Relationship-Building Skills of Child-Rearing Mothers in Japanese Communities by Hikaru Honda, Nobuko Matsuda, Michiyo Hirano, Kazuko Saeki

“…The mothers’ interpersonal relationship-building skills were described by six categories: “ability to strive for new encounters,” “ability to try to interact socially with others,” “ability to choose compatible people,” “ability to continuously maintain good relationships,” “ability to take action suitable to a situation,” and “ability to build positive relationships with parents-in-law.” …”
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Water-Polymer Perturbation Characterization and Rules of Polymer Flooding in Offshore Heavy Oilfield by Yuyang Liu, Xiaodong Kang, Zhijie Wei, Xudong Wang, Zhen Zhang

“…Finally, a field case is used to demonstrate this new evaluation method. The results show that water-polymer perturbation coefficient has a good correlation with oil increasing, and water-polymer coflooding process can be divided into five stages according polymer perturbation coefficient. …”
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A case of mitral valve plastics in the early postoperative period after orthotopic heart transplantation by B.M. Todurov, G.I. Kovtun, O.O. Samchuk, S.O. Sheludko, I.M. Kuzmich, O.M. Druzhyna, H.Yu. Melnyk

“…Despite the constant improvement of the technique of this operation and the emergence of new protocols of immunosuppressive therapy, one of the main problems in the development of heart transplantation in Ukraine is a limited donor pool. …”
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Received signal strength difference–based tracking estimation method for arbitrarily moving target in wireless sensor networks by Zixi Jia, Bo Guan

“…In this article, we propose a new tracking scheme based on received signal strength difference, which is the difference value of received signal strength indicators between two neighboring sampling steps. …”
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Study on Explosion-Resistance of Biomimetic Layered Honeycomb Structure by Ji Li, Shaoqing Shi, Weiming Luo, Qifan Wang

“…A new type of explosion-resistant biomimetic layered honeycomb structure was designed based on the natural mechanism and biological inspiration, which was mainly composed of a sacrificial layer and a bearing layer. …”
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Preparation and Photocatalytic Water Splitting Hydrogen Production of Titanium Dioxide Nanosheets by Fuying Li, Yin Huang, Hongling Peng, Yu Cao, Yu Niu

“…TiO2 nanosheets are a good carrier of photocatalytic materials and have become attractive materials in the new century because of their high active surface exposure characteristics and special morphology. …”
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Current Treatment Approaches to HCC with a Special Consideration to Transplantation by N. Bhardwaj, M. T. P. R. Perera, M. A. Silva

“…Ever since, the rather restrictive nature of the Milan criteria has been challenged with good outcomes. There has also been an increase in the donor pool with marginal donors including organs retrieved following cardiac death being used. …”
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Estimation of Modal Properties of Low-Rise Buildings Using Ambient Excitation Measurements by K. K. Wijesundara, C. Negulescu, E. Foerster

“…The main objective of this study is to introduce a new method called two-step procedure in the estimation of damping ratios using ambient vibration measurements. …”
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Confirming Multiplex RT-qPCR Use in COVID-19 with Next-Generation Sequencing: Strategies for Epidemiological Advantage by Rob E. Carpenter, Vaibhav Tamrakar, Harendra Chahar, Tyler Vine, Rahul Sharma

“…Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is an exceptional tool for whole-genome analysis and deciphering new mutations. The technique has been instrumental in identifying the variants of concern (VOC) and tracking this pandemic. …”
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Image Edge Detection Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Radial Basis Neural Network by Lin Feng, Jian Wang, Chao Ding

“…The image edge detection algorithm based on fuzzy radial basis fuser can not only speed up the image preprocessing, meet the real-time detection, and reduce the amount of data processed by the upper computer but also can accurately identify five image edge problems including folds and cracks, which has good application prospects.…”
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Frugal method for extracting DNA from saliva suitable for low-budget labs and usable in PCR assays by Kamar Shayah, Joseph Shenekji, Lana Karnoub, Sana Wohbeh, Hagar Hamsho

“…The suggested frugal method relies on providing a new solution for extracting DNA from human saliva without the need for enzymes or high grade reagents or columns, which makes suitable for low budget laboratories in developing countries to manufacture it locally, it uses a phase separation with technical skills to extract the DNA from the saliva achieving safety by not using hazardous reagents, and it is a sustainable eco-friendly method that gives decent yield of good quality DNA in ~20 minutes to be used in PCR applications with a cost that is estimated to be 10 times cheaper than current used methods.…”
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Experimental Study on Strain Penetration Effects in Fixed-End Rotation of RC Beam-Column Connections with High-Strength Reinforcement by Ling Li, Wenzhong Zheng, Ying Wang, Junke Ma

“…The prediction shows good agreement with the experimental results.…”
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Drug-target binding affinity prediction based on power graph and word2vec by Jing Hu, Shuo Hu, Minghao Xia, Kangxing Zheng, Xiaolong Zhang

“…We conducted experiments on the Davis and Kiba datasets, and the experimental results showed that WPGraphDTA exhibited good prediction performance.…”
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Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Evidence, Challenges, and the Role of Clinical Decision Support Technology by Vivek Patkar, Dionisio Acosta, Tim Davidson, Alison Jones, John Fox, Mohammad Keshtgar

“…The growing acceptance by clinical community of the health information technology in recent years has created new opportunities and possibilities of using advanced clinical decision support (CDS) systems to realise full potential of cancer MDT meetings. …”
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Validity, Reliability, and Efficiency of a Standard Goniometer, Medical Inclinometer, and Builder’s Inclinometer by June Hanks, Betsy Myers

“…Inclinometer measurements were more reliable (average ICC = 0.933 for MI and 0.919 for BI) than SG measurements (average ICC = 0.822). There was good correlation between MI and BI and mean differences between devices was less than 2°. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Steel-FRP Composite Bars under Tensile and Compressive Loading by Zeyang Sun, Yu Tang, Yunbiao Luo, Gang Wu, Xiaoyuan He

“…The factory-produced steel-fiber reinforced polymer composite bar (SFCB) is a new kind of reinforcement for concrete structures. …”
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A Critical Review of "Theoretical and Practical Bases of Film Music: An Essay on Film Music in the World of Islam" by Hamid Askari Rabori

“…By reviewing the role of the film music in Egyptian silver screen, it shows new aspects of music in Islamic countries’ cinema, as viewed by the Eastern artists. …”
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The Modeling of Comprehensive Evaluation System of College Teachers’ Professional Quality Based on Deep Learning by Xiaoying Yang

“…With the advent of the 21st century, society has entered a new stage of rapid development of knowledge economy. …”
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Mitigating the effects of climate change in children’s outdoor play environments by Martin Karaba Bäckström, Eva Lundgreen, Björn Slaug

“…Analysis was conducted with manifest content analysis.Results Four themes with supporting categories; 1: a new design paradigm for outdoor play environments, 2: a need for updated regulation- and security guidelines for outdoor play environments, 3: nature-based play environments are more climate change resilient, and 4: maintenance and construction of nature-based outdoor play environments. …”
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Audit Analysis of Abnormal Behavior of Social Security Fund Based on Adaptive Spectral Clustering Algorithm by Yan Wu, Yonghong Chen, Wenhao Ling

“…Therefore, a density-sensitive similarity measure is introduced in this paper, which is obtained by introducing new parameters to transform the Gaussian function. …”
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