Investigation of Sleep Hygiene and Quality of Life in Nursing Students by Betül Bayrak, Beyza Alev

“…The students’ SHI score average was 33.6 ± 6.2, and the SF36 scale sub-dimensions score were; physical function 91.5±12.5, physical role difficulty 67.7±34.9, emotional role difficulty 50.1±42.2, vitality 47.1±17.0, social function 74.8±18.5, pain 64.1±21.6, mental health 57.5±16.7 and general health perception 57.2±16.2. …”
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The Effect of the Mediterranean Diet–Integrated Gamified Home-Based Cognitive-Nutritional (GAHOCON) Training Programme for Older People With Cognitive Frailty: Pilot Randomized Con... by Rick Yiu Cho Kwan, Queenie Pui Sze Law, Jenny Tsun Yee Tsang, Siu Hin Lam, Kam To Wang, Olive Shuk Kan Sin, Daphne Sze Ki Cheung

“…Preliminary evidence suggests that it can retain Mediterranean diet knowledge following nutritional education, improve adherence to the Mediterranean diet, and enhance global cognitive function, physical frailty, and walking speed. However, the difficulty of the later levels of game 1 may be too high. …”
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Exploring the relationship between mean performance and within-person variability on smartphone-based cognitive testing in adults across the lifespan by Laura M. Campbell, Andrea M. Weinstein, Ashley Henneghan, Emily W. Paolillo, Robert Ackerman, Jessica Bomyea, Colin A. Depp, Philip D. Harvey, Amy E. Pinkham, Elizabeth W. Twamley, Raeanne C. Moore

“…The older adult sample (n = 94) completed three EMCTs assessing memory, processing speed/executive function, and working memory at three difficulty levels; each test at each difficulty level was self-administered five times over thirty days. …”
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MUSIC AS SILENCE: SCHÖNBERG, NONO, AND THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE by Peter NELSON

“… Arnold Schönberg and Luigi Nono stand as emblems for a certain sort of difficulty in music, a difficulty charted by Schönberg himself in his essay, “How One Becomes Lonely.”[1] But this “difficulty” may have a purpose for us, at this time, either intended or unintended. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Korean Dispositional Hope Scale Using the Rasch Analysis in Stroke Patients by Eun-Young Park, Yoo Im Choi, Jung-Hee Kim

“…It is reported that hopeful thinking plays a positive role in encouraging patients to achieve functional goals during the rehabilitation process. …”
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Chordae tendineae rupture: a rare cause of tricuspid regurgitation following coronary artery bypass grafting by Craig Stewart, Dana Wu, Jong Steve Kim Moo, Jian Ye, Julena Foglia

“…Abstract Background Tricuspid regurgitation is classified broadly by its etiology being either structural or functional. New or worsening tricuspid regurgitation upon weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass is rare and often functional. …”
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Exposure to secondhand smoke and physical disabilities in non-smokers: A national cross-sectional study with cotinine measurements from NHANES 2013–2018 by Jiahui He, Zhounan Wu, Yuhang Liang, Jinshen He

“…Introduction Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is a significant health risk, but current research often overlooks its broader impact on functional impairments in the general public. Methods This study utilized serum cotinine levels (SCL) from the 2013–2018 NHANES dataset to investigate physical disabilities associated with SHS exposure. …”
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Comparative assessment of a virtual performance measure with self-report and performance-based outcomes in patients with hip osteoarthritis by Helen Razmjou, Suzanne Denis, Susan Robarts, Amy Wainwright, Patricia Dickson, Ania Roszkowski, John Murnaghan

“…Methods The VPM score was based on the results of 10 videos showing increasing difficulty in performing specific functional tasks. …”
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High Level Expression and Purification of Atl, the Major Autolytic Protein of Staphylococcus aureus by Vineet K. Singh

