Effects of an 8-week pre-season targeted training on sprinting performance, agility and lower limb muscular asymmetries in elite soccer players by Artur Gołaś, Przemysław Pietraszewski, Robert Roczniok, Artur Terbalyan, Adam Maszczyk, Rafał Opaliński, Adam Zając

“…A comprehensive training approach including speed, agility, and resistance training based on specific movement patterns should be applied by strength and conditioning practitioners in soccer teams to achieve peak physical performance and reduce injury risk due to the partial elimination of muscular asymmetries.…”
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Optimization of mechanical properties of geopolymer mortar based on Class C fly ash and silica fume: A Taguchi method approach by Hasan Altawil, Murat Olgun

“…Results showed that the highest compressive strength (20.52 MPa) was achieved with alkaline solution-to-binder ratio = 0.3, water-to-geopolymer solids ratio = 0.35, sodium silicate-to sodium hydroxide ratio = 1.75, and aggregate percentage = 0.60, while the lowest (2.64 MPa) occurred with alkaline solution-to-binder ratio = 0.3, water to geopolymer solids ratio = 0.55, sodium silicate to sodium hydroxide ratio = 2.5, and aggregate percentage = 0.65. …”
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Biomechanical analysis of a newly designed and 3D printed plate-locking interbody cage: an observational study of finite element analysis by Shuai Ni, Rui Yang, Sanmao Liu, Yunxiang Hu

“…We used 3D printing technology to produce a new type of plate-locking cage, anticipating to achieve high fusion rate with the high biomechanical stability. …”
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Differences in patients derived from otolaryngology and other specialties with sleep apnea by Constanza Salas, Jorge Dreyse, Andrea Contreras, Gonzalo Nazar, Constanza Astorquiza, Rodrigo Cabezon, Gonzalo Labarca, Jorge Jorquera

“…The diagnostic accuracy of the sleep questionnaires was achieved using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and the area under the curve (AUC). …”
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A Novel Stacked Model for Classification of Vocal Cord Paralysis Over Imbalanced Vocal Data by K. Jayashree Hegde, K. Manjula Shenoy, K. Devaraja

“…The results from the experiments express that the proposed stacked model achieved an excellent accuracy of 94.11% for the vowel /a/ at normal and low-high-low pitch conditions using an imbalanced dataset. …”
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Continuing the continuous harvests of food production: from the perspective of the interrelationships among cultivated land quantity, quality, and grain yield by Peng Cheng, Yang Zhang, Ke Liu, Xuesong Kong, Shiman Wu, Huafei Yan, Ping Jiang

“…However, due to the heavy reliance on a growth model driven by resource inputs, this type of harvest appeared to be unsustainable because of the significant negative effects brought out by overusing resources. With a view to achieving sustainable use of CL and food production, therefore, this paper proposed policies to promote the sustainable use of CL and food supply for supporting the survival of increasing population through the full implementation of administrative regulations and economic measures that focus on the balance among the quantity and quality and food production of CL in the process of agricultural production and CL management.…”
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Dynamics of the evolution of the strategic management concept: From the planning school to the neostrategic approach by Tomasz Kafel, Bernard Ziębicki

“…They indicate different factors that allow for success in strategic management such as: setting long-term goals, selection of programs and their execution plans (planning school); connection of the enterprise with the environment (evolutionary school); focusing attention on competitive advantage and achieved performance (position-based school); focus on one’s own resources and competences (resource school); use of opportunities and creating innovation (simple rules school); selection of the best option and orientation in business management (real options school); or eclectic perspectives, integrating the listed approaches. …”
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Enhancing trauma triage in low-resource settings using machine learning: a performance comparison with the Kampala Trauma Score by Mike Nsubuga, Timothy Mwanje Kintu, Helen Please, Kelsey Stewart, Sergio M. Navarro

“…Results All four ML models outperformed the KTS model, with the RF and GB both achieving AUC-ROC values of 0.91, compared to 0.62 (95% CI: 0.61–0.63) for the KTS (p < 0.01). …”
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The Effect of Lower-Limb Exercise on Pain Management of the Patients Undergoing Posterior Lumbar Fusion Surgery: A Retrospective Case-Control Study by Tong Wu, Yong Ye

“…Furthermore, the combined group achieved less ODI score than the celecoxib group on POD 3, 7, and 14, respectively (all p<0.05). …”
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The Eczema Bathing Study: Weekly versus daily bathing for people with eczema? Protocol of an online, randomised controlled trial [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wit... by Paul Leighton, Wei Chern Gavin Fong, Ingrid Muller, Laura Howells, Arabella Baker, Eleanor J Mitchell, Eleanor Harrison, Leila Thuma, Yimin Jiang, Lucy Bradshaw, Alan Montgomery, Fiona Cowdel, Matthew J Ridd, Jane Ravenscroft, Reiko J Tanaka, Miriam Santer, Richard Swinden, Nicholas Hilken, Carron Layfield, Richard Dooley, Sophia Collins, Clare Upton, Tracy Owen, Firoza Davies, Devin Patel, Mars Eddis-Finbow, Hywel C Williams, Goldie Putrym, Kim S Thomas, Amanda Roberts

