Effectiveness of Drinking a Sweet-Tasting Snack Before Local Anesthetic Injection on Pain Perception among 5-Year-Old Children: A Split-Mouth Cross-Over Study by Hamidreza Poureslami, Jelveh Hashemi Nejad, Parnian Poureslami, Maryam Rad

“…The effect of drinking a cool liquid snack containing 10 milliliters of 12% sucrose solution (study group) or cool tap water (control group) with a straw before inferior alveolar nerve block injection was assessed regarding pain perception. …”
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Restorative Justice Policy Model in the Future of Criminal Law by Rado Rudini Hasyim, Restu Monika Nia Betaubun, Emiliana B. Rahail

“…This research concludes that restorative justice is a necessity because in addition to international challenges and obligations, it has also become a national trend in the future of criminal law, especially through the New Criminal Code which contains mechanisms for restoring victims’ rights, penal mediation, diversion, supervision punishment and judicial pardon. …”
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Identification of Molecular Substrate for the Attenuation of Anxiety: A Step Toward the Development of Better Anti-Anxiety Drugs by Uwe Rudolph

“…Benzodiazepines like diazepam bind to GABAA receptors containing the α subunits α1, α2, α3, or α5, most likely in abgabg combinations.…”
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Safe Handling of Food and Water in a Hurricane or Related Disaster by Ronald H. Schmidt, Keith L. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich, Amarat Simonne, Douglas L. Archer

“… This document contains a summary of general recommendations to protect the safety of food and water in the event of a hurricane, flooding, or related natural disaster. …”
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A low‐rating 40‐pulse AC–DC rectifier based on a new passive harmonic mitigation circuit by Rohollah Abdollahi, Gevork B. Gharehpetian

“…This PHMC is based on 2 harmonic suppression circuits and contains four tapped reactor and 4 auxiliary diodes. 50 Hz simulations of the improved 40PR indicate that THD of the input current and voltage is less than 2%, which meets the IEEE‐519 standard. …”
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Metacognition in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata): does impulsivity explain unnecessary looks in the tubes task? by Lorraine Subias, Noriko Katsu, Kazunori Yamada

“…The macaques’ propensity to look inside a single tube containing food they cannot immediately reach was measured and compared to their behavior in the tubes task. …”
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On semilattices of groups whose arrows are epimorphisms by M. El-Ghali M. Abdallah, L. N. Gab-Alla, Sayed K. M. Elagan

“…Every partial group S with identity contains a unique maximal q partial group Q(S) such that (Q(S))1=S1. …”
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Automatic Classification of Microseismic Signals Based on MFCC and GMM-HMM in Underground Mines by Pingan Peng, Zhengxiang He, Liguan Wang

“…The performance of this method is tested by its application to microseismic events selected from the Dongguashan Copper Mine (China). A dataset that contains a representative set of different microseismic events including rock mass rupture, blasting vibration, mechanical drilling, and electromagnetic noise is collected for training and testing. …”
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A Digital Trail of Rupture. The German Film Exile 1933-1945 in the Data of Günter Peter Straschek by Imme Klages

“…To this end, a database of GND exile data containing names, birth and death dates, professions, and countries of exile was compiled and enriched with data from online resources (Wikidata and IMDb). …”
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Influence of Distribution Modulus on the Compressive Strength of Ultra-High-Performance Concrete with Coarse Aggregate (UHPC-CA) by Zhihui Yu, Lishan Wu, Cong Zhang, Toshiyuki Bangi

“…The objective of this study is to figure out the influence of the q for the compressive strength of UHPC-containing coarse aggregate (UHPC-CA). Therefore, a series of investigations were conducted, covering the following aspects: first, the traditional design procedure, based on the MAA model, of UHPC-CA is revised by taking water and steel fibers into account in the particle packing system. …”
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The Potential Importance of MicroRNAs as Novel Indicators How to Manage Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis More Effectively by Krzysztof Orczyk, Elzbieta Smolewska

“…The aim of the study was to browse the available data on microRNAs which may be utilized as potential biomarkers helpful in diagnosing and monitoring JIA patients. The review contains a brief summary on the most studied sequences: miR-16, miR-125a-5p, miR-146a, miR-155, and miR-223. …”
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Health aspects of peanuts as an outcome of its chemical composition by Rabiatu Bonku, Jianmei Yu

“…Peanut is an energy dense food item and it contains a substantial amount of fat, proteins, carbohydrate, both fat soluble and water soluble vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. …”
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Migraciones sur-norte del Caribe, África y Asia en las Américas. “Detención segmentada” y “detenibilidad” en Sudamérica by Carina Trabalón

“…Conclusions: The punitive experiences of migrants from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia reveal that the practice of detention in “south-north transit” contexts is configured as a hegemonic mode of migration governance and a particular form of spatial containment. This invites a deeper exploration of the migratory, economic, policing, and racial regimes of mobility and immobility in the Americas. …”
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Nonlinear Effects of Environmental Regulation on Environmental Pollution by Yuncai Liu, Nengsheng Luo, Shusheng Wu

“…Thus, the government should make targeted research about the optimal intensity of fee-based environmental regulation and invest-based environmental regulation and make targeted enterprise policy for the environmental pollution reduce, which contains promoting the energy revolution and strengthening the depth and strength of opening-up step by step.…”
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A MULTIFACETED APPROACH TO ASSESSING INTERMODAL TRANSPORT by Karol NEHRING, Michał LASOTA, Aleksandra ZABIELSKA, Roland JACHIMOWSKI

“…Based on the conducted research, it can be concluded that the variant of transporting cargo from Rybnik to Świdnik with reloading at the PCC Intermodal terminals in Gliwice and the Lublin Container Terminal turned out to be the most advantageous solution.…”
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Asking and answering: A contrastive study of English and Swedish basic communication verbs by Åke Viberg

“… This article presents a contrastive study of the English verbs ask and answer and their Swedish correspondents based on data from the English Swedish Parallel Corpus (ESPC), which is bi-directional and contains Swedish and English original texts and their corresponding translations. …”
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EGFR Amplification and Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cells by Katrin Liffers, Katrin Lamszus, Alexander Schulte

“…Glioblastoma (GBM), the most common malignant brain tumor in adults, contains a subpopulation of cells with a stem-like phenotype (GS-cells). …”
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The sociological measurement of individual adaptive potential in media ecosystem by O. A. Grimov

“…A theoretical model of adaptive potential is proposed, according to which such a potential is a complex multi-level education containing three successive levels: value, dispositional and practical. …”
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The Ratio of Platelets to Lymphocytes Predicts the Prognosis of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Review and Meta-Analysis by Jinming Wang, Jing Li, Sheng Wei, Jie Xu, Xiaohui Jiang, Lei Yang

“…A total of twelve studies containing 1452 patients were included in this meta-analysis. …”
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