Effectiveness of From Timid To Tiger Program on Clinical Symptoms of Children with Separation Anxiety Disorder and Family Accomadation of Their Parents by Mohsen Jalali, Elnaz Pourahmadi Esfastani

“…To evaluate the effect of the intervention, the Spence Anxiety Scale and the Family Accommodation Scale were administered to the mothers of all participating children at the beginning, the end of treatment, and during the follow-up stage. Finally, analysis of covariance and the improvement percentage formula were utilized to analyze the data.Results: The results indicated a significant reduction in anxiety among children and improved family accommodation among parents in the experimental group compared to the control group, as observed in both the post-test and follow-up (P < 0.05). …”
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Mechanical properties and microstructure of wire laser metal deposited austenitic stainless steel by P. Kyvelou, W. Hong, R. Zhang, L. Gardner

“…Overall, the examined material exhibited good mechanical behaviour and geometric consistency. Finally, a constitutive modelling approach previously applied to wire arc additively manufactured (WAAM) stainless steel was successfully adapted to characterise the anisotropic behaviour of LMD stainless steel in both the elastic and inelastic material ranges. …”
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Multi-Objective Dynamic Path Planning with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning by Mengxue Tao, Qiang Li, Junxi Yu

“…Furthermore, in real-task execution, agents acting as mobile entities can perform real-time obstacle avoidance. Finally, based on the OpenAI Gym platform, environments such as simple multi-objective environment and complex multi-objective environment were designed to analyze the rationality and effectiveness of the multi-objective dynamic path planning through minimum cost and collision risk assessments. …”
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An enhanced dung beetle optimizer with multiple strategies for robot path planning by Wei Hu, Qi Zhang, Shan Ye

“…The results show that the proposed algorithm has stronger robustness and optimization ability, and algorithm’s performance has substantially enhanced. Finally, the proposed algorithm is applied to solve the real-world robot path planning engineering cases, to demonstrate its effectiveness in dealing with real optimization engineering cases, which further verified how noteworthy the enhanced strategy’s efficacy and the enhanced algorithm’s superiority are in addressing real-world engineering cases.…”
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Bonding Performance and Evaluation of Basalt Fiber Asphalt Macadam Seal by Enmao Quan, Yangsen Cao, Hongke Xu

“…After that, reasonable content of each material was determined. Finally, the strengthening mechanism of the fiber on the bonding performance of macadam seals was revealed from a microscopic view. …”
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The resilience instrument for older adults: scale development and preliminary validation by Chun Hu, Chun-Qing Zhang, Jingdong Liu, Yiqun Gan

“…In Study 3, the RIOA demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (α = 0.87) and good criterion as well as construct validities, with 24 items finally confirmed. The measurement model also displayed satisfying model fit and was proven invariant across gender. …”
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The Future of Law Firms (and Lawyers) in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Anthony E. Davis

“…Part IV identifies the principal legal, ethical, regulatory and risk management issues raised by the use of AI in the provision of legal services. Finally, in Part V the article considers who will be the likely providers of AI based services other than law firms: legal publishers, major accounting firms and venture capital funded businesses.…”
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Neural Radiance Fields for High-Fidelity Soft Tissue Reconstruction in Endoscopy by Jinhua Liu, Yongsheng Shi, Dongjin Huang, Jiantao Qu

“…Additionally, we incorporate tissue masks into a dynamic scene reconstruction method called Tensor4D to effectively guide the reconstruction of 3D deformable soft tissues. Finally, we propose adopting the image enhancement model EDAU-Net to improve the quality of the rendered views. …”
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ROUNDS Studies: Relation of OUtcomes with Nutrition Despite Severity—Round One: Ultrasound Muscle Measurements in Critically Ill Adult Patients by Carlos Alfredo Galindo Martín, Reyna del Carmen Ubeda Zelaya, Enrique Monares Zepeda, Octavio Augusto Lescas Méndez

“…Analysis was made comparing survivors versus nonsurvivors and finally using binary logistic regression with mortality as dependent variable. …”
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Loss of PKM2 dysregulates inflammatory signaling in the infarcted murine heart by Katie C. Y. Lee, Allison L. Williams, Akitoshi Hara, Vedbar S. Khadka, Jeffrey Hayashi, Ralph V. Shohet

“…Abstract Inflammation and a metabolic shift from oxidative metabolism to glycolysis are common in the ischemic heart, the latter partly controlled by pyruvate kinase (muscle, PKM). We previously identified alternative splicing promoting the PKM2 isoform after myocardial infarction (MI). …”
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Modeling of wave-induced drift based on stepwise parameter calibration by Kui Zhu, Xueyao Chen, Lin Mu, Lin Mu, Lin Mu, Dingfeng Yu, Dingfeng Yu, Runze Yu, Zhaolong Sun, Tong Zhou, Tong Zhou

