User satisfaction and dissatisfaction with assistive technology devices and services in India by Suraj Singh Senjam, Souvik Manna, Jeewan Singh Titiyal, Anil Kumar, Jugal Kishore

“…Around 22.2% (1888) of participants had functional difficulties and reported using AT, out of which 3.9% (74) were dissatisfied with their products. …”
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Association of post-stroke hemiplegic shoulder pain with sleep quality, mood, and quality of life by Marzieh Khatooni, Leila Dehghankar, Fatemeh Samiei Siboni, Mahdieh Bahrami, Mahya Shafaei, Rahman Panahi, Mohamad Amerzadeh

“…These factors lead to poorer functional outcomes, reduced hand function, and difficulties in performing daily activities. …”
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Common neural recruitment across diverse sustained attention tasks. by Jessica A Grahn, Tom Manly

“…The maintenance of a goal directed stance in the absence of strong environmental facilitation is challenging and this may underpin the sensitivity of sustained attention tasks to functional difficulties in a range of clinical groups.…”
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Motor-Based Interventions in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials by Jiaxin Gao, Yihan Yang, Xiaqing Xu, Dunbing Huang, Yangxin Wu, Hongfei Ren, Anren Zhang, Xiaohua Ke, Wei Song

“…The results showed that MBI significantly improved the overall motor skills (g = 1.00, 95%CI [0.48,1.52], p < 0.001), balance function (g = 0.57, 95%CI [0.17,0.97], p = 0.005), cognitive function (g = 1.53, 95%CI [0.67,2.39], p = 0.001), muscle function (g = 0.91, 95%CI [0.17,1.66], p = 0.017), coordination function (g = 0.47, 95%CI [0.04,0.90], p = 0.032), visual function (g = 0.61, 95%CI [0.15,1.08], p = 0.009), sensory function (g = 0.85, 95%CI [0.34,1.35], p = 0.001), sensory organization function (g = 0.61, 95%CI [0.27,0.96], p = 0.001) and activity performance (g = 0.71, 95%CI [0.23,1.19], p = 0.004), but improvements in children's psychosocial factors (g = 0.71, 95%CI [− 0.08,1.50], p = 0.079) were not significant, nor were improvements in children's participation levels observed with MBI. …”
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Wearable, Multimodal, Biosignal Acquisition System for Potential Critical and Emergency Applications by Chin-Teng Lin, Chen-Yu Wang, Kuan-Chih Huang, Shi-Jinn Horng, Lun-De Liao

“…Currently, many commercial devices provide related functionalities. However, most devices measure only one biological signal, which can increase the budget for users and cause difficulty in remote integration. …”
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Proton beam therapy for a patient with prostatic rhabdomyosarcoma: a case report and review of the literature by Wencui Yang, Wencui Yang, Junetsu Mizoe, Rutsuko Komaki, Rutsuko Komaki, Qu Zhang

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The risk of believing that emotions are bad and uncontrollable: association with orthorexia nervosa by L. Vuillier, M. Greville-Harris, R. L. Moseley

“…Results Individuals with high ON traits demonstrated difficulties in most aspects of emotional functioning compared to those with low ON traits. …”
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Health-related quality of life of the elderly with cancer in adjuvant treatment by Bruna Francielle Toneti, Juliana Maria de Paula, Adriana Cristina Nicolussi, Namie Okino Sawada

“…The results showed that the general quality of life was satisfactory (average = 69.04), the main affected domains were emotional function, social function, cognitive function, financial difficulties, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, dyspnea, and insomnia. …”
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Spectrum of Visual Dysfunction Detected by a Novel Testing Protocol Within a Special School Eye Care Service by Mohammud Musleh, Alison Green, Aleks Mankowska, Catherine Viner, Rachel Pilling

“…Reports focus on visual acuity and refraction, overlooking visuoperceptual difficulties, including cerebral visual impairment. This article reports on the feasibility and outcomes of visual function testing performed during in-school visual assessments. …”
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Invited review: Recent developments in understanding the rehydration characteristics of high-protein dairy powders by S. Roy, J.K. Amamcharla

