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Education

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  1. 01

    To what extent do teacher candidates believe student teaching experiences contributed to their success/challenges in the classroom?

  2. 02

    How do those Stages of Concern differ by gender, years of teaching experience, age, and years of experience utilizing blended learning?

  3. 03

    Is a college student’s decision to stay enrolled in community college dependent on their demographic characteristics (i.e., age, enrollment status, educational goals, ethnicity, and gender)?

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    How would the system quality, information quality and service quality of Wechat-based mobile learning affect the intention of continuous use in the enterprise education environment?

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    To what extent does the specific feedback impact the bands’ performance improvement, thus reflecting a group increased awareness over repeated events?

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    Is there a significant difference across time on the [Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills] Reading Test for middle school schedule type ([treatment group] versus [comparison group])?

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    Do the funding allocations for instruction, academic support, student services, and institutional support adequately predict the three-year graduation rate at community colleges, primarily certificate and diploma granting institutions, in the southeastern region of the United States?

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    Do [English Language Arts/Reading] and [social studies] teachers differ significantly in the frequency with which they implement reading comprehension and vocabulary instructional strategies to facilitate students’ comprehension of texts?

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    What are the significant factors influencing learners` low academic performance in the [Seventh-Day Adventist] secondary schools?

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Healthcare & medicine

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  1. 13

    What is the distribution, by age and gender, of subjects which have undergone a primary examination at the University of Iceland’s dental clinic?

  2. 14

    Are the haemodynamic and symptomatic responses to maximal and submaximal resistance exercise similar to the responses demonstrated during comparable intensities of aerobic exercise in individuals with EIPAH?

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    What effects does physical activity have on the development of [gestational diabetes]?

  5. 17

    To what extent are patients satisfied with doctor-patient communication in terms of the language used?

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    Is there a better result in patients receiving targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest?

  8. 20

    Is there a significant difference between the levels of clinical site preceptor-to-student ratio and levels of minimum required weekly clinical hours on undergraduate athletic training program [Board of Certification] examination three-year aggregate pass rate for first-time test takers?

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    How much control do the patients feel they have over their own pain treatment?

  11. 23

    Is there a difference between the distance of acromio-humeral space (AHD) between people with and without shoulder impingement?

  12. 24

    Is there a difference in the reception and treatment of those who suffer strokes in the country side as opposed to those in the capital area?

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Engineering

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  1. 25

    What operational patterns can be found using a suitable clustering algorithm to process and compare data for [Liquid Cooling Package] at two ICT-rooms?

  2. 26

    What are the metallurgical benefits of an [Additive Manufacturing] produced product in comparison to a Sand Casted product for excavator bucket teeth?

  3. 27

    What critical trade-offs arise when optimizing [supplementary cementitious materials] concrete configurations across environmental benefits and economic constraints, and how can these trade-offs be systematically prioritized to avoid sub-optimisation?

  4. 28

    What is the impact of implementing a new layout with industrial palletizer robotics in manufacturing companies' internal logistics - specifically the goods receipt process in terms of robot Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), throughput, and [Work in Progress]?

  5. 29

    How to adapt selected TopOpt method(s) such that geometry of the topology optimized design and that of the additively manufactured part are consistent with each other?

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    How can different operational resilience strategies influence the throughput of the new production system?

  9. 33

    How does the changing of the material in the [Asynchronous motor] rotor affect the challenges with recycling it?

  10. 34

    How applicable are the success factors from the [Project Implementation Profile] tool in delivering successful modern construction projects?

  11. 35

    Which operational and packaging factors influence bin load factor, and consequently, the transportation cost in the studied system?

  12. 36

    How do limitations in allowed VOC emissions affect production capacity in industrial paint processes?

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Marketing & advertising

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  1. 37

    How do young people in Mumbai perceive the Bata Brand?

  2. 38

    How does loyalty towards shopping centers vary between recreational-oriented consumers and task-oriented consumers?

  3. 39

    To what extent does luxury consumption tendency moderate the perceived usefulness and playfulness of phygital design elements?

