Effectiveness of relational & personal savoring on mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder by Ng, Valerie Shi Hui

“…Mothers who engaged in personal savoring were significantly more likely to report enhanced positive affect as compared to mothers who engaged in relational savoring. …”
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Hot and round: How temperature and shape impact the multisensory appreciation of cornmeal by Juravle, G, Duca, R, Feghiuș, C, Spence, C

“…Rounded shapes are significantly more liked and are typically also evaluated as warmer and sweeter than angular shapes/foods. …”

Negative cognitions about the self in patients with persecutory delusions: An empirical study of self-compassion, self-stigma, schematic beliefs, self-esteem, fear of madness, and... by Collett, N, Pugh, K, Waite, F, Freeman, D

“…This study shows marked negative self cognitions in patients with persecutory delusions. These are likely to prove targets of clinical interventions, with patient preference most likely determining the best conceptualisation of negative self cognitions for clinicians to use.…”

E-Government 2.0 Engagement Model Based on Social Media Patterns for Supporting Public Service Delivery Transformation (PSDT) Programme (S/O: 13259) by Mohd Nadzir, Maslinda, Othman, Nafishah, Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira

“…The analysis result revealed that most government agencies posts information related to public awareness in their Facebook page while most citizen feedbacks are through the number of ‘likes’ on the posts regarding promotions. However, there is a lack of feedback from the citizens in terms of shared posts. …”
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Notes on Thermodynamics : Hot Oolong Cools / by Kang, Hway Chuan, author 655469, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…The book draws upon the idea of microstates where that clarifies the macroscopic ideas: entropy of mixing of gases is linked to Boltzmann and Gibbs' entropy formulations, thus motivating the formulation of the chemical potential of non-ideal systems in terms of their activities. …”
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Extreme Water Uptake of Hygroscopic Hydrogels through Maximized Swelling‐Induced Salt Loading by Graeber, Gustav, Díaz‐Marín, Carlos D, Gaugler, Leon C, Zhong, Yang, El Fil, Bachir, Liu, Xinyue, Wang, Evelyn N

“…By tuning the salt concentration of the swelling solutions and the cross‐linking properties of the gels, hygroscopic hydrogels with extremely high salt loadings are synthesized, which enable unprecedented water uptakes of 1.79 and 3.86 gg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> at relative humidity (RH) of 30% and 70%, respectively. …”
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Modelling the rheology of living cell cytoplasm: poroviscoelasticity and fluid-to-solid transition by Thekkethil, Namshad, Köry, Jakub, Guo, Ming, Stewart, Peter S., Hill, Nicholas A., Luo, Xiaoyu

“…Experiments indicate that cell cytoplasm can exhibit both elastic and viscous characteristics in different regimes, while the transport of fluid (cytosol) through the cross-linked filamentous scaffold (cytoskeleton) is reminiscent of mass transfer by diffusion through a porous medium. …”
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On Power: How Colombia’s National Oil Company Can Support the Country’s Energy Transition by Beron, David

“…I show how the power supply crisis of 1992 revealed inseparable links between climate, energy, capital, and policy. …”
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Exploring the Internet Celebrity City: Social Media and Urban Space in China by Chen, Yufei

“…The term "Internet celebrity," or wanghong in Chinese, is utilized in modern Chinese media to refer to celebrities and the specific cultural and consumption trends linked to them. This concept has surfaced alongside the growth of e-commerce platforms, with the recognition that wanghong often engages in promoting products, services, or lifestyles to their followers. …”
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Controlling the thermally-driven crystallization of DNA-coated nanoparticles with formamide by Hueckel, Theodore, Woo, Seungyeon, Macfarlane, Robert J

“…While various design handles such as particle size, DNA design, and salt concentration influence the stability of the DNA duplexes linking PAEs in a lattice, their influence on the system's melting temperature (Tm) often follows complicated trends that make rational tuning of self-assembly challenging. …”
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Microfluidic Hanging Droplet as a Programmable Platform for Mammalian Egg Vitrification by Feng, Haidong, Katsikis, Georgios, Napier, India, Du, Gong, Lim, Josh, Doyle, Joseph, Manalis, Scott R, Griffith, Linda G

