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This research explores the relationship between video games and physical activity, providing insights into how time spent on video games can influence the physical behavior of Chilean university students. The research method is quantitative, ex post facto, correlational, and comparative. The results indicate that men have a significantly higher vid...

This paper reports the first in-situ fossil evidence for silica biomineralisation in Permian plants. The discovery reinforces the significant role that land plants have played in influencing the evolution of Earth systems in deep time.

In this article, we study the simple graphical false position and double graphical false position. False position plays very important role in graphically numerical techniques and applicable in science and technology. Simple graphical false position is that method which aimed at solving problems involving direct proportion. But double graphical fal...

Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) in children is associated with various structural and functional abnormalities in the brain. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in detecting these changes This review aims to summarize the prevalence and degree of structural changes detected by MRI in GHD patients and compare these findings with sh...

It is shown how the gluing theorem due to Corvino and Shoen can be naturally extended to accommodate supertranslations at spatial infinity. Logarithmic supertranslations play an interesting role in the construction.

Rawls has been criticized by political philosophers from more right-leaning perspectives. John Tomasi and Jessica Flanigan, for example, have argued that the logic internal to his high liberalism requires expanding the list of basic rights. Flanigan argues that nearly any freedom should be basic. Her argument has significant implications for the vi...

Many variations of the multiple zeta values have been found to play important roles in different branches of mathematics and theoretical physics in recent years, such as the cyclotomic/color version, which appears prominently in the computation of Feynman integrals. In this paper, we introduce a trigonometric variant of the Kaneko–Tsumura ψ-functio...

Chapter 3 investigates how processes of platformization play out in relation to the spaces and spatial arrangements of family life, focusing in particular on the idea of the home. Given that family life, including the meaning of the home, are constructed through relational practices and that these practices are increasingly platformized (that is, o...

Some questions this sessions will address, amongst others are: • What roles do universities play in peripheral regions? How does this relate to sustainability? • And are these the same as what has been found to be the case in core urban settings? • How do universities contribute to sustainable development in peripheral regions? • How does the expa...

Recent studies have shown that there are two types of Niño events in the Tropical Atlantic, namely the Eastern Atlantic (EA) Niño and Central Atlantic (CA) Niño modes. However, it remains unknown whether these two types of Niño modes still impact El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) prediction. This paper investigates the impacts of the EA and CA Ni...

The increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems across various industries necessitates a shift towards ensuring their ethical deployment and responsible use. One key aspect of this shift is the role of human oversight in AI systems, which plays a crucial role in mitigating biases, ensuring accountability, and safeguarding human v...

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Childhood and adolescence are critical developmental stages, where adequate nutrition plays a pivotal role in ensuring proper growth and long-term health [...]

The softening–melting properties of iron-bearing materials play a crucial role in the reduction process in the lumpy zone in the blast furnace (BF) and affect the height, thickness, and shape of the cohesive zone, as well as gas permeability in the BF. A novel softening–melting method was developed based on actual BF production practices, which con...

The modified transmission eigenvalue (mTE) problem, introduced by Cogar et al. (Inverse Probl. 33, 125002, 2017) and Audibert et al. (Inverse Probl. 33, 125011, 2017), plays a fundamental role in the theoretical and numerical investigations of the inverse medium problem. In this paper, we study the discontinuous Galerkin discretization for the mTE...

This study aims to examine the elements in a sentence, various basic patterns that form a sentence and identify basic patterns in a sentence. The method used in this study is descriptive analysis with a qualitative approach. The results of the study indicate that the subject, predicate, object, and description are elements of a sentence that are ba...

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This article aims to analyze how the Holistic Character-Based Education (PHBK) model influences children's emotional regulation. This article uses Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to collect, analyze, and synthesize research results relevant to a certain topic in a systematic and structured manner. The results of the study show that the implement...

The common factors determining Commercial banks’ lending to SMEs are internal and external. This study assessed the combined effect of these two factors that determine the commercial banks’ credit accessibility and SMEs’ growth in Nigeria. Data from 1990 to 2023 were used to evaluate the hypothesis. The outcome demonstrates that the internal factor...

Given any toric subvariety Y of a smooth toric variety X of codimension k , we construct a length k resolution of ${\mathcal O}_Y$ by line bundles on X . Furthermore, these line bundles can all be chosen to be direct summands of the pushforward of ${\mathcal O}_X$ under the map of toric Frobenius. The resolutions are built from a stratification of...

