Bidirectional relationships between phonological processing and basic number knowledge in kindergarten children: a longitudinal study by Xin Chen, Chi Ma, Zihan Yang, Xiujie Yang

“…Specifically, early phonological awareness at time 1 could predict later number identification, and early number comparison at time 1 was a significant predictor of later phonological memory. …”
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Temporal Foraging and Ranging Patterns Suggested the Niche Partitioning of Two Sympatric Herbivores, Axis axis and Bubalus bubalis, in the Nijhum Dweep National Park of Bangladesh by Aftab Hossain, Syeda Ismat Ara, Biswajit Nath, Kazi Fayzatul Zannat, Md. Farid Ahsan

“…Spotted deer spent most of their time inside the forest and forest edges, whereas, buffalos mostly spent their time in the open grazing grounds. …”
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Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: The Learning Curve of a Low Volume Surgeon by Anuar I. Mitre, Mario F. Chammas, José Eugênio A. Rocha, Ricardo Jordão Duarte, Gustavo Xavier Ebaid, Flavio Trigo Rocha

“…An enhancement of estimated blood loss, surgery length, and presence of a positive surgical margin were all considered as a function of surgeon’s experience. Results. Operative time was 267 minutes for group A, 230 minutes for group B, and 159 minutes for group C, and the operative time decreased over time, but a significant difference was present only between groups A and C (). …”
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The landscape of family medicine in India - A cross-sectional survey study. by Archna Gupta, Raman Kumar, Ramakrishna Prasad, Sunil Abraham, Nisanth Menon Nedungalaparambil, Paul Krueger, Carolyn Steele Gray, Megan Landes, Sanjeev Sridharan, Onil Bhattacharyya

“…We had 272 respondents. 61.0% of respondents completed a full-time in-person residency program, while 39.0% completed a part-time distance or blended-type program. …”
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Regeneration of Deteriorated Internal Combustion Engine Components used in Thermal Power Plants by William Quitiaquez, Hugo Meneses, Patricio Quitiaquez, Isaac Simbaña

“…In addition to this time, the time used in the initial preparation and final machining must be added; however, the time is substantially less than the manufacturing of a new spare part, which brings with it an increase in the availability of these spare parts to perform scheduled maintenance in the engines for power generation, contributing to improve the efficiency of the national electric system. …”
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Gorilla Troops Optimizer Combined with ANFIS for Wire Cut EDM of Aluminum Alloy by Elango Natarajan, V. Kaviarasan, Wei Hong Lim, S. Ramesh, K. Palanikumar, T. Sekar, V. H. Mok

“…Different combinational options of pulse-on time (P1), pulse-off time (P2), servo wire feed (WF), and current (I) were investigated and surface roughness after machining was observed. …”
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Exploring the Performance of Different On-Demand Transit Services Provided by a Fleet of Shared Automated Vehicles: An Agent-Based Model by Senlei Wang, Goncalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Hai Xiang Lin

“…Comparing the TVTS system, which has inconvenient access in peak hours, with the PTS systems, which always makes available door-to-door transport, we conclude that the latter could achieve a similar system performance as the former in terms of average waiting time, service time and system capacity.…”
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Gender and Authorship in Annals of Surgery: A nineteen-year review including the pandemic by Jane W. Liang, PhD, Marcello Chang, MD, MCS, Sharon L. Stein, MD, Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

“…This gap widened until the number of submissions peaked in 2020, after which submissions from men appeared to decrease at a faster rate than those from women. Acceptance rates and time to decision have generally declined over time, but articles by women experienced, on average, higher acceptance rates and longer time to decision during recent years compared with those by men. …”
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The Effect of Slickwater on Shale Properties and Main Influencing Factors in Hydraulic Fracturing by Jiawei Liu, Xuefeng Yang, Shengxian Zhao, Yue Yang, Shan Huang, Lieyan Cao, Jiajun Li, Jian Zhang

