Re-Engagement in Physical Activity Slows the Decline in Older Adults’ Well-Being – A Longitudinal Study by Hon Lon Tam PhD, Kai Chow Choi PhD, Ying Lau PhD, Leona Yuen Ling Leung DN, Alex Siu Wing Chan PhD, Lilin Zhou BSc, Eliza Mi Ling Wong PhD, Jonathan Ka Ming Ho DN

“…A national health initiative is an effective strategy to create a supportive environment for older adults to continue and engage in physical activity. …”
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Numerical optimisation on the retrofitting of oxy-coal combustion in cement rotary kiln by Guanshuo HUANG, Yuegui ZHOU

“…In order to obtain the optimal strategy for the retrofitting cement rotary kilns with oxy-fuel combustion while ensuring cement production quality, a three-dimensional modeling of oxy-coal combustion in a 500 kW cement rotary kiln combustion test furnace was carried out using the CFD software. …”
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Correlation Analysis of Twig and Leaf Characteristics and Leaf Thermal Dissipation of <i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> in the Riparian Zone of the Taohe River in Gansu Province, China by Qun Li, Min Ma, Yurui Tang, Tingting Zhao, Chengzhang Zhao, Bo Li

“…The analysis of the characteristics of twigs and leaves and leaf thermal dissipation in riparian plants is of great significance for exploring the light energy allocation and ecological adaptation strategies of plant leaves in heterogeneous habitats. …”
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Effects of Exercise Domain and Intensity on Sleep in Women and Men with Overweight and Obesity by Jonas Salling Quist, Mads Rosenkilde, Anne Sofie Gram, Martin Bæk Blond, Daniel Holm-Petersen, Mads Fiil Hjorth, Bente Stallknecht, Anders Sjödin

“…Exercise has been suggested as an efficient strategy to improve sleep; however, the effects of different types of exercise on sleep in individuals with overweight and obesity are not well understood. …”
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Physicians’, pharmacists’, and nurses’ education of patients about antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in primary care settings: a qualitative systematic literature review... by Lavinia Bianca Balea, Ragnhild J. A. Gulestø, Hongxuan Xu, Hongxuan Xu, Stinne Glasdam

“…Two main themes emerged: (1) Relationships between professionals and patients influenced educational strategies, showing that trust and rapport between healthcare professionals and patients played a crucial role in shaping educational strategies around antibiotic use; (2) The organizational structures challenged professionals in guiding and educating patients, highlighting how limited resources, time constraints, and system-level pressures hindered healthcare professionals’ ability to provide consistent and effective education. …”
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Les effets paradoxaux du transfert des forces de sécurité en Tunisie (juin 1955-mars 1956) by Khansa Ben Tarjem

“…Part Two explores this strategy. The French government imposed a gradual and slow transfer of police powers. …”
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From Technical Prerequisites to Improved Care: Distributed Edge AI for Tomographic Imaging by Bilgehan Akdemir, Hafiz Faheem Shahid, Mikael A. K. Brix, Juho Laakkola, Johirul Islam, Tanesh Kumar, Jarmo Reponen, Miika T. Nieminen, Erkki Harjula

“…Consequently, despite the undisputed benefits of cloud computing, dedicated standalone local computers are still used for image reconstruction in today&#x2019;s systems. This localized strategy uses expensive hardware inefficiently and falls short of scalability and maintainability. …”
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Integrated bioinformatics analysis identified cuproptosis-related hub gene Mpeg1 as potential biomarker in spinal cord injury by Dandan Mao, Qi Chen, Shuolan Tong, Zixia Xu, Guofeng Yu, Chuan Chang, Yao Lv

“…In summary, targeting Mpeg1, as well as cuproptosis and immune cell infiltration, holds promise as a potential strategy for reducing spinal cord tissue damage and promoting recovery after SCI. …”
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Aortic stenosis post-COVID-19: a mathematical model on waiting lists and mortality by Chris P Gale, Jonathan Weir-McCall, James H F Rudd, Mamas Mamas, Ramesh Nadarajah, Ben Gibbison, Louise Sun, Christian Philip Stickels, Houyuan Jiang, Kieran J Sharkey, Nick Holliman, Sara Lombardo, Lars Schewe, Matteo Sommacal, Katherine Cheema, Feryal Erhun

“…A combination of converting 40% cases and increasing capacity by 20% would clear the backlog within a year (343 (281–410) days) with 784 (292–1324) deaths while awaiting treatment.Conclusion A strategy change to the management of severe AS is required to reduce the NHS backlog and waiting list deaths during the post-COVID-19 ‘recovery’ period. …”
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Investigation of <i>ITGB3</i> Heterogeneity to Overcome Trastuzumab Resistance in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer by Asiye Busra Boz Er

“…Targeting ITGβ3, alone or in combination with cilengitide, offers a promising strategy to resensitize resistant HER2-positive breast cancer cells to Trastuzumab. …”
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A Large-Scale Agricultural Land Classification Method Based on Synergistic Integration of Time Series Red-Edge Vegetation Index and Phenological Features by Huansan Zhao, Chunyan Chang, Zhuoran Wang, Gengxing Zhao

