The effect of active exoskeleton support with different lumbar-to-hip support ratios on spinal musculoskeletal loading and lumbar kinematics during lifting by Niels P. Brouwer, Ali Tabasi, Feng Hu, Idsart Kingma, Wietse van Dijk, Mohamed Irfan Mohamed Refai, Herman van der Kooij, Jaap H. van Dieën

“…Eight healthy males lifted 15 kg loads using three techniques without exoskeleton (NOEXO) and with exoskeleton: minimal impedance mode (MINIMP), L/H support ratio in line with a typical L/H net moment ratio (R0.8), lower (R0.5) and higher (R2.0) L/H support ratio than R0.8, and a mechanically fixed lumbar joint (LF; simulating hip joint-only exoskeleton designs).…”
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It's dark under the lamp? The moderating role of executives' accounting competence on relationship between goodwill impairment signal and goodwill impairment. by Qiandan Deng

“…The stronger the executives' accounting competence is, the weaker the goodwill impairment signal is, that is, the probability of the goodwill impairment is lower and the scale of goodwill impairment is smaller. …”
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Does Dopamine Depletion Trigger a Spreader Lexical-Semantic Activation in Parkinson’s Disease? Evidence from a Study Based on Word Fluency Tasks by S. Zabberoni, G. A. Carlesimo, A. Peppe, C. Caltagirone, A. Costa

“…We predicted that the average values of both of these parameters would be lower in PD patients with respect to healthy controls (HC). …”
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Differential Diagnosis of MutYH-Associated Polyposis from Sporadic Colon Polyps by A. S. Tsukanov, V. P. Shubin, A. M. Kuzminov, M. Kh. Toboeva, T. A. Savelyeva, V. N. Kashnikov, Yu. A. Shelygin

“…For the first time, the lower limit of the polyp number has been established, allowing the MutYH-associated polyposis to be differentiated from sporadic polyps.…”
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Prediction of end-point phosphorus content of molten steel in BOF with machine learning models by Kang Y., Ren M.-M., Zhao J.-X., Yang L.-B., Zhang Z.-K., Wang Z., Cao G.

“…The results showed that compared with linear regression and neural network regression model, two types of ensemble tree model have higher prediction accuracy, better stability with small data sets, and lower data preprocessing requirements. The factors influencing the end-point phosphorus (P) content in BOF were ranked in order of importance as: Tapping temperature > Turning down times > Steel scrap quantity> Operation habits of different working groups > Amount of oxygen injection> Sulfur and phosphorus content of molten iron > Addition amount of lime, limestone, and lightly burnt dolomite in the slag > Slag-splashing amount.…”
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Pitfalls of space-time trading when parametrizing a land use dependent hydrological model by Oudin, Ludovic, Lalonde, Morgane

“…Results show a clear modulation of land use on evapotranspiration, suggesting larger and lower evaporation rates over croplands and urban areas respectively. …”
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Sir2 and Fun30 regulate ribosomal DNA replication timing via MCM helicase positioning and nucleosome occupancy by Carmina Lichauco, Eric J Foss, Tonibelle Gatbonton-Schwager, Nelson F Athow, Brandon Lofts, Robin Acob, Erin Taylor, James J Marquez, Uyen Lao, Shawna Miles, Antonio Bedalov

“…We have previously reported that in the absence of SIR2, a de-repressed RNA PolII repositions MCM replicative helicases from their loading site at the ribosomal origin, where they abut well-positioned, high-occupancy nucleosomes, to an adjacent region with lower nucleosome occupancy. By developing a method that can distinguish activation of closely spaced MCM complexes, here we show that the displaced MCMs at rDNA origins have increased firing propensity compared to the nondisplaced MCMs. …”
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Effect of Continuous Feeding of Ayu-Narezushi on Lipid Metabolism in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome by Takeshi Nishida, Koichi Tsuneyama, Yasuhiko Tago, Koji Nomura, Makoto Fujimoto, Takahiko Nakajima, Akira Noguchi, Takashi Minamisaka, Hideki Hatta, Johji Imura

“…Serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels were significantly lower in the Ayu-narezushi group than in the control group at 24 weeks of age. …”
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Enhancement of Photocatalytic Activity on TiO2-Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes Nanocomposites by Lingling Wang, Long Shen, Yihuai Li, Luping Zhu, Jiaowen Shen, Lijun Wang

“…However, the mechanical process for CNx and TiO2 mixtures showed lower activity than neat TiO2. Moreover, TiO2-CNx nanocomposites exhibit much higher photocatalytic activity than that of neat TiO2 and TiO2-CNTs nanocomposites. …”
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Performance Analysis of Multiscale Entropy for the Assessment of ECG Signal Quality by Yatao Zhang, Shoushui Wei, Yutao Long, Chengyu Liu