  4. 40

    What influence do background variables have on young consumers’ attitudes towards marketing through TikTok?

  5. 41

    How can marketing and communication strategies be optimized to better educate and attract consumers towards green and sustainable credit offerings for energy-efficient projects?

  6. 42

    What is the impact of the quality given to specific household batteries by consumers on their purchase intention?

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    What is the impact of the credibility of pet influencers on consumer brand attitude in South Korea?

  9. 45

    What is the relationship between place image, place attachment, self-congruity, and likelihood to stay in a place across cities of different sizes?

  10. 46

    What is the impact of homophilic networks on agri-food purchasing choices for consumers in the Marche region?

  11. 47

    Does objective knowledge effect the impact of different content type of online textual reviews on narrative believability and purchase intention?

  12. 48

    How can the characteristics of the participation process and customers’ predispositions mitigate unwanted psycho-physical and behavioral outcomes of [Customer Participation Stress]?

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Business & management

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  1. 49

    Can the current safety culture at Stora Enso be assessed using the Bradley Curve and, if so, what is the maturity level?

  2. 50

    What differences, if any, exist between business leaders and educational leaders on Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart after controlling for age and length of employment?

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    How do optimal order quantity, lead time, location of orders, and safety stock influence total cost?

  6. 54

    How do the sustainability initiatives affect the economic performance and the environmental performance within SMEs?

  7. 55

    How does data visualisation impact on an executive's ability to use and digest relevant information, including on his/her decision-making speed and confidence?

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    Does motivation act as a mediating variable in the direct relations between employee engagement and job satisfaction?

  10. 58

    Does calling promote career growth for those called to service?

  11. 59

    What are IT university students’ perceptions of IT companies employer value proposition (EVP) and to what extent does place play a role in these perceptions?

  12. 60

    How does information sharing between [Original Equipment Manufacturers] and first-tier suppliers affect the latter's responsiveness to fluctuating demand?

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Psychology

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  1. 61

    What are the emotional reactions of bystanders to cyberbullying scenarios?

  2. 62

    How successful are both light and dark personalities in terms of objective success criteria?

  3. 63

    Did prosodic ability and executive functioning components make independent contributions to word reading and reading comprehension above and beyond vocabulary, fluid (non-verbal) intelligence, [rapid automatized naming] (Digits), and phonological [short-term memory]?

  4. 64

    How do different experiences of identity salience influence employees’ belonging and perceived need for allyship in the workplace?

  5. 65

    Does ability to regulate emotions predict individuals’ own, as well as their partners’, reports of dating violence?

  6. 66

    Does the level of integration differ between adolescents with early and late disclosure and is there a difference when controlling for family type, current age and gender?

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    Do levels of anxiety and comfort influence students’ perception of the think-aloud interview?

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    Are associations between parenting styles and child outcomes moderated by parent stress and parent education level?

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    How do perinatal risks and early environmental harshness, both individually and in combination, predict pubertal timing?

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Languages & linguistics

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  1. 73

    What is a clear classification scheme for signs found in the [linguistic landscape], and how are languages distributed in this scheme?

  2. 74

    [W]hat is the difference between Korean native speakers and Myanmar Korean language learners in understanding Korean refusal speech acts?

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    Is there a connection between the types of constructed action and the functions they have?

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    To what extent does the set of textbooks New Senior English for China cover the vocabulary in the wordlists required by the 2017 English Curriculum Standard?

  6. 78

    How is Korean college students’ prior L2 writing knowledge associated with their L2 writing motivation, self-reported strategy use, and writing performance?

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    Do high school ESL students acquire and retain vocabulary (i.e., second language acquisition) differently when taught using music and language integration activities compared to traditional ESL instructional techniques?

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    How does the receptive and productive vocabulary of KODA children develop quantitatively between the ages of 0;8-2;0?

  10. 82

    What role does exposure (i.e. early vs. late input) play on the acquisition of these features?

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    How accurate is the vocabulary production of the two groups in relation to each CEFR level?

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Public health

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  1. 85

    What is the prevalence of health equity issues reported in the community health assessment?

