Return to Activities of Daily Living after Breast Cancer Surgery: An Observational Prospective Questionnaire-Based Study of Patients Undergoing Mastectomy with or without Immediate... by L. Ballance, R. L. Wilson, C. C. Kirwan, G. Boundouki, V. P. Taxiarchi, B. G. Baker, V. Rusius, M. Rowland, J. R. Henderson, N. Marikakis, J. McAleer, J. R. Harvey, On Behalf of the Northwest Breast Research Collaborative

“…Patients often ask about the time taken to return to activities of daily living (ADLs) after breast surgery, but there is a lack of data to give accurate guidance. …”
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Long-Term Anatomic and Functional Outcomes after Macular Hole Surgery by Karolina Kaźmierczak, Joanna Stafiej, Joanna Stachura, Paweł Żuchowski, Grażyna Malukiewicz

“…We found that the IS/OS junction defects correlated with the diameter of the MH (p=0.016), whereas ELM defects correlated with both the diameter of the MH (p=0.001) and duration time of the MH (p=0.008). The presence of ELM defects in OCT was the cause of inferior BCVA in long-term observation time (p=0.004). …”
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Energy-Saving Metro Train Timetable Optimization Method Based on a Dynamic Passenger Flow Distribution by Jingshuang Li, Fuquan Pan, Hailiang Tang, Sen Tong, Lixia Zhang, Xinguang Li, Xiaoxia Yang

“…The interstation running time and dwell time of the metro train are optimized to increase the amount of regenerative braking energy used during the overlap time between the traction and braking actions of adjacent trains in the train operation timetable. …”
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To remove or to replace traditional electronic games? A crossover randomised controlled trial on the impact of removing or replacing home access to electronic games on physical act... by Anne J Smith, Leon M Straker, Rebecca A Abbott

“…Secondary outcomes included sedentary time and diary assessed physical activity and sedentary behaviours.Results Daily MVPA across the whole week was not significantly different between conditions. …”
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A new hybrid distance and similarity based scenario reduction approach for stochastic economic operation of microgrid by Gaurav Gangil, Amit Saraswat, Sunil Kumar Goyal

“…Moreover, the proposed HDS methods also outperforms the other three competing methods in terms of their objective function values after 98 % scenario reduction with a least computation time burden i.e. 87.6 %, 1.11 %, and 53 % less computing times are needed by HDS, FFS, and SIMCOR, respectively. …”
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Change of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels following Vitrectomy in Eyes with Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy by Hui-Jin Chen, Zhi-Zhong Ma, Ying Li, Chang-Guan Wang

“…Both the absolute value of postoperative VEGF concentrations and the postop/baseline VEGF ratios declined with time and dramatically decreased in groups 3 and 4. …”
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The effects of 8 weeks of multi-directional movement training combined with balance training on the change of direction of young table tennis players by Qianqian Chen, Yanfei Li, Xinchen Heng, Lei Zhao, Bin Wu

“…No significant group effects were found for the hexagon agility test, 3 m side slide test, A-movement test, or the whole table variable speed pendulum test (p > 0.05). Significant time-by-group interactions were noted for all variables (p < 0.05), indicating that improvements over time differed between the MB and CON groups. …”
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The ANFIS-RSM based multi-objective optimization and modelling of ultrasound-assisted extraction of polyphenols from jamun fruit (Syzygium cumini) by Mohammad Ganje, Somayyeh Gharibi, Fatemeh Nejatpour, Maryam Deilamipour, Kimia Goshadehrou, Sahra Saberyan, Gholamreza Abdi

“…It examined how temperature, process time, solvent type, and extraction method affected the yield of extracted polyphenols. …”
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CHRONOTYPE AND DAILY FUNCTIONING OF PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT MOTOR SUBTYPES OF PARKINSON DISEASE by A.D. Shkodina, M. Bardhan, K.A. Tarianyk, M. Yu. Delva

“…Patients with the PIGD subtype had a later time of getting out of bed (p=0.038), longer sleep inertia (p<0.001), shorter sleep duration (p<0.001), and later mid-sleep time (p=0.028). …”
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Population pharmacokinetics of iruplinalkib in healthy volunteers and patients with solid tumors by Guihong Yang, Yimei Wang, Huimin Zhao, Ziyi Jiang, Shansong Zheng, Mingjing Ge, Meimei Si, Xiaoyan Kang

“…Baseline body weight, time‐varying albumin, time‐varying creatinine clearance, and time‐varying lactate dehydrogenase were significant covariates of apparent clearance from the central compartment (CL/F) while baseline body weight was a significant covariate of apparent volume of the central compartment (V1/F). …”
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Navigating next-gen nutrition care using artificial intelligence-assisted dietary assessment tools—a scoping review of potential applications by Anuja Phalle, Devaki Gokhale

