Improving birth preparation with the hypnosis online course “The Peaceful Birth”: a randomized controlled study by Luisa Motz, Rosa Marie Brückner, Barbara Schmidt

“…We randomized pregnant women into a hypnosis and a control group and surveyed them via online questionnaires during their pregnancy and after their birth using standardized questionnaires.MethodsWe included 221 pregnant women and assigned 110 women to a hypnosis and 111 women to a control group. …”
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The Impact of Online Learning System on Students Affected with Stroke Disease by Sobia Wassan, Chen Xi, Tian Shen, Kamal Gulati, Kinza Ibraheem, Rana M. Amir Latif Rajpoot

“…We have used Cronbach’s alpha to test the reliability of a scale, so we then have 19 individual attributes responding to 174 participants via survey. …”
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ChatGPT Versus Modest Large Language Models: An Extensive Study on Benefits and Drawbacks for Conversational Search by Guido Rocchietti, Cosimo Rulli, Franco Maria Nardini, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Raffaele Perego, Ophir Frieder

“…While previous approaches proposed NLP-based custom models, requiring significant engineering effort, our approach is straightforward and conceptually simpler. Not only do we improve effectiveness over the current state-of-the-art, but we also curate the cost and efficiency aspects. …”
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Global Stability for Novel Complicated SIR Epidemic Models with the Nonlinear Recovery Rate and Transfer from Being Infectious to Being Susceptible to Analyze the Transmission of C... by Fehaid Salem Alshammari, F. Talay Akyildiz

“…In this model, we consider the rate at which individuals lose immunity. …”
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Receding Horizon Control of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Using Nonlinear Programming by Hamza Khan, József K. Tar, Imre Rudas, Levente Kovács, György Eigner

“…By utilizing their possibilities we are able to predict the possible future behavior of our system; moreover, we are able to intervene in its operation as well. …”
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Mimetic Gravity: A Review of Recent Developments and Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics by Lorenzo Sebastiani, Sunny Vagnozzi, Ratbay Myrzakulov

“…As a case study within which we apply the concepts previously discussed, we study a mimetic Hořava-like theory, of which we explore solutions and cosmological perturbations in detail. …”
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Block-Graceful Designs by Dilara Erdemir, Emre Kolotoğlu

“…We complete the article with some open problems and conjectures.…”
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Inflation models with Peccei–Quinn symmetry and axion kinetic misalignment by Hyun Min Lee, Adriana G. Menkara, Myeong-Jung Seong, Jun-Ho Song

“…Abstract We propose a consistent framework with the U(1) Peccei–Quinn (PQ) symmetry for obtaining the initial condition for axion kinetic misalignment from inflation. …”
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The work of Glenn F. Webb by William E. Fitzgibbon

“…``We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."…”
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Influence of a Multiphase Inquiry-based Learning Project on Students' Science Literacy by Crystal Machado, Lizoon Nahar

“…We also describe the influence of the project on student attitudes. …”
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Adaptive Media Streaming to Mobile Devices: Challenges, Enhancements, and Recommendations by Kristian Evensen, Tomas Kupka, Haakon Riiser, Pengpeng Ni, Ragnhild Eg, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen

“…We first analyze the media traffic from a Norwegian network and media provider. …”
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Identification of novel genes responsible for a pollen killer present in local natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. by Anthony Ricou, Matthieu Simon, Rémi Duflos, Marianne Azzopardi, Fabrice Roux, Françoise Budar, Christine Camilleri

“…In this study, we identified the two other genes of the pollen killer by using CRISPR-Cas9 induced mutants. …”
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Homogenization of Parabolic Equations with an Arbitrary Number of Scales in Both Space and Time by Liselott Flodén, Anders Holmbom, Marianne Olsson Lindberg, Jens Persson

“…We proceed with a weaker version of this concept called very weak multiscale convergence. …”
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Exploring the Inducement for Social Awareness Behavior and Optimal Control Strategy on Nipah Virus Transmission by Saima Efat, K. M. Ariful Kabir

“…Moreover, we systematically analyze the parameter properties within the epidemic model to address diverse real-world scenarios.…”
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A Computer Vision-Based Framework for Snow Removal Operation Routing by Mohamed Karaa, Hakim Ghazzai, Yehia Massoud, Lokman Sboui

“…We offer an artificial intelligence-based image-based approach for estimating snow depth and traffic volume on roads. …”
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Cellular senescence-associated genes in rheumatoid arthritis: Identification and functional analysis. by You Ao, Qing Lan, Tianhua Yu, Zhichao Wang, Jing Zhang

“…We started by selecting five RA datasets from GEO. …”
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Theory of Robust Quantum Many-Body Scars in Long-Range Interacting Systems by Alessio Lerose, Tommaso Parolini, Rosario Fazio, Dmitry A. Abanin, Silvia Pappalardi

“…We analyze spectral properties upon raising the power-law decay exponent α of spin-spin interactions from the solvable permutationally symmetric limit α=0. …”
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From relativistic gravity to the Poisson equation by Eric A. Bergshoeff, Giacomo Giorgi, Luca Romano

“…Given our Ansatz, we show that not all the p-branes satisfy the required conditions. …”
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Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems at Resonance with Nonlinear Wentzell Boundary Conditions by Ciprian G. Gal, Mahamadi Warma

“…In the second part, we give some additional results on existence and uniqueness and we study the regularity of the weak solutions for these classes of nonlinear problems. …”
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A Viscous Fluid Flow through a Thin Channel with Mixed Rigid-Elastic Boundary: Variational and Asymptotic Analysis by R. Fares, G. P. Panasenko, R. Stavre

“…We study the nonsteady Stokes flow in a thin tube structure composed by two thin rectangles with lateral elastic boundaries which are connected by a domain with rigid boundaries. …”
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