“…However, for the synthetic ECG plus HF noise, the MSE was sensitive to SNR within lower range of scale factor. Thus, a recommended scale factor range within 5 to 10 was given. …”
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Optic Neuritis: From Magnocellular to Cognitive Residual Dysfunction by Anne-Claire Viret, Céline Cavézian, Olivier Coubard, Vivien Vasseur, Noa Raz, Netta Levin, Catherine Vignal, Olivier Gout, Sylvie Chokron

“…When completing the tasks with their (previously) pathologic eye, optic neuritis patients showed lower accuracy compared to controls or to their healthy eye for low spatial frequency images only. …”
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Study on the Drive Characteristic of Roller Chain of the Large Stroke Manipulator System by Hu Yan

“…In order to solve the current problem of the transmission manipulator design of high manufacturing costs and general easy occasions limitations,a new manipulator based on roller chain drive system is presented,and aiming at the roller chain drive system,through the use of multi-body dynamics theory and Lagrangian methods,the transverse vibration modal characteristics and stability of manipulator system roller chain drive is analyzed and got.The results show that,by comparing the operation characteristics of the large stroke with roller chain drive and non-roller chain drive manipulator system,the proposed model has lower manufacturing costs,and the new manipulator system solutions can better solve the limitations of using traditional manipulator problems are generally easy to use the occasion.The manipulator with roller chain drive and non-roller chain drive in the ideal trajectory operating characteristics of small differences,it is meet the general requirements for operation of the manipulator with using less precision.The chain drive transverse vibration natural frequency increase with the decreasing chain length,the drive speed has less affected on transverse vibration,the chain tension on the chain drive transverse vibration shows that the linear relationship between the natural frequency increases as the tension gradually increases.…”
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Independent Benefits of Meeting the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines to Insulin Resistance in Obese Latino Children by Nazrat Mirza, Matilde Palmer, Johanna O'Connell, Loretta DiPietro

“…We observed that those obese children who met the 2008 Guidelines for MVPA (≥60 min/day) experienced a significantly lower odds of IR compared with those not meeting the Guidelines (OR=0.29; 95% CI: (0.10–0.92)) and these findings were independent of age, sex, pubertal stage, acculturation, fasting insulin, and 2 h glucose concentrations. …”
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Bi-Threshold Cooperative Spectrum Sensing With the Ability of Simultaneous Improving Throughput and Reducing Energy Consumption in Cognitive Radio Network by Masoud Moradkhani, Farzad Soltanian

“…The simulation results show a flexible system that can simultaneously provide higher throughput and lower energy consumption than the conventional sensing method. …”
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Challenges in designing interventions for food insecure families with food allergy in a Californian latinx cohort by Marleni Albarran, Emily Brown, Erin Martinez, Andrew R. Chin, Sayantani B. Sindher, Christopher M. Warren, R. Sharon Chinthrajah

“…Here we discuss common challenges and opportunities associated with conducting research interventions in underserved communities in the US—leveraging our experiences designing and implementing an intervention to improve food allergy management through supplemental nutrition assistance in a predominantly Spanish-speaking, lower-income neighborhood in Northern California. …”
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A predictive model for electrical conductivity of polymer carbon nanofiber composites considering nanofiber/interphase network and tunneling dimensions by Yasser Zare, Muhammad Tajammal Munir, Kyong Yop Rhee, Soo-Jin Park

“…Therefore, a deeper interphase, lower onset of percolation, and narrower and wider tunnels are essential to improve the nanocomposite conductivity.…”
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GAIT ASSESSMENT IN ANKLE FRACTURES WITH SYNDESMOSIS LESIONS UNDERGOING SURGERY by Romero Montenegro Nery, Giovanni Dela Bianca de Ataide, Rafael Clark Gomes, Dallianny Gonçalves de Sousa Martins, Giovanni Ítalo Gomes de Almeida, Lucas Amaral Shizue Suassuna, Epitácio Leite Rolim-Filho

“…Results: Alterations were found in the Temporal and Spatial Parameters and in the Statistical Angles of the lower limb joints, comparing the operated limb with the non-operated limb. …”
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Removal of cobalt and nickel from zinc sulphate solutions using activated cementation by Boyanov B., Konareva V., Kolev N.

“…After adding Cu to the solution, mainly the cementation of Ni is activated, and that of Co is activated to a lower degree. It was found that when GSb : GCo ratio is between 0.5 : 1 and 2 : 1, the solution is purified from Co and Ni to a great degree. …”
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Association between sleep deprivation and fertility - a literature review by Adriana Dukacz, Anna Konarska, Anna Machowiak, Barbara Ufnalska, Justyna Lisiecka, Mateusz Janik, Michał Nowak, Joanna Rychlewska-Duda, Wojciech Firlej, Artur Fabijański

“…In the male population deprived sleep is blamed for lower sperm motility, as well as concentration, total count. …”
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Pansharpening Techniques: Optimizing the Loss Function for Convolutional Neural Networks by Rocco Restaino

“…The learning phase can either rely on a companion problem where ground truth is available, such as by reproducing the task at a lower scale or using a pretext task, or it can use a reference-free cost function. …”
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