Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs by Kimberly Brosche, Ariane Veit, Paula Pérez Fraga, Marianne Wondrak, Attila Andics, Zsófia Virányi

“…Fifty-four pigs with varying experience with humans completed ostensive and non-ostensive versions of (1) an object-choice task with directional cues, (2) an A-not-B-task, and (3) a detour task with human demonstrations. …”
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Time Parameter Optimization for the Semiconductor Laser-Based Time-Delay Reservoir Computing System by Qiudi Li, Yushuang Hou, Keqiang Li, Xiaoyu Guo, Chunxia Hu, Dianzuo Yue

“…Using the Santa Fe time series prediction task and memory capacity evaluation task, we analyze how these parameters affect prediction accuracy and memory capability. …”
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Assessing Impulsivity in Adolescents with Borderline Personality Features via an Emotional Contextual Go/NoGo Paradigm by Wang Q, Chen Y, Zhong J

“…Qian Wang,1,2 Yizhou Chen,2,3 Jie Zhong2 1Department of Psychology, School of Humanities, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Clinical and Health Psychology Department, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UKCorrespondence: Jie Zhong, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Clinical and Health Psychology Department, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, No. 5, Yi-He-Yuan Road, Haidian, Beijing, 100871, People’s Republic of China, Email jzhong@pku.edu.cnPurpose: This study examined the influence of emotional contexts and invalidating family environment on impulsivity, especially response inhibition function, in adolescents with borderline personality features.Methods: 483 Chinese adolescents (52.2% females; Mage =  15.54 years) from a community sample completed the scales of McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder and Chinese Invalidating Family Scale for Adolescents and the Go/NoGo task under positive, neutral, and negative emotional conditions. …”
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Effects of open-skill and closed-skill sports on the development of executive function: protocol for a prospective longitudinal cohort study in elite youth athletes by Na Li, Jianxin Chen, Jinfeng Yang, Yuanpeng Liao, PeiJie Sun, Qianyue Tang, Weirui Cheng

“…Athletes will participate in annual assessments that integrate standardised cognitive tasks, including the Stroop task, Go/No-Go task and N-back task, alongside event-related potentials such as N200, P3 and N450, to evaluate executive functions at both behavioural and neurophysiological levels. …”
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On the lexical evidence of the concept of “leader” in Middle Persian and Arabic languages by Artyom Tonoyan, Artem Davydov

“…The choice of the Middle Persian language is due to the task of showing the features of the public perception of the concept "leader" and its expressions at the linguistic extent in Sassanid Iran, still free from strong Arab influence. …”
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Formation of information competence of cadets of a military university by Natalia A. Lamukhina

“…The article substantiates the idea of the need for advanced professional training of cadets of a modern military university to meet the requirements for the information competence of an officer during the period of change in military-professional activity under the influence of informatization. The essence of the information perspective as a leading factor of influence determining the advance is revealed. …”
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Perceiving Numbers Affects the Internal Random Movements Generator by Carmelo Mario Vicario

“…According to the evidence of direct relationships among space, numbers, and finger representations, a random movement generation (RMG) task was employed in order to investigate whether numerical exposure can influence the finger selection of healthy humans. …”
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On the lexical evidence of the concept of “leader” in Middle Persian and Arabic languages by Artyom Tonoyan, Artem Davydov

“…The choice of the Middle Persian language is due to the task of showing the features of the public perception of the concept "leader" and its expressions at the linguistic extent in Sassanid Iran, still free from strong Arab influence. …”
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Inner-Party Struggle in French Communist Party as Reflection of Internal Contradictions in Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1920-ies by M. Y. Lugovtsova

“…A review of the main historical events that had an important influence on the development of the Communist movement in Russia and in France is made. …”
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Performance Index Analysis and Structural Parameter Optimization of PRP_AS/2-PUPR Parallel Mechanical Leg by Liu Yong, Xu Yong, Chen Jiali, Lü Yeping

“…According to the working task of the walking robot，the degree of freedom of the mechanical leg is determined. …”
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On the lexical evidence of the concept of “leader” in Middle Persian and Arabic languages by Artyom Tonoyan, Artem Davydov

“…The choice of the Middle Persian language is due to the task of showing the features of the public perception of the concept "leader" and its expressions at the linguistic extent in Sassanid Iran, still free from strong Arab influence. …”
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On the lexical evidence of the concept of “leader” in Middle Persian and Arabic languages by Artyom Tonoyan, Artem Davydov

“…The choice of the Middle Persian language is due to the task of showing the features of the public perception of the concept "leader" and its expressions at the linguistic extent in Sassanid Iran, still free from strong Arab influence. …”
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Learning Community and Its Impact on Attitude toward Computer-Based Statistics by Gaffar Hafiz Sagala, Ramdhansyah Ramdhansyah, Ulfa Nurhayani

“…This study examined the three dimensions that should exist in a learning community, namely Student Cohesiveness, Integration, and Task Orientation, related to their influence on attitude toward computer-based statistics. …”
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Joint detection and re-identification for occluded person search by Ye Li, Shizhen Shuai, Yunhan Zhou, Binbin Deng, Dongxing Zhang

“…Abstract Person search aims to locate all pedestrians from a complete image and identify the target pedestrian, which plays an important role in the field of intelligent video surveillance. However, influence come from factors such as occlusion may cause the miss detection of the pedestrians in the original image and affecting cross-camera person search tasks greatly. …”
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Interpretable Supervised Muscle Network Decomposition by Multifactorial ANOVA-ICA by Jun-Ichiro Hirayama

“…Existing muscle network decomposition methods do not explicitly disentangle the influence of experimental factors such as task parameters or subject groups, hindering meaningful interpretation. …”
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Unveiling DOM optionality in Central Catalan by Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Tiffany Judy

“… This paper presents data indicative of optionality in acceptance and processing of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in 27 adult bilinguals of central Catalan-Spanish across two tasks: Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) and Self-Paced Reading (SPR). …”
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Facilitator or hindrance? The impact of AI on university students' higher-order thinking skills in complex problem solving by Xing Du, Mingcheng Du, Zihan Zhou, Yiming Bai

“…The study further categorizes students by their degree of AI influence, revealing that those more influenced by AI incorporate more personal thinking, use more HOTS, and exhibit richer interconnections among these skills. …”
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The role of mediation in the activities of law enforcement bodies by V. A. Doroshenko

“…The author of the article emphasizes the peculiarities of legal mediation, which is determined primarily by its object, subject, concept and task. Regarding the activities of the National Police, it will be appropriate to use legal mediation, the task of which is to neutralize the legal conflict; achieving reconciliation of the parties to the dispute, etc. …”
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Sex and hand differences in haptic processing: implications for mental rotation ability by Daniela E. Aguilar Ramirez, Claudia L. R. Gonzalez

“…Results confirmed a positive correlation between performance on the haptic and MRT tasks. Further, males outperformed females in both tasks. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSIEN PROCESSES OF WATER LEVEL VARIATION IN DRUM OF STEAM BOILERS by G. T. Kulakov, A. N. Kuharenko

“…And numerical value of time constant criteria  should be calculated on the base of numbers of golden section(Phi), taking into account the definite time constant of lead section and time-lag, time-lag on controlled influence channel, and also taking into account maximum value of controlled influence. …”
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