Current state and influencing factors of social alienation in patients with stress urinary incontinence by Ting Chen, Xiaodan Li, Lei Liu, Xiaoting Wei, Sen Li, Jingjing Gong, Lili Xing, Lianhua Bai

“…Tailored interventions are recommended, especially for individuals who are divorced, rely on friends or relatives as primary caregivers, have concurrent illnesses or experience severe SUI, to enhance their social integration.…”
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Two Atypical Cases of Hantavirus Infections from Sri Lanka by N. D. B. Ehelepola, B. M. L. S. Basnayake, S. M. B. Y. Sathkumara, K. L. R. Kaluphana

“…There are two categories of hantaviruses resulting in two distinct illnesses. The Old World (Asia and Europe) viruses give rise to hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), and the New World (Americas) viruses cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). …”
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Model-Free Composite Control of Flexible Manipulators Based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming by Chunyu Yang, Yiming Xu, Linna Zhou, Yongzheng Sun

“…Because of the two-timescale characteristics of flexible manipulators, applying the existing model-free control methods may lead to ill-conditioned numerical problems. In this paper, the dynamics of a flexible manipulator is decomposed into two subsystems which are linear and controllable at different timescales by singular perturbation (SP) theory and a model-free composite controller is designed to alleviate the ill-conditioned numerical problems. …”
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Proteomic Analysis of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Line Exposed To Leptin by A. Valle, J. Sastre-Serra, C. Pol, A. M. Miró, J. Oliver, P. Roca

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Arcangeli's type discrepancy principles for a class of regularization methods using a modified projection scheme by M. T. Nair, M. P. Rajan

“…Solodkĭ (1998) applied the modified projection scheme of Pereverzev (1995) for obtaining error estimates for a class of regularization methods for solving ill-posed operator equations. But, no a posteriori procedure for choosing the regularization parameter is discussed. …”
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The Cauchy Problem for a Fifth-Order Dispersive Equation by Hongjun Wang, Yongqi Liu, Yongqiang Chen

“…We prove that it is locally well-posed for the initial data in the Sobolev space Hs(R) with s≥1/4. We also establish the ill-posedness for the initial data in Hs(R) with s<1/4. …”
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Improving outcomes for care leavers: evaluating a care leaver's assessment of need tool by Wendy Harrington

“…Their vulnerability to homelessness, poor educational achievement, mental ill health and offending (Biehal, Claydon, Stein and Wade,1992; Stein and Wade, 2000; Scottish Executive, 2002a) is well understood but this understanding has not necessarily led to improved practice.…”

Clinical Characteristics, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Patients With Myocardial Injury due to Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infections by Qingqing Chen, Panpan Xu, Zhihui Guan, Feizhen Song, Xinhua Luo, Xijiang Zhang, Chuming Zhang, Ronghai Lin, Cheng Zheng

“…Clinical physicians should be alert to the potential for myocardial injury in elderly critically ill patients, especially those who are on mechanical ventilation and have indwelling CVC, in the event of KP-BSI.…”
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Étude et restauration d’une tête de Barong bangkal, élément de costume de danse cérémonielle balinais by Aurélie Lienhard

“…The study of the Barong bangkal head H.2795, preserved in the Natural History Museum of La Rochelle, has allowed the gathering of material about a type of mask ill-known in the museums’collections. The choises of restauration orientated the research toward filling a low density wood, fixing mat polychromy, and restoring the piece of parchment into its initial shape.…”
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El impacto del Programa de Competencia Familiar (PCF-AFECT) en las trayectorias de uso problemático de internet en adolescentes vulnerables by Carmen Orte, María Valero, Marga Vives, Joan Amer

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Semi-Idealized Study on Estimation of Partly and Fully Space Varying Open Boundary Conditions for Tidal Models by Jicai Zhang, Haibo Chen

“…This work provides a concrete evidence that ill-posedness of inverse problem can generate wrong parameter inversion results and produce an unreal “good data fitting.”…”
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Exploring environmental factors contributing to Parkinson’s disease in AfrAbian populations by Wael Mohamed

“…Neurological diseases, including neurodegenerative syndromes like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and motor neuron illnesses, have been increasingly seen and recorded in the scientific literature. …”
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Recognizing Cognitive and Psychiatric Changes in the Post-Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era by Adriana Carvalhal, Jean-Guy Baril, Frederic Crouzat, Joss De Wet, Patrice Junod, Colin Kovacs, Nancy Sheehan

“…As such, early identification of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and psychiatric illnesses will be paramount in the proactive management of affected patients. …”
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Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Nursed at Home or in Long-Term Care Residential Facilities by Guido Arpaia, Federico Ambrogi, Maristella Penza, Aladar Bruno Ianes, Alessandra Serras, Patrizia Boracchi, Claudio Cimminiello

“…We enrolled 221 chronically ill patients, all over 18 years old, markedly or totally immobile, at home or in long-term care facilities. …”
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Conceptualizing the notions of human-being and human-person in terminal discharge by Jackson Coy

“… Terminal discharge or discharging terminally ill patients from hospitals in Tanzania as any other end-of-life care decision does not go without moral dilemma. …”
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Oncosexology – selected issues taking into account the problem of sexological care of patients with cancer by Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman, Piotr Merks, Magdalena Pisarska-Krawczyk, Ewa Jakubek, Małgorzata Mizgier, Justyna Jaskulska, Małgorzata Wójcik, Urszula Religioni, Grażyna Jarząbek-Bielecka, Witold Kędzia

“…Although the situation improves, a significant majority of ill persons do not obtain assistance in the scope of sexuality during oncological treatment. …”
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Wild Game: Food Safety and Nutrition by Halie Corbitt, Shari Bresin, LuAnn Duncan, Katherine Allen, Brenda Marty-Jimenez, Amarat Simonne, Martha Maddox, Lori Wiggins, Jill Breslawski

“… This publication discusses wild game and food safety, foodborne illnesses, shelf life, cooking temperature, and nutrition. …”
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