  2. 86

    What differences do we observe in children’s [Active Transportation] and outdoor play from phase 1 to phase 2?

  3. 87

    Are negative birth outcomes such as preterm birth, being small (SGA) or large (LGA) for gestational age related to the atrial fibrillation risk later in life (Study I)?

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    [W]hat impact have Emory [Center for AIDS Research] Developmental Core awardees had on Emory University’s fiscal portfolio as it pertains to the NIH funded research base?

  5. 89

    What is the relationship between perceived gendered racism, psychosocial stress, and preterm birth experienced by non-Hispanic Black women during pregnancy?

  6. 90

    Do the levels of environmental hygiene at Ipolokeng primary meet the requirements prescribed by Regulation R918 of 30 July 1999?

  7. 91

    Are the previous and ongoing cognitive, physical, and social complexities of work associated with cognitive health in later life?

  8. 92

    Is there a statistically significant relationship between having a usual source of care and location and/or between having a usual source of care and passage of the [Affordable Care Act] (proxied by year) for residents of Georgia?

  9. 93

    What is the level of [insecticide treated net] accessibility at household level?

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    What socio-demographic factors are associated with Caesarean Section among child bearing women In Zambia?

  12. 96

    [D]oes child developmental functioning (i.e., adaptive behavior and autism symptoms) moderate the association between caregiver health behaviors and child health outcomes?

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Environmental science

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  1. 97

    What kind of new insights about [Black Carbon] size distributions can be gained from simultaneous long-term measurements of absorption and aerosol number size distributions?

  2. 98

    What are the environmental impacts of reusing glass compared to producing new glass?

  3. 99

    How do emotions and values associated with waterscapes relate to behavior and patterns of use?

  4. 100

    What are the effects of price, income and household size on charcoal consumption in the three Tanzanian urban areas Dodoma, Morogoro and Mtwara?

  5. 101

    How useful are numerical models in investigating how low flow periods impact upon the ecosystem indicators?

  6. 102

    How do logistics parameters such as transport distance, transhipments, load factor, and fuel choice affect GWP for reused brick, and how does this compare with new production?

  7. 103

    How can the indicator-based and UM-LCA approaches be integrated to provide a comprehensive assessment of UM and circularity in urban areas, supporting decision-making within the context of the [Circular Economy]?

  8. 104

    How does safe operating space affect the extinction risk and threat categories of species?

  9. 105

    How do the changes in vegetation at Elandsberg PNR relate to climate and land-use disturbance and therefore what are the main drivers of change?

  10. 106

    What is the carbon footprint of converting 1 kg (dry cell weight) (FU) of microalgae into multi-product, in gCO2eq/FU?

  11. 107

    How do [greenhouse gas] emissions from commercial waste management differ from [greenhouse gas] emissions from household waste management based on case studies in Finland, and how can both emissions be effectively decreased?

  12. 108

    Do [Sustainable Urban Drainage System] ponds have more potential than non SUDS ponds for plant diversity to support flowering plants suitable for pollinators?

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Computer science

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  1. 109

    What is the combinatorial coverage achieved by tests manually created by experienced engineers in industry?

  2. 110

    To what extent does a sensor glove add value in measuring computer anxiety during usability testing when compared to anxiety questionnaires and observations?

  3. 111

    To what extent do static evaluation criteria, align with human perceptual judgments of scene in dynamic interactive environments?

  4. 112

    To what extent does each component in AssortS contribute to its effectiveness?

  5. 113

    What is the effect of modelling an evolving CIG using FCIG in comparison with the HL7 standard for modelling CIGs?

  6. 114

    How do energy-related trade-offs and associated ISO/IEC 25010 quality characteristics vary across different software contexts, such as system layers, programming languages, and time?

  7. 115

    How do [Mixed Reality] simulated examinations affect students' performance and emotional states compared to conventional summative assessments like Multiple Choice Questions?

  8. 116

    How does Timed Base Choice tests compare to Base Choice tests in terms of decision coverage?

  9. 117

    How often do AI coding agents modify dependencies in real software repositories?

