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Stellarator fusion systems enabled by arrays of planar coils
Published 2025-01-01“…The second near-term use case considered is a deuterium–tritium stellarator fusion pilot plant, called Helios, that would be approximately twice the linear dimension of the Eos design.…”
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Implementing Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Anxiety in Adults: Systematic Review
Published 2025-01-01“…A total of 40 articles spanning the case study, commentary, meta-analysis, mixed methods study, pilot randomized controlled trial, randomized controlled trial, qualitative study, quantitative study, review, and systematic review article types were identified as eligible for this mixed methods review. …”
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Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters
Published 2025-01-01“…Field surveys and monitorings in offshore pilot oyster reefs and experimental seafloor areas showed (i) that brown crabs, lobsters and oysters co-occur in these subtidal environments and (ii) interact with each other. …”
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Safety and Tolerance of Donor-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Pediatric Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: The MYSTEP1 Study
Published 2017-01-01“…Methods/Design. 7 to 10 children undergoing living-donor pLT will be included in this open-label, prospective pilot trial. A dose of 1 × 106 MSCs/kg body weight will be given at two time points: first by intraportal infusion intraoperatively and second by intravenous infusion on postoperative day 2. …”
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Paraspinal muscle volume and fatty infiltration after circumferential minimally-invasive deformity correction
Published 2025-01-01“…Preoperative muscle volumes were strongly correlated with postoperative volumes. Conclusions: In this pilot series, paraspinal and psoas muscle volumes were preserved after circumferential MIS deformity correction. …”
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Characterisation of EfbA from the Endodontic Pathogen Enterococcus faecalis and Prediction of Immunodominant EfbA Epitope Peptides: An In-vitro and In-silico Study
Published 2025-01-01“…Materials and Methods: An in-vitro and in-silico pilot study was conducted in the Department of Microbiology at Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. …”
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Methodological and practical aspects of using satellite imagery to assess the military impact on soils
Published 2024-12-01“…The information derived from satellite imagery serves as a crucial step in developing measures for the restoration of the soil cover in the pilot area affected by military degradation. The study utilised satellite imagery of varying resolutions and geographic information systems to calculate the damage caused by military actions with sufficient accuracy. …”
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Transcranial photobiomodulation for reducing symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and modulating brain electrophysiology in children aged 2–7: an open label study
Published 2025-01-01“…BackgroundSmall pilot studies have indicated that transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) may help alleviate symptoms of neurological conditions like depression, traumatic brain injury and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).ObjectiveTo examine the effect of tPBM on the behavioral symptoms of ASD and brain electrophysiology in children aged 2–7.MethodsWe conducted an open label, one-arm study with 23 participants, aged 2–7, previously diagnosed with ASD. …”
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Building on and tailoring to: Adapting a cancer caregiver psychoeducational intervention for rural settings
Published 2024-09-01“…The enCompass intervention is undergoing ongoing single‐arm pilot of rural cancer patient/caregiver dyads targeting caregiver coping self‐efficacy and patient/caregiver distress (Clinical Trials #NCT05828927).…”
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Application of the flipped classroom model based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in endodontics education for undergraduate dental students
Published 2025-01-01“…Results Both learning model cohorts filled out assessment questionnaires upon completion of the pilot curriculum. Compared with the responses from students in the lecture-based group, the self-rating of theoretical knowledge reported by students in the flipped classroom cohort increased by 10.9%, from 7.1 ± 0.8 to 7.9 ± 0.7 (t = 2.912, p < 0.006). …”
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The genome sequence of the Montseny horsehair worm, Gordionus montsenyensis sp. nov., a key resource to investigate Ecdysozoa evolution
Published 2024-03-01“…As part of the European Reference Genome Atlas pilot effort to generate reference genomes for European biodiversity, we present the taxonomic description and chromosome-level genome assembly of a newly described species of Nematomorpha (Gordionus montsenyensis Schmidt-Rhaesa & Fernández sp. nov.). …”
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The scoping, design, and plasma physics optimization of the Eos neutron source stellarator
Published 2025-01-01“…On the path to a fusion pilot plant, Thea Energy plans to build Eos, a sub-breakeven, deuterium-deuterium, beam-target fusion, stellarator neutron source facility for producing tritium and other valuable radioisotopes. …”
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Strategies to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and youth well-being: a scoping review protocol
Published 2022-07-01“…Findings of this study will be disseminated at national and international conferences and will inform our pan-Canadian multidisciplinary team of researchers, public, health professionals and knowledge users to codesign and pilot test a digital psychoeducational health tool—an interactive, web-based tool to help Canadian youth and their families address poor mental well-being resulting from and persisting beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.…”
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Using a digital health intervention “INTERCEPT” to improve secondary prevention in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients: protocol for a mixed methods non-randomised feasibility st...
Published 2025-01-01“…Methods This non-randomised, pilot feasibility study with embedded process evaluation will be conducted with a sample of 40 patients in an acute hospital setting. …”
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Review and syntheses: Ocean alkalinity enhancement and carbon dioxide removal through marine enhanced rock weathering using olivine
Published 2025-01-01“…To more confidently assess the potential and impact of olivine-based mERW, dedicated pilot studies under field conditions are needed, which should be conducted at a sufficiently large spatial scale and monitored for a long enough time with sufficient temporal resolution. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to global access to life-saving skills training: an international cross-sectional survey
Published 2025-01-01“…Data were collected using a custom-designed survey, based on the literature and following pilot testing. Data were analysed descriptively and visualised according to countries and regions. …”
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Chromosome-level reference genome assembly for the mountain hare (Lepus timidus)
Published 2025-01-01“…Following the previously published brown hare reference genome assembly, the mountain hare is the second Finnish pilot species for the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) initiative, a collaborative effort to generate reference genomes for European biodiversity. …”
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Evaluating a targeted selective speech, language, and communication intervention at scale – Protocol for the Happy Talk cluster randomised controlled trial. [version 3; peer review...
Published 2025-01-01“…Discussion This robust study evaluates a public health approach to the delivery of speech language and communication intervention in the ‘real world’ in the community, which focuses on prevention and equity of access. Pilot work indicates that the programme is feasible, acceptable to parents and staff, cost effective, and suitable for implementation at scale. …”
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Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations between care providers and ageing Canadians in the community: a participatory mixed-methods study protocol
Published 2024-01-01“…Phase 2 includes six co-design workshops with community providers (n=90) in rural and urban sites across three Canadian provinces to co-design tools, resources and processes for enabling the use of the adapted model as a conversation guide. Phase 3 involves pilot and feasibility testing the co-designed conversations with older adult clients of providers from Phase 2 (n=180).Ethics and dissemination Phases 1 and 2 of this study have received ethics clearance at the University of Waterloo (ORE #44187), University of British Columbia (#H22-02306) and St. …”
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Capacitación en obra para obtener la polivalencia de los operarios y verificación de sus efectos en la construcción civil Training on site for the versatility of the workers and ve...
Published 2009-12-01“…The research was conducted with 22 workers in a pilot site in the city of Encarnación in Paraguay, enabling this to obtain data on changes in production and the impact these have generated in the construction process. …”
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