Academic Articles & Research Papers

Patricia Knapp's Landmark Project to Develop a Plan of Curriculum-Integrated Library Instruction

A Review of: Knapp, P. B. (1966). The Monteith College library experiment. New York, NY: Scarecrow Press. Objective — To create a college-level, four-year plan of library instruction in which assignments directly relate to students' ...

Presenting the Sustainable Development Model of the Saderat Bank of Iran Based on Professional Ethics

This research has been done with the aim of providing a sustainable development model for the Saderat Bank of Iran based on professional ethics. The current research is of the type of mixed exploratory research projects; based on this, firs...

An exploratory examination of the barriers to innovation and change as perceived by senior management

The banking industry has undergone significant shifts as innovations have enabled new banking services and created new customer requirements. While banks strive to incorporate innovation and change systems, they also face various obstacles....

The Mediating Role of Religiosity in the Influence of Social Culture and Sharia Financial Literacy on Islamic Banking Product Adoption Among MSMEs in Sembalun

This study investigates the influence of Sharia financial literacy and financial social culture on the adoption of Islamic banking products among micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Sembalun, Lombok, Indonesia, with religiosity ...

Construct validity and factor structure of a Spanish-language Social Support Questionnaire during early pregnancy

Lauren E Friedman,1 Ana Karen Manriquez Prado,2,* Gabriel Fidel Santos Malavé,2,* Juan Carlos Vélez,3 Rodrigo Winston Gillibrand Esquinazi,4 Sixto E Sanchez,5,6 Qiu-Yue Zhong,1 Bizu Gelaye,1 Michelle A Williams1 1Department o...

Exploratory mRNA and microRNA profiling identifies transcriptomic alterations in the PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum.

The Balanced Opioid Initiative: protocol for a clustered, sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trial to construct an adaptive implementation strategy to improve guideline-concordant opioid prescribing in primary care

Abstract Background Rates of opioid prescribing tripled in the USA between 1999 and 2015 and were associated with significant increases in opioid misuse and overdose death. Roughly half of all opioids are prescribed in primary care. Althoug...

Designing a Model for Improving Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Business improvement has always been one of the basic issues in the business world. Due to the growing changes in technology, pervasive competition and the changing needs of customers, companies must pay attention to the permanence and impr...

High-risk behaviors and experiences with traffic law among night drivers in Curitiba, Brazil

Objective: To explore high-risk behaviors and experiences with traffic law among night drivers in Curitiba, Brazil. Method: Data from 398 drivers on sociodemographic parameters, high-risk behaviors, experiences with traffic law, and traffi...

Symptom clusters and core symptoms of Chinese patients with lung cancer: a cross-sectional study

Background: Chinese lung cancer patients experience various cancer-related symptoms during the course of disease, which usually occur as symptom clusters, leading to heavy symptom burden and low quality of life. Identifying symptom cluster ...

Structural analysis of inclusive metaverse spaces for the sustainability of future smart cities (Case study: Tehran Metropolis)

The Metaverse, as a hypothetical virtual environment utilizing advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, has the potential to contribute to the sustainability of future smart cities, enhancing urban e...

Integrating Adversarial Scenarios into LLM Security Labs: An Experience Report on a Hands-On Approach

This paper presents an exploratory case study detailed as a pedagogical experience report on integrating adversarial Large Language Model (LLM) scenarios into a graduate cybersecurity curriculum. In addition to prompt injection, sophisticat...

Evidence of aberrant anti-epstein-barr virus antibody response, though no viral reactivation, in people with post-stroke fatigue

Abstract Background Fatigue is a common complication of stroke that has a significant impact on quality of life. The biological mechanisms that underly post-stroke fatigue are currently unclear, however, reactivation of latent viruses and t...

Atrial fibrillation signals associated with overactive bladder drugs across JADER and FAERS: disproportionality and time-to-onset analyses

IntroductionOveractive bladder (OAB) drugs are widely prescribed, yet the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) after treatment initiation remains poorly characterized.MethodsWe evaluated reports of AF associated with OAB medications using...

End-of-life decisions and involvement of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Physicians in Europe

Objective: As Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine physicians are experts in functional prognoses of disabling health conditions, the aim of this study was to gain insight into their involvement in end-of-life decisions in patients with neu...

Introduction of robot-assisted double-flap esophagogastrostomy after proximal gastrectomy: an exploratory comparison with side-overlap reconstruction.

Development, Usability, and Feasibility of a Pain-Stratified Smartphone-Based Home Intervention System for Patients With Adhesive Capsulitis: Exploratory Feasibility and Usability Trial.

Influence in the caption: how mega influencers use language in sponsored Instagram posts

Background/IntroductionThe success of influencer marketers' posts on social media often hinges on the influencer's ability to resonate with their audience through the language that they use. By leveraging their unique language cues and comm...

Revenue-sensitive evaluation of AI-assisted ICD-10-CM coding and human-AI collaboration under dual DRG payment systems

Abstract Automated ICD-10-CM coding is critical for hospital reimbursement under Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payment systems, yet standard metrics weight all errors equally. This study evaluated 11 models on MIMIC-IV under heterogeneous c...

Natural language processing

Abstract Approximately 40 years ago, the goal of endowing computers with the capacity to understand natural language began. These efforts were originally callednatural language understanding, which is now more frequently callednatural langu...