  10. 118

    To what extent do state-of-the-art discovery algorithms need to be amended to properly handle [Virtual Research Environments] across Hybrid Data Infrastructures?

  11. 119

    How does the rendering of the user interface differ from web application, hybrid application and native application?

  12. 120

    What levels of efficiency and functionality can be achieved using binary coding schemes for XML data exchange?

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Library & info science

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    Is the difference between the retention rate of first-time, full-time freshmen who attend one library instruction session and the retention of first-time, full-time freshmen who attend multiple (>1) library instruction sessions statistically significant?

  3. 123

    What are the factors that influence information ethics practice by library professionals in University libraries in Tanzania?

  4. 124

    Do semantic auditory distractions reduce the efficiency of a blood glucose tracking mobile application used by diabetic seniors?

  5. 125

    To what extent do existing institutional facilities in the universities support scholars‘ research and communication needs?

  6. 126

    What is the level of usage of [University of Swaziland]’s institutional repository by faculty and postgraduate students?

  7. 127

    What is the extent of knowledge sharing in University Libraries in KwaZulu-Natal Province?

  8. 128

    What are the teachers’ perceptions about the need for information literacy skills in the implementation of secondary school subjects’ instruction?

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Sport & exercise science

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  1. 129

    What is the manifestation of variables of teachers’ subject position and their sense of well-being?

  2. 130

    Are there differences in the supply of sport activities between the different districts in Malmö?

  3. 131

    How are the earlier found relationships between speed and duration, and speed and sex, affected when amount of gears, access to shower facilities, and RPE are added to the control variables age, weight, BMI, last digit in self-reported duration, and cycling area?

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    What factors do at-risk boys perceive contributing to their social self-efficacy and physical activity self-efficacy?

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    Can we see an increased existential, mental, social, physical and emotional health of high school students dancing at school or leisure compared to students without regular elements of dance?

  8. 136

    What is the prevalence of problematic mobile phone use among youth athletes, and what are the factors which contribute to problematic use in youth athletes?

  9. 137

    Which of the selected camera configurations, defined by unit count and placement, achieves the lowest Mean Per Joint Position Error for shooting posture estimation?

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    What differences in these perceptions exist between clubs focused on indoor sports, outdoor sports and mixed sports?

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AI & machine learning

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    What is the level of reliability and agreement between deterministic approaches based on keyword matching and semantic approaches based on advanced language models in determining the maturity of a startup?

  3. 142

    How do heuristics-based adversarial defence algorithms perform with increasing patch sizes?

  4. 143

    How do bias mitigation techniques affect the balance between fairness and accuracy when applied at different stages of the AI development lifecycle?

  5. 144

    How to enable ML-based approaches to timely adapt to dynamic and complex wireless environments?

  6. 145

    How to predict the performance of [Deep Neural Networks] under continuous distribution shifts?

  7. 146

    How can ML modules be designed to classify website personality across multiple traits and dimensions?

  8. 147

    How do different LLM models perform in terms of precision and analytical level in producing competitor analysis?

  9. 148

    Which of the selected contemporary approaches achieves the best performance for survival prediction from multichannel mIF microscopy images?

  10. 149

    How well are these AI-enhanced project management tools integrated with their AI feature?

  11. 150

    Are synthetic datasets a viable method for enhancing the model’s scope and thus improving the possible results given a limited amount of available data?

  12. 151

    How effective is a chatbot using retrieval-augmented generation at retrieving and providing contextually relevant information from domain-specific manuals?

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Finance & accounting

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    What portfolio strategies and specific compositions of asset classes and weightings are proposed by the robo-advisors active in Germany based on the results of investor profiling, and what are the differences, similarities, and typical portfolios that can be derived from this?

  3. 154

    Is foreign exchange rate transaction exposure significant for the whole insurance industry (an industry level study)?

  4. 155

    What is the influence of insurance fraud on the payment of private health insurance claims in Kenya?

  5. 156

    How can the existing personal credit model be redefined to effectively integrate green and sustainable finance principles, with a focus on financing energy-efficient technologies?

