Private well water stewardship in rural Georgia. by J Edward Dotherow, Bettye Apenteng, Andrew Hansen, Asli Aslan

“…The HWTS-only intervention had no significant effect on testing and treatment behaviors, though it had a significant effect on abilities (R2 = .87, p< 0.05) and self-regulation (R2 = 1.0, p<0.01). …”
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Pilocarpine-Induced Status Epilepticus Is Associated with Changes in the Actin-Modulating Protein Synaptopodin and Alterations in Long-Term Potentiation in the Mouse Hippocampus by Maximilian Lenz, Marina Ben Shimon, Thomas Deller, Andreas Vlachos, Nicola Maggio

“…Here, we addressed the question of whether pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus affects synaptopodin (SP), an actin-binding protein, which regulates the ability of neurons to express synaptic plasticity. …”
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Aerobic Exercise Regulates Apoptosis through the PI3K/Akt/GSK-3β Signaling Pathway to Improve Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease Mice by Yan Peng, Rui Chi, Gang Liu, Weijie Tian, Jun Zhang, Rihui Zhang

“…The results showed that aerobic exercise improved the location and spatial exploration ability of mice, increased the number of PI3K- and p-Akt-positive cells, increased the expression of PI3K, p-Akt, and bcl-2 proteins, decreased the expression of GSK-3β and Bax proteins, and increased the bcl-2/Bax ratio of mice. …”
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SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FORECASTING IN THE PROCESS OF CHILDREN’S SOCIALIZATION by Antonina L. Leutina

“…The author draws readers’ attention to the advantages of the organisation of the educational process based on a teacher’s reflection of achievements and abilities of the pupil, and prolonged forecasting on the ground of possible ways of the further students’ personality development. …”
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Screening and marker trait association for salinity tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) by P. Hima Bindu1*, G. Shiva Prasad2, R.M. Sundaram3, K. Sumalini1 and C.H. Damodar Raju4

“…The goal of this work was to find marker-trait association to assess ability of rice genotypes to withstand salinity, which is an important consideration in abiotic stress breeding. …”
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TOM1L Is Involved in a Novel Signaling Pathway Important for the IL-2 Production in Jurkat T Cells Stimulated by CD3/CD28 CoLigation by Ahmed Elmarghani, Hanan Abuabaid, Peter Kjellen

“…The coexpression of Fyn with TOM1L increased the level of the phosphorylated form of Fyn indicating that TOM1L has the ability to activate Fyn. The ability of TOM1L to activate Fyn was further shown in a kinase assay using angiotensin II as a substrate. …”
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Morphological and Molecular Characteristics of Endophytic Fungi in Sugarcane as Antagonists of the Pathogen Fusarium sacchari by Asniah Asniah, Muhammad Taufik

“…This research aims to discover endophytic fungi derived from sugarcane and evaluate their ability to suppress the growth of the pathogen F. sacchari. …”
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Advanced machine learning approach with dynamic kernel weighting for accurate electrical load forecasting by C. Jeevakarunya, V. Manikandan

“…It facilitates the power industry’s ability to make better judgments by providing more precision and flexibility. …”
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Development of a Numeracy Assessment Instrument for Vocational High School (VHS) Students by Jumini Jumini, Kana Hidayati

“…Based  on  Total Information Function (TIF) and Standard Error of Measurement (SEM), the instrument is reliable in estimating the numeracy skills of the students with the ability ranging from -3.2 to 3.3 logit or covering the ability categories of low, medium, and high. …”
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Effects of rural industrial integration development on the performance of entrepreneurial enterprises of returning college students by Yan Lu, Yun Yu, Guoqing Wu

“…Among them, the depth of rural industrial integration has the greatest degree of direct influence on CSREE, followed by the width of rural industrial integration, and finally the length of rural industrial integration. (3) IDRI indirectly has a positive impact on the performance of CSREE through internal technological innovation ability and cooperative development ability. Seize the great opportunity of rural integration development to further improve the performance of CSREE. …”
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Grasping Variance in Word Norms: Individual Differences in Motor Imagery and Semantic Ratings by Emiko J. Muraki, Sydney Born, Penny M. Pexman

