Correlations between Age, Pain Intensity, Disability, and Tactile Acuity in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain by Juan Wang, Kangyong Zheng, Jinlong Wu, Rui Wang, Xiao Zhuang, Xueqiang Wang

“…Subgroup analyses according to the median values of age, pain intensity, and disability were used to compare the intergroup difference in tactile acuity. Results. Results illustrated significant negative associations among age, pain intensity, disability, and tactile acuity. …”
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Measuring social, economic, policy, and health system determinants of maternal health and survival: An urgent global priority. by R Rima Jolivet, Jewel Gausman, Ana Langer

“…This paper describes nine research reports emanating from seven discrete research studies to validate ten indicators in India, Ghana and Argentina that are compiled in a PLOS Collection with the aim of illustrating the breadth of the validation work, extracting some unifying themes and common findings, and discussing the implications for policy and practice they suggest.…”
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Enjeux et perspectives en éducation thérapeutique du patient : des soignants formés en sciences de l’éducation by Carole Baeza

“…The increasing number of programs in Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) available in colleges and in-house training illustrate the growing emphasis placed on the education of health care professionals in society.The latest French Public Health Law dated July 21st, 2009 clearly recognizes TPE as a core discipline and therefore actively promotes patient-centered care in parallel to the existing curative treatment protocols.Health care professionals looking to add patient-centered care to their curative practice increasingly enrol in education-oriented courses, including, as far as we are concerned here, in Education Science courses. …”
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WID approach in teaching research writing to engineering postgraduate students by Elena I. Shpit

“…However, the remaining features illustrate considerable difference between the two types of writing. …”
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An Exponentially Converging Particle Method for the Mixed Nash Equilibrium of Continuous Games by Wang, Guillaume, Chizat, Lénaïc

“…It can be interpreted as an implicit time discretization of the “interacting” Wasserstein–Fisher–Rao gradient flow.We prove that, under non-degeneracy assumptions, this method converges at an exponential rate to the exact mixed Nash equilibrium from any initialization satisfying a natural notion of closeness to optimality. We illustrate our results with numerical experiments and discuss applications to max-margin and distributionally-robust classification using two-layer neural networks, where our method has a natural interpretation as a simultaneous training of the network’s weights and of the adversarial distribution.…”
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Discrepancies in Different Precipitation Data Products in the Bay of Bengal during Summer Monsoon Season by Li Qi, Yuqing Wang

“…Significant discrepancies among different products are found in the interannual variation, as illustrated by the contrast features between 2002 and 2005. …”
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A Small State with Growing Influence: Balancing Azerbaijan in Global Energy Policy by Suren Tadevosyan

“…The research employs qualitative methods, analyzing secondary data and policy documents to assess Azerbaijan’s strategic approaches. The findings illustrate Azerbaijan’s ability to assert agency within asymmetrical power dynamics, reinforcing its energy role with the EU through infrastructure projects like the Southern Gas Corridor, while managing role conflicts with Russia through economic cooperation and pragmatic engagement. …”
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The aesthetics of parallelism Rhythm in the Al-Ashbah Sermon by Ali Ghahramani, Solmsz Porshoor

“…This research intends to study parallelism Rhythm and its relation with religious meanings and content and its requirements to study its frequency in this sermon with a descriptive-analytical approach to illustrate the unique rhetoric of Nahj al-balagha. This article also tries to take a modest step towards understanding the beauty of the structure and content of this valuable book. …”
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Proportions des tissus des dents déciduales chez deux individus de Dordogne (France) : l’enfant néanderthalien du Roc de Marsal et le spécimen du Paléolithique supérieur final de L... by Priscillia Bayle

“…However, deciduous dental tissue proportions in Neanderthals, notably those of the anterior teeth, are still poorly known, and the structural condition characteristic of the anatomically modern fossil human teeth is unreported yet.By means of high-resolution industrial (µCT) and synchrotron radiation (SR-µCT) microtomography, we investigated, for the first time, the inner structure of the entire deciduous dental sequence of the Neanderthal child of Roc de Marsal (Dordogne) and of the late Upper Paleolithic specimen from La Madeleine (La Madeleine 4, Dordogne), and comparatively quantified their volumetric dental tissue proportions.Results show that, since the early developmental stages, Neanderthal teeth (here represented also by isolated specimens from the site of La Chaise, in Charente) are characterized by a unique tissue organization, while the late Upper Paleolithic specimen shows a pattern similar to the extant human condition illustrated by our reference sample.…”
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Intelligent Topical Sentiment Analysis for the Classification of E-Learners and Their Topics of Interest by M. Ravichandran, G. Kulanthaivel, T. Chellatamilan

