Enhancing a Commercial Game Engine to Support Research on Route Realism for Synthetic Human Characters by Gregg T. Hanold, Mikel D. Petty

“…A methodology for assessing the realism of routes and other behaviors using a quantitative metric was developed. …”
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Enhancing caregiver resilience: A systematic review of interventions for chronic disease management by Saeedeh Mohammadi Saber, Behzad Rahimian

“…Quantitative data provides empirical support for the advantages of psychoeducation, mindfulness-based intervention, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based intervention, and strengthening family coping resources approach, supportive-educational program based on COPE (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced) model and commitment therapy. …”
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The role of risk attitudes in shaping digital privacy preferences: evidence from a large-scale survey by Jing Chen, Manling Zhang, Mengyao Guo, Ze Gao

“…It moves beyond demographic factors to examine how risk attitudes, the key psychological parameters in the utility function that determines consumer behaviors, related to consumers’ privacy decisions. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Concrete in Rigid Pavement Construction. by Mutuyimana, John Robert

“…The rising cost of traditional construction materials and environmental effects of dumped asphalt waste concrete has prompted the investigation into the performance of reclaimed asphalt pavement as aggregates in concrete for rigid pavement construction. The behaviors of conventional and RAP aggregates were investigated in the laboratory, three concrete mixes of 1:1:2, 1;1:1, and 1:1.5:3 at varying water/cement ratios of 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 were made using RAP and conventional aggregates and casted for strength test. …”
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Large-scale high uniform optoelectronic synapses array for artificial visual neural network by Fanqing Zhang, Chunyang Li, Zhicheng Chen, Haiqiu Tan, Zhongyi Li, Chengzhai Lv, Shuai Xiao, Lining Wu, Jing Zhao

“…Various synaptic plasticity behaviors have been achieved owing to the switchable electronic storage performance. …”
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Relationship between Respondent Characteristics and Noise Intensity with Increased Blood Pressure in Production Unit Workers of PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia, Tbk. Plant Margomulyo by Sofia Sofia, Endang Dwiyanti, Nisrina Oksigendaru Dicha, Andrea Thrisiawan Pradhana

“…Nonetheless, no statistically significant correlation was seen between elevated blood pressure and dietary state (p = 0.467), smoking behaviors (p = 0.763), or history of hypertension (p = 0.170). …”
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Inaudible airborne ultrasound affects emotional states in the olfactory bulbectomized rat depression model by Tsugumi Yamauchi, Kou Takahashi, Toshinori Yoshioka, Daisuke Yamada, Yoshio Nakano, Satoka Kasai, Satoshi Iriyama, Kazumi Yoshizawa, Shoichi Nishino, Satoru Miyazaki, Akiyoshi Saitoh

“…In contrast to HE scores, US exposure did not influence anxiety-like behaviors in the elevated plus maze. In conclusion, we demonstrated that exposure to airborne US can alleviate depressive-like symptoms in the OBX rat depression model. …”
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Impaired Healing of a Cutaneous Wound in an Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase-Knockout Mouse by Takashi Kitano, Hiroshi Yamada, Maki Kida, Yuka Okada, Shizuya Saika, Munehito Yoshida

“…Lacking iNOS retards macrophage invasion and its expression of fibrogenic components that might further impair fibrogenic behaviors of fibroblasts.…”
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Non-linear analysis of masonry infilled steel frame under in-plane loading using Multi Pier method by Mohammad Mosa Ahmadvand, Ahmad Maleki, Masoud Pourbaba

“…The present study introduces a novel method for analyzing masonry infilled steel frames, termed the Multi Pier (MP) approach, which utilizes truss elements exhibiting nonlinear softening behaviors. The basis of the model is to transfer the masonry infilled frame into an assemblage of piers and braces. …”
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Discontinuous Structural Transitions in Fluids with Competing Interactions by Ana M. Montero, Santos B. Yuste, Andrés Santos, Mariano López de Haro

“…Although the 1D and 3D results share common features, dimensionality introduces differences: these behaviors occur in distinct temperature ranges, require deeper wells, or become attenuated in 3D. …”
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Anticipating Stock Market of the Renowned Companies: A Knowledge Graph Approach by Yang Liu, Qingguo Zeng, Joaquín Ordieres Meré, Huanrui Yang

