Academic Articles & Research Papers

IMPROVEMENT OF CREATIVITY IN MATHEMATICS STUDENTS THROUGH THE AUDITORY INTELLECTUAL REPETITION (AIR) LEARNING MODEL

This study aims to determine the increase in students' mathematical creativity through the auditory, intellectual, repetition (AIR) learning model in class XI students of SMK Techno Terapan Makassar. Creativity referred to in this study pay...

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...

Retracted: A Novel Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach for Einstein Weighted Average Operator under Pythagorean Fuzzy Hypersoft Environment

Decision-Making Methodologies for Reuse of Industrial Assets

When there is a social consensus that industrial assets are in fact heritage elements of cultural interest, their conservation and reuse must be considered with approaches that offer greater guarantees and that prevent their exposure to agg...

Existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for p(t)-Laplacian systems with subquadratic potentials

By using the genus properties, we establish some criteria for the second-order p(t)-Laplacian system $$ \frac{d}{dt}\big(|\dot{u}(t)|^{p(t)-2}\dot{u}(t)\big)-a(t)|u(t)|^{p(t)-2}u(t) +\nabla W(t, u(t))=0 $$ to have at least one, and i...

Education of staff in preschool aged classrooms in child care centers and child outcomes: A meta-analysis and systematic review.

Staff education is considered key to quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs. However, findings about associations between staff education and children's outcomes have been inconsistent. We conducted a systematic revie...

Design Recommendations for Immersive Virtual Reality Application for English Learning: A Systematic Review

The growing popularity of immersive virtual reality (iVR) technologies has opened up new possibilities for learning English. In the literature, it is possible to find several studies focused on the design, development, and evaluation of imm...

An Agent Cascade for Explainable Relevance Assessment of Procurement Procedures in the Tenders Electronic Daily Environment

This paper considers the task of assessing the relevance of a procurement procedure for a supplier under conditions of growing volumes of open procurement data and increasing complexity of electronic publication services. It is shown that, ...

Fractional exhaled nitric oxide as a potential biomarker for radiation pneumonitis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: A pilot study

Introduction: The aim of the study was to investigate repetitive fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) measurements during high-dose radiation therapy (HDRT) and to evaluate the use of FeNO to predict symptomatic radiation pneumonitis (RP)...

Feasibility study for interactive reporting of network meta-analysis: experiences from the development of the MetaInsight COVID-19 app for stakeholder exploration, re-analysis and sensitivity analysis from living systematic reviews

Abstract Background Network meta-analysis (NMA) has been increasingly adopted worldwide by Cochrane reviews, guideline developers and decision-making bodies to identify optimal treatment choices. However, NMA results are often produced stat...

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 ...

Treatment of Gluteal Tendinopathy: A Systematic Review and Stage-Adjusted Treatment Recommendation

Background: Gluteal tendinopathy is the most common lower limb tendinopathy. It presents with varying severity but may cause debilitating lateral hip pain. Purpose: To review the therapeutic options for different stages of gluteal tendinopa...

Evaluation of the Quality of Mobile Health Applications for Medication Adherence in Iran

Background & aim: Mobile health(mHealth) applications have emerged as pivotal tools for enhancing medication adherence, leveraging high accessibility and the widespread penetration of smartphones. The clinical effectiveness of these tools i...

Simulators with Haptic Feedback in Neurosurgery: Are We Reaching the “Aviator” Type of Training? Narrative Review and Future Perspectives

Over the last decade, the quality of neurosurgical procedures dramatically improved, also thanks to the development and increased accessibility of several technological recourses (e.g., imaging, neuronavigation, neurophysiology, microscopy)...

Treatment seeking behaviors related to gonorrhea among female sex workers in 7 cities in Indonesia

Abstrak Latar belakang:Gonore merupakan salah satu infeksi menular seksual yang menjadi permasalahan besar kesehatan terutama pada wanita penjaja seks (WPS) di Indonesia. Tujuan dari artikel ini adalah untuk melihat hubungan antara pola pen...

The Preliminary Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies for the Prioritization of Health Technology Assessments: A Discussion

This paper critically evaluates methods for the preliminary economic evaluation of health technologies and the prioritization of health technology assessment projects. It reports on the literature, and considers methods currently employed a...

Analysing criteria for price and reimbursement of orphan drugs in Spain

Objective: There are differences between countries regarding data requirements for orphan drug evaluation and it is also unknown which criteria might determine the price and reimbursement decision. This study aimed to identify the key c...

International practices in health technology assessment and public financing of digital health technologies: recommendations for Hungary

Background: Evaluating and integrating digital health technologies is a critical component of a national healthcare ecosystem in the 2020s and is expected to even increase in significance. Design: The paper gives an overview of internationa...

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN CANADA

OBJECTIVES: Since 1988, four government-funded health technology assessment (HTA) agencies have been established in Canada. This paper is a descriptive review of reports issued by these organizations during the period from 1988 to 1998. MET...

Methods for studying health disparities in U.S. nursing homes: a scoping review

Abstract Background Health disparities exist across healthcare settings, including nursing homes, contributing to preventable differences in care quality. Health disparities are a global issue, yet most studies on nursing home health dispar...