Impact of Kinesio Taping on Oral Feeding and Swallowing Functions: Acoustic Analysis of Swallowing Sounds in Late Preterm Infants—A Randomized Clinical Trial by Nilay Comuk Balci, Deniz Anuk Ince, Ayşe Ecevit, Balkar Erdoğan, Ilknur Ezgi Doğan, Ozden Turan, Aylin Tarcan

“…This study aims to evaluate the effects of the Kinesio-taping technique on feeding muscles and assess feeding and swallowing function in late preterm infants through the acoustic analysis of swallowing sounds. …”
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USC-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles-Functionalized Scaffolds Promote Scarless Vaginal Defect Repair via Delivery of Decorin and DUSP3 Proteins by Xu Y, Li J, Qiu Y, Wu F, Xue Z, Liu B, Fan H, Zhou Y, Wu Q

“…Designing functional scaffolds that incorporate sEVs is a promising approach for scarless vaginal defect repair.Methods: sEVs-loaded scaffolds were developed through electrostatic interactions between negatively charged sEVs secreted by urine-derived stem cells (USC-sEVs) and positively charged human acellular amniotic membranes. …”
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MAINTAINING THE STABILITY OF CONTROL OF COMPLEX ENERGY FACILITIES UNDER EXPOSURE TO DIFFICULTY IDENTIFIED INFORMATION FACTORS LEADING TO ACCIDENTAL DISTURBANCES by V. U. Chinaliev, E. P. Grabchak, E. L. Loginov

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Disentangling the effects of modality, interval length and task difficulty on the accuracy and precision of older adults in a rhythmic reproduction task. by Elisa M Gallego Hiroyasu, Yuko Yotsumoto

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Evaluation and comparison of disability and functioning of low-risk pregnant women in 2nd and 3rd trimester using the world health organization disability assessment schedule 2.0 by Nirmal Shivangi Ravindrakumar, Shishram Saini, Rizwana Shaheen, Asmita Arun, Neetu Gehlot

“…Considering the lack of research and the fact that the physiological changes of pregnancy can impact negatively on women’s functioning, the purpose of this study was to evaluate disability and functioning of low-risk pregnancy and its associated factors using a specified diagnosed tool developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). …”
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Education and training as prerequisites for overcoming the difficulties in the implementation of ethical and legal norms concerning gender equality in a social environment by Gavrilović Danijela

“…In this paper, the author advances the thesis that in today's Serbia there is no social consensus concerning the unequal treatment of men and women, and that 'patriarchal syndrome', stereotypes and prejudices are still widely present and are greatly influencing the functioning of social mechanisms and the achievement of gender equality. …”
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The Effect Of Emotional Intelligence And Woring Memory And Selective Attention On Reading Comprehension Of Students With Learning Difficulties In Lebanese Inclusive Schools by Shaza Ismail, Mounah Geha

“… Emotional intelligence (EI) and executive functions (EFs) are constructs deemed vital for academic achievement. …”
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Predictive models of reading difficulties considering neuropsycholinguistic profiles of atypical and ADHD-inattentive type readers, and eye-tracking measures by Norberto Pereira, Maria Armanda Costa, Manuela Guerreiro

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Efficacy of Mentalization Based Group Therapy on Object Relations and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation: Outcome for Individuals with Dependent Personality Syndrome by Soheila Maleki, Lida Leilabadi, Shirin Kooshki

“…According to these findings, MBT-G is an effective intervention for improving psychological functioning in individuals with dependent personality syndrome, a condition that is classified under Cluster C personality disorders. …”
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Elevated temperature enhances task performance by improving cognitive abilities in common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) by Monika Sysiak, Ewa Babkiewicz, Marcin Lukasz Zebrowski, Katarzyna Rutkowska, Selvaraj Kunjiappan, Jae-Seong Lee, Piotr Maszczyk

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Sex-related differential item functioning of the Jenkins Sleep Scale: a cross-sectional study among 77 967 employees in the Finnish public sector by Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki, Saana Myllyntausta, Jenni Ervasti, Jari P A Arokoski, Mikhail Saltychev, Juhani Juhola

“…Objectives To investigate if the Jenkins Sleep Scale (JSS) demonstrates sex-related differential item functioning (DIF).Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Survey data from the Finnish Public Sector study (2015–2017).Participants 77 967 employees in the Finnish public sector, with a mean age of 51.9 (SD 13.1) years and 82% women.Outcome measures Item response theory estimates: difficulty and discrimination parameters of the JSS and differences in these parameters between men and women.Results The mean JSS total score was 6.4 (4.8) points. …”
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Biopsychosocial evaluation of patients with multiple sclerosis using a short set of categories of the international classification of functioning, disability and health, and its re... by D. Valadkevičienė, I. Žukauskaitė, D. Jatužis

