Modern biodegradable materials with accelerated degradation for dairy and food products (subject review) by D. M. Myalenko

“…Products of the polymer industry, the lion's share of which is food packaging, create a significant threat to the environment, which requires a search for the most effective and functional solutions to this problem. Every year, the production of polymer packaging is growing by an average of 10-12%, and last year, due to the worldwide spread of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and its strains, the increase was more than 20%. …”
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Single Level Closed Wedge Osteotomy for Bilateral Genu Valgus with Isolated Tibial Angulation Deformity: A Case Report by Saqib Yasin, Mayank Rajput, Shambhavi Rajiva, L M Gupta

“…At the final follow-up, the patient reported a good functional result following the corrective osteotomy. …”
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Palliative care burden and specialist service utilisation for individuals with cardiovascular disease in Australia: a national population-based observational study by Meng Li, Jinfeng Ding, Huiqin Liu, Yiping Lu, Xiwen Simon Qin, Minghui Tan, Hongliang Tao, Qin Xia

“…On admission to palliative care services, patients often exhibit significant physical functional impairments and substantial symptom burdens, particularly related to fatigue and breathing difficulties. …”
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Subjective memory complaints in people with epilepsy: Are there “signature” complaints associated with anxiety and depression? by Cassandra Trend, Isha Puntambekar, Sallie Baxendale

“…Abstract Objective While there is a relatively weak association between cognitive complaints and performance on standardized tests of memory function, elevated levels of depression and anxiety are highly correlated with subjective memory complaints in people with epilepsy (PWE). …”
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Diaphragm dysfunction from phrenic nerve injuries during LVAD or heart transplant: Positive role of diaphragm pacing by Christina S. Boutros, DO, MaryJo Elmo, ACNP, Nicholas Carl, BS, Yasir Abu-Omar, MD, Rakesh Arora, MD, Yakov Elgudin, MD, PhD, Kelsey E. Gray, MD, Marc P. Pelletier, MD, Raymond P. Onders, MD, FACS

“…This study reports on diaphragm pacing (DP) to improve diaphragm function postphrenic nerve injury. Methods: In a single-center cohort study, 2 DP systems were used in HTx or LVAD recipients. …”
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Hardware-Accelerated Infrared Small Target Recognition Based on Energy-Weighted Local Uncertainty Measure by Xiaoqing Wang, Zhantao Zhang, Yujie Jiang, Kuanhao Liu, Yafei Li, Xuri Yao, Zixu Huang, Wei Zheng, Jingqi Zhang, Fu Zheng

“…It then constructs a confidence assignment function and uses the mutation entropy operator to measure local uncertainty. …”
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The Biophysical Characterisation and SAXS Analysis of Human NLRP1 Uncover a New Level of Complexity of NLR Proteins. by Luigi Martino, Louise Holland, Evangelos Christodoulou, Simone Kunzelmann, Diego Esposito, Katrin Rittinger

“…To date, a lot of insight into the biological functions of NLRs is available but biophysical and structural studies have been hampered by the difficulty to produce soluble and stable recombinant NLR proteins. …”
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A decade with anomic primary progressive aphasia by Shoko Ota, Kazuo Kakinuma, Wataru Narita, Yoshiyuki Nishio, Nobuko Kawakami, Ayane Tamagake, Shigenori Kanno, Minoru Matsuda, Kyoko Suzuki

“…On admission, the patient showed pure anomic aphasia with preserved other language function. Episodic memory and visuospatial function were preserved. …”
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EXTENDED SUBTOTAL MANDIBULECTOMY IN A CAT WITH ALVEOLAR OSTEOMYELITIS CHARACTERIZED BY A SPICULATED PERIOSTEAL REACTION by Eun-Jae Cho, Min-Jung Ko, Jae-Eun Hyun, Aryung Nam, Yun Young Go, Hun-Young Yoon

“…Postoperatively, the patient showed improved masticatory function with no apparent signs of oral pain, indicating a good surgical outcome. …”
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Pastoral care and religious support as a part of treatment of religious patient with the severe form of osteoarthritis by Đurović Aleksandar, Sovilj Saša, Đokić Ivana, Brdareski Zorica, Vukomanović Aleksandra, Ilić Nataša, Milavić-Vujković Merica

