A Nation-Wide Survey of High School Baseball Coaches’ Perceptions Indicates their Arm Care Programs Play a Role in Injury Prevention by K A Matsel, E E Weiss, R J Butler, M C Hoch, P M Westgate, T R Malone, T L Uhl

“…Finally, this study explored the potential barriers to arm care implementation and high school baseball coaches’ current awareness and beliefs of injury prevention. # Study Design Descriptive cross-sectional survey # Methods A 29-item online survey was emailed to 18,500 high school baseball coaches throughout the United States. …”
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Fabrication of Cu: ZnO thin film sensor for ethanol vapor detection by Robin Simkhada, Dalton R. Gibbs, Soma Dhakal, Dipak Oli, Rishi Ram Ghimire, Deependra Das Mulmi, Leela Pradhan Joshi

“…This work showcases the design, analysis, and use of a Cu-doped ZnO (Cu: ZnO) film tailored for detecting traces of ethanol vapor at lower temperatures. …”
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Physicians’ attitudes towards disclosure of payments from pharmaceutical companies in a nationwide voluntary transparency database: a cross-sectional survey by Marlene Stoll, Lara Hubenschmid, Cora Koch, Klaus Lieb, Boris Egloff

“…Objectives To investigate German physicians’ attitudes towards and experiences with voluntary disclosure of payments by pharmaceutical companies in a public database and their impact on future decisions for or against disclosure.Design A national cross-sectional survey conducted in 2018 among physicians who voluntarily disclosed at least one payment in the German transparency regulation.Setting Retrospective paper-pencil questionnaire about attitudes towards and experiences with voluntary payment disclosures in the first (2015) and second (2016) years of the German transparency regulation.Participants German physicians who disclosed either in the first year only, the second year only, or in both years of the transparency regulation.Primary outcomes (1) The probability to disclose in 2016, predicted by physicians’ experience of reactions from others in 2015, descriptive norms and attitudes towards transparency; (2) Frequency and (3) Content of reactions from others in 2015 compared with 2016.Results Data of 234 respondents were analysed (n=42, 45 and 147 physicians who disclosed in 2015, 2016 or both years, respectively). …”
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The Concurrent Validity and Reliability of Single Leg Squat Among Physically Active Females with and without Dynamic Knee Valgus by Nazatul Izzati Jamaludin, Farhah Nadhirah Aiman Sahabuddin, Nur Syahmina Rasudin, Shazlin Shaharudin

“… # Purpose This study aimed to determine the within- and between-day reliability as well as the concurrent validity of 2-D and 3-D motion analysis of lower limb kinematics during 45° and 60° SLS among physically active females with and without DKV. # Study Design Cross-sectional study # Methods A total of 34 physically active females (17 individuals with excessive DKV and 17 without DKV) participated in the study. …”
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Submental liposuction for the management of lymphedema following head and neck cancer treatment: a randomized controlled trial by Uthman Alamoudi, Benjamin Taylor, Colin MacKay, Matthew H. Rigby, Robert Hart, Jonathan R. B. Trites, S. Mark Taylor

“…Methods All head and neck cancer patients at an oncology center in tertiary hospital setting who complained to their attending surgeon or radiation oncologist regarding cervical lymphedema secondary to head and neck cancer treatment, and had been disease-free for a minimum of one year, with no previous facial plastic surgical procedures were eligible for inclusion into the study. Study design was a non-blinded randomized controlled trial. …”
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Comparative efficacy of plant derived extracts with the insecticide mospilan on two whitefly species Bemisia tabaci biotype B and Trialeurodes ricini by Hanaa S. Hussein, Mamdouh H. Idriss, Farouk H. El-Gayar, Hebatullah Yehia Saad Mousa, Mohamed Z. M. Salem

“…Furthermore, using the choice test design, the repellent efficacy of three extracts was investigated against whitefly B. tabaci biotype B. …”
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Sensory quality and nutritional composition of carrot (Daucus carota L.) genotypes as affected by fertilization in production system in Cameroon by Maxime Merlin Tonfack Djoufack, Eric Bertrand Kouam, Edith Marius Kouam Foko, Mariette Anoumaa, Pierre Marie Kaktcham, François Ngoufack Zambou

“…The factors consisted of five carrot genotypes and nine fertilizer types arranged in the field in a split-split plot experimental design. The sensory quality of the carrot samples was assessed by a quantitative descriptive test. …”
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End-to-End Framework for Identifying Vulnerabilities of Operational Technology Protocols and Their Implementations in Industrial IoT by Matthew Boeding, Michael Hempel, Hamid Sharif

“…To meet the need for remote access to system information, protocols designed for the OT space were extended to allow IT networked communications. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Ultra-Wide Low-Frequency Wave Attenuation Using Seismic Metamaterials with Auxetic Slender Strips by Haosheng Liu, Hongbo Zhang