  6. 157

    What modeling method will give the best result when predicting the sales volume of old apartments for the next 12 months given the nature of the data?

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    To what extent do ESG individual pillars contribute to reducing firms' default probabilities?

  9. 160

    How does the effectiveness of the performance measurement systems impact the performance of financial operations of finance staff?

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Communication

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  1. 161

    To what extent do images on Instagram (of the selected brands) present diversity of the people in terms of the skin tone, body size, gender, ableness, and age?

  2. 162

    Are district statements that do/do not address race directly more/less likely to have negative news coverage?

  3. 163

    What is the relationship, if any, between the extent to which a candidate’s statements discussed performance issues more than Republican-owned or Democratic-owned issues and whether this candidate qualified for future debates?

  4. 164

    How does the speaker’s accent impact their evaluation when subtitle errors occur?

  5. 165

    How do network structure and actors’ attributes influence sustainable development-related communication flows on Twitter?

  6. 166

    How did volume and tone in economic news change during the financial crisis among public and commercial news outlets?

  7. 167

    What are the main gratifications students receive from music listening?

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Political science

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    Do quasi-judicial officers perceive themselves as possessing the same amount of control as judges in determining how their daily activities are completed?

  3. 170

    How does passive political engagement on TikTok relate to Swedish first-time voters’ perception on the level of polarization in Sweden?

  4. 171

    How does external motivation affect employees' public service motivation during remote work in public organizations?

  5. 172

    To what extent has Twitter influenced political mobilisation in Zimbabwe from 2015 to 2020?

  6. 173

    To what extent do security risks, privacy risks, and institutional logics affect e-government acceptance?

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Nursing

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  1. 174

    To what extent are clinical practice guideline indicators for diabetes care being met for patients with multimorbidity in five [Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics]?

  2. 175

    In emergency settings are there differences with regards to the nursing care given to psychiatric patients as compared to that given to other patients?

  3. 176

    What combination of independent variables (Weeks of US Nursing Practice, Demands of Immigration, Resilience, and the interaction between Demands of Immigration and Resilience) best explains [Foreign Educated Nurses] Acculturation?

  4. 177

    What is the influence of select demographic variables on [transcultural self-efficacy] perceptions of associate degree nursing students?

  5. 178

    Is there a difference between students' satisfaction at placements within surgical and medical departments?

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Social work

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    What is the relationship between foster youths’ access to mentoring services and enrollment at age 19?

  3. 181

    What were the reasons, counts, and trends over time for referrals to the local ITP for infants and toddlers who were documented to be exposed to and/or affected by illegal substance abuse?

  4. 182

    What is the social participation of asylum seekers, who receive welfare service from the city of Reykjavík?

  5. 183

    What factors are considered important by the social workers in assessments of responsible municipality?

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Mental health & wellbeing

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  1. 184

    What is the status of the mental health of individuals with PKU in Iceland?

  2. 185

    What is the relation between dimensions of acculturation and coping in Arab-Canadian immigrants?

  3. 186

    What is the influence of different modes of human support on attrition and adherence to a web and mobile app, lifestyle-based mental health intervention for a healthy adult cohort, including the influence of participant preference?

  4. 187

    Do the latent variables of emotion regulation, interpersonal difficulties and social support fully mediate the effects of attachment and reflective function?

  5. 188

    How many students will be positively impacted through Behavioral Health Intervention Team prevention and intervention programs in the district?

  6. 189

    What associations exist between gacha engagement/spending and self-reported stress/anxiety (and related feelings such as FOMO or regret) among gacha players?

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Sociology

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  1. 190

    First, how have patterns of educational attainment changed over time in Europe, and are they shaped by policy and educational systems?

  2. 191

    Are there differences in how sports activities are used between social classes?

  3. 192

    Can the commitment of those volunteering for natural resource management agencies be attributed to their motivation, satisfaction, and generativity?

  4. 193

    How do experiences of racial discrimination, demographic characteristics, and ethnonational diversity affect panethnic identity formation?

  5. 194

    Is there diversity in demographic characteristics when comparing proximate locations in the Swedish rural setting?

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