Relationship between Asymmetry of Gait and Muscle Torque in Patients after Unilateral Transfemoral Amputation by Alicja Rutkowska-Kucharska, Mateusz Kowal, Sławomir Winiarski

“…Transfemoral amputation leads to muscle atrophy in a tight stump resulting in asymmetry in muscle torque between the amputated and intact limb. …”
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BEAUTIFUL PLACES AND RECREATING HUMANITY IN SOUTH AFRICA by G.J. Van Wyngaard

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Theatre and Psychoanalysis: or Jung on Martin Crimp's Stage: “100 Words” by Solange Ayache

“…This article explores Martin Crimp’s use of Jung’s word association test in his masterpiece Attempts on Her Life (1997). In scenario 11, the playwright reproduces the list of one hundred stimulus words devised in 1909 by the psychoanalyst to test a patient’s mental health. …”
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Application of an integrated behaviour-change model on grandparental adherence towards childhood domestic injury prevention in Hong Kong: a longitudinal study by Martin S Hagger, Patrick Ip, Derwin King Chung Chan, Roni Man Ying Chiu, Catherine M Capio, Patrick S H Yung, Agnes Y K Lai

“…Subjective norms and PBC, but not attitudes, were also found to significantly mediate the indirect effects of psychological need support and autonomous motivation on intention and behavioural adherence.Conclusions Overall, the integrated model seems to be a feasible framework for explaining grandparents’ domestic injury prevention behaviour.…”
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Hybridizing Evolutionary Computation and Deep Neural Networks: An Approach to Handwriting Recognition Using Committees and Transfer Learning by Alejandro Baldominos, Yago Saez, Pedro Isasi

“…Additionally, both approaches can be combined by building committees of transferred topologies, and this combination attains results that combine the best of both approaches.…”
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Preparation and Characterization of Cetyl Trimethylammonium Intercalated Sericite by Hao Ding, Yuebo Wang, Yu Liang, Faxiang Qin

“…The results indicated that the CTA+ entered sericite interlayers and anchored in the aluminosilicate interlayers through strong electrostatic attraction. The arrangement of CTA+ in sericite interlayers was that alkyl chain of CTA+ mainly tilted at an angle about 60° (paraffin-type bilayer) and 38° (paraffin-type monolayer) with aluminosilicate layers. …”
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1-Bromopropane induces mitochondrial damage and lipid metabolism imbalance in respiratory epithelial cells through the PGC-1α/PPARα pathway by Qiuyun Wu, Chunmeng Jin, Xue Liu, Qianyi Zhang, Biyang Jiao, Hongmin Yu

“…Subsequently, through RNA-seq analysis, we identified that the 1-BP-induced damage of respiratory epithelial cells was related to the mitochondrial function pathway and further verified that 1-BP caused mitochondrial damage of respiratory epithelial cells, which was manifested as ultrastructural damage, decreased membrane potential, ATP, and MFN2 levels. These damages were associated with cellular oxidative stress responses. …”
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Messaging with appeal to intrinsic or relational values shows potential to shift demand for wildlife as pets by Harry Marshall, Nigel J. Collar, Alexander C. Lees, Andrew Moss, Pramana Yuda, Stuart J. Marsden

“…We identified a degree of plasticity in behaviour, with most respondents perceiving the keeping of wild‐caught birds to be a conservation problem, and a majority claiming they would attempt to breed birds in the future. However, while most respondents acknowledged the illegality of both buying and catching wild birds, they also recognised that most birds in markets are wild‐caught because they are easier and cheaper to source than captive‐bred birds. …”
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Fracture Incidence, Quality of Life, and Back Pain during 18-Months Treatment with Teriparatide in Greek Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: Results from the European Forsteo O... by K. Aloumanis, D. Karras, V. Drossinos, E. Korelis, A. Polydorakis

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Does Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin (Thymoglobuline®) Have a Role in Avoiding Delayed Graft Function in the Modern Era of Kidney Transplantation? by Lluís Guirado

“…Evidence is growing that intraoperative rATG ameliorates IRI, and it seems reasonable to routinely start rATG before reperfusion.…”
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Homossexualidade e construção de papéis by Salvador Pereira Corrêa Júnior, Gabriella Hernandes Vieira, Hugo Leonardo Neves Gomes, Lívia Almeida Freire, Monique Falcão Lobo

