Clinical Practice Guidelines in Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation—Knee Osteoarthritis by Working Group on Setting up Standardization Guidelines of Knee Osteoarthritis in Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation, Shangquan WANG, Liguo ZHU, Jiawen ZHAN, Ming CHEN, Guodong ZHAO, An YAN, Deyou CHANG, Linghui LI

“…Recommendation level is designed to provide rehabilitation guidance and reference for clinicians in rehabilitation department, orthopaedics and traumatology department of traditional Chinese medicine, orthopaedics of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion department, massage department, rheumatism and Immunology department. …”
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Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Laterite Treated with Iron Ore Tailings by Umar Sa’eed Yusuf, Matawal Danladi Slim, Elinwa Augustine Uchechukwu

“…The IOT conforms to ASTM C 618-15 Type F designations. In the present study, soil was admixed with 0–20% IOT and compacted at moulding water content ranging from 10 to 25% using four types of compactive efforts. …”
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Extra Physical Activities Positively Affect Balance in Children Aged 5–11 Years by Elif Nur Surucu, Lina Budrienė

“…Methods. This study was designed as a cross-sectional study. Children (n = 68) aged 5–11 years were divided into two groups depending on the activity they participated in. 36 children participated in standard physical education (physical education group, PEG) lessons, and 32 children attended extra-physical activities (EPA). …”
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Evaluation of flood determination with various methods: Case study of Ayamama Creek by Orkan Özcan

“…Advances in mapping hazardous areas have created new opportunities for assessing population vulnerabilities, doing designs to withstand against destructive forces and reducing losses. …”
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Development and validation of trigger tools in primary care: A scoping review. by Inge Dhamanti, Elida Zairina, Ida Nurhaida, Salsabila Salsabila, Fitri Yakub

“…We considered only studies published in English in the last five years and included both qualitative and quantitative study designs. The final review included five articles. …”
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Reduction in thermal conductivity of monolayer MoS2 by large mechanical strains for efficient thermal management by Jun Liu, Mengqi Fang, Eui-Hyeok Yang, Xian Zhang

“…This finding provides the key information for flexible and wearable electronics thermal management and designs.…”
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Contribution to the experimental and theoretical study of the behavior of soil-structure interfaces by Saliha Benalia, Boubaker Benchiekh, Leila Zeghichi

“… Designing civil engineering works often requires taking into consideration the contact and interface conditions between the soil and structure. …”
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Effects of low-level diode laser therapy as an adjunct to modified Widman flap in subjects with Stage III periodontitis: A clinical study by Shailesh Varshney, Rajkumar Kelvin, M. Siddharth

“…Aim: This study was designed to assess the clinical effects of 810 nm low-level diode (GaAlAs) laser therapy as an adjunct to modified Widman flap (MWF) surgery in subjects with Stage III periodontitis. …”
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Privacy-Preserving Efficient Data Retrieval in IoMT Based on Low-Cost Fog Computing by Na Wang, Yuanyuan Cai, Junsong Fu, Jie Xu

“…Finally, bat algorithm (BA) is designed to allocate cost on a fog server group for significant energy cost reduction. …”
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Procurement at Local Government Level – Issues and Controversies by Marija Kaštelan Mrak, Nenad Vretenar, Jelena Jardas Antonić

“…There is an everlasting discussion on the ideal size and the range of services to be kept ‘in-house’ of local government units (LGUs).Transaction Costs Economics (TCE) represents a theoretical paradigm specially designed to interpret the issue of efficiency in inter-institutional relations. …”
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Location Problem - Routing a vehicle with a specified fuel capacity based on a tough time window and customer satisfaction by Mohammad Moshrefi

“…Combining two routing and location problems, considering a set of warehouses, meeting the customer’s requirements from each warehouse, and designing an optimal route for the vehicle that brings the lowest cost to the transportation system are the main objectives of this research. …”
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Examining the Relationship between Middle School Students’ Critical Reading Skills, Science Literacy Skills and Attitudes: A Structural Equation Modeling by Ersin Karademir, Ufuk Uluçınar

“…Through the structural equation modeling, path analysis has been applied in the study which was designed in correlational model. The sample of the study consists of 1170 students enrolled in 18 schools determined based on socio-economic status. …”
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Association Between Hopelessness And Suicidal Ideation In Iranian Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mohammad Hossein Sadeghian, Farnaz Etesam, Amin Nakhostin-Ansari, Samaneh Akbarpour, Mitra Akhlaghi

“…We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and its association with hopelessness among Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) medical students. # Methods We designed a cross-sectional study conducted in TUMS in 2018. …”
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Calculation of Bearing Capacity and Deformation of Composite Pile Foundation with Long and Short Piles in Loess Areas by Tianzhong Ma, Yanpeng Zhu, Xiaohui Yang

“…., a single pile, four piles, and eight piles, was designed to verify the proposed calculation methods. …”
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Residual Effect of Chromium on Early Growth of Fluted Pumpkin (<i>Telfairia occidentalis</i> Hook F) in an Ultisol by ER Orhue, FO Uzu

“…The completely and randomized complete block designs were used in the greenhouse and field trials respectively. …”
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Surprisingly robust violations of stochastic dominance despite splitting training: A quasi-adversarial collaboration by Edika Quispe-Torreblanca, Neil Stewart, Michael H. Birnbaum

“…We conducted two experiments designed to train participants in identifying dominance by splitting coalesced gambles. …”
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Polymerization and modeling of phenolic resins from crude wood resin in the presence of AlCl3 by Ömür Aras, Murat Ertaş, Muhammed Yusuf Aksakal, Naile Angın, Merve Genç

“…Moreover, the modeling of synthesis reactions Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was designed with 2 inputs (temperature and turpentine/crude wood resin ratio) and 4 outputs (reaction yield, acid value, saponification value and softening point). …”
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Evaluation of the effect of a nurse-led vestibular rehabilitation program enriched with yoga on knowledge levels and vertigo symptoms in patients with vertigo by Gayathri Selvaraj, Santhanasamy Punitha, Ganesan Dayanidy, Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

“…The experimental group received a nurse-led vestibular rehabilitation program comprising vestibular exercises and designated yoga routines. By contrast, the control group received standard care, including prescription of drugs by the physician and follow-up. …”
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Inheritance of yellow colour in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) by T. V. Leus

“…The dominant gene determining the yellow color is proposed to be designated as C for Chrome. The recessive allele of this gene permits the development of other corolla colors.…”
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Enhanced Heat Transfer Characteristics of Graphite Concrete and Its Application in Energy Piles by Qingwen Li, Lu Chen, Haotian Ma, Chung-Ho Huang

“…The latest research on energy piles demonstrates that most scholars are focusing their attention on optimization by designing more efficient heat exchanger coils, analyzing the heat pump matching parameters, and so on. …”
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