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Self-restraint, characterized by self-initiated restriction of movement (e.g., intertwining limbs, sitting on hands), is most commonly observed in individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions who also engage in self-injurious behavior (SIB). These...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to change their lifestyles, especially with respect to restrictions on going out. Forced quarantine (i.e., lockdown) and self-restraint behavior (SRB), including self-quarantine, are suggested to in...

This case study explores the use of multiple pre-treatment assessments (functional analysis, reinforcer assessment, alternative self-restraint assessment, modified augmented competing stimulus assessment) to inform a comprehensive treatment package f...

The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives of people all over the world. The perception of risk and people’s consequent behaviour during a pandemic are very complex and are affected by multiple cultural and psychological factors. The aim of this...

A missing test methodology that allows for the determination of delayed cracking susceptibility of laser welds of high-strength sheet steel is presented. Unlike other cold crack testing methods, this test is based on a self-restraint testing of speci...

Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is widely used in reinforced concrete structures, yet its residual structural behaviour after fire exposure remains insufficiently understood, particularly under the combined effects of mixture composition, heating rate...

More and more people talk about so-called Daoist ecological thought. Actually, Daoism does not have a ready-made ecological thought. However, it indeed can act as a vital theoretical resource for constructing such thought. In this article, I will arg...

Background/Objectives: Eating-related difficulties in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may reflect different behavioural and psychological processes, including emotional responses to illness-related stress, habitual overeating, attempts to control...

Background: Body positivity is a social movement aimed at promoting acceptance and appreciation of diverse body types. Despite its growing popularity, its relationship with eating behaviors and body mass index (BMI) remains unclear. This study aimed...

The application of self-compacting concrete in massive structures is still low due to the perceived high cracking tendency associated with high shrinkage and heat of cement hydration. This conclusion is from short-term research work of up to 3 months...

The end conditions of columns constitute an important design parameter as they change their stiffness. The degree of restraint of the column modifies its fundamental frequency and mode of vibration. The rotational stiffness at its ends may transform...

This paper argues that aggression, while often conflated with violence and harm, is a virtue in sports. We distinguish aggression from violence and assertiveness, exploring its positive moral value within rule-governed contexts. We examine the permis...

People’s attachment to the plant world makes a great contribution to the maintenance of psychological well-being. At the same time, little is known regarding the contribution of attitudes to plants to people’s morality; the current study...

This article examines Catholic celibacy from the late Ming to early Qing dynasty, revealing how Jesuit missionaries and Chinese Catholics interpreted and advocated for chastity. It highlights how missionaries such as Matteo Ricci and Giulio Aleni con...

Effortful control (EC) is a dimension of temperament that encompass individual differences in self-regulation and the control of reactivity. Much research suggests that EC has a strong foundation on the development of executive attention, but increas...

Susceptibility to weld solidification cracking in transformation-induced plasticity steel sheets was studied using a modified standard hot cracking test used in the automotive industry. To vary the amount of self-restraint, bead-on-plate laser weldin...

This article centers on the relationship of rules (nīti) to the monastic form of life of contemporary Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka. A genealogy of scholarship focusing on the rules of Buddhist monks and nuns has led scholars to affirm a clear-cut disti...

This article reexamines Paul’s use of athletic imagery in 1 Corinthians 9:24–27 within the broader argument of chapters 8–10. Against readings that treat the passage as a call to individual moral striving or competition for salvatio...

This paper reports on the effect of a TiN spray coating on aluminum to improve laser welding issues such as cracking susceptibility and laser absorption. A self-restraint hot cracking test and bead on plate test were employed to compare the laser wel...

How to prevent the cracking of tunnel lining concrete under a high-temperature and low-humidity environment has gradually become a challenge faced by the engineering community. Actually, the concrete structure will be restrained, which easily leads t...

Despite loose restrictions and a low mortality rate due to COVID-19, Japan faced the challenge of stabilizing its economy during the pandemic. Here, we analyzed how the Japanese government attempted to maintain a balance between the health of the pop...

Shenzhen is a city that is highly representative of China’s rapid urbanization process. As the city rapidly expands, there are enormous challenges to the sustainable use of land resources. This paper introduces the evolution of urban land expansion a...

Background/Objectives: Executive functioning (EF) and prospective memory (PM) difficulties have been documented in adults with developmental dyslexia. However, research has tended to focus on university students with a formal diagnosis, overlooking a...

Empirical studies on small business survival and exits focus on endogenous firms and top manager characteristics, whereas few studies consider exogenous demand shocks and local consumer awareness and behavior, which are especially important for local...

The aim of the present study was to describe and compare the specific profiles of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) through the Hybrid Model of Executive Functioning (HMEF). The total sample of 1049 su...

