Autism Spectrum Social Stories In Schools Trial (ASSSIST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial analysing clinical and cost-effectiveness of Social Stories... by Dean McMillan, Victoria Allgar, Barry Wright, David Marshall, Shehzad Ali, Joy Adamson, Chris Williams, Elizabeth Littlewood, Dominic Trépel, Lisa Dyson, Hannah Ainsworth, Liz Cook, Lisa Hackney, Danielle Collingridge Moore, Rebecca Hargate, Anne McLaren, Jo Whitehead

“…Participants (n=50) will be randomised to either the Social Stories intervention or a comparator group where they will be read standard stories for an equivalent amount of time. Statistics will be calculated for recruitment rates, follow-up rates and attrition. …”
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Effects of Coach’s Verbal Encouragement During Small-Sided Volleyball Games on Specific Physical Fitness and Technical-Tactical Behavior of Youth Athletes by Taufiq Hidayat, Irma Febriyanti, Advendi Kristiyandaru, Suroto, Hari Wisnu, Ahmet Kurtoğlu, Amayra Tannoubi, Joseph Lobo, Baglan Yermakhanov, Jarosław Muracki, Edi Setiawan

“…In addition, there were differences in technical-tactical behavioral factors based on time effects (all, p < 0.05), interaction factors (p < 0.05), except service (p > 0.05), and group factors (all, p < 0.05). …”
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Simple and Fail-safe Method to Transform Miniprep Escherichia coli Strain K12 Plasmid DNA Into Viable Agrobacterium tumefaciens EHA105 Cells for Plant Genetic Transformation by Beenzu Siamalube, Emmanuel Ehinmitan, Maina Ngotho, Justus Onguso, Steven Runo

“…Conventionally, plant genetic transformation has relied on time-consuming, costly, and technically demanding procedures, such as electroporation and chimeric viruses or biolistic methods, which usually yield variable transformation efficiencies. …”
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Dynamic distribution and accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Pueraria lobata during growth based on field experiment by Qing-xiang Jiang, Zhi-xin Wang, Xiang Zhou, Qiu-Fang Cao, Si-qi Hu, Jiang-nan Luo, Wen-wen Deng, Hui Li

“…As an important crop with Chinese medicine homologous food function, Pueraria lobata (P. lobata) was selected as the model crop with rhizome as the products to explore the absorption, and distribution of PAHs under the natural field environment for the first time. After treated with PAHs in soil at different growth stages, the detailed PAHs in soil and tissue were analyzed. …”
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Honeys from the Argentine Phytogeographic Provinces Chaqueña and Monte in Catamarca and La Rioja by Aimará Ayelen Poliero, Inés Aubone, Marisa Amadei Enghelmayer, Valeria Soledad Rosso, Sandra Rosa Fuselli, Rosa Maria Alonso-Salces

“…The contents of sugars and total soluble solids, moisture, pH, EC and color of honeys from Catamarca and La Rioja are published here for the first time. This study contributes to the typification of honeys from these provinces, which will provide them an added value and allow them to access to new markets.…”
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Contextualizing the challenges of education graduate students in the Philippines: translating needs analysis into strategic solutions by Nilo Jayoma Castulo, Arlyne C. Marasigan, Ma. Laarni D. Buenaventura, Jayson L. de Vera, Evelyn C. Bagaporo, Mark Ponce C. San Juan, Nathaniel S. Dalida

“…Regarding the top 12 challenges of graduate students at Y University were lack of time for research, lack of research capacity building, conflict of schedule between work and study, lack of mentoring support, extended cost for residency, heavy workload as a working student, lack of academic resources, financial problems, emotional concerns, unresponsive supervisor, lack of support from the library, and lack of motivation. …”
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Real-world outcomes of maintenance therapy post-autologous stem cell transplantation in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma by Ka-Won Kang, Dae Sik Kim, Se Ryeon Lee, Mi Hwa Heo, Hyeon-Seok Eom, Jongheon Jung, Ji Hyun Lee, Sung-Hyun Kim, Youngil Koh, Chang-Ki Min, Seung Shin Lee, Sung-Nam Lim, Ho-Young Yhim, Myung-won Lee, Je-Jung Lee, Sung-Hoon Jung, Soo-Mee Bang, Kihyun Kim, the Korean Multiple Myeloma Working party [KMMWP]

“…The median progression-free survival (PFS) from the time of ASCT was 26.4 and 44.1 months in the no-maintenance and maintenance groups, respectively. …”
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Modified AlexNet Convolution Neural Network For Covid-19 Detection Using Chest X-ray Images by Shadman Q. Salih, Hawre Kh. Abdulla, Zanear Sh. Ahmed, Nigar M. Shafiq Surameery, Rasper Dh. Rashid

“…World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed more than 5.5 million cases and 341,155 deaths from the disease till the time of writing this paper. This new worldwide disease forced researchers to make more precise way to diagnose COVID-19. …”
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Cost Analysis of Running Web Application in Cloud Monolith, Microservice and Serverless Architecture by Muhammad Uzair Nadeem, Syed Muhammad Khaliq-ur-Rahman Raazi, Bilal Mehboob, Syed Mubashir Ali, Saqlain Raza

