Effectiveness of the ARTHE-e app for exercise adherence in people with knee osteoarthritis: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Bruno Pereira, Charlotte Lanhers, Emmanuel Coudeyre, Lech Dobija, Mathilde Pelletier-Visa, Alexis Bonhomme

“…We hypothesise that adherence will be stronger among users of the ARTH-e application.Methods and analysis We will recruit 120 participants from 5 hospitals in France. …”
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An Effective and Safe Maize Seed Chipping Protocol Using Clipping Pliers With Applications in Small-Scale Genotyping and Marker-Assisted Breeding by Brian Zebosi, John Ssengo, Lander Geadelmann, Erica Unger-Wallace, Erik Vollbrecht

“…Out of 43 potential instances, we found zero miscalled samples and, therefore, no evidence supporting consequential pericarp inclusion. …”
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Case-area targeted interventions and free chlorine residual in household drinking water: An observational cohort study during a cholera outbreak in Northeast Nigeria. by Lindsay Salem-Bango, Jennifer OKeeffe, Michael R Desjardins, Daniele Lantagne, Chiara Altare, Gurpreet Kaur, Kanaganathan Rangaiya, Patricia Oke-Oghene Obroh, Ahmadu Audu, Chimda Emmanuel Solomon, Thomas Heath, Emmanuel Emeka Ihemezue, Solomon Aye, Baptiste Lecuyot, Mustafa Sikder, Shannon Doocy, Melody Xiao, Paul B Spiegel

“…We found household drinking water FCR significantly increased (p<0.001) post-CATI in Adamawa state. …”
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Playful brains: a possible neurobiological pathway to cognitive health in aging by Yulia Golland, Yulia Golland, Boaz M. Ben-David, Boaz M. Ben-David, Boaz M. Ben-David, Mara Mather, Mara Mather, Mara Mather, Shoshi Keisari, Shoshi Keisari, Shoshi Keisari

“…In this theory and hypothesis manuscript, we propose a neurobiological pathway mediating the effects of social playfulness on cognition. …”
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COVID-19 in the years 2020 to 2022 in Germany: effects of comorbidities and co-medications based on a large-scale database analysis by Roland Linder, Jonas Peltner, Anatoli Astvatsatourov, Willy Gomm, Britta Haenisch

“…Furthermore, we have demonstrated the ability of claims data as a timely available data source to identify risk factors for COVID-19 severity based on large numbers of patients. …”
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Rapid and Efficient Purification of Functional Collectin-12 and Its Opsonic Activity against Fungal Pathogens by Jie Zhang, Anna Li, Chang-qing Yang, Peter Garred, Ying Jie Ma

“…We established stable transfected Flp-In™-CHO cells expressing the recombinant CL-12 extracellular domain in high amounts. …”
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Wastewater-based estimation of temporal variation in shedding amount of influenza A virus and clinically identified cases using the PRESENS model by Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Masaaki Kitajima, Kelly A. Reynolds

“…First, we modeled the relationship between the detection probability of IAV in wastewater and FluA case counts, using a logistic function. …”
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Evolution of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Expanding Solar Wind: Residual Energy and Intermittency by Chen Shi, Nikos Sioulas, Zesen Huang, Marco Velli, Anna Tenerani, Victor Réville

“…We conduct 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of decaying turbulence in the context of the solar wind. …”
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IVF cycle safety when a positive passive air sampling occurs under laminar flow hood in absence of a detectable contamination in the embryo culture by Claudia Omes, Roberto Bassani, Patrizia Cambieri, Fausto Baldanti, Fausto Baldanti, Rossella Elena Nappi, Rossella Elena Nappi

“…We performed 570 air samplings, and we isolated at least 1 CFU of microorganisms in the TSA settle plate in 13 cases (2.28%). …”
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Herpes zoster vaccine and the risk of stroke: a population-based cohort study using linked data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink by Fawziah Marra, Kathryn Richardson, Helen I McDonald, Yoon Kong Loke, Helen Mary Parretti

“…We included 678 110 adults aged 70–80 years receiving a live attenuated herpes zoster vaccination between 1 September 2013 and 31 December 2019. …”
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Mortality Predictive Value of APACHE II and SOFA Scores in COVID-19 Patients in the Intensive Care Unit by Mohammad Taghi Beigmohammadi, Laya Amoozadeh, Forough Rezaei Motlagh, Mojgan Rahimi, Maziar Maghsoudloo, Behzad Jafarnejad, Babak Eslami, Mohammad Reza Salehi, Kazem Zendehdel

