Factors shaping situated willingness to communicate: A multidimensional perspective in the Indonesian EFL context by Suci Nugrah Amalia, Utami Widiati, Sri Rachmajanti, Mirjam Anugerahwati, Budi Waluyo

“…An online questionnaire with 50 items adapted from prior studies was distributed to 310 EFL students from multiple universities in Indonesia who had taken English classes. The data revealed that motivation, learner agency, growth language mindset, classroom environment, metacognition, communication confidence, and SPCC are major determinants of students’ WTC. …”
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Incorporating specific sambo exercises into distance learning for high school students aged 15-16 by Valeriia Zakharevich, Georgiy Korobeynikov, Olena Nesen, Abdulaziz Xamidjonov

“…The military situation in Ukraine necessitates a revision of the school class organization system. Proximity to the military contact line forces schools to switch to online learning. …”
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Hyperadaptor; Temperature-insensitive tensile properties of Ni-based high-entropy alloy a wide temperature range by Hyojin Park, Sujung Son, Soung Yeoul Ahn, Hyojeong Ha, Rae Eon Kim, Jae Heung Lee, Hyo Moon Joo, Jung Gi Kim, Hyoung Seop Kim

“…We present a Ni-based high-entropy alloy (HEA) that exhibits minimal sensitivity to temperature variations from 77 K to 873 K, maintaining both strength and ductility due to nano-sized L12 precipitates, coarse grain, and high stacking fault energy. The temperature-independent mechanism of dislocation slip-induced plasticity further supports its stability. …”
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Collaborative management of severe periodontal-endodontic lesion with intense lip sucking: a case report by Yanfei Sun, Xiaofang Zhao, Mingchao Wang, Xiangkun Sun, Kunzhou Mei, Yameng Zhang, Yanwen Cui, Fang Yang

“…Abstract Background Lip behaviors can lead to maxillofacial developmental disorders such as anterior open bite, posterior crossbite, increased overjet, and a higher risk of developing a Class II malocclusion. However, lip-sucking, a behavior often underreported and overlooked, may adversely affect the periodontal health of permanent teeth in adolescents under extreme conditions if not promptly identified and managed. …”
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Cavity Adaptation of Water-Based Restoratives Placed as Liners under a Resin Composite by Sheela B. Abraham, Maria D. Gaintantzopoulou, George Eliades

“…Materials and Methods. Standardized class I cavities (n: 8 per group) were prepared in upper premolars. …”
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A Modified Cubic Law for Rough-Walled Marble Fracture by Embedding Peak Density by Baohua Guo, Chenlin Wang, Long Wang, Yan Chen, Tan Cheng

“…Five artificial tensile fractures of coarse-grained cylinder marble samples were made at about the midpoint of the long axis by using a self-made splitting mold. …”
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Update of Immunomodulatory Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Charles N Bernstein

“…Methotrexate has proven efficacy in active Crohn’s disease. Both of these classes of drugs requires weeks to months of treatment before any benefit is seen. …”
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In vivo regeneration efficiency of enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) as affected by age of parent plant and corm proportion by Fikadu Bora, Bewuketu Haile

“…This study was conducted using corms in the range of 12–18, 20–28, 29–38, and 40–50 cm diameter, corresponding to four age classes (1, 2, 3 & 4 years old) and three corm treatments (whole, half and quarter) were arranged in 3 × 4 factorial combination and layout in randomized complete block design with three replications. …”
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Long-Term Rainfall Information Forecast by Utilizing Constrained Amount of Observation through Artificial Neural Network Approach by Muhammed E. Akiner

“…A case study was presented for Turkey’s Düzce and Bolu neighboring territories located on the Black Sea’s southern coast. This study’s primary aim is to create an ANN model unique in the field to generate satisfactory results even with limited data. …”
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Multimodal Assessment of Mental Workload During Automated Vehicle Remote Assistance: Modeling of Eye-Tracking-Related, Skin Conductance, and Cardiovascular Indicators by Fabian Walocha, Andreas Schrank, Hoai Phuong Nguyen, Klas Ihme

“…The results provide evidence that (A) elevated workload induced via a secondary task depreciates performance, and (B) we can identify workload levels person-independently as differences in tonic skin conductance (F(2,72) = 24.538, <i>p</i> < 0.001, partial η² = 0.405) and pupil dilation (F(2,72) = 13.872, <i>p</i> < 0.001, partial η² = 0.278), resulting in a classification accuracy of 58% in a three-class classification task. The results provide evidence that we are able to differentiate operator workload during remote assistance in a time-resolved way with the ultimate goal to provide adaptations to counteract task deficiencies.…”
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Task Grid-Based Urban Environmental Information Release Mechanism for Mobile Crowd Sensing by Zhenwei Chen, Yang Lu, Zusong Li, Xiancun Zhou

“…Although the monitoring equipment of environmental weather stations is better than personal monitoring equipment, the monitoring equipment of weather monitoring stations is too expensive and only suitable for large-scale coarse-grained monitoring. Because the environmental information of a city is affected by factors such as landforms, buildings, rivers, factories, population density, and traffic flow, there are great differences in the environmental information of different areas in a city. …”
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Predicting vasovagal reactions to needles from video data using 2D-CNN with GRU and LSTM. by Judita Rudokaite, Sharon Ong, Itir Onal Ertugrul, Mart P Janssen, Elisabeth Huis In 't Veld

