Fundamental movement skills (FMSs) are essential building blocks for children’s physical development and future participation in physical activities. While early childhood curriculum frameworks recognize the importance of teaching FMSs, little...
20 June 2019
This study examined the associations of interpersonal conflict and school connectedness with depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 6576 adolescents in Shenzhen, China. Participants completed a battery...
This paper presents a hybrid level set method (HLSM) to design novelty functionally graded structures (FGSs) with complex macroscopic graded patterns. The hybrid level set function (HLSF) is constructed to parametrically model the macro unit cells by...
The technical research on determining the drought limit water level can be used as an important basis for starting the emergency response of drought resistance in the basin and guiding the drought resistance scheduling of water conservancy projects....
HER2 overexpression is a prognostic and predictive factor observed in about 15% to 20% of breast cancer cases. The assessment of its expression directly affects the selection of treatment and prognosis. The measurement of HER2 status is performed by...
5 August 2020
School-based child nutrition programs provide students with meals and snacks that align with guidelines for a healthy eating pattern. However, participation is not universal, and research on the determinants of food selection is needed to improve sch...
Background: Large language models are increasingly used for rubric-based grading, but it remains unclear whether they adapt selectively when criterion weights change while the response, criterion definitions, and total score remain fixed. This study...
This study examined the aesthetic developmental characteristics of contour features (curved and sharp corners) among children and adolescents with different levels (high and low) of visual aesthetic sensitivity in three grades (4, 6, and 8). The resu...
Objectives: The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationships among physical activity, academic stress, and motivation in Physical Education, as well as to determine differences according to sex and grade level. Methods: A total of 310 se...
10 September 2024
We investigated associations between polysubstance use and behavioral problems among adolescents. Because substance use becomes more developmentally normative with age, we examined whether polysubstance use was less likely to co-occur with behavioral...
The rapidly changing dynamics of the digital age reshape the addiction relationship that high school students establish with technology. While smartphones remove boundaries in terms of communication and access to information, their usage triggers a s...
Low-grade roads have complex features such as geometry, reflection spectrum, and spatial topology in remotely sensing optical images due to the different materials of those roads and also because they are easily obscured by vegetation or buildings, w...
31 May 2021
The global COVID-19 pandemic is creating challenges to manage staff ratios in clinical units. Nurse staffing level is an important indicator of the quality of care. This study aimed to identify any changes in the nurse staffing levels in the general...
16 July 2021
Little is known about the longitudinal trajectories and associations regarding physical activity (PA), physical fitness (PF), and cognitive skills in childhood. Accelerometer-based PA, sedentary behavior (SB), PF, and cognitive skills were measured i...
The increasing demand for efficient, sustainable, and coordinated construction practices has intensified interest in the integration of digital tools such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) with modularization and standardization strategies. Thi...
In order to realize the non-contact measurement of ceramic insulator contamination severity, a method based on feature level fusion of infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) image information is proposed in this paper. IR and UV images of artificially po...
20 June 2024
School-related stress and burnout can have serious consequences for students’ well-being and academic outcomes. However, there are few studies that assess the prevalence of school burnout, especially in Germany. The present study aims to determ...
Graded-interfaces modeling unveils key features of high-power, high-efficiency quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs): direct resonant-tunneling injection from a prior-stage, low-energy state into the upper-laser (ul) level, over a wide (~50 nm) multiple-barr...
I define information from a philosophical perspective as a category that indicates the presence of indirect existence, which is a self-display by material entities (with direct existence) of the status and trajectory of that existence. In this paper,...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of biofeedback therapy on evacuation difficulty level and the pain grade during defecation of elderly female patients with dyssynergic defecation. With this aim, after one month of initial assessme...
20 February 2023
Character strengths and training have a great impact on students’ whole-person development. This study examined the applicability of the Chinese virtues questionnaire (CVQ) and the relationships between students’ perceptions of virtues an...
Background: S3-level clinical practice guidelines represent the highest standard of evidence-based healthcare, integrating systematic reviews, formal evidence grading, and structured expert consensus. In periodontology, current S3-level guidelines pr...
Highway–rail grade crossing (HRGC) safety analysis is often based on raw incident counts or site-level models that do not adequately control for regional crossing-density exposure and frequently ignore spatial dependence. This limits the abilit...
This study identified the relational paths between children’s ego function and fear of negative evaluation affecting academic failure tolerance across three grades. The ego function consisted of four factors: competence, initiative, resilience,...
Low-grade chronic inflammation linked to obesity can lead to alterations in biomarkers of iron status. The aim of this study was to investigate the primary determinant of serum iron levels among anthropometric measurements, body fat, and serum biomar...
This study used a Cross-Lagged Panel Network model to examine prospective longitudinal associations among dimensions of adolescent mental health and differences in these associations across gender and grade levels. A total of 3610 Chinese adolescents...
