Modeling of Shoulder–Elbow Movement with Exponential Parameter Identification During Walking Gaits for Healthy Subjects and Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Luca Pietrosanti, Giovanni Saggio, Martina Patera, Antonio Suppa, Franco Giannini, Cristiano Maria Verrelli

“…An upper limb model is here proposed in which an active contractile element is included within a model, viewing the arm as a double pendulum system and muscles as represented by a Kelvin–Voight system. All model parameters characterizing both the shoulder and the elbow of each subject are estimated via a gradient-like identifier whose exponential convergence properties are determined by a non-anticipative Lyapunov function, ensuring robustness features. …”
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INFORMACINIS GENOMAS, INDIVIDO IR POPULIACIJOS GENOMAI by Jonas Rubikas

“…The population genome is the information of all individuals composing the population. In the genome of unicellular organisms (Dictyostelium, for instance) there is the information allowing formation of the cells with different functions during the life cycle (cell-aggregation-fruitful body-spore). …”
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Relationship between Maternal Central Obesity and the Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies by Da Yao, Qing Chang, Qi-Jun Wu, Shan-Yan Gao, Huan Zhao, Ya-Shu Liu, Yu-Ting Jiang, Yu-Hong Zhao

“…Abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio or body fat distribution were elected as measures of maternal central obesity, and all diagnostic criteria for GDM were accepted. The random effect meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the relationship between central obesity and the risk of GDM. …”
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The Genesis of Higher Education Internationalisation by D. А. Smaliakou

“…Meanwhile, the countries-leaders of internationalisation rather act themselves as unifiers, calling into question all theories of the background of the under-discussed phenomenon. …”
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Changes in tear cytokine and lactoferrin levels in postmenopausal women with primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction complicated with obstructed meibomian gland dysfunction by Haili Jin, Xianjie Chen, Feng Ji, Yin Liu, Yonghong Sheng, Guoping Wang, Linfeng Han, Xiaohu Wang, He Ding, Jing Liu, Qingqing Fu

“…Tear fluid was collected from affected eyes of all participants using Schirmer I test and tested for cytokine concentrations (interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-1β, interferon-gamma, tumour necrotic factor (TNF)-α, IL-10, epidermal growth factor (EGF)) using the Multiplex Luminex Assay. …”
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Is Whole‐Brain Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases an Overestimated Therapy? A Retrospective Study of Real‐World Data Using Landmark Analyses by Florian Hoelzl, Oliver Koelbl, Isabella Gruber

“…The 90‐day landmark analysis confirmed all predictive variables for survival. Patients who died before the 90‐day landmark endpoint had more brain metastases, lower Karnofsky performance status, higher age, and were less frequently treated with immunotherapy/molecularly targeted therapy than those surviving at least 90 days. …”
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Study of Treatment in Heart Disease Patients Installation in Undata Hospital, Central Sulawesi by Niluh Puspita Dewi, Indah Kurnia Utami, Al'vira Gunawan, Muh. Thamrin Tahir, Syafika Alaydrus, Nani Astria Polontalo

“…The sampling technique in this study was purposive sampling, namely sampling based on established criteria. All samples that met the requirements who came to the hospital were used as research samples according to the required sample size of 40 respondents and based on the available data collection time. …”
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Accepting your Body after Cancer (ABC), a group-based online intervention for women treated for breast cancer: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial by Sarah Byford, Abigail Jones, Shelley Potter, Paul White, Diana Harcourt, Helena Lewis-Smith, Patricia Fairbrother

“…Therefore, we aim to establish the feasibility of conducting a fully powered randomised controlled trial to evaluate online delivery of ABC.Methods and analysis 120 women who have received treatment for breast cancer and are experiencing body image concerns will be randomised equally to either the ABC or standard care control group. All participants in both conditions will receive a body image booklet for people who have had cancer. …”
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Effects of Diet Based on IgG Elimination Combined with Probiotics on Migraine Plus Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Yangzhi Xie, Guijuan Zhou, Yan Xu, Bing He, Yilin Wang, Rundong Ma, Yunqian Chang, Duanqun He, Chenlin Xu, Zijian Xiao

“…Reduced use of over-the-counter- (OTC−) analgesics was seen in all groups. However, use of triptans did not show significant difference. …”
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Psychological and Behavioral Insights From Social Media Users: Natural Language Processing–Based Quantitative Study on Mental Well-Being by Xingwei Yang, Guang Li

“…The inclusion of social interaction features demonstrates strong performance. By using all influence features (affective influence features, contextual influence features, and personality influence features), the model achieved an accuracy of 77% and a precision of 80%. …”
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Immuno-Inflammatory Characteristics in Low Severity COVID-19 Patients with Digestive Symptoms by Caihan Duan, Shengyan Zhang, Jian Wang, Wei Qian, Chaoqun Han, Xiaohua Hou

