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  • Mediating role of self-efficacy and moral identity in volunteer service and public service motivation among Chinese college students

    Mediating role of self-efficacy and moral identity in volunteer service and public service motivation among Chinese college students

    Public Service Motivation refers to the intrinsic drive that motivates individuals to voluntarily engage in public service1. At its core, PSM is centered on serving the public and promoting public interests. It is inherently altruistic,…

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  • The interpretable machine learning model for depression associated with heavy metals via EMR mining method

    The interpretable machine learning model for depression associated with heavy metals via EMR mining method

    Participants

    The US NHANES investigates the US population using various survey strategies to collect demographics, dietary, examination, laboratory, and questionnaire data. All data are available on the American Centers for Disease Control and…

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  • Developmental features of Tibetan students’ Chinese L2 mental lexicon

    Developmental features of Tibetan students’ Chinese L2 mental lexicon

    Categorization of L2 mental lexicon connections

    Regarding the structures of L2 mental lexicon, most previous studies adopting a category analysis approach acknowledge two major types of connections: meaning-based associations and form-based…

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  • Exploring the effects of olfactory VR on visuospatial memory and cognitive processing in older adults

    Exploring the effects of olfactory VR on visuospatial memory and cognitive processing in older adults

    This study investigated the effects of an olfactory VR game on cognitive functions in older adults, revealing task-specific improvements. Significant gains in the Hiragana Rotation Task and the Word Spatial Memory Task suggest enhanced…

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  • Metadiscourse in the research abstracts of an interdisciplinary field: a case study of computational linguistics

    Interdisciplinary research discourse

    Since the differences and similarities existing among disciplines may influence how knowledge is communicated and distributed to their intended audience (Becher and Trowler, 2001), it is widely acknowledged…

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  • Predicting the academic achievement of students using black hole optimization and Gaussian process regression

    Predicting the academic achievement of students using black hole optimization and Gaussian process regression

    This section first mentions the method for collecting the necessary data to conduct the research, as well as the specifications of these data. It subsequently presents the introduced approach for the prediction of the student’s academic…

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  • Examining the effects of academic stress on student well-being in higher education

    Academic stress is a complex phenomenon significantly affecting global university students’ well-being and academic performance. This pressure’s scope manifests in their educational environment and personal lives. Students frequently exhibit…

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  • Renting clothes for sustainable fashion — niche markets work best

    Renting clothes for sustainable fashion — niche markets work best

    Renting clothes can reduce the fashion industry’s enormous environmental impact, but so far, the business models have not worked very well. The best chance of success is for a rental company to provide clothing within a niche market, such as…

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  • Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and debate among scientists

    Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and debate among scientists

    When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant balloon had inflated it from below.

    It wasn’t a balloon. Scientists had exploded a nuclear device hundreds of meters below…

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