Effect of Graphene Warm Abduction Orthosis on Hip Joint Development in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy by CUI Meiyu, LIU Jianjun, ZHANG Yan, ZENG Fanyong

“…During the training, the adductor angle was at least >30°, the training time was 1-2 hours per day, and the treatment continued for 2 months. …”
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A participatory needs assessment to map the system dynamics of overweight related behaviours of 10-14-year-old adolescents living in an underserved neighbourhood in Amsterdam, the... by Helga Emke, Rabab Chrifou, Coosje Dijkstra, Wilma Waterlander, Karien Stronks, Stef Kremers, Mai Chinapaw, Teatske Altenburg

“…For just over two years, we conducted weekly PAR sessions (45–120 min) with four dynamic groups - two in primary schools and two in secondary schools - each school year (n = 4–8 adolescents in each group (0-100% girls); n = 40–54 sessions in total per group). These adolescents acted as co-researchers and created Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs) for each EBRB and explored important underlying mechanisms for unhealthy EBRBs. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy Of Barium Swallow For Dysphagia, Keeping Rigid Esophagoscopy As The Gold Standard by Ansa Umara Akram, Sadia Chaudhry, Sundas Masood, Amna Kausar, Seema Naveed, Areesha Manzoor

“…The patients suffering from dysphagia as per operational definitions and who have reported for work-up to the Department of ENT, District Headquarters Hospital, Rawalpindi, and fulfill the complete inclusion and exclusion criteria, were selected. …”
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Construction and Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Risk Prediction Models for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Perimenopausal Women by Chen A, Chang X, Bian X, Zhang F, Ma S, Chen X

“…According to the principle of 10 events per Variable, the training set sample size was sufficient. …”
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Practical application of a nutraceutical in age-related macular degeneration by T.G. Kamenskikh, Kolbenev I.O, Veselova E.V, Batischeva Yu.S.

“…Group 1 — 20 patients (34 eyes) who received Retinorm 1 capsule 3 per day during meals, group 2 — 20 patients (32 eyes) who received standard conservative therapy for 16 weeks. …”
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E-MAC: Enhanced In-SRAM MAC Accuracy via Digital-to-Time Modulation by Saeed Seyedfaraji, Salar Shakibhamedan, Amire Seyedfaraji, Baset Mesgari, Nima Taherinejad, Axel Jantsch, Semeen Rehman

“…Compared with state-of-the-art analog-based in-SRAM techniques, our E-MAC approach demonstrates significant energy savings (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.89\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and improved accuracy (73.25%) per MAC computation from a 1-V power supply, while achieving a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$11.84\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> energy efficiency improvement over baseline digital approaches. …”
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DADmax/NADmax Ratio: Criterion for the Production and Selection of Demolition Aggregates with Low-Water Absorption by Kamel Akroum, Bouzidi Mezghiche

“…Three representative samples per subfraction were subjected to a twenty-minute water absorption evaluation, resulting in seventy arithmetic averages over 210 trials. …”
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a web-based routine assessment with integrated recommendations for action for depression and anxiety (RehaCAT+): protocol for a cluster rand... by Reinhold Kilian, Harald Baumeister, Yannik Terhorst, Johannes Knauer, Paula Philippi, Selina Kallinger, Sandro Eiler, Tamara Waldmann, Morten Moshagen, Martina Bader

“…Data analysis will follow the intention-to-treat principle with additional per-protocol analyses. Cost-effectiveness analyses will be conducted from a societal perspective and the perspective of the statutory pension insurance.Ethics and dissemination The study will be conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. …”
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Divergent thinking in groups during cold-water immersion is impaired by cold stress not the cold shock response by Max Kailler Smith, Max Kailler Smith, Rebecca Weller, Rebecca Weller, Tony Duong, Tony Duong, Rebecca McClintock, Rebecca McClintock, Matthew Peterson, Nathaniel Barr, Douglas M. Jones, Timothy L. Dunn

“…To date, research shows that executive functioning is generally impaired by intense, acute stress, which implies the ability to think through potential actions to maximize survival would also be impaired by the cold shock response.MethodsTo examine whether the severity of cold shock response impairs higher-level thinking in a group, 29 active duty service members completed a group format Divergent Association Task (DAT; 4–5 per group) prior to and during a 13-min cold-water immersion (water temperature: 1.3°C, air temperature: −2.7°C).ResultsResults showed no relationship between cold shock response magnitude, indexed by peak heart rate, and DAT performance. …”
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Imaging Flow Cytometric Identification of Chromosomal Defects in Paediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia by Ana P. A. Simpson, Carly E. George, Henry Y. L. Hui, Ravi Doddi, Rishi S. Kotecha, Kathy A. Fuller, Wendy N. Erber

“…., expression of CD34, CD10, and CD19 antigens), we assessed for copy numbers of loci for the centromeres of chromosomes 4 and 21 and the <i>ETV6</i> and <i>RUNX1</i> regions using fluorophore-labelled DNA probes in more than 1000 cells per sample. Trisomy 4 and 21, tetrasomy 21, and translocations of <i>ETV6::RUNX1,</i> as well as gains and losses of <i>ETV6</i> and <i>RUNX1,</i> could all be identified based on FISH spot counts and digital imagery. …”
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Adipose-Derived Cells (Stromal Vascular Fraction) Transplanted for Orthopedical or Neurological Purposes: Are They Safe Enough? by Katarzyna Siennicka, Aleksandra Zolocinska, Karolina Stepien, Natalia Lubina-Dabrowska, Marzena Maciagowska, Ewa Zolocinska, Anna Slysz, Renata Piusinska-Macoch, Slawomir Mazur, Urszula Zdanowicz, Robert Smigielski, Adam Stepien, Zygmunt Pojda

