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    Effectiveness of PhET Simulations and YouTube Videos to Improve the Learning ...

    Effective teaching of physics requires the use of well-designed and diversified instructional tools such as multimedia throughout the teaching and learning process. The main...
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    Do voluntary certification standards improve yields and wellbeing? Evidence f...

    Cocoa and oil palm production are major agricultural activities in Ghana, contributing substantially to the national economy and rural livelihoods. Even though smallholders...
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    Community-level environmental characteristics predictive of childhood stuntin...

    Coastal morphology makes Bangladesh vulnerable to environmental hazards and climate change. Therefore, environmental characteristics may shape population health, including child...
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    Exploring the relationship between adolescent biological maturation, physical...

    Across adolescence, there is a notable decline in physical activity in boys and girls. Maturational timing may be a risk factor for disengagement from physical activity and...
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    Viewing nature scenes reduces the pain of social ostracism

    In a series of four studies (Ns = 245, 135, 155, 222), we explored the effects of viewing nature scenes on promoting recovery from ostracism. We first manipulated experiences of...
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    Asymmetric regional dynamics in the Portuguese economy: debt, openness and lo...

    Regional convergence stands out in the adjustment of the Portuguese economy that followed the international financial crisis. This outcome contrasts with increasing regional...
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    Using remote learning to teach clinicians manual wheelchair skills: a cohort ...

    To test the hypothesis that remote learning to teach clinicians manual wheelchair skills is efficacious. A convenience sample of therapists (physical and occupational) and...
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    The epidemiology and prehospital care of motorcycle crashes in a sub-Saharan ...

    Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are common among motorcyclists in Kigali, Rwanda. The Service d’Aide Medicale Urgente (SAMU), a prehospital ambulance service, responds to many of...
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    Eye Injuries and Related Risk Factors among Workers in Small-scale Industrial...

    PURPOSE We aimed to study eye injuries and their risk factors among workers at small-scale industrial enterprises. METHODS Cross-sectional descriptive study. Five hundred...
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    Objective: To examine the prevalence of self-reported problems with sexual activity among psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients, and to explore potential associations of such...
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    How does perceived political corruption affect electoral preferences? Scholarship of Eastern Europe addressed this question primarily through the study of observational data....
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    Monitoring the impact of vaccine programs is necessary to identify changes in vaccine efficacy. We report the impact of the 12-year rotavirus vaccine program on diarrhea...
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    Countering Identity-protective Responses to Climate Change Data

    Despite scientific consensus, a partisan divide persists among Americans over the existence and causes of climate change. One body of research explains this divide by positing...
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    A scoping review of psychoeducational interventions for people after transien...

    Psychoeducation can provide information and support to cope with the physical and emotional effects of a health condition. This scoping review aimed to identify the evidence...
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    Empirical research shows that the relationship between proximity and knowledge cooperation assumes a linear or an inverted ‘U’ shape. This study of knowledge networks in the...
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    Sample size recommendations for continuous-time models: Compensating shorter ...

    Autoregressive modeling has traditionally been concerned with time-series data from one unit (N = 1). For short time series (T T, another source of information is often...
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    Cost-effectiveness analysis of apixaban compared to other direct oral anticoa...

    Several direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have been approved by the European Medicines Agency since 2008. The aim of the present cost-effectiveness-analysis was to analyze...
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    Statistical considerations for medication adherence research

    OBJECTIVE Medication non-adherence is a widespread problem and has been known to be associated with worse health outcomes and increased healthcare costs. Although many measures...
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    Cultural Differences in Self-Expression on Facebook: A Comparison of Facebook...

    Facebook behavior can reflect people’s cultural norms and motivations. Despite being a global platform, there is limited cross-cultural research on self-expression on Facebook....
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    The impact of telemental health use on healthcare costs among commercially in...

    Objective: To determine the impact of telemental health (TMH) use on total healthcare costs and mental health (MH)-related costs paid by a third party among adults with mental...