Sounds and Natures Do Often Agree: Prediction of Esports Players’ Performance in Fighting Games Based on the Operating Sounds of Game Controllers by Yamato Hiratsuka, Kazuki Kuga, Takahiro Miura, Tetsuo Tanaka, Mari Ueda

“…Ultimate</i> (<i>SSBU</i>) by Nintendo were explored, aiming to elucidate the connection between the operation sounds of adept and intermediate esports competitors and their day-to-day fluctuations in game performance and emotional well-being. …”
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Qualitative study on nurse preceptors’ preparedness, roles and familiarity with the basic principles of teaching and learning in a district hospital in Ghana by Dorothy Serwaa Boakye, Vida Maame Kissiwaa Amoah, Edward Appiah Boateng, John Antwi, Joyce Yeboah, Jennifer Owusu

“…While demonstrating inherent strengths like using probing questions, prompting techniques and assuming multifaceted roles, including role modelling, coaching and teaching, preceptors expressed uncertainty about over-reliance on passive demonstration-based teaching. …”
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Therapeutic efficacy of intra-articular injection of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells in a sheep model of knee osteoarthritis by Jigang Lei, Xingyi Chen, Haohao Xie, Yuhao Dai, Zhongjin Chen, Liang Xu

“…Nonetheless, little is known about the efficacy of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (haMSCs) for KOA in large animal models. …”
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Advancements in single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics: transforming biomedical research by Getnet Molla Desta, Getnet Molla Desta, Alemayehu Godana Birhanu

“…However, a key limitation of scRNA-seq is its inability to preserve spatial information about the RNA transcriptome, as the process requires tissue dissociation and cell isolation. …”
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TEAMWORK AND EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION IN BENUE INVESTMENT AND PROPERTY COMPANY, MAKURDI, BENUE STATE by TOR NORA

“…The study recommended that, BIPC management should promote team trust among organization members which will thereafter enable an individual to put more of his/her resources into tasks that will bring about organizational performance. Teamwork should be seen as an effective operational strategy and adopted not as an ad hoc strategy but one that should be sustained, BIPC should promote espirit de corp in designing tasks and activities based on team to get better and desired results, teamwork activity within the organization is very much beneficial and its effect is directly on employee performance. …”
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Cash usage in Poland in 2020: Insights into the role of the COVID-19 pandemic and spatial aspects by Radoslaw Kotkowski, Arkadiusz Manikowski

“…., age, income, education, or perceptions about payment methods, we find an important role of two, yet under-investigated factors, namely: the COVID-19 pandemic and spatial aspects. …”
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Changements climatiques, migrations et défis de la gestion de l’environnement : le cas d’un village au cœur de la tourmente au Burkina Faso by Ibrahim Ouattara, Omer Chouinard, Carole C. Tranchant, Vanderlinden

“…The experience of the village of Koumbili (Burkina Faso), documented through a participatory rural appraisal (PAR) conducted in 2005, brings a concrete understanding of how actual climatic and political changes can bring about human behaviours that jeopardize the integrity of fragile ecosystem. …”
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Development of a differentiating of infected from vaccinated animal (DIVA) ELISA to detect antibodies against Senecavirus A in pigs using two expression systems of non-structural p... by Parin Watcharavongtip, Patumporn Jermsutjarit, Angkana Tantituvanont, Dachrit Nilubol

“…Senecavirus A (SVA) is the causative agent associated with porcine idiopathic vesicular disease (PIVD), a condition indistinguishable from other foreign vesicular diseases affecting pigs. …”
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Universal validity of the second law of information thermodynamics by Shintaro Minagawa, M. Hamed Mohammady, Kenta Sakai, Kohtaro Kato, Francesco Buscemi

“…However, previous studies in this direction have made several assumptions, particularly about the feedback process and the demon’s memory readout, and thus arrived at statements that are not universally applicable and whose range of validity is not clear. …”
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Correlates of late initiation and underutilisation of the recommended eight or more antenatal care visits among women of reproductive age: insights from the 2019 Ghana Malaria Indi... by Agani Afaya, Emmanuel Anongeba Anaba

“…Objective This study assessed the correlates of late initiation and underutilisation of the WHO’s recommended eight or more antenatal care visits among women in Ghana.Design We analysed secondary data from 2163 women in the 2019 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey, which collected data on malaria and antenatal care indicators among women of reproductive age across the previous 10 regions of Ghana.Setting and participants Women of reproductive age across the 10 regions of Ghana.Main outcome measures Late initiation and underutilisation of the recommended eight or more antenatal care visits among women of reproductive age.Results About half (49%) of the participants were between the ages of 25 and 34 years; mean (±SD)=30 (±7.10). …”
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Preparation and investigation of mefenamic acid – polyethylene glycol – sucrose ester solid dispersions by Fülöp Ibolya, Gyéresi Árpád, Kiss Lóránd, Deli Mária A., Croitoru Mircea Dumitru, Szabó-Révész Piroska, Aigner Zoltán