“…On the contrary, the patient’s functional capability was not significantly improved. …”
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Artificial Neural Network Modeling of NixMnxOx based Thermistor for Predicative Synthesis and Characterization by T.D. Dongale, K.G. Kharade, N.B. Mullani, G.M. Naik, R.K. Kamat

“…In the said ANN modeling we use hyperbolic tangent sigmoid transfer function for input layer and linear transfer function for the output layer. …”
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Economic-statistical design of variable parameters non-central chi-square control chart Projeto econômico-estatístico de gráficos de controle qui-quadrado não-central com parâmetro... by Maysa Sacramento de Magalhães, Francisco Duarte Moura Neto

“…The design of the chart is accomplished by means of optimizing a cost function. We use here a simulated annealing optimization tool, due to the difficulty of classical gradient based optimization techniques to handle the optimization of the cost function. …”
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EGRN-YOLO: An Enhanced Multi-View Remote Sensing Detection Algorithm for Onshore Wind Turbines Based on YOLOv7 by Renzheng Xue, Haiqiang Xu, Qianlong Wu

“…Finally, the NWD loss function is introduced to replace the CIoU loss function, thereby improving the accuracy of positive and negative sample allocation for small targets. …”
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An enhanced lightweight model for apple leaf disease detection in complex orchard environments by Ge Wang, Wenjie Sang, Fangqian Xu, Yuteng Gao, Yue Han, Qiang Liu

“…Finally, we employ the NWD loss function to replace the CIoU loss function, allowing the model to locate and identify small targets more accurately and further enhance its robustness, thereby facilitating rapid and precise identification of apple leaf diseases. …”
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Research Status of Home-Based Rehabilitation in Chronic Diseases and Construction of Intelligent Rehabilitation Treatment Platform by WANG Jinghua, YU Shaohong, LI Li

“…Studies have shown that early identifications of changes in cardiopulmonary function in patients with chronic diseases is one of the ways for timely and effective rehabilitation intervention. …”
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Imitation Modeling of the Activity of the Present-Day Multi-Profile Medical Institution by O. E. Karpov, S. A. Subbotin, M. N. Zamyatin, D. V. Shishkanov, P. E. Astashev, E. S. Prokhorova

“…It was shown that the complexity of collection, treatment and presentation of data is a strategic function, which can be compared to complexity of model development.…”
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Enhanced two-dimensional superelasticity in a laser micromachined auxetic NiTiNOL geometry by Asheesh Lanba, Tymur Sabirov, Adrien Melanson, Kevin Voter, Benjamin Hall

“…Such geometries with enhanced two-dimensional functionality could serve as functional backbones on elastomeric composite testbeds with potential applications in soft robotics, stretch-triggered drug delivery, stretchable electronics, adaptive filters and controlled adhesion.…”
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Distributed Stochastic Subgradient Projection Algorithms Based on Weight-Balancing over Time-Varying Directed Graphs by Junlong Zhu, Ping Xie, Mingchuan Zhang, Ruijuan Zheng, Ling Xing, Qingtao Wu

“…We consider a distributed constrained optimization problem over graphs, where cost function of each agent is private. Moreover, we assume that the graphs are time-varying and directed. …”
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3D modeling of transport properties on the surface of a textronic structure produced using a physical vapor deposition process by Mączka Mariusz, Korzeniewska Ewa, Lebioda Marcin, Pawłowski Stanisław

“…The range of the largest changes in resistivity as a function of the surface roughness of the conducting path was also determined.…”
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SER-DC YOLO for the Detection of Abnormal Cervical Cells by LI Chaowei, YANG Xiaona, ZHAO Siqi, HE Yongjun

“…The network incorporates the attention mechanism in YOLOv5s Backbone，adds the SE-ResNet module ，then improves the network structure of the SPP layer and replaces the normal convolution with deformable convolution，and finally modifies the loss calculation function of the bounding box by replacing the Generalized Intersection over Union ( GIoU) to α-IOU Loss. …”
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