“…Multiorgan function and immuno-inflammatory characteristics were analyzed for all of the three groups. Results. Mild liver damage and activation of the immuno-inflammatory system were the most common abnormalities observed in patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms but no significant differences were found (P>0.05). …”
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Community’s Perception and Attitude towards People with Epilepsy in Ethiopia by Wubalem Fekadu, Tesfa Mekonen, Shemelash Bitew, Tefera Chanie Mekonnen, Melak Menberu, Seble Shewangizaw

“…The negative attitude was high and multidimensional. All stakeholders must work to increase awareness about the cause, symptoms, and treatment options for epilepsy and to decrease the negative attitude of the community.…”
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Detection of damage caused by Nezara viridula on soybean using novel imaging approaches based on computed tomography and image color analysis by Szilvia Gibicsár, Tamás Donkó, Dániel Fajtai, Sándor Keszthelyi

“…Radiodensity was significantly reduced in all three damaged categories compared to the intact sample; the mean radiodensity reduction range was 49–412 HU. …”
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Prediction models used in the progression of chronic kidney disease: A scoping review. by David K E Lim, James H Boyd, Elizabeth Thomas, Aron Chakera, Sawitchaya Tippaya, Ashley Irish, Justin Manuel, Kim Betts, Suzanne Robinson

“…<h4>Study selection</h4>All English written studies that are published in peer-reviewed journals in any country, that developed at least a statistical or computational model that predicted the risk of CKD progression.…”
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Hypolipidemic effect of coffee silver skin in rats fed a high-fat diet by Ayman Mohammed El-Anany, Rehab Farouk M. Ali

“…With the exception of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, all lipid fractions increased significantly in rats fed a HFD. …”
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Performance of Bell Pepper (Capsicum annum) Under Different Grow Bag Media in Lalitpur District, Nepal by Sakuna Nepal, Pratibha Khatiwada, Pankaj Karki Dholi, Safal Adhikari

“…The media consisting of T3 (Soil: Sand: FYM: Vermicompost (1.25:0.75:0.5:0.5)) proved to be statistically superior over the rest of the combinations for almost all aspects under investigation, whereas comparatively poor performance was observed in Coco peat: vermicompost (1:1) media. …”
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The Transcription Factor SOX18 Inhibitor Small Molecule 4 Is a Potential Treatment of Cancer‐Induced Lymphatic Metastasis and Lymphangiosarcoma by Katja K. Koll, Martin M. Zimmermann, Patrick A. Will, Ulrich Kneser, Christoph Hirche

“…Additionally, Sm4 treatment suppressed the expression of key lymphatic phenotype markers (Prox1, Flt4, and Lyve1) and hindered migration in both HDLEC and MO‐LAS, all while maintaining cell viability. Conclusion These findings suggest that targeting SOX18 with Sm4 may hold potential as a therapeutic strategy for lymphangiosarcoma and cancer‐induced lymphatic metastasis. …”
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Molecular subtype of ovarian clear cell carcinoma: an analysis of 80 Chinese patients using the TCGA molecular classification of endometrial cancer by Wei Chen, Lu Yan, Qin Li, Shuling Zhou, Ting Hou, Huijuan Yang, Shuang Ye

“…A total of 16.3% (13/80) of the patients were classified as the p53 abnormal (p53abn) subtype, and 77.5% (62/80) were classified as the nonspecific molecular profile (NSMP) subtype. All the MSI-H patients had ARID1A mutations, whereas patients with the p53abn subtype had the lowest percentage of ARID1A mutations (27.3%). …”
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Gasping in Response to Basic Resuscitation Efforts: Observation in a Swine Model of Cardiac Arrest by Mathias Zuercher, Gordon A. Ewy, Charles W. Otto, Ronald W. Hilwig, Bentley J. Bobrow, Lani Clark, Vatsal Chikani, Arthur B. Sanders, Robert A. Berg, Karl B. Kern

“…This is secondary analysis of a previously reported study comparing continuous chest compressions (CCC CPR) versus chest compressions plus ventilation (30:2 CPR) on survival. 64 swine were randomized to 1 of these 2 basic CPR approaches after either short (3 or 4 minutes) or long (5 or 6 minutes) durations of untreated VF. At 12 minutes of VF, all received the same Guidelines 2005 Advanced Cardiac Life Support. …”
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Antiviral Drugs and Vaccines for Omicron Variant: A Focused Review by Nidhi Garg, Ananya Sree Kunamneni, Pankaj Garg, Sandeep Sharma, Divakar Sharma, Adinarayana Kunamneni

“…LY-CoV1404 (bebtelovimab) is recently authorized as it is effective against all sublineages of the Omicron variant. Regarding vaccine efficacy (VE), the 3-dose VE with mRNA vaccines at 14–60 days was found to be 71.6%, and after 60 days, it is 47.4%. …”
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