Awareness and Treatment Decisions on Tooth Wear among Jordanian Dentists and Prosthodontists: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Samiha Sartawi, Nesreen A. Salim, Duaa Taim

“…Regarding treatment decisions, most dentists decided to restore worn teeth with composite and to construct a night guard. Minimally affected anterior teeth were mostly treated with fluoride. …”
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Usability and psychometric properties of a battery of tools to assess intelligence, executive functioning, and sustained attention in Tanzanian children. by Georg Loss, Hannah Cummins, Nicolaus Gutapaka, Jane Nyandele, Sylvia Jebiwott, Deborah Sumari, Thabit Athuman, Omary Juma, Susanne P Martin-Herz, Ally Olotu, Michelle S Hsiang, Günther Fink

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The five instruments identified to assess general intelligence, executive functioning, and sustained attention constructs in Tanzanian children seem to work well in this setting.…”
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Validation of the short form Compulsive Internet Use Scale in Students by Hassan Mahmoudian, abbas taghizade, Samira Golmirzaie

“…The psychometric characteristics including face, content, and construct validities, along with reliability, were appraised using SPSS and Lisrel software.Findings: The findings indicated that the Compulsive Internet Use Scale has acceptable face and content validity. …”
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Novel fingerprint key generation method based on the trimmed mean of feature distance by Zhongtian JIA, Qinglong QIN, Li MA, Lizhi PENG

“…In recent years, biometrics has become widely adopted in access control systems, effectively resolving the challenges associated with password management in identity authentication.However, traditional biometric-based authentication methods often lead to the loss or leakage of users’ biometric data, compromising the reliability of biometric authentication.In the literature, two primary technical approaches have been proposed to address these issues.The first approach involves processing the extracted biometric data in a way that the authentication information used in the final stage or stored in the database does not contain the original biometric data.The second approach entails writing the biometric data onto a smart card and utilizing the smart card to generate the private key for public key cryptography.To address the challenge of constructing the private key of a public key cryptosystem based on fingerprint data without relying on a smart card, a detailed study was conducted on the stable feature points and stable feature distances of fingerprints.This study involved the extraction and analysis of fingerprint minutiae.Calculation methods were presented for sets of stable feature points, sets of equidistant stable feature points, sets of key feature points, and sets of truncated means.Based on the feature distance truncated mean, an original fingerprint key generation algorithm and key update strategy were proposed.This scheme enables the reconstruction of the fingerprint key through re-collecting fingerprints, without the need for direct storage of the key.The revocation and update of the fingerprint key were achieved through a salted hash function, which solved the problem of converting ambiguous fingerprint data into precise key data.Experiments prove that the probability of successfully reconstructing the fingerprint key by re-collecting fingerprints ten times is 0.7354, and the probability of reconstructing the fingerprint key by re-collecting fingerprints sixty times is 98.06%.…”
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How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china by Chen Lu, Jian Chen, Jiewei Li, Xuetong Wang

“…Access to urban welfare emerges as a critical factor influencing hukou selection decisions. This study constructs an analytical framework to examine the hukou arrangements of dual-hukou families, exploring the effects of various factors related to urban welfare acquisition on the hukou selection of rural migrants. …”
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A Hierarchical Cache Architecture-Oriented Cache Management Scheme for Information-Centric Networking by Yichao Chao, Rui Han

“…., DRAM) with large-capacity, low-cost storage (e.g., SSD) to construct a hierarchical cache architecture has emerged as an effective solution to this problem. …”
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Fucose as a nutrient ligand for Dikarya and a building block of early diverging lineages by Małgorzata Orłowska, Drishtee Barua, Sebastian Piłsyk, Anna Muszewska

“…In the absence of a network map involving fucose proteins, we carried out an in-silico approach to construct the fucose metabolic map in Fungi. We analyzed the taxonomic distribution of 85 protein families in Fungi including diverse early diverging fungal lineages. …”
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State policy in the field of ensuring road safety in Ukraine through the prism of regulatory initiatives: analysis and prospects for implementation by S. O. Shatrava, D. Ye. Denyshchuk, O. V. Pohorilets

“…It has been emphasised that there is a need to implement the strategic directions of the State to ensure the education of conscious road users, strengthening road safety, infrastructure, constructive vehicle safety, as well as planning of public authorities to ensure road safety at various levels of government, which in turn should contribute to the implementation of the national policy in the field under study. …”
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The Impact of Pore Structure on Kerogen Geomechanics by Saad Alafnan

“…This work provides a novel methodology for constructing kerogen structures with different microscale properties that will be useful for delineating fundamental characteristics such as mechanical properties. …”
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Differences and driving factors of leaf functional traits between old tree and mature tree of Pinus tabulaeformis in the Loess Plateau by Yuting Lei, Zimao Feng, Zhong Zhao

