Parental Challenges and the Performance of the Primary Pupils Under Modular Distance Learning Delivery: An Input to Proposed Parental Orientation Guide by Ma Christina O Bauyon, Lustina P Lapie, Consorcia S Tan, Lerma P Buenvenida, Marcial M Bandoy

“…There are suggested recommendations based on the results of the study, such as they may be equally prepared to educate their children at home even they are busy with their different schedules, may strengthen the collaborative work between the school and families through parent-teacher meetings, close monitoring, and facilitation that could encourage children to read. …”
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Genome-wide association analysis of composite sleep health scores in 413,904 individuals by Matthew O. Goodman, Tariq Faquih, Valentina Paz, Pavithra Nagarajan, Jacqueline M. Lane, Brian Spitzer, Matthew Maher, Joon Chung, Brian E. Cade, Shaun M. Purcell, Xiaofeng Zhu, Raymond Noordam, Andrew J. K. Phillips, Simon D. Kyle, Kai Spiegelhalder, Michael N. Weedon, Deborah A. Lawlor, Jerome I. Rotter, Kent D. Taylor, Carmen R. Isasi, Tamar Sofer, Hassan S. Dashti, Martin K. Rutter, Susan Redline, Richa Saxena, Heming Wang

“…The heritability of the first three SHS-PCs equals or exceeds that of SHS-ADD (SNP-h2 = 0.094), while revealing sleep-domain-specific genetic discoveries. …”
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Intricacies for Posttranslational Tumor-Targeted Cytokine Gene Therapy by Jeffry Cutrera, Denada Dibra, Arun Satelli, Xuexing Xia, Shulin Li

“…Within the same tumor model, the location of the targeting peptide could either improve or reduce the antitumor effect of interleukin (IL)12 gene treatments, yet in other tumor models the tumor-targeted IL12 plasmid DNAs were equally effective regardless of the peptide location. …”
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Antimicrobial Efficacy of Intracanal Medicaments against E. Faecalis Bacteria in Infected Primary Molars by Using Real-Time PCR: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Yasamin Ghahramani, Najmeh Mohammadi, Ahmad Gholami, Dordaneh Ghaffaripour

“…Thirty-nine 4–6-year-old children with an infected primary molar were randomly divided into three equal groups (n = 13) to receive either CH or TAP and an untreated control group. …”
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Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) Know No Geopolitical Borders—An Update of NIS in the Aegean Sea by Argyro Zenetos, Alper Doğan, Ahmet Kerem Bakir, Georgios Chatzigeorgiou, Maria Corsini-Foka, Ertan Dağli, Athanasios Evangelopoulos, Engin Meriç, Maria Stoumboudi, Ergun Taşkin, Mehmet Baki Yokeş, Marika Galanidi

“…Overall, unaided spread of Lessepsian immigrants from the Levantine Sea and shipping are equally responsible for NIS reported at the regional level. …”
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Fault location method for multi-section hybrid lines considers velocity uncertainty by Liwei Xie, Youpeng Wang, Yang Xiao, Xiangjun Zeng, Yan Mo, Zhuo Long

“…The fault location result is equal to the optimal fault distance value of the objective optimal model, so that the negative effects of velocity uncertainty are reduced. …”
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Transportation Mode Selection Using Reinforcement Learning in Simulation of Urban Mobility by Mehmet Bilge Han Taş, Kemal Özkan, İnci Sarıçiçek, Ahmet Yazici

“…Traffic density was increased by using an equal number of different transportation modes, such as driving, cycling, motorbiking, and walking. …”
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A Fractal Analysis of the Size Effect in Quasi-Brittle Materials: Experimental Tests and Peridynamic Simulations by Leandro Ferreira Friedrich, Luis Eduardo Kosteski, Édiblu Silva Cezar, Angélica Bordin Colpo, Caroline Bremm, Giuseppe Lacidogna, Ignacio Iturrioz

“…More precisely, the error of the sum of the fractal exponents, computed with respect to the theoretical one, is equal to −1.20% and −2.10% for the experimental and numerical results, respectively. …”
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Preparation of Ethosome Gel with Total Flavonoids from <i>Vernonia anthelmintica</i> (L.) Willd. for the Treatment of Vitiligo by Dongmei Qin, Yongjie Cui, Mengyue Zheng, Zhiguo Yang, Xinbing Wang

“…The resulting ethosome was then carefully mixed with 0.7% Carbomer 934 gel in equal parts, yielding a gel concentration of 0.302 mg/g. …”
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Preprocessing Approach for Power Transformer Maintenance Data Mining Based on k-Nearest Neighbor Completion and Principal Component Analysis by Moïse Manyol, Samuel Eke, Alphonse J. M. Massoma, Alain Biboum, Ruben Mouangue

“…The dissolved gas data from Rio Tinto Alcan’s transformer T0001 were imputed by KNN, where k equals 5. For 6 imputed gases, the average percentage error is about 2%, 17.5% after average imputation, and 23.65% after multiple imputations. …”
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Boosting Li-Ion Battery Pack Lifespan with Active On-Load Balancing by Salam S. Hussein, Ahmed J. Abid, Adel A. Obed, Ameer L. Saleh, Reheel J. Hassoon