Zusammenfassung Wahlversprechen stellen ein wichtiges Element demokratischer Wahlkämpfe dar und ihre Rolle als Bindeglied zwischen Wählerschaft und Regierungshandeln wird im Ansatz der Promissory Representation deutlich. Wahlversprechen haben hierbei eine doppelte Funktion: In prospektiver Perspektive sollte die Partei gewählt werden, deren Wahlver...

invaluable contribution as a reviewer for AECE-2024, co-sponsored by IEEE UP Section, held on November 22-23, 2024, at R.K.G.I.T, Ghaziabad. Your expert suggestions have played a key role in enhancing the quality of research and supporting the success of the event. We sincerely appreciate your efforts and look forward to your continued support in f...

Intention recognition, or the ability to anticipate the actions of another agent, plays a vital role in the design and development of automated assistants that can support humans in their daily tasks. In particular, industrial settings pose interesting challenges that include potential distractions for a decision-maker as well as noisy or incomplet...

akistani Universities can play a pivotal role as well as Pakistani civil society can be a great ally to create an economic movement representing mostly youth in Pakistan that would find all the new ways and ideas that can add value to all the well-practiced economic processes especially represented by our cultural values.

We characterize Nash equilibrium by postulating coherent behavior across varying games. Nash equilibrium is the only solution concept that satisfies the following axioms: (i) strictly dominant actions are played with positive probability, (ii) if a strategy profile is played in two games, it is also played in every convex combination of these games...

Tendencja do niesprawiedliwego przypisywania grom komputerowym wyłącznie pejoratywnych cech powoli staje się przestarzała. Coraz częściej dostrzega się w nich wiele kontekstów edukacyjnych oraz możliwości rozwijania określonych umiejętności, wspierania tradycyjnych form nauczania i zajęć pozalekcyjnych, a także kompensowania braków. Te cechy mają k...

p>Leadership and followership have long been considered to be defining features of democratic politics. However, more recently, both conceptual redefinitions and real-world developments have put issues of leadership and followership in regimes from beyond the family of established liberal democracies center-stage. This article looks into the nature...

In the recent literatures in which moral understanding has played a starring role, it is assumed that moral understanding is a species of explanatory understanding. That is, it is assumed that instances of moral understanding are of the form ‘S understands why p,’ where p is some explicitly moral proposition, paradigmatically about an action being...

Neutrino oscillation experiments are gradually approaching an era of precision, where subleading effects can also be tested. One such subleading effect is Non-Standard Interactions (NSI), which can play a crucial role in neutrino oscillations. Various works have typically discussed vector NSI in the context of quantum correlations. Recently, there...

Better bonding with atmospheric pressure plasma - Interaction of surface roughness and surface energy with PE === When bonding plastics, the surface of the components is often roughened first. This is supposed to improve the bond. Whether this really has a positive effect and what role atmospheric pressure plasma treatment plays has now been analyz...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and the development of effective treatment strategies remains a significant challenge in the management of advanced HCC patients. The emergence of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) has been a significant advancement in the treatment of HCC, as these targeted thera...

General Equilibrium Theory is the benchmark of economics, especially its results concerning the efficient allocation of resources, known as the First and Second Welfare Theorems. Yet, General Equilibrium Theory is beyond the scope of most economists. This paper is pitched as the first entry point into the theory. General Equilibrium Theory proves t...

Domestic investment can significantly affect the domestic credit market by shaping credit demand, borrower creditworthiness, lender behavior, interest rates, and financial sector policy decisions. These interdependencies underscore the necessity of a balanced and supportive economic environment to foster a healthy interaction between domestic inves...

Indoor environment plays an extremely important role in human production and life, so people's demand for indoor positioning is increasing day by day. However, the presence of non line of sight, multipath, and varying interference in indoor environments has prompted research and attention to indoor positioning algorithms. This paper proposes an eff...

Diophantine Equations named after ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus, plays a vital role not only in number theory but also in several branches of mathematics. In this paper, we have solved quadratic Diophantine equation15x 2 + y 2 = 4 n and obtained its complete solutions.

