The Effectiveness of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Literature Review of Recent International and Australian Research by Cadeyrn Gaskin

“…Evidence from a small number of studies provides tentative support for the effectiveness of psychoanalysis in the treatment of patients with some depressive, anxiety, and personality disorders. The variable quality of this research, and the absence of control conditions in most studies, however, means that making more definitive statements about the effectiveness of psychoanalysis difficult at this time. …”
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Age at release affects developmental physiology and sex-specific phenotypic diversity of hatchery steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). by Mollie A Middleton, Donald A Larsen, Christopher P Tatara, Barry A Berejikian, Chris R Pasley, Jon T Dickey, Penny Swanson

“…Overall, S2 rearing produced 7.8% more smolts and 44-fold (4.4 vs. 0.1%) more precociously mature males than S1 rearing. …”
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Early Postural Instability in Parkinson’s Disease: A Biomechanical Analysis of the Pull Test by Javier Ricardo Pérez-Sánchez, Francisco Grandas

“…This balance impairment becomes more pronounced in more advanced PD. In the pull test, pull force to step back should be a variable to consider when testing balance in clinical practice.…”
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Length of stay in health facilities after childbirth and associated maternal and neonatal factors in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study from a national survey by Yemisrach Belete Biru, Getasew Assefa Lemelem, Nahom Solomon

“…Women with a smaller size neonate during birth were 16% (AHR=0.84, 95% CI (0.70 to 0.99), p=0.040) more likely to stay longer at a health facility, compared with those with an average size neonate.Conclusion A small percentage of Ethiopian mothers stayed in health facilities for 24 hours or more after delivery. …”
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Estimation of soil free Iron content using spectral reflectance and machine learning algorithms by Wanzhu Ma, Hongkui Zhou, Hao Hu, Zhiqing Zhuo, Kangying Zhu, Guangzhi Zhang

“…We found that FD was a more efficient transform than the original, SNV and CR spectra. …”
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Matemàtiques i grups interactius: ensenyament i aprenentatge des del punt de vista de les interaccions Mathematics and interactive groups: teaching and learning from the perspectiv... by Javier Díez-Palomar, Lourdes Rué Rosell, Paloma García Wehrle, Maria Brown

“…Les recerques prèvies mostren que la interacció és una variable explicativa de l’aprenentatge. En aquest article s’analitza si les interaccions en una escola urbana de primària tenen com a conseqüència la millora dels resultats dels i les alumnes. …”
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Modeling the hillside movement in the area of Sattarkhan dam reservoir using by predictive models Logistic Regression and Neural Network by soghra andaryani, Nasrin Samandar, Ohammadreza Nikjoo

“…This method is quite small and the effect of each independent variable on the dependent variable to quantify and anti-log coefficients and coefficients are specified. …”
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An Empirical Analysis of Herding Behavior in the Stock Market: Evidence from Various Economic and Social Conditions in Iran by Majid Aghaei

“…Quantile regression provides a more precise methodology by capturing variations across the entire distribution of the dependent variable and addressing the limitations of ordinary least squares (OLS) estimators (Barnes & Hughes, 2002; Zhou & Anderson, 2013). …”
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Clinical Predictive Factors of Response to Biologics in IBD by Roxana SADAGURSCHI, A. DOBROMIRESCU, Ruxandra BABIUC, Lucian NEGREANU

“…Factors identified as potential predictors include disease behavior/ phenotype, disease severity, CRP, prior anti-TNF exposure, but the results were variable and sometimes conflicting. For VDZ, even more discouraging results were obtained, with only few factors (disease severity and prior anti-TNF exposure) showing limited value. …”
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A descriptive retrospective study on children with newly diagnosed nephrotic syndrome presented to Tripoli Children Hospital during the period between Jan. to Dec. 2014 by N R Rhuma, A S El Boeshi, L T Sabei, A M Kara

“…Regarding relapses, girls seems to relapse more frequent than boys and relapses was seen more in age group 1 than group 2, however, these differences were not significant. …”
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Study on the performance and emissions of compression ignition engine powered by diesel and biodiesel blends by Mohammed Iyad Ali Alzubaidi, Amin Sami Amin Altawwash, Walaa Nasser Abbas

