Learning dynamics of muscle synergies during non-biomimetic control maps by King Chun Tse, Patricia Capsi-Morales, Cristina Piazza

“…The latter offers increased design flexibility through redundancy, which can be especially advantageous for individuals with motor disabilities. The study evaluates the effectiveness and learning process of both control mappings with 10 able-bodied participants. …”
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Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Secondary to Dropped Head Syndrome: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature by Abolfazl Rahimizadeh, Housain F. Soufiani, Saghayegh Rahimizadeh

“…The dropped head syndrome (DHS) is a disabling condition caused by severe weakness of the neck extensor muscles causing progressive reducible kyphosis of the cervical spine and the inability to hold the head up. …”
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Applying the Concept of Peptide Uniqueness to Anti-Polio Vaccination by Darja Kanduc, Candida Fasano, Giovanni Capone, Antonella Pesce Delfino, Michele Calabrò, Lorenzo Polimeno

“…As an additional advantage, using a peptide-based vaccine instead of current anti-polio DNA vaccines would eliminate the rare post-polio poliomyelitis cases and other disabling symptoms that may appear following vaccination.…”
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Current AAV-mediated gene therapy in sensorineural hearing loss by Jieyu Qi, Xiaolong Fu, Liyan Zhang, Fangzhi Tan, Nianci Li, Qiuhan Sun, Xiaojie Hu, Zuhong He, Ming Xia, Renjie Chai

“…Hearing loss is a refractory and disabling disease that has serious negative effects on quality of life. …”
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A Controllable Distributed Energy Resource Transformer-Based Grounding Scheme for Microgrids by Dingrui Li, Yiwei Ma, Yu Su, Chengwen Zhang, Lin Zhu, He Yin, Fred Wang, Leon M. Tolbert

“…The proposed scheme can disable grounding capability in the grid-connected mode and enable it in the islanded mode by changing the transformer connection. …”
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The Alterations in the Brain Corresponding to Low Back Pain: Recent Insights and Advances by Xuyang Li, Fancheng Meng, Wenye Huang, Yue Cui, Fanbo Meng, Shengxi Wu, Hui Xu

“…Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of global disabilities. Numerous molecular, cellular, and anatomical factors are implicated in LBP. …”
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Genomic Amplification of an Endogenous Retrovirus in Zebrafish T-Cell Malignancies by J. Kimble Frazer, Lance A. Batchelor, Diana F. Bradley, Kim H. Brown, Kimberly P. Dobrinski, Charles Lee, Nikolaus S. Trede

“…Somatically acquired mutations can disable some genes and inappropriately activate others. …”
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Use of Condition-Specific Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Clinical Trials among Patients with Wrist Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review by Steven M. McPhail, Karl S. Bagraith, Mandy Schippers, Paula J. Wells, Anna Hatton

“…The most common patient-reported outcome was the disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and hand questionnaire (DASH). …”
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Hook plate fixation and tension band wiring in the treatment of Mayo type II olecranon fractures by Jianyu Zhang, Xigong Zhang, Kehan Hua, Chen Chen, Maoqi Gong, Yejun Zha, Xieyuan Jiang

“…The HPF group and the TBW group achieved similar range of motion (ROM), the Mayo Elbow Performance Score (MEPS), and the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) scores (P > 0.05). …”
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The Role of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test in IPF Prognosis by Christina Triantafillidou, Effrosyni Manali, Panagiotis Lyberopoulos, Likourgos Kolilekas, Konstantinos Kagouridis, Sotirios Gyftopoulos, Konstantinos Vougas, Anastasia Kotanidou, Manos Alchanatis, Anna Karakatsani, Spyros A. Papiris

“…In IPF, defects in lung mechanics and gas exchange manifest with exercise limitation due to dyspnea, the most prominent and disabling symptom. Aim. To evaluate the role of exercise testing through the 6MWT (6-minute walk test) and CPET (cardiopulmonary exercise testing) in the survival of patients with IPF. …”
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Cortical Auditory Disorders: A Case of Non-Verbal Disturbances Assessed with Event-Related Brain Potentials by Sönke Johannes, Michael E. Jöbges, Reinhard Dengler, Thomas F. Münte