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht die Frage, ob die Fairness im modernen Sport Wurzeln hat, die bis in die Antike zurückreichen. Die schon einige Jahre zurückliegende sportwissenschaftliche Diskussion um die antiken Wurzeln der Fairness spiegelt ein kontroverses Meinungsbild wider. Die Fairness als Inbegriff der Moral im Sport wird einerseits...

Recent studies have proved that segmental dosage variants, rare de novo nucleotide sequence variants and inherited rare and common sequence variants all play pivotal role in the etiology of autism. The major rakishness with the genes and autism majorly sfari genes are reviewed in this paper.

Estimating according to our theory that the exponents of the Mersenne primes form approximately the Fibonacci sequence because of the genetic evolutive formation origin [1] for the first time ever we confirm the number 2^174440059 -1 [2] above the recently found largest Mersenne prime 2^136279841-1 [3] and slightly above our estimated threshold for...

In section 1 of this paper, I consider the logical validity of four versions of Aquinas’ arguments to this conclusion that being and good are identical, as presented by Stump and Kretzmann. Subsequently, I formalize the arguments in order to make their validity logically explicit. In section 2, I show how the formal reality of the identity of being...

According to Aquinas, the Platonic doctrine of participation can be disentangled from a commitment to the theory of Forms which Aristotle attributes to Plato. In this article, I argue that we can learn three important things from close examination of this key insight. First, we can better understand Aquinas’s view of how the participation of an eff...

Constructing a suitable schedule for sports competitions is a crucial issue in sports scheduling. The round-robin tournament is a competition adopted in many professional sports. For most round-robin tournaments, it is considered undesirable that a team plays consecutive away or home matches; such an occurrence is called a break. Accordingly, it is...

Some actors "hear" the script in their heads. This article explores how to go from the sound in your head to playing actions on stage.

Research mentorship plays a crucial role in advancing science. However, there are limited virtual platforms for cultivating mentorship among early career infectious diseases researchers in resource challenged settings. This study reports the findings from the utilization of a recently developed virtual mentorship platform, including its achievement...

The Gutenberg–Richter law establishes a log-linear relationship between the number of earthquakes that have occurred within some spatiotemporal volume and their magnitude. This similarity property presumably reflects fractal structure of the fault system in which earthquake sources are formed. The Gutenberg–Richter law plays a key role in the probl...

In nonlinear optimization, conjugate functions and subdifferentials play an essential role. In particular, Fenchel conjugate is the most well known conjugate function in convex optimization. In quasiconvex optimization, extra parameters for quasiconjugate functions have been introduced in order to show duality theorems, for example \documentclass[1...

Organosulfur- and organoselenium-containing compounds play a crucial role in organic synthesis [...]

Recently, there has been a growing trend of selling food products online through marketplaces. Consumer satisfaction plays a crucial role in supporting the sustainability of online food businesses. This study investigated the roles of website quality, product quality, price, responsiveness, and service on consumer satisfaction with food products on...

Message brokers play a pivotal role in enabling communication within distributed systems by facilitating reliable, asynchronous message passing between components. This paper evaluates various message broker solutions, focusing on their performance, scalability, and suitability for diverse application needs. Key metrics such as throughput, latency,...

From 2020 to 2023, Major League Baseball changed rules affecting team composition, player positioning, and game time. Understanding the effects of these rules is crucial for leagues, teams, players, and other relevant parties to assess their impact and to advocate either for further changes or undoing previous ones. Panel data and quasi-experimenta...

College English, as an extremely important general course in the higher education system, is an effective carrier of ideological and political education. From the level of ideological and political education, strengthening the effective integration of college English teaching and ideological and political education plays a positive role in promotin...

To explore how auditory interference impacts visual search performance for experts and novices, we monitored eye movements during a music-related visual search task. Participants encoded visually-presented search templates while listening to distracting music that was high in similarity (from the same piece of music as the search array but not cont...

This article argues that Tayeb Salih, in his most famous novel, tackles Shake-speare's best-known play in the Arabic world, Othello, but not in the usual fashion. Instead of adapting the protagonist, Salih ventriloquises him to force a fresh understanding of Othello by Western readers, thus challenging what was at the time of his novel's publicatio...

