THE FIRST STEP IN VALIDATING THE PedsQL™ – FAMILY IMPACT MODULE QUESTIONNAIRE IN ROMANIA. THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PARENTS WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER by Camelia POPA, Ana DRAGU, Elisabeta NIȚĂ, Cornelia RADA

“…Evaluating the quality of life of parents of children with ASD using this instrument provides a solid foundation for support interventions for these parents, helping them become more functional physically, emotionally, cognitively, and socially.…”
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Fusion of RetinaFace and improved FaceNet for individual cow identification in natural scenes by Lingling Yang, Xingshi Xu, Jizheng Zhao, Huaibo Song

“…FaceNet's core feature network was enhanced through MobileNet integration, and the loss function was jointly optimized with Cross Entropy Loss and Triplet Loss to achieve a quicker and more stable convergence curve. …”
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Local management and governance improve natural resource incomes of communal conservancies in Namibia by J. D. Goergen, M. P. Louis, K. F. Kellner, G. J. Roloff, M. Lindeque, J. L. Belant

“…Support from NGOs remained critical to financial sustainability of conservancies and AGMs were important governance functions. Natural resource management and institutional governance facilitated income generation by Namibia's conservancies, but more emphasis on benefit distribution could increase socioeconomic impact. …”
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Negative BOLD fMRI response in the visual cortex carries precise stimulus-specific information. by David Bressler, Nicole Spotswood, David Whitney

“…Sustained positive BOLD (blood oxygen level-dependent) activity is employed extensively in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies as evidence for task or stimulus-specific neural responses. …”
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Central banks Digital Currencies Issuance: Development Directions and Key Risks by V. V. Kuznetsova, O. I. larina

“…The purpose of the paper is to identify unresolved aspects of the application of CBDC, and specific tasks include identifying the problems of the marketing of retail CBDC and the identification of the risks generated by them. The authors use general and special research methods, including comparative analysis and systematization. …”
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Speech-dependent data augmentation for own voice reconstruction with hearable microphones in noisy environments by Mattes Ohlenbusch, Christian Rollwage, Simon Doclo

“…In this paper, we investigate several data augmentation techniques to simulate a large amount of in-ear own voice signals from a limited amount of recorded own voice signals. More specifically, we consider different models for the own voice transfer characteristics between the outer microphone and the in-ear microphone, ranging from a fixed talker-averaged relative transfer function to a phoneme-dependent individual model. …”
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How to map soil organic carbon stocks at field scale in South Africa? by Willie Herman Cloete, Gerhard du Preez, George Munnik Van Zijl

“…For dry bulk density (ρb), a pedo-transfer function was created for predicting the ρb at unsampled locations. …”
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Ionospheric Correction Based on Ingestion of Global Ionospheric Maps into the NeQuick 2 Model by Xiao Yu, Chengli She, Weimin Zhen, Nava Bruno, Dun Liu, Xinan Yue, Ming Ou, Jisheng Xu

“…The accuracy of TEC prediction can be improved further through performing a four-coefficient function expression of Az versus MODIP. As more measurements from earlier days are involved in the Az optimization procedure, the accuracy may decrease. …”
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Influence of Interleukin-8 and Neutrophil Extracellular Trap (NET) Formation in the Tumor Microenvironment: Is There a Pathogenic Role? by Manuela Gonzalez-Aparicio, Carlos Alfaro

“…However, the extent to which NETs affect the function of other cells of the immune system in the tumor context has not been directly demonstrated. …”
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A Study on the Coarse-to-Fine Error Decomposition and Compensation Method of Free-Form Surface Machining by Yueping Chen, Junchao Wang, Qingchun Tang, Jie Li

“…The simulation and analysis results of the design show that the method has a more ideal processing error decomposition ability and can decompose the systematic error contained in the processing error in a more complete way. …”
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Modulation of network excitability by persistent activity: how working memory affects the response to incoming stimuli. by Elisa M Tartaglia, Nicolas Brunel, Gianluigi Mongillo

“…Neurons more active will be more excitable, and thus more responsive to external inputs. …”
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Effect of Post-Acute Kidney Injury Use of Renin-Angiotensin Inhibitors on Long-term Mortality and Major Adverse Kidney Events: A 5-year Retrospective Observational Cohort Study by Byorn W.L. Tan, Bryce W.Q. Tan, K. Akalya, Wei-Zhen Hong, Yi Da, Sanmay Low, Wan-Ying Ng, Horng-Ruey Chua

“…Although angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEis) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) have been widely used in proteinuric kidney disease to slow kidney function decline, the effect of ACEi/ARB use post-AKI on long-term kidney function remains unclear. …”
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Cumulative versus Gravity-based Accessibility Measures: Which One to Use? by Manuel Santana Palacios, Ahmed El-geneidy

“…Using data on commute patterns and public transport schedules from Montreal, Canada, we find cumulative opportunities-based measures estimated at the mean transit commute time and gravity-based measures generated through various decay functions are highly correlated -- all above 0.9. …”
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Quantifying the Impact of Comorbidities on Outcomes Following Surgery for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures by Anmol Gupta, Thomas Cha, Joseph Schwab, Harold Fogel, Daniel Tobert, Afshin E. Razi, Carl Paulino, Christopher M. Bono, Stuart Hershman

“…Introduction Studies have shown that osteoporotic patients are more likely to have medical or surgical complications postoperatively. …”
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Echocardiography in the Evaluation of the Right Heart by Angelos Tsipis, Evdokia Petropoulou

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Xuebijing alleviates high-voltage electrical burn-induced acute kidney injury by inhibiting neutrophils and inflammation by Xiaopei He, Na Li, Leilei Ma, Meng Yang, Liqing Ren, Jiawen Hao, Xin Xue, Yinghui Pang

“…While it improves kidney function and reduces inflammation, its effects on SOD and MDA levels suggest a complex interaction with the oxidative stress system that requires further investigation, as the observed changes in these markers (decreased SOD, increased MDA) in the Xuebijing group were more pronounced than in the control group. …”
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Elaborating Strategies of Sustainable Development at Industrial Enterprises by T. A. Shipilova

“…This strategy is a key element of successful running of business in current circumstances, where requirements to sustainability and responsibility to the environment are becoming more and more important. The research found the link between the rate of industry sustainability and provision of sustainable development of enterprises in different industries. …”
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A Skillful Prediction of Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation Using Deep Learning by K. M. Anirudh, Prasang Raj, S. Sandeep, Hariprasad Kodamana, C. T. Sabeerali

“…These results indicate the potential for more reliable sub‐seasonal to seasonal (S2S) predictions of the Indian monsoon. …”
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Wingless strain created using binary transgenic CRISPR/Cas9 alleviates concerns about mass rearing of Hermetia illucens by Zongqing Kou, Shaozhen Wang, Xingyu Luo, Jun Xu, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Yongping Huang

“…Here, we present a binary transgenic CRISPR/Cas9 system to generate wingless strain with the potential to address this issue. …”
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Accurate and Robust Stellar Rotation Periods Catalog for 82771 Kepler Stars Using Deep Learning by Ilay Kamai, Hagai B. Perets

“…We train LightPred on self-supervised contrastive pretraining and simulated light curves generated using a realistic spot model. Our evaluation demonstrates that LightPred outperforms classical methods like the autocorrelation function in terms of accuracy and average error. …”
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