The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the professional practice of Scottish childminders by Bethan Davies, Deborah Holt, Deborah Fry

“…This mixed-methods study had a total of 82 childminders completing an online survey, with 11 opting to participate in an online semi-structured interview. Participants were selected through a stratified random sample and convenience sampling to ensure the study had a representation from across the wider geographical area of Scotland. …”
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Assessing the Preprocessing Benefits of Data-Driven Decomposition Methods for Phase Permutation Entropy—Application to Econometric Time Series by Erwan Pierron, Meryem Jabloun

“…Our primary aim is to assess how these preprocessing methods affect PPE’s ability to capture temporal structural complexities within time series. This evaluation encompasses the analysis of both simulated and econometric time series. …”
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When does a Fermi puddle become a Fermi sea? Emergence of pairing in two-dimensional trapped mesoscopic Fermi gases by Emma K. Laird, Brendan C. Mulkerin, Jia Wang, Matthew J. Davis

“…We couple a stochastic variational approach with the use of an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis set, which enables us to obtain highly accurate energies and structural properties. …”
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Visco-thermoelastic rectangular plate under uniform loading: A study of deflection by Chopra Deepti, Singh Prince

“…Examining the deflection properties while designing and analyzing structural elements offers important information about working of visco-thermoelastic plates in microelectromechanical systems, sensors, and flexible electronic systems. …”
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Deciphering single-cell genomic architecture: insights into cellular heterogeneity and regulatory dynamics by Byunghee Kang, Hyeonji Lee, Tae-Young Roh

“…This review summarizes recent progress in the characterization of genomic architecture at the single-cell level, emphasizing the impact of structural variation and chromatin organization on gene regulatory networks and cellular identity. …”
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Underlying mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity in ternary hydride AB_{2}H_{24} by Bowen Jiang, Xin Zhong, Hanyu Liu

“…Through detailed structural analysis, we proposed two key model parameters, S_{couple} and coupling strength (CS), to elucidate the strong correlation with superconducting properties (showing correlation coefficients of 0.87 and 0.93 with respect to T_{c}). …”
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Dielectric Properties of ZnO-Based Nanocomposites and Their Potential Applications by Daljeet Kaur, Amardeep Bharti, Tripti Sharma, Charu Madhu

“…The observations have been summarized to convey the mechanism and structural changes involved in the ZnO nanocomposites to the researchers. …”
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AESTHETIC TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN BESSARABIAN OPERA MUSIC OF 20th CENTURY by Luminiţa GUŢANU

“…Thus, the composition spectrum in Bessarabia tackles various coordinates for the structuring of aesthetic concepts. The work of Bessarabian composers (the lyric genre) convincingly illustrates the interdependence between trends, which forms a heterogeneous aesthetic musical field. …”
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Analysing fast food consumption behaviour patterns: The case of Jordan. by Noura Abu Asab, Randah Barakat

“…The research employed theory-related scales, income, BMI, ability to consume (intention), indirect intention, and a retrospective measure of fast-food consumption within a cross-sectional sample of 408 university students aged 18-23 years. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the determinants of consumption. …”
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From KL Divergence to Wasserstein Distance: Enhancing Autoencoders with FID Analysis by Laxmi Kanta Poudel, Kshtiz Aryal, Rajendra Bahadur Thapa, Sushil Poudel

“… Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are popular Bayesian inference models that excel at approximating complex data distributions in a lower-dimensional latent space. …”
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Developmental features of multi-word expressions in spoken discourse by Chinese learners of English by Huiping Zhang, Xingzuo Wang

“…Specifically, learners exhibit minimal use of “polywords” and “institutionalised expressions” within the structural dimension, and “discourse devices” and “social interactions” within the functional dimension. …”
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Challenges and responses to sea level rise in the context of climate change: A case study of the Paranaguá Estuarine Complex by Robert Silva, Mauricio Noernberg, Alexandre Lopes

