Characteristics of temper tantrums in 1–6-year-old children and impact on caregivers by Warangkana Prutipaisan, Issarapa Chunsuwan, Tippawan Hansakunachai, Paskorn Sritipsukho

“…Background Temper tantrums are common behavioral difficulties in children. Although they are generally considered a normal part of development, certain characteristics— such as aggression, prolonged duration, and frequent occurrences—have been linked to psychological issues and can negatively impact both the child and their caregivers. …”
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Vaccine Prophylaxis of Pneumococcal Infections in Children under Conditions of Severe Flood in the Amur River Basin by Aleksandr G. Chuchalin, Gennadiy G. Onishchenko, Victor P. Kolosov, Olga P. Kurganova, Tatiana A. Zaitseva, Leonid G. Manakov, Galina N. Kholodok, Juliy M. Perelman, Roman S. Kozlov, Natalia M. Ivakhnishina, Olga E. Trotsenko, Albina P. Bondarenko

“…We aimed to give clinical and epidemiological assessment of the effectiveness of vaccination programs of respiratory viral and pneumococcal infections and generalization of regional experience in the organization of a set of measures aimed at their prevention in the postflood period in the Far-Eastern region. …”
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Pavement Disease Visual Detection by Structure Perception and Feature Attention Network by Bin Lv, Shuo Zhang, Haixia Gong, Hongbo Zhang, Bin Dong, Jianzhu Wang, Cong Du, Jianqing Wu

“…To further improve robustness, the generalized intersection over union (GIoU) loss function is adopted, ensuring better stability across targets of varying shapes and sizes. …”
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Calibration of Low-Cost Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors for Irrigation Management Applications by Ahmed A. Abdelmoneim, Christa M. Al Kalaany, Roula Khadra, Bilal Derardja, Giovanna Dragonetti

“…The study reports the resulting calibration function along with the accuracy achieved with the generalized calibration function. The sensors proved to be accurate, with an R² value ranging between 0.85 and 0.87 and a root mean square value (RMSE) ranging between 4.5 and 4.9%. …”
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Measures to support students’ research activities and scientific mentoring in Russian universities by P. A. Ambarova, N. V. Shabrova

“…The results of an empirical study conducted in 2024 using the methods of traditional analysis of documents (normative legal acts on measures to support research and development at the federal, regional and local levels) and a semi-structured interview with scientific mentors from among academic staff of universities (n = 30) are presented.   Main results: generalization of measures to support research and development at three levels (federal, regional and local) of higher education management. …”
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Non-Destructive Testing of Concrete Materials from Piers: Evaluating Durability Through a Case Study by Abraham Lopez-Miguel, Jose A. Cabello-Mendez, Alejandro Moreno-Valdes, Jose T. Perez-Quiroz, Jose M. Machorro-Lopez

“…Considering the above, it is necessary to carry out durability studies on concrete to determine the integrity conditions in which the infrastructure is found, the reasons for its deterioration, the environmental factors that affect it, and its useful life under these conditions, and develop restoration or protection plans. Generally, the durability studies include non-destructive testing such as ultrasonic pulse velocity, electrical resistivity, porosity measurement, and capillary absorption rate. …”
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A qualitative analysis of Arabic language websites about extraction of third molars by Muath Saad Alassaf, Mohannad Mohammed Abu Aof, Osama Ayidh Alharbi, Abdulrahman Turkustani, Moataz Ibrahim Karbouji, Nebras Althagafi, Ahmed Mohammed Almghamsi, Ghayda Yousof Zolaly, Shadia Elsayed

“…Conclusion the study results indicating a broad spectrum in the explicitness and relevance of information with moderate quality across the evaluated websites and the investigation revealed significant variations in the content quality and readability provided by websites belonging to various affiliations, with non-profit websites generally achieving higher scores in JAMA criteria and readability measures.…”
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Proinflammatory Cytokine IL-6 and JAK-STAT Signaling Pathway in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms by Vladan P. Čokić, Olivera Mitrović-Ajtić, Bojana B. Beleslin-Čokić, Dragana Marković, Marijana Buač, Miloš Diklić, Nada Kraguljac-Kurtović, Svetozar Damjanović, Pavle Milenković, Mirjana Gotić, Puri K. Raj

“…STAT5A gene expression was generally reduced in MPNs. IL-6 cytokine levels were increased in plasma, as well as IL-6 protein levels in bone marrow stroma of MPNs, dependent on JAK2V617F mutation presence in ET and PMF patients. …”
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Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Service Interactions Through Scale Effects and Time Effects and Their Social-Ecological Determinants in the Tuo River Basin by Simin He, Yusong Xie, Jing Zhang, Yanyun Luo, Qianna Wang

