Cortisol responses to mental stress and the progression of coronary artery calcification in healthy men and women. by Mark Hamer, Romano Endrighi, Shreenidhi M Venuraju, Avijit Lahiri, Andrew Steptoe

“…At the baseline assessment salivary cortisol was measured in response to mental stressors, consisting of a 5-min Stroop task and a 5-min mirror tracing task. CAC was measured at baseline and at 3 years follow up using electron beam computed tomography. …”
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Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization by Lifen Zheng, Chunming Lu

“…However, the causal influence of INS on cooperative strategic behaviors remains unclear. …”
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Cognitive mechanisms and temporal dynamics of negative emotion in facilitating congruency judgments by Yiheng Chen, Feier Fu, Qiwei Zhao, Yueyi Ding, Yingzhi Lu

“…We used a congruency judgment task involving table tennis action outcome prediction and emotional image processing to explore the temporal dynamics and cognitive mechanisms underlying the influence of negative emotions on congruency judgments. …”
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THE ECONOMIC-MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF PROCESSES OF OPTIMIZATION OF SUGAR RAW MATERIALS’ LOGISTICS AT SUGAR FACTORIES by O. А. Lagovska, O. G. Denysiuk, Yе. І. Ovcharenko, N. M. Andryeyeva

“…This also helps to solve the tasks of socio-economic development of rural areas as it provides sales to small and medium agroproducers. …”
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Human–AI Co-Drawing: Studying Creative Efficacy and Eye Tracking in Observation and Cooperation by Yuying Pei, Linlin Wang, Chengqi Xue

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly transforming the field of traditional artistic creation, influencing painting processes and human creativity. …”
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The effects of sex and load on quantifying the bilateral force deficit during an upper body Wingate test by Angie K. Antolinez, Philip F. Edwards, Michael W. R. Holmes, Duane C. Button, Duane C. Button

“…IntroductionThe bilateral deficit (BLD) is a reduction in the amount of force during a bilateral task vs. the total force from the unilateral limbs performing the same task. …”
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The effects of charismatic leadership on performance: exploring key boundary conditions at multilevel by Linyuan Zhang, Jee Young Seong, Doo-Seung Hong, Hye Jung Yoon

“…Additionally, individual-level creativity mediates the relationship between the interaction of CL and HPWS at the individual level and task performance. The influence of the interactive effect of CL and GPO on performance at the group level is mediated by group-level creativity.ConclusionThis study emphasizes the significance of adopting a multilevel interactive perspective on creativity and performance while providing evidence for how leadership and its boundary conditions affect creativity and performance.…”
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“It's very much how you define dangerous”: The cultural construction of mothers' beliefs about risk in Denmark and the United States by Chris J. Boyatzis, Kylie Brandt King, Michelle Doak, Lindsay A. Zajac

“…As predicted, in the photo-reaction task U.S. mothers were significantly more uncomfortable than Danish mothers with their children in risky situations. …”
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SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE WITH THE USE OF PLANT WASTE by R. S. Fediuk, A. V. Mochalov, D. N. Pezin, R. A. Timokhin

“…The development of efficient self-compacting concrete is an urgent task for building materials science. A successful implementation of the task can be the use of ash of rice husk as an alternative material in the production of concrete. …”
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Pharmacological analysis of the role of kisspeptin-10 in reinforcing mechanisms by Sarng S. Pyurveev, Andrei A. Lebedev, Eugeny R. Bychkov, Petr D. Shabanov

“…A modified Iowa Gambling Task analyzed decision-making and impulsivity under variable reinforcement schedules. …”
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Coping with stress and health behaviors in collegiate athletes training in team sports by Łukasz Bojkowski, Kamila Litwic-Kaminska

“…Coping with stress may influence decisions regarding engagement in health-related behaviors. …”
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Optimizing Catamaran Hull Form for Resistance Reduction: Methodology and Case Study by Evgenii Iamshchikov, Jolanta Janutenienė, Pranas Mažeika, Rima Mickevičienė, Diego Villa, Tomas Zapnickas, Vasilij Djackov

“…The approach involves selecting geometric parameters, defining variation limits to suit the design task, choosing appropriate evaluation methods and analyzing the results to identify the optimal catamaran geometric parameters. …”
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Application of oat flour in rye-wheat bread production technologies by Zh. M. Kunasheva, M. H. Kodzokova

“…In the modern world the food industry faces the main task of providing the population with high-quality food. …”
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The impact of induced stress on reactive and proactive control in depression by Akihiro Masuyama

“…Cognitive control was assessed using the AX-Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT), both before and after exposure to a stress-inducing anagram task, which was designed to differentiate between high-stress and low-stress conditions. …”
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Siamese network with squeeze-attention for incomplete multi-view multi-label classification by Mengqing Wang, Jiarui Chen, Lian Zhao, Yinghao Ye, Xiaohuan Lu

“…Furthermore, considering the task-specific importance variation exhibited by each view, we apply the squeeze attention-weighted fusion (SWF) strategy, which performs feature dimensionality reduction to amplify the key characteristics from each view and enables the model to flexibly adjust the influence of each perspective. …”
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Study of operation of a polymer insulator under uniform and non-uniform contamination by D. K. Zaripov, R. A. Nasibullin, D. F. Zakirov, A. V. Zakharov

“…Wetting this layer increases the electrical conductivity of the entire overhead line insulation structure and reduces its insulating capacity. Study of influence of dampening of contaminated surface of suspended insulation on their discharge characteristics is an urgent scientific task. …”
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Vibration-Based Damage Prediction in Composite Concrete–Steel Structures Using Finite Elements by Mario D. Cedeño-Rodríguez, Sergio J. Yanez, Erick I. Saavedra-Flores, Carlos Felipe Guzmán, Juan Carlos Pina

“…The prediction of structural damage through vibrational analysis is a critical task in the field of composite structures. Structural defects and damage can negatively influence the load-carrying capacity of the beam. …”
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MANIPULATING L2 LEARNERS' ONLINE DICTIONARY USE AND ITS EFFECT ON L2 WORD RETENTION by Elke Peters

“…Word retention is only influenced by Task-induced Word Relevance. The effect of Word Relevance is durable.…”
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Analysis of the canting stability as a factor determining the lateral wear of rails by E. A. Sidorova, R. M. Kurtikov

“…Reducing the intensity of rail lateral wear remains an important task for industry science. As part of solving this problem, studies are being carried out on the influence of the geometry of the rail track on the wear of rails, the intensity of the force interaction of wheels and rails, the tribological characteristics of the contacting surfaces. …”
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ERP characterization of sustained attention effects in visual lexical categorization. by Clara D Martin, Guillaume Thierry, Jean-François Démonet

“…Two research topics are of particular interest in this domain: (1) it is still undetermined whether sustained attention affects lexical decision tasks; (2) the influence of attention on early visual processing (i.e., before orthographic or lexico-semantic processing stages) remains largely under-specified. …”
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