The effect of gravity on hand spatio-temporal kinematic features during functional movements. by Anna Bucchieri, Federico Tessari, Stefano Buccelli, Elena De Momi, Matteo Laffranchi, Lorenzo De Michieli

“…Efficiency showed significant variability with no specific trends due to subjective task duration among subjects. This study highlights the importance of considering gravitational effects when evaluating upper-limb movements, especially for individuals with neurological impairments. …”
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Psychological distress and emotional pain among adult attendees of a dental clinic: a case-control study by Adebayo Rasheed Erinfolami, Andrew Toyin Olagunju, Yewande Olufunmilayo Oshodi, Abiola Adelphine Akinbode, Babatunde Fadipe, Wasiu Lanre Adeyemo

“…We set out to carry out a case-control evaluation of psychological distress and emotional pain among adult attendees of a Nigerian dental clinic. A total of 201 subjects, made up of 101 dental patients (test group) matched with age and sex with 100 normal subjects (controls), was recruited into the study. …”
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Using drinking data and pharmacokinetic modeling to calibrate transport model and blind deconvolution based data analysis software for transdermal alcohol biosensors by Zheng Dai, I.G. Rosen, Chuming Wang, Nancy Barnett, Susan E. Luczak

“…Alcohol researchers/clinicians have two ways to collect subject /patient field data, standard-drink self-report and the breath analyzer, neither of which is passive or accurate because active subject participation is required. …”
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Hyperreflective Intraretinal Spots in Diabetics without and with Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: An In Vivo Study Using Spectral Domain OCT by Stela Vujosevic, Silvia Bini, Giulia Midena, Marianna Berton, Elisabetta Pilotto, Edoardo Midena

“…To evaluate the presence of hyperreflective spots (HRS) in diabetic patients without clinically detectable retinopathy (no DR) or with nonproliferative mild to moderate retinopathy (DR) without macular edema, and compare the results to controls. Methods. 36 subjects were enrolled: 12 with no DR, 12 with DR, and 12 normal subjects who served as controls. …”
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Health Status Evaluation of Urban Rail Transit Traction Transformers Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Entropy Weight Method by ZHANG Mingrui, DUAN Hongwei, XU jie, XU Weijia

“…The hierarchical structure for evaluating the health status of the traction transformer is constructed based on the operation indicator data of the traction transformer. The subjective weights of the evaluation indicators are calculated by using AHP through the expert judgment matrix, and the weights of the test indicators are solved by using EWM and then combined with the subjective weights. …”
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Decision Making under Risk Condition in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Behavioural and fMRI Study by Kirsten Labudda, Matthias Brand, Markus Mertens, Isabelle Ollech, Hans J. Markowitsch, Friedrich G. Woermann

“…Additionally, we studied whether the neural correlates of using explicit information in decision making under risk differ between PD patients and healthy subjects. We investigated ten cognitively intact PD patients and twelve healthy subjects with the Game of Dice Task (GDT) to assess risky decision making, and with an fMRI paradigm to analyse the neural correlates of information integration in the deliberative decision phase. …”
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The urgency of Polya model problem-solving on students mathematical ability in facing the Industrial Revolution 5.0 by Abdurrahman Al Kayyis, Mohammad Tohir, Muhasshanah Muhasshanah

“…In the millennial era, most students consider mathematics a difficult subject, so mathematics can be a scary threat to them when this subject takes place. …”
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Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia Frequency as a Risk Factor in Glaucoma by Penpe Gul Firat, Ersan Ersin Demirel, Seyhan Dikci, Irfan Kuku, Oguzhan Genc

“…A total of 130 normal subjects (Group 1) and 131 glaucoma patients (Group 2) were included. …”
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Oxidative Stress: A Link between Diabetes Mellitus and Periodontal Disease by Adriana Monea, Tibor Mezei, Sorin Popsor, Monica Monea

“…To investigate oxidative stress (OS) and histological changes that occur in the periodontium of subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus without signs of periodontal disease and to establish if oxidative stress is a possible link between diabetes mellitus and periodontal changes. …”
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Stress in autism (STREAM): A study protocol on the role of circadian activity, sleep quality and sensory reactivity. by Clara C Gernert, Christine M Falter-Wagner, Valdas Noreika, Barbara Jachs, Nazia Jassim, Kathryn Gibbs, Joaquim Streicher, Hannah Betts, Tristan A Bekinschtein

“…Those objective data will be synchronized with subjective experience traces collected throughout the day using the Temporal Experience Tracing (TET) method. …”
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Assessment of surface roughness and compressive strength of resin-based composite using different types of bleaching protocols. by Hemn Muhssin Suleman

