Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Northern Italy: An Evaluation of Three Different Gene Targets by Giulio Mannarà, Marianna Martinelli, Chiara Giubbi, Michelle Rizza, Eleonora Giordano, Federica Perdoni, Erika Bruno, Annalisa Morella, Arianna Azzellino, Andrea Turolla, Ramon Pedrini, Francesca Malpei, Giuseppina La Rosa, Elisabetta Suffredini, Danilo Cereda, Emanuela Ammoni, Simone Villa, Francesca Pregnolato, Marialuisa Lavitrano, Andrea Franzetti, Rosario Musumeci, Clementina E. Cocuzza

“…During the first 12 months, the quantification of the selected SARS-CoV-2 viral targets also correlated with the reported clinical cases in the same geographical area; however, from the overall data analysis this did not appear to significantly anticipate the epidemic waves. …”
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Development and initial validation of the implicit internalized sexual orientation stigma affect misattribution procedure by William J. Hall, Hayden C. Dawes, Jason W. Hannay, Denise Yookong Williams, Joseph J. Frey, Ankur Srivastava, Mimi V. Chapman, Ding-Geng Chen, Amy Blank Wilson, Magdelene E. Ramon, B. Keith Payne

“…Psychometric testing was conducted with a national sample of 500 queer adults who completed two waves of data collection. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate two models: a one-factor model with internalized stigma specified as one overall construct and a two-factor model with internalized stigma specified as two constructs based on binary conceptions of gender (stigma regarding queer women and stigma regarding queer men).ResultsResults showed that the two-factor model best fit the data. …”
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COVID-19 self-medication practices among slum dwellers in Jinja City, Uganda by Prossy Nakito, Arnold Tigaiza, Emmanuel Obuya, Geofrey Musinguzi, Dathan Byonanebye

“…Uganda was hit by two waves from April to June 2021, the second of which was more severe, resulting in lockdowns and quarantine. …”
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從工具示能性與關係行動主體之觀點 探討偏鄉教育系統賦能策略之研究 Investigating the Construction of Empowerment Action Models in Remote Educational Systems Through the Lenses of Tool Affordance and Relational Age... by 陳佩英 Peiying Chen, 洪琴雯 Chin-Wen Hung

“…The interdisciplinary curriculum design tool module aimed to guide collective discussions and design competence-oriented curricula that integrated students’ authentic life experiences. “Wave analysis” was a visual tool that used the pictorial images of waves to elicit deep dialogue within the team using intuitive perceptions, information interpretation of events, and reflection. …”
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Effects of Kinetic Ballooning Modes on the electron distribution function in the core of high-performance tokamak plasmas by S. Mazzi, G. Giruzzi, Y. Camenen, R. Dumont, M. Fontana, E. de la Luna, F.P. Orsitto, L. Senni, K. Aleynikova, S. Brunner, B.J. Frei, J. Garcia, A. Zocco, D. Frigione, L. Garzotti, F. Rimini, D. van Eester, JET Contributors, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team

“…In this work, detailed gyrokinetic analyses unveil the unexplored wave-particle interaction between electrons and the Kinetic Ballooning Modes (KBMs) in tokamak plasmas. …”
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Diversity and Complexity of CTXΦ and Pre-CTXΦ Families in <em>Vibrio cholerae</em> from Seventh Pandemic by Xiaorui Li, Yu Han, Wenxuan Zhao, Yue Xiao, Siyu Huang, Zhenpeng Li, Fenxia Fan, Weili Liang, Biao Kan

“…In this study, 21 <i>V. cholerae</i> strains, which were shown to carry the CTXΦ/pre-CTXΦ prophages as opposed to typical CTX^ETΦ-RS1 structure, were selected from approximately 1000 strains with diverse genomes. …”
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Foco epileptógeno parassagital com reversão de fase no vertex: correlações clínico-eletrencefalográficas Parasagittal epileptogenic focus with a phase reversal at the vertex: clini... by Décio Mega, Michel P. Lison

