Clinical Holistic Medicine (Mindful,Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Complemented with Bodywork) in the Treatment of Experienced Mental Illness by Søren Ventegodt, Suzette Thegler, Tove Andreasen, Flemming Struve, Lars Enevoldsen, Laila Bassaine, Margrethe Torp, Joav Merrick

“…For the treatment responders, all measured aspects of life (on a five point Likert Scale) improved significantly, simultaneously, and radically: somatic health (from 2.9 to 2.3), self-esteem/relationship to self (from 3.5 to 2.3), relationship to partner (from 4.7 to 2.9 [no partner was rated as “6”]), relationship to friends (from 2.5 to 2.0), ability to love (from 3.8 to 2.4), self-assessed sexual ability (from 3.5 to 2.4), self-assessed social ability (from 3.2 to 2.1), self-assessed working ability (from 3.3 to 2.4), and self-assessed quality of life (from 4.0 to 2.3. …”
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Comparative reducing and carbohydrate enzyme inhibitory activities of the root, leaf, and seed of Picralima nitida by Erwin Osiele Onyekachukwu, Aishat Mary Osagie, Sylvia Oghogho Omage, Kingsley Omage, Marshall Arebojie Azeke

“…Methods: The antioxidant reducing power of P. nitida as well as its ability to inhibit selected enzymes of carbohydrate hydrolysis were evaluated using standard experimental methods. …”
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PAK5 Induces EMT and Promotes Cell Migration and Invasion by Activating the PI3K/AKT Pathway in Ovarian Cancer by Diyou Li, Yinglin Pan, Yating Huang, Ping Zhang, Xuhong Fang

“…When PAK5 was depleted from SKOV3 cells, cells exhibited impaired wound recovery abilities. Cell migration and invasion abilities were also significantly inhibited. …”
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Under the Watch of the State? Refugee Parents’ Experiences with Surveillance in Norwegian Early Childhood Education Centers by Eric Kimathi

“…The findings reveal that these parents feel their parenting abilities are viewed with suspicion by ECEC professionals. …”
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A Decision Model Assessing the Owner and Contractor’s Conflict Behaviors in Construction Projects by Guangdong Wu, Huanming Wang, Ruidong Chang

“…Balancing the contractor’s ability of converting conflicts into benefits and the loss caused by conflict behaviors lead to a more reasonable risk allocation between the owner and contractor, improving the effort level and net benefit. …”
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Degraded Impairment of Emotion Recognition in Parkinson’s Disease Extends from Negative to Positive Emotions by Chia-Yao Lin, Yi-Min Tien, Jong-Tsun Huang, Chon-Haw Tsai, Li-Chuan Hsu

“…In Experiment  2, PD patients showed an intact ability for gender identification, and the results eliminated possible abilities in the functions measured in Experiment  2 as alternative explanations for the results of Experiment  1. …”
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Design and Control of an Upper Limb Bionic Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Device Based on Tensegrity Structure by Peng Ni, Jianwei Sun, Jialin Dong

“…The control strategy proposed in this paper has high control precision and adaptive ability and has potential application value in the field of medical rehabilitation.…”
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Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) manufacture objects relative to a mental template by Anna A. Smirnova, Leia R. Bulgakova, Maria A. Cheplakova, Sarah A. Jelbert

“…Here, we tested for the same ability in another non-specialised tool user–Hooded crows (Corvus cornix). …”
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A novel classification method for balance differences in elite versus expert athletes based on composite multiscale complexity index and ranking forests. by Yuqi Cheng, Dawei Wu, Ying Wu, Youcai Guo, Xinze Cui, Pengquan Zhang, Jie Gao, Yanming Fu, Xin Wang

“…Balance is crucial for various athletic tasks, and accurately assessing balance ability among elite athletes using simple and accessible measurement methods is a significant challenge in sports science. …”
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Achieving optimal physical fitness and health safety in 19-21 year old judo athletes by Natalia Boychenko, Wladyslaw Jagiello

