The effect of muscle energy technique on pain, kinesiophobia, and quality of life in patients with COPD with chronic pain by Serpil Mıhçıoğlu, Mehtap Malkoç

“…The intervention group received MET 3 times a week for 4 weeks, while the control group was given a home exercise program. …”
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Differential between Protein and mRNA Expression of CCR7 and SSTR5 Receptors in Crohn's Disease Patients by Nathalie Taquet, Serge Dumont, Jean-Luc Vonesch, Didier Hentsch, Jean-Marie Reimund, Christian D. Muller

“…In biopsies of CD intestinal tissue, SSTR5 was not over-expressed but CCR7, unchanged in PBMCs, was over-expressed by 10 ± 3 times in the lamina propria. Confocal microscopy showed a good correlation of CCR7 mRNA and protein expression in CD intestinal biopsies. …”
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Multiple endemic states in age-structured $SIR$ epidemic models by Andrea Franceschetti, Andrea Pugliese, Dimitri Breda

“…  &nbsp Here, we show anexample in the form of a $3 \times 3$ contact matrix in which multiplenon-trivial steady states exist. …”
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COMBINATION OF ULTRASOUND THERAPY, MUSCLE ENERGY TECHNIQUE, AND SUSTAINED NATURAL APOPHYSEAL GLIDES IN NON-SPECIFIC NECK PAIN – A CASE SERIES by Ni Komang Ayu Juni Antari, Anak Agung Gede Angga Puspa Negara, Made Hendra Satria Nugraha

“…Case: The intervention was given in 12 sessions (3 times per week for 4 weeks) with the total duration of therapy per session is 20 minutes. …”
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A Negative Capacitance Field-Effect Transistor with High Rectification Efficiency for Weak-Energy 2.45 GHz Microwave Wireless Transmission by Hualian Tang, Ailan Tang, Weifeng Liu, Jingxiang Huang, Jianjun Song, Wenjie Sun

“…The results show that at a microwave frequency of 2.45 GHz, the designed NCFET rectifier achieves rectification efficiencies of 16.1% and 29.75% at input power densities of −10 dBm and −6 dBm, respectively, which are 7.15 and 2.3 times higher than those of conventional silicon-based MOS devices. …”
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Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy on pain of patients with low back pain by Sudha BANTH, Maryam Didehdar ARDEBiL

“…The subjects were referred from physiotherapy centres of Ardebil (northwest of Iran), assessed at three time frames; before, after and four weeks after intervention by pain Mac Gil Pain questionnaire. …”
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Adaptive Oversampling via Density Estimation for Online Imbalanced Classification by Daeun Lee, Hyunjoong Kim

“…Experimental evaluations across synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrated that the proposed method achieved up to a 13.3 times improvement in classification performance over established oversampling methods and up to a 1.66 times better performance over adaptive rebalancing approaches, while requiring significantly less memory. …”
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A universal and wide-range cytosine base editor via domain-inlaid and fidelity-optimized CRISPR-FrCas9 by Lan Hu, Jing Han, Hao-Da Wang, Zhou-Hua Cheng, Chang-Ce Lv, Dong-Feng Liu, Han-Qing Yu

“…The deaminase domain-inlaid FrCas9n exhibits an editing range covering 38 nucleotides upstream and downstream of the palindromic PAM, without context preference, which is 6.3 times larger than that of traditional CBEs. Additionally, lower off-target editing is achieved when incorporating high-fidelity mutations at R61A and Q964A in FrCas9n, while maintaining high editing efficiency. …”
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Keratitis due to Chaetomium sp. by Jayaraman Kaliamurthy, Catti Munuswamy Kalavathy, Christadoss Arul Nelson Jesudasan, Philip A. Thomas

“…The patient was treated with topical natamycin (5%) hourly and cyclopentolate 1% drops 3 times a day. After 4 weeks of therapy, the hypopyon had disappeared, the epithelial defect had healed, and the stromal infiltration had almost completely resolved; the visual acuity of the eye improved from hand movements to (1/2)/60. …”
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Addition of EM-4 (effective microorganisms-4) to reduce BOD (biologycal oxygen demand) of batik cap waste in Pekalongan City by Kiswanto, Wintah

“…The study used 3 variations of EM-4 doses, namely 0 ml / l, 5 ml / l, 10 ml / l and 15 ml / l with incubation time for 1, 2, 3 days and replication 3 times. From the results of the study obtained a decrease in BOD with the addition of EM-4 (5 ml/l, 10 ml/l, and 15 ml/l) of 61.24%, 90.71% and 92.42%. …”
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PENGARUH LAMA PENGGUNAAN MULSA DAN DOSIS PUPUK KANDANG TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN CABAI (Capsilum Annum) SEBAGAI BAHAN PENYUSUN PETUNJUK PRAKTIKUM BIOLOGI KEL... by Zainal Aripin

