Occupational Therapy Research in Schools: A Mapping Review by Patrícia L. de Oliveira Borba, Beatriz P. Pereira, Joana R. B. de Souza, Roseli E. Lopes

“…Examining the existing scientific production invites us to reflect on whether the dominant focus in this field has responded to the contemporary problems of schools.…”
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Cancer-associated fibroblasts in carcinogenesis by Shufen Zhou, Zekun Zhao, Zhaojun Wang, Hanzheng Xu, Yijie Li, Ke Xu, Wei Li, Jiahua Yang

“…Abstract In contemporary times, cancer poses the most significant threat to human life and safety. …”
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Design and mechanical analysis of a novel modular bionic earthworm robot with upright functionality by Shufeng Tang, Jianan Yao, Yue Yu

“…Abstract With the escalating demand for exploration within confined spaces, bionic design methodologies have attracted considerable attention from researchers, primarily due to the intrinsic limitations of human access to hazardous environments. However, contemporary bionic robots primarily attain linear motion through the axial radial deformation of their body segments, thereby lacking the upright functionality that is characteristic of these organisms. …”
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“Theatre’s Other: Event and Testimony in British Verbatim Plays” by Clare Finburgh

“…A particular kind of remembering and staging of our transient contemporary “reality” has become prevalent in the UK since the end of the twentieth century: verbatim theatre. …”
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An Updated Review on Properties and Indications of Calcium Silicate-Based Cements in Endodontic Therapy by Fateme Eskandari, Alireza Razavian, Rozhina Hamidi, Khadije Yousefi, Susan Borzou

“…The need for maintaining or reconstructing tooth structure has increased in contemporary endodontic treatment approaches. This research thus discusses the attempts to create comprehensive data collection regarding calcium ion release, bond strength, alkalinizing activity and bioactivity, and the ability to stimulate the formation of hydroxyapatite as a bioactive feature of CSCs. …”
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Novel Hybrid Radial-Based Neural Network Model for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Long-Term HPC Concrete by Hanlie Cheng, Shiela Kitchen, Graciela Daniels

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Navigating Change: Experiences of Digitalisation Projects Within the Swedish Transport Administration by Fredrik Molin, Eva Norrman Brandt

“…Background: Digital transformation has emerged as an important theme in contemporary organisational studies, particularly within public sector institutions striving to enhance operational efficiency, improve service delivery, and foster innovation. …”
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Management lag: can social management keep up with high technologies? by K. V. Isaeva

“…It has been concluded that contemporary high-tech society is forced to look for new, efficient governance methods. …”
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The Experience of Emotional Distancing in The Managementagement of Compulsive Hoarding: A Visual Methods Approach Using The “Hoard” Acronym Tool by Colin Jones, Satwant Singh

“…A number of methodological approaches have been utilised to explore and explain this complex phenomenon, though few have made use of contemporary visually inspired approaches. In an earlier study, it was found that visual methods proved beneficial in the research and subsequent treatment of compulsive hoarding, therefore a second study was designed with a specific focus on emotional distancing using the structured “HOARD” acronym tool. …”
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Towards a Standard Benchmarking Framework for Domain Adaptation in Intelligent Fault Diagnosis by Mohammed M. Farag

“…Domain shift is a major problem facing contemporary data-based intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) solutions. …”
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MDCKE: Multimodal deep-context knowledge extractor that integrates contextual information by Hyojin Ko, Joon Yoo, Ok-Ran Jeong

“…Extraction of comprehensive information from diverse data sources remains a significant challenge in contemporary research. Although multimodal Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) tasks have garnered significant attention, existing methods often focus on surface-level information, underutilizing the potential depth of the available data. …”
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Chile-Perú: discursos contrapuestos y sus manifestaciones geopolíticas by Lester Cabrera Toledo

“…And while various elements of cooperation are observable in bilateral relations discourse, these are sidelined thanks to a mutual discursive tendency to maximize the negative and minimize the positive in their contemporary history.…”
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Improved YOLOv8n based helmet wearing inspection method by Xinying Chen, Zhisheng Jiao, Yuefan Liu

“…Abstract This paper proposes the YOLOv8n_H method to address issues regarding parameter redundancy, slow inference speed, and suboptimal detection precision in contemporary helmet-wearing target recognition algorithms. …”
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Bone-Targeted Therapies in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Evolving Paradigms by Joelle El-Amm, Ashley Freeman, Nihar Patel, Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching

“…While several radiopharmaceuticals were approved for pain palliation in mCRPC including strontium and samarium, alpharadin is the first radiopharmaceutical to show significant overall survival benefit. Contemporary therapeutic options including enzalutamide and abiraterone have effects on pain palliation and SREs as well. …”
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Rendre compte de l'insaisissable by Youssoupha Tall, Jeanne Riaux, Benjamin Sultan

“…These observations prompt us to take a cautious approach to the contemporary project of integrating ‘local knowledge’ into modern forms of scientific forecasting.…”
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Application of real options valuation in nuclear energy systems by Abdollah Arasteh

“…The present implementation of economies of scale has led to the development of a Light Water Reactor (LWR) design that lacks the ability to assess the strategic advantage and economic potential of contemporary nuclear systems. Real options analysis and portfolio theory are used to diversify and modify nuclear investments. …”
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Kindergarten teachers’ emotional intelligence and surface acting: the chain mediating effects of self-efficacy and work engagement by Shucun Sun, Zhonglian Yan, Caixia Sun

“…BackgroundEmotional labor, distinct from physical and mental labor, has gained significant attention in contemporary organizational psychology research. As a strategy for performing emotional labor, surface acting refers to the process of faking emotions to meet the demands of organizations’ norms. …”
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An Overview of the BALSAC Population Database. Past Developments, Current State and Future Prospects by Hélène Vézina, Jean-Sébastien Bournival

“…The BALSAC database, developed since 1971, contains data on the Quebec population from the beginnings of European settlement in the 17th century to the contemporary period. Today, BALSAC is a major research infrastructure used by researchers from Quebec and elsewhere, both in the social sciences and in the biomedical sciences. …”
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Biblioteka mojego wieku – czyli jaka? by Artur Jazdon

“…Contemporary libraries of the twenty-first century are characterized by a marked fluctuation of roles and functions commonly ascribed to them. …”
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Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz

“…This essay builds on recent critical discussion of Dickens’s novels in terms of the ‘uniformitarian’ and ‘catastrophist’ paradigms of time and change, then current in contemporary geological discourse. While previous scholarship has mainly focused on these ideas as they are represented in Dickens’s later novels, this essay examines an earlier text, Martin Chuzzlewit, the only Dickens novel to reference Lyell’s Elements of Geology by name and, (through its American subplot), the only novel to explore fundamentally contrasting paradigms of origins, history, and nationhood. …”
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