“…Every forty samples were divided into four groups; Group 1 (n = 10) The samples were stored in deionized water at 37°C for two weeks as control, group 2 (n =10) The samples were subjected to bleaching with 22% Carbamide Peroxide (CP) Home bleaching, group 3 (n =10) The samples were subjected to bleaching with 14% Hydrogen Peroxide (HP) Home bleaching and group 4 (n =10) The samples were subjected to bleaching with 25% Hydrogen Peroxide (HP in-Office) in a dental clinic. …”
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The association between the oral microbiome and hypertension: a systematic review by Sadeq Ali Al-Maweri, Abeer A. Al-Mashraqi, Gamilah Al-Qadhi, Nezar Al-Hebshi, Raidan Ba-Hattab

“…Quality appraisal was conducted using the NOS tool.Results A total of 17 studies comprising 6007 subjects were included. The studies varied with respect to sample type and microbial analysis method. …”
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Research on High-Frequency Combination Coding-Based SSVEP-BCIs and Its Signal Processing Algorithms by Feng Zhang, Chengcheng Han, Lili Li, Xin Zhang, Jun Xie, Yeping Li

“…This study tests five subjects in order to verify the feasibility of the proposed method.…”
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Auditory function in humans at high altitude. A scoping review. by Michela Masè, Andrea Viziano, Giacomo Strapazzon, Marco Alessandrini, Alessandro Micarelli

“…PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science electronic databases were systematically searched to identify studies conducted in the last 20 years, which quantified in healthy subjects the effects of HA on auditory function.<h4>Results</h4>The systematic search identified 17 studies on a total population of 888 subjects (88.7% male, age: 27.8 ± 4.1 years; median sample size of 15 subjects). …”
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Internal jugular distensibility index as a predictor of fluid responsiveness in adult patients undergoing elective surgery – A prospective accuracy study by Dita Aditianingsih, Aldy Heriwardito, Laksmi Senja Agusta, El Nissi Leonard, Chrisella Annabelle

“…Methods: This prospective study involved 79 subjects undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesia. …”
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Enhancing postoperative analgesia in carotid endarterectomy patients: The potential of ultrasound-guided carotid sheath block combined with superficial cervical plexus block: A ran... by Anamarija Kruc, Lada Lijovic, Matteo Skrtic, Iva Pazur, Nikola Perisa, Tomislav Radocaj

“…Methods: Patients scheduled for nonemergency CEA surgery were randomised into two cohorts. The Subject group (28 participants) received US-guided CSB and SCB. …”
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Prevalence of Transfusion Transmitted Virus Infection in Hemodialysis Patients and Injection Drug Users Compared to Healthy Blood Donors in Isfahan, Iran by Behrooz Ataei, Alireza Emami Naeini, Farzin Khorvash, Mohammad Reza Yazdani, Abbas-Ali Javadi

“…The mean age was years. Seventy-one subjects (66%) were male. Of the108 cases, 30 (27.8%) were TTV positive and 78 (72.2%) were TTV negative. …”
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Image Analysis Based Grading of Bladder Carcinoma. Comparison of Object, Texture and Graph Based Methods and Their Reproducibility by Heung‐Kook Choi, Torsten Jarkrans, Ewert Bengtsson, Janos Vasko, Kenneth Wester, Per-Uno Malmström, Christer Busch

“…The possibility that computerized image analysis could increase the reproducibility of grading of bladder carcinoma as compared to conventional subjective grading made by pathologists was investigated. …”
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Multicenter randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study of the effect of prolonged noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation on posture or gait in vestibulopathy. by Chisato Fujimoto, Takuya Kawahara, Yayoi S Kikkawa, Makoto Kinoshita, Teru Kamogashira, Mineko Oka, Tsukasa Uranaka, Naoya Egami, Kentaro Ichijo, Kayoko Kabaya, Sachiyo Katsumi, Ikumi Takashima, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Masato Yagi, Tatsuya Yamasoba, Shinichi Iwasaki

“…Enrolled subjects were randomly assigned to one of two groups; one group received the optimal intensity of noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation first and then the placebo 14 days later, the other was evaluated in the reverse order. …”
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Earthquake Disaster Rescue Model Based on Complex Adaptive System Theory by Fujiang Chen, Jingang Liu, Junying Chen

“…In this paper, through the task allocation mechanism task, the disaster rescue task is divided into simple task and complex task, and the executive task subject is divided into single task subject and multitask subject. …”
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