Healthy lifestyles and chronic disease prevention and control by Chun LI, Limin WANG

“…With the rapid development of China′s economy and the swift changes in social life, chronic diseases have become a major threat to residents′ health, placing a heavy burden on individuals, families, and society. Unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, unhealthy diets, insufficient physical activity, lack of weight management, and inadequate sleep are important risk factors for chronic diseases and are closely related to the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes. …”
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Placemaking through guerilla gardens at the TOKI mass housing grounds in Bor (Niğde) by Ufuk Soyöz

“…Tasked with providing affordable housing for low-income families, TOKI implements standardized designs across Turkey's cities and towns, including the Bor (Niğde) complex. …”
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A crossover operator for objective functions defined over graph neighborhoods with interdependent and related variables by Jaume Jordan, Javier Palanca, Victor Sanchez-Anguix, Vicente Julian

“…The results suggest that the new crossover operator is statistically better or at least as good as the best-performing crossover in 75% of the families of problems tested.…”
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Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of Odonata inferred from mitochondrial genome by Weidong Huang, Tianyou Zhao, Mingyuan Fan, Yuange Duan, Li Tian, Hu Li, Wanzhi Cai, Fan Song

“…Here, we assembled the largest mitogenome dataset to date, comprising 143 mitogenomes representing three suborders, 18 families, of which 53 mitogenomes were newly sequenced. …”
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An oligodendrocyte silencer element underlies the pathogenic impact of lamin B1 structural variants by Bruce Nmezi, Guillermo Rodriguez Bey, Talia DeFrancesco Oranburg, Kseniia Dudnyk, Santana M. Lardo, Nathan Herdman, Anastasia Jacko, Sandy Rubio, Emanuel Loeza-Alcocer, Julia Kofler, Dongkyeong Kim, Julia Rankin, Emma Kivuva, Nicholas Gutowski, Katherine Schon, Jelle van den Ameele, Patrick F. Chinnery, Sérgio B. Sousa, Filipe Palavra, Camilo Toro, Filippo Pinto e Vairo, Jonas Saute, Lisa Pan, Murad Alturkustani, Robert Hammond, Francois Gros-Louis, Michael S. Gold, Yungki Park, Geneviève Bernard, Raili Raininko, Jian Zhou, Sarah J. Hainer, Quasar S. Padiath

“…Utilizing data from recently identified families that carry LMNB1 gene duplications but do not exhibit demyelination, ADLD patient tissues, CRISPR edited cell lines and mouse models, we have identified a silencer element that is lost in ADLD patients and that specifically targets expression to oligodendrocytes. …”
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Prokaryotic cellulase gene clusters derived from 2,305 metagenomes by Bing Song, Fernando D. K. Tria, Josip Skejo

“…These metagenome-derived cellulases were clustered into protein families for each EC category individually, resulting in a total of 136 clusters, with the majority observed for EG (97 clusters), followed by βG (19 clusters) and CBH (19 clusters). …”
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Spider Diversity Pattern and Community Composition in the South Eastern Nigeria: An Analysis of Habitat Differences by C.D. Ezeonyejiaku, C.O. Okoye, M.C. Anaesoronye, T.C. Mogbo

“…A total of one hundred and twenty-five (125) spiders belonging to ten (10) families and comprising of thirteen (13) species were identified. …”
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Aid to life – Montessori pedagogy in the service of autism spectrum children by Monika Pawluczuk-Solarz

“… This article explores the feasibility of implementing Montessori principles outside traditional Montessori environments, focusing on children with autism whose families cannot afford Montessori schooling. It examines whether Montessori education can effectively address the needs of autistic children in non-Montessori settings. …”
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The effects of playing digital games on children’s pain, fear, and anxiety levels during suturing: A randomized controlled study by Muhammet Kavlakci, Filiz Ogce, Tulay Yavan

“…Ethical permissions were obtained from the ethical committee, hospital, and families. RESULTS: Before the suturing procedure, there was no statistically significant difference between the groups’ mean scores. …”
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Dzieci z rodzin zastępczych w szkole. Raport o współpracy rodziców zastępczych z personelem szkoły by Katarzyna Ćwirynkało, Urszula Bartnikowska

“…Children and youth from foster families more often – in comparison to general population – have disabilities, emotional and behavioural disorders (Minnisi in. 2006). …”
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A Spiny Orb Weaver Spider, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…The colloquial name for this spider in parts of Florida is "crab spider", although it is not related to any of the families of spiders commonly called crab spiders, e.g., Thomisidoe. …”
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Abstinence Self-Efficacy and Resilience in Persons with Substance Use Disorder by L. Iris Devi, Arunjyoti Baruah, Nurnahar Ahmed

“…Context: Substance use affects the personal, social, and familial aspects of a person’s life and is usually persistent, chronic, and relapsing in nature. …”
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THE NEXUS BETWEEN POVERTY AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN ILORIN TOWNSHIP by HADIZAT AUDU SALIHU

“…The implication of early sexual activity and pregnancy on the girls and their families goes beyond physical look as many of them are psychologically traumatized, demoralized and can barely pick up the pieces of their lives, thus finding themselves continuing the line of poverty from their parents and wards to the child they deliver. …”
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Financial Innovations And Financial Inclusion Among Commercial Banks in Uganda by moses Agaba

“…The study's findings support the statistically significant link between commercial banks' financial innovations and rural families' access to credit. As more clients choose mobile banking, the report advises banking institutions to develop measures to improve security in the platform. …”
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The association of codon 392 polymorphism in ESR2 gene with breast cancer in Iran by Sakineh Abbasi, Samira Kalbasi

“…ESR2 gene structure determination, in presurgical evaluation, might be a useful marker in predicting familial breast cancer and metastasis in LN. …”
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Affective-Sexual Health Promotion in Early Childhood: Critical Review in The Context of Childcare and Education in Costa Rica by Milvia Rodríguez Sánchez, Laura Brenes Vásquez

“…We conclude that an update of the preschool program is required,  accompanied by continuous training for staff and families of infants. …”
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Genetic improvement of cooking time in common bean: the role of dominance by Rita Carolina de Melo, Jefferson Luís Meirelles Coimbra, Luan Tiago dos Santos Carbonari, Paulo Henrique Cerutti, Altamir Frederico Guidolin

“…Regardless of the hierarchical variance model in the segregating families tested, the dominance component was at least twice as high as the additive variance fraction. …”
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“Out of sight out of mind”: attentional characteristics in mothers who have children with autism by Xue Du, Shuanghong Gao, Ting Huang, Jian Liang, Xiao Xiao

“…Abstract Background Families are faced with enormous challenges in caring for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) over a lifetime. …”
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Longitudinal characterization reveals behavioral impairments in aged APP knock in mouse models by Lisa Blackmer-Raynolds, Lyndsey D. Lipson, Isabel Fraccaroli, Ian N. Krout, Jianjun Chang, Timothy Robert Sampson

“…The APPSAA mouse model (containing the humanized APP with three familial Alzheimer’s disease mutations) and the APPWT control (containing wildtype humanized APP) are the first commercially available APP KI mice within the United States. …”
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Anti-Social Behavior and Teenager’s Wellbeing: A Case Study of Northern Division Kabale Municipality. by Kyarikunda, Esau

“…It impacts on individuals, families, and communities; it prevents a peaceful community life and degrades the environment. …”
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