Body composition and physical performance of mountain bike athletes by Rayane Carvalho de Moura, Crislane de Moura Costa, Cirley Pinheiro Ferreira, Bruna Lorena Soares Cavalcante Sousa, Leandra Caline dos Santos, Michelly da Silva Pinheiro, Sérgio Luís Galan Ribeiro, Sandro Soares Almeida, Joseline Lima e Silva Pinho, Naíza Monge Lages, Maria Flávia de Sousa, Iago Alves Costa, Glêbia Alexa Cardoso, Acácio Salvador Veras Silva, Alisson Alves Silva, Jefferson Cruz dos Santos Leite, Felipe Machado Brito, Lailson Henrique Oliveira dos Santos, Rubens Lima Rodrigues, Jairo da Costa Souza, Marcos Antonio Pereira dos Santos

“…Participants performed the standing long jump and handgrip strength tests, to assess their strength of the lower and upper limbs, respectively. Finally, we measured the completion time of a Mountain Bike Marathon, with the distance of 75 km). …”
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Alteration of Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations in Iranian Children with COVID-19 by Sedigheh Shams, Aileen Azari-Yam, Moeinadin Safavi, Zahra Zamani, Maryam Sotoudeh-Anvari, Meisam Sharifzadeh Ekbatani, Mohammad-Taghi Haghi-Ashtiani, Fatemeh Mozafari, Bahareh Yaghmaie, Leila Shafeghat

“…In addition, the mean of glutamine was significantly lower in patients than controls (443.89±254.31 vs. 651.73±107.38, PV<0.001). …”
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Vibration and Sound Transmission Performance of Sandwich Panels with Uniform and Gradient Auxetic Double Arrowhead Honeycomb Cores by Qing Li, Deqing Yang

“…The results showed that the uniform DAH sandwich models with larger NPRs generally exhibited better vibration and acoustic attenuation behaviors and that the optimized gradient increasing NPR models yielded higher STL values than the optimized gradient decreasing NPR models for two specified frequency cases, with improvements of 6.52 dB and 2.52 dB and a higher bending stiffness but a lower overall STL. Thus, sandwich panels consisting of auxetic DAHs can achieve desirable vibroacoustic performance with a higher bending stiffness than conventional hexagonal honeycomb sandwich structures, and the design of gradient DAHs can be extended to obtain optimized vibration and noise-control capabilities.…”
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Effect of play therapy and storytelling on the anxiety level of hospitalized children: a randomized controlled trial by Fatemeh Abdi, Ali Karamoozian, Mostafa Lotfilou, Fatemeh Gholami, Negin Shaterian, Alireza Abasi Niasar, Ehsan Aghapour, Mohammadamin Jandaghian-Bidgoli

“…Abstract Background Children are anxious when hospitalized due to being away from home and undergoing treatment.This anxiety has an effect on their disease process, treatment, growth and development.Children’s anxiety has an effect on parents’ anxiety and can lead to lower level of cooperation among the children and their parents with the treatment team.the present study aimed to compare the effect of play therapy and storytelling on the anxiety of hospitalized children. …”
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About Partial Reachability Issues in an SEIR Epidemic Model and Related Infectious Disease Tracking in Finite Time under Vaccination and Treatment Controls by Manuel De la Sen, Asier Ibeas, Raul Nistal

“…The particular formal statement of the partial reachability is focused on as a problem of output-reachability by defining a measurable output or lower dimension than that of the state. A special case of interest is that when the output is defined as the infectious subpopulation to be step-to-step tracked under suitable amounts being compatible with the required constraints. …”
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in PPARD Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Chinese Populations by Yuan-yuan Qi, Ya-ling Zhai, Xin-ran Liu, Xiao-xue Zhang, Ya-fei Zhao, Xiang-hui Ning, Zhan-Zheng Zhao

“…Moreover, individuals with the risk C allele were associated with lower expression of PPARD and DEF6. Our clinical analysis showed that SLE patients with the risk C allele of rs4713853 were more likely to present a higher proportion of anti-Sm antibody presence (CC+CT vs. …”
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Characterization of Pathogenic Bacteria Isolated from Sudanese Banknotes and Determination of Their Resistance Profile by Noha Ahmed Abd Alfadil, Malik Suliman Mohamed, Manal M. Ali, El Amin Ibrahim El Nima

“…There was a significant relationship between the number of isolates and the banknote denomination with p value <0.05 (the lower denomination showed higher contamination level). …”
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Correlation between Imaging Morphological Findings and Laboratory Biomarkers in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema by Eleni Dimitriou, Theodoros N. Sergentanis, Vaia Lambadiari, George Theodossiadis, Panagiotis Theodossiadis, Irini Chatziralli

“…Ellipsoid zone disruption was associated with significantly lower hematocrit (p=0.012), hemoglobin (p=0.009), and red blood cell count (p=0.026), as well as with higher lipoprotein (a) (p=0.015). …”
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Advances in Light Field Spatial Super-Resolution: A Comprehensive Literature Survey by Wenqi Lyu, Hao Sheng, Wei Ke, Xiao Ma

“…Although these models have made significant progress at lower magnifications (e.g., <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), current methods exhibit clear limitations at higher magnifications (e.g., <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$8\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), particularly in maintaining structural integrity and disparity consistency. …”
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Characteristics and Indications of Legal Abortion among the Pregnant Women in Lorestan Province of Iran during 2017–2019 by Zahra Fatemi, Soheila Akbari

