Complications of Osseointegrated Prostheses and Comparison of Quality of Life in Patients with Different Prosthetic Systems: A Review by Andrey V. Sinegub, Denis А. Kovalenko, Victor А. Chupryaev, Andrey N. Nikolaenko, Alexander P. Borisov

“…Half of the patients who have undergone amputation have difficulty using a traditional prosthetic socket (PS). …”
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Study of the Effect of Alkali Metal Ions (Li⁺, Na⁺, K⁺) in Inhibiting the Spontaneous Combustion of Coal by Yunqiu Liu, Hongjie Peng, Ran Peng, Chuanbo Cui

“…The essence of coal spontaneous combustion lies in the existence of a large number of chemically active functional groups in the coal molecule, such as aldehyde group (-CHO) and methoxy group (-OCH₃) in the side chain structure of coal molecule, which can be easily oxidized, thus triggering the spontaneous combustion process. …”
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Risk assessment in ensuring aircraft on-board systems safety by H. E. Fourar, B. D. Ogunvoul, V. D. Budaev, F. Lachi

“…I.e. the risk for threats from violators (cases of unlawful interference (UI)), vulnerabilities (functional hazards that contribute to UI and its development in a system) and loss (set of criteria that evaluates consequences of UI). …”
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Elective visceral hybrid repair of type III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm by Marjanović Ivan, Jevtić Miodrag, Mišović Sidor, Zoranović Uroš, Tomić Aleksandar, Rusović Siniša, Šarac Momir

“…Control CT, performed 3 months after the surgery showed that the patient's vascular status was uneventful with functional visceral by-pass and with good position of a stent-graft without a significant endoleak. …”
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Dysphagia in frail elderly: self-reported mealtime symptoms and risk by Cirley Novais Valente Junior, Fernanda Chiarion Sassi, Ana Paula Ritto, Isadora Cardoso Salles Fila Pecenin, Claudia Regina Furquim de Andrade

“…The study proceeded in two phases: the first phase involved physical, functional, and social assessments, while the second phase included speech and swallowing evaluations. …”
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Impact of sensory organization tasks on prefrontal cortex activity in older women: a comparative fNIRS study of osteoarthritis and healthy aging by Alka Bishnoi, Yang Hu, Manuel E. Hernandez, Manuel E. Hernandez

“…This study aimed to investigate prefrontal cortical (PFC) activation patterns during clinical sensory organization tasks (SOT) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in older women with OA and healthy controls (HOA). …”
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Moving Standard Deviation of Trunk Acceleration as a Quantification Index for Physical Activities: Validation Study by Takuya Suzuki, Yuji Kono, Takayuki Ogasawara, Masahiko Mukaino, Yasushi Aoshima, Shotaro Furuzawa, Yurie Fujita, Hirotaka Matsuura, Masumi Yamaguchi, Shingo Tsukada, Yohei Otaka

“…Based on their daily living mobility levels, measured using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), participants were categorized into 6 subgroups: FIM1-4, FIM5 (WC), FIM5 (walking), FIM6 (WC), FIM6 (walking), and FIM7 (walking). …”
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Selected methods of pathological speech signal analysis by W. WSZOŁEK

“…Pathological speech evaluation can also go into the direction of a classification and determination of a type of the analysed signal, which can, in some cases, have a direct connection with anatomical and functional causes as well as conditions of the considered illness. …”
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Clinical considerations for prosthodontic rehabilitation of intermediate form of osteopetrosis: A report of two cases by Veena Jain, Gunjan Pruthi, Kailas Mundhe

“…Introduction: Osteopetrosis is a rare autosomal hereditary disorder characterized by abnormal functioning of osteoclasts, which leads to delayed wound healing. …”
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Analyzing Partial Shading in PV Systems Using Wavelet Packet Transform and Empirical Mode Decomposition Techniques by Kais Abdulmawjood, Walid G. Morsi

“…The main problem in identifying partial shading in a PV system is the difficulty of extracting its features under different shading conditions. …”
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A feature extraction method based on improved resonance sparse decomposition for early faults in rolling bearings by SUN Meng, GAO Bingpeng, CHENG Jing

