The Moderating Effect of Social Support on Parental Stress and Depression in Mothers of Children with Disabilities by Gyeong-A Park, Oan Na Lee

“…One hundred and sixty-four participants (aged 25–58 years) in Gwangju and Jeollanamdo, South Korea, completed a set of self-reported measures. …”
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Modelling and optimization of residential electricity load under stochastic demand by Kizito Mubiru, Maureen Ssempijja

“…Data collection was made at hourly intervals over a period of four months. The major problem focussed on determining an optimal electricity loading decision to minimize consumption costs as demand changes from one state to another. …”
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Does Quantitative Research in Child Maltreatment Tell the Whole Story? The Need for Mixed-Methods Approaches to Explore the Effects of Maltreatment in Infancy by Samuel Glass, Ruchika Gajwani, Fiona Turner-Halliday

“…This mixed-methods study of maltreated children (N=92) entering care (age 6–60 months) combines a quantitative focus on the associations between care journey characteristics and mental health outcomes with a qualitative exploration of maltreatment in four different families. Methods. Care journey data was obtained from social care records; mental health and attachment assessments were carried out following entry to care; qualitative data comprised semistructured interviews with professionals, foster carers, and parents. …”
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Socio-economic benefits and challenges confronting oil palm production among indigenous rural farmers in Karonga district, Malawi by Noel Mweta, Alex Somuah Obeng, John Windie Ansah

“…Further, eight key informants were interviewed, and four focus group discussions were formed. This study, in examining oil palm production’s importance for sustaining indigenous rural farmers’ livelihoods found a multifaceted role in addressing food through cooking oil production, creating employment opportunities, and meeting other basic needs. …”
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A Refined Nomenclature System to Better Discriminate Endo- and Exo-Type Fructanases and Glucanases by Laura Leaerts, Jaime Ricardo Porras-Domínguez, Maxime Versluys, Wim Van den Ende

“…This system classifies enzymes into four categories for each type: Fr, Fn, Fn,n+1 and F1 for fructanases, and Gr, Gn, Gn,n+1 and G1 for glucanases, based on their mode of action (endo- or exo-based) and initial product profiles. …”
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Physical activity and happiness of college students: chain mediating role of exercise attitude and sleep quality by Kehan Li, Roxana Dev Omar Dev, Wenhao Li

“…A questionnaire survey was conducted with 1,308 college students from four universities in China.ResultsThe analysis yielded three key findings: (1) Physical activity significantly improves college students’ happiness, and this improvement can be achieved through direct and indirect effects. (2) Positive exercise attitude plays an important mediating role between physical activity and happiness, and a high level of exercise attitude can enhance happiness. …”
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La teoría del Garantismo: poder y constitución en el Estado contemporáneo by Jheison Torres Ávila

“…Para ello se realiza un acercamiento a los significados del paradigma garantista ( I ), a los de - rechos fundamentales como garantías ( II ), a la garantía de derechos subjetivos e intereses legítimos ( III ) y a la exigibilidad institucional y judicial de la garantía de derechos ( IV ). De esta forma, el paradigma garantista se presenta como un modelo de derecho y de Estado de derecho que propone el aseguramiento de los derechos con base en una estructura de los ordenamientos jurídicos que tiene en la cúspide a la Constitución y a los derechos fundamentales; cualquier acto que busque legalidad y legitimidad debe sujetarse a estos presupuestos.…”
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Disturbances in Body-Based Mental and Motor Imagery in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa – A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies by Akansha M. Naraindas, Sarah M. Cooney

“…Three databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, and Embase) were searched, and 19 articles were included. Four characteristics of mental imagery were found to be distorted in individuals with AN and BN: body-scaling, imagined action, mental rotation, and spatial reference frame processing. …”
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Changes in Predicted Muscle Coordination with Subject-Specific Muscle Parameters for Individuals after Stroke by Brian A. Knarr, Darcy S. Reisman, Stuart A. Binder-Macleod, Jill S. Higginson

“…Maximum force generating ability and central activation ratio of the paretic plantar flexors, dorsiflexors, and quadriceps muscle groups were obtained using burst superimposition for four individuals after stroke with a range of walking speeds. …”
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Functional variants of nouns with the suffix -ush-/-yush- in modern Russian language by E.A. Makleeva

