Virtues such as compassion, patience and self-control may be beneficial not only for others but also for oneself, according ...

Background Cigarette sharing has not been assessed at the provincial level or analysed the degree of its association with smoking cessation in China. Such analysis would provide critical intelligence ...

A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, memory, and executive function skills than their peers. These gains don’t ...

At the eight-month mark of President Donald Trump’s second presidential term, The Washington Post fielded a survey with Ipsos measuring Americans’ opinions of the presidency and found a public mostly ...

ABSTRACT: This study develops and empirically tests a unified model for enhancing the capacity of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the construction industry of emerging economies. Using data ...

Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

Abstract: Exploratory Landscape Analysis characterizes fitness landscapes of various optimization problems to categorize them and reveal relationships with different metaheuristic algorithms. It uses ...

Compared to structured ocean environments, unstructured ocean environments are inherently more complex. In such unstructured environments, the presence of narrow waterways poses unique navigational ...

Random number generation is an essential feature in Excel, allowing users to perform tasks such as simulations, creating test datasets, or experimenting with spreadsheet models. Excel provides three ...

A weighted random item sampler (selector), where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, and every item is sampled exactly once (without repetition or replacement). The ...