Arlington Park: Variations on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway by Monica LATHAM

“…The novel is made up of an accumulation of little snippets of life (“patches of life,” Arlington Park 220) and the narrative switches between various characters that lead subjective and introspective “Woolfian” lives, microscopically observed by the narrator who renders their obsessive self-analysis and interrogations. …”
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Risk Factors for Urgency Incontinence in Women Undergoing Stress Urinary Incontinence Surgery by Leslie M. Rickey, Liyuan Huang, David D. Rahn, Yvonne Hsu, Heather J. Litman, Elizabeth R. Mueller

“…Results. Over two-thirds of subjects reported bothersome UUI at baseline. TOMUS patients with more comorbidities had higher UDI irritative scores (CCI score 0 = 39.4, CCI score 1 = 42.1, and CCI score 2+ = 51.0, P=0.0003), and higher depression scores were associated with more severe UUI. …”
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The Effect of Varied Time Interval and Micro-Current (Direct) on the Level of Biomarker (IL-6) and Rate of Tooth Movement: An Animal Study by Parnita Dwivedi, Ashish Agrawal, Subash Chandra Gupta, Tehmin Chou

“…Interleukin-6 (IL-6) concentration was accessed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The data were subjected to one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s post hoc test. …”
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Sonographic Determination of Gallbladder Dimension among Apparently Healthy School-aged Children in Kano Metropolis by Abubakar Aminu Abubakar, Mansur Yahuza, Ramalan Mansur, Anas Yau, Bara’atu Sani Maikusa

“…Gallbladder length (GBL), width, height, volume, and wall thickness were recorded. The subject’s demographic information was also obtained. …”
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Forest Pedagogy towards the Problem of Polish Educational Monoculture: Projective Pilot Studies by Michał Paluch

“…Each monoculture is created with the view of matching the production demand for relatively identical objects – on the one hand, these can be trees “for boards”, but on the other hand, young people subjected to a systemic process of “labour force allocation” (Parsons 1969), serving the development of consumer attitudes. …”
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Problematic issues of collecting evidence by the defense in criminal proceedings by I. O. Nechaieva

“…Attention has been drawn to the fact that the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine enshrines provisions according to which the defense is granted the right to collect factual data significant for criminal proceedings, but at the same time, the procedural form of implementing this right is not fully provided for, which is the subject to legislative clarification. In the course of discussion, the suggestions of the scientists regarding the elimination of the inconsistency between the use and application of the phrase “the right to professional legal assistance”, which is enshrined in the Basic Law of Ukraine, but not implemented and used in the current Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and other legislative acts, have been supported. …”
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The Self-Perception and Political Biases of ChatGPT by Jérôme Rutinowski, Sven Franke, Jan Endendyk, Ina Dormuth, Moritz Roidl, Markus Pauly

“…Considering the first small-scale reports and studies that have emerged, claiming that ChatGPT is politically biased towards progressive and libertarian points of view, this contribution is aimed at providing further clarity on this subject. Although the concept of political bias and affiliation is hard to define, lacking an agreed-upon measure for its quantification, this contribution attempts to examine this issue by having ChatGPT respond to questions on commonly used measures of political bias. …”
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Employees’ attitudes and work-related stress in the digital workplace: an empirical investigation by Maddalena Cavicchioli, Fabio Demaria, Francesca Nannetti, Anna Chiara Scapolan, Tommaso Fabbri

“…Conversely, job satisfaction, perceptions of work-life enrichment and person-organization fit represent subjective employees’ attitudes that significantly influence and reduce work-related stress in a digitalized working environment.DiscussionThis study contributes to the existing academic literature by providing a more nuanced understanding of the dual impact of work digitalization on employees’ well-being. …”
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Specialty palliative care use among cancer patients: A population-based study. by J Brian Cassel, Donna McClish, David Buxton, Leanne Yanni, Seth Roberts, Nevena Skoro, Peter May, Egidio Del Fabbro, Danielle Noreika

“…<h4>Background</h4>Rigorous population-based assessments of the use of specialty palliative care (SPC) in the US are rare.<h4>Settings/subjects</h4>This study examined SPC use among cancer patients in a mid-sized metropolitan area in Southeast US.…”
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The relationship between physical activity and sleep quality among college students: The chain-mediating effects of self-control and mobile phone addiction. by Zhonggen Yin, Chengbo Yang, Tong Liu, Jialiang Yu, Xiaomei Yu, Shuting Huang, Yanhong Zhang

“…However, the correlations between physical activity and sleep quality are subject to various factors. In this study, we investigated the effects of self-control and mobile phone addiction on the correlations between physical activity on undergraduates' sleep quality at the psychological and behavioral levels. …”
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Fine-root and leaf acquisitive traits decoupled from chloride accumulation in reflecting the differential salinity tolerance among Prunus hybrids by Shuangxi Zhou, Rob R. Walker, Everard J. Edwards