“…The results showed that (1) SC and WY in the region exhibited an increasing trend, HQ and NE declined, and ESs at the county scale showed a central collapse feature; (2) synergies between HQ–NE, HQ–WY, and SC–WY pairs generally increased, the relationships between NE–SC and NE–WY pairs showed slight fluctuations, and there was a decline in the synergies within the HQ–SC pair; and (3) the interplay of all drivers positively affected ESs, with land use/land cover being the most significant and GDP exerting a lower influence. …”
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Comparative Abilities of Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, Abdominal Volume Index, Body Adiposity Index, and Conicity Index as Predictive Screening Tools for Metabolic Syndrome... by Lawrence Quaye, William Kwame Boakye Ansah Owiredu, Nafiu Amidu, Peter Paul Mwinsanga Dapare, Yussif Adams

“…Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) associated better with MetS and other cardiovascular risk factors. Generally, BMI and WC showed largest area under curves (AUCs) than abdominal volume index (AVI), body adiposity index (BAI), and conicity index (CI) in predicting MetS and its components. …”
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Suppressing GDF15 enhances the chemotherapeutic effect of 5 FU on MSI-H CRC by regulating the ferroptosis pathway SLC7A11/GSH/GPX4 by Zhi min Huang Fu, Ming Xiao, Hailun Xie, Shuxian Zhang, Tang Yi, Qingshu Li, Ming Li, Yalan Wang

“…In our study, we found that GDF15 is generally elevated in pancarcinoma, particularly in colorectal cancer, and serves as an early indicator of the development of colorectal cancer. …”
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Predicting Nanobinder-Improved Unsaturated Soil Consistency Limits Using Genetic Programming and Artificial Neural Networks by Ahmed M. Ebid, Light I. Nwobia, Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Frank I. Aneke

“…The results of the stabilization exercise showed substantial development on the soil properties examined, while the prediction exercise showed that ANN outclassed GP in terms of performance evaluation, which was conducted using sum of squared error (SSE) and coefficient of determination (R2) indices. Generally, nanostructuring of the component binder material has contributed to the success achieved in both soil improvement and efficiency of the models predicted.…”
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Dust Scattering Albedo at Millimeter Wavelengths in the TW Hya Disk by Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Hideko Nomura, Takashi Tsukagoshi, Kiyoaki Doi, Kenji Furuya, Akimasa Kataoka

“…Since the albedo and dust temperature are generally degenerate in observed thermal dust emission, it is challenging to determine them simultaneously. …”
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Mechanical response of deep circular shaft supported by steel frame and sprayed concrete in loess-paleosol sequence: A case study by Jiawei Kang, Guohua Deng, Shengjun Shao, Liqin Wang

“…Loess has a large pore structure and well-developed vertical joints, belonging to a strong structural soil layer with good self-supporting properties. Generally, the actual lateral pressure exerted on underground structures is relatively small and its distribution is complex. …”
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Fractional hitting sets for efficient multiset sketching by Timothé Rouzé, Igor Martayan, Camille Marchet, Antoine Limasset

“…We introduce the concept of Fractional Hitting Sets, a generalization of Universal Hitting Sets, which cover a specified fraction of the k-mer space. …”
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Classification of Chest X-Ray Images into COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases by Arun Sharma, Sheeba Rani, Dinesh Gupta

“…To increase the dataset size and develop generalized models, we performed 25 different types of augmentations on the original images. …”
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Determination of seed yield, quality and fixed oil components of different basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) genotypes: Evaluation of fatty acid profile by PCA biplot analysis by Musa Türkmen, Esra Nermin Ertekin, Yusuf Ziya Aygün, Yılmaz Eren

“…Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) plants are generally grown for different properties and produce seed with a considerable amount at the end of the growing season. …”
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La pandemia de COVID-19 y el sector de enfermería en el Noroeste argentino. Implicancias y particularidades en la provincia de Jujuy by Marcelo Jerez

“…En esta tarea, además de resaltar sus efectos en la labor y vida doméstica, comunes en líneas generales en buena parte del país, haremos hincapié en las especificidades experimentadas en el sector durante la pandemia. …”
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Social and humanitarian policy of Ukraine in the conditions of war by Humeniuk T.

“…The systemic and functional method was used to study the system of regulation of the sphere of social relations in Ukraine, systems of social policy measures as well as functional interrelationships between them. The method of generalization was used for the systematization and interpretation of the results obtained during the study.Results. …”
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The association between short-term apparent temperature exposure and human coagulation: A time-series study from Beijing, 2014–2023 by Yi Zhang, Tiancheng Wang, Jiaqi Shi, Ying Ma, Nairui Yu, Xinyan Zhou, Pai Zheng, Zhangjian Chen, Guang Jia

“…The study employed generalized additive models to analyzed the linear and nonlinear associations between AT and coagulation indices. …”
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