (MPI-ESM) with a very idealized setup to investigate the efficacy and risks...

Motivated by the recent putative reproducibility crisis, we discuss the relationship between the replicability of scientific studies, the reproducibility of results obtained in these replications, and the philosophy of statistics. Our approach focuse...

Background: Individuals diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) often perceive negative attitudes from health professionals, acting as a barrier to effective treatment. The present study explores healthcare students’ attitudes toward SMI to...

The use of agricultural-grade ammonium nitrate without fuel oil as an explosive has been empirically observed in underground artisanal mining in Ecuador. Despite its practical adoption, the explosive behaviour of this material has not been adequately...

Overall heat transfer coefficient, also known as the intrinsic performance measurement of the building, determines the amount of heat lost by a building due to temperature difference between indoor and outdoor. QUB (Quick U-value of Buildings) is a s...

Existing research highlights continuity across generations in paternal practices and attitudes, often rooted in men’s experiences of being fathered. The psychological processes through which men translate these early experiences into beliefs ab...

This study investigates and evaluates methods for the three-dimensional thermohaline reconstruction of the Arctic Ocean using multi-source observational data. A multivariate statistical regression model based on sea ice seasonal variation is develope...

In a recent article, Trafimow suggested the usefulness of imagining an ideal universe where the only difference between original and replication experiments is the operation of randomness. This contrasts with replication in the real universe where sy...

(1) Objective: Sleep problems have become one of the current serious public health issues. The purpose of this research was to construct an ideal pressure distribution model for head and neck support through research on the partitioned support surfac...

The L2 motivation self system (L2MSS) has been extensively researched in a variety of contexts, but few studies have delved into its relationship with international posture and the sustainable development of L2 proficiency in the COVID-19 era. To add...

An 18 μm thin crystalline silicon solar cell was demonstrated, and its best open circuit voltage is 642.3 mV. However, this value is far from the cell’s theoretical upper limit in an ideal case. This paper explores the open circuit voltage losses of...

A spatial heterodyne spectrometer records two-dimensional interferograms using an area-array detector and reconstructs high-resolution spectra through Fourier transformation. Blind pixels caused by detector defects can disrupt interferometric structu...

Multi-criteria decision-making methods based on reference points and distances from them are essential for evaluating alternatives across multiple criteria. These methods provide structured approaches to comparing and ranking alternatives relative to...

Virtual tours in museums are an ideal solution for those that are not able to visit a museum or those who want to have a small taste of what is presented in the museum before their visit. However, these tours often encounter severe problems while use...

Although the mother tongue policy in Eritrea aims to promote positive language learning trajectories for students, the transition to English as a medium of instruction from the start of junior education remains emotionally demanding for students unti...

Physical layer security is an attractive security mechanism, which exploits the randomness characteristics of wireless transmission channel to achieve security. However, it is hampered by the limitation of the channel condition that the main channel...

Complementing the traditional focus in work design on “top-down” organizational interventions, research into proactive work behavior suggests that “bottom-up” processes, based on the “micro-emancipatory” actions em...

Black–White (B/W) multiracial women often experience racial identity invalidation (RII) due to holding races of opposite social status. Additionally, they may experience Eurocentric thinness pressures, while simultaneously navigating curvier bo...

Observations of ocean pollutants are usually spatiotemporally dispersive, while it is of great importance to obtain continuous distribution of ocean pollutants in a certain area. In this paper, a dynamically constrained interpolated methodology (DCIM...

Failure is inevitable in medicine, yet the ideal of the infallible physician contributes to its stigma, leaving students unprepared and vulnerable to self-blame and distress. This study explored medical students’ experiences of failure in clini...

Sufficient and accurate air pollutant data are essential to analyze and control air contamination problems. An orthogonal polynomial fitting (OPF) method using Chebyshev basis functions is introduced to produce spatial distributions of fine particle...

Three consecutive nitrogen balance experiments with fast-growing male broiler chickens (ROSS 308), both during starter and grower periods, were conducted to determine the ideal ratios of several indispensable amino acids relative to lysine. The contr...

How do young people in different neighborhoods envision their ideal communities, and how do these visions diverge from their current lived realities? To explore these questions, we use geospatial analysis to analyze data from the Dream City workshop,...

This paper draws on interviews with a large and diverse cross-section of youth (N = 81) in the Twin Cities of Minnesota to explore how American young people understand, experience, and act upon ideals of meritocracy and fairness in youth sports. Qual...