“…Methods of adipose tissue collection, cell isolation and purification, and resulting cell numbers, viability, and morphology were considered, and patient’s age, sex, disease type, and method of cell administration (cell numbers per single application, treatment numbers and frequency, and methods of cell implantation) were analysed and searched for the unwanted clinical effects. …”
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Quality Control of Fetal Wharton&rsquo;s Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles by Krishnan I, Ng CY, Kee LT, Ng MH, Law JX, Thangarajah T, Zainuddin AA, Mahmood Z, Rajamanickam S, Subramani B, Lokanathan Y

“…Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) were isolated separately from these four WJMSCs samples using the Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) method and were characterized per Minimal Information for Studies of Extracellular Vesicles (MISEV2018) guidelines. …”
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Robust proteome profiling of cysteine-reactive fragments using label-free chemoproteomics by George S. Biggs, Emma E. Cawood, Aini Vuorinen, William J. McCarthy, Harry Wilders, Ioannis G. Riziotis, Antonie J. van der Zouwen, Jonathan Pettinger, Luke Nightingale, Peiling Chen, Andrew J. Powell, David House, Simon J. Boulton, J. Mark Skehel, Katrin Rittinger, Jacob T. Bush

“…Data-independent acquisition performed on a Bruker timsTOF Pro 2 consistently identified ~23,000 cysteine sites per run, with a total of ~32,000 cysteine sites profiled in HEK293T and Jurkat lysate. …”
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Perennial disaster patterns in Central Europe since 2000 and implications for hospital preparedness planning – a cross-sectional analysis by Maik von der Forst, Maximilian Dietrich, Felix C. F. Schmitt, Erik Popp, Markus Ries

“…Overall, the number of events per year fluctuates without a clear trend, only the technological events appear to become less frequent with 70% (n = 56) of the registered disasters occurring in the first half of the study period (2000–2011). …”
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Prevalence and investigation of Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in blood donors from the main blood establishment in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil by Agildo da Silva Oliveira, Jéssica Gonçalves Pereira, Gabrielle Tantos Nunes, Ivanildo Pedro de Sousa Junior, Dmitry José de Santana Sarmento, Josiane Iole França Lopes, Luiz Amorim Filho, Vanessa Salete de Paula

“…Discussion: Given that there are approximately 100,000 blood donations per year, this prevalence rate is considerably high compared to that in developed countries. …”
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Variability of the photoperiod response in guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.) genotypes of different geographic origin by S. B. Teplyakova, V. A. Volkov, E. А. Dzyubenko, E. К. Potokina

“…It has been  established that  for the same guar plant the critical photoperiod initiating the formation  of buds may not coincide with the critical photoperiod required for their flushing (i. e. flowering per se). The observed fact confirms the hypothesis reported earlier about a two-stage launch of the flowering program in guar, according to which budding and flowering itself are controlled by independent gene  systems. …”
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Use of standardized nasal and skin decolonization to reduce rates of bacteremia in patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation by Madyson Taylor, Russell L Griffin, Jeremey Walker, Catina James, Angela Akinsanya, Mary Duncan, Rachael A Lee

“…Following implementation of decolonization, the overall incidence rate of BSI increased nonsignificantly from 10.7 to 14.0 infections per 1000 ECMO days (aRR 1.09, 95% CI 0.74–1.59). …”
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Acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) for psychological distress associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): protocol for a feasibility trial of the ACTforIBD programme by Richard Gearry, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Andrew McCombie, Peter Gibson, Simon Knowles, Lisa Olive, Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Subhadra Evans, Leanne Raven, Daniel Romano, Eric O, Madeleine Dober, Leesa van Niekerk, Susan Chesterman

“…The ACTforIBD programme is administered online with a 4-hour therapist involvement per participant only; if successful it can be widely implemented to improve the well-being of many individuals with IBD.Methods and analysis Our team have codesigned with consumers the ACTforIBD programme, an 8-week intervention of 1-hour sessions, with the first three sessions and the last session delivered one-to-one by a psychologist, and the other sessions self-directed online. …”
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Il Ruolo della Leadership Infermieristica in un’Organizzazione Etica e Sostenibile by Sipontina Rita Zerulo, Maria Romilda Filice, Chiara Maddalo, Angelo Pirreco, Federico Ruta, Davide Ulvieri, Bruno Cavaliere

“…Quindi sarebbe opportuno considerare l’etica e la sostenibilità un elemento identitario del management infermieristico e revisionare il sistema formativo ed organizzativo per rendere indissolubile questa relazione. …”
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Reproductive Performance in a Selected Sample of Dairy Farms in Una-Sana Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina by Adis Softic, Adam Dunstan Martin, Eystein Skjerve, Nihad Fejzic, Teufik Goletic, Aida Kustura, Erik Georg Granquist

“…The mean number of services per pregnancy was 2.61 (range 1–12). The median calving-to-first-insemination interval was 62.5 days (5th–95th percentile range 16–408). …”
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