“…Lambda outperformed other architectures by reducing average response time by 25% and cost by 15% under low-traffic scenarios compared to Monolithic and Microservice architectures. …”
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Self-Reported COVID-19 Vaccine Status and Barriers for Pediatric Emergency Patients and Caregivers by Amanda M. Szarzanowicz, Kendra Fabian, Maya Alexandri, Carly A. Robinson, Sonia Singh, Michael Wallace, Michelle D. Penque, Nan Nan, Changxing Ma, Bradford Z. Reynolds, Bethany W. Harvey, Heidi Suffoletto, E. Brooke Lerner

“…There was variation across sites, but overall, 15% of caregivers of unvaccinated children wanted the child tobe vaccinated with the most common barriers to vaccination identified as safety data (25%), time availability (20%), and ability to obtain an appointment (13%). …”
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Impact of trapping on tritium self-sufficiency and tritium inventories in fusion power plant fuel cycles by Samuele Meschini, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin, George R. Tynan, Sara E. Ferry

“…This, coupled with the replacement of components subject to significant tritium trapping, slows down fuel cycle dynamics, resulting in an extended tritium doubling time (50% increase), higher start-up inventory (30% increase), and higher required tritium breeding ratio (2%–5%) compared to a scenario without tritium trapping.…”
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Establishment and characterization of ovarian clear cell carcinoma patient-derived xenografts by Joseph J. Caumanns, Shang Li, Gert J. Meersma, Evelien W. Duiker, Ate G. J. van der Zee, G. Bea A. Wisman, Steven de Jong

“…The PDX.F1 engraftment success rate was over 30% with similar latency time and growth speed of PDX.F2. ARID1A, PTEN, ATM, BRCA1 and PIK3CA mutations were found in matched tumors and PDXs. …”
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Optimization of microwave vacuum drying of pineapples: A three-stage approach by Wei-Mon Yan, Chu-Yu Chen, Bo-Lin Chen, Mohammad Amani, Liang-Han Chien, Wen-Ken Li

“…Higher microwave power densities significantly reduced drying time, and temperature control ensured product quality by balancing drying efficiency and minimizing overheating risks. …”
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How do age and sex influence pain threshold and tolerance among Santal tribal people living in West Bengal, India? by Arpita Santra, Subrata Kumar Roy, Monali Goswami, Diptendu Chatterjee

“…This study incorporated 484 healthy Santal tribal individuals aged 18–88 years (male 203 and female 281) living in Howrah and Purba Bardhaman Districts of West Bengal State, India, who reported no chronic or significant pain at the time of data collection. Pain threshold and tolerance levels were assessed using a digital algometer. …”
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SAR Image Simulation for Crater Terrain Using Formation Theory-Based Modeling and Hybrid Ray-Tracing by Ya-Ting Zhou, Yongsheng Zhou, Qiang Yin, Fei Ma, Fan Zhang

“…Finally, simulated SAR images of the crater terrain are generated using the SAR echo fast time-frequency domain simulation algorithm and the chirp scaling imaging algorithm. …”
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Taguchi Grey relational analysis (GRA) based multi response optimization of flammability, comfort and mechanical properties in station suits by Hafsa Jamshaid, Awais Ahmad Khan, Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Naseer Ahmad, Vijay Chandan, Viktor Kolář, Miroslav Müller

“…Fire fighters’ stations suits are expected to have adequate flame resistance for protection of the wearer. At the same time the comfort of wearing is essential to prevent fatigue and to maintain the efficiency during long working hours. …”
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Enhancement of Phosphorus Sorption onto Peanut shell by Means of Aluminum and Iron Oxide Coatings by Hazhar Jalal Ali, Muhammed Saeed Rasheed, Omran A Hawramy, Aya Muhammed Saeed

“…The findings of this study demonstrated that the adsorption of phosphorus (P) increased as the duration of incubation increased. At the same time, it decreased with a decrease in the pH of the solution. …”
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Orange sweet potato flour production: Comparative effects on ultrasound, drying, storage, and techno-economic assessment by Analaura Gómez-Cisneros, Alberto Ordaz, Liliana Santos-Zea, Anayansi Escalante-Aburto, Edith Ponce-Alquicira, Mariel Calderón-Oliver

“…Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of 3 factors and their interaction: ultrasound treatment (40 kHz, 10 min at 25 °C), storage time after ultrasound (0–96 h), and drying methods (cabinet dehydration and freeze-drying) to obtain sweet potato flour without reducing bioactive compounds, color and antioxidant activity, as well as its techno-economic feasibility. …”
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Potentials of 24-hour esophageal рН monitoring in diagnostics and treatment efficacy control of gastroesophageal reflux disease by N. L. Dzhakhaya, A. S. Trukhmanov, M. Yu. Kon’kov, O. A. Sklyanskaya, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…At evaluation of all pH-metry parameters, it has been noticed, that mostly two parameters – the fourth (total time of esophageal рН is under 4) and the seventh (cumulative, or DeMeester score) – show stable steady stage-wise increase of scores related to increase in severity of esophageal mucosa damage. …”
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Strategies of physiological, morpho-anatomical and biochemical adaptation in seedlings of native species exposed to mining waste by Belén Heredia, Pablo Diaz Recio, Brian Jonathan Young, Pablo Pacheco, Franco Barcelo Zungre, Silvina Hruby, Maria Andreína Acevedo, María Inés Mercado, Gonzalo Roqueiro

“…A peak of the enzymatic activity of guaiacol peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase and catalase enzymes in P. flexuosa seedlings showed a negative relationship between metal(loid) concentration and exposure time. After a drop in the enzymatic activity, an increase in the malondialdehyde content (lipid peroxidation) was observed. …”
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