“…We report the case of a right handed sound engineer with the absolute pitch who developed sound agnosia and amusia in the absence of verbal deficits after a right perisylvian stroke. His disabilities were assessed with the Seashore Test of Musical Functions, the tests of Wertheim and Botez (Wertheim and Botez, Brain 84, 1961, 19–30) and by event-related potentials (ERP) recorded in a modified 'oddball paradigm’. …”
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Impact on Neurodevelopment, Diagnosis, Early Intervention and Motor Disorders in Children under 3 Years by Sabina Adamczyk, Maria Przygoda, Jagienka Włodyka, Kamila Stępień, Gabriela Trestka, Urszula Zelik, Jakub Dziewic, Joanna Śnieżna, Wojciech Florczak, Wiktoria Domino, Karol Dzwonnik

“…Intervention strategies, including physical and cognitive therapy, can help mitigate long-term disabilities associated with these conditions. Diagnostic methods, such as ultrasound for fetal structural abnormalities and the AUDIT screening tool, are integral for early detection. …”
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Effects of a Multidisciplinary Educational Rehabilitative Intervention in Breast Cancer Survivors: The Role of Body Image on Quality of Life Outcomes by Giovanni Morone, Marco Iosa, Augusto Fusco, Antonella Scappaticci, Maria Rosaria Alcuri, Vincenzo Maria Saraceni, Stefano Paolucci, Teresa Paolucci

“…To assess the recovery of the function of the shoulder were administered: the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand Questionnaire and the Constant-Murley Score. …”
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Islamic Religious Education Learning Strategies for Inclusion Students at Muhammadiyah High School by Fadhilla Nangroe Anggraini, Triono Ali Mustofa, Abil Fida Muhammad Qois Al Hadi

“…The study results showed that inclusive learning strategies began with recognizing the unique needs of students, such as visual impairments, hearing impairments, hyperactivity, and intellectual disabilities. The strategies implemented included personalization of learning, use of audiovisual media, adaptation of teaching materials such as the Quran and Hadith, and collaboration with parents. …”
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The Prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome in Patients with Migraine: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Hooman Ghasemi, Behnam Khaledi-Paveh, Alireza Abdi, Rostam Jalali, Nader Salari, Aliakbar Vaisi-Raygani, Masoud Mohammadi

“…Migraine is a severe and debilitating neurologic disorder and is claimed to be the sixth disabling illness in the world. This study aimed to determine the overall prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in patients with migraine through a systematic review and meta-analysis. …”
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Two-Stage Treatment of Enterocutaneous Fistulas by V. Yu. Struchkov, S. V. Berelavichus, E. A. Akhtanin, D. S. Gorin, M. V. Dvukhzhilov, A. A. Goev, A. I. Burmistrov, P. V. Markov, A. G. Kriger

“…Resection of the intestine with a fistula with the formation of an entero-entero anastomosis was performed in 72 (81.8 %) patients; marginal resection of the intestine with a fistula, followed by suturing of the defect — in 7 (8.0 %); resection of the intestine with fistulas in combination with excision and suturing of the fistula — in 5 (5.7 %); an operation aimed at disabling the fistula from the passage of intestinal contents — in 3 (3.4 %); resection of the intestine with a fistula in combination with fistula exclusion — in 1 (1.1 %) patient. …”
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Long-Term Follow-Up of Patients with 46,XY Partial Gonadal Dysgenesis Reared as Males by Juliana Gabriel Ribeiro de Andrade, Antonia Paula Marques-de-Faria, Helena Campos Fabbri, Maricilda Palandi de Mello, Gil Guerra-Júnior, Andréa Trevas Maciel-Guerra

“…Though additional studies are required, screening for learning disabilities is advisable.…”
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Establishment of reference audiometric norms for the elderly population: A community-based study on mean and median hearing thresholds by Tzong-Hann Yang, Yu-Fu Chen, Yen-Fu Cheng, Chuan-Song Wu, Yuan-Chia Chu

“…A 41 % prevalence of hearing impairment was recorded, with a notable 15.2 % deemed disabling, and a potential candidacy for cochlear implantation in 1.5 % of the study group. …”
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Osteoporosis in Rett Syndrome: A Study on Normal Values by Lilit Zysman, Meir Lotan, Bruria Ben-Zeev

“…Osteoporosis is the reduction of calcium density in bones, usually evident in postmenopausal females, yet the tendency for osteoporosis can also be identified at a young age, especially in patients with chronic diseases, disabilities, and on chronic anticonvalsant treatment. …”
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification with Interpretability in Children Based on Structural MRI Features Extracted Using Contrastive Variational Autoencoder by Ruimin Ma, Ruitao Xie, Yanlin Wang, Jintao Meng, Yanjie Wei, Yunpeng Cai, Wenhui Xi, Yi Pan

“…Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a highly disabling mental disease that brings significant impairments of social interaction ability to the patients, making early screening and intervention of ASD critical. …”
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