“…The athletes were tested for various physical fitness indicators, including strength endurance, coordination abilities, speed-strength abilities, endurance, speed abilities, and flexibility. …”
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Impairment in Theory of Mind in Parkinson’s Disease Is Explained by Deficits in Inhibition by Jennifer A. Foley, Claire Lancaster, Elena Poznyak, Olga Borejko, Elaine Niven, Thomas Foltynie, Sharon Abrahams, Lisa Cipolotti

“…Methods. 18 PD patients and 22 age-matched healthy controls performed a ToM test that separates the ability to infer someone else’s perspective from the ability to inhibit one’s own. …”
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Sustainable employability in Supported Employment and IPS interventions in the context of the characteristics of work and perspectives of the employers: a scoping review protocol by Pirjo Juvonen-Posti, Matti Joensuu, Joonas Poutanen, Kirsi Unkila

“…Findings of the review will be used in the upcoming ethnographic observation at work study, which is part of the Finnish Work Ability Programme Evaluation Study (2020–2023).…”
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Psychometric Properties of Sensory Processing and Self-Regulation Checklist (SPSRC) by Cynthia Y. Y. Lai, Trevor W. K. Yung, Ivan N. B. Gomez, Andrew M. H. Siu

“…Some children may encounter difficulties in processing sensory stimuli, which may affect their ability to participate in activities of daily living. …”
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Insights into the dependence of post-stroke motor recovery on the initial corticospinal tract connectivity from a computational model by Dongwon Kim, Leah M. O’Shea, Naveed R. Aghamohammadi

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Forecasting Carbon Emissions with Dynamic Model Averaging Approach: Time-Varying Evidence from China by Siqi Xu, Yifeng Zhang, Xiaodan Chen

“…Secondly, all these predictors present a distinct predictive ability for carbon emission in China. The proportion of industry production in GDP (IP) shows the greatest predictive power, while the proportion of FDI in GDP has the smallest forecasting ability. …”
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Assessment of Spoilage Microbiota of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) during Storage by 16S rDNA Sequencing by Guangqing Du, Yuanming Gai, Hui Zhou, Shaoping Fu, Dawei Zhang

“…S5-52 showed the highest level of TVB-N content (100.6 mg/100 g) in sterile fish juice, indicating that it had a strong spoilage ability. This study confirmed the dominant spoilage bacterial genera and evaluated the spoilage abilities of isolated strains during the storage of rainbow trout, which laid the foundation for further investigation of the spoilage mechanism of rainbow trout and other aquatic products.…”
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Effects of Solid-State Fermentation with the Ganoderma spp. and Coriolus versicolor on the Total Phenol Contents and Antioxidant Properties on Black Soybean by Yanting Li, Lina Xu, Shang Guo

“…In addition, the DPPH scavenging ability of CV fermented products was highest, the hydroxyl radical scavenging ability of GS fermented products was highest, and the superoxide anion radical scavenging ability of GO fermented products was highest, which were 9.43, 7.65, and 3.39 folds higher than those of control groups, respectively. …”
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Behavioral Training of High-Functioning Autistic Children by Music Education of Occupational Therapy by Ting Xia, Zongrun Li

“…The behavioral analysis of the three children during the teaching activities showed that the three children improved their ability to sit comfortably, awareness, musical ability, and rule awareness and reduced inappropriate behaviors and bad emotions, which proved that music education could improve the social and cognitive skills of the children.…”
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Logatome Discrimination in Cochlear Implant Users: Subjective Tests Compared to the Mismatch Negativity by Torsten Rahne, Michael Ziese, Dorothea Rostalski, Roland Mühler

“…Furthermore, the discrimination abilities were measured electrophysiologically by recording the mismatch negativity (MMN) as a component of auditory event-related potentials. …”
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Looks like home: numerosity, but not spatial frequency guides preference in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio) by Elisabeth Adam, Mirko Zanon, Andrea Messina, Giorgio Vallortigara

“…We then used this acquired preference for bars to investigate innate numerical abilities. We wanted to specifically test if the zebrafish larvae show real numerical abilities or if they rely on a lower-level mechanism—i.e. spatial frequency—to discriminate between two different numerosities. …”
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