the goal of the present research was to determine the extent to which students use study and learning strategies (sls), and its relationship with their academic achievement. participants were 425 students from literature and social science and engineering schools of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who were randomly selected among two grades (i.e., year one and three) from both types of universi...

Sjogren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) is a rare autosomal recessive neurocutaneous disorder with worldwide incidence of 0.4 per 100,000 people. It is characterized by the triad of congenital ichthyosis, spastic diplegia or quadriplegia, and mental retardation. Herein we report a 2-year-old male child with SLS, asthma, and recurrent pneumonia. SLS was confirmed by a molecular genetics study that reveal...

Strigolactones (SLs) or derivatives thereof have been identified as phytohormones, and shown to act as long-distance shoot-branching inhibitors. In Arabidopsis roots, SLs have been suggested to have a positive effect on root-hair (RH) elongation, mediated via the MAX2 F-box. Two other phytohormones, auxin and ethylene, have been shown to have positive effects on RH elongation. Hence, in the pre...

This study investigated the effect of sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) on skin structural perturbation when utilized simultaneously with low-frequency sonophoresis (LFS). Pig full-thickness skin (FTS) and pig split-thickness skin (STS) treated with LFS/SLS and LFS were analyzed in the context of the aqueous porous pathway model to quantify skin perturbation through changes in skin pore radius and po...

The Schema Learning System (SLS) automatically assembles task-specific object recognition programs from existing IU algorithms. SLS brings together two emerging technologies image understanding and machine learning to automatically build customized procedures for recognizing and extracting specific object classes in constrained contexts. This paper describes the representations and algorithms u...

One of the aspects of applying software engineering to Stochastic Local Search (SLS) is the principled analysis of the features of the problem instances and the behavior of SLS algorithms, which —because of their stochastic nature— might need sophisticated statistical tools. In this paper we describe EasyAnalyzer, an object-oriented framework for the experimental analysis of SLS algorithms, dev...

Selective laser sintering (SLS) is a well-suited additive manufacturing technique for generating subject-specific passive-dynamic ankle-foot orthoses (PD-AFOs). However, the mechanical properties of SLS PD-AFOs may differ from those of commonly prescribed carbon fiber (CF) PD-AFOs. Therefore, the goal of this study was to determine if biomechanical measures during gait differ between CF and sti...

BACKGROUND Single-leg squat (SLS) is a functional test visually rated by clinicians for assessing lower limb function as a preventive injury strategy. SLS clinical rating is a qualitative evaluation and it does not count objective outcomes as kinematics data and surface electromyography (sEMG) assessment. Based on the SLS rating, the aims of this study were (i) to determine the clinical rating ...

Strigolactones (SLs) trigger germination of parasitic plant seeds and hyphal branching of symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. There is extensive structural variation in SLs and plants usually produce blends of different SLs. The structural variation among natural SLs has been shown to impact their biological activity as hyphal branching and parasitic plant seed germination stimulants. ...

Adverse workplace factors such as job stress are reported to be associated with poor physical and mental health of nurses. However, associations between occupational factors and sexual life satisfaction (SLS) of nurses remain understudied. This study investigated SLS of Chinese female nurses of tertiary general hospitals and socio-demographic and occupational factors associated with reduced SLS...