“…After 0.3 d (imbibition stability time), the damage of fracturing fluid to shale permeability is basically stable (55.9%). …”
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Surgical techniques in tonsillectomy: A comparative analysis of cold steel dissection and bipolar diathermy. by Nisar Akber Khan, Muhammad Dawood Saleem, Muhammad Ali, Abdul Shakoor, Nighat Arif, Izzah Islam

“… Objective: To compare intra-operative blood loss, operative time and postoperative pain scores with cold steel dissection technique versus bipolar diathermy technique in tonsillectomy at our institution. …”
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Online Learning as e-Learning: The Quality and Results (Critical Analysis) by A. V. Dozhdikov

“…From an organizational point of view, the correct “rotation” of the contingent of students, when part of the time they study full-time, and part of the time they learn online with computers / tablets and high-quality Internet access, will not lead to a deterioration in the quality of education, but will significantly reduce the spread of the pandemic.…”
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Effect of Cellulase Enzyme Treatment on Cyst Wall Degradation of Acanthamoeba sp. by Tisha Lazuana, Hendri Astuty, Ika Puspa Sari

“…Furthermore, treatment results with the most optimum concentration and incubation time were observed by using SEM to see changes in the surface of the walls of the cyst. …”
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Forced motion control of a mobile robot by T. Yu. Kim, R. A. Prakapovich, A. A. Lobatiy

“…It is required to control the position, speed, acceleration and direction of movement of the mobile robot at each moment of time along a known route. A method for forced control of the movement of a transport mobile robot was proposed. …”
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Evidence of a Lead Metathesis Product from Calcium Hydroxyapatite Dissolution in Lead Nitrate Solution by Oratai Saisa-ard, Weenawan Somphon, Winya Dungkaew, Kenneth J. Haller

“…The needle-like crystal morphology observed for PbHAp after 24 h reaction time developed into hexagonal-rod crystal morphology within 48 h reaction time. …”
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Comparation Tidal Harmonic Based on IoT Instrument Using Admiralty Method in Tanjungpinang Waters by M Hasbi Sidqi Alajuri, Hollanda Arief Kusuma, Tonny Suhendra, Dwi Eny Djoko Setyono

“…The difference in each time series seen from the data (MSL) is 7cm. Therefore, Tidal data from each time series has no significant differences.…”
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On expansions for nonlinear systems Error estimates and convergence issues by Beauchard, Karine, Le Borgne, Jérémy, Marbach, Frédéric

“…Inspired by quantum mechanics, we introduce a new mixed expansion, designed to isolate the role of a time-invariant drift from the role of a time-varying perturbation.Second, in the context of nonlinear ordinary differential equations driven by regular vector fields, we give rigorous proofs of error estimates between the exact solution and finite approximations of the formal expansions. …”
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A Rescheduling Approach for Freight Railway considering Equity and Efficiency by an Integrated Genetic Algorithm by Zhuotong Bai, Hui Wang, Lin Yang, Jiajie Li, Huapu Lu

“…An integrated two-dimension genetic algorithm (ITGA) approach is developed to reobtain an optimized timetable of sufficient quality while meeting the time requirements for real-time rescheduling. In the experiment, the effectiveness of the ITGA approach was employed in a simple case and a real-world case in the Netherlands freight railway. …”
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Effects of Indwelling Pleural Catheter on Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study by Qian Yao, Siyang Peng, Yanping Wu, Pi Liu

“…However, there are few studies focused on the effects and timing of indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) on SAP. …”
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Evaluation of Failure Probability in Series System of Three-Axle Trucks under Strong Crosswind by Yahui Hu, Yingshi Guo, Rui Fu, Qingjin Xu

“…The model is used to obtain the dynamic response of the three-axle truck under strong crosswind conditions as per the time-varying curves of the vertical load of the truck, the time-varying curves of the lateral displacement of the center of mass, and the time-varying curves of the heading angle. …”
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Differentiated Speed Planning for Connected and Automated Electric Vehicles at Signalized Intersections considering Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer by Lan Yang, Mengjie Han, Shan Fang, Guoyuan Wu, He Sheng, Heng Wei, Xiangmo Zhao

“…It can easily turn the disadvantages of waiting time for red phase into the advantages of charging benefits for electric vehicles (EVs). …”
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