Task difficulty modulates motor learning benefits of balance exercises in community-dwelling older adults by Kazunori Akizuki, Kosuke Takeuchi, Kazuto Yamaguchi, Ryohei Yamamoto, Wataru Nakano, Jun Yabuki

“…Conclusion: In balance exercises for community-dwelling older adults, task difficulty significantly influences exercise intervention effectiveness. …”
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Sex-Related Differences in Chronic Pain: A Narrative Review by a Multidisciplinary Task Force by Maurizio Marchesini, Diego Fornasari, Silvia Natoli, Elena Vegni, Arturo Cuomo

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Chatbot task-technology fit and conversational intelligence on customer service encounter satisfaction in the Zimbabwean banking sector by Nqobani Ncube, More Chinakidzwa, Tawanda Mushayavanhu

“…The study indicated that chatbot task and technology characteristics directly influenced chatbot task-technology fit, customer service encounter satisfaction, proactivity, and communicability. …”
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Symbolic and non-symbolic numbers differently affect center identification in a number-line bisection task. by Annamaria Porru, Lucia Ronconi, Daniela Lucangeli, Lucia Regolin, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Rosa Rugani

“…This relationship has been repeatedly demonstrated with various experimental approaches, such as the line bisection task. Spatial accuracy appears to be systematically distorted leftward for smaller digits by elaboration of spatial codes during number processing. …”
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Effects of linguistic demands of reality-based mathematical tasks: discrepancy between teachers' expectations and students' performance by Timo Ehmke, Dominik Leiss, Lena Heine

“…IntroductionMany teachers consider real-life tasks problematic for students because of their linguistic demands. …”
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An Assessment of Task-Oriented Leadership on Employee Performance in Uganda: A Case Study of Buhoma Mukono Community Development Association (BMCDA) in Kanungu District. by Elli, Orikyiriza

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Comparative analysis of creative problem solving tasks across age groups using modular cube robotics by Mehedi Hasan Anik, Mehedi Hasan Anik, Margarida Romero

“…Participants engaged in CreaCube CPS tasks with educational robotics for two consecutive instances, with performance analyzed to explore the influence of prior experience and creative intentions. …”
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The Roles of Subjective Task Values, Private Tutoring, and Emotions in Predicting Primary School Students’ English Achievement by Mu-Hsuan Chou

“…According to situated expectancy-value theory, students’ expectations of success and subjective task values (STVs) influence academic performance. …”
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The importance of the secure base effect for domestic dogs - evidence from a manipulative problem-solving task. by Lisa Horn, Ludwig Huber, Friederike Range

“…In children, this effect influences their daily lives and importantly also their performance in cognitive testing. …”
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Shining Light On The Laying Hen Brain: The Effect Of Light During Incubation Depends On Cognitive Task And Hybrid by Maëva W. E. Manet, Saskia Kliphuis, T. Bas Rodenburg, Vivian C. Goerlich, Frank A. M. Tuyttens, Rebecca E Nordquist

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Transferable Modulation of Cognitive Control: The Cross-Task Role of Conflict Adaptation in Thematic Roles Assignment in Chinese by Jiefei Luo, Qi Cheng, Mengfang Zhang, Yan Wu

“…A central question in language processing research concerns whether control elicited by non-linguistic tasks generalizes across tasks to influence higher-order processes such as sentence comprehension. …”
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Auto-branch multi-task learning for simultaneous prediction of multiple correlated traits associated with Alzheimer’s disease by Jiaqi Liang, Jiaqi Liang, Zhao Xue, Zhao Xue, Wenchao Zhou, Wenchao Zhou, Xiangjie Guo, Xiangjie Guo, Xiangjie Guo, Yalu Wen

“…IntroductionCorrelated phenotypes may have both shared and unique causal factors, and jointly modeling these phenotypes can enhance prediction performance by enabling efficient information transfer.MethodsWe propose an auto-branch multi-task learning model within a deep learning framework for the simultaneous prediction of multiple correlated phenotypes. …”
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A Multi-Task Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network for Transient Stability and State Prediction in Power Systems by Shuaibo Wang, Xinyuan Xiang, Jie Zhang, Zhuohang Liang, Shufang Li, Peilin Zhong, Jie Zeng, Chenguang Wang

“…In power system operations, these two tasks are inherently coupled, as system states directly influence stability conditions. …”
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Effect of Cognitive Distractors on Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation Performance: Insights from a Dual-Task Simulator by Yan Meng, Shang Zhao, Xiaoke Zhang, John Philbeck, Prachi Mahableshwarkar, Boyuan Feng, Lamia Soghier, James Hahn

“…To bridge this gap, we develop an innovative dual-task mixed-reality (MR) simulator to evaluate the influence of cognitive distractors on ETI and substantiate effective performance measurement metrics. …”
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Strength Proxies Explain Balance Task Performance by Proximity to Peak Height Velocity in Young Acrobatic Gymnasts by Ignacio Gómez-Dolader, Alejandro Martínez-Cruces, Pureza Leal-del-Ojo, Luis Arturo Gómez-Landero

“…The results also revealed that strength parameters influenced balance differently depending on the task, suggesting that specific balance types (static–proactive) and tasks (standing–inverted) require distinct strength capacities. …”
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Fit for the future: Examining the impact of task-technology fit on bank employee intentions to use FinTech by Abebe A. Seyum, Shuxiang Wang, Nana Zhang, Liya Wang

“…Aim: This study examines the intention to use FinTech among employees, utilising an integrated task-technology fit (TTF) and technology acceptance model (TAM). …”
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The Effects of Post-Warm-Up Active and Passive Rest Periods on a Vigilance Task in Karate Athletes by Rui Miguel Silva, Francisco González-Fernández, Alba Rusillo-Magdaleno, Vânia Loureiro, Dinis Pires, Filipe Ferreira, Ana Filipa Silva

“…This study aimed to analyze how active versus passive rest periods after a warm-up influence performance in psychomotor vigilance tasks (PVT). …”
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The effect of fatigue on dynamic knee valgus during landing tasks: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Saeedeh Abbasi, Delaram Rahmatzadeh, Hooman Minoonejad, Seyed Hamed Mousavi

“…Numerous studies have investigated the effect of fatigue on DKV during different landing tasks. This study aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of research on the influence of fatigue on DKV across various landing tasks. …”
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Understanding EFL learners' willingness to communicate dynamics during a group communicative task: An idiodynamic perspective by Shaojie Li, Mengmeng Xu, Haihua Wang

“…The present research investigated how four Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) exhibited WTC dynamics during a group communicative task in a natural classroom environment and what factors were attributed to impacting their WTC dynamics during the task. …”
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AI vs Humans Dealing with Language Tasks: Unlocking Some New Pedagogical Dimensions in TEFL Practices by Marijana Prodanović, Asta Pukienė, Ieva Brazauskaitė-Zubavičienė

“…In the era where AI has become an omnipresent phenomenon influencing many spheres of human endeavour, it appears that education, and within its borders, language teaching-learning practices, are no exception. …”
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