The efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy in treating selective mutism in young children aged 4 to 10 years old: a qualitative systematic review by Ng, Benjamin Zeming, Atikah Binte Hassan, Dun, Yawen

“…The present systematic review evaluates the quality of evidence of empirical studies about the efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and combination therapy (psychopharmacotherapy) in the treatment of selective mutism in young children aged 4–10 years old. Of the 223 studies returned in a systematic review of the literature from a ten-year period from 2012 to 2022, only fifteen studies matched the selection criteria for the qualitative synthesis. …”
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Trajectories of interferon-gamma release assay results over two years in independent cohorts from China, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States by Chen, C, Xue, H, Horsburgh, CR, Amour, M, Hatherill, M, Tameris, M, von Reyn, CF, Rees, C, Shen, Y, McShane, H, García-Basteiro, AL, Liu, D, Wang, Y, Nathavitharana, RR, Graviss, EA, Shao, Y, Liu, Q, Lu, W, Zhu, L, Martinez, L

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> 26,596 IGRA measurements were taken over 13,593 years of follow-up (Nparticipants=7,683). Stringent reversion at year 2 after stringent conversion at year 1 varied between cohorts, occurring in 48% (43/90) for WANTAI, 37% (22/59) for QuantiFERON, and 17% (2/12) for T-SPOT.TB, respectively. …”

Robust generation of neutralising antibodies against Omicron variants following bivalent mRNA booster vaccine in elderly people aged >80 years by Parry, H, Bruton, R, Uwenedi, G, Roberts, T, Sylla, P, Cook, J, Elzaidi, A, Lau, M, Drury, T, Bray, A, Mallick, S, Spencer, K, Bentley, C, McIlroy, G, Scott, S, Logan, N, Zuo, J, Willett, B, Moss, P

Inter-relationship between ageing, body mass index, diabetes, systemic blood pressure and intraocular pressure in Asians : 6-year longitudinal study by Chua, Jacqueline, Chee, Miao Li, Chin, Calvin Woon Loong, Tham, Yih Chung, Tan, Nicholas, Lim, Sing Hui, Aung, Tin, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien Yin, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…Methods: Participants aged 40–80 years were recruited for baseline and 6-year follow-up visits between 2004–2009 and 2010–2015, respectively. …”
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The association between hip morphology parameters and 19-year risk of end-stage osteoarthritis of the hip in caucasian females: a case-control study by Nicholls, AS

“…Pelvis radiographs taken at study-year two were analyzed for variations in hip morphology using the software. …”

The association between learning style, academic performance, and participation in co-curricular activities among second-year medical students in Universiti Putra Malaysia by Azmah Sa’at, Suryati Mohd. Thani, Nizar Abd. Manan

“…This study explores how learning preferences impact academic performance and participation in extracurricular activities among second-year medical students at Universiti Putra Malaysia. …”
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Recent 10-year development on surface modification of polymeric hollow fiber membranes via surface coating approach for gas separation: a review by Roslan, Rosyiela Azwa, Lau, Woei Jye, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Sutrasno Kartohardjono, Sutrasno Kartohardjono

Influences of East Asian winter monsoon and El Niño-southern oscillation variability on the Kuroshio intrusion to the South China Sea over the past 60 years by Lin, Ke, Han, Tao, Zhang, Yilin, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Lee, Shih-Yu, Wang, Jingyu, Mohtar, Ahmad T., Huang, Kuo-Fang, Chiang, Hong-Wei, Chen, Yue-Gau, Wang, Xianfeng

“…Here, we present a 60-year bi-monthly resolved coral oxygen isotope (δ18Oc) record from Dongsha Atoll, the northern SCS. …”
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As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow / by Katouh, Zoulfa, 1994-, author 656134, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

Subjects: “…Fear…”
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Social capital, fear of victimisation, prior victimisation : attitudes towards restorative justice in Singapore by Lee, Shu Min

“…This study draws on 289 Singaporean respondents to examine if three factors: social capital, fear of victimisation and prior victimisation, can affect attitudes toward restorative justice. …”
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Beam studies using a Cherenkov diffraction based beam position monitor for AWAKE by Spear, B, Burrows, PN, Pakuza, C, Senes, E, Mazzoni, S, Lefevre, T, Wendt, M

“…These ChDR BPMs have undergone renewed testing under a variety of beam conditions with proton and electron bunches in the AWAKE common beamline, at 3 different frequency ranges between 20-110 GHz to quantify the effectiveness of discriminating the electron beam position with and without proton bunches present. …”

Fear of mating out (FOMO): voyeurism does not increase mating propensity in fruit flies by Vega-Trejo, R, Sanghvi, K, Todorova, B, Sepil, I, Bath, E

The System Architecture-Function-Outcome Framework for Fostering and Assessing Systems Thinking in First-Year STEM Education and Its Potential Applications in Case-Based Learning by Lavi, Rea, Bertel, Lykke Brogaard

“…However, viable methods for teaching and assessing systems thinking with active learning across STEM disciplines, particularly in first-year undergraduate education, are still under-researched. …”
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A community-based intervention (the Omama Project) improves neurodevelopment in impoverished 2-year-old Roma children: a quasi-experimental observational study by Fernandes, M, Matuskova, O, Babelova, R, Santosa, WB, Shaw, O, Hrica, P

“…Interventions targeting early child development (ECD) during the first 2 years of life can improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in vulnerable children; however, evidence from Roma preschoolers is scarce. …”

A Self-Polymerizing Mesh of Nano-Tethers for the Mechanical Constraint of Degraded Intervertebral Discs—A Review of 25 Years of Pre-Clinical and Early Clinical Research by Hedman, Thomas, Rogers, Adam, Beall, Douglas

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Effect of pH on the preparation of poly-L-lysine-stabilized calcium alginate beads for immobilization of aminoacylase by Lee, Kong H., Lee, Pat M.

“…The preparations of calcium alginate beads stabilized with poly-L-lysine and encapsulating aminoacylase were conducted at different pH conditions. …”
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The influence of the dynamic change of fear: how gender-specific messages affect anti-smoking intentions by Gu, Rui

“…The drive model, one of the earliest attempts to reveal the mechanisms and effects of fear appeals, inspires the idea that fear should rise and fall to successfully predict persuasion. …”
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Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2024, Director, MIT - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering by Follows, Michael J

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Incorporating Synthetic Accessibility in Drug Design: Predicting Reaction Yields of Suzuki Cross-Couplings by Leveraging AbbVie’s 15-Year Parallel Library Data Set by Raghavan, Priyanka, Rago, Alexander J, Verma, Pritha, Hassan, Majdi M, Goshu, Gashaw M, Dombrowski, Amanda W, Pandey, Abhishek, Coley, Connor W, Wang, Ying

“…Overall, we observe modest generalization to unseen reactant structures within the 15-year retrospective library data set. Additionally, we compare predictions made by the model to those made by expert medicinal chemists, finding that the model can often predict both reaction success and reaction yields with greater accuracy. …”
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Six-year removal of co-dominant grasses alleviated competitive pressure on subdominant grasses but dominant shrub removal had neutral effects in a subalpine ecosystem by Li, Wenjin, Knops, Johannes M. H., Png, Kenny Guochen, Yan, Xi, Dong, Huan, Li, Jinhua, Zhou, Huakun, Sierra, Rubén Díaz

“…In addition, most plant-species removal experiments in grasslands are short-term (1–2 years), which may imprecisely reflect transient effects arising from methodological limitations. …”
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