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“…No primeiro artigo aqui apresentado Cidinéia da Costa Luvison e Regina Célia Grando constatam que alunos do quinto ano do ensino fundamental apropriam-se da linguagem e dos conceitos matemáticos, quando elucidados por meio de um contexto de investigações, onde a inferência, o dialogismo e a relação leitor-autor ajudaram a constituir e a desenvolver cada sujeito. …”
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Japanese Mothers’ Communication on Sexuality Education with Elementary School-Age Children (7–11) by Takahiro Sato, Chie Kataoka, Tomomi Mitsutake, Cathy McKay, Hirotaka Kizuka, Manami Koide, Miho Miyachi, Takafumi Tomura, Yu Furuta

“…To advance the quality of parent and family communication regarding sexuality education, teachers and administrators need clear and focused goals related to the applicability and caliber of sexuality education programs and curricula at elementary schools.…”
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Journalists’ Response and Reporting of Public Emergencies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence by Shaoying Lian, Ruoyu Mi, Runhua Tang

“…In the simulation analysis, it is found that in the face of public emergencies, journalists, on the one hand, firmly implement the publicity caliber, strengthen the amount of creation, and improve the forwarding amount and approval amount of manuscripts under the artificial intelligence news system. …”
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Diagnosis and Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Learning Algorithm by Gargi Pant Shukla, Santosh Kumar, Saroj Kumar Pandey, Rohit Agarwal, Neeraj Varshney, Ankit Kumar

“…A dataset was obtained from Alzheimer’s Disease Neurological Initiative (ADNI) and converted from a 4D format to a 2D format. Selective clipping, grayscale image conversion, and histogram equalization techniques were used to pre-process the images. …”
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Application of Bottom Ash Derived from Livestock Manure Combustion-Improved Soil Physicochemical Properties and Nutrient Uptake of Creeping Bentgrass by Young-Sun Kim, Seung-Jae Lim, Geung-Joo Lee

“…The turf color index, chlorophyll content, shoot length, clipping yield, and shoot dry weight after the BACL treatments were similar to the control. …”
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Chrysosporium queenslandicum: a potent keratinophilic fungus for keratinous waste degradation by Tarun Kumar Kumawat, Anima Sharma, Seema Bhadauria

“…Results In this study, Ch. queenslandicum showed maximum degradation on chicken feathers followed by human nail clippings, animal hair and human hair. The degradation rate on chicken feather was 38.40 ± 0.80 and 46.40 ± 2.50% after 12 and 24 days, respectively. …”
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A Parallel Approach to Generate Sports Highlights from Match Videos Using Artificial Intelligence by Arjun Sivaraman, Tarun Kannuchamy, Anmol Anand, Shivam Dheer, Devansh Mishra, Narayanan Prasanth, S. P. Raja

“…However, the manual process of compiling all the clips into a single video can be time-consuming and cumbersome for video editors. …”
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A Geometric Approach to Estimate Background in Astronomical Images by Pushpak Pandey, Kanak Saha

“…In a typical low-photon-count astronomical image, such as in the far- and near-ultraviolet wavelength ranges, conventional methods relying on 3 σ clipping and median or mode estimation often fail to capture the true background level accurately. …”
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Mutual coordination of behaviors in human–chimpanzee interactions: A case study in a laboratory setting by Akira Takada

“…We conducted an interaction analysis of two short video clips that recorded a physical measurement event at the Great Ape Research Institute (GARI), Tamano, Japan. …”
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Aerosol layer height (ALH) retrievals from oxygen absorption bands: intercomparison and validation among different satellite platforms, GEMS, EPIC, and TROPOMI by H. Kim, H. Kim, X. Chen, X. Chen, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Lu, Z. Lu, Z. Lu, M. Zhou, G. R. Carmichael, G. R. Carmichael, S. S. Park, J. Kim