“…In addition, our platform performs real-time microscopy of the egg thereby enabling future studies where its morphology may be linked to functional outcomes. Our study contributes to the ongoing efforts to enhance the automation of embryology techniques towards broader applications in reproductive medicine both for clinical and research purposes.…”
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Asymmetries in the effects of drivers of brand loyalty between early and late adopters and across technology generations by Lam, Shun Yin, Shankar, Venkatesh

“…We propose a conceptual framework linking mobile device brand loyalty (repurchase intention) to its drivers including perceived value, brand satisfaction, brand attachment and trust, and develop hypotheses about the moderating roles of adopter type and mobile technology generation in some of these linkages. …”
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Grounding referring expressions in images by variational context by Zhang, Hanwang, Niu, Yulei, Chang, Shih-Fu

“…We focus on grounding (i.e., localizing or linking) referring expressions in images, e.g., 'largest elephant standing behind baby elephant'. …”
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Functional analysis of pro-apoptotic activity of hepatitis B virus (HBV) : role of BcL2 homology domain 3 (BH3) in HBV DNA polymerase and HBX by Chen, William Wei Ning.

“…Despite its widely accepted non-cytolytic nature, HBV proteins have been linked to apoptosis. However, little is known about the conditions under which HBV included apoptosis of host hepatocytes following natural infection and whether or how it may counteract apoptosis. …”
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Securing federated learning: a covert communication-based approach by Xie, Yuan-Ai, Kang, Jiawen, Niyato, Dusit, Nguyen, Thi Thanh Van, Nguyen, Cong Luong, Liu, Zhixin, Yu, Han

“…Due to the need for frequent model updates via wireless links, FLNs are vulnerable to various attacks (e.g., eavesdropping attacks, replay attacks, inference attacks, and jamming attacks). …”
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Intelligent reflecting surfaces-assisted hybrid THz/RF system over generalized fading by Premanand, Rithwik, Vishwakarma, Narendra, Singh, Ranjan, Madhukumar, A. S.

“…Specifically, the exact closed-form expressions for the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are derived for both THz and RF links. From this, the outage probability and average symbol error rate (SER) are derived. …”
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Toxoplasma gondii induced shift in decision making and impulsive behaviours in infected male rats (Rattus novergicus) by Tan, Donna

“…Finally, I extend these observations by linking observed behavioural changes to the endocrine environment akin to those observed during Toxoplasma gondii infection. …”
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Kim Young-Gil - The mastermind behind the success of scientific creationism in Korea by Rohininaikar Renganatha

“…He was strategic in his use of the opportunities such as the socio-political conditions that promoted the development of science, the explosive popularity of Christianity, which gave scientific creationism a huge advantage, and through the manipulation of his image and the narrative about the development of the scientific creationism to reiterate possible strengths and remove the weak scientific links that might reduce the credibility of the movement. …”
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Chemical mediation of coral larval settlement by crustose coralline algae by Tebben, J., Motti, C. A, Siboni, Nachshon, Negri, A. P., Harder, T., Steinberg, Peter David, Hatta, Masayuki, Tapiolas, D. M., Schupp, P. J., Kitamura, Makoto

“…While the sources of such cues are well known, the links between their biological activity, chemical identity, presence and quantification in situ are largely missing. …”
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Preparation and characterization of double macromolecular network (DMMN) hydrogels based on hyaluronan and high molecular weight poly(ethylene glycol) by Fan, Changjiang, Zhang, Chao, Liao, Liqiong, Li, Sheng, Gan, Weiping, Zhou, Jinping, Wang, Dong-An, Liu, Lijian

“…In this study, a novel ultra-strong and resilient double macromolecular network (DMMN) hydrogel system has been developed via a two-step sequential cross-linking process using hyaluronan (HA) and high molecular weight poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) for the first and second network, respectively. …”
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