“…Notably, while most existing designs feature lattice constants in the ten-meter range (with the smallest around two meters), our proposed structure achieves these results with a lattice constant of only one meter. …”
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A scoping review on the psychosocial interventions used in day care service for people living with dementia. by Dympna Tuohy, Liz Kingston, Eileen Carey, Margaret Graham, Liz Dore, Owen Doody

“…Services within adult day care settings are designed to provide biopsychosocial health benefits to participants as well as care partner respite.…”
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Innovative Diversity Metrics in Hierarchical Population‐Based Differential Evolution for PEM Fuel Cell Parameter Optimization by Mohammad Khishe, Pradeep Jangir, Arpita, Sunilkumar P. Agrawal, Sundaram B. Pandya, Anil Parmar, Laith Abualigah

“…ABSTRACT The optimization of parameters in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) models is essential for enhancing the design and control of fuel cells and is currently a vibrant area of research. …”
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Femtosecond Laser Implantation of a 355-Degree Intrastromal Corneal Ring Segment in Keratoconus: A Three-Year Follow-Up by Marwa Mahmoud Abdellah, Hatem Gamal Ammar

“…Future Femtolaser Center, Sohag, Egypt. Design. Prospective interventional case series. Patients and Methods. …”
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Assessing the Role of Incubation Temperature as a Barrier to Successful Establishment of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in a Rapidly Warming Arctic by Elizabeth D. Lindley, Karen M. Dunmall, Peter A. H. Westley

“…Using a common garden experimental design, coho salmon embryos were exposed to treatments that thermally mimicked four spawning dates from August 1 to October 1 (AUG1, SEPT1, SEPT15, and OCT1). …”
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PGTransNet: a physics-guided transformer network for 3D ocean temperature and salinity predicting in tropical Pacific by Song Wu, Senliang Bao, Wei Dong, Senzhang Wang, Xiaojiang Zhang, Chengcheng Shao, Junxing Zhu, Xiaoyong Li

“…This model is based on Vision Transformer, and to enhance the performance we have three aspects of improvements. Firstly, we design a loss function that deliveries the physical relationship among temperature, salinity and density by fusing the Thermodynamic Equation. …”
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Knowledge of Essential Newborn Care and Associated Factors among Nurses and Midwives: A Cross-Sectional Study at Public Health Facilities in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2019 by Aseb Arba, Zerihun Zana

“…Institution-based cross-sectional study design was conducted from March to April 2019. Data were collected by using pretested questionnaire, and 36 public health facilities were selected after stratifying them based on their level of service and number of nurses and midwives working in maternal health-care team. …”
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Understanding barriers and facilitators to non-pharmaceutical chronic pain research engagement among people living with chronic pain in the UK: a two-phase mixed-methods approach by Daniel Baker, Kirralise Hansford, Anna E Crossland, Catherine Preston, Kirsten J McKenzie

“…Objectives Chronic pain treatment engagement is dominated by pharmaceutical methods, while previous research has assessed barriers to uptake of non-pharmaceutical treatments, there has not been research one step earlier in the treatment development pipeline; assessing barriers to take part in research that develops non-pharmaceutical chronic pain treatment methods.Design A two-phase approach was used to assess barriers and facilitators to research participation for people living with chronic pain. …”
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Clinical trials since 2020 of rapid anti-suicidal ideation effects of ketamine and its enantiomers: a systematic review by Sumra Sajid, J. John Mann, Michael F. Grunebaum

“…Results The studies include ketamine augmentation of other treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), various routes of administration – intravenous (IV), intramuscular (IM), and intranasal (IN) – and single versus multiple dose designs. Multiple doses of IV ketamine/S-ketamine produced reductions in SI for periods of several days to weeks, while single doses showed shorter, more variable effects. …”
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Continuous Improvements and Future Challenges of Air Pollution Control at an Advanced Semiconductor Fab by Hsueh-Hsing Lu, Ming-Chun Lu, Thi-Cuc Le, Zhiping An, David Y. H. Pui, Chuen-Jinn Tsai

“…After the two-stage treatment, the removal efficiency of the VOCs can reach higher than 98.4%, surpassing the emission standard of 90%. The design parameters and operating conditions of the CWSs meet the criteria set in the emission standard for the semiconductor industry. …”
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Edge-Preserving Probabilistic Downsampling for Reliable Medical Segmentation in Resource-Constrained Environments by Shahzad Ali, Yu Rim Lee, Soo Young Park, Won Young Tak, Soon Ki Jung

“…This study introduces a novel approach, Edge-Preserving Probabilistic Downsampling (EPD), designed to retain critical details and bridge the performance gap between networks trained on original and downsampled resolutions. …”
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Reduction of depressive symptoms among patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with biological therapy: a quantitative comparative incision study by J. Zinkevičiūtė, S. Ambrasas, A. Kiziela, R. Strumila, S. Brašiškienė, E. Dlugauskas

“…Quantitative cross-sectional study design was used. Instruments: Ulcerative colitis activity index, Crohn’s disease activity index, the subscale of neurovegetative depression symptoms of the Beck depression inventory, and Hospital anxiety and depression scale. …”
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