“…Secondary outcomes include skin specific quality of life, eczema control, itch severity, use of usual eczema treatments, proportion who achieve an improvement in POEM of ≥3 points, global change in eczema and safety outcomes. …”
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Evaluation of B cell related markers and autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with abatacept by Ting Wang, Natalia V. Giltiay, Christian Lood, Ning Wang, Bobby Kwanghoon Han

“…Responders (n=10) to abatacept were subjects who achieved ACR50 response at week 24. Serum levels of soluble biomarkers were measured with ProcartaPlex by Luminex or ELISA. …”
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Exploring and Verifying the Mechanism and Targets of Shenqi Pill in the Treatment of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis via Network Pharmacology and Experiments by Beihui He, Zheng Chen, Yunmeng Nie, Minmin Luo, Sumei Xu, Junbin Yan, Zhiyun Chen

“…According to the TCM treatment principle that the liver and kidney are homologies, the clinical use of SQP in the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has achieved a good effect. However, the active targeted genes and underlying mechanism remain unclear. …”
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Optimal protein requirement for rapid and coordinated test growth of juvenile sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus intermedius) by Panke Gong, Haijing Liu, Dan Gou, Weixiao Di, Huinan Zuo, Jun Ding, Yaqing Chang, Rantao Zuo

“…It was recommended that the dietary protein level should be no more than 10 % for achieving rapid and coordinated growth of juvenile S. intermedius.…”
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Application of Conversational AI Models in Decision Making for Clinical Periodontology: Analysis and Predictive Modeling by Albert Camlet, Aida Kusiak, Dariusz Świetlik

“…In general, ChatGPT-4 performed better than ChatGPT-3.5, achieving significantly better results in the Spring 2023 test in the Polish and English versions.…”
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Clinical and imaging features of co-existent pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer: a population-based matching study in China by Fan Zhang, Fei Qi, Yi Han, Hongjie Yang, Yishuo Wang, Guirong Wang, Yujie Dong, Hongxia Li, Yuan Gao, Hongmei Zhang, Tongmei Zhang, Liang Li

“…The pre-diagnostic model exhibited robust performance, achieving area under the curve (AUC) values of 0.864 in the training set and 0.830 in the test set. …”
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Growth Propagation of Liquid Spawn on Non-Woven Hemp Mats to Inform Digital Biofabrication of Mycelium-Based Composites by Andreas Biront, Mart Sillen, Patrick Van Dijck, Jan Wurm

“…Traditional fabrication methods involve combining grain spawn with loose substrates in a mold to achieve specific single functional properties, such as strength, acoustic absorption, or thermal insulation. …”
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Acquired sperm hypomethylation by gestational arsenic exposure is re-established in both the paternal and maternal genomes of post-epigenetic reprogramming embryos by Keiko Nohara, Takehiro Suzuki, Kazuyuki Okamura, Tomoko Kawai, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi

“…Furthermore, the results suggest that this re-establishment is achieved in collaboration with other factors that mediate region-specific methylation changes. …”
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Leveraging two-dimensional pre-trained vision transformers for three-dimensional model generation via masked autoencoders by Muhammad Sajid, Kaleem Razzaq Malik, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Tauqeer Safdar Malik, Masoud Alajmi, Ali Haider Khan, Amir Haider, Seada Hussen

“…In particular, our pre-trained model achieved 93.63% accuracy for linear SVM on ScanObjectNN and 91.31% accuracy on ModelNet40. …”
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Artificial Visual System for Stereo-Orientation Recognition Based on Hubel-Wiesel Model by Bin Li, Yuki Todo, Zheng Tang

“…Simulation results demonstrate that our AVS is effective in stereo-orientation recognition and robust against spatial noise jitters. AVS achieved an overall over 90% accuracy on noise data in orientation recognition tasks, significantly outperforming deep models. …”
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Interaction of the gastroenterologist and psychiatrist at management of patient with functional disorder of gastro-intestinal tract by V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. A. Poluektova, A. G. Beniashvili

“…Patient received course of symptomatic treatment on which background some improvement of intestinal complaints was achieved. At the end of treatment patient was consulted by psychiatrist according to which opinion the state of the patient conformed several ICD10 headings, first of all to the mixed anxiety-depressive disorder, as well as to somatoform disorder of autonomous dysfunction type. …”
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