We prove that the average size of a mixed character sum $$\sum_{1\le n \le x} \chi(n) e(n\theta) w(n/x)$$ (for a suitable smooth function $w$) is on the order of $\sqrt{x}$ for all irrational real $\theta$ satisfying a weak Diophantine condition, where $\chi$ is drawn from the family of Dirichlet characters modulo a large prime $r$ and where $x\le...

This study explores communication methods in addressing religious extremism through the munāṣaḥah of Wahb ibn Munabbih to an individual entangled in the Khawarij ideology. He was a prominent scholar among the Tabi'in, the first three generations of Muslims. His perspectives are crucial in the efforts to resolve religious extremism because of his co...

The set of sums of two squares plays an important role in the elementary number theory. Di Nasso investigated several infinite monochromatic patterns in integers considering operations induced from affine maps and asked whether one can find different sets of infinite monochromatic configurations in natural numbers with the structure induced from th...

Introduction: Foot covering was one of the first things made by our primitive ancestors. Shoes have played an important role in human culture throughout history. Shoemakers and their health have attracted less attention than the shoes themselves. Musculo-skeletal problems were explored in this study to find out the prevalence and associated factors...

We consider a random walk in an i.i.d. random environment on Zd and study properties of its large deviation rate function at the origin. It was proved by Comets, Gantert and Zeitouni in dimension d = 1 in 1999 and later by Varadhan in dimensions d >= 2 in 2003 that, for uniformly elliptic i.i.d. random environments, the quenched and the averaged la...

The currency globalization and currency geopolitics do not exclude each other at all, but rather complement each other. At the same time, in certain historical periods, as a rule, one of them prevails: either currency globalization or currency geopolitics. The new world monetary order is being formed as a combination of monetary globalization and m...

The rolling tachyon is a non-canonical scalar field model well motivated in string theory which naturally predicts variations of the fine-structure constant. Such variations can in principle lead to interesting observable consequences, but they can also lead to extremely tight constraints on these kinds of models. In this work we subject the rollin...

S 1 = (S 1 (1), S 1 (2),. .. , S 1 (n)). 2. **Second Row (S 2):** Each element of the second row is determined by: S 2 (i) = S 1 (S 1 (i)), where S 1 (i) is the index in the first row, and S 1 (S 1 (i)) gives the value at that index in S 1. 3. **General Case (S m , m ≥ 3):** For any row S m , the value of the i-th element is determined by: S m (i)...

We study multi-strategies in multiplayer reachability games played on finite graphs. A multi-strategy prescribes a set of possible actions, instead of a single action as usual strategies: it represents a set of all strategies that are consistent with it. We aim for profiles of multi-strategies (a multi-strategy per player), where each profile of co...

Coalitional game with uncertain payoffs driven by uncertain variables stands for uncertain coalitional game. A α-pessimistic Shapley value as the solution of uncertain coalitional game is proposed in this paper, which can be played an important role in solving the problem of profit allocation. Moreover, the α-pessimistic Shapley value is proved to...

Mathematics, as it stands, relies on a clear distinction between numerical entities and their operational roles. Zero (0) play foundational roles in arithmetic and algebra: - Zero acts as the additive identity (x + 0 = x), but creates issues in operations such as division, where 1/0 is undefined. Proposed Solution: The Monad "o"

Digital finance has the potential to enhance financial inclusion by providing underserved populations with access to financial services. However, the regulatory environment plays a crucial role in determining the extent to which these benefits are realized. This paper examines the effects of digital finance regulations on financial inclusion, explo...

Introduction: Various factors determine the morphological characteristics of gingiva, which plays an important role in the final aesthetic

Ligands play a key role in asymmetric transition‐metal catalysis. Among reported chiral ligands, readily available and air‐stable secondary phosphine oxide ligands are unique and have aroused wide interest in Ni−Al bimetallic catalysis, since they can act as bifunctional ligands to ligate two metals for stronger bimetallic synergism, greatly enhanc...

The F-1 engine was the powerhouse behind NASA’s Saturn V rocket, which sent astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo missions. It was the largest single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever developed and played a crucial role in propelling the Saturn V into space.

The study of prime divisibility plays a crucial role in number theory. The p-adic valuation of a number is the highest power of a prime, p, that divides that number. Using this valuation, we construct p-adic valuation trees to visually represent the valuations of a sequence. We investigate how nodes split on trees generated by linear functions with...

