The relationship between frailty in older adults and anxiety and depression in china: propensity score matching and network analysis by Yinglin Li, Ling Zhao, Doudou Lin, Xinmei Wang, Chunlong Zhang, Jiali Zhou, Zhongxiang Cai

“…Interventions for anxiety and depression are equally beneficial for both frail and non-frail elderly.…”
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A fast and fully automated system for segmenting retinal blood vessels in fundus images by Alqassab Ans Ibrahim Mahameed, Luque-Nieto Miguel-Ángel

“…Additionally, existing automated methods often struggle with low-quality images or variations in illumination, hindering their effectiveness. …”
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Clinical Efficacy of Telemedicine for Musculoskeletal Conditions in a Medicare Advantage Population by Mary I. O’Connor, Megan Dorak Ribaudo, Kaitlyn Cooney Peters, Jim Fiechtl, Tessy Oommen, Carrie McCulloch, Rusti Quarles, Krista Schonrock, Ryan A. Grant

“…Results: The average age of our patients was 72 years with sex equally divided. Fifty-two percent of our patients presented with symptoms in their lower back. …”
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Degree-Constrained k-Minimum Spanning Tree Problem by Pablo Adasme, Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi

“…Each proposed ACO and VNS method is also compared with another variant of it which is obtained while embedding a Q-learning strategy. …”
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Inhibitory effects of propolis and essential oils on oral bacteria by Zoran Tambur, Biljana Miljković-Selimović, Dolores Opačić, Branislava Vuković, Adam Malešević, Luka Ivančajić, Ema Aleksić

“…Results: Propolis solutions dissolved in benzene, diethyl ether and methyl chloride, demonstrated equal effectiveness against all investigated oral bacteria (MIC=12.5 µg/mL). …”
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Theoretical background for the bionic substantiation of parameters of the stubble cultivator working bodies by L. F. Babitsky, I. V. Sobolevsky, V. A. Kuklin

“…The main parameters of the toothed cutting surface were determined by the method of bionic comparisons, with a scarab beetle as a bionic prototype. …”
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Network pharmacology and experimental validation to investigate the mechanism of action of Zhilong Huoxue Tongyu capsule in the prevention and treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy. by Fang Yang, Gang Luo, Meng-Nan Liu, Ping Liu, Dan Wu, Hao-Ling Chen, Shan Li, Si-Jin Yang, Li Dong

“…Thus, this study aimed to comprehensively explore the mechanism of action of ZL on DCM.<h4>Method</h4>Network pharmacology approaches were applied to predict the potential pathways and targets of ZL on DCM. …”
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Scale-up of CHO cell cultures: from 96-well-microtiter plates to stirred tank reactors across three orders of magnitude by Anne Neuss, Thomas Steimann, Jacinta Sofia Tomas Borges, Robert Dinger, Jørgen Barsett Magnus

“…It offers the opportunity to adapt the method to other, more sensitive mammalian cells and to perform cost- and time-effective experiments in high-throughput.…”
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Management of Urban Amenities in the Context of Public Health Care for Local Communities by Svitlana Kolomiiets, Agnieszka Jakubowska, Eugeniya Goreva

“…The methodological part of this study rests on the dialectical method of scientific cognition and a systematic approach. …”
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Puppet play therapy in emergency pediatric dental clinic. A randomized clinical trial by Layla N. Khogeer, Heba Jafar Sabbagh, Osama M. Felemban, Najat M. Farsi

“…The subjects were randomized into 2 equal groups: the PPT group, where behavior management was provided using PPT, and the TSD group where TSD was used as the behavior guidance technique. …”
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AUTHOR’S INTUITION AND INTROSPECTION IN THE PROCESS OF FORMATION AND REALISATION OF SYNONYMIC STRUCTURES (BASED ON MODERN FRENCH FICTION) by Anastasiia V. Lepetiukha.