“…It differs from the traditional classification and document level classification algorithm. The investigation illustrated in this paper is of threefold which are listed as follows: (1) lexicon based sentiment polarity of tweet messages; (2) the bigram cooccurrence relationship using naïve Bayesian; (3) the bigram item response theory (BIRT) on various topics. …”
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Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy and Central Retinal Venous Occlusion following Electrical Injury by Sahel Khazaei, Mehrdad Motamed Shariati, Naser Shoeibi, Mohammad Arjmand, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini

“…Conclusion. This report illustrates the occurrence of CRVO associated with PAMM following electric shock injury. …”
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Economic reliability of the organisation in the context of groups of interests of the business environment by D. A. Borisyuk, O. E. Astafyeva

“…The approach proposed to assessing the organisation reliability from the point of view of the goals of different interest groups of the organisation business environment has been illustrated. The object of the study is the concept of the organisation economic reliability. …”
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Developing a supply chain coordination model through a revised revenue sharing contract: Incorporating sales efforts and green quality considerations by Mahdi Nakhaeinejad, Abolfazl Dehghan, Nayereh Sadat Vaziri

“…Our findings indicate that an increase in customer sustainability consciousness (CSC) positively correlates with higher levels of product green quality and overall profit, illustrating the potential benefits of prioritizing sustainability in supply chain operations.…”
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Knowledge, distributed leadership and (structured) agency: a view on academic policy curation by Françoise McKay

“…In this light, the opinion piece illustrates the need for a different type of academic policymaking. …”
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Methodological Considerations for the Use of Longitudinal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in Healthcare Research by Marta Wanat, William Day, Michael Larkin

“…We do that by drawing on published papers, complemented by our own experience using IPA and LQR to illustrate the methodological dilemmas. By doing this, we hope to provide valuable insights for researchers considering the use of IPA and LQR and to facilitate an understanding of how these features can be integrated effectively throughout the research process.…”
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Q‐scheduler: A temperature and energy‐aware deep Q‐learning technique to schedule tasks in real‐time multiprocessor embedded systems by Mahsa Mohammadi, Hakem Beitollahi

“…Experimental results illustrate that Q‐scheduler reduces energy consumption and temperature of processors on average by 15% and 10%, respectively, compared to previous state‐of‐the‐art techniques.…”
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Nurses’ and nurse leaders’ perspectives on a health-promoting work environment: a meta-ethnographic study by Diako Morvati, Rita Solbakken, Jonas Vaag, Yvonne Hilli

“…Findings Line of argument synthesis led to the development of an overarching tree metaphor: “cultivating a flourishing environmental tree rooted in values, held stable by leadership, and nurtured by safe working conditions.” This metaphor illustrates that a health-promoting work environment is imbued with three interdependent aspects: 1) core values as the roots of the tree, including respect, recognition, community, and engagement 2) value-conscious leadership as the trunk of the tree, meaning a leader who is conscious of their power position and responsibilities and 3) safe working conditions as fertile soil for the tree, comprising the physical and administrative dimensions of the work environment. …”
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Reappraising double pendulum dynamics across multiple computational platforms by Sandy Herho, Faiz Fajary, Katarina Herho, Iwan Anwar, Rusmawan Suwarman, Dasapta Irawan

“…Phase space diagrams illustrated the intricate trajectories and strange attractors, as further confirmation of the chaotic nature of the double pendulum. …”
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Automated class diagram elicitation using intermediate use case template by Shweta, Ratna Sanyal, Bibhas Ghoshal

“…Abstract Class diagrams, being more illustrative, provide an easier way of understanding software requirements compared to use case descriptions. …”
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Biomarkers as Key Contributors in Treating Malignant Melanoma Metastases by Camila Ferreira de Souza, Alice Santana Morais, Miriam Galvonas Jasiulionis

“…Fortunately, there are now evidences sustaining the importance of genetic, epigenetic, and metabolomic alterations as biomarkers for classification, staging, and better management of melanoma patients. To illustrate some fascinating insights in this field, the genes BRAFV600E and CTLA4 have been recognized as bona fide targets to benefit melanoma patients. …”
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