In recent years, research on applications of three-way decision (e.g., TWD) has attracted the attention of many scholars. In this paper, we combine TWD with multi-attribute decision-making (MADM). First, we utilize the essential idea of TOPSIS in MAD...

Hydrate formation and dissociation processes were carried out in the presence of a pure quartz porous medium impregnated with a metallic powder made with a CuSn12 alloy. Experiments were firstly made in the absence of that powder; then, different con...

Single-phase center multiple azimuth beam (SPC MAB) mode is an effective method for high-resolution wide-swath (HRWS) SAR imaging. The traditional azimuth spectrum reconstruction method for SPC MAB mode is based on the combination scheme from which f...

We describe an explicit statistical model of local hidden variables that reproduces the predictions of quantum mechanics for the ideal Franson experiment and sheds light on the physical mechanisms that might be involved in the actual experiment. The...

Plant loss occasionally occurs in field experiments with coffee crops in experimental plots. In breeding programs, such loss can be harmful, especially when the corresponding statistical analyses are not consistent with the experimentally generated d...

A high strength-to-weight ratio, stiffness, fatigue resistance, a low coefficient of thermal expansion, and tailorable properties make glass-fibre-reinforced plastic (GFRP) a popular choice for a wide range of applications, including aircraft structu...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the economic market and labor contexts worldwide. Brazil has suffered one of the worst social and governmental managements of the COVID-19 crisis, forcing workers and organizations to develop coping strategies. This...

The bionic polarization compass is a fascinating subject in the navigation domain. Existing polarization navigation models are primarily based on Rayleigh scattering theory, which is applicable to high-altitude, dry, and clear weather conditions. In...

The present paper offers a presentation and a phenomenological analysis of a rather unusual event in the sphere of interreligious dialogue: a Catholic woman, the protagonist of a mystical experience, shared some of the traits of this experience with...

Background/Objectives: Qualitative child-centered research on pediatric obesity treatment and body image remains limited. This study aimed to explore children’s and adolescents’ experiences with hospital-based obesity treatment and how th...

(1) Objective: The objective of this study was to experimentally obtain the ideal pressure distribution model of buttock and thigh support for office workers in forward-leaning and upright sitting postures, reproduce the support provided by mesh mate...

Trentino, a sparsely populated and almost entirely mountainous region in northeastern Italy, has so far received little attention in linguistic studies on soundscapes, which provide an important cultural ecosystem service. This study analyzes the res...

Based on a previous study of a novel capsule robot (CR) with spring-connected legs that could collect intestinal juice for biopsy, in this research, an experiment system is designed, and two experiments are carried out. One of the experiments measure...

RGB-D cameras produce depth and color information commonly used in the 3D reconstruction and vision computer areas. Different cameras with the same model usually produce images with different calibration errors. The color and depth layer usually requ...

An effective approach to addressing the speech separation problem is utilizing a time–frequency (T-F) mask. The ideal binary mask (IBM) and ideal ratio mask (IRM) have long been widely used to separate speech signals. However, the IBM is better...

To demonstrate the difference between non-ideal experiments and idealized analytical models, bending vibrations of a frame structure have been analyzed in the context of hands-on teaching in structural dynamics. Both experimental modal analysis and m...

Disordered eating is a public health problem because it’s highly prevalent, dangerous, and costly. More research about its risk factors and mechanisms is needed to address this problem and prevent disordered eating among high-risk populations,...

It is extremely difficult to predict the initiation time of cracking due to a large time spread in most cracking experiments. Thus, probabilistic models, such as the Weibull distribution, are usually employed to model the initiation time of cracking....

A common technique used to solve multi-objective optimization problems consists of first generating the set of all Pareto-optimal solutions and then ranking and/or choosing the most interesting solution for a human decision maker (DM). Sometimes this...

In an effort to help organizations understand consumers, our study deconstructs task–technology fit into two segments: ideal task–technology fit and individual use context–technology fit. Users’ continuous use of cloud-based b...

‘Youth’ is more complicated than an age-bound period of life; although implicitly paired with developmentalism, youth is surrounded by contradictory discourses. In other work [1], I have asserted that young people are demonized as risky and rebelliou...

The Michelangelo phenomenon describes an interpersonal model of personal growth in which romantic partners affirm each other’s ideal selves, thereby enhancing their relational and personal well-being. The present study examined how attachment s...

The purpose of this research was to create a predictive model for a medium-speed wire electrical discharge machine (WEDM) utilizing an artificial neural network (ANN). Medium-speed WEDM experiments were developed based on the I-optimal mixture design...