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Open AccessExploring the role of microRNAs as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in canine mammary tumors
Canine mammary tumors (CMTs) represent a significant health concern in dogs, with a high incidence among intact female dogs. CMTs are a promising comparative model for human breast cancer, due to sharing sever...
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Open AccessDoes Support for Professional Development in Early Childhood and Care Settings Matter? A Study in Four Countries
Professional Development (PD) can be a powerful lever for improving the quality of teacher-child interactions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and teachers’ feelings of support and competence. Howe...
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Open AccessAre volatile methylsiloxanes in downcycled tire microplastics? Levels and human exposure estimation in synthetic turf football fields
Downcycled rubber, derived from end-of-life tires (ELTs), is frequently applied as crumb rubber (CR) as infill of synthetic turf in sports facilities. This practice has been questioned in recent years as numer...
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Open AccessStability and Change in Adolescents’ Sense of Agency: Contributions of Sex, Multiple Risk, Pandemic Stress, and Attachment to Parents
Although literature states that individual, relational, and contextual factors contribute to adolescents’ sense of agency, more research is needed to clarify and understand how adolescents develop this belief ...
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“Don’t Bring Work Home”: How Career Orientation Moderates Permeable Parenting Boundaries in Dual-earner Couples
Having parenting boundaries permeated by work, expressed in bringing work home and dealing with work-related issues while performing the parental role can relate to increasing levels of work-family-conflict. T...
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Open AccessDicoumarol: from chemistry to antitumor benefits
Dicoumarol, a coumarin-like compound, is known for its anticoagulant properties associated with the ability to inhibit vitamin K, being prescribed as a drug for several decades. The pharmaceutical value of dic...
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Tree-Based Adaptive Model Learning
We extend the Kearns–Vazirani learning algorithm to be able to handle systems that change over time. We present a new learning algorithm that can reuse and update previously learned behavior, implement it in t...
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Open AccessOncolytic H-1 parvovirus binds to sialic acid on laminins for cell attachment and entry
H-1 parvovirus (H-1PV) is a promising anticancer therapy. However, in-depth understanding of its life cycle, including the host cell factors needed for infectivity and oncolysis, is lacking. This understanding...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Case Management Approach to Risk Management
Risk management is a development activity and increasingly plays a crucial role in organization’s management. Organizations develop and implement enterprise risk management strategies intending to improve the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Symbolic Register Automata
Symbolic Finite Automata and Register Automata are two orthogonal extensions of finite automata motivated by real-world problems where data may have unbounded domains. These automata address a demand for a mod...
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Preschool Children’s Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Mother–Child, Father–Child and Teacher–Child Relationships
Prosocial behavior is considered an important dimension of positive development. Although previous research suggests the quality of children’s early relationships may influence prosocial behaviors, the specifi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Intermittent Environments: A Framework
This chapter suggests a framework for the implementation of Lean Manufacturing in intermittent production environments—Job shop. The environment faced by organizations request the adoption of more efficient ma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Context Classifier for Service Robots
In this paper a context classifier for service robots is presented. Independently of the application, service robots need to have the notion of their context in order to behave appropriately. A context classif...
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Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Plication in the Rat Result in Weight Loss with Different Endocrine Profiles
Restrictive bariatric surgery procedures currently used include adjustable gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy (SG), and gastric plication (GP), of which the last two techniques still lack sufficient data and ...
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Metabolic Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass for Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Bariatric surgery has been proposed as the most effective treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and body mass index (BMI) above 35 kg/m2. The purpose of our study was to access remission rat...
