Care for patients with cerebrovascular disease in a general hospital. 2 years experience by Joan Omar Rojas Fuentes, Yainelí Cutiño Maas, Ricardo Verdecia Fraga, Ada Sánchez Lozano, Didiesdle Herrera Alonso, Julio López Arguelles

“…We analyzed the following variables: stay, type of cerebrovascular disease, clinical classification, the Barthel index and discharge status. <strong><br />Results</strong>: 972 patients suffered from cerebrovascular disease, hospital stay was reduced by two days, the attention of specialized equipment increased from 51.75% to 79.2% patients were discharged with a mild degree of functional dependence. …”
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Combined effects of basalt fiber geometrical characteristics on pavement performance of asphalt mixtures. by Heng Zhou, Mengxin Li, Guyue Jin, Mengyu Guo, Yingjun Jiang

“…However, most of the existing studies focused on analyzing a single characteristic index of basalt fiber. They neglected the composite effects of geometric characteristics of basalt fiber, such as fiber diameter and length, on the pavement performance of asphalt mixtures at varying fiber contents. …”
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First Principle Study of Structural, Electronic, Optical, and Thermodynamic Properties of Scandium-Doped Zirconia Zr1−xScxO2,x=0.125 by Lemessa Asefa Eressa, Zeleke Deressa Gerbi

“…The analysis of optical properties shows that scandium doping in ZrO2 improves the real ε1 and imaginary dielectric functions ε2, extinction coefficient (k), refractive index (n), reflectivity (R), and absorption coefficient (α) properties thereby enhancing its photocatalytic and optical activities. …”
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Person Reidentification Model Based on Multiattention Modules and Multiscale Residuals by Yongyi Li, Shiqi Wang, Shuang Dong, Xueling Lv, Changzhi Lv, Di Fan

“…The experimental results on Market-1501 dataset and DukeMTMC-reID dataset show that the indexes of the presented model, especially Rank-1 accuracy, reach 96.20% and 89.59%, respectively, which can be considered as a progress in Re-ID.…”
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Measurement of social sustainability indicators in Guilan architecture by Mehran Mehrdoust Shahrestani, Ali Asgharzadeh, Hamzeh Golamalizadeh

“…Findings show that "social justice" with the highest value of sustainability indicators (0.083) has the highest priority and "social progress and welfare" with (0.034) have the lowest priority and among 6 The social stability index, the two indicators of correlation and responsible consumption, and the average production have been evaluated and are of no importance to the groups related to the architecture of the Guilan region.…”
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Product Competitive Analysis Model Based on Consumer Preference Satisfaction Similarity: Case Study of Smartphone UGC by Yu Wang, Jiacong Wu, Xu Ye, Yue Wu

“…The results, evaluated using the Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) index, demonstrate that the PCAM-CPSS, particularly with price adjustment, offers significant advantages in identifying competitors more accurately than other evaluated methods.…”
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An Evaluation of River Health for the Weihe River in Shaanxi Province, China by Jinxi Song, Dandong Cheng, Qi Li, Xingjun He, Yongqing Long, Bo Zhang

“…Based on the connotation of river health, previous research findings, and status quo of the Weihe River ecosystem, in this study, we developed a novel health evaluation index system to quantitatively determine the health of the Weihe River in Shaanxi Province. …”
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The Effect of Adherence to Dietary Tracking on Weight Loss: Using HLM to Model Weight Loss over Time by John Spencer Ingels, Ranjita Misra, Jonathan Stewart, Brandon Lucke-Wold, Samantha Shawley-Brzoska

“…After controlling for initial body mass index, hemoglobin A1c, and gender, only consistent trackers had significant weight loss (−9.99 pounds), following a linear relationship with consistent loss throughout the year. …”
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The Combined Effect of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Metabolic Syndrome on Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Females in Eastern China by Da-Zhi Chen, Qiao-Mai Xu, Xiao-Xin Wu, Chao Cai, Ling-Jian Zhang, Ke-Qing Shi, Hong-Ying Shi, Lan-Juan Li

“…Relative excess risk of interaction (RERI), attributable proportion (AP) of interaction, and synergy index (SI) were used to investigate the additive interaction of those two factors. …”
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Geotechnical analysis of potential landslides on slopes in the Rimbo Panjang area of Padang City and mitigation by Fardan Fadlan Abileo, Yuliet Rina, Koting Suhana, Mardhiah Ainul, Sucita Ikhsan Bunga, Hafizh, Fadhlurahman Raihan