“…The authors found these seizures in 4 patients and in all of them the focal discharge was represented by slow waves (1 to 4 c/sec) of high voltage and with a phase reversal at the vertex.…”
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Analysis of the Current Status and Influencing Factors of Life Satisfaction among Middle-Aged and Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases by ZHU Guochen, CHEN Zhuoming

“…ObjectiveThis study used the 2020 China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS) data to explore the current status and influencing factors of life satisfaction among middle-aged and elderly patients with chronic diseases aged 45 and above in China, in order to provide scientific basis for health management and reveal potential paths to improve their life satisfaction.MethodsThe latest 2020 wave 5 national survey data released by CHARLS was used, and 13 487 middle-aged and elderly patients with chronic diseases over 45 years old were selected as the research subjects. …”
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Effect of Electroacupuncture at Shuigou Acupoint on L-type Voltage-gated Calcium Channels in hippocampal CA1 region of MCAO rats by Da LONG, Ling CHEN, Yu YAO, Mingan ZENG

“…Mice in the Shuigou group were treated with electroacupuncture at Shuigou acupoint by continuous square wave(2 Hz, 1 mA)for 10 minutes, once a day for 7 days. …”
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The Incidence of a New Coronavirus Infection in Medical Workers and the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Individual Technologies for their Protection at Different Stages of the P... by E. I. Sisin, A. A. Golubkova, I. I. Kozlova, N. A. Ostapenko, O. A. Ezhova, D. I. Marapov, T. A. Platonova, A. V. Deryabina

“…Analysis of COVID-19 morbidity among health care staff during the pandemic and determination of the significance of selected specific and nonspecific prophylaxis measures in minimizing the risk of their occupational infection with SARS-CoV-2. …”
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Clinical efficacy of electroacupuncture antagonistic muscles combined with rehabilitation training in the treatment of spastic hemiplegia after stroke: a systematic review and meta... by Jingyue Liu, Jingyue Liu, Jingyue Liu, Xiang Meng, Yana He, Yana He, Hailun Jiang, Hailun Jiang, Hailun Jiang, Jieying Zhang, Jieying Zhang, Jinyuan Shi, Jinyuan Shi, Jinyuan Shi, Jingshu Zhang, Jingshu Zhang, Menglong Zhang, Menglong Zhang, Menglong Zhang, Fei Cai, Fei Cai, Shizhe Deng, Shizhe Deng, Jiangwei Shi, Jiangwei Shi, Zhihong Meng, Zhihong Meng

“…Furthermore, we discovered that when the wave type and frequency of electroacupuncture are low frequency intermittent waves, electroacupuncture antagonistic muscles combined with rehabilitation training can effectively improve the lower limb motor function of hemiplegic patients. …”
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Explainable machine learning prediction of internet addiction among Chinese primary and middle school children and adolescents: a longitudinal study based on positive youth develop... by Jiahe Liu, Lang Chen, Yuxin Chen, Jingsong Luo, Kexin Yu, Linlin Fan, Chan Yong, Huiyu He, Simei Liao, Zongyuan Ge, Lihua Jiang, Lihua Jiang

“…Performance was evaluated via 10-fold cross-validation and held-out test sets across survey waves. Feature selection and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis were utilised for model improvement and interpretability, respectively.ResultsExtraRFC achieved the best performance (Test AUC = 0.854, Accuracy = 0.798, F1 = 0.659), outperforming all other models across most metrics and external validations. …”
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SEISMIC BELTS AND ZONES OF THE EARTH: FORMALIZATION OF NOTIONS, POSITIONS IN THE LITHOSPHERE, AND STRUCTURAL CONTROL by Semen I. Sherman, Olga G. Zlogodukhova

“…Developing tectonophysical models of SBs is a future challenge.In SZ, earthquakes of medium magnitudes and rare strong seismic events results from the impact of strain waves on the mega­stable state of the recent lithospheric destruction zones which comprise the SZ structure. …”
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Petrology and mineral chemistry of the Hamaneh granitoid, West of Yazd (Central Iran zone) by Javad Ghanei Ardakani, Maryam Ahankoub