“…Dissolution tests carried out in artificial intestinal juice showed that the product containing 10 % D-1216 increased water solubility about 3 times. The apparent permeability coefficient of MA across human Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cell layers was high and, despite the difference in solubility, there was no further increase in drug penetration in the presence of the applied additives.…”
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Optimisation of Water-Use in Pulp and Paper Mills: A Streamlined Review of Scientific Journal Publications by Felicia Ocklind, Kristin Liback, Lova Lundqvist, Wilma Harge, G Venkatesh

“…One case study, for example, showed that the demand for steam can be decreased by about 4 GJ per ton of output, by recovering the waste heat in the water streams. …”
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Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Placental Inflammation and Local Immune Balance by Zengfang Wang, Ruizhen Yang, Jiaojiao Zhang, Pingping Wang, Zengyan Wang, Jian Gao, Xue Liu

“…In this review, we have summarized published studies about the EVs in the placentation and pregnancy-related diseases. …”
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Silencing RNA for MMPs May Be Utilized for Cardioprotection by Marta Banaszkiewicz, Anna Krzywonos-Zawadzka, Agnieszka Olejnik, Agnieszka Noszczyk-Nowak, Iwona Bil-Lula

“…The use of MMP-2 siRNA contributed to the improvement of heart mechanical function and reduction of contractile proteins degradation during I/R; therefore, MMP-2 siRNA may be considered a cardioprotective agent.…”
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Measuring transducers for optical diagnostic system with multifunctional unitary photovoltaic converters by R. I. Vorobei, O. K. Gusev, A. I. Svistun, A. K. Tyavlovsky, K. L. Tyavlovsky, L. I. Shadurskaya

“…Relative complexity of physical processes accompanying the recharge of several energy levels of multiply-charged deep dopant makes it possible to realize the multifunctionality of a photoelectric converter albeit simple sensor design.The proposed unitary photovoltaic converters proved to have extended functional characteristics and increased ranges of energetic characteristic (by dozens dB) and spectral sensitivity characteristic with possible shifts of red margin by 2 to 4 μm in the spectral sensitivity range of 1–10 μm. …”
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An Investigation of the Association between Transversus Abdominis Myofascial Structure and Activation with Age in Healthy Adults using Ultrasound Imaging by Nathaly Gaudreault, Justine Benoît-Piau, Jan Paul van Wingerden, Carla Stecco, Frédérique Daigle, Guillaume Léonard

“…However, there are gaps in knowledge about age-related changes in the structure and activation capacity of these muscles…”
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Euthanasia as a professional dilemma in nursing students by María Verónica Aveiga Hidalgo, Clara Eliza Pozo Hernández, Olga Mireya Alonso Pico, Erika Marcela León Ravelo

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to identify the information level about euthanasia as a professional dilemma in sixth level nursing students.…”
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Optimizing Lightweight Material Selection in Automotive Engineering: A Hybrid Methodology Incorporating Ashby’s Method and VIKOR Analysis by Edoardo Risaliti, Francesco Del Pero, Gabriele Arcidiacono, Paolo Citti

“…The automotive industry is responsible for about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and it is under notable pressure to meet the reduction targets set by the European Union for the next decades. …”
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Unraveling the Effect of Immunogenicity on the PK/PD, Efficacy, and Safety of Therapeutic Proteins by Alison Smith, Hugh Manoli, Stacey Jaw, Kimberley Frutoz, Alan L. Epstein, Leslie A. Khawli, Frank-Peter Theil

“…We set out to describe what is known and unknown about the mechanisms underlying the interplay between antigenicity and immune response and their effect on the safety, efficacy, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of these therapeutic agents.…”
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Private-preserving scientific computation of the rational numbers by Xuhong LIU, Chen SUN

“…As a fundamental part of cryptography, secure multiparty computation (SMC) is a building block of various cryptographic protocols, and it is also a hot topic in the international cryptographic community.In recent years, many SMC problems, such as secret information comparison, secret set problems and secure multiparty computational geometry, have been widely studied.As many practical problems need to be described by rational numbers, it is both theoretically and practically important to study the SMC problems in the rational number field.However, most of the existing researches focus on integers and the studied data are mainly one-dimensional data.There are few researches on secure multiparty computation of multi-dimensional data in the rational number field, but they can’t be generalized.Based on the fractional representation of rational numbers, the new encoding schemes about rational numbers and rational number vectors were proposed, which could encode multi-dimensional data in the rational number field and provided new solutions for other SMC problems in the rational number field.Based on the encoding scheme and one-way hash function, some protocols were designed for equality problems and set problems in the rational number field.These protocols used basic arithmetic operation and hash operation to guarantee efficiency than existing related protocols.And these protocols didn’t limit the range of research data and they were more widely applicable.It proves that these protocols are secure in the semi-honest model using simulation paradigm, and demonstrates the efficiency and the applicability of these protocols by theoretical analysis and experiment.A practical example was also given to illustrate that approaches are more versatile, and they could also be directly used to solve some secure multiparty computational geometry problems in the rational number field.…”
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