Highly sensitive persons feel more emotionally lonely than the general population by Filip Meckovsky, Lukas Novak, Zdenek Meier, Peter Tavel, Klara Malinakova

“…Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) appear to have a higher need for intimacy and understanding in close relationships, which is essential to know for them, their friends, families and therapists.…”
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Anti-Social Behavior and Teenager’s Wellbeing: A Case Study of Northern Division Kabale Municipality. by Kyarikunda, Esau

“…It impacts on individuals, families, and communities; it prevents a peaceful community life and degrades the environment. …”
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Economic Burden Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease Patients in China by Jun-Xiu Yang, Lei Chen

“…PD reduces patients’ quality of life and exerts a heavy economic burden on patients and their families. The purpose of this research is to identify the costs of PD and to evaluate the economic distribution of medical care for PD patients in China. …”
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Gambling in Connecticut adolescents: Prevalence, socio-demographic characteristics, trauma exposure, suicidality, and other risk behaviors. by Elina A Stefanovics, Zu Wei Zhai, Marc N Potenza

“…Gambling was also associated with traumatic experiences, depression/dysphoria, poor academic performance, and less familial social support. The results provide an up-to-date estimate of the current prevalence and correlates of gambling among Connecticut adolescents. …”
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Novel Mutations in the MKKS, BBS7, and ALMS1 Genes in Iranian Children with Clinically Suspected Bardet–Biedl Syndrome by Roghayeh Dehghan, Mahdiyeh Behnam, Mansoor Salehi, Roya Kelishadi

“…In this study, we used whole-exome sequencing (WES) to investigate the underlying mutations in four Iranian children from consanguineous families with a clinical diagnosis of Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS). …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Indo-Canadians with and without Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibodies by Hugh James Freeman

“…Seropositive and seronegative patients were similar in age, sex, birth or duration of residence in Canada, site and severity of disease, familial history and complications, including pouchitis. …”
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Tight computationally efficient approximation of matrix norms with applications by Juditsky, Anatoli, Kotsalis, Georgios, Nemirovski, Arkadi

“…We specify rather general families of norms on the argument and the images space (“ellitopic” and “co-ellitopic”, respectively) allowing for reasonably tight computationally efficient upper-bounding of the associated operator norms. …”
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Early, integrated palliative care for people with chronic respiratory disease: lessons learnt from lung cancer by Anne M. Walker, Donald R. Sullivan, Phan Nguyen, Anne E. Holland, Natasha Smallwood

“…Palliative care aims to reduce suffering and improve quality of life for patients and their families. An established evidence base exists that has demonstrated the essential role of specialist palliative care for people with lung cancer. …”
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Zooplankton Diversity, Dynamics and Correlation with Physicochemical Parameters at Ugbevwe Pond in Delta State, Nigeria by J.A. Edoreh, T.O.T IMoobe, E. Ikpokpo, M.M. Ubrei-Joe, C.M. Ubrei-Joe

“…A total of six species of copepod belonging to two subfamilies and a total of five species of Cladocera belonging to three families were encountered. The spatial distribution of species of cladoera shows that of the five species encountered, three species namely Alona eximia, Alona costata and Macrothrix sp. occurred in all three stations. …”
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Dutch Lives. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (1987–): Development and Research by Kees Mandemakers, Jan Kok

“…A special project is LINKS by which the indices of names from the Dutch civil registration are used to reconstruct pedigrees (for the period 1780–1940) and complete families (1811–1900) for the whole of the Netherlands or parts of it. …”
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Examination of the Relationship between Childhood Trauma and Psychological Resilience in Preschool Teachers by Hatice Ozaslan, Rabia Seyma Gun, Gulumser Gultekin Akduman

“…The results also showed that higher physical abuse, physical neglect, and overprotection–overcontrol subscale scores have correspondingly lower ARM-R relational resources, personal resources, and familial resources subscale and total ARM-R scores. …”
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Schools as Sites of Homelessness Prevention by Jayne Malenfant, Naomi Nichols

“…We conclude with possible actions to support youth homelessness prevention in schools, including creating more flexible ways for children and families to access supports, resourcing “champion” teachers, and addressing the insidious biases and discrimination in the organization of school policies.  …”
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Natural and sexual selection and functional roles influence colouration but not the amount of variation in butterfly wing colour patterns by Bhavya Dharmaraaj, Krushnamegh Kunte

“…We measured reflectance spectra, and extracted colour parameters, to compare the amount of variation in sexually versus naturally selected colour patches across wing surfaces and sexes of 20 butterfly species across 4 families (Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae). …”
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Ephedra alte (Joint Pine): An Invasive, Problematic Weedy Species in Forestry and Fruit Tree Orchards in Jordan by Jamal R. Qasem

“…Forty species of shrubs, ornamental, fruit, and forest trees belonging to 24 plant families suffered from the climbing habit of E. alte. …”
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Contamination with escherichia coli of homemade fresh butter in rural areas of ferizaj and gjilan in kosovo by Enver Bajrami, Kapllan Sulaj

“…<p> <b> Results:</b> This research was carried out in 2014 to evaluate the number of &#946;-glucuronidase-positive Escherichia coli in homemade fresh butter samples collected by families in rural areas of regions; Gjilan and Ferizaj in Kosovo. …”
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Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading? by Rick Mourits

“…However, in order to find out the determinants of later-life mortality, external validity of results, blind spots due to missing data, and familial clustering need to be studied more thoroughly.…”
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Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Water Quality, La Gallega-Morropón Creek, Piura, Peru by Mónica Santa María Paredes-Agurto, Armando Fortunato Ugaz Cherre,, José Manuel Marchena Dioses, and Robert Barrionuevo Garcia

“…A total of 1772 individuals of macroinvertebrates were recorded, distributed in 22 families. Psychodidae had an abundance of 670 individuals, followed by morphospecies (Gasteropoda) with 379 individuals, Chironomidae with 275 individuals, and Elmidae with 136 individuals (all indicators of water quality). …”
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Dutch Lives. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (1987–): Development and Research by Kees Mandemakers, Jan Kok

“…A special project is LINKS by which the indices of names from the Dutch civil registration are used to reconstruct pedigrees (for the period 1780–1940) and complete families (1811–1900) for the whole of the Netherlands or parts of it. …”
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Dutch Lives. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (1987–): Development and Research by Kees Mandemakers, Jan Kok

“…A special project is LINKS by which the indices of names from the Dutch civil registration are used to reconstruct pedigrees (for the period 1780–1940) and complete families (1811–1900) for the whole of the Netherlands or parts of it. …”
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Evidence for the Paleoethnobotany of the Neanderthal: A Review of the Literature by Gerhard P. Shipley, Kelly Kindscher

“…., starch, pollen, phytoliths, and seeds) in soil and dental calculus, dental and tool wear, coprolites, and genetics, for Neanderthal’s nutritional, medicinal, and ritual use of plants, which includes 61 different taxa from 26 different plant families found at 17 different archaeological sites. …”
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