Griffiths Scales of Child Development 3rd Edition: normalization for the Brazilian population by Amanda Tragueta Ferreira-Vasques, Eduardo Pimentel da Rocha, Elizabeth Green, Dionísia Aparecida Cusin Lamônica

“…This study normalized Griffiths III for the Brazilian population from 0 to 72 months.Methods445 typically developing children from 0 to 72 months, divided into eight groups (from 0 to 6 months; 7 to 12 months; 13 to 18 months; 19 to 24 months; 25 to 36 months; 37 to 48 months; 49 to 60 months; 61 to 72 months) participated. Their tutors answered the anamnesis protocol. …”
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Results of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in Acromegaly by Alberto Franzin, Giorgio Spatola, Marco Losa, Piero Picozzi, Pietro Mortini

“…The mean age at treatment was 42.3 years (range 22–67 yy). 103 acromegalic patients participated in the study. The median follow-up was 71 months (IQ range 43–107). …”
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Metacognitive Awareness and Self-Efficacy: A Closer Look at the Profiles of Arabic Learners at an Islamic University in Indonesia by Diana Nur Sholihah

“…This study aims to examine the metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy of Arabic language learners at Universitas Islam Tribakti Lirboyo Kediri. The participants in this study consisted of 72 Arabic learners. …”
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Dyskurs podręcznikowy a dyskurs dziecięcy – odmienne postrzeganie rzeczywistości by Aleksandra Szyller

“…The perspective of the youngest participants of the education process, who are the direct recipients of the textbook offer and are critical and thoughtful, is very rarely taken into account. …”
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SAMHD1 shapes deoxynucleotide triphosphate homeostasis by interconnecting the depletion and biosynthesis of different dNTPs by Claudia McCown, Corey H. Yu, Dmitri N. Ivanov

“…Our findings reveal that tetramerization alone is insufficient to promote dNTP hydrolysis; instead, the activation mechanism requires an inactive tetrameric intermediate with partially occupied allosteric sites. The equilibrium between inactive and active tetrameric states regulates dNTPase activity, driven by the binding and dissociation of additional allosteric dNTP ligands to the preassembled tetramer. …”
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Reduced connection strength leads to enhancement of working memory capacity in cognitive training by Guiyang Lv, Tianyong Xu, Jinhang Li, Ping Zhu, Feiyan Chen, Dongping Yang, Guoguang He

“…It has been widely observed that cognitive training can enhance the working memory capacity (WMC) of participants, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unexplained. …”
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NFAT5 Contributes to Osmolality-Induced MCP-1 Expression in Mesothelial Cells by Christoph Küper, Franz-X. Beck, Wolfgang Neuhofer

“…NFAT5 in turn upregulates MCP-1, likely in combination with NF-κB, and thus may participate in the development of peritoneal fibrosis during CAPD.…”
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Decision-Making Styles, Prosociality, and Behavioral Difficulties in Adolescent Offenders: The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction and Emotional Experiences by Arcadio de Jesús Cardona-Isaza, Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla, Angela Trujillo

“…. = 1.31; 32.2% female) participated in this study. The variables of interest were assessed using self-reports and descriptive, reliability, correlational, predictive, and mediation analyses were performed. …”
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Effect of Reablement Strategies targeting Sarcopenia (ReStart-S) on sarcopenic older adults residing in long term care settings: A protocol for cluster randomized trial by Prabal Kumar, Shashikiran Umakanth, Olivier Bruyère, Girish N

“…The LTCS clusters will be randomized into intervention and control groups. The participants in the intervention group will receive the ReStart-S multicomponent exercise intervention twice a week for a total of six weeks, while those in the control group will continue with their usual daily activities. …”
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Effect of turbinate reduction surgery on allergic rhinitis symptoms in hospitalized patients by Yusuf Kusuma Dewa, Andriana Tjitria Widi Wardani Sardjana, Moch. Agus Suprijono

“…An experimental one-group pretest-posttest design was employed, utilizing primary data collected from 19 patients diagnosed with allergic rhinitis (SFAR = 7) who underwent turbinate reduction surgery at the ENT Clinic, Sultan Agung Islamic Teaching Hospital, Semarang, from April to July 2023. Participants aged 18–55 years were included after providing informed consent. …”
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APPLICATION OF INTERNAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN BUDGETARY USER MANAGEMENT IN CROATIA by Vesna Vašiček, Verica Budimir, Mirjana Hladika