“… Understanding the dynamics of sea surface variation and its direct effects on the coastal population has been a central issue of study for oceanography in conjunction with other areas of geosciences. …”
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Toward Authentication of Videos: Integer Transform Based Motion Vector Watermarking by Rafi Ullah, Sultan Daud Khan, Mohib Ullah, Fadi Al-Machot, Habib Ullah

“…The results validate the performance of the proposed approach in terms of quality metrics like peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index (SSIM), normalized coefficients (NC) and bit error rate (BER).…”
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Modeling the genomic architecture of adiposity and anthropometrics across the lifespan by Christopher H. Arehart, Meng Lin, Raine A. Gibson, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine, Sridharan Raghavan, Christopher R. Gignoux, Maggie A. Stanislawski, Andrew D. Grotzinger, Luke M. Evans

“…Here, we construct a 4-factor genomic structural equation model using 18 measures, unveiling shared and distinct genetic architectures underlying birth size, abdominal size, adipose distribution, and adiposity. …”
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Ferroelectric control of diverse hyperbolic polaritons in the visible spectrum by Zailong Chen, Shengxuan Xia, Shuo Yang, Baomin Wang, Shiwei Tang, Yurong Yang, Tian Cui, Shi Liu, Hongwei Wang

“…Abstract Low-dimensional van der Waals materials have attracted tremendous attention due to their exceptional physical, chemical, and mechanical properties, particularly their strong anisotropy in structural, electronic, and optical behaviors. Herein, we comprehensively studied diverse hyperbolic polaritons in quasi-one-dimensional ferroelectric material WOBr4, including their propagation patterns and frequencies, most notably, the electric-field and strain-driven elliptic-to-hyperbolic topological transition. …”
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A scalable, low‐cost phenotyping strategy to assess tuber size, shape, and the colorimetric features of tuber skin and flesh in potato breeding populations by Max J. Feldman, Jaebum Park, Nathan Miller, Collins Wakholi, Katelyn Greene, Arash Abbasi, Devin A. Rippner, Duroy Navarre, Cari Schmitz Carley, Laura M. Shannon, Rich Novy

“…This workflow was applied to assess the phenotypic variation present within 189 F1 progeny of the A08241 breeding population. …”
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Fractal functions of exponential type that is generated by the $\mathbf{Q_2^*}$-representation of argument by M.V. Pratsovytyi, Ya. V. Goncharenko, I. M. Lysenko, S.P. Ratushniak

“…In the paper we study structural, variational, integral, differential and fractal properties of the function $f$.…”
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Evolutionary conservation of the grape sex-determining region in angiosperms and emergence of dioecy in Vitaceae by Mélanie Massonnet, Noé Cochetel, Valentina Ricciardi, Andrea Minio, Rosa Figueroa-Balderas, Jason P. Londo, Dario Cantu

“…Within the grape family (Vitaceae), we assemble and phase SDR haplotypes from six species, plus Leea coccinea as an outgroup, and find strong structural conservation, with size variation largely attributable to repetitive elements. …”
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Teaching, assessment and best practice in undergraduate psychiatry education in the UK: cross-sectional survey by Deepika Sharma, Thomas Hewson, Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa, James Fallon, Declan Hyland, Seri Abraham, Alexa Sidwell, Subodh Dave

“…Small-group teaching, lectures and e-learning were the most frequent teaching modalities and various professionals and lived experience educators (patient and/or carers) contributed to teaching. Objective structured clinical examinations and multiple-choice questions dominated assessments. …”
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Coupled Aerodynamic–Hydrodynamic Analysis of Spar-Type Floating Foundations with Normal and Lightweight Concrete for Offshore Wind Energy in Colombia by Jose Calderón, Andrés Guzmán, William Gómez

“…Based on the hydrodynamic and structural dynamic response, it was concluded that the variation in concrete density only affected pitch rotation, with better performance observed in the lightweight concrete, achieving maximum rotations of 10°. …”
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