Paraffin odor intensity is an important quality indicator when a paraffin inspection is performed. Currently, paraffin odor level assessment is mainly dependent on an artificial sensory evaluation. In this paper, we developed a paraffin odor analysis...
Rapid technological innovation and digitalization have intensified the demand for STEM-related skills, yet many educational systems face stagnant or declining student engagement in STEM, particularly in the later years of secondary education. This st...
In recent years, the functionally graded materials (FGM) with cellular structure have become a hot spot in the field of materials research. For the continuously varying cellular structure in the layer-wise FGM, the connection of gradient cellular str...
During medical school, students in Germany acquire knowledge, abilities, competencies, and skills in social medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate how human medicine students perceive the relevance of selected social medical issues and th...
Although several biomarkers have been identified to predict the prognosis of lower-grade (Grade II/III) gliomas (LGGs), we still need to identify new markers to facilitate those well-known markers to obtain more accurate prognosis prediction in LGGs....
The intensity of the odor in food-grade paraffin waxes is a pivotal quality characteristic, with odor panel ratings currently serving as the primary criterion for its assessment. This study presents an innovative method for assessing odor intensity i...
Objective: To investigate the association between pelvic incidence (PI) and fixation failure following single-level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) for low-grade spondylolisthesis and to identify risk factors for pedicle screw loosening...
Background/Objectives: The increased accessibility of information has resulted in a rise in patients trying to self-diagnose and opting for self-medication, either as a primary treatment or as a supplement to medical care. Our objective was to evalua...
The normal operation of the Yulangpei tailings reservoir is affected by landslide stability. In this paper, taking the main and side slopes near the dam bank of the Yulangpei ditch as an example, the water–soil coupling theory is applied to com...
Internal short-circuit (ISC) faults are a common cause of thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which greatly endangers the safety of LIBs. Different LIBs have common features related to ISC faults. Due to the insufficient volume of acquir...
Background: Cervical dysplasia is a pre-malignant condition of the uterine cervix and is highly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa; especially affecting HIV-infected Black women. The anti-dysplastic effect of vitamin D hormones in cervical dysplasia is...
Early-warning systems based on Learning Management System (LMS) traces are commonly evaluated using random or unseen-student splits, even when deployment requires predictions in courses that were absent during model development. In this study, we dis...
Background: Preoperative, noninvasive prediction of meningioma grade is important for therapeutic planning and decision making. In this study, we propose a dual-level augmentation strategy incorporating image-level augmentation (IA) and feature-level...
This study validates and adapts the Grade Retention Survey for Chilean fourth-grade school teachers, focusing on their beliefs about the consequences of grade retention. A questionnaire of 17 items was administered to 4297 fourth-grade elementary sch...
We aimed to clarify the impact of the serum zinc (Zn) level grading system proposed by the Japanese society of clinical nutrition (JSCN: 80 μg/dL ≤ serum Zn level < 130 μg/dL (type A), 60 μg/dL ≤ serum Zn level < 80 μg/dL (typ...
A non-pulse-leakage optical fiber pumped 100-kHz level high beam quality Nd:YVO4 picosecond amplifier has been developed. An 80 MHz, 11.5 ps mode-locked picosecond laser is used as the seed with single pulse energy of 1 nJ. By harnessing the double β...
The presence of circulating Hsp70 levels and their influence on the immunophenotype of circulating lymphocyte subsets were examined as diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers for the overall survival (OS) in patients with IDH-mutant WHO grade 3 oligodendrog...
Low-cost dual-frequency receivers and antennas have created opportunities for a wide range of new applications, in regions and disciplines where traditional GNSS equipment is unaffordable. However, the major drawback of using low-cost antenna equipme...
Background: UFMylation is an evolutionarily conserved ubiquitin-like modification catalyzed by an enzymatic cascade comprising UBA5 (E1), UFC1 (E2), and UFL1 (E3). UFL1 acquires catalytic activity only upon assembly with DDRGK1 and CDK5RAP3 into a te...
The prognostic value of copeptin in subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has been reported, but the prognosis was largely affected by the initial clinical severity. Thus, the previous studies are not very useful in predicting delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI)...
Objective: Studies on low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSC) are limited by a low number of cases. The aim of this study was to define the prognostic significance of age, stage, and CA-125 levels on survival in a multi-institutional cohort of women w...
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is a leading cause of mortality from gynecologic malignancies worldwide. Although a transformative improvement has been shown with the introduction of PARP (poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase) inhibitors, the emergen...
Background: Hypertensive retinopathy (HR) is an early marker of hypertension-related end-organ damage, and multi-grade classification is limited by overlap between the early stages. No prior study has reported edge-deployable HR grading from optical...
Gliomas are the most common and lethal forms of malignant brain tumors. We attempted to identify the role of the aging-suppressor Klotho gene and Klotho protein in the immunopathogenesis of gliomas. We examined Klotho genetic variants by PCR-RFLP and...
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