Electrochemical Impedance as an Assessment Tool for the Investigation of the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Graphene-Based Cementitious Nanocomposites by Eirini Tziviloglou, Zoi S. Metaxa, George Maistros, Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Dionysios S. Karousos, Evangelos P. Favvas, Nikolaos D. Alexopoulos

“…EIS was employed to study cement mixtures with varying graphene nanoplatelet (xGnP) concentrations (0.05–0.40% per dry cement weight), whereas flexural tests assessed fracture toughness and porosimetry analyses investigated the structural characteristics. …”
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Läs- och kunskapsutveckling hos elever som fått tvåspråkig undervisning på svenska och arabiska by Anna-Lena Tvingstedt, Eva-Kristina Salameh

“…In addition the pupils’ results on the mandatory national tests assessing goal attainment in primary school years 3 and 5 are presented and compared to the results of Arabic speaking and other multilingual pupils at the same schools, who did not receive bilingual instruction. …”
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Optic neuritis as an early sign of multiple sclerosis by Kale N

“…When a patient presents with an initial episode of ON, patients should undergo further tests. Assessing the patient with routine blood work, magnetic resonance imaging, cerebrospinal fluid tests, and visual evoked potentials provide further insight. …”
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A novel cytofluorometric assay for the detection and quantification of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency by Shah, S, Diakite, SA, Traore, K, Diakite, M, Kwiatkowski, D, Rockett, K, Wellems, T, Fairhurst, R

“…We describe here a simple, novel cytofluorometric method that extends the classic methemoglobin reduction test, assessing G6PD deficiency at the level of an individual erythrocyte. …”

Feasibility of return to sports assessment 6 months after patellar instability surgery by Trine Hysing-Dahl, L. H Magnussen, A. G. H. Faleide, E. Inderhaug

“…The purpose of this study was therefore to explore the feasibility of functional tests assessing readiness for return-to-sport six months after patellar stabilizing surgery. …”
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Understanding Novel Metaphors: A Milestone in the Developmental Trajectory of Children with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum? by Sergio Melogno, Maria Antonietta Pinto, Chiara Pollice, Fausto Badolato, Guido Trasimeni, Pasquale Parisi

“…The child’s performance was compared to typically developing (TD) controls on a test assessing novel metaphor comprehension for preschoolers. …”
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Color-Patterns to Architecture Conversion through Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks by Diego Navarro-Mateu, Oriol Carrasco, Pedro Cortes Nieves

“…A series of scaled tests are performed to check the feasibility of the hypothesis. A second test assesses the flexibility of the trained neural networks against cases outside the database.…”
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The effect of explicit instruction on the acquisition of subject-verb inversion by Macedonian learners of English by Natasha Stojanovska-Ilievska

“…The pre-test and post-test assessed the accuracy of a series of sentences, while the instruction involved contrastive analysis of examples in Macedonian and English, eliciting differences between the two languages. …”
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Mental capacity to consent to treatment in anorexia nervosa: explorative study by Isis F.F.M. Elzakkers, Unna N. Danner, Hans W. Hoek, Annemarie A van Elburg

“…Further measurements included the MacCAT-T (to assess mental capacity status), a range of clinical measures (body mass index (BMI) and comorbidity) and neuropsychological tests assessing decision-making, central coherence and set-shifting capacity.ResultsDiminished mental capacity occurs in a third of patients with severe anorexia nervosa and is associated with a low BMI, less appreciation of illness and treatment, previous treatment for anorexia nervosa, low social functioning and poor set shifting.ConclusionsAssessment of diminished mental capacity in anorexia nervosa requires careful evaluation of not only BMI, but also the degree of appreciation of illness and treatment, history and the tendency to have a rigid thinking style.…”
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Evaluation of five screening tests licensed in Argentina for detection of hepatitis C virus antibodies by Viviana Ré, Sandra Gallego, Elena Treviño, Gabriela Barbás, Claudia Domínguez, Osvaldo Elbarcha, Héctor Bepre, Marta Contigiani

“…The results obtained showed high discrepancy between the different kits used and show that some of the tests assessed have a low sensitivity for anti-HCV detection in both chronic infections and early seroconversion, and indicate that among the commercially available kits in Argentina, Murex HCV 4.0 (UK) and Serodia-HCV particles agglutination test (Japan) have the best sensitivity for HCV screening. …”
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ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN IN NURSERY by Norazly Nordin, Muhammad Safar Abdurahman, Afina Nazira Afnizul

