On teaching mathematical modelling by Eimutis Valakevičius

“… The purposes of this paper is to suggest aims and learning outcomes in teaching mathematical modelling and how to present material of the subject. …”
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Implementing a Common Data Model in Ophthalmology: Mapping Structured Electronic Health Record Ophthalmic Examination Data to Standard Vocabularies by Justin C. Quon, MD, Christopher P. Long, MD, William Halfpenny, MBBS, MEng, Amy Chuang, MS, Cindy X. Cai, MD, MS, Sally L. Baxter, MD, MSc, Vamsi Daketi, MS, Amanda Schmitz, BS, Neil Bahroos, MS, Benjamin Y. Xu, MD, PhD, Brian C. Toy, MD

“…Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis were used to describe the concept coverage for each subject category. Main Outcome Measures: Concept coverage gaps in 8 ophthalmology subject categories of data elements by the OMOP CDM. …”
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Catastrophizing, Functional Disability and Pain Reports in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain by Theresa L Vienneau, Alexander J Clark, Mary E Lynch, Michael JL Sullivan

“…OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that subjective reports of pain severity, pain intensity and functional disability correlate positively with catastrophizing.…”
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Remarks on the reform of mathematical education in a secondary school by Jonas Teišerskis

“… The article puts forward the proposals for improvement of the enunciation of some mathemati­cal subjects in the new handbooks of the secondary school. …”
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Performance of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 in the Taiwan National Pharmacist Licensing Examination: Comparative Evaluation Study by Ying-Mei Wang, Hung-Wei Shen, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Shu-Chiung Chiang, Ting-Guan Lin

“…MethodsThe pharmacist examination in Taiwan consists of 2 stages: basic subjects and clinical subjects. In this study, exam questions were manually fed into the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models, and their responses were recorded; graphic-based questions were excluded. …”
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Effect of corrosion and sandblasting on the high cycle fatigue behavior of reinforcing B500C steel bars by Marina C. Vasco, Panagiota Polydoropoulou, Apostolos N. Chamos, Spiros G. Pantelakis

“…In a series of applications, steel reinforced concrete structures are subjected to fatigue loads during their service life, what in most cases happens in corrosive environments. …”
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ECONOMIC FUTURE OF GLOBALIZATION by A. G. Oleynov

“…The author shows that the main subject of the discussion here are the changes in the understanding of international economic relations, the role of the state and non-state actors in global processes and the global governance. …”
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The Application of Al-Qahtani Method for Dental Age Estimation of Down Syndrome Children by Frita Rahima Tridiyanti, Dwi Kartika Apriyono, Izzata Barid

“…The dental age of all research subjects was delayed from their chronological age. …”
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Comparison between Vapocoolant Spray and Eutectic Mixture of Local Anesthetics Cream in Reducing Pain during Spinal Injections by Riyadh Firdaus, Besthadi Sukmono, Annemarie Chrysantia Melati, Berial Dewin Marzaini

“…This was an experimental study on 94 subjects with 47 subjects treated with EMLA cream and 47 subjects treated with vapocoolant spray. …”
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Effect of Drop Foot on Spatiotemporal, Kinematic, and Kinetic Parameters during Gait by Ida Wiszomirska, Michalina Błażkiewicz, Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk, Grażyna Brzuszkiewicz-Kuźmicka, Andrzej Wit

“…The aim of this study was to determine compensatory mechanisms in subjects with drop foot during gait. Methods. The study evaluated 10 subjects with drop foot (DF) whose results were compared to a group of 10 healthy controls (C). …”
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Distinguishing collaboration from related elements of crime by O. V. Pletnov, Ye. V. Kovalenko

“…Scientific articles by researchers who studied who have studied the objective and subjective features of collaboration have been analysed. …”
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Profile of Falls and Its Associated Factors among Adults with Visual Impairment: A Cross-sectional Study from a Tertiary Eye Hospital by Ramya Sachidanandam, Anuradha Narayanan

“…Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited subjects from a tertiary eye care center with VI aged ≥18 years based on clinical records. …”
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Effects of Thermal and Stress Cycles on the Mechanical Properties and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Rocks by Xianwei Meng, Xinran Zhang, Mingbo Chi, Kun Du

“…This study investigates the mechanical properties, failure modes, and acoustic emission (AE) characteristics of basalt and sandstone under various pretreatments, including water saturation pretreatment (rock samples [SR]), rock samples subjected to cyclic temperature pretreatment (SR-CTT), rock samples subjected to cyclic loading pretreatment (SR-CLT), and rock samples subjected to combined cyclic loading and temperature pretreatment (SR-CTT-CLT). …”
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Effect of Dementia on the Use of Drugs for Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease by Nicole R. Fowler, Amber E. Barnato, Howard B. Degenholtz, Angela M. Curcio, James T. Becker, Lewis H. Kuller, Oscar L. Lopez

“…Conclusions. Subjects with dementia used fewer guideline-recommended medications for the secondary prevention of IHD than those without dementia.…”
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Workplace violence against physicians in Turkey’s emergency departments: a cross-sectional survey by Başak Bayram, Murat Çetin, Neşe Çolak Oray, İsmail Özgür Can

“…Of these, 78.1% reported being subjected to violence in the past year and 65.9% reported more than one such incident. …”
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Methodology fundamentals for investigating violations of the laws and customs of war by O. O. Khan, O. V. Manyk

“…Crime prevention is possible only if there is effective control by the subject of such activity over the object. At present, national judicial and investigative bodies and any other subjects of state power do not have the ability to influence war crimes, and therefore there is no possibility to eliminate the causes and conditions of such crimes.…”
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Scraping Therapy and Muscle Resistance Training in Patients with Neck Dysfunction by Yucheng DUAN, Guangping SHEN, Xinjian LI, Enming ZHANG, Zhenmin BAI, Anli WANG

“…Objective:To investigate the effect of muscle resistance training and scraping therapy on patients with neck dysfunction and evaluate the treatment effect and follow-up effect so as to research on the mechanism of neck dysfunction.Methods:Gave one time isometric muscle resistance training to subjects suffering from neck dysfunction in the resistance training group (<italic>n</italic>=15), one time scraping therapy to subjects in scraping group (<italic>n</italic>=15), and evaluated the neck function through the visual analogue scale (VAS), neck disability index (NDI) and range of motion (ROM) before the intervention, immediately after the intervention, on the 3rd day after the intervention.Results:Compared with the VAS before the intervention, there was a very significant decrease in VAS immediately after the intervention in scraping group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01) and resistance training group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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The influence of a STEM unit on the interest in and understanding of science and engineering between elementary school girls and boys by Tracy Hewitt, Frank Forcino

“…Students self-reported gaining knowledge about STEM subjects as a result of their participation in this unit. …”
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Individual well-being and national determinants of screening mammography among women over fifty by Boaz Hovav, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

“…On the individual level, higher QOL, psychological, and subjective health status positively correlated with SM utilization, as did GHE and organized programs on the country-level. …”
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