“…The study yielded three significant findings: (1) The synergistic application of NDRE₇₀₅ and PSRI significantly outperformed single-index approaches, demonstrating the effectiveness of our dual-index strategy; (2) The integration of SFPs and PFPs with time series REVI markedly enhanced feature discrimination at crucial growth stages, with PFPs showing superior capability in distinguishing agricultural land types through amplified phenological signatures; (3) Our optimal classification scheme (FC6), leveraging both enhanced spatial and phenological features, achieved remarkable accuracy (93.21%) with a Kappa coefficient of 0.9159, representing improvements of 4.83% and 0.0538, respectively, over the baseline approach. …”
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Early Vegetation Recovery After the 2008–2009 Explosive Eruption of the Chaitén Volcano, Chile by Ricardo Moreno-Gonzalez, Iván A. Díaz, Duncan A. Christie, Antonio Lara

“…The results suggest that the early stages of succession are shaped by life history traits like dispersion syndrome and regeneration strategy (i.e., vegetative), as was found after other volcanic eruptions. …”
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Biological insights into alleviating heavy metal toxicity through the simultaneous supply of biochar biofilters derived from the Mikania micrantha and molybdenum nanoparticles by Muhammad Shoaib Rana, Hongyu Chen, Shiwen Deng, Muhammad Imran, Yousif Abdelrahman Yousif Abdellah, Wanting Li, Jiayu Lin, Jiaxi Li, Ruilong Wang

“…Abstract Cadmium (Cd) contamination in the environment is widespread, making it crucial to reduce Cd accumulation in cereal crops like wheat. However, strategies that not only mitigate Cd pollution but also address other environmental challenges, such as invasive species management, remain unclear. …”
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"Preparation and curing kinetics of “bottlebrush-like structure” green bio-based ultra-low-temperature polyfarnesene nanocomposites" by WU Ming-li, LI Yong-xu, CAO Lan?鄢

“…"Based on the requirements of dual-carbon strategy and the major needs of sustainable development, it was of great significance to develop green and environmentally-friendly bio-based rubbers. …”
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GRK6 palmitoylation dictates triple-negative breast cancer metastasis via recruiting the β-Arrestin 2/MAPKs/NF-κB signaling axis by Wen-Ke Wang, Hui-Yu Lin, Che-Hsuan Lin, Hsun-Hua Lee, Yen-Lin Chen, Yu-Hsien Kent Lin, Hui-Wen Chiu, Shry-Ming Sheen-Chen, Yuan-Feng Lin

“…Conclusion Our results not only provide a novel mechanism for TNBC metastasis but also offer a new therapeutic strategy to combat metastatic TNBC via targeting GRK6 activity.…”
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Human intestinal nematode infections in Sri Lanka: A scoping review. by Nalini Kaushalya Jayakody, Anjana Silva, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, Sisira Siribaddana, Kosala Gayan Weerakoon

“…Based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-Scr), a systematic strategy was used for searching, screening, reviewing and data extraction. …”
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Dual-phase medium-entropy diboride–carbide ceramics with metal element exchange during sintering by Pai Peng, Ji-Xuan Liu, Xiao-Ting Xin, Weichao Bao, Yongcheng Liang, Fangfang Xu, Guo-Jun Zhang

“…Multiphase composition design is a strategy for optimizing the microstructures and properties of ceramic materials through mutual inhibition of grain growth, complementary property improvement, or even mutually reinforcing effects. …”
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CDK4/6 inhibitors promote PARP1 degradation and synergize with PARP inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer by Carlos M Roggero, Anwesha B Ghosh, Anvita Devineni, Shihong Ma, Eliot Blatt, Ganesh V. Raj, Yi Yin

“…Our findings suggest combining CDK4/6i with PARPi could be a viable therapeutic strategy for patients with RB-proficient NSCLC.…”
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Termination-acidity tailoring of molybdenum carbides for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction by Zhigang Chen, Minghao Yang, Yifan Li, Wenbin Gong, Juan Wang, Tong Liu, Chunyu Zhang, Shuang Hou, Guang Yang, Hao Li, Ye Jin, Chunyan Zhang, Zhongqing Tian, Fancheng Meng, Yi Cui

“…Our work paves an interesting termination-acidity-tailoring strategy to explore cost-effective catalysts towards water electrolysis and beyond.…”
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Optimal parameter identification of photovoltaic systems based on enhanced differential evolution optimization technique by Shubhranshu Mohan Parida, Vivekananda Pattanaik, Subhasis Panda, Pravat Kumar Rout, Binod Kumar Sahu, Mohit Bajaj, Vojtech Blazek, Lukas Prokop

“…With the above motivation, this article suggests a stage-specific mutation strategy for the proposed enhanced differential evolution (EDE) that adopts a better search process to arrive at optimal solutions by adaptively varying the mutation factor and crossover rate at different search stages. …”
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