“…Assessment is often conducted by professional educators in collaboration with parents through regular observation and several standardized tests. Assessment is very significant to identify the strengths and weaknesses to support and provided interventions needed by the child to elevate their development. …”
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Exploring assessment across cultures: Teachers’ approaches to assessment in the U.S., China, and Canada by Christopher DeLuca, Nathan Rickey, Andrew Coombs

“…Classroom assessment dynamics are shaped by individual and local understandings of assessment (assessment micro-cultures), as well as common assessment beliefs and practices that stem from system-wide features, such as large-scale testing (assessment macro-cultures). Teachers’ approaches to assessment reveal how they navigate assessment micro- and macro-cultures to support student learning and achievement. …”
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The Burden and Quality of life of Caregivers of Stroke Survivors with Cognitive Impairment in Selected Healthcare Facilities in Anambra State, Nigeria by Uchenna Prosper Okonkwo PhD (PT), Chukwuebuka Fortune Agbo BMR (PT), Sam Chidi Ibeneme PhD (PT), Emeka Sylvester Igwe PhD (PT), Christopher Olusanjo Akosile PhD, Ifeoma Uchenna Onwuakagba Msc (PT), Emmanuel Chiebuka Okoye PhD (PT), Stanley Monday Maduagwu PhD, Elochukwu Fortune Ezenwankwo Msc(Med), Echezona Nelson Ekechukwu PhD (PT)

“…Spearman’s ranked order correlation; Mann–Whitney U test assessed the correlation and gender and age difference in QoL and caregiver’s burden. …”
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THE MICROPRUDENTIAL STRESS TESTING FOR BANKING SYSTEM. A STUDY CASE ON ALGERIAN PRIVATE BANK, USING ACCOUNTING APPROACH by Mehdi BOUCHETARA, Sidi EYIH, Hinde HADJ SLIMANE KHEROUA

“…Microeconomic stress tests assess the credit risk of a bank's loan portfolio by bottom-up accounting approach, applying eleven pessimistic and plausible multi-variable scenarios with potential risks. …”
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Implementation of the Healthy Community Movement (GERMAS) through the ownership of sanitary toilets by Yuzuar Afrizal, Muria Herlina

“…Initially, the goal was to build two sanitary toilets, but this was expanded to four through cost-effective communal labor. Pre-and post-test assessments showed a substantial increase in residents' knowledge of healthy behaviors and the Healthy Living Community Movement in Indonesia known as Gerakan Masyarat Hidup Sehat (GERMAS) principles, from 32% before the intervention to 89% afterward. …”
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A physically consistent AI-based SPH emulator for computational fluid dynamics by Amato Eleonora, Zago Vito, Del Negro Ciro

“…We examine the physical significance of the emulator, presenting its applications in benchmark tests, assessing its faithfulness to traditional SPH simulations, and highlighting its ability to generalize and simulate test cases with varying levels of complexity beyond its training data.…”
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Enterprise risk management and cost of debt: the moderating role of crisis by Wulan Rahmawati, Sylvia Veronica Siregar, Elvia R. Shauki, Viska Anggraita

“…These results are robust when sub-sample tests, assessment with alternative ERM measurements, and sensitivity test using the generalized method of moments (GMM) are performed. …”
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Visual consequent stimulus complexity affects performance in audiovisual associative learning by Kálmán Tót, Gabriella Eördegh, Ádám Kiss, András Kelemen, Gábor Braunitzer, Szabolcs Kéri, Balázs Bodosi, Attila Nagy

“…The aim was to test how the complexity of the applied consequent stimuli influences performance regarding the various aspects of learning the tests assess (stimulus pair learning, retrieval, and generalization of the previously learned associations to new but predictable stimulus pairs). …”
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The Effect of Differences in the General Proficiency of Iranian EFL Students on their Metaphorical Competence by Zahra Rezaei, Aliakbar Jafarpour

“…Afterwards, the students were administered a researcher-made test assessing their metaphorical competence. The test consisted of ten concepts with each concept containing metaphors together with their Persian equivalents written in English. …”
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Incidence and predictive factors of radiation‐induced hypothyroidism in breast cancer patients who receive supraclavicular lymph nodes irradiation: A prospective study by Monika Youssef, Caroline Elmaraghi, Tarek Kamel, Mahmoud El‐Leithy, Khaled Abdelhakim

“…Conclusion Routine thyroid function tests assessment is recommended for all breast cancer patients at baseline and after radiotherapy.…”
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