Students’ Belief Biases Concerning Climate Change and Factors Considered While Evaluating Informal Reasoning Arguments by Perihan Gunes

“…This study employs a case study, a qualitative research method. Participants included 137 9th-grade students (76 females, 61 males) from three different high schools located in the central district of the city of Aksaray, Turkey. …”
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The Validation of Diabetes Mellitus Discharge Planning Module Incorporated into the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activity by Asbath Said, Faridah Mohd Said, Nisha Nambiar

“…The sample population consisted of sixty-five randomly selected respondents, who participated in the validation of the summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA) questionnaire, which had three phases, namely pre-test, during, fieldwork, and post-test. …”
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Evaluating the relative predictive validity of measures of self-referential processing for depressive symptom severity by Ethel Siew Ee Tan, Hong Ming Tan, Kah Vui Fong, Sheryl Yu Xuan Tey, Nikita Rane, Chong Wei Ho, Zhao Yuan Tan, Rachel Jing Min Ong, Chloe Teo, Jerall Yu, Maxine Lee, An Rae Teo, Sin Kee Ong, Xin Ying Lim, Jin Lin Kee, Jussi Keppo, Geoffrey Chern-Yee Tan

“…MethodsThis study systematically investigated the predictive accuracy of various SRET measures across different samples, including one clinical population matched with healthy controls and two university student populations, exposed to differing word lists. Participants completed the standard SRET and its variations, including Likert scales and matrix formats. …”
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Ultra high density imaging arrays in diffuse optical tomography for human brain mapping improve image quality and decoding performance by Zachary E. Markow, Jason W. Trobaugh, Edward J. Richter, Kalyan Tripathy, Sean M. Rafferty, Alexandra M. Svoboda, Mariel L. Schroeder, Tracy M. Burns-Yocum, Karla M. Bergonzi, Mark A. Chevillet, Emily M. Mugler, Adam T. Eggebrecht, Joseph P. Culver

“…We then constructed an ultra-high-density DOT system (6.5-mm spacing) with 140 dB dynamic range that imaged stimulus-evoked activations with 30–50% higher spatial resolution and repeatable multi-focal activity with excellent agreement with participant-matched fMRI. Further, this system decoded visual stimulus position with 19–35% lower error than previous HD-DOT, throughout occipital cortex.…”
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Co-designing conversational agents with older people: A scoping review of methods, challenges, and a way forward by Sidonie Salomé, Lydie Du Bousquet, Emmanuel Monfort

“…Searches were carried out on PsycInfo, Google Scholar, PubMed, ACM, IEEE, Web of Science and DBLP. Of the 982 articles identified, 27 projects were selected. The analysis revealed great variability in methods and highlighted the lack of consensus on optimal co-design structures for this population. …”
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Reinforcing Mothers’ Nutritional Knowledge to Combat the Spread of Non-Communicable Diseases: Food-Based Dietary Guidelines by Yolisa Christina Majija

“…The study revealed that many survey participants were unaware of the South African Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (SA FBDGs). …”
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The risks of adverse events with mirtazapine for adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis by Caroline Barkholt Kamp, Johanne Juul Petersen, Pascal Faltermeier, Sophie Juul, Christina Dam Bjerregaard Sillassen, Faiza Siddiqui, Rebecca Kjaer Andersen, Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Abie Horowitz, Michael Pascal Hengartner, Irving Kirsch, Christian Gluud, Janus Christian Jakobsen

“…Results We included 17 trials randomising 2,131 participants to mirtazapine versus placebo. All results were at high risk of bias, and the certainty of the evidence was very low. …”
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Mothers’ experiences as legal guardian of children's phlebitis during hospitalization in Indonesia: A phenomenological study by Casman Casman, Dian Mahanani, Balbina Antonelda Marled Wawo, Muhammad Iqbal, Desy Rizki Ariani, Anung Ahadi Pradana

“…The interviews were transcribed verbatim, and data were analyzed using content analysis. Each participant validated the transcripts before analysis. …”
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Lipopolysaccharide Inhibits the Channel Activity of the P2X7 Receptor by Elias Leiva-Salcedo, Claudio Coddou, Felipe E. Rodríguez, Antonello Penna, Ximena Lopez, Tanya Neira, Ricardo Fernández, Mónica Imarai, Miguel Rios, Jorge Escobar, Margarita Montoya, J. Pablo Huidobro-Toro, Alejandro Escobar, Claudio Acuña-Castillo

