Digital Gamification to Foster Attitudes Toward Science in Early Childhood Teacher Education by Noëlle Fabre-Mitjans, Gregorio Jiménez-Valverde, Gerard Guimerà-Ballesta, Genina Calafell-Subirà

“…This mixed-methods case study explores how a 14-week course for preservice early childhood teachers, supported by the digital gamification platform FantasyClass and enriched with a cohesive narrative structure, impacted students’ motivation and attitudes towards science. …”
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The impact of emotional exhaustion on the performance of SMEs by Cintya Lanchimba, Dianne H.B. Welsh, Carlos Valladares

“…However, family businesses experience a mitigating effect because their organizational structure provides social support that helps counterbalance the detrimental impact of emotional exhaustion. …”
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Thermoplastic Rubber (TPR) Modified by a Silane Coupling Agent and Its Influence on the Mechanical Properties of Oil Well Cement Pastes by Jianjian Song, Mingbiao Xu, Weihong Liu, Xiaoliang Wang, Peng Xu, Feng Huang, Yonggong Pan

“…The modified TPR particles formed a plastic polymer network structure in the cement stone and penetrated the cement hydration products, filling in the cement paste to form a flexible structural center. …”
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Research advances in carbon-based electrode materials for electrosorptive separation of uranium from aqueous solutions by Ling Tang, Tao Wei, Yanfeng Wei, Yin Yu, Haipeng Zhang

“…Bridging insights from environmental science and energy storage technologies, this work proposes an integrated optimization framework that establishes fundamental structure-performance relationships for CDI electrodes. …”
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Construction Scheme and Influence Analysis of Horizontal Small-Clear-Distance Shield Tunnel by Xujie Li, Hui Li, Yabin Cheng, Bing Zhang, Ming Qiao, Tao Yang

“…At the same time, the MIDAS GTS(2022R1) geotechnical and structural finite element analysis software is used to simulate and analyze the shield excavation process by using the stratum–structure modeling method, and the effect of grouting reinforcement in the tunnel is compared and analyzed. …”
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Progress in photoluminescent materials for light-emitting and optoelectronic applications by Moses Kingsford Flomo, Ahmed Olalekan Omoniyi

“…Photoluminescent materials have witnessed substantial advancements in synthesis techniques, structural design, and functional performance, driving innovation across a range of modern applications. …”
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The Chongqing Adolescent Twin Study: An Integrative Multimodal Brain Imaging and Non-imaging Dataset by Yanting Zhu, Yixiao Fu, Jiajia Han, Ruoming Wang, Xingshun Ma, Xiaomei Hu, Tao Li, Zhiwei Ma

“…This dataset includes multimodal MRI scans (structural, resting-state functional, and diffusion MRI) alongside extensive questionnaires on cognitive abilities, emotional and social behaviors, familial and parenting dynamics, sleep wellness, stress, anxiety, and depression. …”
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Novel surfactants incorporated with 1,3,5-triethanolhexahydro-1,3,5-triazine moiety as corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel in hydrochloric acid: Electrochemical and quantum chemi... by A.M. Al-Sabagh, N.Gh. Kandile, N.M. Nasser, M.R. Mishrif, Amira E. El-Tabey

“…The main objective of this work was to examine the corrosion inhibition ability of three novel surfactant molecules synthesized from 1,3,5-triethanolhexahydro-1,3,5-triazine, which named (I, II and III). The chemical structure of these surfactants was confirmed by FT-IR and 1H NMR spectroscopy. …”
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Research Progress on the Preparation of Elastin Peptides and Their Effect on Delaying Skin Aging by Jing SHI, Shuping MA, Shunfeng TIAN, Yongkang LUO, Yanfei JIANG, Chunyue ZHAO

“…Elastin, the primary structural component of elastic fibers, serves as a vital protein that imparts elasticity and tensile resilience to skin and other connective tissues. …”
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Research Progress of Biochar Based Materials and Their Applications Using Electrochemical Sensors by Baoli WANG, Yijun ZHANG, Yuhang ZHANG, Yan CHEN

“…Further research will focus on optimizing the structure of carbon materials, regulating the composition of them, and preparing high-performance biochar-based materials that are more suitable for electrochemical sensors, so as to reduce the detection limit and improve the sensitivity. …”
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Creep Fracture Characteristics of Fractured Rock Mass Strengthened with Toughened Epoxy Resin by Jun Wang, Junjie Xu, Zhipeng Nie, Lin Liu, Min Qin, Rongzi Ou

