Understanding the Role of Cognitive Abilities and Math Anxiety in Adolescent Math Achievement by Lorenzo Esposito, Irene Tonizzi, Maria Carmen Usai, David Giofrè

“…A series of correlation analyses and path models were conducted to understand the complex relationships among the factors. …”
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Improving the combat capability of small police tactical groups by I. V. Vlasenko, I. P. Lykhyi, Ya. O. Slatin

“…The criterion-based approach is proposed, which includes quantitative, spatial and tactical criteria for choosing the commander’s location. …”
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Comparison of Amino Acid PET to Advanced and Emerging MRI Techniques for Neurooncology Imaging: A Systematic Review of the Recent Studies by Brittany M. Stopa, Csaba Juhász, Sandeep Mittal

“…A PubMed search was conducted for human studies incorporating both aaPET and aMRI and published between July 2018 and August 2020. …”
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Vegetation type modulates negative air ion generation in urban green spaces: the critical role of suburban forests in air quality enhancement by Yaowen Xu, Yaowen Xu, Jiejie Jiao, Jiejie Jiao

“…Field campaigns were conducted during the summer months (June to August) of 2024. …”
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Improved Neutral Density Predictions Through Machine Learning Enabled Exospheric Temperature Model by Richard J. Licata, Piyush M. Mehta, Daniel R. Weimer, W. Kent Tobiska

“…Comparing the performance of both EXTEMPLAR models and the Naval Research Laboratory Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter radar Extended model (NRLMSISE‐00) across different solar and geomagnetic activity levels shows that EXTEMPLAR‐ML has the lowest mean absolute error across 80% of conditions tested. A study for spatial errors demonstrated that at all grid locations, EXTEMPLAR‐ML has the lowest mean absolute error for over 60% of the polyhedral grid cells on the test set. …”
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Comparing the effects of physical activity and cognitive training on cognitive performance, physical fitness, and mental health in 9- to 10-year-old children: a randomized clinical... by Shanshan Wang, Jingwu Liu

“…Key anthropometric measurements [including height, weight, and BMI body mass index (BMI)], physical fitness tests (including vital capacity, flexibility quality, speed quality, aerobic performance, and physical coordination), cognitive function assessments (including attention, reaction time, and spatial memory), and mental health evaluations (including anxiety and depression) were conducted before and after the intervention.ResultsThe results demonstrated no significant differences in body composition among the groups (p > 0.05). …”
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The research on recognition of passenger abnormal behavior in urban rail transit stations based on conditional generative adversarial networks by Jing Zuo, Zexin Li, Ming He, Qiaoli Yang

“…To validate the proposed method's performance, comparative experiments were conducted on both public datasets (UCSD Ped2, CUHK Avenue, Subway Exit) and our self-built PAB dataset. …”
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More than just visits: Timing, frequency, and determinants of effective antenatal care in Bangladesh - BDHS 2007 to 2017-18. by Md Hasibul Islam Jitu, Awan Afiaz, Raaj Kishore Biswas

“…Geospatial mapping was employed to visualize spatial patterns, followed by survey-weighted logistic regression to identify risk factors associated with late initiation of ANC and low ANC visit frequency. …”
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A generative deep neural network for pan-digestive tract cancer survival analysis by Lekai Xu, Tianjun Lan, Yiqian Huang, Liansheng Wang, Junqi Lin, Xinpeng Song, Hui Tang, Haotian Cao, Hua Chai

“…The network optimization process involves employing an integrated loss function consisting of two modules: the generative-adversarial module facilitates spatial data distribution understanding for extracting high-quality information, while the clustering module aids in identifying disease subtypes. …”
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The Control of End‐Member Iron‐to‐Sulfide Ratios on Hydrothermal Plume Geochemistry at the Rainbow, Broken Spur, and Lost City Vent Fields in the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge by Serhat Sevgen, Nadine Le Bris, Mustafa Yücel