“…Cell balancing is considered essential for equalizing each battery cell to the same state of charge level in a series configuration. …”
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Investigating the amount of macro, meso, and microplastics in the surface soil around the landfill of Tabriz and the effect of the prevailing wind on their distribution by Mohamad Javad Asadi, Mehdi Ghayebzadeh, Seyedeh Maryam Seyed Mousavi, Hassan Taghipour, Hassan Aslani

“…The soil around it is polluted with the average abundance of macro, meso, and MPs equal to 6.5 ± 10.4 item/kg(dw), 15.5 ± 28.3 item/kg(dw), and 470 ± 193 item/kg(dw) respectively. …”
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Spectrum of Cytopathological Causes of Cervical Lymphadenopathy- An Experience at Sahiwal Teaching Hospital by Raees Abbas Lail, Areeba Farooq, Qurrat-ul-Ain Tahir, Sadaf Shafique, Syeda Tooba Fatmi, Abdul Ghaffar

“…The least common cause of cervical lymphadenopathy appeared to be Hodgkin’s lymphoma and malignant cells that appeared in equal ratios. Conclusion: FNAC helped us in determining granulomatous inflammation, most likely Tuberculosis as the most common cause of cervical lymphadenopathy which is consistent with data obtained from most developing countries. …”
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Intravitreal Clindamycin and Dexamethasone Combined with Systemic Oral Antitoxoplasma Therapy versus Intravitreal Therapy Alone in the Management of Toxoplasma Retinochoroiditis: A... by Ashraf Bor’i, Ashraf Mahrous, Mahmoud A. Al-Aswad, Haitham Y. Al-Nashar, Waled M. Nada, Mostafa Wagih, Ahmed M. B. Awad, Wael M. El-Haig

“…Thirty eyes were reviewed. Two equal groups were identified (15 eyes each). Clinical outcome measures were resolution of active inflammation, changes in BCVA and CMT, adverse drug reactions, and rate of recurrence. …”
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Fine design modeling technology and intelligent implementation of through-layer drilling by Pei QIN, Changbao LIAN, Xiyuan LI, Juzheng SUN, Yuanmin LUO

“…The research shows that the use of fine intelligent drilling design can maximize the equal density distribution of the borehole axis in the coal body, and make the drilling project less than the traditional design. …”
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Local Administration of (−)-Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate as a Local Anesthetic Agent Inhibits the Excitability of Rat Nociceptive Primary Sensory Neurons by Syogo Utugi, Risako Chida, Sana Yamaguchi, Yukito Sashide, Mamoru Takeda

“…These findings suggest that the local injection of EGCG into the peripheral receptive field suppresses the responsiveness of nociceptive primary sensory neurons in the TG, almost equal to that of the local anesthetic, 1% lidocaine. …”
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Composites Based on Poly(ortho-toluidine) and WS₂ Sheets for Applications in the Supercapacitor Field by Teodora Burlanescu, Ion Smaranda, Andreea Androne, Cristina Stefania Florica, Madalina Cercel, Mirela Paraschiv, Adelina Udrescu, Adam Lőrinczi, Petru Palade, Andrei Galatanu, Catalin Negrila, Elena Matei, Monica Dinescu, Radu Cercel, Mihaela Baibarac

“…In this work, we demonstrated the following: (a) the ICP method leads to POT/WS₂ composites, which contain repeating units of POT in the leucoemeraldine salt (LS) state, while (b) the ECP method leads to POT/WS₂ composites, which contain repeating units of POT in the emeraldine salt (ES) state. Capacitances equal to 123.5, 465.76, and 751.6 mF cm⁻² in the cases of POT-ES/WS₂ composites, synthesized by SSI, ICP, and ECP, respectively, were reported.…”
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V.N. TATISHCHEV’S BUSINESS LETTERS IN THE GENRE ASPECT (BASED ON THE DOCUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KALMYKIA) by Elena M. Sheptukhina

“…The results of the analysis have enabled the author to determine that business letters provide the addresser with the opportunity to carry out communication in different directions: vertical (with higher or lower addressees) and horizontal (with the addressees who have equal status with the addresser). They perform the informing and regulating functions, thus implementing the corresponding modality, and have a similar structure with a stable set of elements and the order of their sequence in the text. …”
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Non-random mating behaviour between diverging littoral and pelagic three-spined sticklebacks in an invasive population from Upper Lake Constance by Tobias Zeidler, Albert Ros, Samuel Roch, Arne Jacobs, Juergen Geist, Alexander Brinker

“…Both females of the same and different ecotypes were courted with equal vigour. However, there was a significant interaction effect of male and female ecotypes on the level of aggression in females. …”
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Stability Analysis of Partially Submerged Landslide with the Consideration of the Relationship between Porewater Pressure and Seepage Force by Yang Wang, Le Yu, Tianci Yin, Lanbing Yu, Zhitao Huo

“…The resultant of the porewater pressures acting on the underwater slice equals the buoyancy, and that acting on the partially submerged slice is equivalent to the vector sum of seepage force and the buoyancy. …”
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