An Analysis of the Evaluation Methods being Applied to Serious Games for Autistic Children by Ana Paula de Carvalho, Camila Santana Braz, Raquel Oliveira Prates

“…We analyze the methods utilized to evaluate these games, their application and combination, the quality aspects assessed, and the number and characteristics (e.g., age and special need) of the participants involved in the evaluation process. …”
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Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities by Nathan R. Hahn, Sara P. Bombaci, George Wittemyer

“…While most innovations stem from adaptation of off-the-shelf devices, these tools can fail to meet the specialized needs of conservation and research or lack the support to scale beyond a single site. …”
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Perceived fairness and marital satisfaction: The role of the presence of children with disabilities by Klarinthia Ratri, Yudiana Ratnasari

“…Furthermore, numerous studies on perceived fairness have been conducted related to parents of children with disabilities, considering the difficulties encountered by these parents due to their children’s specialized needs and demands. As a result, these challenges usually affect their marital relationship more than the other couples. …”
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Drilling for powder. Enigmatic limestone fragments explained by Andrzej Ćwiek

“…The end of the Sixth Dynasty was a period of a special need to restore the ritual purity of the offering places by whitewashing.…”
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Intersectoriality in the care of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders by Omar Hernández Rivero, Damaris Risquet Águila, Odalys Hernández Rivero, Mabel León Álvarez, Addys Pérez Fernández, Damarys Ballate Machado

“…Conclusions: despite the conditions, the country has to make extensive use of intersectoriality prevailing limitations in the order of policies, programs, decisions, staff training and procedures, which negatively influences the comprehensive care of these children in special need.…”
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Company's performance self-assessment (CoPSA) among facilities outsourcing firms in malaysia: a focus on service delivery by Abdul Hamid Mar Iman, Muhammad Umbugala Douglas, Hishamuddin Mohd Ali

“…Company performance self-assessment (CoPSA), whose fundamental purpose is to provide a check-and-balance mechanism for practice performance through progress-and-performance self-assessment (PaPSa) is yet to be in place in the facilities management industry. Specially needed by facilities service outsourcing firms (FSOFs), CoPSA benefits the top management from organizational introspection of company's own performance. …”
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Modeling of Large Diameter Piles in Soil Formations Including Soft Clay by Nour Aboshita, Tarek Salem, khaled abdelatty

“…However, there is a special need for the analysis and design of larger diameter piles (i.e., larger than 120 cm) to assess their actual load carrying capacities. …”
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Company's performance self-assessment (COPSA) among facilities outsourcing firms in Malaysia: a focus on service deliver by Iman, Abdul Hamid Mar, Douglas, Muhammad Umbugala, Mohd. Ali, Hishamuddin

“…Company performance self-assessment (CoPSA), whose fundamental purpose is to provide a check-and-balance mechanism for practice performance through progress-and-performance self-assessment (PaPSa) is yet to be in place in the facilities management industry. Specially needed by facilities service outsourcing firms (FSOFs), CoPSA benefits the top management from organizational introspection of company's own performance. …”

VAPOR: A Visualization Package Tailored to Analyze Simulation Data in Earth System Science by Shaomeng Li, Stanislaw Jaroszynski, Scott Pearse, Leigh Orf, John Clyne

“…This paper presents VAPOR: a domain-specific visualization package that targets the specialized needs of ESS modelers, particularly those working in research settings where highly-interactive exploratory visualization is beneficial. …”
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Fishing Innate Immune System Properties through the Transcriptomic Single-Cell Data of <i>Teleostei</i> by Aleksandr V. Bobrovskikh, Ulyana S. Zubairova, Alexey V. Doroshkov

“…In particular, there is a special need for new scRNAseq experiments involving nonmodel <i>Teleostei</i>, e.g., long-lived species, cancer-resistant fish, and various fish ecotypes.…”
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Nurse perception of care of hospitalized older adults - a comparative study between northern and central regions of Portugal by João Paulo de Almeida Tavares, Alcione Leite da Silva, Pedro Sá-Couto, Marie Boltz, Elizabeth Capezuti

“…Conclusion: the findings suggest the need for increased investment by hospital leaders to promote a geriatric nursing practice environment that supports the specialized needs of hospitalized older adults.…”
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Peer Acceptance of Students with Hearing Disorders in Inclusive and Non-Inclusive Schools by Narges Adib-Sereshki, Yeganeh Saleh-Pour

“…Conclusion: This finding led the investigators to conclude that the experience of inclusive education can lead to higher level of regular students’ acceptance towards special need students. Suggestions for future research are given in light of limitations of present research and the need for further understanding of the factors contributing to student acceptance in inclusive settings is emphasized.…”
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Assistive technology for students with vision impairments by Wan Mohd Saidin, Wan Zalina, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…It also offers features that enable a user to customize the program according to his or her special need. The methodology relies on component based development. …”
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Quantitative Assessment of Upper Limb Movement in Post-Stroke Adults for Identification of Sensitive Measures in Reaching and Lifting Activities by Monika Błaszczyszyn, Agnieszka Szczęsna, Mariusz Konieczny, Paweł Pakosz, Stefan Balko, Zbigniew Borysiuk

“…The results indicate a special need to pay attention to abduction and adduction movements to improve the activities of daily living of the upper limbs after a stroke.…”
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Transformasi Digital Pada UMKM Dalam Meningkatkan Daya Saing Pasar by Toni Wijanarko Adi Putra, Achmad Solechan, Budi Hartono

“…The results of the study show that there are multiple opportunities and attention for MSMEs, where there is a special need for MSMEs to carry out digital transformation in order to increase business competitiveness and expand market share. …”
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ELT Classroom Interaction in Turkey: A Systematic Review by Meral Çapar, Gizem Şimşek

“…The envisioned change in the national educational policy until 2023 with a special focus on foreign language education involves contextual specification and localization of language teaching, and thus creates a special need to take a closer look at what is happening inside the classroom on a country basis. …”
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Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning for High-Dimensional Support Vector Machines by Xingcai Zhou, Hao Shen

“…Distributed learning has received increasing attention in recent years and is a special need for the era of big data. For a support vector machine (SVM), a powerful binary classification tool, we proposed a novel efficient distributed sparse learning algorithm, the communication-efficient surrogate likelihood support vector machine (CSLSVM), in high-dimensions with convex or nonconvex penalties, based on a communication-efficient surrogate likelihood (CSL) framework. …”
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A STEP TO A PERFECT GARMENTS FACTORY [REVIEW] by PORAV Viorica

“…Furthermore, the system is highly flexible and can rapidly be modified to changes in the production line or the need for expansion.In the same time introduce foreign technology, research and develop independently from hardware to software,. customize the special need of the customers and upgrade and expand the function easily.…”
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Metamodel-Assisted Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Radial Compressor by Mohamed H. Aissa, Tom Verstraete

“…The bounded Kriging covers a special need for robust methods in optimization able to deal with challenging geometries and a small database, which is the case for most industrial design optimizations.…”
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Development of a smart tourism integration model to preserve the cultural heritage of ancient villages in Northern Guangxi by Wen Zhen Li, Hong Zhong

“…Abstract The modern rural areas represent a vulnerable category that is in special need of sustainable development these days. However, the practice shows that, in the twenty-first century, this sustainability can be assured through the construction of smart villages. …”
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