Comparison of Common Methodologies for the Determination of Knee Flexor Muscle Strength by Dan I Ogborn, Alix Bellemare, Brittany Bruinooge, Holly Brown, Sheila McRae, Jeff Leiter

“…A wide array of testing methodologies and positioning options are available that require validation prior to clinical integration. The purpose of this study was to 1) investigate the validity and test-retest reliability of isometric knee flexion strength measured by a fixed handheld dynamometer (HHD) apparatus compared to a Biodex Dynamometer (BD), 2) determine the impact of body position (seated versus supine) and foot position (plantar- vs dorsiflexed) on knee flexion peak torque and 3) establish the validity and test-retest reliability of the NordBord Hamstring Dynamometer…”
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The strategic alliance of higher education institutions: Experience of contemporary Germany by A. M. Petrov

“…The formation of alliances between higher education institutions can be considered as one of the promising mechanisms for performing such missions, as well as for integrative solution of issues in the field of public policy to support and develop higher education. …”
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Ethics and AI-Plagiarism in an Academic Environment: Students’ Understanding of Compliance with Author’s Ethics and the Problem of Plagiarism in the Process of Interaction with Gen... by P. V. Sysoyev

“…Everyday, artificial intelligence (AI) is being increasingly integrated into the teaching and learning process at Russian universities. …”
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A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study Investigating the Causal Relationship Between Ankylosing Spondylitis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Pan D, Dai X, Li P, Xue L

“…Di Pan,1,2 Xiaoling Dai,3 Pan Li,4 Luan Xue1 1Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 3Shanghai Putuo Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 4Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Luan Xue; Xiaoling Dai, Email 610725556@qq.com; 553137182@qq.comBackground: Previous studies have found an association between ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, no research has investigated this relationship using Mendelian randomization (MR).Methods: This study employed a bidirectional two-sample MR approach to assess the causal connection between AS and COPD. …”
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Problematic internet use and its relationship with eating disorders by Claudia Ruiz-Centeno, Raquel Cueto-Galán, Raquel Cueto-Galán, Raquel Cueto-Galán, Jose Miguel Pena-Andreu, Andrés Fontalba-Navas, Andrés Fontalba-Navas, Andrés Fontalba-Navas

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Health promoting palliative care interventions in African low-income countries: a scoping review by Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Diane Tapp, Samiratou Ouedraogo, Ariane Plaisance, Carol-Anne Hyland-Carignan, Idriss Ali Gali-Gali

“…It is not known whether the Ottawa Charter principles have been integrated into existing PC efforts in low-income African countries. …”
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Phytomedicine nanoformulations for Parkinson's disease by Chinthu V. Saji, K P Mohanakumar, Rajesh A Shenoi

“…In recent years, attentions of both clinicians and patients have shifted to herbal medicines that are rich source of bioactive compounds with therapeutic potential to target multiple pathways involved in PD pathology. When integrated with nanotechnology, phytomedicines can overcome key limitations of herbal molecules, such as poor solubility, low bioavailability, and difficulty in crossing the blood brain barrier (BBB). …”
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Teachers’ autonomous motivation and work engagement: The role of the principal’s democratic leadership style and psychological climate by L. A. Mokretsova, O. A. Sychev, A. M. Bespalov, M. S. Vlasov, M. M. Prudnikova

“…The aim of the current research was to develop an integrative concept of leadership styles by K. Lewin and the theory of self-determination by E. …”
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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus detection based on cross-domain shared attention and enhanced BiFPN by Henghui Mo, Linjing Wei

“…The network’s neck incorporates an enhanced Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN), integrating feature maps of various scales to boost early symptom detection capabilities. …”
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Information Geometry and Manifold Learning: A Novel Framework for Analyzing Alzheimer’s Disease MRI Data by Ömer Akgüller, Mehmet Ali Balcı, Gabriela Cioca

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: Integrating information geometry, manifold learning, and GNNs effectively differentiates AD impairment stages from MRI data. …”
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Generation of a transgene-free Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell line (JNCHi002-A) from a female heterozygous carrier of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene mutation... by Rujin Tian, Yixiao Li, Hongmei Xin, Yue Jiang, Haozheng Zhang, Lin Zhong, Zhongtao Gai, Qianqian Deng, Chunhui Wang, Kaihui Zhang

