Development of a novel instrument to measure Japanese psychiatric nurses’ technological competency as caring in nursing by Yoshiyuki Takashima, Hirokazu Ito, Gil P. Soriano, Yuko Yasuhara, Kyoko Osaka, Savina Schoenhofer, Tetsuya Tanioka

“…However, factor 4, for which items were Q30, Q33, Q34, and Q35 (r = 0.03, 0.04, 0.21, 0.11, respectively), were inverted items and had low I-T correlation values. …”
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Cardiorenal Involvement in Metabolic Syndrome Induced by Cola Drinking in Rats: Proinflammatory Cytokines and Impaired Antioxidative Protection by Matilde Otero-Losada, Hernán Gómez Llambí, Graciela Ottaviano, Gabriel Cao, Angélica Müller, Francisco Azzato, Giuseppe Ambrosio, José Milei

“…Body weight, nutritional data, plasma glucose, cholesterol fractions, TG, urea, creatinine, coenzyme Q10, SBP, and echocardiograms (0 mo and 6 mo). …”
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Reliability of the Second and Third Iterations of the Sensory–Motor Dysfunction Questionnaire in a Subclinical Neck Pain Population by Ushani Ambalavanar, Heidi Haavik, Nitika Kumari, Imran Amjad, Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi, Bernadette Ann Murphy

“…Background/Objectives: This study aimed to address limitations of the pilot reliability study on the Sensory–Motor Dysfunction Questionnaire (SMD-Q) in two parts. Part 1 evaluated the intra-rater reliability of SMD-Q version 2 (V2). …”
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Multi-decadal stability of water ages and tracer transport in a temperate-humid river basin by Siyuan Wang, Markus Hrachowitz, Gerrit Schoups, Anna Störiko

“…While at daily scales exhibiting considerable variability with young water fractions in riverflow F _wy,Q ∼ 0.01–0.91 and in evaporation F _wy,E ∼ 0.02–0.75, the variability of F _wy,Q and F _wy,E gradually reduces with increasing averaging time scales and converge to 0.45–0.47 and 0.96–0.97, respectively, between individual decades. …”
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Determining dry oak lumber consumption for the production of solid edge-glued panels by Volodymyr Mayevskyy, Rostislav Moroz, Serhiy Kopynets, Oleh Ferents, Roman Shchupakivskyy, Yevstakhii Myskiv

“…During the experimental studies, sawn timber with a thickness of 31 mm, a width of 175 mm, a length of 2150 mm was processed with the following distribution by grade: Q-FA – 3.10%, Q-F1a – 7.88%, Q-F1b – 6.86%, Q-F2 – 13.83%, Q-F3 – 68.33% of their total volume. …”
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اثر ریزگردها بر فلئورسانس کلروفیل و خصوصیات فتوسنتزی نیشکر (Saccharum officinarum L.) دراهواز by ناجی سیاحی, موسی مسکر باشی, پیمان حسیبی, محمود شمیلی

“…در شرایط شدت نور کم در اثر اعمال ریزگردها، تولید قند کاهش معنی‌داری نشان داد. نتایج نشان داد که qP همبستگی بالایی با Fv/Fm نشان داد، لذا کاهش qP سبب کاهش Fv/Fm شد. …”
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Le laser comme moyen de dégagement de produits de corrosion sur un objet archéologique : le cas de la dorure sur alliage cuivreux by Valentine Brodard

“…Three lasers Nd:YAG  were used during our tests : a laser Short free running, a laser Long Q-switch and a laser Q-switch. The tests have been done on gilded copper samples prepared after two pre-Columbian masks. …”
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Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to a Vector Integral Equation with Deviating Arguments by Cristóbal González, Antonio Jiménez-Melado

“…A similar equation, but requiring a little less restrictive hypotheses, is y(t)=ω(t)-∫0∞‍q(t,s)F(s,y(γ1(s)),…,y(γN(s)))ds,t≥0. In the case of q(t,s)=(t-s)+, its solutions with asymptotic behavior given by ω(t) yield solutions of the second order nonlinear abstract differential equation y''(t)-ω''(t)+F(t,y(γ1(t)),…,y(γN(t)))=0, with the same asymptotic behavior at ∞ as ω(t).…”
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Nonexistence of Global Solutions for Coupled System of Pseudoparabolic Equations with Variable Exponents and Weak Memories by Kh. Zennir, H. Dridi, S. Alodhaibi, S. Alkhalaf

“…Such problem has been previously studied in the case if p and q are constants. New here is the case of variables of nonlinearity p and q which make the problem has a scientific interest.…”
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ANALYSIS OF HOUSEHOLD SAVING FACTORS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - APPLICATION OF ARDL METHODOLOGY by Irma Đidelija

“…The aim of this research is to determine which factors favored the positive trends of household saving in BiH in the period 2000q1-2016q3. As a methodological tool for achieving the research goal and testing the defined hypothesis, the ARDL methodology was used. …”
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Schatten's theorems on functionally defined Schur algebras by Pachara Chaisuriya, Sing-Cheong Ong