“…The sample of wave-induced drift velocity was obtained by gradually separating current-induced (CI) drift’s and wind-induced (WI) drift’s influence from the target-drift velocity using the least-square method and AP98 model. …”
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Feminización de las luchas antiextractivistas: el colectivo Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva by Yolanda Martínez Suárez

“…Third, I analyze their agenda through the central notion of the body-territory connection. Finally, I argue that this collective represents a profoundly transformative force. …”
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Ion channel traffic jams: the significance of trafficking deficiency in long QT syndrome by Gema Mondéjar-Parreño, Ana I. Moreno-Manuel, Juan Manuel Ruiz-Robles, José Jalife

“…We also comment on how mapping the interactomes of the different cardiac ion channels may help advance research into LQTS and other cardiac diseases. Finally, we discuss how using human induced pluripotent stem cell technology to model ion channel trafficking and its defects may help accelerate drug discovery toward preventing life-threatening arrhythmias. …”
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Dorsal Root Ganglion Maintains Stemness of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Enhancing Autophagy through the AMPK/mTOR Pathway in a Coculture System by Shuaishuai Zhang, Junqin Li, Huijie Jiang, Yi Gao, Pengzhen Cheng, Tianqing Cao, Donglin Li, Jimeng Wang, Yue Song, Bin Liu, Hao Wu, Chunmei Wang, Liu Yang, Guoxian Pei

“…In addition, AMPK inhibitor compound C could significantly downregulate the protein expression of LC3 and the mRNA level of stemness genes in the coculture group. Finally, we found that the NK1 receptor antagonist, aprepitant, could partly block this effect, which indicated that substance P played an important role in the effect. …”
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Study on the Interaction between Low-Viscosity High-Permeability Pregrouting Sealing Material and Coal and Its Application by Yujia Chen, Ao Li, Dingding Yang, Tianyu Liu, Xiaowei Li, Jun Tang, Chenglin Jiang

“…Bio-based benzoxazine (Boz-F), red phosphorus, and melamine with a mass ratio of 2 : 1 : 2 were used as the flame retardant, which then underwent mechanical modification by hollow glass bubbles. Finally, the pregrouting material with low viscosity and high permeability was compounded, and its interaction with coal was experimentally studied. …”
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Study on Water Environmental Characteristics Based on Comprehensive Pollution Assessment Method with Entropy Weight Optimization by HUANG Wen

“…At the same time, the comprehensive pollution assessment method, enhanced by entropy weight optimization, indicates that the water quality of Sand Lake in August is classified as category V, exceeding the standard, and the pollution level in summer and autumn in August is significantly higher than that in winter and spring, especially the monitoring point L05, indicating that the lake environment is significantly affected by wildlife such as birds and fish. Finally, the water environmental pollution index values of Sand Lake in 2020 are lower than those monitored in the same period of 2019, suggesting that the water quality of the lake shows an upward trend of change. …”
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PI3Kδ inhibitor linperlisib combined with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a multicenter, single-arm phase Ib/II trial by Peng Sun, Hong Cen, Haiyan Yang, Rui Huang, Zhen Cai, Xuekui Gu, Hanying Bao, Zusheng Xu, Zuhong Xu, Zhi-Ming Li

“…Abstract Background This investigation assessed the therapeutic potential of combining linperlisib, a targeted inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ), with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin (GEMOX) for patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). …”
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Role of Time-Varying Magnetic Field on QGP Equation of State by Yogesh Kumar, Poonam Jain, Pargin Bangotra, Vinod Kumar, D. V. Singh, S. K. Rajouria

“…Thermodynamic observables including pressure, energy density, and entropy are calculated for a wide range of temperature- and time-dependent as well as time-independent magnetic fields. Finally, we claim that the EoS are highly affected in the presence of a magnetic field. …”
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Role of Chest Computed Tomography versus Real Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction for Diagnosis of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Dina M. Ali, Lamiaa G. Zake, Nevine K. El Kady

“…Following screening, 39 articles were chosen for full text assessment and finally 35 articles were included for qualitative and quantitative analysis. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Ileostomy Closure before Adjuvant Chemotherapy after Rectal Cancer Surgery: An Observational Study from a Chinese Center by Zhen Sun, Yufeng Zhao, Lu Liu, Jichao Qin

“…A total of 225 patients were evaluated for eligibility, and 132 were finally selected and divided into 3 groups (24 in Group I, 53 in Group II, and 55 in Group III). …”
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