“…For improving the toughness and long-term strength of the fractured rock mass reinforced with epoxy resin and reducing the opening displacement of the crack tip, three types of converging cracks are established according to the deformation and failure characteristics of the rock mass, structural planes, and epoxy resin composite structure. …”
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Exploring Word-Adjacency Networks with Multifractal Time Series Analysis Techniques by Jakub Dec, Michał Dolina, Stanisław Drożdż, Robert Kluszczyński, Jarosław Kwapień, Tomasz Stanisz

“…This approach captures the complex structural patterns of language by encoding network properties—such as clustering coefficients and node degrees—into temporal sequences. …”
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Alterations of Regional Spontaneous Brain Activity and Gray Matter Volume in the Blind by Aili Jiang, Jing Tian, Rui Li, Yong Liu, Tianzi Jiang, Wen Qin, Chunshui Yu

“…However, the effects of onset age of blindness on the RSBA and the association between the alterations of RSBA and brain structure are still unclear in the blind. In this study, we performed resting-state functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging on 50 sighted controls and 91 blind subjects (20 congenitally blind, 27 early blind, and 44 late blind individuals). …”
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Modeling Polarized Radio Sounding Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection by Elizabeth A. Jensen, W. B. Manchester IV, J. E. Kooi, T. Nieves-Chinchilla, L. K. Jian, D. B. Wexler, S. F. Fung, N. Gopalswamy

“…Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) evolve significantly as they propagate from the Sun to the Earth, so remote observations of their changes in speed, strength of the magnetic field, density, and overall structure are critical for predicting their arrival time and geoeffectiveness. …”
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DNA and RNA Methylation in Rheumatoid Arthritis—A Narrative Review by Kajetan Kiełbowski, Estera Bakinowska, Anna Gorący-Rosik, Karolina Figiel, Roksana Judek, Jakub Rosik, Paweł Dec, Andrzej Modrzejewski, Andrzej Pawlik

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a progressive autoimmune disease leading to structural and functional joint damage and, eventually, to physical disability. …”
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Neutron investigation of interaction between anionic surfactant micelles and poly (ethylene glycol) polymer brush system by O. P. Artykulnyi, M. M. Avdeev, Ye. M. Kosiachkin, V. I. Petrenko, I. Safarik, L. A. Bulavin

“…A polymer brush system of a neutral polymer poly (ethylene glycol) with a molecular weight of Mw = 20 kDa on silicon substrates in an aqueous medium was studied by the specular neutron reflectometry. Structural changes in the density profile of a polymer brush caused by the interaction of polymer chains with micelles of the anionic surfactant dodecylbenzenesulfonate acid were observed. …”
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Observation of Negative Magnetic Hysteresis Loop in ZnO Thin Films by Micah Haseman, Pooneh Saadatkia, David Winarski, Armando Hernandez, Matt Kusz, Wolfgang Anwand, Andreas Wagner, Sunil Thapa, A. M. Colosimo, Farida A. Selim

“…The unusual magnetic behavior is ascribed to the presence of double magnetic layers with different magnetic moments due to the change of structural defects across the film layers. Positron annihilation measurements confirmed the presence of unique microstructural changes in the Co-Al:ZnO film. …”
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Prototype Experimental Investigation of the Failure Mechanism and Crack Propagation of Segment Lining for Staggered Jointed Assembly by Songyu Cao, Kun Feng, Xun Liu, Mingqing Xiao, Chuan He, Ce Li

“…In order to ascertain the failure characteristics of a segment structure with distributed mortises and tenons, one should be aware of the rules of key parameters and the development of cracks during the failure process. …”
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Developing cancer vaccine with carcinoembryonic antigen and IGF-1R as immunostimulants using immunoinformatics approach by Louis Odinakaose Ezediuno, Michael Asebake Ockiya, Luqman Oluwaseun Awoniyi, Adeola Oyepeju Sangodare, Kehinde Busuyi David, Faith Owabhel Robert

“…Methods Sequences of CEA and IGF-1R proteins were retrieved from NCBI databank, the sequences were aligned on the MEGA5 tool to identify conserved regions. Immunological and structural predictive analysis which include antigenic potential prediction, cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs), helper-T lymphocytes (HTLs), B-cell epitopes predictions, and prediction of the vaccine secondary and tertiary structure were performed. …”
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Проєктування рівня маршрутизації в мікросервісних архітектурах на платформі Spring by Svitlana Pereiaslavska, Olga Smahina

“…The following methods are used: analysis and synthesis to study technologies of interaction between services; abstraction and generalization to determine the structure of the microservice architecture, routing level, generalization of technologies that ensure interaction between services; modelling for the purpose of building a model of microservice architecture, highlighting the level of routing and connections with other structural models. …”
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