The prevalence of frailty among older adults with maintenance hemodialysis: a systematic by Juanjuan Li, Wenyi Xiao, Lijuan Wang, Miao Zhang, Yurong Ge

“…The methodological quality of all the selected studies was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies Checklist and Newcastle‒Ottawa Cohort Quality Assessment Scale. …”
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Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients with multiple myeloma: three cases report and literature review by Zhichao Li, Fang Huang, Siguo Hao

“…Combined with lumbar puncture, nerve conduction studies, and other tests, the diagnosis was confirmed as GBS. All three patients had a history of spinal surgery before the onset of GBS, and had been treated with bortezomib which induced peripheral neuropathy. …”
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A Motor Learning Oriented, Compliant and Mobile Gait Orthosis by A. Calanca, S. Piazza, P. Fiorini

“…Many commercial mobile orthoses are designed to facilitate the standing, but not all the patients are able to deploy them. ARGO, the Active Reciprocated Gait Orthosis we developed, is a device that overcomes some of the limitations of these devices. …”
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A Study to Adapt “Puppet Interview Scales of Competence in and Enjoyment of Science” to Turkish Culture by Berrin Akman, Erhan Alabay, Mefharet Veziroglu Celik, Pinar Aksoy, Selahattin Gelbal

“…The total variability of all the factors was computed to be 49.35%. The confirmatory factor analysis conducted on another sample revealed that error is within an acceptable range (.63) and adaptation statistics is above .80. …”
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Delving into the Design and Implementation of Specifications Grading Systems in Higher Education by William J. Howitz, Kate J. McKnelly, Renée D. Link

“…The following databases were last searched on 5 October 2024 for publications: IEEE Xplore, ACS Publications, ASEE PEER, PER, Scopus, ERIC, ACM, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science. All peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters that implemented at least two structural features of specifications grading in an undergraduate or graduate course were included in this review. …”
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Fountain Water as a Source of Opportunistic Escherichia coli and Aeromonas hydrophila Strains in Atmospheric Air by Iwona Gołaś, Anna Gotkowska-Plachta

“…The values of the MAR index were high in all air samples and similar to those noted in fountain water isolates (0.86–0.87). …”
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The Spartan King Leonidas I: History and modern times by E.A. Tchiglintsev, N.A. Shadrina

“…The image of the King Leonidas I was formed based on the evidence documented by Herodotus. The evidence includes all the variations of the Spartan king's image that have been reflected in the cultures of the consequent periods, especially the symbolic meaning of his image for the Greeks. …”
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Three-Rooted Permanent Mandibular First Molars: A Meta-Analysis of Prevalence by Nyan M. Aung, Kyaw K. Myint

“…Seventy-two studies from 31 countries were selected for both qualitative and quantitative analyses. 26302 patients and 37994 permanent mandibular first molars were included in the analysis. 9% of permanent mandibular first molars all over the world demonstrated 3 roots. These three-rooted teeth were found in 10% of the world population, more than 45% of which revealed bilateral symmetry of that anatomy. …”
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Analysis of the use of digital technologies in state and municipal government by N. A. Solopova, Zh. V. Selezneva

“…Digital technologies give the government the opportunity to provide citizens and businesses with various services and online services, to automate and optimize various processes in state and municipal government, to actively provide access to information required by users. All this contributes to increasing the transparency of the activities of the authorities. …”
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Resilience and its relationship with quality of life and comorbid substance use disorder in patients with type I bipolar disorder by Shady Mohamed Moustafa, Magda Taha Kamal Aldin, Haydy Hassan Sayed, Ahmed Elarabi Hendi

“…There was a strong negative correlation between resilience level and all aspects of addiction severity in patients with type I bipolar disorder. …”
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Comparing genomic studies in animal breeding and human genetics: focus on disease-related traits in livestock — A review by Olivier Gervais, Yoshitaka Nagamine

“…Therefore, alternative approaches, such as the polygenic risk score, which estimates the genetic risk for a given trait or disease based on all genetic markers (rather than on known causal variants only), have begun to garner attention. …”
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4D-TExS: A new 4D lattice-QCD equation of state with extended density coverage by Jahan Johannes, Abuali Ahmed, Borsányi Szabolcs, Kahangirwe Micheal, Parotto Paolo, Pásztor Attila, Ratti Claudia, Shah Hitansh, Trabulsi Seth A.

“…We present here the new 4D-TExS EoS, a generalization of the TExS to all 3 chemical potentials, expected to offer a larger coverage than the 4D Taylor expansion EoS. …”
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Cam Swing Linkage and Spring Linkage Combined Mechanism for Vehicle Side-door Latches with Electric Cinch and Release Priority Function by Yin Chuanshuo, Hang Lubin, Zhong Chuanlei, Qu Zhiyang, Zhang Jiale, Huang Xiaobo, Liu Zhe, Chen Yong

“…The mechanism and the drive are embedded in the door latch for simulation, and the contact force between the release cam and the swing linkage, the swing linkage and the ratchet, and the ratchet and the paw are studied in all working conditions. The time of the mechanism to realize each function matches the design requirements of the vehicle door latch, the time of the electric cinch process is 420.97 ms, the reset time is 29.03 ms, and the manual release time is 622 ms.…”
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Public Private Partnership in the European Union: Experiences in the UK, Germany and Austria by Ronald W. McQuaid, Walter Scherrer

“…The major motives for moving towards PPPs are macroeconomic or budgetary, especially in Germany and Austria, but also microeconomic or improving the efficiency of public service delivery, especially in the UK. In all three countries PPPs appear to be a systematic middle response to the alternatives of privatisation or public service provision of infrastructure and operational support. …”
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A data control framework for SAF-T reporting: A process-based approach by Jerzy Auksztol, Magdalena Chomuszko

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Fingerprint abnormalities in systemic sclerosis: Results of a single center pilot study by Kodishala Chanakya, Liza Rajasekhar

“…The mean NFIQ score of these patients was 4.5 (poor) while mean NFIQ scores in SSc was 3.8. All FPs of 10 controls were recognized, and the mean NFIQ score was 2.2 indicating a better FPs quality. …”
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The Forerunner of the Government Reform of Peter the Great by N. V. Shevtsov

“…During the reign of Sophia, when he had received ultimately unlimited power warrant, he mainly fostered all of his efforts to the implementation of the socio-economic changes and the rise of prestige of the Russian State. …”
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Natural compounds from medicinal plants against COVID-19 by Anton Kolodnitsky, Nikita Ionov, Irina Gravel, Vladimir Poroikov

“…During the past time, several infections control methods have been developed. Nevertheless, all of them have certain limitations: uncertainty in duration, limited efficacy of vaccines, and lack of effective drugs for COVID-19 treatment. …”
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Long-term impact of tillage on microbial communities of an Eastern European Chernozem by Horia Domnariu, Kristin M. Trippe, Florina Botez, Elena Partal, Carmen Postolache

“…Conversely, tillage intensity induced a clear separation of both prokaryotic and fungal communities among all three practices. Comparing abundance of ecologically meaningful groups revealed more abundant saprotrophic fungi in MP and differences in the bacterial groups involved in the N cycle. …”
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Study of Modern Human Evolution via Comparative Analysis with the Neanderthal Genome by Musaddeque Ahmed, Ping Liang

“…Besides briefly discussing the important outcomes of the comparative analyses made so far between modern humans and Neanderthals, we propose that future comparative studies may include retrotransposons, pseudogenes, and conserved non-coding regions, all of which might have played significant roles during the evolution of modern humans.…”
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