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  • Factors influencing reducing sedentary time in home office employees

    A total of 51 employees from Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands participated in the semi-structured focus groups and interviews. In total, 55% of participants were male, while 39% were aged between 36 and 45 years old. Table 1 illustrates…

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  • Development state of MOOCs and 5G-based Meta Classrooms with synchronous teaching and assessment of students’ learning status

    Development state of MOOCs and 5G-based Meta Classrooms with synchronous teaching and assessment of students’ learning status

    Research motivation

    The MOOCs provide opportunities for undergraduate students, adult learners, and citizens to share the OERs provided by the top-ranked universities and to pursue their lifelong learning. However, online courses must perform the…

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  • Salient and contested scientific evidence in debates over sustainable transformation: pesticide policymaking in Switzerland

    Salient and contested scientific evidence in debates over sustainable transformation: pesticide policymaking in Switzerland

  • Alons G (2017) Environmental policy integration in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: greening or greenwashing? J Eur Public Policy 24:1604–1622. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1334085

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  • Factors influencing the spatial distribution of police stops and their efficacy in crime prevention and control

    Factors influencing the spatial distribution of police stops and their efficacy in crime prevention and control

    Data

    The study area is the HT district of ZG city, a megacity on the southeast coast of China, which was initially divided into 619 cell grids measuring 500 × 500 m. However, since some parts of the area are mountainous and lack daily…

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  • How does ecological compensation change in Hubei Province based on a multi-scenario simulation of ecosystem services value?

    How does ecological compensation change in Hubei Province based on a multi-scenario simulation of ecosystem services value?

    Dynamics transformation of land use

    From 2010 to 2020, land use types in Hubei Province were consistently dominated by forest land and cultivated land, which collectively covered more than 90% of Hubei Province’s total area (Fig. 3). The central…

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  • Assessing psychological resilience and its influencing factors in the MSM population by machine learning

    Assessing psychological resilience and its influencing factors in the MSM population by machine learning

    The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the psychological resilience of the MSM population and identify the key factors that influence it. The MSM population is particularly vulnerable to mental health issues such as depression2,3….

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  • Beyond surveys: high-resolution mapping of rural wealth in China using satellite and street view imagery

    Beyond surveys: high-resolution mapping of rural wealth in China using satellite and street view imagery

    This paper first establishes an actual wealth label database based on rural household questionnaire survey data and establishes a regression relationship with the feature characteristics of intelligent image interpretation to form a wealth…

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  • 7-Tesla ultra-high field MRI of the parahippocampal cortex reveals evidence of common neurobiological mechanisms of major depressive disorder and neurotic personality traits

    7-Tesla ultra-high field MRI of the parahippocampal cortex reveals evidence of common neurobiological mechanisms of major depressive disorder and neurotic personality traits

  • Santomauro DF, Mantilla Herrera AM, Shadid J, Zheng P, Ashbaugh C, Pigott DM, et al. Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet. 2021;398:1700–12.

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  • “I feel secure, happy, and peaceful when my teacher implements justice in class”: a study of how Iranian EFL learners perceive and respond to teacher classroom justice

    “I feel secure, happy, and peaceful when my teacher implements justice in class”: a study of how Iranian EFL learners perceive and respond to teacher classroom justice

    Classroom justice

    The concepts of justice and fairness are not new in L2 education. Previously, L2 studies have focused on issues such as critical language testing, equity, critical pedagogy, diversity, power dynamics, inclusion, and…

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