“…Conventional dietary assessment methods are time-consuming, labor-driven, and have high recall bias. …”
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In vitro and in silico analysis of dual-function peptides derived from casein hydrolysate by Maolin Tu, Xinyu Qiao, Cong Wang, Hanxiong Liu, Shuzhen Cheng, Zhe Xu, Ming Du

“…In this work, the anticoagulant and ACEI activities of the casein hydrolysates released by pepsin digestion were evaluated for the first time to the best of our knowledge. Results indicated that the casein hydrolysate exhibited potent anticoagulant activity by prolonging the thrombin time (TT) and the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT). …”
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Acute effect of technique modification training on 180° change of direction performance and kinematics in adolescent male soccer players by Hayato Nakamura, Daichi Yamashita, Daichi Nishiumi, Naoto Nakaichi, Norikazu Hirose

“…The participants performed Pro-Agility and 20-m sprint tests before and after the intervention, and the total times were measured. COD deficit (CODD) was calculated as the difference between these times. …”
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Vigorous Exercise Enhances Verbal Fluency Performance in Healthy Young Adults by Maya M. Khanna, Corey L. Guenther, Joan M. Eckerson, Dion Talamante, Mary Elizabeth Yeh, Megan Forby, Krystal Hopkins, Emmali Munger, Grace Rauh, Shringala Chelluri, Courtney Schmidt, Isabel Walocha, Matthew Sacco

“…Most notably, participants engaged in exercise changed their VFT performance over time, while control group participants did not. Exercising participants produced more words over the course of their exercise session that contained fewer letters over time and were lower in frequency during and after exercise as compared to before exercise. …”
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Clinical course of patients relisted for orthotopic heart transplantation: A national study by David Rekhtman, BS, Amit Iyengar, MD, MSE, Nikhil Ganjoo, BA, Cindy Song, BA, Noah Weingarten, MD, Max Shin, MD, Michaela Asher, MPhil, John DePaolo, MD, PhD, Marisa Cevasco, MD, MPH, Pavan Atluri, MD

“…We sought to describe the baseline characteristics, outcomes, and hospital selection of relisted patients by comparing their clinical status at the time of initial and subsequent listing. Methods: The United Network for Organ Sharing database was queried for adults listed for first-time isolated heart transplantation between October 18, 2018 and September 30, 2023. …”
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Mapping provider and consumer voices using the AACTT framework: a focus group study of advance care planning by Lisa Guccione, Stephanie Best, Sonia Fullerton, Sanchia Aranda, Jill J. Francis

“…The action, actor, context, target, time (AACTT) framework provides a consistent approach to identifying key elements such as ‘who’ (actor) does ‘what’ (action), ‘where’ (context), ‘to or with whom’ (target) and ‘when’ (time). …”
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Characteristics of the IBEX Ribbon and Their Implications for a Source Region Outside the Heliopause by Sung Jun Noh, Daniel B. Reisenfeld, Lauren J. Beesley, Yue Chen, Fan Guo, Herbert O. Funsten, Paul H. Janzen, Thomas K. Kim, Asher Merrill, Dave Osthus, Nehpreet K. Walia, Eric J. Zirnstein

“…Utilizing statistically robust metrics, this study reveals details of the ribbon across energy and time. Key findings include energy- and time-dependent variations in flux, angular radius, ribbon profile width, and higher moments. …”
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Development of a Sustainable Flexible Humidity Sensor Based on <i>Tenebrio molitor</i> Larvae Biomass-Derived Chitosan by Ezekiel Edward Nettey-Oppong, Riaz Muhammad, Emmanuel Ackah, Hojun Yang, Ahmed Ali, Hyun-Woo Jeong, Seong-Wan Kim, Young-Seek Seok, Seung Ho Choi

“…The developed sensor exhibited a broad range of measurements from 6% to 97% relative humidity (RH), a high sensitivity of 2.43 kΩ/%RH, and a rapid response time of 18.22 s with a corresponding recovery time of 22.39 s. …”
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Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Does Not Affect Muscle Synergy for Rowing Activities by Chie Sekine, Naoto Matsunaga, Yu Okubo, Mika Hangai, Koji Kaneoka

“…At the 80% time point, the SP of the module was 99.9%. The SP results indicate that, at 20% and 80% time points, both groups had the same module. …”
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Efficient evidence selection for systematic reviews in traditional Chinese medicine by Yizhen Li, Zhe Huang, Zhongzhi Luan, Shujing Xu, Yunan Zhang, Lin Wu, Darong Wu, Dongran Han, Yixing Liu

“…The selection process is recorded in real-time, allowing researchers to backtrack and verify its accuracy. …”
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