Reliability, Objectivity, Validity and Reference Levels of the Austrian Balance Check (ABC)—A Novel Balance Field Test for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults to Assess Static B... by Gerald Jarnig, Reinhold Kerbl, Mireille N. M. van Poppel

“…To develop an effective field test to assess static balance with minimal cost, little spatial requirement and short testing time, a cross-sectional pilot study was conducted in three different school types (primary school, secondary school, and high school) and the reliability, objectivity and validity of the novel Austrian Balance Check (ABC) were assessed, with the generation of age- and gender-specific reference values. …”
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Adulteration detection of plant protein beverages by UPLC-MS/MS based on signature peptide of allergen by Yawei Ning, Zhuo Liu, Zheng Yang, Junmei Ma, Yan Zhang, Qiang Li

“…The obtained fingerprints were identified by ProteinPilotTM combined with Uniprot, and 16 signature peptides were selected. …”
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Effect of Skin Protectants on the Total Inward Leakage of N95 Respirators: Testing with an Advanced Static Headform by Xinyi Niu, Sergey A. Grinshpun, Michael Yermakov, Roman Jandarov, Iliya Rivkin

“…Skin protectants are becoming increasingly popular and effective in providing a protective barrier for the skin that reduces direct contact between a wearer’s face and respirator. Recent pilot studies involving human subjects have examined the effect of skin protectants on the performance of respirators/masks through fit testing, but their findings are heavily impacted by between-subject variability. …”
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Validation of the detection of elder abuse through emergency care technicians (DETECT) screening tool: a study protocol by Melvin D Livingston, Brad Cannell, Julie Weitlauf, Jason Burnett, Megin Parayil, Jennifer Reingle Gonzalez

“…Prior work by this team focused on the development and initial pilot testing of an observation-based EM screening tool named detection of elder abuse through emergency care technicians (DETECT), designed to be implemented by medics during the course of an emergency response (911) call. …”
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Separation Time of Aluminothermic Reduction Products for Sustainable Silicon Production [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Óscar Crego, Javier Bullón, Dolores Gómez, José Luis Ferrín, Luis Javier Pérez-Pérez, Iván Martínez

“…Background This work was carried out within the framework of the SisAl Pilot project, which is devoted to the environmentally friendly production of silicon. …”
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Impact of strict IGF1 control on quality-of-life scores in patients with acromegaly by Chaitanya Gandhi, Marie-Claire Denis, Daniel Holmes, Juan Rivera, Stan van Uum, Shereen Ezzat, Constance Chik

“…Hemoglobin A1c and liver enzymes did not differ and repeat MRI of the sella at 6 months showed no change.ConclusionsIn this pilot study, stricter control of modest IGF1 elevations led to symptomatic improvement as measured by the PASQ score. …”
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Comparison of conditioning factor classification criteria in large-scale statistically based landslide susceptibility models by M. Sinčić, S. Bernat Gazibara, M. Rossi, S. Mihalić Arbanas

“…The large-scale landslide susceptibility models were derived for small and shallow landslides in the pilot area (21 km<span class="inline-formula">²</span>) located in the City of Zagreb (Croatia), which occur mainly in soils and soft rocks. …”
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The new urban wastewater treatment directive from the perspective of the receiving rivers’ quality by Máté Krisztián Kardos, Miklós Patziger, Zsolt Jolánkai, Adrienne Clement

“…The present study, applied for the Central-European country Hungary as a pilot, examines the impact of the UWWTD recast on receiving water quality. …”
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An action research study on the needs and perspectives of medical students and junior residents on peer physical examination guidelines to respect medical students’ autonomy and pr... by Emily Suzuki, Nobutoshi Nawa, Eriko Okada, Yu Akaishi, Ayako Kashimada, Mitsuyuki Numasawa, Kumiko Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takada, Masanaga Yamawaki

“…The interviews identified 5 themes relating to participants’ needs and concerns. In a pilot survey, students’ refusal rate for being a model patient varied depending on body region and 74.2% had a desire to be informed of any abnormal findings confidentially. …”
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Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Biomechanical Factors During 90° Change of Direction are Associated to Non-Contact ACL injury in Female Soccer Players by Stefano Di Paolo, Alberto Grassi, Filippo Tosarelli, Matteo Crepaldi, Laura Bragonzoni, Stefano Zaffagnini, Francesco Della Villa

“… # Hypothesis/Purpose The purpose of the present pilot study was to prospectively investigate the biomechanical predictors of ACL injury during a COD task in female football players using both gold standard 3D motion capture and a qualitative scoring system based on 2D video-analysis…”
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How Much Time Should Be Waited and What Are the Main Findings to Evaluate the Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response to Regorafenib? A Real-Life Experience by Gustavo Hideki Kawanami, Leopoldo Katsuda, Thiara Barcelos Rocha, Fabio da Silva Yamashiro, Leonardo Pelafsky, Xingshun Qi, Fernando Gomes Romeiro