“…We tested the hypothesis with a glasshouse experiment on saplings of six contrasting Prunus hybrids, subjected to either control or salt treatment (reverse osmosis water versus 3.3 dS m-1 chloride solution containing mixed cations). …”
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Neural Networks Application for the Data of PID Controller for Acrobot by Nguyen Cong Danh

“…Acrobots are a system that has levels of operating states in many investigated cases, and they are subjects to many events during operation due to the mechanisms of locomotion processes. …”
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Designing a Human Machine Interface for Quality Assurance in Car Manufacturing: An Attempt to Address the “Functionality versus User Experience Contradiction” in Professional Produ... by Nikolaj Borisov, Benjamin Weyers, Annette Kluge

“…This work was conducted in the second phase of the project, in which we used this model to investigate the subjective suitability of six innovative device setups that implement the user interface design developed in phase one in an experimental setup with 67 participants at two locations in south Germany. …”
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Clinical Outcomes and Complication Rates of Endodontically Treated Teeth with Fixed Dental Prostheses: A Retrospective Study by Sarah Aloqayli, Hanin Alsalhi, Ali Alenezi

“…All patients who had previously received fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) were subjected to clinical and radiographical examinations during their follow-up visits. …”
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Effect of the Application of Cold Plasma Energy on the Inactivation of Microorganisms, Proteins, and Lipids Deterioration in Adobera Cheese by Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga, Montserrat Calderón Santoyo, Juan Arturo Ragazzo Sánchez, Mario Iván Alemán Duarte, Julia Aurora Pérez Montaño, Edgar Balcázar-López, Josué Raymundo Solís Pacheco

“…Plasma as a nonthermal inactivation technique has been a current research topic for food preservation, so the objective of this work was to study the effect of plasma energy against microorganisms in Adobera cheese (traditional Mexican cheese) as well as evaluate the possible degradation of lipids and protein. 108 CFU/mL of Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Salmonella ATCC13076, and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 were inoculated at 0.5 g of Adobera cheese and were subjected to an energy of 30 volts, in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor (DBDR) at intervals of times 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 15 min. …”
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Comparative study between biofeedback pelvic floor training with and without transabdominal electrucal nerve stimulation in consitpation in children with spina bifida by Mervat Sheta Elsawy, Hadir Hassouna, Ahmed Elrouby

“…Both groups were compared before and after the application of the two management planes by using the constipation score as a subjective assessment tool and by the mean of maximum anal pressure during straining as an objective tool.Results Patients who received biofeedback in combination with trans-abdominal electrical nerve stimulation showed significant improvement in the constipation scoreas well as in the mean of maximum anal pressure during straining in comparison to those who received biofeedback only (Mann Whitney test, U = 116.0, p = 0.023*).Conclusion The addition of trans-abdominal electrical nerve stimulation to biofeedback in case of constipation in pediatric patients with SB bifida is highly effective with better outcome as compared with the application of biofeedback alone.…”
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The impact of training and retraining of police officers on their competitiveness by Y. Y. Podorozhnii

“…It has been found that the qualification is a complex characteristic of the employee, which includes the presence of the appropriate level of education, as well as professional skills, abilities, skills, experience in performing certain processes and actions, which together characterize them as an experienced subject of a certain type of work. In fact, qualifications are a factor that determines whether a person can perform a job, such as serving in the police. …”
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From utility to imperial propaganda: (Re)discovering a milestone of Constantine I from the vicinity of Bona Mansio and emporion Pistiros and its significance for the study of the ‘... by Emil Nankov

“…The diachronic analysis of other milestones found in the region allows us to capture the milestone’s evolving function as a medium of communication between the imperial administration and its subjects within the 3rd and the 4th centuries AD; from a road accessory providing practical information to travellers into an administrative tool displaying imperial propaganda. …”
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Development of problem-based learning worksheets combined with the make a match cooperative model to enhance students' critical thinking skills in biology by Sari Putri Ramadani Tambunan, Khairuna Khairuna

“…This study aims to (1) produce Problem Based Learning-based Learning Worksheets combined with Make A Match which is feasible to use based on expert judgment assessment (2) to determine the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning-based Learning Worksheets combined with Make A Match and (3) to determine the practicality of Problem Based Learning-based Learning Worksheets in training students' critical thinking skills in the biology subject X-MIA virus material at MA Laboratorium Uinsu. …”
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Use Of Apitherapy: A Sweet Approach To Bony Healing Of Extracted Tooth Socket by Tahera Ayub, Mehwash Kashif, Sahar Abbasi, Mirza Hamid Baig, Syeda Arzoo Azeem, Abdul Aleem

“…A total of 24 (48%) subjects were male in the honey group compared with the non-honey group 19 (38%). …”
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