High-resolution observation per 1.5 h revealed prominent time-dependent daily contamination variations of p-phenylenediamine (PPD) antioxidants and their quinone derivatives PPDQs... by Zifang Peng, Shijiao Hou, Qingyun He, Fangcheng Su, Lishun Ren, Congcong Pei, Dan Yin, Yanhao Zhang, Yanjie Huang, Shusheng Zhang, Zongwei Cai

“…In this work, an innovative study was conducted to investigate their precise daily pollution characteristics and health risks based on high-resolution collected PM2.5 samples every 1.5 hours in one week in Zhengzhou, a megacity continuously suffers from serious air contamination in central China. …”
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Cork and Compost as Mitigators of Soil Compaction from Trampling in Urban Green Areas: Effects on Plant Growth and Soil Functionality by Bianca Rompato, Lucia Mondanelli, Ermes Lo Piccolo, Claudia Cocozza, Giovanni Mastrolonardo, Laura Giagnoni, Gregorio Fantoni, Alessandro Bizzarri, Barbara Mariotti, Leonardo Verdi, Alberto Maltoni, Francesco Ferrini, Giacomo Certini

“…Compacted soils in urban areas suffer from reduced porosity, impairing plant growth, water infiltration, and gas exchange, thus exacerbating other potential environmental issues. …”
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The Impact of Surgery Delay on Early-Stage Ovarian Cancer by Dimitrios Zouzoulas, Dimitrios Tsolakidis, Iliana Sofianou, Tilemachos Karalis, Michalis Aristotelidis, Panagiotis Tzitzis, Evangelia Deligeoroglou, Maria Topalidou, Eleni Timotheadou, Grigoris Grimbizis

“…However, when surgery waiting lists are prolonged, these patients usually suffer from a delay in surgery. This could have a negative impact on their prognosis when the final diagnosis is ovarian cancer (OC). …”
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Standard reference values of the postural control in healthy young female adults in Germany: an observational study by David A Groneberg, Daniela Ohlendorf, Charlotte Doerry, Vanessa Fisch, Sebastian Schamberger, Christina Erbe, Eileen M Wanke

“…Objective Many people of all ages suffer from vertigo due to different reasons. The comparison of patient data with standard values can highlight deteriorations or changes in postural control and thus indicate, for example, an increased risk of falling. …”
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An Efficient Frequency Encoding Scheme for Optical Convolution Accelerator by Gongyu Xia, Jiacheng Liu, Qilin Hong, Pingyu Zhu, Ping Xu, Zhihong Zhu

“…However, most convolution computations currently require the execution of two-dimensional matrix convolutions, and existing encoding schemes suffer a drop in terms of effective computations per second when performing two-dimensional matrix convolutions. …”
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An Enhanced End-to-End Object Detector for Drone Aerial Imagery by Quan Yu, Qiang Tong, Lin Miao, Lin Qi, Xiulei Liu

“…However, we observe that their pipeline still suffer from several challenges, including unbalanced distribution of positive and negative samples, low-quality initial prediction boxes, and unreasonable gradient structure in the decoding stage. …”
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Data from Emergency Medical Service Activities: A Novel Approach to Monitoring COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases by Daniele del Re, Luigi Palla, Paolo Meridiani, Livia Soffi, Michele Tancredi Loiudice, Martina Antinozzi, Maria Sofia Cattaruzza

“…., the number of new positive cases, deaths and hospitalizations, have been used to monitor virus spread, but all suffer from biases. The aim of this study was to evaluate an alternative data source from Emergency Medical Service (EMS) activities for COVID-19 monitoring. …”
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The Study of Cost-Effectiveness of Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Who Developed Ischemic Stroke by Neda Jaberi, Zahra Kavosi, Etrat Hooshmandi, Nasrin Moradi, Khosro Keshavarz, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi

“…This economic evaluation study was conducted among 144 selected nonrandomly patients who were treated with rivaroxaban or warfarin and suffered from AF leading to stroke, in the stroke ward of Shiraz Nemazee Hospital in 2019. …”
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The Cog-4 Subset of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale as a Measure of Cognition: Relationship with Baseline Factors and Functional Outcome after Stroke Using Data from... by Sandeep Ankolekar, Cheryl Renton, Nikola Sprigg, Philip M. W. Bath

“…It is heavily dependent on the side of stroke, is inevitably associated with functional outcome (being a subset of the NIHSS), and suffers from a profound “floor” effect. Specific and validated measures are more appropriate for the assessment of poststroke cognition than Cog-4.…”
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ANALYSIS OF HIGH RISK FACTORS FOR NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, STROKE IN THE SIDOARJO DISTRICT HEALTH SERVICE by Luluk Widarti, Muhammad Afif Hilmi Masyfahani, Dony Sulystiono, Kusmini Suprihatin, Hotmaida Siagian, Siti Maemonah

“…The burden caused by stroke is mainly caused by disability (a public health problem) which also creates a high cost burden for the sufferer, their family, society, and the government. …”
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Unveiling the potential: iodide-infused nickel-enhanced MXene composite for high-performance sodium ion hybrid capacitors by Nakul Desai, Gurumurthy S C, Shilpa M P, Y N Sudhakar, Vijeth R Shetty, Selvakumar M, Maqsood R Waikar, Rajendra G Sonkawade

