Exploring the Determinants of Long-Term Physical Activity Maintainenance from a Maintainers Perspective: What do they say? by Livia Kellerhals, Claudio R. Nigg

“…The interviews were transcribed, anonymized, coded into meaning segments, sorted into themes, and finally grouped into categories. …”
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Association of Pneumatosis Intestinalis With Surgical Outcomes and Mortality: A Matched, Retrospective Cohort Study and Literature Review by Kyle D. Klingbeil, MD, MS, Hila Zelicha, PhD, RD, Yijun Chen, MD, Douglas S. Bell, MD, Edward H. Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF

“…Patients were initially identified using encounter diagnostic codes for “other specified diseases of intestine.” …”
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Intelligent physiological signal infosecurity: Case study in photoplethysmography (PPG) signal by Chia‐Hung Lin, Jian‐Xing Wu, Neng‐Sheng Pai, Pi‐Yun Chen, Chien‐Ming Li, Ching Chou Pai

“…The sine‐power chaotic map is used as a key generator of 256 non‐ordered numbers (key space) to set the private cipher codes. Two RBFNs are used to train an encryptor and a decryptor with the authorised cipher codes. …”
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Incidence and risk factors for mortality of vertebral osteomyelitis: a retrospective analysis using the Japanese diagnosis procedure combination database by Hideo Yasunaga, Hirotaka Chikuda, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Toru Akiyama, Kazuo Saita

“…Objective To examine the incidence of vertebral osteomyelitis (VO) and the clinical features of VO focusing on risk factors for death using a Japanese nationwide administrative database.Design Retrospective observational study.Setting Hospitals adopting the Diagnosis Procedure Combination system during 2007–2010.Participants We identified 7118 patients who were diagnosed with VO (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes: A18.0, M46.4, M46.5, M46.8, M46.9, M48.9 and M49.3, checked with the detailed diagnoses in each case and all other codes indicating the presence of a specific infection) and hospitalised between July and December, 2007–2010, using the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database.Main outcome measures The annual incidence of VO was estimated. …”
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Nutritional knowledge and practices of low-income women during pregnancy: a qualitative study in two Oaxacan cities by Marian Marian, Ramona L. Pérez, Amanda C. McClain, Samantha Hurst, Elizabeth Reed, Kathryn M. Barker, Rebecka Lundgren

“…A grounded theory approach was used for coding. NVivo was used for coding and analyses. Results Five key themes emerged linked to individual-level characteristics and the multiple social identities related to the social support for nutritional knowledge and practices among low-income Oaxacan women during pregnancy: (1) Life experiences, sociodemographic, and health characteristics that influence nutritional practices and knowledge during pregnancy; (2) Female family members as a primary source of nutritional knowledge and food support; (3) Support from other members of women’s social networks; (4) Medical guidance for nutrition during pregnancy; and (5) Quality and gaps in the broader health care system and social services. …”
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A Digital-based Talent Acquisition Framework for Start-ups: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study by Mohammad Hosein Kenarroodi, Hasan Boudlaie

“…Findings Following the interviews, the data was coded in three stages, leading to the extraction of three general categories consisting of basic themes, organizing themes, and comprehensive themes. …”
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Comparative genomics reveals low levels of inter- and intraspecies diversity in the causal agents of dwarf and common bunt of wheat and hint at conspecificity of Tilletia caries an... by Somayyeh Sedaghatjoo, Bagdevi Mishra, Monika K. Forster, Yvonne Becker, Jens Keilwagen, Berta Killermann, Marco Thines, Petr Karlovsky, Wolfgang Maier

“…Less than 0.1% of the protein-coding genes were species-specific and their function remained mostly unknown. …”
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Cooperation Between <i>Rhodococcus qinshengii</i> and <i>Rhodococcus erythropolis</i> for Carbendazim Degradation by Roosivelt Solano-Rodríguez, Fortunata Santoyo-Tepole, Mario Figueroa, Voleta Larios-Serrato, Nora Ruiz-Ordaz, Abigail Pérez-Valdespino, Everardo Curiel-Quesada

“…Sequencing analysis of genomes of both strains revealed the presence of <i>cbm</i>A, the gene coding for the enzyme that hydrolyses carbendazim to produce 2-aminobenzimidazole (2-AB). …”
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Genomic characterization of Achromobacter genogroup 20 and identification of a potential species-specific marker by Mariana Papalia, Rocio Stucchi, Valeria Alexander, Liliana Clara, Mariángeles Visus, Gabriel Gutkind, Marcela Radice

