LEISURE TIME PHYSICAL INACTIVITY AMONG BRAZILIAN RAGPICKERS by Marcelo Cozzensa da Silva, Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa, David Kriebel

“…The prevalenceof PI among ragpickers and non-ragpickers were 70.3% and 65.9, respectively (p=0.16).Among ragpickers PI was more common among females and those with higher ages,and among non-ragpickers with females, lower economic level and positivity to minorpsychiatric disorders. …”
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Tissue Engineering of Urinary Bladder and Urethra: Advances from Bench to Patients by Hazem Orabi, Sara Bouhout, Amélie Morissette, Alexandre Rousseau, Stéphane Chabaud, Stéphane Bolduc

“…Synthetic or natural scaffolds have been used for engineering lower urinary tract. Harnessing autologous cells to produce their own matrix and form scaffolds is a new strategy for engineering bladder and urethra. …”
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A Bus-Service-Based Zone Division Approach for the Spatial Analysis of Public Bus: A Case Study in South China by Fanghao Fu, Jiemin Xie, Ming Cai, Wei Huang

“…However, an improper zone division could lower the quality of the analysis results and then probably mislead the improvement strategy design. …”
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Assessment of Flood Risk Based on ISO Clustering and Maximum Likelihood Method --Taking Wuchuan City as an Example by LIU Yang, SONG Feiyan, LIN Kairong, LIN Bo

“…The results indicate that: the flood disasterrisk in Wuchuan City is at the medium risk level as a whole, with a risk value of3.04, and higher in the mid-west region and lower in the southeast region for thespatial distribution. …”
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A Three-Stage Birandom Program for Unit Commitment with Wind Power Uncertainty by Na Zhang, Weidong Li, Rao Liu, Quan Lv, Liang Sun

“…Some computational results indicate that the proposed model provides UC decisions with lower expected total costs.…”
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Overcoming CD226-related immune evasion in acute myeloid leukemia with CD38 CAR-engineered NK cells by Luciana Melo Garcia, Achintyan Gangadharan, Pinaki Banerjee, Ye Li, Andy G.X. Zeng, Hind Rafei, Paul Lin, Bijender Kumar, Sunil Acharya, May Daher, Luis Muniz-Feliciano, Gary M. Deyter, Gabriel Dominguez, Jeong Min Park, Francia Reyes Silva, Ana Karen Nunez Cortes, Rafet Basar, Nadima Uprety, Mayra Shanley, Mecit Kaplan, Enli Liu, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Katayoun Rezvani

“…NK cells in patients with AML had lower expression of CD226. CRISPR-Cas9 deletion of CD226 led to reduced LFA-1 recruitment, poor synapse formation, and decreased NK cell anti-leukemic activity. …”
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A biomechanical study of the role of sitagliptin on the bone characteristics of diabetic rats by Stavros K Kourkoulis, Ermioni Pasiou, Arezoo Abdi, Despoina Perrea, John Vlamis

“…On the contrary, the slope of the load-deflection curve (cor­responding to a measure of the stiffness) of diabetic bones is slightly lower compared to the control bones. Finally, it seems that treating diabetic animals with sita­gliptin only partly reverses the effect of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on their bone tissue, at least concerning its strength and stiffness.…”
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Monte Carlo simulation of ammonia adsorption in nanoporous carbon: Optimal pore sizes for adsorption refrigeration applications by Nasser D. Afify, Martin B. Sweatman

“…However, carbon mesopores can provide higher refrigeration capacities and coefficients of performance together with lower desorption temperatures, thus offering the possibility of relying on low-grade thermal waste heat to drive the refrigeration process.…”
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What We Know about Student Families: A Sociological Analysis by K. A. Vilkova, I. A. Gruzdev, E. D. Shmeleva, E. A. Tarasova, S. V. Startsev

“…Students from families with lower socioeconomic background are more likely to start families during their studies. …”
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An optimality theoretic-based analysis of consonant cluster pronunciation errors among Iraqi EFL learners by Zohreh Sadat Naseri, fatemeh Ahmadinasab, Rawaa Kadhem Jawaad

“…For this aim, 40 first-year university students of different majors aged 18-25 years were selected from beginner and lower-intermediate levels based on their scores on Oxford Placement Test. …”
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A Hybrid Estimation of Distribution Algorithm and Nelder-Mead Simplex Method for Solving a Class of Nonlinear Bilevel Programming Problems by Aihong Ren, Yuping Wang, Fei Jia