“…More than 90% of cases had fetal indication. In cities with lower event rates, we should plan for better screening.…”
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Household water security is a mediator of household food security in a nationally representative sample of Mexico by Teresa Shamah-Levy, Ignacio Méndez-Gómez-Humarán, Verónica Mundo-Rosas, Alicia Muñoz-Espinosa, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez, Sera Lewise Young

“…Results: Households experiencing WI were more likely to experience moderate-to-severe FI (OR = 2·35; 95 % CI: 2·02, 2·72). The odds of WI were lower in households with medium (OR = 0·74; 95 % CI: 0·61, 0·9) to high (OR = 0·45; 95 % CI: 0·37, 0·55) asset scores. …”
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Regional nutrient emissions and hydrological regime modulate the spatiotemporal patterns of nutrient levels within lake bay by Qiqi Yuan, Zhihui Ren, Ruidong Chen, Qingji Zhang, Jinsong Ma, Lachun Wang

“…Hydro-chemical analysis results indicated that during the wet season, the total nitrogen (TN) concentration (1.64 mg·L-1) in the river inflow section was higher than that in the lake bay (1.48 mg·L-1), while total phosphorus (TP) (0.24 mg·L-1) was lower than in the lake bay (0.30 mg·L-1). The model results showed that in 2020, domestic sewage sources (38.24 %) and surface sources from cultivated land (33.14 %) were the primary contributors of fluvial TN, while livestock and poultry breeding sources (59.37 %) were the main sources of fluvial TP. …”
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Effect of annealing on the structural, morphological, optical, magnetic, and dielectric properties of nickel-doped cobalt nanoferrites for electronic applications by Md Shihabun Sakib, Md Naimur Rahman, Md Alamgir Hossain, Md Rashedur Rahman

“…The experimental results align with reported values, showing that higher annealing temperatures provide optimal structural, morphological, and magnetic properties, while lower temperatures favor optical and dielectric properties in CNSF nanoparticles.…”
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Retrospective database analysis on the demographics and resource utilization of patients with Parkinson’s disease in Quebec, Canada by Véronique Baribeau, Shawn Mohammed, Amnah Awan, Diana Parison, Jean Lachaine

“…Adherence rates were high (≥85 %) among all drug classes, but lower with dopamine agonists. Persistence to PD treatment declined over time, with nearly 50 % discontinuation rates at 24 months in all PD drug classes, except the levodopa class (discontinuation rate: 20.4 %). …”
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Modelling, optimization and characterization of carbon black derived from waste tyre pyrolysis by Odunayo T. Ore, Festus M. Adebiyi

“…The findings indicate the optimal production of carbon black at lower temperatures and shorter residence times. The present study establishes the foundation for further investigation into the optimisation of the pyrolysis process, suggesting that different process conditions be explored.…”
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Association of Circulating Neprilysin with BMI, Cardiovascular Health, and Kidney Function in High-Risk Pregnancies: A Pilot Study by Kaltrina Kutllovci Hasani, Azra Kulovic-Sissawo, Adam Saloň, Christina Stern, Karoline Mayer-Pickel, Mila Cervar-Zivkovic, Nandu Goswami, Herbert Fluhr, Ursula Hiden

“…Women with GH exhibited elevated sNEP, while former smokers had lower sNEP levels in early pregnancy. Conclusions: These findings suggest that sNEP plays a role in vascular and renal adaption during pregnancy, offering new perspectives on vascular tone regulation in high-risk pregnancies. …”
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Lysozyme-based spray for treatment of radiotherapy-induced oral mucositis by Zdenka Gojković, Jelena Rožić, Nataša Gašpar, Aziz Šukalo, Meliha Mehić, Amna Tanović Avdić, Una Glamočlija

“…The efficacy parameters were similar between the groups and there was no deterioration of symptoms during the follow-up period of 21 days. A significantly lower pain intensity when eating solid food was observed after 21 days in lysozyme compared to the control group. …”
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Sedimentary architecture of the microbial mound–shoal complex: a case study of the Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Sichuan Basin, China by Qinyu Xia, Zhenhua Guo, Fei Zhang, Lin Zhang, Rui Xu, Xue Wang, Wenzheng Li, Shuyuan Shi, Haijun Yan, Yuyang Liu

“…Superimposed MMSC sedimentation rates are comparable to accommodation space change rates, while migratory MMSC sedimentation rates exceed accommodation space change rates, and isolated MMSC sedimentation rates are lower than accommodation space change rates. Various composite MMSCs are isolated from each other by sediments formed under low hydrodynamic conditions, constituting distinct connectivity units. …”
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Significance of Glioma Stem-Like Cells in the Tumor Periphery That Express High Levels of CD44 in Tumor Invasion, Early Progression, and Poor Prognosis in Glioblastoma by Masahiro Nishikawa, Akihiro Inoue, Takanori Ohnishi, Shohei Kohno, Shiro Ohue, Shirabe Matsumoto, Satoshi Suehiro, Daisuke Yamashita, Saya Ozaki, Hideaki Watanabe, Hajime Yano, Hisaaki Takahashi, Riko Kitazawa, Junya Tanaka, Takeharu Kunieda

“…Higher expression of CD44 in the tumor periphery than in the core was correlated with a highly invasive feature on MRI and was associated with early tumor progression and worse survival, whereas lower expression of CD44 in the tumor periphery corresponded to low invasion and was associated with longer survival. …”
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The first two mitochondrial genomes from Apiotrichum reveal mitochondrial evolution and different taxonomic assignment of Trichosporonales by Qiang Li, Wenqi Xiao, Peng Wu, Ting Zhang, Peng Xiang, Qian Wu, Liang Zou, Mingying Gui

“…The GC content of all core PCGs in A. gamsii was lower than that of A. gracile, with an average low value of 4.97%. …”
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