“…Methods. In a cohort study, we enrolled 204 confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care units at the Imam Khomeini hospital complex. …”
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Voxel Volumes and Biomass: Estimating Vegetation Volume and Litter Accumulation of Exotic Annual Grasses Using Automated Ultra‐High‐Resolution SfM and Advanced Classification Techn... by Josh Enterkine, Ahmad Hojatimalekshah, Monica Vermillion, Thomas Van Der Weide, Sergio A. Arispe, William J. Price, April Hulet, Nancy F. Glenn

“…We found that volumes calculated with 0.5 cm voxel sizes (0.125 cm3) most closely represented the range of biomass weights. …”
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ISMIP6-based Antarctic projections to 2100: simulations with the BISICLES ice sheet model by J. F. O'Neill, T. L. Edwards, D. F. Martin, C. Shafer, S. L. Cornford, H. L. Seroussi, S. Nowicki, M. Adhikari, L. J. Gregoire

“…Overall, we simulate a sea level contribution range across our experiments from 2 to 178 mm. …”
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Gyrfalcon Prey Abundance and Their Habitat Associations in a Changing Arctic by Michaela Gustafson, Jennifer D. McCabe, Brian W. Rolek, Travis L. Booms, Michael T. Henderson, Leah Dunn, David L. Anderson, Jennyffer Cruz

“…We found that male Willow Ptarmigan were more abundant in areas with greater cover of tundra, tall shrubs, and tussock tundra. …”
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Improving remote sensing dehazing quality through local hybrid correction and optimization of atmospheric attenuation model based on wavelength by Daihong Zhao, Kun Shi, Zheng Li, Zheng Li, Meixiang Chen

“…To address these limitations, we propose a novel hybrid correction method, local hybrid correction (LHC), which integrates gamma correction for high-contrast regions and logarithmic correction for low-contrast regions within a dehazed image. …”
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Reliability of mpMRI in diagnosing cancer prostate following intravesical BCG for bladder cancer by Arjun Pon Avudaiappan, Pushan Prabhakar, Rachel Siretskiy, Andrew Renshaw, Ahmed Eldefrawy, Murugesan Manoharan

“…Patients with GP after intravesical BCG may have clinical, biochemical, and radiological features similar to CaP. In our study, we evaluate the reliability of mpMRI in diagnosing CaP after intravesical BCG therapy. …”
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Empowering recovery: a remote spirometry system and mobile app for monitoring and promoting pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with rib fracture by Ling-wei Kuo, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chien-An Liao, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Tung Cheng, Tai-Horng Young, Shih-Ching Kang, Szu-An Chen, Yu-San Tee

“…We used a Restart system to monitor the respiratory parameters of patients. …”
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Correlation between the Frequency of Th17 Cell and the Expression of MicroRNA-206 in Patients with Dermatomyositis by Xinyi Tang, Xinyu Tian, Yue Zhang, Wei Wu, Jie Tian, Ke Rui, Jia Tong, Liwei Lu, Huaxi Xu, Shengjun Wang

“…It was reported that IL-17 had been detected in the inflammatory infiltrates of patients with DM (dermatomyositis). In this study, we investigated the frequency of Th17 cells and the expression of microRNA-206 (miR-206) in DM patients. …”
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Artificial intelligence assisted risk prediction in organ transplantation: a UK Live-Donor Kidney Transplant Outcome Prediction tool by Hatem Ali, Arun Shroff, Tibor Fülöp, Miklos Z. Molnar, Adnan Sharif, Bernard Burke, Sunil Shroff, David Briggs, Nithya Krishnan

“…This methodology may improve the outcomes of kidney paired exchange schemes. In general terms we show how the new AI and ML tools can have a role in developing effective and equitable healthcare.…”
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A Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Method Combining Spectral, Terrain, and Texture Features for Landslide Mapping by Yi He, Hesheng Chen, Qing Zhu, Qing Zhang, Lifeng Zhang, Tao Liu, Wende Li, Huaiyuan Chen

“…Finally, we evaluate the performance of the landslide recognition framework in the Bailongjiang River Basin complex scenes. …”
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