“…Notably, our results highlight that Rainbow and Lost City vent fluids exhibit minimal spatial and temporal variations over a 20‐year timeframe while Broken Spur fluids displayed significant variation since their last sampling 25 years ago, specifically losing ∼60% of their dissolved Fe concentration. …”
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Terrestrial wildlife shows limited response in spatiotemporal activity to logging by Seth Timothy Wong, Roshan Guharajan, Azrie Petrus, Jaffly Jubili, Johnny Kissing, Peter Lagan, Robert Ong, Andreas Wilting, Rahel Sollmann

“…Using camera traps, we conducted a 2‐year continuous survey of two logging compartments within an active, sustainably logged forest reserve in central Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. …”
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A qualitative study of the perception of quality of free maternal healthcare policy among primary healthcare providers in Ghana by Clement Kwame Serchim, Daniel Opoku, Richard Abeiku Bonney, Kwame Sarkodie. Safo, Samuel Kwabla Amegble, Nathaniel Nii Korley Kodi, Kofi Akohene Mensah

“…Key informant interviews (KIIs) were conducted among administrators, doctors, physician assistants or nurses in charge, nurse managers, and midwives in charge of maternity units of the selected health facilities. …”
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Punching shear capacity of RC flat slabs with steel and superelastic Ni-Ti shape memory shear reinforcement under repeated loads by Mohamed Selim, Khaled Fawzy, Hilal Abdel Kader Mahmoud, Khaled Fawzy Kotb, Mahmoud Zaghlal

“…Flat slab systems are a popular choice among engineers because of their numerous advantages, such as reduced building height, flexibility in spatial layout by eliminating the need for beams, and cost savings. …”
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Identifying Priority Areas for the Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) Within a Shared Landscape by Aparna Kolekar, Kimberley Hockings, Kristian Metcalfe, Sanjay Gubbi

“…The development of conservation policy requires data on large spatial scales, which is mostly lacking, especially within shared landscapes in India. …”
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NRGS-Net: A Lightweight Uformer with Gated Positional and Local Context Attention for Nighttime Road Glare Suppression by Ruoyu Yang, Huaixin Chen, Sijie Luo, Zhixi Wang

“…Furthermore, we introduced an improved Uformer backbone named LCAtransformer, in which the downsampling layers adopt efficient depthwise separable convolutions to reduce computational cost while preserving critical spatial information. The upsampling layers incorporate a residual PixelShuffle module to achieve effective restoration in glare-affected regions. …”
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Cognitive Aging Revisited: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the WAIS-5 by Emily L. Winter, Brittany A. Dale, Sachiko Maharjan, Cynthia R. Lando, Courtney M. Larsen, Troy Courville, Alan S. Kaufman

“…Fluid reasoning and visual spatial skills (although aligning with separate CHC broad abilities theoretically) were strikingly similar in their pattern of decline across a person’s lifespan. …”
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Design of a Bionic Self-Insulating Mechanical Arm for Concealed Space Inspection in the Live Power Cable Tunnels by Jingying Cao, Jie Chen, Xiao Tan, Jiahong He

“…The arm employs a tendon-driven mechanism to remotely actuate joints, analogous to human musculoskeletal dynamics, thereby physically isolating conductive components (e.g., motors) from the mechanical arm. …”
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DBSCAN-PCA-INFORMER-Based Droplet Motion Time Prediction Model for Digital Microfluidic Systems by Zhijie Luo, Bin Zhao, Wenjin Liu, Jianhua Zheng, Wenwen Chen

“…This paper first employs the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) clustering algorithm to analyze the droplet motion time data in digital microfluidic systems. …”
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An efficient surface electromyography-based gesture recognition algorithm based on multiscale fusion convolution and channel attention by Bin Jiang, Hao Wu, Qingling Xia, Hanguang Xiao, Bo Peng, Li Wang, Yun Zhao

“…Moreover, this method reduces the algorithmic complexity from both spatial and temporal aspects, rendering it smaller in size and faster in computation compared to other lightweight algorithms. …”
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Investigation of the Origin of Elevated Amounts of Iron and Manganese in a Dam Reservoir by Maria Michalopoulou, Nikolaos Depountis, Eleni Zagana, Pavlos Avramidis

“…A wide range of hydrochemical and sedimentological analyses were conducted over a hydrological year, focusing on the spatial and temporal distribution of Fe and Mn in both water and sediment samples across the established research monitoring stations. …”
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