“…The results of the functional analysis reveal that there are four functional-stylistic variants of the suffix -ush-. …”
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Feature-Level vs. Score-Level Fusion in the Human Identification System by Rabab A. Rasool

“…The comparison takes into consideration the image quality for the six combination datasets as well as the type of the applied feature extraction method. The four feature extraction methods, local binary pattern (LBP), gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), principle component analysis (PCA), and Fourier descriptors (FDs), are applied separately to generate the face-iris machine vector dataset. …”
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Two New Species of Microbothrium (Monogenea: Microbothriidae) Parasitic on Japanese Squalids (Elasmobranchii: Squaliformes) by Masato Nitta, Shogo Ota

“…This newly described species can be readily differentiated from the other four Microbothrium species by the presence of a muscular vaginal pore, simple vagina, and three turns in the sclerotized tube associated with the penis. …”

Update on New Antigens in the Pathogenesis of Membranous Nephropathy by Maurizio Salvadori, Aris Tsalouchos

“…Through these techniques, four new antigens were first detected, including neural epidermal growth factor 1 and semaphorin 3B in the so-called primary membranous nephropathy, and exostosin 1 and 2 and neural cell adhesion molecule 1 in lupus membranous nephropathy. …”
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The Impact of Social Work Students’ Experience with Supervision by Karla Pobucká, Věra Malík Holasová, Veronika Mia Racko, Lenka Honsárková

“…The data were collected using four selected techniques: a focus group, an anonymous online questionnaire from class evaluations, an anonymous online questionnaire from full semester course evaluations, and students’ reflective journals. …”
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ICESat-2 Reveals Accelerated Global Glacier Mass Loss Except Alaska From 2019 to 2023 by Yubin Fan, Lanhua Luo, Chang-Qing Ke, Genyu Wang

“…Glaciers have a mass change of −331.68 ± 59.07 Gt/yr during this four-year span, which can be equivalated to a sea level rise of 0.916 ± 0.163 mm/yr. …”
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Prevalence of Abortion and Contraceptive Practice among Women Seeking Repeat Induced Abortion in Western Nigeria by Mustafa Adelaja Lamina

“…A prospective cross-sectional study utilizing self-administered questionnaires was administered to women seeking abortion in private hospitals/clinics in four geopolitical areas of Ogun State, Western Nigeria, from January 1 to December 31 2012. …”
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ICT and agriculture in India by Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Rico Lie, Pierre Grard

“…OSCAR was evaluated through extensive interactions with farmer groups, extension personnel, IT specialists, NGO and UN staff, government officials, scientific researchers and PhD students in various disciplines and MSc students from various programs in all the four IGP countries. The experience from OSCAR is helpful in understanding the larger contexts and the impact of ICT interventions in an interdisciplinary framework.…”
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Design and development of second-generation titanium oxide photocatalysts to better our environment—approaches in realizing the use of visible light by Masakazu Anpo, Masato Takeuchi

“…In outdoor field reactivity tests, these V or Cr ion-implanted titanium oxide photocatalysts showed four to three times higher photocatalytic reactivity for those photocatalytic reactions under solar beam irradiation, as compared with the original unimplanted titanium oxide photocatalyst. …”
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Frequency-bin-encoded entanglement-based quantum key distribution in a reconfigurable frequency-multiplexed network by Anahita Khodadad Kashi, Michael Kues

“…Specifically, we demonstrate a novel scalable frequency-bin basis analyzer module that allows for a passive random basis selection as a crucial step in quantum protocols, and importantly equips each user with a single detector rather than four detectors. This minimizes massively the resource overhead, reduces the dark count contribution, vulnerability to detector side-channel attacks, and the detector imbalance, hence providing an enhanced security. …”
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Somatotype and body composition profiles of children and adolescent male basketball players by Çağdaş Özgür Cengizel, Elif Cengizel, Elvan Öz

“…The aims of this study were (a) to determine the somatotype and BC profiles of children and adolescent male basketball players and (b) to investigate the relationship between somatotype and BC. Four hundred forty-nine children and adolescent male basketball players between the ages of 7–17 participated in the study voluntarily. …”
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