“…The results showed that during the classification task, the highest achieved F1 score on high VVR class was 0.74 with a precision of 0.93, recall of 0.61, PR-AUC of 0.86 and an MCC score of 0.61 using a pre-trained ResNet152 model with LSTM on 25 frames and during the regression task the lowest root mean square error achieved was 2.56 using GRU on 50 frames. …”
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Measuring the Inferential Values of Relations in Knowledge Graphs by Xu Zhang, Xiaojun Kang, Hong Yao, Lijun Dong

“…Specifically, based on the values of relations in logical chains, RIMIE partitions the logical sample set into multiple equivalence classes, and generates a knowledge structure for each relation. …”
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Cardiac Function in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Lymphoma by Mark K. Friedberg, Ido Solt, Myriam Weyl-Ben-Arush, Yulia Braver, Avraham Lorber

“…Mean followup duration was 10.9 years. The NYHA functional class was I in 43 patients and II in 2 patients. …”
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An Integrating Approach for Genome-Wide Screening of MicroRNA Polymorphisms Mediated Drug Response Alterations by Xianyue Wang, Hong Jiang, Wei Wu, Rongxin Zhang, Lingxiang Wu, Huan Chen, Pengping Li, Yumin Nie, Jiaofang Shao, Yan Li, Xue Lin, Sali Lv, Qh Wang, Jie Hu

“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of evolutionarily conserved small noncoding RNAs, ~22 nt in length, and found in diverse organisms and play important roles in the regulation of mRNA translation and degradation. …”
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Comparison of Resampling Methods and Radiomic Machine Learning Classifiers for Predicting Bone Quality Using Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry by Mailen Gonzalez, José Manuel Fuertes García, María Belén Zanchetta, Rubén Abdala, José María Massa

“…Radiomic features were extracted using Pyradiomics, and various resampling techniques were employed to address class imbalance. Three machine learning classifiers (Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and XGBoost) were trained and evaluated using standard performance metrics. …”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…The vanishing and reappearing Cheshire Cat represents language that is ideologically manipulative and poetically subversive and distinguishes the speaking human subject from animals (Lecercle 1994); the Caucus Race led by the Dodo Bird is an absurd rehearsal of the Darwinian evolutionary theory’s competitive struggle for survival (Lovell-Smith 2007), while the dormouse in the teapot evokes how the ownership of certain animals could indicate class belonging (Ritvo 1987). These animals embody a curious otherness radically incompatible with the picara’s human self gradually destabilized by Alice’s numerous shape-shiftings which elicit her misidentification as a flower, a serpent, and a mythical beast. …”
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Comprehensive genome-wide analysis of ARF transcription factors in orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata): the positive regulatory role of DgARF7 in drought resistance by Miaoli Wang, Wen Liu, Guangyan Feng, Gang Nie, Zhongfu Yang, Feixiang Hao, Linkai Huang, Xinquan Zhang

“…These DgARFs were unevenly distributed across the seven orchardgrass chromosomes and clustered into four classes. Phylogenetic analysis with multispecies of ARF proteins indicated that the ARFs exhibit a relatively conserved evolutionary path. …”
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The Comparison of Total Phenolics, Total Antioxidant, and Anti-Tyrosinase Activities of Korean Sargassum Species by Su Hyeon Baek, Lei Cao, Seung Jin Jeong, Hyeung-Rak Kim, Taek Jeung Nam, Sang Gil Lee

“…Thus, this study aimed to compare the total phenolic contents, total flavonoid contents, total antioxidant capacities, and anti-tyrosine activity of eleven Sargassum species harvested off the Korean coast. The results revealed that the total phenolic content (from 20.57 to 88.97 mg gallic acid equivalent/g dry weight (dw)), flavonoid content (from 22.08 to 82.33 mg quercetin equivalent/g dw), anti-tyrosinase activity (from 13.30 to 126.30 mg kojic acid equivalent/dw), and antioxidant capacities of the 11 Sargassum species had wide ranges. …”
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Recovery of Bioactive Constituents from Olive Leaf Pruning Waste of Five Different Cultivars: A Comparison of Green Extraction Techniques to Maximize Health Benefits by Hamid Mushtaq, Simona Piccolella, Jose A. Mendiola, Lidia Montero, Elena Ibáñez, Severina Pacifico

“…Sequential ultrasound-assisted maceration (UAM) in <i>n</i>-hexane and ethanol was compared with a compressed fluid extraction strategy consisting of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) for their efficiency in recovering distinct classes of bioactives. Chemical profiling by UHPLC-HR-MS/MS (ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry) and GC-MS (gas chromatography mass spectrometry) showed that UAM-EtOH effectively extracted polyphenols (especially luteolin derivatives) and triterpenes (notably maslinic acid), while PLE yielded the highest amount of secoiridoids (e.g., secologanoside). …”
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