“…An increasing number of the renowned company’s investors are turning attention to stock prediction in the search for new efficient ways of hypothesizing about markets through the application of behavioral finance. Accordingly, research on stock prediction is becoming a popular direction in academia and industry. …”
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Liquid Chromatography/Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Identification of In Vitro and In Vivo Metabolites of Bornyl Gallate in Rats by Wei Lan, Liujiao Bian, Xinfeng Zhao, Pu Jia, Xue Meng, Yizhen Wu, Shixiang Wang, Sha Liao, Jie Yu, Xiaohui Zheng

“…Metabolites identification involved analyzing the retention behaviors, changes of molecular weights and MS/MS fragment patterns of BG and the metabolites. …”
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A Network-Based Approach to Modeling and Predicting Product Coconsideration Relations by Zhenghui Sha, Yun Huang, Jiawei Sophia Fu, Mingxian Wang, Yan Fu, Noshir Contractor, Wei Chen

“…This paper presents a network-based approach based on Exponential Random Graph Models to study customers’ consideration behaviors according to engineering design. Our proposed approach is capable of modeling the endogenous effects among products through various network structures (e.g., stars and triangles) besides the exogenous effects and predicting whether two products would be conisdered together. …”
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Psychological Stress Delays Periodontitis Healing in Rats: The Involvement of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor by Ya-Juan Zhao, Qiang Li, Bai-Xiang Cheng, Min Zhang, Yong-Jin Chen

“…The stressed rats showed reduced body weight gain, behavioral changes, and increased serum corticosterone and ACTH levels (). …”
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Dynamic and Quantitative Method of Analyzing Service Consistency Evolution Based on Extended Hierarchical Finite State Automata by Linjun Fan, Jun Tang, Yunxiang Ling, Benxian Li

“…Traditional methods are mostly qualitative and empirical, and they do not consider the dynamic disturbances among factors in service’s evolution behaviors such as producing, publishing, calling, and maintenance. …”
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Environment-Aware CMT for Efficient Video Delivery in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks by Yuanlong Cao, Changqiao Xu, Jianfeng Guan, Fei Song, Hongke Zhang

“…The e -CMT provides environment-aware cognitive ability for efficient video delivery with three modules, which are Path Quality-aware Model (PQM) that devotes to estimate path quality and select candidate path using for retransmission, Adaptive Retransmission Trigger (ART) that contributes to cognize packet loss and trigger efficient retransmission behaviors, and Congestion-avoid Data Distributor (CDD) that serves to enable Partial-Reliable retransmission to mitigate congestion condition. …”
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Occupational Hazards Knowledge among a Sample of Medical and Paramedical Staff in Baghdad City by Sajjad M. hasan, Suhair M. Hassoun, Luma H. Ali

“… Occupational hazards include any behaviors which possess the potential to cause or raise risks at the workplace, as well as the compounding effects of accidents and occupational diseases within workers in the health and medical field. …”
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Coaching Parents of Children with Sensory Integration Difficulties: A Scoping Review by Susan Allen, Fiona J. Knott, Amanda Branson, Shelly J. Lane

“…Group intervention can lead to caregivers’ improved perceived and actual knowledge of sensory integration, as well as a sense of self-efficacy in dealing with sensory-related child behaviors. Current evidence is limited. Suggestions for future research are offered.…”
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COVERS Neonatal Pain Scale: Development and Validation by Ivan L. Hand, Lawrence Noble, Donna Geiss, Laura Wozniak, Charles Hall

“…A new pain scale was developed, the COVERS scale, which incorporates 6 physiological and behavioral measures for scoring. Newborns admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or Well Baby Nursery were evaluated for pain/discomfort during two procedures, a heel prick and a diaper change. …”
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Older adults do not consistently overestimate their action opportunities across different settings by Isabel Bauer, Milena S. Gölz, Lisa Finkel, Maddalena Blasizzo, Sarah E. M. Stoll, Jennifer Randerath

“…Future research is needed to further unravel these setting-dependent behavioral differences and the factors contributing to more extreme judgment tendencies with growing age.…”
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