“…The difference was mainly driven by soil property and genetic factors (common explanation rate was 67.89%), and the independent effect of genetic factors (10.09%) was slightly higher than that of soil property factors (2.88%). In addition, by constructing weighted gene co-expression networks analysis WGCNA), this research identified 24 candidate hub genes that regulate leaf functional traits, most of which are related to plant growth and development and the stress response, and can be used for further regulatory mechanism analysis. …”
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Fatigue Life Analysis of Aluminum Alloy Notched Specimens under Non-Gaussian Excitation based on Fatigue Damage Spectrum by Kuanyu Chen, Guangwu Yang, Jianjun Zhang, Shoune Xiao, Yang Xu

“…The appropriate FDS calculation method is selected for each task segment and the acceleration parameters are set to construct the acceleration power spectral density, which is equivalent to the pseudo-acceleration damage. …”
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Fish scale-inspired biomimetic nanocoatings on magnesium implants for vascularized bone regeneration in infected bone defects by Dan Li, Danni Dai, Jianrong Wang, Zhen Ai, Chao Zhang

“…The bionic 2D layered BP/GO nano-coating was constructed for infection resistance, osteogenic microenvironment optimization, and biodegradation control. …”
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Continuing dental education (CDE) programs: Are dentists keeping themselves updated? by Ramandeep S. Gambhir, Umang Jagga, Rina Singh, Ramandeep Kaur, Garish Kumar, Aanchal Gupta

“…Data were collected through a self-constructed three-part questionnaire which included demographic information, preferences of subjects toward CDE programs, and various barriers limiting participation. …”
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Quantifying Emissions of PM10 Generated by the Implosion of Concrete Grain Silos by Mahmoud M. Abu-Allaban, Salahuddin M. Jaber, Aiman Soleiman, Hasan Almarayeh

“…To characterize these emissions, descriptive statistics, graphical methods, inverse distance weighting interpolation, decision trees constructed with recursive partitioning, the Gaussian dispersion model, the modified box model, and regression analysis were applied. …”
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Rethinking the <i>Unio Mystica</i>: From McGinn to Ibn ʿArabī by Arjun Nair

“…By unpacking the primary terms involved in such an account—“God”, the “human being/self”, and “union”—from within the conceptual and theoretical horizons of that tradition, it problematizes the prevailing understanding of the <i>unio mystica</i> constructed from the writings of specialists in Christian mysticism. …”
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Development of an Anatomy Attitude Scale for Medical School Students and Analysis of Their Attitudes by Mehmet Ali Can

“…In the study, an Anatomy Attitude Scale was developed first in line with the literature, which consisted of 14 items and 3 subfactors, "Value of Anatomy", "Hating Anatomy", and "Time Allocated to Anatomy". The results of construct validity were also verified by confirmatory factor analysis. …”
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Prediction greenhouse gas emissions from road freight flow in South Korea for sustainable transportation planning by Hoseok Nam, Jihye Byun, Hyungseok Nam

“…Origin-destination matrices were constructed using a gravity model for each region. The modeling covered seven product categories for both inter-regional and intra-regional freight transportation and was validated using 2017 data. …”
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Key Transmission Section Search Based on Graph Theory and PMU Data for Vulnerable Line Identification in Power System by Miao Yu, Shouzhi Zhang, Fang Shi, Jianqun Sun, Jingjing Wei, Yixiao Wu, Jingxuan Hu

“…First, the method combines with the graph theory and PMU data to construct the grid topology map. Second, the comprehensive indicators for screening vulnerable lines are proposed by fully considering the network topology and line capacity, which combines with power exchange efficiency and energy fluctuation probability. …”
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Longitudinal reciprocal relationship between media violence exposure and aggression among junior high school students in China: a cross-lagged analysis by Yifei Dou, Meng Zhang

“…A cross-lagged panel model was constructed to analyze the reciprocal relationship between media violence exposure and aggression over time.Results(1) Media violence exposure and aggression were significantly and positively correlated in all three assessments. (2) Cross-lagged analysis revealed that media violence exposure at Time 1(T1) significantly positively predicted aggression at Time 2(T2), and subsequently significantly positively predicted media violence exposure at Time 3(T3). …”
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Didactic potential of the textbook in preparing students for self-regulated cognitive activity by Svetlana V. Pavlova, Maria A. Yugova

“…The significant developmental potential of the academic discipline “Foreign Language” makes it possible to organize “constructive, cognitive and creative activity” of students striving for self-development. …”
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