Two-choice discrimination learning in African elephants (Loxodonta africana) by Charles Hyatt

“… A study of two-choice discrimination learning across 22 pattern pairs was conducted with three African elephants (Loxodonta africana) at the Atlanta/Fulton County Zoo with rates of acquisition and retention observed to be similar to those earlier reported for the Asian species (Elephas maximus). …”
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Advance, steadfast, retreat? Growth and establishment of white spruce seedlings at treelines in Alaska by Andreas Burger, Mario Trouillier, Martin Wilmking

“…In contrast, high seedling densities and growth rates at the cold treeline and cold forest indicate favorable conditions for seedling establishment and densification. …”
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Long-Term Multimodal Exercise Intervention for Patients with Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcomes by Miyuki Nemoto, Kiyotaka Nemoto, Hiroyuki Sasai, Shinji Higashi, Miho Ota, Tetsuaki Arai

“…Feasibility was measured using dropout and attendance rates. Cognitive, psychological, physical, and behavioral function tests were conducted before and after the intervention. …”
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Modern methods of studying of human gastro-intestinal microflora by Ye. A. Poluektova, O. S. Lyashenko, O. S. Shifrin, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…From the middle of XX century bacteriological method of investigation based on obtaining of pure culture was widely applied in rating of microflora pattern. However, during the last decade modern methods of diagnostics which allow to investigate structure and functions of microorganisms at a genetic level, even at the presence of single bacterial cell in a sample.Conclusion. …”
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Improved chaotic fruit fly optimization with elman neural network based data-driven approach on product reviews classification by Mohammed Alghamdi, Najla I. Al-shathry, Yahia Said, Hasan Beyari, Shaymaa Sorour, Khalid Nazim Abdul Sattar, Fouad Shoie Alallah, Abdulrhman Alshareef

“…Customer satisfaction is effectively enhanced by performing a Sentiment Analysis (SA) of many customer ratings on E-commerce platforms. Yet, predicting the correct sentiment difference in customer feedback is challenging due to complicated logic, sequence length, and text pattern adjustments. …”
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Video-assisted surgery in the treatment of early corpus uteri cancer by T. M. Kochoyan, D. V. Komov, R. A. Kerimov, S. Yu. Sletina, A. V. Logachev

“…Overall and relapse-free survival rates were comparable in the two groups and did not depend on the technique of surgical intervention.…”
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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of registered childhood tuberculosis cases in the North-Western Region of Russia when introducing a tuberculosis diagnosis complex usin... by I. F. Dovgalyuk, N. V. Korneva, A. A. Starshinova, Yu. E. Ovchinnikova, S. M. Ananyev

“…The paper analyzes changes in the pattern of clinical forms of registered tuberculosis cases, in the proportion of detected complications and phases of the specific process in children in 2007 to 2012. …”
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Dramatic Decoupling Between Population and Construction Land in Rural China by Jiatong Han, Minghong Tan

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Impacts of Skill Centrality on Regional Economic Productivity and Occupational Income by Keith Waters, Shade T. Shutters

“…Here, nodes are represented by individual labor skills, and edge weights are derived from the colocation pattern of skill pairs among 384 US metropolitan statistical areas. …”
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Workbench in the Teaching of Optics to Junior High School by Emerson B. Cuzzamu

“…The descriptive-developmental research design was used in the development of the workbench patterned from the ADDIE model. The content of the workbench was based on the competencies present in the K-12 science curriculum guide. …”
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VIBROACOUSTIC DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF RAIL ON SLEEPERS by Sergey Fedorovich Podust, Denis Alexandrovich Kuklin

“…It permits to specify the noise emission pattern in low and high frequencies of the rated audio band. …”
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Muted Amazon Rainfall Response to Deforestation in a Global Storm‐Resolving Model by Arim Yoon, Cathy Hohenegger

“…These changes also lead to a north‐south dipole pattern in the precipitation response during the dry and wet seasons. …”
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Dynamics of mental state and prolactin levels in patients with chronic schizophrenia during aripiprazole therapy by L. N. Gorobets, I. V. Dorovskikh, A. V. Litvinov, V. S. Bulanov, S. K. Gamdullaev, T. A. Pavlova

“…The effectiveness of therapy does not depend on the background values of the hormone: at high rates, prolactin levels decrease, and at low rates, they increase. …”
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Global directions of change in moral norms: a test of the moral argument theory by Pontus Strimling, Kimmo Eriksson, Irina Vartanova, Joel Krueger, Isabela Hazin

“…We test this theory in a preregistered study of the arguments for both sides of 33 moral issues for which the global directions and rates of norm change were estimated in available longitudinal survey data from 94 societies. …”
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The Use of 3D Convolutional Autoencoder in Fault and Fracture Network Characterization by Feng Xu, Zhiyong Li, Bo Wen, Youhui Huang, Yaojun Wang

“…Conventional pattern recognition methods directly use 1D poststack data or 2D prestack data for the statistical pattern recognition of fault and fracture network, thereby ignoring the spatial structure information in 3D seismic data. …”
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Prevalence of Moraxella Catarrhalis as a Nasal Flora among Healthy Kindergarten Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal by Neetu Amatya, Govinda Paudel, Bhuvan Saud, Sunita Wagle, Vikram Shrestha, Bibhav Adhikari

“…Using bivariate and multivariate analysis, the associated risk factors with significantly high carriage rates were age group of 3–4 years, classroom occupancy with 15–30 children, and antibiotic consumption within 6 months, with a p value of ≤0.05 in each of the cases. …”
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Post-marketing safety concerns with dolutegravir: a pharmacovigilance study based on the FDA adverse event reporting system database by Juan Su, Long He, Menglei Wang

“…Notably, subgroup analyses revealed that progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 9) in males, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 6) and deafness neurosensory (n = 3) in the 18–45 age group, and hepatic necrosis (n = 4) in the 46–65 age group were rated as high clinical priority. The overall onset time for all AEs exhibited an early failure pattern, with a median onset time of 74 days (IQR 19–310.5), whereas the median onset time for designated medical events (DMEs) was 59 days (IQR 12–186).ConclusionThe long-term safety of DTG requires reassessing its risk-benefit ratio. …”
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Associated Determinants of Surface Urban Heat Islands across 1449 Cities in China by Yuanzheng Li, Lan Wang, Min Liu, Guosong Zhao, Tian He, Qizheng Mao

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Voters’ Attributions of Psychopathic Traits to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2020 Trump Impeachment Trial by Paul E. Jose, Ira J. Roseman, Anna Geiserman, Taylor Winter, Boris Bizumic

“…The sample, 159 Trump voters and 154 Clinton voters, rated their own authoritarian beliefs and their perceptions of psychopathic tendencies in both candidates, and reported their vote. …”
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Enhancing Sensitivity across Scales with Highly Sensitive Hall Effect‐Based Auxetic Tactile Sensors by Youngheon Yun, Dongchan Lee, Soyeon Lee, Salvador Pané, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Sungwoo Chun, Bumjin Jang

“…HEATS exhibits a remarkable 20‐fold and 10‐fold improvement at tensile rates of 0.9% and 30%, respectively, compared to non‐auxetic sensors. …”
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