“…We propose a hybrid algorithm based on estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) and Nelder-Mead simplex method (NM) to solve a class of nonlinear bilevel programming problems where the follower’s problem is linear with respect to the lower level variable. The bilevel programming is an NP-hard optimization problem, for which EDA-NM is applied as a new tool aiming at obtaining global optimal solutions of such a problem. …”
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Development of Starch-Based Bioplastic from Jackfruit Seed by Trieu Khoa Nguyen, Nguyen Thy Ton That, Nien Thi Nguyen, Ha Thi Nguyen

“…Although the fabricated bioplastic has lower mechanical properties than petroleum-based plastics, its environmental friendliness and high potential added value promise to be a material of the future.…”
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Spinal schistosomiasis masquerading as spinal cord tumor in a 12-year-old male adolescent: A case report by Gashaw Arega, Leul Adane, Eden Mekonnen, Michael A. Negussie

“…We present the case of a 12-year-old boy from northern Ethiopia who experienced progressive back pain, tingling sensations in his lower extremities, and intermittent fever. Initially referred with a presumptive diagnosis of myxopapillary ependymoma for pediatric hematology-oncology evaluation, his marked eosinophilia and history of swimming in local rivers raised suspicion for spinal schistosomiasis. …”
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Clozapine-Induced Microseizures, Orofacial Dyskinesia, and Speech Dysfluency in an Adolescent with Treatment Resistant Early Onset Schizophrenia on Concurrent Lithium Therapy by Vivekananda Rachamallu, Ayman Haq, Michael M. Song, Manish Aligeti

“…In addition, concurrent lithium therapy has been shown to enhance the neurotoxic effects of antipsychotics and lower the seizure threshold. Here, we report on the development of clozapine-induced microseizures, orofacial dyskinesia, and stuttering in a 17-year-old adolescent male with treatment of refractory early onset schizophrenia on clozapine and concurrent lithium therapy. …”
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Liver-Specific Overexpression of Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Ameliorates Insulin Sensitivity of Male C57BL/6 Mice by Yang Long, Dan Jia, Libin Wei, Yumei Yang, Haoming Tian, Tao Chen

“…Increased GGT activity had no effect on the glucose tolerance but could facilitate blood glucose lowering after intraperitoneal insulin administration. …”
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Treatment of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome according to the Fascial Distortion Model: A Prospective Case Control Study by Christoph Schulze, Susanne Finze, Rainer Bader, Andreas Lison

“…The method according to the fascial distortion model (FDM) addresses local changes in the area of the lower leg fascia. It is suited to reduce pain and functional impairments associated with this symptom complex by applying targeted manual techniques. 32 patients (male: 30; female: 2) participated in this study. …”
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Impact of visual presentation of atherosclerotic carotid plaque on cardiovascular risk profile using mHealth technologies by Greta Ullrich, Alexander Bäuerle, Lisa Maria Jahre, Katrin Paldán, Jana Rosemeyer, Chiara Kalaitzidis, Christos Rammos, Martin Teufel, Tienush Rassaf, Julia Lortz

“…In the intervention group, the SCORE2 was significantly lower after the study period (t(120) = 6.43, p adj < 0.001, d RM = 0.58). …”
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Identification of Gas Sand Horizons of the Rashidpur Structure, Surma Basin, Bangladesh, Using 2D Seismic Interpretation by Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Md. Ahosan Habib

“…Velocity dropped from 2562 m/s to 2177 m/s in the Upper Gas Sand (R3) and 4320 m/s to 3413 m/s in the Lower Gas Sand (R5) reflector. Bright spot and amplitude anomalies were identified on the top of the both gas sand horizons. …”
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I know better: Self-esteem, egocentrism, and policy learning in the liberalization of Belgian network industries by Stéphane Moyson

“…., their tendency to confuse their subjective perceptions with objective reality and to disqualify the perceptions of others.Based on regression analyses of a 2012 survey of 255 Belgian policy actors who had been involved in the European liberalization process of the rail and electricity sectors, the findings suggest that policy actors who score higher on self-esteem or egocentrism feel that they “know better”: they align their policy preferences to new policy information less than policy actors who score lower. Only egocentrism directly leads to a negative adjustment of policy actors’ preferences towards liberalization policies over time. …”
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Visible Fat Content of Hotpot Beef Acceptability by New Zealand Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Consumers by M. M. Farouk, M. Staincliffe, D. L. Hopkins, G. Wu, C. Che, A. E. D. Bekhit, M. J. Y. Yoo, A. Horita, G. Urquiola, C. Craigie, K. Taukiri, R. Zhang, H. Ho, M. J. Challies

“…For those over 50 years, Chinese females preferred the lower fat meat compared to their male counterparts, whereas there was no gender difference at this age for the Japanese and Koreans preference for the visibly lean hotpot beef. …”
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