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The use of whole genome amplification for genomic evaluation of bovine embryos by K. S. Pantiukh, I. V. Rukin, S. V. Portnov, A. Khatib, S. L. Panteleev, A. M. Mazur

“…The integration of high technologies into livestock production has been actively occurring in the last decade in the countries with a developed animal breeding. …”
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Analysis of the 2016 – 2025 fiscal budget of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Nana LIU, Lieyu HUANG, Yuan DANG, Zekai YU, Qianqiu LIU, Yan GUO

“…ConclusionsThe CDC continues to promote the integration of public health tasks and dynamically optimize the setting of fiscal budget items. …”
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A U-Net-based denoising method for semi-airborne transient electromagnetic data and its application by Dong LIU, Hao FENG, Yongxin WANG, Xiaosheng ZHOU, Yuhong YAO, Huaifeng SUN

“…By introducing skip connections to the symmetric layers in the encoder and the decoder, the U-Net-based method effectively integrates the low-level features bearing rich spatial information with the high-level features containing semantic information, thus achieving accurate denoising. …”
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Metabolomic and morphological trait diversity display contrasting patterns in temperate forest tree communities by Jonathan J. Henn, Brian E. Sedio, Christopher P. Catano, Emily Dewald‐Wang, Dilys Vela Díaz, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, Geoffrey Parker, Jonathan A. Myers, Marko J. Spasojevic

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Composition and Performance Evaluation of SBS/SBR Modified Emulsified Asphalt for Tack Coat on Airport Pavement by Kaiwei Wang, Xiangbing Xie, Guanghui Li, Jinggan Shao, Meng Bao, Mingwei Wang, Xianglei Zhu, Yahui He

“…After demulsification, the continuous phase and the dispersed phase were more closely integrated, so that the emulsified asphalt exhibited better bonding performance. …”
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Sistematización de la experiencia en la realización de la Jornada Académica en Orientación Vocacional de la Universidad Nacional by Evelyn Yirlana Vargas-Hernández, Kattia Salas-Pérez

“…Las conclusiones obtenidas subrayan el impacto positivo de este tipo de eventos en el desarrollo y fortalecimiento de la disciplina orientadora; ya que fomenta la actualización integral y contemporánea acerca de la orientación vocacional en Costa Rica, aborda teorías y enfoques claves, asume una perspectiva crítica de su aplicación en el contexto nacional y profundiza en el desarrollo de la Orientación para el cumplimento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Agenda 2030 de la UNESCO.…”
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Enzymes enabling the biosynthesis of various C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids in a sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus by Yingying Peng, Yutaka Haga, Naoki Kabeya

“…Sea urchins, integral to marine ecosystems and valued as a delicacy in Asia and Europe, contain physiologically important long-chain (>C20) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in their gonads, including arachidonic acid (ARA, 20:4n-6), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3) and unusual non-methylene-interrupted fatty acids (NMI-FA) such as 20:2Δ5,11. …”
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Reproductive relationships between taxa morphologically close to <i>Elymus caninus</i> (Poaceae: Triticeae) by E. V. Shabanova, A. V. Agafonov, O. V. Dorogina

“…The objectives were to study the levels of reproductive relationships and the degree of integration of the species E. goloskokovii, E. prokudinii, and E. viridiglumis into the E. caninus complex. …”
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Performance of an Electronic Health Record–Based Automated Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index Score Calculator: Cohort Study in the Emergency Department by Elizabeth Joyce, James McMullen, Xiaowen Kong, Connor O'Hare, Valerie Gavrila, Anthony Cuttitta, Geoffrey D Barnes, Colin F Greineder

“…However, calculating the PESI score can be inconvenient in a busy emergency department (ED). To facilitate integration into ED workflow, we created a 2023 Epic ObjectiveThe primary objectives of this study were to determine the overall accuracy of ePESI and its ability to correctly distinguish high- and low-risk PESI scores within the Epic MethodsWe collected ePESI scores on 500 consecutive patients at least 18 years old who underwent a computerized tomography-pulmonary embolism scan in the ED of our tertiary, academic health center between January 3 and February 15, 2023. …”
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