“…The low solubility of these powders can cause processing difficulties, such as clogged filters and processing lines, leading to a loss of nutritional and functional properties and increased operating costs. …”
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Challenges of Blockchain Implementation in Construction by Ahsan Waqar, Lubna A. Alharbi, Faiz Abdullah Alotaibi, Khaled A. Alrasheed, Abdul Mateen Khan, Hamad Almujibah

“…The barriers encompass a variety of areas including technical, functional, economic, social, and standardization concerns. …”
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Polysémie de HOW dans la King James Version by Mathilde Pinson

“…This paper aims at analyzing the various functional and semantic values attributed to the morpheme how in the King James Version of the Bible (KJV), some of which are not prototypical (complementizer, causal interrogative adverb, interrogative pronoun and adverbial relative). …”
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Aircraft maintenance system simulation mathematical model construction by Yu. I. Samulenkov, Ya. A. Filatova, A. D. Gruzd

“…The development of the aviation transport system is characterized by sophistication of interacting objects, the multi-criteria nature of the tasks to be solved and difficulties in making management decisions. For example, modern medium haul aircraft are fitted with up to 25,000 sensors to monitor the performance capabilities of functional systems components. …”
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The First Experience of Using a Femtosecond Laser in Pterygium Surgery by R. A. Kazakbaev

“…The technique is simple to perform, the separation of the autograft from its own conjunctiva does not cause difficulties due to an accurate cut of the femtosecond laser, which helps to obtain optimal functional results in the long-term period. …”
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The efficacy of the P-funnel, an external urinary collection device, for females in a hospital setting by Vania Chang, Joan M. Ching, Randal P. Ching

“…The survey questions focused on comfort, ease of use, and functionality.Results: The participant’s average satisfaction rating across the 10 question survey was 4.37 out of 5. …”
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REALITIES AND PROSPECTS OF MANAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS IN UKRAINE by Tetiana SHMATKOVSKA, Oksana AGRES, Yurii LUCHECHKO, Liudmyla KOROBCHUK, Nataliia NAUMENKO, Maksym VOICHUK, Mykola DZIAMULYCH

“…The article highlights the exogenous and endogenous risks of the functioning of the agricultural sector. Internal risks include loss of production and resource potential of the agricultural sector; the liquidation of a significant number of agrarian business enterprises; change of specialization due to significant economic losses; loss of part of the infrastructure facilities for storage and primary processing of agricultural products; difficulty in selling products to foreign markets. …”
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Differences in Health Status between People with and without Disabilities in Ecuadorian Prisons by Rodrigo Vargas-Fernández, Akram Hernández-Vásquez

“…According to gender, a higher proportion of women had disabilities (10.7% vs. 8.5%), some difficulty functioning (33.8% vs. 28.0%), and multiple disabilities (2.4% vs. 2.0%) compared to men. …”
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Measuring health-related quality of life: a qualitative study of mental health patients’ experiences of impacts of mental health issues by Yeujin Ki, Andrew Athan Mcaleavey, Janne-Merete Torset Øien, Tron Anders Moger, Christian Moltu

“…Additionally, the impact of unpredictability on daily functioning and the role of sleep difficulties should be incorporated. …”
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Psychometric evaluation of the extended inclusion of nature in self scale in Chinese adults through the Rasch analysis by Xuanyi Wang, Shulin Chen

“…Category probability curves showed the satisfying functioning of the rating scale. The scale further exhibited high criterion validity, convergent validity, internal consistency and test–retest reliability. …”
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High-fidelity immersive virtual reality environments for gait rehabilitation exergames by Laura Schalbetter, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Fabian Gutscher, Ulrike Wissen Hayek

“…Future studies will analyze effects on gait patterns across different environments and their restorative functions and evaluate the HMD-VR xergame in clinical settings.…”
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