Internal tides serve as essential intermediate steps in the cascading of oceanic energy, playing a crucial role in oceanic mixing. M2 internal tides are the dominant tidal constituent in many oceanic regions, significantly influencing ocean dynamics. The Madagascar–Mascarene Region has high-energy internal tides, but due to a lack of observational...

The flow over two tandem cylinders is investigated with five different spacing ratios L/D = 1.25, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, and 6.0 and four chamfered-corner ratios ξ = B/D = 0%, 5%, 10%, and 15% at a Reynolds number Re = 5300, where L, B, and D are the distance between cylinders, chamfered corner dimension, and cylinder width, respectively. This work aims to...

This article presents a new account of the Stoic theory of case. It argues that cases belong to the Stoic class of lekta and that they play a twofold semantic role. Firstly, they relate words to the world in a process akin to reference. Secondly, they encode syntactic information which captures structural elements of the world, contributing to lang...

Sustainable technologies, such as hydrogen fuel cells, carbon capture systems, and methane-reducing feed additives for ruminants, play a key role in decreasing atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions.

GUI grounding, the task of identifying a precise location on an interface image from a natural language query, plays a crucial role in enhancing the capabilities of Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents. While general VLMs, such as GPT-4V, demonstrate strong performance across various tasks, their proficiency in GUI grounding remains suboptimal. Recen...

This study aims to determine the competencies essential for elementary music teachers by exploring effective practices and insights of experts in music education. Using a three-round Delphi method with twelve music education experts, the study collected and refined competencies across three stages. In Round 1, qualitative data were thematically ana...

This article is an extension of the previous work of the author on the semantic explanation of constraints on the choice of sentential complements and thus on the form of specific sentence modifiers. First, various semantic properties of sentence modifiers or sentential operators are described. Second, a novel notion of non-informative or trivial s...

Year after year, labor market intermediaries (LMIs) play an important role in facilitating the transition of workers from schools and universities to the labor market and also, they help improve the matching quality between employees and employers. In Morocco, there are different types of intermediation agencies that offer various services, such as...

A class project that turned into an indictment of various fallacies at play in educational “theory” which isn’t a theory but rather hypothesis long since falsified

Over many decades fully nonlinear PDEs, and the complex Monge-Amp\`ere equation in particular played a central role in the study of complex manifolds. Most previous works focused on problems that can be expressed through equations involving real $(1, 1)$ forms. As many important questions, especially those linked to higher cohomology classes in com...

Dynamical and structural heterogeneities play important roles in glass transition. However, the relationship between these heterogeneities has not been fully revealed. In this study, we simultaneously observed these heterogeneities near the glass transition temperature in Zr50Cu40Al10 via five-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (...

Este articulo nos permite identificar la construcción temprana de la identidad de género a través del juego, este estudio se ha realizado siguiendo una metodología cualitativa, desde la cual se ha utilizado un modelo etnográfico basado principalmente en la observación del juego sociodramático de los niños y las niñas del CENDI que están cursando el...

This study examines rage and the politics of self-interest in Bakare Ojo Rasaki’s Drums of War. The primary goal here is to identify and assess the parameters that make the main character, King Onome, who represents the position of political authority in the play, to become enraged against the people of his neighboring community and ultimately agai...

Playing two-player games using reinforcement learning and self-play can be challenging due to the complexity of two-player environments and the possible instability in the training process. We propose that a reinforcement learning algorithm can train more efficiently and achieve improved performance in a two-player game if it leverages the knowledg...

In this paper, we analyse an extension of the children's higher-or-lower number guessing game with two guessing players, where players alternate guessing a secret integer between 1 and n, and it is revealed whether these guesses are higher or lower than the secret number, with the first player to guess the number being the loser. We describe and pr...

Focal therapy (FT) is a rapidly growing field aiming to minimize the side effects of whole gland treatments in patients with localized prostate cancer and multiparametric MRI plays an important role in patient selection, treatment planning, and post-treatment monitoring. This article reviews the currently available prostate cancer FT techniques, di...

We formulate fermionic versions, for any number of spatial dimensions, of the van der Waals and Casimir-Polder interactions, and study their properties. In both cases, the systems we introduce contain localized `atoms': two-level systems, coupled to a vacuum Dirac field. This Dirac field plays here a role akin to the electromagnetic field in the va...