“…NGS was conducted using Illumina MiSeq, on the NextSeq500 platform with 150 bp paired-end reads, and de novo assembly was assessed using Unicycler (Galaxy). Coding sequences were predicted and confirmed with RAST and BLAST, and resistance determinants were evaluated using Resfinder and manual curation. …”
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Perceived effectiveness and recommendations from a childbirth quality assurance and improvement programme in India’s private sector: a qualitative evaluation using the RE-AIM frame... by Katherine Semrau, Meghna Desai, Lauren Spigel, Somesh Kumar, Megan Marx Delaney, Lauren Bobanski, Suranjeen Pallipamula, Natalie Henrich, Tapas Sadasivan Nair, Hema Divakar, Rajat Chabba, Shweta Jindal, Gulnoza Usmanova, Sukanya Dutta, Aarushi Gupta, Sucheta Kinjawadekar, Priti Kumar, Priyanka Kumari, Prerna Mukharya, Hrishikesh Pai, Ameya Purandare, Pompy Sridhar

“…Participants included facility owners, nurses, FOGSI quality assessors, programme implementers and Manyata leaders. Data were coded and analysed using a deductive and inductive process. …”
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Portrait of WWP1: the current state in human cancer by Jiaming Lei, Jun Chen, Wenwen Yu, Qing Wu, Shuang Jing, Yuanguang Tang, Li Lin, Meichun Hu

“…Its expression is modulated by various factors and non-coding RNAs, resulting in ubiquitination that affects substrate protein degradation. …”
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Rate Adaptive Selective Segment Assignment for Reliable Wireless Video Transmission by Sajid Nazir, Dejan Vukobratović, Vladimir Stanković, Ivan Andonović

“…A reliable video communication system is proposed based on data partitioning feature of H.264/AVC, used to create a layered stream, and LT codes for erasure protection. The proposed scheme termed rate adaptive selective segment assignment (RASSA) is an adaptive low-complexity solution to varying channel conditions. …”
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Study on Soil Spring Model for Pipe and Silty Clay Interaction Based on Physical Model Test by Liyun Li, Junyan Han, Xiangjian Wang

“…The previous soil spring model cannot describe the nonlinear characteristics of soil in elastic stage, and there are some shortcomings in the selection of soil spring parameters in some published codes. Meanwhile, the literatures about the spring model for pipe and silty clay interaction are rare. …”
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The Role of MicroRNAs in Diabetic Nephropathy by Hao Wu, Lili Kong, Shanshan Zhou, Wenpeng Cui, Feng Xu, Manyu Luo, Xiangqi Li, Yi Tan, Lining Miao

“…In recent years, research on microRNAs (miRNAs) has become a hotspot because of their critical role in regulating posttranscriptional levels of protein-coding genes that may serve as key pathogenic factors in diseases. …”
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Pesticide Safety Miniposter: Labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) by Rebecca W. Baldwin, Stephanie K. Larrick Hill, Philip Koehler, P. A. Mitola, J. C. Medley

“…The poster has quick response (QR) codes that direct smartphones to short, online videos explaining how to read pesticide labels and MSDSs. …”
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First record of a cold-seep squat lobster Munidopsis lauensis Baba and de Saint Laurent, 1992 (Anomura: Galatheoidea) from Indian waters by Maria-Judith Gonsalves, Shivam Tiwari, Vinay P. Padate, V. Deepak Samuel, Jigneshkumar Trivedi

“…Molecular analysis of the partial mitochondrial gene coding for cytochrome C oxidase subunit I (COI mtDNA), and mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) validated its identity. …”
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Error-Mask-Adaptive Dynamic Filtering for Image Inpainting by Keunsoo Ko, Seunggyun Woo, Chang-Su Kim

“…Experimental results on diverse datasets show that the proposed EMDF algorithm outperforms existing inpainting algorithms significantly. The source codes are available at <uri>https://github.com/keunsoo-ko/EMDF</uri>.…”
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Multidisciplinary Integrated Framework for the Optimal Design of a Jet Aircraft Wing by Laura Mainini, Paolo Maggiore

“…The prototype of the design environment has been developed using both commercial codes and in-house tools and it can be implemented in a geographically distributed and heterogeneous IT context.…”
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“I feare to prefixe to these few poems a long epistle”: Dedications, Addresses to the Reader and Generic Influences by Béatrice Chaix Rouchon

“…Can we trace connections between the codes used in the genre of the main text and those used in the paratextual material? …”
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Alternative Approach for Combination of Fingers in Underwater Acoustic Communication by Ji-Hong Son, Eun-Hye Jeon, Ki-Man Kim, Dong-Won Lee, Tae-Doo Park

“…We conducted simulations and lake trials to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. When the channel coding technique was not applied, the uncoded BER performances of the proposed method, the conventional method, and the nonrake method in the lake trial were 0.016, 0.088, and 0.141, respectively.…”
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