“…This study describes successful cloning, high level over-expression, and purification of two forms of fully functional Atl proteins. These pure proteins can be used to study the functional and structural properties of this important protein.…”
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Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation to Recover Memory and Learning Trial (AFFIRMING): Rationale and Design of a Multi-center, Double-blind, Randomized Controlled Trial by Zhiyan Wang, Yiqun Zhang, Chao Jiang, Rong Hu, Wenli Dai, Yu Kong, Liling Sun, Litao Wu, Hongxu Geng, Chunqi Ren, Xiangyang Zhang, Jia Wang, Hong Jiang, Jianzeng Dong, Changsheng Ma, Xin Du

“…The primary endpoint is the proportion of the improvement of the global cognitive function at week 12 compared with baseline, using the Basic Cognitive Ability Test (BCAT).…”
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Long-term results of elbow synovectomy and debridement in rheumatoid arthritis by Anastasia Aleksandrovna Roskidailo, S A Makarov, V N Amirdzhanova

“…Clinical and X-ray studies of the operated joint were conducted and its function and QL were assessed using the Mayo Elbow Score, Oxford Elbow Score, HAQ, and EQ-5D. …”
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The Effect of Targeted Movement Interventions on Motor Health and Balance Indices in Children with Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy by Fatemeh Mehrabi, Somayeh Momeni, Farzaneh Movaseghi, Zahra Hemati Farsani

“…Conclusion: Findings suggest that DNS exercises improve motor function and reduce sedentary behavior in children with hemiplegia. …”
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Characteristics Associated with the Differential Activity of Nondominant and Dominant Affected Hands in Patients with Poststroke Right Hemiparesis by Jen-Pei Lee, Shuya Chen, Chien-Tsung Tsai, Hsu-Chih Chung, Wen-Dien Chang

“…Spontaneous arm use in patients with poststroke hemiparesis is crucial to the recovery of functional interaction. Patients with stroke and subsequent right hemiparesis have more difficulty adapting to a right-handed environment. …”
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Organ preservation strategies for rectal cancer treatment: tarts or trap? by ZHOU Yihang, ZENG Ziwei, KANG Liang

“…Current limited studies indicated that approaches such as watch & wait (W&W) or local excision have shown promising results in terms of long-term survival, and reduced surgical complications and functional impairment in some patients. However, challenges remain, including the difficulty in accurately assessing clinical complete response and the high rate of local recurrence, which could potentially compromise long-term survival. …”
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New operational relations for mathematical models of local nonequilibrium heat transfer by E. M. Kartashov

“…The latter was expressed by the presence of the Heaviside step function in the analytical solution of the problem. …”
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Random dynamics of fractional stochastic retarded FitzHugh–Nagumo systems on unbounded domains by Dongjie Gao

“…However, we can find the effective methods to resolve the two difficulties. More precisely, we use the method of backward uniform tail-estimates of solutions to resolve the first difficulty, and we introduce an inverse function to solve the second difficulty.…”
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A Low-cost Controller Software Scheme Design Based on TMS320F28377D by FU Jianguo, LI Yi, LI Cheng, ZHOU Bin

“…The platform not only meets the functional requirements of industrial real-time controllers, but also greatly simplifies data flow of the control system, which reduces the difficulty of software development of controller platform, the number of developers of the platform is reduced from 3 to 1, and decreases the product cost to a large extent. …”
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Investigating neural efficiency in the visuo-spatial domain: an FMRI study. by Ilona Lipp, Mathias Benedek, Andreas Fink, Karl Koschutnig, Gernot Reishofer, Sabine Bergner, Anja Ischebeck, Franz Ebner, Aljoscha Neubauer

“…Furthermore, we found evidence of an interaction between task difficulty, intelligence and gender, indicating that more intelligent females show an increase in brain activation with an increase in task difficulty. …”
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Losing the ability in activities of daily living in the oldest old: a hierarchic disability scale from the Newcastle 85+ study. by Andrew Kingston, Joanna Collerton, Karen Davies, John Bond, Louise Robinson, Carol Jagger

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>To investigate the order in which 85 year olds develop difficulty in performing a wide range of daily activities covering basic personal care, household care and mobility.…”
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Nonlinear feedback control of spatiotemporal chaos in coupled map lattices by Jin-Qing Fang, M. K. Ali

“…We have not found any difficulty for study both of control and synchronization using nonlinear feedback functional method. …”
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