“…></graphic></alternatives></inline-formula> of RSSD, for the achievement of the optimal matching of wavelet basis function and dissipation function. Secondly, the obtained optimal low resonance component was inputed into SMHD for filtering processing. …”
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Patient Experience of Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP): A Qualitative Exploration of Signs, Symptoms, and Health-Related Quality of Life Impacts by Anna Roberts, Natasha Griffiths, Kieran Thiara, Sophie Wallace, Alyson L. Young, Nicola Williamson, Adam Gater, Omar Saeed, Charles Minor, Natalia Hawken

“…CIDP impacted health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL), including physical functioning (e.g., walking difficulties), activities of daily living (e.g., difficulty with personal care), work (e.g., being unable to work), emotional wellbeing (e.g., depression), social wellbeing (e.g., participation in social/leisure activities), sleep (e.g., difficulty falling asleep), and cognition (e.g., brain fog). …”
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Physical Therapy Intervention for Individuals with Rett Syndrome by Meir Lotan, Susan Hanks

“…Individuals with Rett syndrome (RS) present a vast array of orthopedic and neurological difficulties. Typical problems, which may need to be addressed, when treating this population are functional limitations, low cardiovascular capacity, hypotonia, ataxia, apraxia, loss of transitional movements, spasticity, scoliosis and/or kyphosis, loss of ambulation, loss of hand function, foot deformities, and spatial disorientation. …”
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Damage Detection in Beam Structures Based on Frequency-Domain Analysis Methods for Nonlinear Systems by Wenbo Zhang, Xiaoyue Guo, Liangliang Cheng, Bo Zhang

“…Conventional detection methods based on the frequency response function (FRF) in linear systems tend to fail when small early damage occurs in engineered structures. …”
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Chronic Posttraumatic Nail Reconstruction with an Eponychium Flap: Technique Description and Case Series by Ricardo Kaempf de Oliveira, MD, Paula Fischer, MD, Luna Hussein Colombelli, MD, Monique Alves, MD, Pedro Delgado, MD, PhD, Matias Craviotto, MD, PhD

“…Purpose: Fingertip trauma and amputations, when not treated correctly, can evolve unfavorably, leading to pain, loss of strength, and tactile difficulties. Post-traumatic nail changes are not just a cosmetic complaint as the nail, along with its protective function, also helps to stabilize the fingertip, adding to pinching motion. …”
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Video tracking-based mandibular movement kinematic analysis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Chen Yang, Zhenhai Wei, Fei Zhao, Yangshiyu Zhou, Linfei Wu, Xiaomei Wei

“…Abstract Objective Patients with dysphagia due to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) after radiotherapy often have chewing difficulty. Kinematic analysis of mandibular movements may provide clinically useful information for the chewing function. …”
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Brain tumor detection through image fusion using whale optimization and edge preserving filter by Bhattiprolu Nagasirisha, Venkatesh Munagala, Ramakrishna Reddy Eamani, Mocherla Venkata Srikanth, Asileti Suneel Kumar, Varre Venkata Kanaka Durga Prasad

“… In diagnostic imaging, image fusion remains a significant difficulty, particularly in medical applications like guided image operations and radiation therapy. …”
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Enhancing Road Drainage Systems for Extreme Storms: Integration of a High-Precision Flow Diversion Module into SWMM Code by Yuting Ren, Zhiyu Shao, Qi Zhang, Wang Feng, Lei Xu, Huafeng Gong, Scott Yost, Lei Chen, Hongxiang Chai

“…Abstract Urban road networks function as surface passage for floodwater transport during extreme storm events to reduce potential risks in the city. …”
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Strong and Weak Prompt Engineering for Remote Sensing Image-Text Cross-Modal Retrieval by Tianci Sun, Chengyu Zheng, Xiu Li, Yanli Gao, Jie Nie, Lei Huang, Zhiqiang Wei

“…Finally, the adaptive hard sample elimination module optimizes the triplet loss function by training the model with negative sample pairs of varying difficulty, assigning higher weights to simpler pairs. …”
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Three-Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Slim Weighted Generative Adversarial Imputation Network: Spatio-Temporal Silm Weighted Generative Adversarial Imputation Net to Repair Missing Oce... by Yiwan Yue, Juan Li, Yu Zhang, Meiqi Ji, Jingyao Zhang, Rui Ma

“…Additionally, a spatio-temporal continuity loss function is designed to ensure the physical rationality of the data. …”
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