Academic Articles & Research Papers

Roles of loneliness and life satisfaction in the relationship between perceived friend social support, positive feelings about the future and loss of motivation

Purpose: University students often face psychological challenges, particularly loneliness and hopelessness, which are exacerbated by factors such as limited social interactions, economic uncertainty, lack of employment opportunities, and th...

An analysis of the Indian Economy during the three COVID-19 pandemic waves

The objective of the study was to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on India’s economy. The analysis focused on several economic metrics, including stock market prices, the rupee’s value in relation to the US dollar, economic act...

Data recommendation algorithm of network security event based on knowledge graph

To address the difficulty faced by network security operation and maintenance personnel in timely and accurate identification of required data during network security event analysis, a recommendation algorithm based on a knowledge graph for...

Design and Verification of Assessment Tool of Shortwave Communication Interference Impact Area

In the field of electronic communication warfare, accurately predicting the range and intensity of shortwave interference signals presents a significant challenge due to the complex interplay between the ionospheric parameters and the elect...

Mathematics Anxiety, Working Memory, and Mathematics Performance in Secondary-School Children

Mathematics anxiety (MA) has been defined as "a feeling of tension and anxiety that interferes with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of math problems in a wide variety of ordinary life and academic situations." Previous studies h...

Mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics performances: The need for specificity of assessment.

In this study, 391 students were asked to provide 3 types of mathematics self-efficacy judgments: confidence to solve mathematics problems, confidence to succeed in math-related courses, and confidence to perform math-related tasks. Criteri...

The application of cosine similarity measures with Laplacian energy to q-rung orthopair fuzzy graphs in decision-making problems

Q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFS), which are better than the intuitionistic and Pythagorean fuzzy sets, are a significant tool for expressing ambiguous information. Their key feature is that their ability to represent a larger space of u...

Rule Quality Measures Settings in a Sequential Covering Rule Induction Algorithm - an Empirical Approach

Working Memory and Children’s Mathematical Skills: Implications for mathematical development and mathematics curricula

This study examined the contributions of the different components of the working memory (WM) model to a range of mathematical skills in children, using measures of WM function that did not involve numerical stimuli. A sample of 148 children...

Does English proficiency matter? Testing its moderating role in the TAM for AI-enhanced MOOC adoption in vocational education

This study investigates whether English proficiency moderates core Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) pathways in the context of AI-enhanced English MOOCs for vocational students. Drawing on an extended TAM that links Perceived Ease of Use (...

Visit-to-visit variability of serum uric acid measurements and the risk of all-cause mortality in the general population

Abstract Background Evidence on longitudinal variability of serum uric acid (SUA) and risk of all-cause mortality in the general population is limited, as many prior studies focused on a single measurement of SUA. Methods A total of 53,956 ...

The Family Wellness Program: a bench to bedside translation of behavioral and social science research into a clinical program for intimate partners of warfighters following traumatic brain injury

This report details a bench to bedside translation of behavioral and social science research into a clinical program as a result of a collaboration between two United States Defense Health Agency Centers of Excellence for warfighter traumat...

Deliberative process of health technology reassessment by health technology assessment agency in Korea

In 2019, the National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA) in Korea established a health technology reassessment (HTR) system to manage the life cycle of health technologies and develop operational measures promoting the ef...

Effectiveness of a tele-rehabilitation intervention to improve performance and reduce morbidity for people post hip fracture - study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Most surviving hip-fracture patients experience reduced mobility and lose some of their functional ability, which increases the risk of complications and rehospitalization. Post-discharge transitional programs to reduce ...

A self-control training app to increase self-control and reduce aggression – A full factorial design

Background: Research has shown that self-control training (SCT) is an effective intervention to increase self-control and behaviour driven by self-control, such as reactive aggression. We developed an app that offers SCT by asking users to ...

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN ITALY

Italy has a national health service (SSN) dating to 1978. Italy's system of government is characterized by a rather high degree of decentralization of power, and the health system is likewise decentralized. Most of the responsibilities for ...

Changes in the comprehensive unassisted pregnancy rate as a possible marker of declining human fecundity

Abstract Recent decades have seen declining total fertility rates (TFR) globally, alongside increased use of assisted reproductive technology (ART). However, TFR includes ART births and excludes induced abortions, complicating assessments o...

Developing and testing methods for deriving preference-based measures of health from condition-specific measures (and other patient-based measures of outcome)

Objectives: Generic preference-based measures such as EQ-5D are widely used to estimate quality-adjusted life-years but may not be available or, more importantly, appropriate in some medical conditions. Condition-specific preference-based m...

Health Technologies as a Cost-Driver in Canada

This report describes our estimation of the effects of technological change (TC) on health care (HC) expenditures in Canada during the period 1996-2008. We focus on the effect of TC on overall nominal expenditures, as well as the effects of...

Historical development of health technology assessment in Thailand

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to review the development of health technology assessment (HTA), including the socioeconomic context, outputs, and policy utilization in the Thai setting. METHODS: This study was conducted through extensive docum...