Chemical Composition and Mixing State of Fine Particles during Haze Periods in Yinchuan by Kangning Li, Yanqiu Ma, Liukun Li, Bin Huang

“…Compared with clean days, the particle size of each BC particle increased on polluted days. Furthermore, ECOC and KEC particles had larger particle sizes and stronger sulfate and nitrate signals than EC and NaKEC particles, which indicates that ECOC and KEC particles were mostly formed during the aging process. …”
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Prior Information Shapes Perceptual Confidence by Luca Tarasi, Margherita Covelli, Chiara Tabarelli de Fatis, Vincenzo Romei

“…In this study, we manipulate prior knowledge by inducing varying levels of target probability expectation (low: 33%, random: 50%, high: 67%) in a perceptual detection task. In each trial both type-1 (detection) and type-2 (confidence) responses were recorded. …”
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Efficacy of Trimebutine Maleate (Trimedat®) in the Treatment of Patients with Functional Dyspepsia: Results of the “TREND” Observational Study by S. S. Kardasheva, I. M. Kartavenko, N. B. Maksimova, E. Yu. Yurieva, I. R. Popova, Ch. S. Pavlov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The main clinical forms of functional dyspepsia syndrome (EPS and PPDS) are frequently manifested in combination either with each other (52 %), or with IBS (21 %) and GERD (15 %). …”
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A narrative review of proactive palliative care models for people with COPD by Amy Pascoe, Xinye Chen, Natasha Smallwood

“…Five key models of palliative care were identified: (1) multi-disciplinary integrated services, (2) nurse-led care, (3) hospice and residential aged care, (4) home-based care, and (5) telemonitoring and telehealth. Each model describes a diverse set of interventions and many of these share common elements, including the normalisation of palliative principles within routine care and the provision of diverse delivery settings to accommodate individual preferences and needs. …”
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Predictors of poor psychological functioning of healthcare workers based in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic by Basant K. Puri, Anastasia Miari, Maria Theodoratou

“…Third, to determine the degree to which any predictors of poor psychological functioning were associated with each other. # Methods A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study was conducted of 144 healthcare workers in Patras, Greece, during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Psychiatric nurses’ knowledge of COVID-19 within a patient care context: A qualitative study by Sandisiwe Dyonase, Isabelle Swanepoel, Gian Lippi

“…The nurses’ knowledge about COVID-19 was summarised into five major themes, each with subthemes: signs and symptoms of COVID-19, risk of contracting the virus, the spread of COVID-19, prevention, and complications. …”
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A multitasking ant system for multi-depot pick-up and delivery location routing problem with time window by Haoyuan Lv, Ruochen Liu, Jianxia Li

“…In the second stage, MTAS concurrently optimizes multiple routing tasks based on these location schemes, each task is assigned to an ant system solver. Furthermore, MTAS achieves knowledge sharing among all routing tasks through adaptive similarity measurement and cross-task pheromone fusion strategy. …”
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Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner by Jenkins Tricia

“…Digital Storytelling is over 20 years old, its roots in citizen activism, its techniques evolving from radical theatre and media arts and its primary driver an unwavering commitment to enabling people to find and share their stories, as well as to the valuing of each and every one of those stories. This paper builds upon a presentation given at “Digital Storytelling in a Time of Crisis”, an international Digital Storytelling conference that took place in Athens in May 2014. …”
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Urdu Lip Reading Systems for Digits in Controlled and Uncontrolled Environment by Amanullah Baloch, Mushtaq Ali, Lal Hussain, Touseef Sadiq, Badr S. Alkahtani

“…To address these issues, we contribute by introducing the ULRD dataset, employing diverse data augmentation techniques, and comparing three DNN models: a Hybrid 2D-3D CNN-LSTM model, a LipNet-based 2D CNN-LSTM model, and a baseline 3D CNN-GRU model. Each model is evaluated in both controlled and uncontrolled environments, using both seen and unseen data. …”
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Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Dyspnoea, Functional Capacity and Thoracic Excursion in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Case Report by Priyanka K Chilhate, Lajwanti Lalwani (Adwani)