“…No desenrolar da história de formação do Ocidente encontraremos muitas passagens que apresentam a existência da homossexualidade, bem como as formas de relação homossexuais encaradas pela sociedade, principiando pelos hebreus, passando pelos gregos e romanos até a escravidão dos negros no Brasil. O presente artigo pretende traçar um perfil histórico com o intuito de auxiliar na compreensão da atual construção binária 6 de gênero, e sua relação com os papéis atribuídos e assumidos por homossexuais, assim como também participar de um diálogo em que se possa criar possibilidades de entendimentos para essas questões relacionadas à homossexualidade e refletir sobre as possíveis mudanças em prol da diminuição da discriminação contra homossexuais.…”
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Privacy-enhanced federated learning scheme based on generative adversarial networks by Feng YU, Qingxin LIN, Hui LIN, Xiaoding WANG

“…Federated learning, a distributed machine learning paradigm, has gained a lot of attention due to its inherent privacy protection capability and heterogeneous collaboration.However, recent studies have revealed a potential privacy risk known as “gradient leakage”, where the gradients can be used to determine whether a data record with a specific property is included in another participant’s batch, thereby exposing the participant’s training data.Current privacy-enhanced federated learning methods may have drawbacks such as reduced accuracy, computational overhead, or new insecurity factors.To address this issue, a differential privacy-enhanced generative adversarial network model was proposed, which introduced an identifier into vanilla GAN, thus enabling the input data to be approached while satisfying differential privacy constraints.Then this model was applied to the federated learning framework, to improve the privacy protection capability without compromising model accuracy.The proposed method was verified through simulations under the client/server (C/S) federated learning architecture and was found to balance data privacy and practicality effectively compared with the DP-SGD method.Besides, the usability of the proposed model was theoretically analyzed under a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, and future research work was discussed.…”
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Prosociality in adolescents: an intervention experience by Claudia Regina de Freitas, Celso Stephan

“…In the various dimensions analyzed (Helping, Sharing, Positive Climate, Caring, and Empathy), positive trends were noted when positive and healthy attitudes were encouraged. This indicates that introducing socioemotional interventions in the school environment can lead to both individual and collective changes.…”
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Application of the OMERACT Grey-scale Ultrasound Scoring System for salivary glands in a single-centre cohort of patients with suspected Sjögren’s syndrome by Lene Terslev, Simon Krabbe, Viktoria Fana, Uffe M Dohn

“…Images of the four glands were scored 0–3 according to the scoring system and a consensus score was obtained using a developed ultrasound atlas.Results Of the 134 patients included in the analysis, 43 were diagnosed with primary SS (pSS) and all fulfilled the 2016 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR classification criteria. …”
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The Role of Connexin-43 in the Inflammatory Process: A New Potential Therapy to Influence Keratitis by Chu-Yang Xu, Wen-Song Zhang, Hong Zhang, Yan Cao, Hong-Yan Zhou

“…We also report several Cx43 mimic peptides which can inhibit the activity of Cx43 Hc to mediate the releasing of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which may in turn influence the inflammatory process.…”
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Genetic diversity of the earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi (Lumbricidae, Annelida) by S. V. Shekhovtsov, D. I. Berman, E. V. Golovanova, S. E. Peltek

“…Based on the available information, we attempt to present a general outlook on E. nordenskioldi genetic structure and further directions of its study.…”
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Enabling analytical precision in microplastic analysis: innovative solutions for precise method validation, evaluation and quality control by Jovan Badzoka, Christoph Kappacher, Jakob Lauß, Lisa Obwaller, Anna Pavun, Christian W. Huck

“…Consequently, inconsistencies in detected quantities, attributed to overlooked recovery and blank measurements, persist, undermining data reliability and comparability. …”
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Shear Stress Counteracts Endothelial CX3CL1 Induction and Monocytic Cell Adhesion by Aaron Babendreyer, Lisa Molls, Daniela Dreymueller, Stefan Uhlig, Andreas Ludwig

“…Thus, during early stages of vascular inflammation, low shear stress typically seen at atherosclerosis-prone regions promotes the induction of endothelial CX3CL1 and monocytic cell recruitment, whereas physiological shear stress counteracts this inflammatory activation of endothelial cells.…”
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Review of Electric-Carbon Coupling Market Studies： Status，Challenges，and Sustainability Perspectives by ZHU Jizhong, XIE Chuchu, ZHANG Di, LAN Jing, ZHOU Jialin

“…Consequently，the study of the electric-carbon coupling market has garnered significant attention. This study critically examines the latest policies in both the electric and carbon markets，providing a comprehensive overview of the global carbon market from an international perspective，thereby synthesizing diverse practices across various carbon markets. …”
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An Accurate Measurement Method for Tension Force of Short Cable by Additional Mass Block by Shuichang Li, Longlin Wang, Hua Wang, Peihua Shi, Riyan Lan, Changxia Wu, Xirui Wang

“…It can also develop an analytical method to identify the equivalent effective length depending on whether the added mass block is attached. Then, tension force of short length cable can be evaluated by measuring its natural frequency based on equivalent effective length. …”
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