Association of Self-Reported Weight Change and Quality of Life, and Exercise and Weight Management Behaviors Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The SHIELD Study by Susan Grandy, Kathleen M. Fox, Debbra D. Bazata

“…This study examined the association between self-reported weight change and quality of life, and exercise and weight management behaviors among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods. In the US SHIELD study, respondents reported whether they had lost or gained weight compared with 1 year earlier and completed the SHIELD-WQ-9 quality of life questionnaire as well as provided information on their exercise and weight management behaviors in the past 12 months. …”
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Finite Element Modeling and Analysis of Nonlinear Impact and Frictional Motion Responses Including Fluid—Structure Coupling Effects by Yong Zhao

“…Using these models 3D nonlinear time history dynamic analyses are performed per the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) criteria. …”
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Zinc Chloride Smoke Inhalation Induced Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: First Survival in the United States with Extended Duration (Five Weeks) Therapy with High Dose Co... by Hafiz Mahboob, Robert Richeson III, Robert McCain

“…We report the first survival of smoke induced severe ARDS in the United States (US) with prolonged use of high dose steroids (five weeks) and lung protective ventilation alone. …”
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Analytic Models of Brown Dwarfs and the Substellar Mass Limit by Sayantan Auddy, Shantanu Basu, S. R. Valluri

“…An analytic formula for the luminosity evolution allows us to estimate the time period of the nonsteady state (i.e., non-main-sequence) nuclear burning for substellar objects. …”
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Communities Detection in Multiplex Networks Using Optimization: Study Case—Employment in Mexico during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Edwin Montes-Orozco, Roman Anselmo Mora-Gutiérrez, Sergio Gerardo De-Los-Cobos-Silva, Roberto Bernal-Jaquez, Eric Alfredo Rincón-García, Miguel Angel Gutiérrez-Andrade, Pedro Lara-Velázquez

“…On the other hand, with the idea of the VCP, we manage to minimize the number of groups, which allows us to identify the communities well. To apply this methodology, we present the dynamic characterization of job loss, change, and acquisition behavior for the Mexican population before and during the COVID-19 pandemic modeled as a 4- layer multiplex network. …”
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Assessment of Hyaluronidase among Type Strains of a Select Group of Staphylococcal Species by Mark E. Hart, Morgan J. Hart, Anna J. Roop

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Disease Control for Snap Beans in Florida by Shouan Zhang, Nicholas Dufault, Mathews Paret, Pamela Roberts, Guodong Liu, Qingren Wang

“…Midwinter bean production, the most profitable for Florida, is centered in the Homestead, southwest Florida, and Belle Glade areas. Based on the 2012 US Census of Agriculture (NASS, USDA), snap bean is an economically important vegetable crop in Florida with a total of 33,338 acres harvested in 2012. …”
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The Relevance of HLA Sequencing in Population Genetics Studies by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Diogo Meyer

“…Boosting the molecular characterization of the HLA genes through efficient, rapid, and low-cost technologies is expected to amplify the success of tissue transplantation by enabling us to find donor-recipient matching for rare phenotypes. …”
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Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of CoTiSi half-Heusler alloy: Doping overtones by A. Shukla, Sadhana Matth, Raghavendra Pal, S. S. A. Warsi, Himanshu Pandey

“…Following this, we analyze the thermal transport properties of the alloy under the constant relaxation time approximation, which allows us to gain insights into its thermoelectric performance. …”
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Probiotics to Prevent the Need for, and Augment the Use of, Antibiotics by Gregor Reid

“…Although humans and microbes are inseparable, our knowledge and understanding of the majority of microbes that help keep us alive and well is in desperate need of further investigation. …”
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Document Information Extraction: An Analysis of Invoice Anatomy by Mouad Hamri, Maxime Devanne, Jonathan Weber, Michel Hassenforder

“…We conducted several experiments where we compared the results obtained when we tested on templates that included variants not encountered during the training phase versus when we introduced them to the training dataset. This allowed us to analyse the improvement in results after adding these previously unseen variants. …”
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Mindfulness-based relapse prevention for drug addiction in Nepal: impact and implications of an initial 2-day training of trainers by Arun Jha, Bharat Goit, Robin Jha, Prerna Jha, Prabhat Kiran Pradhan, Achyut Acharya

“…Feedback suggested a high degree of satisfaction and provided comments to improve the programme. It has prompted us to design online MBRP training and set up a feasibility study for an MBRP programme in Nepal. …”
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Grapes, Wines, and Changing Times: A Bibliometric Analysis of Climate Change Influence by Diego Grazia, Chiara Mazzocchi, Giordano Ruggeri, Stefano Corsi

“…The use of quantitative and qualitative methods allows us to investigate how research has evolved over the years. …”
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Severe Case of Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: Recovery after Injection of Procaine into the Vesicoprostatic Plexus—Case Report and Discussion of Pathophysiology and Mechanisms of Ac... by R. M. Kronenberg, S. M. Ludin, L. Fischer

“…At the first consultation with us the patient was in a particularly severe pain phase. …”
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Online experience sharing without explicit social interaction does not foster social bonding by Wouter Wolf, Kayley Dotson

“…In the current pre-registered study, we examined whether this capacity still operates effectively on shared screens during non-communicative video mediated interactions, in dyads and in groups. Participants (N = 144 US participants, 71 female, 72 male, 1 non-binary) either watched a video on a shared screen together with (pre-recorded) partners or watched individually while these partners attended to something else. …”
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Investigation on Hydration and Deformation Characteristics of Shale Using X-ray Computed Tomography by Yong-Ting Duan, Xiao Li, Bo Zheng, Bai-Cun Yang

“…Those conclusions can help us further understand the water effect and the deformation characteristics of shale oil and gas reservoirs.…”
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المعالم الأساسیة لاختصاصی المعلومات فی ضوء إدارة المعرفة by د. لطیفة على الکمیشى

“…In order to cope with this overwhelming revolution of information andimprove the performance of the application of knowledge management is one ofthe means by which organizations can seek refuge in the grounds that knowledgemanagement is in the contemporary world of the most important modern ideaswhich make an effective contribution to the success of businesses andinstitutions.I have appeared several new concepts imposed on us as a result of theemergence of modern technologies such as the concept of data, information andknowledge, has been linked to the researchers between knowledge managementand knowledge management and library science as a result of the vast amount ofinformation became necessary to develop a strategy for how to manage theinformation and then the back of the so-called knowledge management.Knowledge management is also a great opportunity for libraries to raise thequality of services offered by the beneficiaries. …”
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Applying Data Analysis and Machine Learning Methods to Predict Permafrost Coast Erosion by Daria Bogatova, Stanislav Ogorodov

“…Thus, modern information processing methods allow us to move from descriptive to numerical assessments of the dynamics of coastal processes. …”
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Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading? by Rick Mourist

“…These findings have major implications on how we view the demographic and epidemiological transition, and forces us to reconsider existing explanations for improvements in survival during the 19th century. …”
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Problem ochrony gatunku popielicy (Glis glis L.) w Polsce by Magdalena Klaudia Terlecka

“…The choice depends only on us.…”
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