Malnutrition-Sarcopenia Syndrome: Is This the Future of Nutrition Screening and Assessment for Older Adults? by Maurits F. J. Vandewoude, Carolyn J. Alish, Abby C. Sauer, Refaat A. Hegazi

“…Healthcare practitioners may assess patients for either malnutrition or sarcopenia; however, many patients clinically present with both conditions, resulting in the syndrome, Malnutrition-Sarcopenia Syndrome, which is the clinical presentation of both malnutrition and accelerated age-associated loss of lean body mass, strength, and/or functionality. …”
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Small target detection in UAV view based on improved YOLOv8 algorithm by Xiaoli Zhang, Guocai Zuo

“…The MPDIoU (Minimum Point Distance based IoU) loss function is improved, and the idea of inner-IoU loss function is adopted as a way to improve the model’s learning ability for difficult samples. …”
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Transgenic plants as a model for studying еpigenetic regulation of gene expression by T. V. Marenkova, E. V. Deineko

“…The phenomenon of loss of expression of transferred genes in transgenic plants was discovered in the early 1990s. …”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Social sciences by O.L. Lushnikova

“…However, the difficult socio-economic situation of rural areas also has deeper and irreversible processes – the loss of the cultural identity of rural society, which is especially important for national countryside. …”

Evaluation of ventilation and cooling strategies in cattle sheds in the middle and lower Yangtze river regions based on model prediction by Haoyuan Fang, Peishi Yan, Shengjuan Wei, Dengjin Chen

“…It also significantly enhanced convective and evaporative heat loss, ultimately significantly improving latent heat loss efficiency. …”
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Influence of Sulfur and Additives on Wear of Exhaust Valve Seat of Cylinder Head by Jianping Zhao, Shunli Zhang, Zhenhuan Dou, YuBo Sun, Jiangkun Wan, Lei Du

“…The sulfur in diesel, like the lead in gasoline, has long been known to resist wear in the valve seats of high-power diesel engines; just as gasoline additives compensate for the loss of lead, diesel oil additives seem to compensate for the loss of sulfur. …”
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Hybrid Movie Recommendation System With User Partitioning and Log Likelihood Content Comparison by Yongmao Yang, Kampol Woradit, Kenneth Cosh

“…Our proposed hybrid approach effectively addresses sparsity and mitigates information loss in matrix factorization, as demonstrated by these results.…”
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Exploring the Link between Periodontal Disease and Systemic Conditions: Implications for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Rheumatoid Arthritis by Kanimozhi, K. Aishwarya, Sweta Yadav, Ajith A. Chandy, Ramyashri Muralikrishna, Rohan Shinkre

“…To evaluate periodontal condition, including clinical attachment loss and pocket depth, thorough oral exams were performed. …”
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Predicting Early Bulbar Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Speech Subsystem Approach by Panying Rong, Yana Yunusova, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green

“…To develop a predictive model of speech loss in persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) based on measures of respiratory, phonatory, articulatory, and resonatory functions that were selected using a data-mining approach. …”
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Research on Concrete Beam Damage Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Vibrations from ABAQUS Models and Computer Vision by Xin Bai, Zi Zhang

“…The training process is satisfactory in that the training loss and validation loss dropped very quickly.…”
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Impact of posterior septectomy on olfaction in endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery. by Jae Yoon Lee, Jae Sung Park, Sin Soo Jeun, Sung Won Kim, Do Hyun Kim, Soo Whan Kim

“…Furthermore, patients with more extensive septal resections reported increased discomfort and olfactory loss, as evidenced by higher SNOT-22 and VAS scores. …”
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Effect of additon amount of carbon black on curing characteristics, physical and mechanical properties, and dynamic mechanical properties of tetrafluoroethylene-propylene rubber by GONG Zi-qing, LI Bo, HE Lian-cheng, HUANG Xi-dai, ZHAO Hong-guo, WU Yu, HU Hai-hua, ZHOU Lei

“…With the increase in the addition amount of carbon black, the glass transition region of the vulcanizates became narrow significantly, the glass transition temperature moved to the low temperature direction, and meanwhile the loss factor at 200 ℃ increased, both the storage modulus and loss modulus first increased and then remained essentially constant. …”
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Reversible Cortical Blindness as a Prominent Manifestation of Cerebral Embolism due to Infective Endocarditis by Georgios P. Kranidiotis, Alexandra N. Gougoutsi, Theodoros A. Retsas, Maria I. Anastasiou-Nana

“…It is noteworthy that the visual loss resolved after treatment of endocarditis. Conclusions. …”
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Management of the Acute Scrotum in a District General Hospital: 10-Year Experience by Lukas Tajchner, John O. Larkin, Michael G. Bourke, Ronan Waldron, Kevin Barry, Paul W. Eustace

“…The primary objective of management is to avoid testicular loss. This requires a high index of clinical suspicion and prompt surgical intervention. …”
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Plant traits, growth stage, and ash mass load control the vulnerability of potato, corn, and wheat crops to volcanic ashfall by Noa Ligot, Lauriane Barthélemi, Hugues Falys, Bruno Godin, Patrick Bogaert, Pierre Delmelle

“…These results were used to develop new vulnerability functions for estimating yield loss in potatoes, corn, and wheat following exposure to an ashfall event.…”
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Calculation of Spotting Particles Maximum Distance in Idealised Forest Fire Scenarios by José C. F. Pereira, José M. C. Pereira, André L. A. Leite, Duarte M. S. Albuquerque

“…The thermally thin particles undergo drag relative to the flow and moisture loss as they are dried and pyrolysis, char-combustion, and mass loss as they burn. …”
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Progressive alignment and interwoven composition network for image stitching by Xiaoting Fan, Long Sun, Zhong Zhang, Tariq S. Durrani

“…Finally, an alignment loss and a composition loss are introduced to reduce alignment distortions and enhance seam consistency of the final image stitching results. …”
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Real-life effectiveness and safety of baricitinib in 17 Japanese patients with alopecia areata: a 60-week single center study by Akihiko Uchiyama, Takeshi Araki, Keiji Kosaka, Sei-Ichiro Motegi

“…Eleven patients experienced improvement in scalp hair loss at week 12, leading to a significant reduction in the AA-IGA score. …”
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Rheological Parameters and Transport Characteristics of Fresh Cement Tailings Backfill Slurry in an Underground Iron Mine by Chi Zhang, Yu-Ye Tan, Kai Zhang, Chun-Yue Zhang, Wei-Dong Song

“…At this point, the slurry flow state is relatively stable, and the pipeline resistance loss is positively correlated with SC and flow rate. …”
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Rescue of in vitro models of CSF1R-related adult-onset leukodystrophy by iluzanebart: mechanisms and therapeutic implications of TREM2 agonism by Kelley C. Larson, Frederick W. Gergits, Abigail J. Renoux, Elizabeth J. Weisman, Borislav Dejanovic, Liyue Huang, Bhaumik Pandya, Donald G. McLaren, Berkley A. Lynch, Richard Fisher, Evan Thackaberry, David Gray, Francois Gaudreault, Christian Mirescu

“…To explore the therapeutic hypothesis that loss of CSF1R signaling and related microglial hypofunction can be circumvented via activation of TREM2, we evaluated the potential of iluzanebart to compensate for CSF1R loss-of-function. …”
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