“…Furthermore, the research results indicate that public managers are only partially familiar with the cost accounting and management accounting instruments. …”
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Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Has a Negative Impact on Quality of Life Compared with Other Comorbidities: An Epidemiological Cross-Sectional Study of 1862 Community-Dwelling Individuals by Koji Otani, Shinichi Kikuchi, Shoji Yabuki, Tamaki Igarashi, Takuya Nikaido, Kazuyuki Watanabe, Shinichi Konno

“…A total of 1862 people (697 males and 1165 females, most subjects were between 40 and 85 y.o.) agreed to participate and were interviewed. The presence of symptomatic LSS was assessed by a specially designed questionnaire. …”
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Pectin fractions extracted sequentially from Cerasus humilis: their compositions, structures, functional properties and antioxidant activities by Shikai Zhang, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Tingting Cui, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Peng Wu

“…All of them were branched low methoxylated pectins with an amorphous or partially nanocrystalline nature and eight neutral monosaccharides (arabinose and galactose were most abundant). …”
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Defending against social engineering attacks: A security pattern‐based analysis framework by Tong Li, Chuanyong Song, Qinyu Pang

“…We applied the case study method and performed semi‐structured interviews with nine participants to evaluate our proposal, showing that our approach effectively defended against social engineering attacks.…”
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A Disproportionate Burden of Care: Gender Differences in Mental Health, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Social Support in Mexican Multiple Sclerosis Caregivers by Paul B. Perrin, Ivan Panyavin, Alejandra Morlett Paredes, Adriana Aguayo, Miguel Angel Macias, Brenda Rabago, Sandra J. Fulton Picot, Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla

“…As compared to men caregivers, women had lower mental health (p=0.006), HRQOL (p<0.001), and social support (p<0.001). This was partially explained by women caregivers providing care for nearly twice as many hours/week as men (79.28 versus 48.48, p=0.018) and for nearly three times as many months (66.31 versus 24.30, p=0.002). …”
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Displacement MMG-based estimation of dynamic muscle viscoelasticity in the quadriceps during passive pedaling by Shinichi Fukuhara, Hisao Oka

“…We introduce a novel methodology employing DMMG during passive pedaling to evaluate these properties. Participants engaged in passive pedaling at various cadences, while DMMG signals were recorded from the quadriceps, and knee joint angles measured. …”
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Evolutionary Cooperation in Networked Public Goods Game with Dependency Groups by Xuzhen Zhu, Xin Su, Jinming Ma, Hui Tian, RunRan Liu

“…In this paper, we studied a spatial public goods game with nonlocal interdependency groups where each of participants is located in a two-dimensional square lattice or Watts–Strogatz small-world network with payoffs obtaining from the interactions with nearest neighbors. …”
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A dataset of annotated free comments on the sensory perception of madeleines for benchmarking text mining techniquesRecherche.Data.Gouv by Michel Visalli, Ronan Symoneaux, Cécile Mursic, Margaux Touret, Flore Lourtioux, Kipédène Coulibaly, Benjamin Mahieu

“…Consumers in the first group provided only words or short expressions, while those in the second group used complete sentences. Additionally, participants reported their liking for each sample.The collected data provided valuable insights into the effectiveness of the free comment method in sensory evaluation of food products. …”
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Impacto do LabEM na formação dos licenciandos em Matemática do IFRJ Campus Nilópolis by Aline Mendes Penteado Farves, José Carlos Gonçalves Gaspar, Marcelo Silva Bastos

“…Um dos resultados obtidos aponta para a percepção dos participantes da pesquisa a respeito das contribuições do laboratório de ensino para o desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional dos licenciandos. Entendemos, a partir do relato dos alunos, que ter participado das ações desenvolvidas pelo laboratório de ensino contribuiu para a futura prática docente dos licenciandos. …”
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Evaluation of Cognitive Schemas Based on the Presence of Anxiety Disorder among Coronary Artery Disease Patients by Huri ASLAN, &Yacute;brahim TAYMUR, Mehmet Hakan T&Uuml;RK&Ccedil;APAR

“…Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form 3 were applied to each participant. Results: Disconnection, rejection, impaired autonomy self-manifestation, extreme vigilance, unrelenting standards, other-directedness, and impaired limits schema domain scores were significantly higher in coronary artery disease patients with anxiety disorder comorbidity compared to coronary artery disease patients without anxiety disorder. …”
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