“…This led to the use of the introspection method, the procedure of inverse reconstruction (discourse → language) of virtual (linguistic) transformational processes and the “alternative” linguistic experiment consisting in the artificial substitution of some utterance by a synonymic one. …”
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Application of the Weibull Model to Statins for Triglyceride Management in Patients With Hyperlipidaemia by Natsuki Nakayama, Kuniharu Imai, Shiori Niwa, Yoshimi Moriwaki, Chika Oshima, Nozomi Furukawa, Makoto Hirai

“…Weibull analysis, a statistical method widely applied in reliability engineering and medicine, is suitable for assessing arterial stiffness, which reflects vascular aging or deterioration. …”
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Enhancing Oxidative Stability and Nutritional Quality of Flaxseed Oil Using Apricot, Sesame, and Black Cumin Oil Blends by Dino Muhović, Gorica Cvijanović, Marija Bajagić, Lato Pezo, Lazar Pejić, Biljana Rabrenović

“…GC, HPLC, DPPH, the Folin−Ciocalteu method, and OXITEST were applied to the four cold-pressed oils and their binary blends with flaxseed oil. …”
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Feeling of existential anxiety among displaced middle school students in the light of some variables by Oday Namat Ajaj  , Dhafar Hatim Fadeel                                                    

“…The sample included 480 male and female students who were chosen in the random and equal class method from the fifth intermediate class students, for the academic year (2019-2020) distributed on (16) secondary and high schools, eight of which are for males and eight for females, at the rate of (240) males and (240) females. …”
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Detection of Salmonella spp. Related Co-Infections Among Children with Diarrheal Diseases in Guangzhou, China by Mai Q, Luo Y, Ye R, Jiang Y, Qin Y, Guo J, Lai W, Wu Y, Luo M

“…This study aimed to assess the prevalence of Salmonella infection and its co-infection patterns in relation to clinical symptoms.Methods: A total of 430 stool samples of children with diarrheal diseases were collected from Guangdong Women and Children’s Hospital during January 2022 to December 2023 and used for detection. …”
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Effects of instrument assisted soft tissue mobilisation in patients with chronic mechanical low back pain----A randomized control trial by Sameera Gul, Sana Bashir, Nida Mushtaq Kayani, Zoha Sabir, Hafiza Qurat-Ul-Ain

“…Conclusion: Manual myofascial release and instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilisation were equally effective in the treatment of chronic mechanical low back pain. …”
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Self-supervised feature learning for acoustic data analysis by Ahmet Pala, Anna Oleynik, Ketil Malde, Nils Olav Handegard

“…The proposed model is trained with three sampling methods: random sampling, which ignores class imbalance present in the acoustic survey data; class-balanced sampling, which ensures equal representation of known categories; and intensity-based sampling, which selects data to capture backscatter variations. …”
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Investigation of Machine Tool Developed Settings Influence on Productivity and Quality of Simultaneous Double-Sided Lens Processing by A. S. Kozeruk, Y. L. Malpica, A. A. Sukhotzkiy, M. I. Filonova, V. O. Kuznechik

“…The paper presents methodology for determining rational modes of abrasive processing for high-precision lenses while using a method of free lapping at finishing operations. Analytical expressions have been obtained to determine coordinates of reference points on a spherical surface which are necessary for mathematical modeling of its processing at pivotal machines. …”
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Altered intrinsic regional brain spontaneous activity in patients with comitant strabismus: a resting-state functional MRI study by Huang X, Li S, Zhou F, Zhang Y, Zhong Y, Cai F, Shao Y, Zeng X

“…Xin Huang,1,2,* Sheng-Hong Li,3,* Fu-Qing Zhou,3 Ying Zhang,1 Yu-Lin Zhong,1 Feng-Qin Cai,3 Yi Shao,1 Xian-Jun Zeng3 1Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Clinical Ophthalmology Institute and Oculopathy Research Centre, Nanchang, 2Department of Ophthalmology, The First People&amp;rsquo;s Hospital of Jiujiang City, Jiujiang, 3Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People&amp;rsquo;s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally to&amp;nbsp;this work Objective: To investigate the underlying regional homogeneity (ReHo) of brain-activity abnormalities in patients with comitant strabismus (CS) and their relationship with behavioral performance.Methods: Twenty patients with CS (ten men and ten women) and 20 (ten men and ten women) age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls (HCs) underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. …”
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Role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients: Systematic review and meta-analysis by Mona Pathak, S V S Deo, Sada Nand Dwivedi, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Bhaskar Thakur, Pramod Kumar Julka, G K Rath

“…Meta-analysis was performed using fixed-effects or random-effects method depending on heterogeneity (I2). Grading of the evidences was also done. …”
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