“…2D-MXenes have gained much popularity for energy storage applications such as hybrid capacitors, and they have shown very competitive performance, especially as electrode materials for sodium ion hybrid capacitors. However, they suffer from various problems, such as morphology distortion and fast capacity fading, which results in the poor performance of the battery. …”
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Pharmacological Management of Chronic Neuropathic Pain – Consensus Statement and Guidelines from the Canadian Pain Society by DE Moulin, AJ Clark, I Gilron, MA Ware, CPN Watson, BJ Sessle, T Coderre, PK Morley-Forster, J Stinson, A Boulanger, P Peng, GA Finley, P Taenzer, P Squire, D Dion, A Cholkan, A Gilani, A Gordon, J Henry, R Jovey, M Lynch, A Mailis-Gagnon, A Panju, GB Rollman, A Velly

“…Prevalence estimates indicate that 2% to 3% of the population in the developed world suffer from NeP, which suggests that up to one million Canadians have this disabling condition. …”
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EFFECT OF QUADRICEPS ISOMETRIC EXERCISE ON REDUCING PAIN IN ELDERLY COMMUNITIES WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS by Rochman Basuki, Novita Sari Dewi, Dzaky Azmi Rizqulloh, Satriya Pranata

“…Background: It is necessary to make innovations that make it easier for osteoarthritis sufferers to do exercises independently at home. Patients can apply proper self-management, such as doing pain-reducing quadriceps muscle exercises. …”
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Understanding the misophonic experience: a mixed method study by Yesim Ozuer, Rilana Cima, Rilana Cima, Rilana Cima, Elke Kestens, Ilse Van Diest

“…Study 1 explored these meanings and emotions in two small focus groups (n = 3, n = 5) of misophonia sufferers. Four meaning—themes were generated based using reflexive thematic analysis: “intrusion,” “violation,” “offense,” and “lack of autonomy.” …”
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Vehicle Re-Identification Based on Multiple Magnetic Signatures Features Evaluation by Juozas Balamutas, Dangirutis Navikas, Vytautas Markevicius, Mindaugas Cepenas, Algimantas Valinevicius, Mindaugas Zilys, Michal Prauzek, Jaromir Konecny, Zhixiong Li, Darius Andriukaitis

“…Traditional means for vehicle re-identification rely solely on video-based systems which are not resilient to harsh environment conditions, suffer from visual obstructions, and are facing other challenges. …”
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Prognostic Value of Metastatic No.8p LNs in Patients with Gastric Cancer by Dong-Jiao Guo, Kun Yang, Wei-Han Zhang, Xiao-Long Chen, Xin-Zu Chen, Bo Zhang, Zong-Guang Zhou, Jian-Kun Hu

“…Compared with other 260 cases, these patients suffered morphologically larger tumor (P=0.003), node stage (P=0.000), and metastatic stage (P=0.000). …”
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Buried Interface Smoothing Boosts the Mechanical Durability and Efficiency of Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells by Erxin Zhao, Yongshuai Gong, Yixin Dong, Wanlei Dai, Chou Liu, Tinghuan Yang, Nan Wu, Ye Yang, Zheng Zhang, Chenqing Tian, Buyi Yan, Dongxue Liu, Lu Zhang, Tianqi Niu

“…As the core electron transport layer (ETL) in n-i-p-type device configurations, the solution-processed SnO₂ generally suffers from serious defect stacking on films, compromising the charge transport properties and the performance of resulting devices. …”
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Malay Version of Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire and Quality of Life of Patients with Post-lingual Deafness by Mark PAUL, Asma ABDULLAH, Noor Dina HASHIM, Nur Fadhilah Megat ISMAIL, Shamsul Azhar SHAH

“…Objective: The Nijmegen Cochlear Implant questionnaire (NCIQ) was used to gauge the quality of life (QOL) improvement among cochlear implant (CI) users who suffered from post-lingual deafness. This study aimed to determine the consistency and reliability of the Malay version of the Nijmegen Cochlear Implant questionnaire (NCIQ-M) and to report the QOL of patients using NCIQ-M. …”
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Polymorphism T3111C of the Clock gene in ethnic groups of women from Russia and Buryatia by O. V. Kaluzhnaya, N. V. Semenova, T. A. Bairova, I. M.  Madaeva, E. V. Belyaeva, L. I. Kolesnikova

“…It is known that women suffer from sleep disorders more often than men. Up to 50 % of menopausal women complain of problems associated with sleeping. …”
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Evaluation of health-related quality of life among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at District Headquarter Hospital haripur, Pakistan by Mehwish Fayaz, Shahbaz Ahmad Zakki, Ijaz Ul Haq, Muhammad Afzal, Mudassar Latif, Ehtisham Altaf

“…Additionally, most of them 62 % (248) suffered from cough most days a week, with a p-value of 0.010, and the shortness of breath (p < 0.001) was significantly associated with the total SGRQ score. …”
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