“…For each triple of positive numbers p,q,r≥1 and each commutative C*-algebra ℬ with identity 1 and the set s(ℬ) of states on ℬ, the set 𝒮r(ℬ) of all matrices A=[ajk] over ℬ such that ϕ[A[r]]:=[ϕ(|ajk|r)] defines a bounded operator from ℓp to ℓq for all ϕ∈s(ℬ) is shown to be a Banach algebra under the Schur product operation, and the norm ‖A‖=‖|A|‖p,q,r=sup{‖ϕ[A[r]]‖1/r:ϕ∈s(ℬ)}. …”
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Commutativity theorems for rings with constraints on commutators by Hamza A. S. Abujabal

“…Then R is commutative. If Q(n) is replaced by m and n are relatively prime positive integers, then R is commutative if extra constraint is given. …”
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On Existence of Solution for a Class of Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Nonlinearities That Lies between Different Powers by Claudianor O. Alves, Marco A. S. Souto

“…We prove that the semilinear elliptic equation −Δu=f(u), in Ω, u=0, on ∂Ω has a positive solution when the nonlinearity f belongs to a class which satisfies μtq≤f(t)≤Ctp at infinity and behaves like tq near the origin, where 1<q<(N+2)/(N−2) if N≥3 and 1<q<+∞ if N=1,2. In our approach, we do not need the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition, and the nonlinearity does not satisfy any hypotheses such those required by the blowup method. …”
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Unitary $L^{p+}$-representations of almost automorphism groups by Dabeler, Antje, Mai Elkiær, Emilie, Gerasimova, Maria, de Laat, Tim

“…We deduce the following consequence for a large natural class of almost automorphism groups $G$ of trees: For every $p \in (2,\infty )$, the group $G$ has a unitary $L^{p+}$-representation that is not an $L^{q+}$-representation for any $q < p$. This in particular applies to the Neretin groups.…”
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REEL DÖVİZ KURU VE ÇIKTI ARASINDAKİ NEDENSELLİK İLİŞKİSİ: TÜRKİYE ÖRNEĞİ (1990-2006) by Ahmet Ay, Şerife Şaylan, İsmail Koçak

“…Bu ilişkinin araştırılmasında Türkiye ekonomisinin 1990Q1-2006Q3 dönemine ait reel GSYİH ve reel efektif döviz kuru değişkenlerine ait veriler kullanılmıştır. …”
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Fundamentalist Signals in Volatility Scenarios: Evidence in the Brazilian Stock Market by Edson Bastos, Patricia Bortolon, Vinicius Maia

“…The methodological choice is for estimators in panel data for the analysis of non-financial companies that have shares traded on B3 - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão - in the period from 2011.3Q to 2018.2Q. The results show evidence of changes in the explanatory capacity of fundamentalist signals in different volatility scenarios, and for different sensitivities to IVol-BR. …”
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Multiplicity of Positive Solutions for Fractional Differential Equation with p-Laplacian Boundary Value Problems by Sabbavarapu Nageswara Rao

“…We investigate the existence of multiple positive solutions of fractional differential equations with p-Laplacian operator Da+β(ϕp(Da+αu(t)))=f(t,u(t)),  a<t<b, uja=0,  j=0,1,2,…,n-2, u(α1)(b)=ξu(α1)(η), ϕp(Da+αu(a))=0=Da+β1(ϕp(Da+αu(b))), where β∈(1,2], α∈(n-1,n],  n≥3, ξ∈(0,∞), η∈(a,b), β1∈(0,1], α1∈{1,2,…,α-2} is a fixed integer, and ϕp(s)=|s|p-2s,  p>1,  ϕp-1=ϕq,  (1/p)+(1/q)=1, by applying Leggett–Williams fixed point theorems and fixed point index theory.…”
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On the rate of convergence of degenerate U-statistics by Olga Januškevičienė

“…Let qi,  i ≥ 1 be eigenvalues of the Hilbert-Schmidt operator associated with the kernel h(x, y) and q1 be the largest eigenvalue. Under the condition β3 := E|h(X, X1)|3 <∞, we prove that Δn = ρ(T, T0) ≤ cβ3q−11 n−1/7 +cq−11∑i ≥ 1 qin−1/4, where T0 is the limit statistic and ρ is a Kolmogorov (or uniform) distance. …”
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On Costas Sets and Costas Clouds by Konstantinos Drakakis

“…We abstract the definition of the Costas property in the context of a group and study specifically dense Costas sets (named Costas clouds) in groups with the topological property that they are dense in themselves: as a result, we prove the existence of nowhere continuous dense bijections that satisfy the Costas property on ℚ2, ℝ2, and ℂ2, the latter two being based on nonlinear solutions of Cauchy's functional equation, as well as on ℚ, ℝ, and ℂ, which are, in effect, generalized Golomb rulers. …”
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Effects of predation efficiencies on the dynamics of a tritrophic food chain by Maria Paola Cassinari, Maria Groppi, Claudio Tebaldi

“…The analysis is performed in terms of twobifurcation parameters, denoted by $p$ and $q$, which measure theefficiencies of the interaction processes. …”
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