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Health &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Background Home‐care robots are increasingly viewed as vital tools to support older adults in aging in place, addressing the widening gap between growing care needs and limited caregiving resources. This study investigates the intention of community‐dwelling older adults in China to use home‐care robots and identifies key factors influencing this ...
Run-Ping Che +11 more
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Applied SciencesBarley has consistently been ranked among the four most grown cereals in the world. Integrated agronomic approaches, combining a selection of optimal genotypes and growing conditions, may help to provide high yields of quality and safe barley grains ...
Renata Kazimierczak +10 more
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Fafnir, 2018 Characters are important for the audience reception of films, but little empirical research on actual audiences has been conducted on the topic of character reception. Are characters important for all audiences, and if not, what are the possible reasons
Tanja Välisalo
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Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.How do we accurately measure mind wandering? This review compares five methods: from self‐reports (prone to bias) to brain scans (precise but expensive). No single method captures all aspects, so we propose the MAMW framework—a unified approach combining strengths of each technique.
Sholeh Nazari +2 more
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Portrayal of Femininity and Its Transformations in Subsequent Adaptations
Crossroads, 2015 The aim of the following paper is to examine the portrayal of female characters and femininity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Weronika Łaszkiewicz
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Screen Tourism: Worlds Within the Screen, Moving the Economy
International Journal of Tourism Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT The number of tourists traveling to attractions and destinations they had seen on screen continues to increase. Screen tourism is a marketing tool that encourages tourism demand as well as promotes economic development, with governments and destination marketing organizations attracting tourists through conventional and digital media. However,
Yunkyoung Jo +3 more
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Konteksty Pedagogiczne, 2018 This article focuses on the dragon character in literature, taking Tol-kien’s Hobbit as an example while employing a pedagogical perspective. The dra-gon, as the antagonist, is a recurring motif in literary fiction, especially in fantasy, and together ...
Anna Hyla
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Communicative dynamism and prosodic prominence in presentation sentences with initial rhematic subjects [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2017 Within the framework of the theory of functional sentence perspective (Firbas 1992), the distinction between presentation and quality scale sentences plays a vital role.
Martin Adam +1 more
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Grasping Objects From the Floor in Assistive Robotics: Real World Implications and Lessons Learned
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper presents a system enabling a mobile robot to autonomously pick-up objects a human is pointing at from the floor. The system does not require object models and is designed to grasp unknown objects.
Paloma De La Puente +4 more
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There and there again: Hydrothermal vent communities at Mokuyo Seamount, 30 years apart
Ecological Research, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 389-402, July 2025.Revisiting the little‐known deep‐sea hydrothermal vent field on Mokuyo Seamount, Izu‐Ogasawara Arc 30 years apart revealed decadal changes in venting activity and faunal distributions. We also update the species list of chemosynthetic ecosystem at Mokuyo from three to 18, a key baseline data for the management of this ecologically significant site ...
Chong Chen +4 more
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