This study focuses on exploring the differences in driving abilities in emergency traffic situations between older drivers (aged 60–70) and young drivers (aged 20–35) in a simple traffic environment. Two typical emergency scenarios were d...

Oscillating laser beam welding for Al 6014 alloy was performed using a single mode fiber laser and two-axis scanner system. Its effect on the microstructural evolution of the fusion zone was investigated. To evaluate the influence of oscillation para...

Modern arc processes, such as the modified spray arc (Mod. SA), have been developed for gas metal arc welding of high-strength structural steels with which even narrow weld seams can be welded. High-strength joints are subjected to increasingly strin...

This study aims to investigate the effects on the hot cracking susceptibility of fluoride powders such as CaF₂, NaF, LiF, and metal powders such as Mn, Ti, Nb and mixed Ti-Nb deposited on the 316L stainless steel during the TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) w...

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a global pandemic, which is not only a severe public health issue but also significantly impacts the physical activity, sleep habits, and mental health of university students. Thus, we examined the association betwee...

Due to the rapid growth in residential energy consumption, there is an urgent need to reduce carbon emissions from the consumer side, which requires improvements in the carbon capability of urban residents. In this study, previous investigations of c...

Background: In the context of social marketing, the effectiveness of prevention messages is a major issue. The main objective of the present study was to assess the effect of prevention messages framing on self-efficacy reinforcement in order to impr...

Background: Anglers are a large social group with access to a “relatively safe” form of recreation, that allows the opportunity to relieve stress. An important question, however, is how they did so, and to what extent their perceived COVID-19 transit...

Liturgical practice and its theological interpretation are not only very important to the Chinese inculturation of Catholicism in particular and Christianity in general but also of great significance in the establishment of an indigenized Christian f...

Obesity interventions typically involve some form of dietary restraint (i.e., intentional limiting of food intake), yet the restraint model of binge eating proposes that engaging in dietary restraint is a causal factor for binge eating symptoms. Evid...

To clarify the effects of restraint conditions on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Gigapascal-grade deposited metal, this study conducted a self-designed weld restraint test using a flux-cored wire designed for Gigapascal-grade deposit...

Background: The use of physical restraints in hospital settings remains a controversial practice due to its ethical, legal, and safety implications. Although restraints are intended to prevent falls or manage agitation, their inappropriate use may co...

From the viewpoint of mechanics, weld cracking tends to occur if the induced tensile stress surpasses a certain value for the particular materials and the welding processes. Welding residual stresses (WRS) can be profoundly affected by the restraint...

Shrinkage restraint in an ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) overlay is commonly quantified by comparing restrained and free-shrinkage strains. However, a local restraint index may not represent the mean axial response of the overlay. This study...

In computer science, and especially in computer vision, the contour of an object is used to describe its features; thus, the shape descriptor plays an indispensable role in target detection and recognition. Further, Fourier is an important mathematic...

Nursing home quality indicators are often used to publicly report the quality of nursing home care. In Switzerland, six national nursing home quality indicators covering four clinical domains (polypharmacy, pain, use of physical restraints and weight...

The overall objective of the current study was to investigate the behaviours and knowledge of parents/carers in relation to safe child occupant travel in the Emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A community survey was completed by 786...

Self-esteem, body image and eating attitudes are important characteristics regarding adolescent mental health. In our present work, we aimed to investigate these psychological items in adolescent boys and girls examining gender differences and correl...

Background: Restrictive dieting is a common behavior among young adults and may be associated with increased vulnerability to disordered eating. University students represent a population potentially exposed to multiple influences affecting eating be...

In self-driving vehicles, passengers can set their seats in an unconventional seating position, such as rear-facing. Sitting in such an orientation can increase the risk of whiplash in the head-and-neck system in a frontal impact, as frontal crashes...

Cracking due to temperature and restraint in mass concrete is an important issue. A temperature stress testing machine (TSTM) is an effective test method to study the mechanism of temperature cracking. A synchronous closed loop federated control TSTM...

In this study, for triaxial compression testing in geotechnical engineering, large-scale triaxial shear tests of coarse-grained soil were performed under end-restraint and end-free (microfriction) conditions utilizing a large-scale triaxial shear app...

(1) Background: Physical restraint in psychiatric settings must be determined by health care professionals for ensuring their patients’ safety. However, when a patient cannot participate in the process of deciding what occurs in their own body, can t...

Children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit uncontrollable disruptive behaviour during transfer to the operating room and operating table and at the induction of anaesthesia (sleep). This process often involves the physical restraini...

There is individual variability in weight change in response to physical activity interventions. Secondary analyses explored whether there were differences in physical activity, dietary intake, and the domains of hunger, dietary disinhibition, or die...