“…MS patients with working capacity level of 30–40% had more difficulties of seeing, urination, muscle power functions, walking and moving around by means other than walking than MS patients with working capacity level of 45–55%; they also faced more difficulties in moving around functions and had a different brain structure than those with working capacity level of 60–100%. …”
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Post-COVID-19 functional status in socioeconomically vulnerable neighborhoods attended in primary health care in two Brazilian cities: a cross-sectional study by Danielle Souto de Medeiros, Gabriele Amorim, Fabiane Soares, Laio Magno, Thaís Regis Aranha Rossi, Thiago Silva Torres, Valdiléa Gonçalves Veloso, Débora Castanheira, Inês Dourado

“…The following variables were associated with moderate/severe functional status: living in households with fewer rooms (aOR = 1.66, 95%CI: 1.23–2.24), female gender (aOR = 1.57, 95%CI: 1.14–2.16), older age (aOR = 1.02, 95%CI: 1.01–1.03), self-reported diabetes mellitus (aOR = 1.78, 95%CI: 1.17–2.69), respiratory diseases (aOR = 2.59, 95%CI: 1.56–4.29), having contracted COVID-19 two or more times (aOR = 1.57, 95%CI: 1.15–2.14), not having had a medical appointment in the last 12 months (aOR = 1.70, 95%CI: 1.24–2.33), difficulty accessing COVID-19 testing (aOR = 1.63, 95%CI: 1.05–2.52), and experience discrimination in health services (aOR = 2.85, 95%CI: 1.87–4.35). …”
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A Lightweight Greenhouse Tomato Fruit Identification Method Based on Improved YOLOv11n by Xingyu Gao, Fengyu Li, Jun Yan, Qinyou Sun, Xianyong Meng, Pingzeng Liu

“…Finally, the Wise–Powerful intersection over Union (Wise-PIoU) loss function is employed to optimise the model accuracy, and the effectiveness of each improvement module is verified by means of ablation experiments. …”
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Mismatch Negativity Unveils Tone Perception Strategies and Degrees of Tone Merging: The Case of Macau Cantonese by Han Wang, Fei Gao, Jingwei Zhang

“…Methods: Specifically, this study combined assessments of cognitive functions, an AX discrimination task, and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the discrimination results and real-time processing characteristics of native Macau Cantonese speakers perceiving three pairs of similar tones. …”
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Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Cardiac Anesthesia: Perioperative Assessment and Underlying Mechanisms by Kotaro Hori, Ryota Watanabe, Shogo Tsujikawa, Hideki Hino, Tadashi Matsuura, Takashi Mori

“…The importance of right ventricular (RV) function has often been overlooked until recently; however, RV function is now recognized as a significant prognostic predictor in medically managing cardiovascular diseases and cardiac anesthesia. …”
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Sleep problems and sensory features in children with low-average cognitive abilities and autism spectrum disorder by Sumie Iwasaki, Yuko Yoshimura, Chiaki Hasegawa, Sanae Tanaka, Takashi Ikeda, Ken Yaoi, Tetsu Hirosawa, Mitsuru Kikuchi

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Mined Block Withholding and Imposed Fork by Using Mining Pool Alliance Strategic—A Case Study in Bitcoin System by Yean-Fu Wen, Ming-Fang Chen

“…In the proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain consensus mechanism, miners perform numerous hash calculations to obtain a value below the difficulty threshold to generate a new block and obtain rewards. …”
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LitCog Caregiver Cohort: a prospective, observational cohort study investigating US caregivers’ health literacy, self-care skills and cognitive function by Rachel O'Conor, Michael Wolf, Laura M Curtis, Lauren Opsasnick, Morgan Bonham, Julia Yoshino Benavente, Grace Magnuson, Mary Morrissey Kwasny

“…Caregivers will complete assessments of health literacy, self-care skills, cognitive function, caregiver healthcare task difficulty, caregiver burden, caregiver self-efficacy, activation, technology use, busyness and routine and relationship quality. …”
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The effectiveness of internet-based acceptance and commitment therapy on acceptance of illness, emotion regulation, symptom severity reduction, and symptoms interference with funct... by Sara Mirzaei, Reza Bagherian-Sararoudi, Mohammad Hasan Davazdah Emami, Razieh Izadi, Mohammad Reza Sharbafchi

“…Abstract Background The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of internet based acceptance and commitment therapy on acceptance of illness, emotion regulation and reducing the severity and interference of symptoms with function of patients with breast cancer. Methods The research design was semi-experimental and of the type of randomized clinical trial, with a control group and random allocation. …”
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