“…The experimental investigation showed that B10 with 14.5 CR and 25 % load -as compared with net diesel- enhances almost all performance parameters more than other blends (1.7 % more brake efficiency, 12.7 % less brake specific fuel consumption, 3.45 % less in exhaust temperature, 6.7 % more in A/F ratio, and volumetric efficiency was nearly the same). …”
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Meteorological drivers of melt at two nearby glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica by Marte G. Hofsteenge, Nicolas J. Cullen, Jonathan P. Conway, Carleen H. Reijmer, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Marwan Katurji

“…Commonwealth Glacier shows more inter-annual melt variability, explained by variable albedo due to summer snowfall events. …”
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Factors affecting utilisation of traditional Korean medical services by privately insured persons: a retrospective study using Korean Health Panel Survey (KHPS) by Jinho Lee, In-Hyuk Ha, Boyoung Jung, Juchul Kim

“…Regardless of the purpose of the visit, the more chronic diseases, the more people who have previously experienced TKM service use more TKM services (p<0.001).Conclusions Despite a policy to reduce services that are not guaranteed by private health insurance, the increase in the number of outpatient visits for uncovered therapeutic TKM services implies a high public need for TKM in Korea.…”
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Diffusion of extended-spectrum and plasmid-mediated amp-C β-lactamase producing Proteus mirabilis in hospitals and community setting in Croatia by Branka Bedenić, Nataša Beader, Marina Nađ, Haris Car, Mladen Pospišil, Mirela Dobrić, Jasmina Vraneš

“…AmpC-producing isolates showed uniform resistance patterns, whereas ESBL positive strains had variable degree of susceptibility/resistance to non-β-lactam antibiotics, resulting in more diverse susceptibility patterns.…”
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Nestling condition of a grassland bird is not associated with food availability in restored grasslands by Heather M Kraus, Gregory R Houseman, Mary Liz Jameson, Molly M Reichenborn, W. Alice Boyle, William E Jensen

“…Grasslands are highly variable environments, and such variation affects the diversity and abundance of arthropods, which constitute the diet for most nestling grassland songbirds. …”
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Shadows and light: navigating teachers’ time poverty and blended teaching acceptance with social support and job satisfaction in EFL teachers’ voyage by Qing Zhou, Haoran Ma, Min Zhu, Huaizhi Chen, Qiuyu Gong

“…Methods This study developed a theoretical model to investigate the effects of time poverty on the acceptance of blended teaching among teachers, incorporating job satisfaction as a mediating variable and social support as a moderating variable. …”
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A systematic review of forest area development drivers estimated under the concepts of environmental Kuznets curve and forest transition hypothesis by Julia Tandetzki, Margret Köthke, Franziska Schier, Holger Weimar

“…We found differences among studies in variable specifications of the dependent variable (expressions of forest area development) and the choice of independent variables (drivers) as well as in the choice of geographical scope and the concept used (EKCd and FTH). …”
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Self-Adaptive Deep Learning Framework for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring: Addressing Aging Appliance Challenges With Transfer Learning and Pseudo Labeling by W. A. Yasodya, S. M. L. Arampola, M. S. K. Nisakya, V. Logeeshan, S. Kumarawadu, Chathura Wanigasekara

“…Electrical appliances used for this experiment are categorized into two groups: on-time fixed devices and on-time variable devices. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the Self-Adaptive NILM approach with on-time variable devices, such as three-phase refrigerators. …”
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Association between serum cystatin C and chronic lung disease in middle-aged and elderly Chinese: a CHARLS cross-sectional study by Liuyun Huang, Ling Li, Mingjie Xie, Lihua Lei, Fangmei Wei, Jianghuan Qin, Debin Huang

“…When CysC was used as a categorical variable, the risk of CLD was increased by 38% in the T3 group compared with T1 (P < 0.001), and when CysC was used as a continuous variable, the risk of CLD was increased by 96% for each unit increase in CysC level (P < 0.001). …”
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Recall or transfer? How assessment types drive text-marking behavior by Zahia Marzouk, Philip H. Winne

“…Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups in a 2 × 2 factorial design. One independent variable, examples, determined whether participants were trained using examples of the types of information required to answer posttest items. …”
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