Earnings Management and Valuation of Biological Assets by Ricardo Luiz Menezes da Silva, Paula Carolina Ciampaglia Nardi, Maisa de Souza Ribeiro

“…In this sense, only hypotheses 1 and 4 are partially accepted, demanding more research in this area. …”
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Ecopsychosocial strategies for the self-exploration of professional family caregivers to manage the behavioural and psychological symptoms of Alzheimer patients in Iran: a qualitat... by Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy, Parastoo Amiri, Zahra Niazkhani, Habibollah Pirnejad

“…Objective The aim of the present study was to explore the experiences and viewpoints of professional family caregivers in the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSDs) to identify the ecopsychosocial strategies applied by them.Design Qualitative study.Setting Kerman, Iran.Participants Stories were collected from 40 professional family caregivers of dementia patients.Measurement The guidelines of the National Consensus Project (NCP) of the USA served as the conceptual framework for the deductive thematic analysis of our qualitative data. …”
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Exploring Conditions for Designing Citizen Observatories in Sri Lanka: The Case of Air Quality in Rural Areas by Chaminda Rathnayake, Somya Joshi, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman

“…The study contributes to discourses on conditions for designing COs by suggesting potential design features for community science participation and sense-making. Our findings indicate that most often, the citizen science practices identified and discussed by the literature on COs and human-computer interaction are at odds with rural communities’ priorities and sensing praxis in countries such as Sri Lanka. …”
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Foxtail millet supplementation improves glucose metabolism and gut microbiota in rats with high-fat diet/streptozotocin-induced diabetes by Xin Ren, Linxuan Wang, Zenglong Chen, Min Zhang, Dianzhi Hou, Yong Xue, Xianmin Diao, Ruihai Liu, Qun Shen

“…In addition, 4 weeks of 48% FM supplementation siginificantly increased the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium and concentration of butyrate, suggesting that the hypoglycemic effects of FM supplementation might be partially mediated by gut microbiota. Collectively, we found a dose-dependent relationship between FM supplementation and improvement of blood glucose metabolism, but did not find a synergistic effect between FM supplementation and metformin (Met) treatment. …”
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Urinary Sodium Concentration Is an Independent Predictor of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in a Type 2 Diabetes Cohort Population by Pierre-Jean Saulnier, Elise Gand, Stéphanie Ragot, Lise Bankir, Xavier Piguel, Frédéric Fumeron, Vincent Rigalleau, Jean-Michel Halimi, Richard Marechaud, Ronan Roussel, Samy Hadjadj, SURDIAGENE Study group

“…Improvement in prediction of mortality by the addition of UNa to a model including known risk factors was assessed by the relative integrated discrimination improvement (rIDI) index. Results. Participants (n=1,439) were followed for a median of 5.7 years, during which 254 cardiovascular deaths and 429 all-cause deaths were recorded. …”
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Relative Fat Mass, A Better Predictor of Erectile Dysfunction: Insights From the NHANES 2001–2004 by BoWen Yang, HanYu Wang, Luyi Tang, JiuHuan Feng, ShuFang Hou

“…A total of 3,947 American male participants were included in this retrospective study within NHANES. …”
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Substance use recovery needs among college students seeking recovery services: a thematic qualitative analysis by Lindsey M. Nichols, Tiffany B. Brown, Angela Allmendinger, Emily A. Hennessy, Emily E. Tanner-Smith

“…We conducted qualitative thematic analysis of written responses to open-ended prompts posed to 92 college students from one university (47% female; M age = 21.5 years, SD = 5.6) who participated in a larger parent study of Collegiate Recovery Programs in the United States. …”
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On the Regulatory Regime of Private Individuals by V. F. Popondopulo

“…The article assesses the quality of legislation regulating the participation of individuals, both from a formal legal point of view (form) and in terms of its social purpose (content). …”
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Postgraduate psychology students’ mental health and coping during COVID-19: Lessons learnt by Tasneem Hassem, Victor de Andrade, Sumaya Laher, Nabeelah Bemath, katherine Bain