“…The results of the classification show that the soil in the Rimbo Panjang area is inorganic silt - high plasticity (MH). The plasticity index value is 2.5 – 10.4%, indicating that the soil has low swelling potential. …”
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Life quality of diabetic patients by Belkis Mercedes Vicente Sánchez, Gisela Zerquera Trujillo, Dania Peraza Alejo, Eduardo Castañeda Álvarez, Jorge Luís Irizar Hernández, Tiana Bravo Valladares

“…Variables: age, sex, years suffering from that disease, associated diseases and nutritional assessment according to the body mass index. <strong><br />Results:</strong> There was grater incidence of females, most of the patients were between 40 and 59 years; it was significant the association of diabetes with hypertension, mainly in overweight patients. …”
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Exploring technical and vocational education and training and its relationship to employment in Nepal: a mixed methods study by Prakash Kumar Paudel, Mahesh Nath Parajuli, Prakash C Bhattarai

“…First, we collected the information with 124 TVET experts with at least five years of experience to calculate the linkage index score. Second, we interviewed 15 individuals who were the respondents in the first survey. …”
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Damage Identification of Piles Based on Vibration Characteristics by Xiaozhong Zhang, Wenjuan Yao, Bo Chen, Dewen Liu

“…The sensitive modals of damage identification were selected by using sensitivity factor of modal damage firstly. Subsequently, the indexes for early-warning of pile damage were established by applying the change rate of strain energy. …”
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A Novel Method for Adaptive Multiresonance Bands Detection Based on VMD and Using MTEO to Enhance Rolling Element Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Xingxing Jiang, Shunming Li, Chun Cheng

“…Second, the one or more modes with the information of fault-related impulses are selected through the kurtosis index. Third, Multiresolution Teager Energy Operator (MTEO) is employed to extract the fault-related impulses hidden in the vibration signal and avoid the negative value phenomenon of Teager Energy Operator (TEO). …”
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Analysis of stiffness changes and factors induced by smart suit with trunk kinetic chain SLIP model by Hiromu Mori, Takayuki Tanaka, Akihiko Murai, Takashi Kusaka, Yumeko Imamura

“…We defined the SS torque intervention rate $$p_{ss}$$ p ss , which focuses on the magnitude of force, and the peak time difference index, $$e_{lag}$$ e lag , between SS and humans, which focuses on the timing of force, and analyzed the relationship between the stiffness change rate due to SS wearing. …”
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Classification of LEED World Standard Indicators in Sustainable Architecture of Contemporary Iranian Cities Based on Regional Ecological Characteristics: A Case Study of Qom City by Hassan Haji Amiri, Arash Seghfi Asl, mehdi ashjaee

“…Finally, quantification in each section of context indices is done based on existing statistical documentary data for accreditation sub-indicators and, according to the final findings, a new classification of baseline assessment indexes for contemporary urban context designs. Based on the degree of effectiveness provided.…”
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Effect of Malathion on Reproductive Parameters of Engorged Female Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus Ticks of Punjab Districts, India by Jyoti, N. K. Singh, Harkirat Singh, S. S. Rath

“…The present study was aimed at evaluating effects of malathion on the various reproductive parameters, namely, egg mass weight (EMW), reproductive index (RI), percentage inhibition of oviposition (%IO), and hatchability percentage of eggs of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Canestrini 1887) females from 19 districts of Punjab, India. …”
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An Accurate Integral Method for Vibration Signal Based on Feature Information Extraction by Yong Zhu, Wanlu Jiang, Xiangdong Kong, Zhi Zheng, Haosong Hu

“…The values of the four indexes aforementioned were combined into a feature vector. …”
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Application Study of Sigmoid Regularization Method in Coke Quality Prediction by Shaohong Yan, Hailong Zhao, Liangxu Liu, Qiaozhi Sang, Peng Chen, Jie Li

“…Models of prediction of coke quality based on ANN are established to map the functional relationship between quality parameters Mt, Ad, Vdaf, St,d, and caking property (X, Y, and G) of mixed coal and quality parameters Ad, St,d, coke reactivity index (CRI), and coke strength after reaction (CSR) of coke. …”
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Investigating the impact of physical dimensions - space to encourage walking in Tehran (Case Study: neighborhood Amirabad and Daneshgah Tehran) by ahmad pourahmad, nabi moradpour, hossen hataminejad

“…The amount of factor loadings obtained in all the research indicates that the selected indicators to measure the physical dimensions of space, encourage walking properly measure these dimensions, so that the physical dimensions, safety index (99/0 ) and the spatial dimensions of the security indicator (75/0) have had the highest amount of loadings. …”
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