“…Evaluation of ALH against CALIOP demonstrates that the EPIC/TROPOMI ALH has good consistency (<span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i></span> <span class="inline-formula">&gt;</span> 0.7) with CALIOP but is overestimated by approximately 0.8 km. …”
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Types of discomfort and pre-hospital interventions administered to trauma victims: scoping review protocol by Filipe Melo, Mauro Mota, Margarida Reis Santos, Miguel Castelo Branco

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The Economic Impact of COVID-19 Treatment at a Hospital-level: Investment and Financial Registers of Brazilian Hospitals by Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Milena S Marcolino, Karen Brasil Ruschel, Ana Paula Coutinho, Elayne Crestani Pereira, Fernando Anschau, Fernando Aranha, Filipe Carrilho, Giovanna Vietta, Gisele Alsina Nader Bastos, Joanna d’Arc Lyra Batista, José Miguel Chatkin, Juliana da Silva Nogueira, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Luciana Haddad, Maiara Floriani, Marília Teixeira de Siqueira, Patrícia Ziegelmann, Petrônio José de Lima Martelli, Roberta Pozza, Umbelina Cravo Teixeira Lagioia, Carisi Anne Polanczyk, Luciane Kopittke

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Epidemia de burnout durante a pandemia de Covid-19: O papel da LMX na redução do burnout dos médicos by Eduardo Cardoso de Moura, Liliane Furtado, Filipe Sobral

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Current practices in physical fitness assessment and monitoring among coaches of individual and team sports: a survey in Portugal, Spain, and Romania by XiaoYuan Wen, Rui Miguel Silva, Qi Xu, Francisco González-Fernández, Ana Filipa Silva, Georgian Badicu, Xiaodan Guo, Filipe Clemente

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SOLARIS project: a portable 3D-printed bioaerosol sampler for environmental bacterial collection by Pedro Henrique Dobroes Fonseca, Filipe Miguel Borgas Henriques Duarte, Frederico Silva de Sousa Alves, Jose Alberto de Jesus Borges, Susana Isabel Pinheiro Cardoso, Vania Cristina Henriques Silverio, Wilson David Talhao Antunes

“…Our sampler’s laboratory testing demonstrated the successful separation of viable Escherichia coli bacteria from artificially generated bioaerosols. …”
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The Impact of Radiation Dose on Preoperative Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Effects for Patients with Locally Advanced Squamous Cell Esophageal Carcinoma: A Propensity Score-Matched... by Yanru Mu, Hui Wang, Tao He, Li Xu

“…To balance potential bias, 1 : 1 propensity score matching (PSM) with a caliper of 0.1 was used. The two groups were compared in terms of radical resection, post-radiation adverse event rates, perioperative mortality, postoperative adverse event rates, overall survival (OS), local recurrence rate, and distant metastatic rate. …”
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Síntese e caracterização de supercapacitores de óxido de grafeno (GO) e óxido de grafeno reduzido (RGO) by Daysianne Kessy Mendes Isidorio, Matheus Emerick de Magalhães, Antonio Augusto Martins Pereira Júnior, Clícia Joanna Neves Fonseca, Belayne Zanini Marchi, Pablo Henrique Ataíde Oliveira, Filipe de Almeida Araújo, Leandra Altoé

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Optic Neuritis in an Adult Patient with Chickenpox by Ana Rita Azevedo, Rita Simões, Filipe Silva, Susana Pina, Cristina Santos, Peter Pêgo, Filomena Silva, Susana Teixeira

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Clinically probable RBD is an early predictor of malignant non-motor Parkinson’s disease phenotypes by Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez, Hunter Hutchinson, Patricia Coutinho, Filipe Pereira Sarmento, Venkat Srikar Lavu, Qingqi Yuan, Jagan Mohan Reddy Dwarampudi, Aysegul Gunduz, Gregory M. Pontone, Michael S. Okun, Joshua K. Wong

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Effects of Artificial Flooding for Hydroelectric Development on the Population of Mansonia humeralis (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Paraná River, São Paulo, Brazil by Marcia Bicudo de Paula, Almério de Castro Gomes, Delsio Natal, Ana Maria Ribeiro de Castro Duarte, Luís Filipe Mucci

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