“…Using a repeated cross-sectional design, a sample of 38 Psychology honours students enrolled in 2020 and 39 Psychology honours students enrolled in 2021 voluntarily participated in the study. Overall, students reported poor mental health, with elevated levels of anxiety and burnout and moderate post-traumatic stress symptoms. …”
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The military service as part of the social ideal in Serbia by Starčević Srđan, Blagojević Srđan

“…State incentives for voluntary military service and, subsequently, participation in the active and passive reserves, could be divided into three groups. …”
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Theoretical issues of local government in modern conditions by Indira Kokhanovskaya

“…It is the local authorities, that ensure the organization and implementation of local government with the independent participation of social structures and their individual elements, when solving issues of local importance. …”
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A study on awareness regarding cigarettes and other tobacco products act (COTPA Act) among hospital staff of medical college, Kanpur: A mixed method study by Aradhana Yadav, Sonam, Samarjeet Kaur, Santosh K. Barman, Seema Barman

“…On qualitative analysis by in-depth interview framework analysis, decalogues were taken from the responses provided by the participants. After that, the decalogues were divided into three keynotes which were openers, hurdles, and recommendations. …”
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Factors associated with in-hospital mortality of newborns admitted to a special care newborn unit of a tertiary care hospital in southern Bangladesh: a retrospective cohort study by Md Mostafizur Rahman, Tahmina Zerin, Md Abdullah Saeed Khan, Md Golam Abbas, Aysha Haque, Mohammed Zahidul Alam, Ummay Thamima, Md Wahiduzzaman, Siddhartha Sankar Das

“…Objectives The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with in-hospital deaths of newborns admitted to a special care newborn unit (SCANU) in southern Bangladesh.Design Retrospective cohort.Setting SCANU of Patuakhali Medical College Hospital, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.Participants Records of 930 neonates admitted to the SCANU from August to December 2022 were included in the study. …”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Therapeutic Approach of Adolescent-Centered Mindfulness (ACM) and Integral Deep Listening (IDL) on the Academic Vitality of Students with Anxiety Dis... by Elaheh Nekoie Isfahani, Mansoureh Bahramipour Isfahani, Mohsen Golparvar

“…Individuals in the experimental groups participated in parallel sessions of ACM and IDL, but there was no intervention for the control group. …”
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Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm by Hong Liu, Adel Chaouch-Orozco

“…Our results indicate that participants responded faster in the n − 2 repetition trials (i.e., when the target language in the n and n − 2 trials matched). …”
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Mobile base station site as a virtual power plant for grid stability by Jussi Laimio, Mika Keski-Heikkilä, Matti Pärssinen, Roope Lahti, Olli Salmela, Topi Volkov, Jari Collin, Petri Rannikko, Henri Koskela, Jukka Manner

“…Our objective is to demonstrate that mobile operators could use their existing infrastructure to participate in the reserve market of a contemporary power grid. …”
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Clausewitz's conceptualization of war as an ontological starting point in its research and understanding by Barišić Igor I., Vračar Milinko S., Đorđević Ivica Lj.

“…Because of its complexity, disciplinary limitations of the fields of science that researched it, and social stigmatisation, war was only partially studied in social and humanistic sciences. …”
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Regulation of local self-government bodies powers in health care by O. V. Batryn

“…The article is devoted to the issues of legal regulation of the powers of local self-government bodies in health care. …”
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Effect of Eel Biscuit Supplementation on Height of Children with Stunting Aged 36–60 Months: A Pilot Study by Dewi M. D. Herawati, Siti N. Asiyah, Siska Wiramihardja, Shifa Fauzia, Deni K. Sunjaya

“…The study was conducted in two villages in the Priangan Region, West Java Province, Indonesia. The participants were divided into two groups: intervention group (10 supplemented eel biscuit pieces) and control group (biscuits from the government’s biscuit programme). …”
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Defense against Feeding by Spring Aphid Parasitism in the Upper Leaf Parts of Host Plants by Yuuka Murakami, Hisashi Kawai, Akane Shindo, Eisuke Hasegawa

“…In a symbiosis, each participant gains more fitness benefits than is paid in maintenance costs for the symbiosis. …”
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