“…At this stage of research using Grid Design Divided (RPT) which uses two treatments, use of mulch and manure dose use with penggulangan 3 times, while in the Development stage using the results of research into practical instructions were validated by various experts. …”
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Urologic Characteristics and Sexual Behaviors Associated with Prostate Cancer in an African-Caribbean Population in Barbados, West Indies by Anselm J. M. Hennis, Suh-Yuh Wu, Barbara Nemesure, M. Cristina Leske

“…Cases were around 1.5 to 3 times more likely to report symptoms of prostatic enlargement, hematuria/hematospermia, and previous prostatitis. …”
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Protection against the Phytotoxic Effect of Mercury Chloride by Catechin and Quercetin by Yedda M. L. S. de Matos, Daniel L. M. Vasconcelos, Antonio C. H. Barreto, Janaína E. Rocha, José B. de Araújo-Neto, Fábia F. Campina, Maria Milene C. da Silva, Tássia T. Al Yafawi, Celestina E. Sobral-Souza, Jacqueline C. A. Pinheiro, Saulo R. Tintino, Amanda K. Sousa, Raimundo N. P. Teixeira, Juan C. Alvarez-Pizarro, João H. da Silva, Abolghasem Siyadatpanah, Bonglee Kim, Henrique D. M. Coutinho

“…When the metal was associated with catechin and quercetin, there was an increase in dry mass of almost 3 times when compared with the HgCl2 alone, demonstrating that these flavonoids act as cytoprotective agents. …”
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Abnormal Blood Glucose as a Prognostic Factor for Adverse Clinical Outcome in Children Admitted to the Paediatric Emergency Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana by Emmanuel Ameyaw, Kwame Amponsah-Achiano, Peter Yamoah, Jean-Pierre Chanoine

“…Subjects with dysglycaemia were 3 times (95% CI: 1.5–6.0) more likely to die and 4.8 times (95% CI: 3.1–7.5) more likely to develop complications (P=0.001). …”
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Winter stress resistance of apple tree under the conditions of Krasnodar Territory by G. K. Kiseleva, E. V. Ulyanovskaya, T. V. Skhalyakho, A. V. Karavaeva

“…In the process of wintering, the anthocyanin content increased 2.9–4.3 times in the domestic cultivars, and 2.4–2.8 times in foreign ones. …”
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Becoming a new parent during the pandemic: experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period by Emma Blakey, Daniel Kuria, Michelle McGillion, Fiona Scott

“…Responses were analysed thematically, taking an interpretivist approach, and drawing across the three time periods. Parents reported conflicting feelings, negative feelings and silver linings cutting across eight themes, including: impacts on well-being, feeling without a village, changes to healthcare, atypical social experiences as a new parent, differential impacts on financial and working lives, conflicting feelings around digital technology, anger and worry regarding contradictory government guidance and recommendations for other parents. …”
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A New Combination Formula for Treatment of Fungal Keratitis: An Experimental Study by Hala Mohamed El-Mofty, Mohamad Amr Salah Eddin Abdelhakim, Mohamed Farid El-Miligi, Mohamed A. El-Nabarawi, Islam Ahmed Hamed Khalil

“…In vivo evaluation was performed on 24 rabbits divided into 2 groups, 12 rabbits each, group A (fast release formula; 6 times daily) and group B (slow release formula; 3 times daily). Each group was divided into two subgroups (6 rabbits each). …”
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Therapeutic exercise protocol for the prevention of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in female soccer players with dynamic knee valgus (RCT) by Amanda Coves García, Emilio José Poveda Pagán

“…Measurements will be taken at 3 time points. The biomechanics of the lower limbs, the jump-landing dynamics, and the pre- and post-training satisfaction of the players will be evaluated. …”
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Investigation on the Time Factor of CO-Based Emission Factors for Sustainable Development of Urban Tunnels in China by Weiwei Liu, Jianxun Chen, Yanbin Luo, Zhou Shi, Yunfei Wu, Zilong Xu, Fangfang Dong

“…The time factors of CO-based emission backcalculated from the measured data range from 4.9% to 12.6%, which are 2.4–6.3 times the specified value in the Chinese ventilation specification but slightly smaller than predicted ones. …”
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Investment attractiveness of the region’s development pole: methodology and analysis by M. M. Avezova, A. A. Urunov, M. A. Nasimova

“…It has been proved that the investment attractiveness of the development pole is 2.3 times higher than the investment attractiveness of the food industry chosen as a base for comparison. …”
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