“…The quartzes are often amorphous and intergranular, and some have wave extinction and fractures with a frequency of 19 to 31. …”
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Risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multiethnic cohort of United Kingdom healthcare workers (UK-REACH): A cross-sectional analysis. by Christopher A Martin, Daniel Pan, Carl Melbourne, Lucy Teece, Avinash Aujayeb, Rebecca F Baggaley, Luke Bryant, Sue Carr, Bindu Gregary, Amit Gupta, Anna L Guyatt, Catherine John, I Chris McManus, Joshua Nazareth, Laura B Nellums, Rubina Reza, Sandra Simpson, Martin D Tobin, Katherine Woolf, Stephen Zingwe, Kamlesh Khunti, Keith R Abrams, Laura J Gray, Manish Pareek, UK-REACH Study Collaborative Group

“…This study is limited by self-selection bias and the cross sectional nature of the study means we cannot infer the direction of causality.…”
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Progress in silicon-based reconfigurable and programmable all-optical signal processing chips by Jing Xu, Wenchan Dong, Qingzhong Huang, Yujia Zhang, Yuchen Yin, Zhenyu Zhao, Desheng Zeng, Xiaoyan Gao, Wentao Gu, Zihao Yang, Hanghang Li, Xinjie Han, Yong Geng, Kunpeng Zhai, Bei Chen, Xin Fu, Lei Lei, Xiaojun Wu, Jianji Dong, Yikai Su, Ming Li, Jianguo Liu, Ninghua Zhu, Xuhan Guo, Heng Zhou, Huashun Wen, Kun Qiu, Xinliang Zhang

“…Integrated photonic filters with bandwidth and free spectral range reconfigurable in a wide range were realized to finely manipulate and select input light fields with a high degree of freedom. …”
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Psychological and psychosocial determinants of COVID related face covering behaviours: A systematic review by Rachel Leonard, Sean R. O'Connor, Jennifer Hanratty, Ciara Keenan, Yuan Chi, Jenny Ferguson, Ariana Axiaq, Anna Volz, Ceri Welsh, Kerry Campbell, Victoria Hawkins, Sarah Miller, Declan Bradley, Martin Dempster

“…Authors' Conclusions Understanding the effects of various malleable determinants on COVID‐related face covering can aid in the development and implementation of interventions and public health campaigns to promote face covering behaviour in potential new waves of COVID‐19 or other respiratory infections. …”
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Psychological and psychosocial determinants of COVID‐related handwashing behaviours: A systematic review by Rachel Leonard, Sean R. O'Connor, Jennifer Hanratty, Ciara Keenan, Yuan Chi, Jenny Ferguson, Ariana Axiaq, Anna Volz, Ceri Welsh, Kerry Campbell, Victoria Hawkins, Sarah Miller, Declan Bradley, Martin Dempster

“…Authors' Conclusions Understanding the effects of various malleable determinants on COVID‐related handwashing can aid in the development and implementation of interventions and public health campaigns to promote handwashing behaviour in potential new waves of COVID‐19 or other respiratory infections. …”
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International Migration and Its Consequences Affecting Population Management in Isfahan Province: A Grounded Theory Study by Mohammad Hosain Ghanbari Jahromi, Javad Esteki, Hamid Nazari

“…Optimizing immigration policies and curbing the wave of immigration, particularly illegal immigration, should be a top priority for the country. …”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Self-Compassion and Mindfulness Therapies on Affection Control of Poor Parenting Adolescents by Zahra EffatDoost Sani, Mohammad Reza Zarbakhsh Bahri, Alireza Homayuni

“…The sample included 60 adolescents, who were voluntarily taking part in the study. They were selected and categorized in three groups (two experimental and one control) through purposeful sampling method. …”
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