“…The findings imply that when modified to each patient’s specific requirements and capabilities, an organised pulmonary rehabilitation program can have an important beneficial therapeutic impact on those suffering from Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD).…”
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A Comparative Study Evaluated the Performance of Two-class Classification Algorithms in Machine Learning by Shilan Abdullah Hassan, Maha Sabah Saeed

“…The Organization for World Health (WHO) reports that around 17 million individuals worldwide pass away from cardiovascular diseases (CVD), notably heart attacks and strokes, each year. In this study, 1026 patients, both men and women, are almost equally affected by CVDs. …”
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Assessment of retention characteristics of different attachments following new modifications (an in vitro study) by Mahabad Mahmud Saleh, Dhia Aldori

“…A total of forty-two samples were prepared in three main groups. Each group subdivided into two subgroups with fourteen samples; 7 samples for non-modified and 7 for modified attachments. …”
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Detection and Severity Assessment of Temporomandibular Joint Osteoarthritic Changes in Patients with Temporomandibular Disorders Using CBCT by Kharman Khidhr Rahman, Shahen Ali Ahmed, Sarkawt Hamad Ali, Khoshee Salh Hamed

“…The impact of osteoarthritic alterations was assessed for each joint. Result: The prevalence of osteoarthritic change in patients with temporomandibular disorder was 70%. …”
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Correlation of Vitamin B12 Levels with Clinical and Laboratory Features in Patients of Dengue Fever by Asma Abdul Razzak

“…Estimates suggest that 40-50% of the world's population is now at risk for dengue in tropical, subtropical, and, especially recently, higher temperate regions due to the rapid rise in dengue prevalence in recent decades.2 There are around 100 million new cases of dengue each year worldwide, affecting about 2.5 billion individuals who reside in dengue-risk areas.3 The global spread of dengue infection is increasing. …”
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Effectiveness of purple leaves (Graptophyllum pictum L. Griff) and hydroxyapatite as socket preservation biomaterials by Ratri Maya Sitalaksmi, Rizkipriyanto Azharpratomo, Shafira Ninditya Irsan, Primanda Nur Rahmania, Sisca Meida Wati, Syafira Salsabila Adam, Kavanila Bilbalqish, Khairul Anuar bin Shariff, Harry Laksono, Agus Dahlan, Devi Rianti

“…The combination of nanoemulsion extract of Purple leaves and hydroxyapatite were significant (P < 0.05) compared to the control group on each day 7, day 14 and day 21. Conclusion: The combination of nanosuspension extract of Purple leaves and hydroxyapatite was able to enhance the expression of RUNX2, OSX, OPN, ALP, and calcium deposition on days 7,14,21.…”
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Impacts of data consistency levels in cloud-based NoSQL for data-intensive applications by Saulo Ferreira, Júlio Mendonça, Bruno Nogueira, Willy Tiengo, Ermeson Andrade

“…Based on the results of the experiments, we provide a comprehensive analysis regarding the system throughput and response time when executing reading and writing operations, pointing out scenarios where each DBMS could be better employed. Some of our findings include, for instance, that opting for strong data consistency significantly impacts Cassandra’s reading operations in the single-region deployment, while MongoDB writing operations are most affected in a multi-region scenario. …”
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Machine Learning Applications to Dust Storms: A Meta-Analysis by Reem K. Alshammari, Omer Alrwais, Mehmet Sabih Aksoy

“…The output classes and the various performance metrics observed in each reviewed paper are also summarized. Subsequently, the present paper offers a detailed analysis highlighting the capabilities of machine learning models in predicting dust storms. …”
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TMFN: a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning for multimodal sentiment analysis by Junsong Fu, Youjia Fu, Huixia Xue, Zihao Xu

“…Text, visual, and audio each have unique characteristics in MSA, with text often providing more emotional cues due to its rich semantics. …”
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“Feedback is communication between human beings”: understanding adolescents' conception of written qualitative feedback by Sining Tao, Wenjuan Qin

“…Over an academic semester, each learner produced three argumentative texts and received written qualitative feedback in three formats. …”
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A "Quıet" need ın the dısaster of the century: a qualıtatıve study on menstrual hygıene management by Ayşe Aydın, Meltem Şirin Gok, Bahar Çiftçi

“…Data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted via Zoom. Each interview lasted approximately 30 min. The interviews were analyzed using content analysis, and themes and sub-themes reflecting the women's experiences were identified. …”
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