“…The purinergic P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) plays an important role during the immune response, participating in several events such as cytokine release, apoptosis, and necrosis. …”
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The ethics of DeCSS posting: towards assessing the morality of the Internet posting of DVD copyright circumvention software by K.R. Eschenfelder, R.G. Howard, A.C. Desai

“…</b> The paper points out six areas that require further attention in ethical frameworks: determining motivation for posting, deciding whether some groups have more moral standing to post, assessing knowledge of the laws related to circumvention and posting, determining if protesters have taken related political actions, the legality of various formats of circumvention devices, and the physical geography of the participants.…”
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The Impact of Road Types on the Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicles by Tim Jonas, Taris Wilde, Christopher D. Hunter, Gretchen A. Macht

“…., ambient temperature, the initial state of charge, and driver). Thirty participants drove a 2017 Volkswagen eGolf along two predefined routes in Rhode Island. …”
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Features of using social networks in self-learning foreign languages by O. Shumskyi

“…This paradigm, characterized by network learning and self-learning, is founded upon the principles of mass cooperation, the ideology of educational resource openness, and the networked organization of participants’ interaction. This article explores the possibilities and peculiarities of utilizing network technologies in students’ self-directed foreign language learning. …”
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Frailty and Nutritional Status among Urban Older Adults in South India by T. Shalini, P. Swathi Chitra, B. Naveen Kumar, G. Madhavi, G. Bhanuprakash Reddy

“…Among the study population, 20% of the participants were frail and 80% were nonfrail. The prevalence of frailty is higher in older (30.1%) than the younger (12.2%) age groups, and it is more so in women (32.4%) than in men (10.1%). …”
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Differences in Drivers’ Glance Behavior and Lateral Control Ability during Full-Touch Interaction Mode and Conventional Interaction Mode: A Case Study of Road Experiments by Xia Zhao, Zhao Li, Rui Fu, Chang Wang, Yingshi Guo

“…In this study, we evaluated the visual engagement and driving performance of 30 participants while driving two vehicles equipped with either the full-touch interaction mode (FTIM) or the conventional interaction mode (CIM) provided by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM). …”
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Vitamin D Status and Its Relationship with Metabolic Markers in Persons with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in the UAE: A Cross-Sectional Study by Amena Sadiya, Solafa M. Ahmed, Sijomol Skaria, Salah Abusnana

“…Vitamin D deficiency (s-25(OH)D < 50 nmol/L) was observed in 83.2% of the participants, with a mean s-25(OH)D of 33.8 ± 20.3 nmol/L. …”
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Understanding the misophonic experience: a mixed method study by Yesim Ozuer, Rilana Cima, Rilana Cima, Rilana Cima, Elke Kestens, Ilse Van Diest

“…To this end, misophonia symptom severity was assessed in 431 young adults using the Amsterdam Misophonia Scale (A-Miso-S). Participants rated the extent to which the meanings and reactions identified in Study 1 matched their experiences with prototypical misophonic trigger stimuli. …”
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Age-Related Decline in Disengaging Spatial Attention in Physiological Aging by Tiziana Pedale, Serena Mastroberardino, Nicola Tambasco, Valerio Santangelo

“…<b>Methods:</b> To address this issue, we administered the ANT to 60 healthy participants aged between 62 and 90 years. Using a multivariate regression analysis, we examined whether increasing age was associated with changes in alerting, orienting, and conflict resolution, while controlling for overall performance in terms of both reaction times and accuracy. …”
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Functional Connectivity Pattern Analysis Underlying Neural Oscillation Synchronization during Deception by Peng Liu, Hongkui Shen, Shumei Ji

“…In this study, 15 participants were randomly assigned to honesty or deception groups and were instructed to tell the truth or lie when facing certain stimuli. …”
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Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino” by O. Yu. Mushtanova

“…The article is devoted to interpretation of historical facts in Umberto Eco's novel " Baudolino ". …”
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A Snake Venom-Secreted Phospholipase A2 Induces Foam Cell Formation Depending on the Activation of Factors Involved in Lipid Homeostasis by Elbio Leiguez, Karina Cristina Giannotti, Mariana do Nascimento Viana, Márcio Hideki Matsubara, Cristina Maria Fernandes, José Maria Gutiérrez, Bruno Lomonte, Catarina Teixeira

“…Here, we investigated the participation of lipid homeostasis-related factors in LD formation induced by MT-III in macrophages. …”
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