Genetic counseling in the Middle East: provider perspectives of patient attitudes and cultural challenges by Shruti Shenbagam, Alan Taylor, Ruchi Jain, Khalid Fakhro, Fowzan Alkuraya, Ahmad Abou Tayoun

“…This study highlights the need for further research and interventions to address the unique challenges and improve genetic counseling services in the Middle East.…”
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High intensity exercise before sleep boosts memory encoding the next morning by Daniela Ramirez Butavand, Juliane Nagel, Gordon B. Feld, Simon Steib

“…Abstract The importance of sleep for memory consolidation has been extensively studied, but its role for memory encoding remains less well characterized. …”
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Leveraging capabilities of social media marketing for business success by Sofiane Laradi, Amina Elfekair, Mahmaod Alrawad, Mujtaba Hashim, Faten Derouez

“…The findings significantly contribute the understanding of the SMM as strategic resources and dynamic capabilities, guiding community managers, content creators, and digital analysis to optimize social media platforms abilities for communication.…”
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Differences between sub-second and supra-second durations for the assessment of timing deficits in amnestic mild cognitive impairment by Giovanna Mioni, Thomas Wolbers, Martin Riemer

“…In particular, it is unclear if the deficits are more pronounced for short or long intervals, consistent with notions that different cognitive processes and neuroanatomical areas are involved in the processing of durations of different ranges. The present study aims to further investigate timing abilities in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) patients and age-matched controls. …”
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Antimicrobial activity of carbon dots against aquatic spoilage Bacteria synthesized from Banana Peel waste by Yueyue Meng, Huiyu Zhu, Xinyi Li, Shuang Zhao, Kun Ma, Tingting Li

“…In this study, we used biomass banana peel (BP) as the precursor to synthesize CDs (defined as BP-CDs). …”
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Proteomics and lipidomics of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells exposed to ionizing radiation by Dongmei Han, Li Ding, Xiaoli Zheng, Sheng Li, Hongmin Yan, Jing Liu, Hengxiang Wang

“…The proliferation, apoptosis, and adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation abilities of hucMSCs in the two groups were evaluated. …”
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FORMING OF ECONOMIC CONCEPTS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS by Nelia Sirant

“…The economy in primary school should be «transported» on the basis of knowledge, skills and abilities that students received in preschools and families. …”

Arduino-based fine particulate matter STEM program: enhancing problem-solving and collaboration in a post-pandemic blended high school setting by Sejun Oh

“…After the pandemic, the need for research on teaching and learning methods that promote motivation, engagement, and soft skills in blended learning environments has increased. This study presents an Arduino-based STEM program centered on fine particulate matter measurement to enhance high school students’ problem-solving abilities and collaborative thinking. …”
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Behavioral responses of domestic cats to human odor. by Yutaro Miyairi, Yuichi Kimura, Koji Masuda, Hidehiko Uchiyama

“…Olfaction is one of the most important sensory abilities in cats, yet its role in recognizing humans remains unclear. …”
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Impact of Family Environment on Mental Well-Being of Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Sushil Kumar Maheshwari, Rintu Chaturvedi, Sandhya Gupta

“…Aim: This study is aimed to assess the impact of family environment on the mental well-being of adolescent girls in selected villages of Western Punjab, India. …”
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Can large language models meet the challenge of generating school-level questions? by Subhankar Maity, Aniket Deroy, Sudeshna Sarkar

“…Specifically, we focus on generating educational questions from contexts extracted from school-level textbooks. Our study aims to prompt LLMs such as GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5 Turbo, Llama-2-70B, Llama-3.1-405B, and Gemini Pro to generate a complete set of questions for each context, potentially streamlining the question generation process for educators. …”
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The effect of basic strength training on developing some physical variables in football for beginners by Bashar Hasan, Qasim M.Ali Hazeem, Fatima Abd Alhassan Al-Sarray

“…The most important conclusions are that the exercises have a clear impact on the players’ abilities and in a positive direction. It has become clear to distinguish the differences between the two research groups in terms of the external appearance of the muscles and the positive impact on the psychological state. …”
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Determining the Role of Psychological Hardiness and Resilience in Predicting Psychological Differentiation in Secondary School Girls of Bandar Abbas City by Azita Khanjani, Ashraf Beirami, Moosa Javdan

“…Background: Considering the importance of mental abilities in continuing education in students, the present study was conducted to determine the role of psychological toughness and resilience in predicting the psychological differentiation of female students of the second level of high school in Bandar Abbas city. …”
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Knowledge Acquisition for the Stunting Prevention Expert System (SIPENTING) using Decision Tree and Grid Search by Azhar Basir, Fitri Ayuning Tyas

“…Preventing stunting is crucial, as children with stunting are more vulnerable to illnesses, experience growth failure before the age of 12 months, and tend to have lower intellectual abilities. Stunting can be diagnosed even before birth by assessing the nutritional status of pregnant women. …”
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Influence of the type of sports practiced by Spanish adolescents on their self-concept, self-esteem, and physical fitness by Juan de Dios Benítez-Sillero, Cristina Castejón-Riber, Iago Portela-Pino, Javier Raya-González

“…Among those who did practice sports, individuals engaged in contact sports exhibited better physical abilities and higher levels of self-concept. Discussion: our findings regarding self-concept and self-esteem align with existing literature. …”
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Social success in a noisy world: exploring the relationship between decreased sound tolerance and social profiles by Ashleigh Wickie, Natalia Van Esch, Nichole E. Scheerer

“…Given the complex and abundant sensory stimuli present in our daily environments, differences in sensory processing abilities may contribute to the variation observed in social behaviours. …”
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Using an Automated Operant Conditioning Procedure to Test Colour Discrimination in Two Juvenile Piranhas, <i>Pygocentrus nattereri</i>: A Lesson on Failures and Pitfalls and How to... by Christian Agrillo, Alessandra Pecunioso

“…Most studies on the cognitive abilities of fish have focused on model organisms adopted in behavioural neuroscience. …”
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Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition in healthy and clinical Brazilian sample by Danilo Assis Pereira, Corina Satler, Luciana Medeiros, Renan Pedroso, Carlos Tomaz

“…Negative correlations were observed between PBAC domains [memory (-0.63), visuospatial abilities (-0.44) and working memory (-0.3) tasks]. …”
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The I-Ork project: a technological approach to inclusive music making and therapy by Marcella Mandanici, Giuseppe Bergamino, Sara Valente

“…The core objective is to foster the creation of performance groups composed of individuals with diverse abilities, including those with physical and/or cognitive impairments, as well as participants with no formal musical background. …”
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Unitization Based Memory Enhancement in Younger and Older Adults by Joshua Kah Meng Khoo, Roni Tibon

“…Memory for episodic associations declines with ageing due to decreased recollection abilities. Unitization—the encoding of multiple items as one integrated entity—has been shown to support familiarity-based retrieval that is independent of recollection and is relatively preserved in healthy ageing. …”
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