“…Using linear mixed effect models we tested whether measures of motor imagery ability (e.g., the Florida Praxis Imagery Questionnaire and the Test of Ability in Movement Imagery for Hands) and motor imagery vividness (e.g., the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire 2) could account for variance (raw and absolute difference scores) in graspability ratings. …”
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Cross-linguistic Phonological Transfer: by Jahurul Islam, Md. Sayeed Anwar, Shahriar Mohammad Kamal

“…However, there has been limited investigation into whether speakers can transfer discrimination abilities from the vowel contrasts in their first language (L1) to novel contrasts in a second language (L2) that differ in specific phonetic features. …”
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Prevalence and Temporal Distribution of Extrasystoles in Septic ICU Patients: The Feasibility of Predicting Fluid Responsiveness Using Extrasystoles by Johannes Enevoldsen, Cristhian Potes, Minnan Xu-Wilson, Simon T. Vistisen

“…With this extrasystolic availability, we believe the method to be considered for clinical use, provided that future studies validate the method’s fluid responsiveness prediction ability.…”
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Possible influence of sex on the relationship between dual-task gait costs and cognitive decline in older adults. by Monica Christova, Shane Fresnoza, Christoph Palli, Wolfgang Staubmann, Bernhard Guggenberger

“…The present study was conducted to explore whether the relationship between the DTG costs and cognitive abilities in older individuals is influenced by sex differences. …”
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Legal personality of legal entities: some problematic aspects by Yu. I. Chalyi

“…The category of "legal personality", when disclosed in the context of defining the subjectivity of legal entities, can be understood in two senses: 1) as a legal consequence of an act of legislation (in the form of state registration), which entails the recognition of the qualities of the subject by a certain organization or, that is, the recognition by the organization of the status of "legal entity"; 2) as a detailed description of the qualities of the subject, indicating not only his legal ability to have rights and responsibilities in the future (legal capacity), but also the ability to independently form the will and express it externally by implementing legally significant acts of conduct (capacity). …”
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Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) create facial displays during social interactions by changing the shape of their melons by Justin T. Richard, Isabelle Pellegrini, Rachael Levine

“…Abstract Beluga whales are considered unique among odontocetes in their ability to visibly alter the appearance of their head by changing the shape of the melon, but only anecdotal observations are available to evaluate the use or potential function of these melon shapes. …”
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Optimizing Guidance and Counseling Services to Address The Impact of Gadget Use on Elementary School Students' Social Skills by Maulida Aulia Rahman, Siti Sinta, Siti Nur Ajijah

“…The research conducted examines the ability of social interaction of children who use gadget, and the efforts of classroom teachers to provide guidance and counseling services to develop positive social skills in students at school.  …”
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Employing visual thinking skills in the techniques of advertising art by Bydaa Sabih Al-Gharawi

“…It also works on enhancing current education methods to reach excellence in the process of teaching advertisement art techniques, where the research aims to take on skills of visual thinking and adopt them in preparing teaching units that represent weekly lectures for the students of the Department of Printing Design Techniques / First Grade, and develop their abilities in translating visual language carried in advertisements to a written phonic language that requires training on visual thinking skills. …”
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Does fast running limit numerical variability of the vertebral column in rabbits and hares (Leporidae: Lagomorpha)? by Megu Gunji, Nuttakorn Taewcharoen, Fumio Yamada, Emma Sherratt

“…In mammalian vertebral columns, locomotive ability is expected to be an evolutionary driver of variation in the number of vertebrae; in species evolved to run fast or have a flexible vertebral column, they generally have limited numerical variation and low occurrence of malformed vertebrae to maintain their running performance. …”
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Heterogeneities in infection outcomes across species: sex and tissue differences in virus susceptibility by Roberts, Katherine E, Longdon, Ben

“…Species vary in their susceptibility to pathogens, and this can alter the ability of a pathogen to infect a novel host. However, many factors can generate heterogeneity in infection outcomes, obscuring our ability to understand pathogen emergence. …”
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