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Storybooks aren't just for fun: Narrative and non-narrative picture books foster equal amounts of generic language during mother-toddler book sharing

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Parents and children encounter a variety of animals and objects in the early picture books they share, but little is known about how the context in which these entities are presented influences talk about them.
Angela eNyhout, Daniela K. O'Neill
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Water Permeates and Plasticizes Amorphous Carbon Dots: Unraveling the Inner Accessibility of the Nanoparticles by Glass Transition Studies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The water permeability of amorphous carbon dots (CDs) is demonstrated by investigating their plasticization. Novel polyamide‐based and amorphous nanoparticles are synthesized by controlling their inner packing density. Water plasticization is evidenced by the decrease of the CDs glass transition temperature with increasing the hydration degree.
Elisa Sturabotti, Valerio Di Lisio, Lucia Cardo, Alessandro Camilli, Estela Moretón Alfonsín, Daniele Cangialosi, Amaia Iturrospe Ibarra, Arantxa Arbe, Maurizio Prato   +8 more
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Comparison of outcome measures for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in an outpatient setting [PDF]

, 1997
BACKGROUND: To assist clinicians and researchers in choosing outcome measures for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attending routine outpatient clinics, a comparative assessment was undertaken of four questionnaires designed to reflect
Brazier, J.E., Harper, R., Howard, P., Jones, N.M.B., Walters, S.J., Waterhouse, J.C.   +5 more
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Multifunctional Bio‐Based Packaging for Perishable Foods: Structural Design, Scalable Fabrication, and Versatile Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
An overview of design principles and scalable fabrication strategies for multifunctional bio‐based packaging. Radiative cooling films, modified‐atmosphere films/membranes, active antimicrobial/antioxidant platforms, intelligent optical/electrochemical labels, and superhydrophobic surfaces are co‐engineered from material chemistry to mesoscale structure
Lei Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, Mei Cui, Wei Qi, Renliang Huang, Rongxin Su, Kai Zhang   +6 more
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Topological Point Defects in SmC* Liquid Crystals Under Mechanical Disturbance

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Tangetial air jet shear inducess island formation and nucleates topological point defects in uniform SmC films. Island bounded by edge dislocation loops shrink and transform into isolated point defects under continued shear. Mechanical perturbatio provides a controllable route for defect engineering in smectric liquid crystal thin films.
Gunganist Kongklad, Vandana Molahalli, Apichart Pattanaporkratana, Nattaporn Chattham   +3 more
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Risk theory: From perception to cognition

Risk Sciences
This paper proposes a generic risk theory. The risk theory starts with a basic observation that risk is the product of a specific human cognitive process. This cognitive process is responsible for the generation and transformation of risk under different
Duojia Lu
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Precise time and time interval users, requirements and specifications [PDF]

, 1982
The functional areas of application of Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) were considered and expanded. A comprehensive overview of the PTTI requirements and applications would provide an opportunity for individuals working in a specific functional ...
Bowser, J. R.
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Printed Organic Thermoelectric Generators: Progress and Challenges Towards Efficient Energy Harvesting

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Printed organic thermoelectric generators (OTEGs) enable flexible and sustainable energy harvesting from low‐grade heat. This Perspective critically assesses recent advances in printable thermoelectric materials, 2D and 3D device architectures, and current performance limits of printed OTEGs.
Vijitha Ignatious, Pietro Rossi, Matteo Massetti, Cecilia Mattevi, Francisco Molina‐Lopez, Mario Caironi   +5 more
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Parameterized Neural Network Language Models for Information Retrieval

, 2015
Information Retrieval (IR) models need to deal with two difficult issues, vocabulary mismatch and term dependencies. Vocabulary mismatch corresponds to the difficulty of retrieving relevant documents that do not contain exact query terms but semantically
Despres, Nicolas, Lamprier, Sylvain, Piwowarski, Benjamin   +2 more
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Peculiarities of spring barley varieties in terms of general and specific combining abilities and ratios of their variances

Plant Breeding and Seed Production, 2017
У 2014–2016 рр. установлено особливості комбінаційної здатності остистих і безостих сортів та їх батьківських форм. За високою загальною комбінаційною здатністю (ЗКЗ) виділено сорти, які мають найбільшу кількість алелів генів, що позитивно визначають величину показників ознаки.
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