Improving birth preparation with the hypnosis online course “The Peaceful Birth”: a randomized controlled study by Luisa Motz, Rosa Marie Brückner, Barbara Schmidt

“…We randomized pregnant women into a hypnosis and a control group and surveyed them via online questionnaires during their pregnancy and after their birth using standardized questionnaires.MethodsWe included 221 pregnant women and assigned 110 women to a hypnosis and 111 women to a control group. …”
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The Impact of Online Learning System on Students Affected with Stroke Disease by Sobia Wassan, Chen Xi, Tian Shen, Kamal Gulati, Kinza Ibraheem, Rana M. Amir Latif Rajpoot

“…We have used Cronbach’s alpha to test the reliability of a scale, so we then have 19 individual attributes responding to 174 participants via survey. …”
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ChatGPT Versus Modest Large Language Models: An Extensive Study on Benefits and Drawbacks for Conversational Search by Guido Rocchietti, Cosimo Rulli, Franco Maria Nardini, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Raffaele Perego, Ophir Frieder

“…While previous approaches proposed NLP-based custom models, requiring significant engineering effort, our approach is straightforward and conceptually simpler. Not only do we improve effectiveness over the current state-of-the-art, but we also curate the cost and efficiency aspects. …”
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Analyzing HIV/AIDS dynamics with a novel Caputo-Fabrizio fractional order model and optimal control measures. by Azhar Iqbal Kashif Butt, Muhammad Imran, Komal Azeem, Tariq Ismaeel, Brett Allen McKinney

“…In this manuscript, we present a novel mathematical model for understanding the dynamics of HIV/AIDS and analyzing optimal control strategies. …”
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Global Stability for Novel Complicated SIR Epidemic Models with the Nonlinear Recovery Rate and Transfer from Being Infectious to Being Susceptible to Analyze the Transmission of C... by Fehaid Salem Alshammari, F. Talay Akyildiz

“…In this model, we consider the rate at which individuals lose immunity. …”
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Receding Horizon Control of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Using Nonlinear Programming by Hamza Khan, József K. Tar, Imre Rudas, Levente Kovács, György Eigner

“…By utilizing their possibilities we are able to predict the possible future behavior of our system; moreover, we are able to intervene in its operation as well. …”
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Mimetic Gravity: A Review of Recent Developments and Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics by Lorenzo Sebastiani, Sunny Vagnozzi, Ratbay Myrzakulov

“…As a case study within which we apply the concepts previously discussed, we study a mimetic Hořava-like theory, of which we explore solutions and cosmological perturbations in detail. …”
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Why Did I Lose My Seat in the United States Congressional Elections? You Didn‘t Advertise Online Enough! by Milan Školník, Michael Haman, Anna Marie Nešpůrková

“…In this paper, we examine campaign spending on Facebook during the 2020 U.S. congressional elections. …”
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Geometric model for dynamics of motor-driven centrosomal asters by Yuan-Nan Young, Vicente Gomez Herrera, Huan Zhang, Reza Farhadifar, Michael J. Shelley

“…Finally, we study the interactions of multiple asters which we demonstrate an effective mutual repulsion due to their competition for surface force generators. …”
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The N-terminus of the Clostridioides difficile transferase A component directs toxin activity and potency by Robin M. Mullard, Michael J. Sheedlo

“…We thus present a model wherein these interactions prime CDT for entry into host cells. …”
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Block-Graceful Designs by Dilara Erdemir, Emre Kolotoğlu

“…We complete the article with some open problems and conjectures.…”
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Rendre visible les impacts des pesticides du soja : contributions et limites d’un observatoire de science citoyenne à Santarém, Amazonie brésilienne by Emilie Coudel, Stéphanie Nasuti, Danielle Wagner Silva, Marie-Paule Bonnet, Mariana Piva, Beatriz Abreu dos Santos, Ricardo Folhes, Vincent Bonnal, Valéria Fechine, Denise Lima, Carlos José Sousa Passos, Txai Mitt Schwamborn, Ione Nakamura, Gracivane Rodrigues de Moura

“…We conduct a reflection based on a citizen science process we conducted in the region of Santarem, in the Brazilian Amazon, where soybean has been expanding significantly for the past 20 years. …”
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Inflation models with Peccei–Quinn symmetry and axion kinetic misalignment by Hyun Min Lee, Adriana G. Menkara, Myeong-Jung Seong, Jun-Ho Song

“…Abstract We propose a consistent framework with the U(1) Peccei–Quinn (PQ) symmetry for obtaining the initial condition for axion kinetic misalignment from inflation. …”
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The work of Glenn F. Webb by William E. Fitzgibbon

“…``We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."…”
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Influence of a Multiphase Inquiry-based Learning Project on Students' Science Literacy by Crystal Machado, Lizoon Nahar

“…We also describe the influence of the project on student attitudes. …”
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Pretraining Enhanced RNN Transducer by Junyu Lu, Rongzhong Lian, Di Jiang, Yuanfeng Song, Zhiyang Su, Victor Junqiu Wei, Lin Yang

“…Second, we fuse an extra semantic feature from the PLN into the joint network to reduce illogical and homophonic errors. …”
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Adaptive Media Streaming to Mobile Devices: Challenges, Enhancements, and Recommendations by Kristian Evensen, Tomas Kupka, Haakon Riiser, Pengpeng Ni, Ragnhild Eg, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen

“…We first analyze the media traffic from a Norwegian network and media provider. …”
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Identification of novel genes responsible for a pollen killer present in local natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. by Anthony Ricou, Matthieu Simon, Rémi Duflos, Marianne Azzopardi, Fabrice Roux, Françoise Budar, Christine Camilleri

“…In this study, we identified the two other genes of the pollen killer by using CRISPR-Cas9 induced mutants. …”
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Homogenization of Parabolic Equations with an Arbitrary Number of Scales in Both Space and Time by Liselott Flodén, Anders Holmbom, Marianne Olsson Lindberg, Jens Persson

“…We proceed with a weaker version of this concept called very weak multiscale convergence. …”
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Using DNA metabarcoding and direct behavioural observations to identify the diet of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in the Kinabatangan Floodplain, Sabah. by Valentine Thiry, Arthur F Boom, Danica J Stark, Olivier J Hardy, Roseline C Beudels-Jamar, Regine Vercauteren Drubbel, Sylvia Alsisto, Martine Vercauteren, Benoit Goossens

“…In addition, we built a DNA reference database with the local plants available in the LKWS. …”
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