“…The knowledge of the main adverse events described in the pilot clinical trials can avoid unnecessary withdrawal of regorafenib. …”
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Active games for increasing social and emotional competencies of young adults in probation system: a one-sample trial study in Izmir city in Turkiye by Inci Derya Yucel, Gorkem Yararbas

“…Methods This study presents the results of a pilot program held in Turkiye under an Erasmus + Key Action 3 project entitled Active Games for Change (AG4C), which includes a range of innovative face-to-face active games that were specifically created and designed to support the development of identified social emotional competencies in a probation directorate that serves young adult offenders. …”
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How, What, and Where You Sample Environmental DNA Affects Diversity Estimates and Species Detection by Anish Kirtane, Leif Howard, Caitlin E. Beaver, Margaret E. Hunter, Gordon Luikart, Kristy Deiner

“…These results underscore the need for pilot studies before conducting biodiversity inventory and monitoring, and a need for a greater understanding of not just how much, but also what, eDNA is captured depending on method choice, considering both spatial and particle size heterogeneity.…”
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Comparison of AOPs Efficiencies on Phenolic Compounds Degradation by Lourdes Hurtado, Deysi Amado-Piña, Gabriela Roa-Morales, Ever Peralta-Reyes, Eduardo Martin del Campo, Reyna Natividad

“…In this work, a comparison of the performances of different AOPs in the phenol and 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) degradation at lab and pilot scale is presented. It was found that, in the degradation of phenol, the performance of a coupled electro-oxidation/ozonation process is superior to that observed by a photo-Fenton process. …”
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Injectable Chitosan Hydrogel Particles as Nasal Packing Materials After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for Treatment of Chronic Sinusitis by Yusuke Yamashita, Kei Hosoya, Yukio Fujiwara, Yoichi Saito, Masahiro Yoshida, Shoji Matsune, Kimihiro Okubo, Takayuki Takei

“…Additionally, we applied the injectable chitosan hydrogel particles as nasal packing materials to patients with bilateral chronic sinusitis undergoing ESS in a pilot clinical study. Concerning symptom scores, though the results narrowly missed statistical differences (<i>p</i> < 0.05), the average scores of our chitosan hydrogel were superior to those of a commercially available wound dressing (especially <i>p</i> = 0.09 for nasal bleeding). …”
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Home intravenous diuretic administration for heart failure management: A scoping review. by Morgan B Krauter, Katherine S McGilton, Stuti S Patel, Karen Harkness, Tracey J F Colella

“…Studies varied in design, including feasibility, pilot, observational, and pre/post-intervention evaluations. …”
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Evaluation of fouling and chemical cleaning of reverse osmosis membrane after treatment of geothermal water by Aseel Zaid, Yakubu Abdullahi Jarma, Islam Rashad Ahmed Senan, Aslı Karaoğlu, Aslı Karaoğlu, Aydın Cihanoğlu, Aydın Cihanoğlu, Alper Baba, Nalan Kabay

“…In this study, high mineral scaling propensity geothermal water was treated using a FilmTech BW30-2540 reverse osmosis (RO) membrane, integrated into a mini-pilot scale membrane test unit installed at a geothermal heating center. …”
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An Innovative Clinic-Based Intervention to Improve Adolescent Access to Sexual and Mental Health Services: The Total Teen Program by Whitney Garney, Gan Han, Christi Esquivel, Kristen Garcia, Kobi V. Ajayi, Kelly Wilson

“…Researchers developed the Total Teen (TT) program to improve access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and mental health (MH) services in settings providing adolescents and young adults (12-25) health services. This pilot study assessed the TT’s impact on care across three settings: school-based health clinics, a federally qualified health center, and an adolescent health clinic for 12 weeks. …”
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Feasibility and acceptability for LION, a fully remote, randomized clinical trial within the VA for light therapy to improve sleep in Veterans with and without TBI: An MTBI2 sponso... by Jonathan E Elliott, Jessica S Brewer, Allison T Keil, Brittany R Ligman, Mohini D Bryant-Ekstrand, Alisha A McBride, Katherine Powers, Savanah J Sicard, Elizabeth W Twamley, Maya E O'Neil, Andrea D Hildebrand, Thuan Nguyen, Benjamin J Morasco, Jessica M Gill, Bradley A Dengler, Miranda M Lim

“…Therapies to improve sleep following mTBI are limited and studies in Veterans are even more scarce. In our previous pilot work, morning bright light therapy (MBLT) was found to be a feasible behavioral sleep intervention in Veterans with a history of mTBI; however, this was single-arm, open-label, and non-randomized, and therefore was not intended to establish efficacy. …”
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Preliminary Numerical Modeling of CO2 Geological Storage in the Huangcaoxia Gas Reservoir in the Eastern Sichuan Basin, China by Hongwu Lei, Qian Zhang, Xiaochun Li

“…The Huangcaoxia gas field has the best opportunity in the eastern Sichuan Basin for a pilot project of CO2 sequestration due to its relatively large storage capacity and the nearly depleted state. …”
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