The trunk segmental motion complexity and balance performance in challenging seated perturbation among individuals with spinal cord injury by Mianjia Shan, Chenhao Li, Jiayi Sun, Haixia Xie, Yan Qi, Wenxin Niu, Ming Zhang

“…We aimed to investigate changes following SCI in trunk segmental motion complexity across different perturbation directions and how they affect postural control ability in individuals with SCI. Methods A total of 17 individuals with SCI and 18 healthy controls participated in challenging sagittal-seated perturbations with hand protection. …”
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Evaluating Tech Neck: A Pilot Study Using a Self-Developed Questionnaire on Symptoms, Posture, and Preventive Measures by Brigitte Osser, Csongor Toth, Carmen Delia Nistor-Cseppento, Gyongyi Osser, Caius Calin Miuța, Iosif Ilia, Diana Carina Iovanovici, Cristina Aur, Laura Ioana Bondar

“…Increased symptom intensity was associated with reduced ability to perform daily activities (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Emotions and Behaviors of Children Aged 0-6 during the Period of Epidemic Prevention at Home by Xuechang HE, Hui OUYANG, Hanzhang GUO, Zhuoming CHEN, Longbin SHEN, Jianlin OU

“…It will also be accompanied by changes in appetite and decreased ability to adapt. And higher educational level of the father, higher family income, older age, and decreased frequency of outdoors are independent risk factors during the epidemic.…”
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Fractional-order PID feedback synthesis controller including some external influences on insulin and glucose monitoring by Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, Muhammad Farman, Khadija Jamil, Saba Jamil, Evren Hincal

“…The key advantage of this model is its ability to incorporate these physiological stressors and use fractional-order derivatives to describe the nonlocal dynamics within the system. …”
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Characterization of a chitinase from Trichinella spiralis and its immunomodulatory effects on allergic airway inflammation in mice by Jia Xu, Ye Yao, Qisheng Zhuang, Zixuan Li, Min Zhang, Shouan Wang, Hongxin Hu, Jianbin Ye

“…In an allergic airway inflammation model, rTs-chit reduced weight loss and lung inflammation, lowering inflammatory cell infiltration and Th2 cytokines (IL-4, IL-5, IL-13) while increasing the immunosuppressive cytokine IL-10. …”
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Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Associated Factors Among Public Primary Second‐Cycle Schoolchildren in Debre Markos Town, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Abtie Abebaw, Gebreselassie Demeke, Hylemariam Mihiretie Mengist, Mengistu Endalamaw, Gizew Damtie Demeke

“…The burden of intestinal parasites is worse in schoolchildren, which leads to absenteeism from school, lower cognitive ability, affects academic performance, and causes malnutrition and anemia. …”
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Predictive Laboratory Markers for Gastrointestinal Complications in Children with Henoch-Sch&ouml;nlein Purpura by Guo Q, Xia S, Ding Y, Liu F

“…Furthermore, a predictive model was developed by a Random Forest classifier to identify key markers and assess their ability to distinguish between patients with and without GIS complications.Results: Significant differences were observed in several laboratory parameters between HSP patients and the control group, and between patients with and without GIS complications. …”
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Evaluating sowing uniformity in hybrid rice using image processing and the OEW-YOLOv8n network by Zehua Li, Zehua Li, Yihui Pan, Xu Ma, Yongjun Lin, Xicheng Wang, Hongwei Li

“…This improvement can enhance the feature extraction ability of the Backbone network, as the new modules can fully utilize the information of all dimensions of the convolutional kernel. (2) An Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) module is added to the Neck for improving the network’s capability to extract deep semantic feature information of the detection target. (3) In the Bbox module of the prediction head, the Complete Intersection over Union (CIoU) loss function is replaced by the Weighted Intersection over Union version 3 (WIoUv3) loss function to improve the convergence speed of the bounding box loss function and reduce the convergence value of the loss function. …”
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A novel method to determine background concentrations and spatial distributions of heavy metals in soil at large scale using machine learning coupled with remote sensing-terrain attributes by Magboul M. Sulieman, Fuat Kaya, Abdullah S. Al-Farraj, Eric C. Brevik

Subjects: “…Establish soil heavy metals background concentrations and spatial variability using machine learning algorithms coupled with remote sensing and digital elevation model derivatives…”
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Validation of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II and IV Score in COVID-19 Patients by Jeroen Vandenbrande, Laurens Verbrugge, Liesbeth Bruckers, Laurien Geebelen, Ester Geerts, Ina Callebaut, Ine Gruyters, Liesbeth Heremans, Jasperina Dubois, Bjorn Stessel

“…APACHE IV provided the best discrimination and calibration of the considered scoring systems in critically ill COVID-19 patients, both in the overall group and in the subgroup with anti-Xa adjusted LMWH doses. Only in the subgroup analysis, discriminative abilities of APACHE IV were very good. …”
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Clinical Study of Mobile Application- (App-) Based Family-Centered Care (FCC) Model Combined with Comprehensive Iron Removal Treatment in Children with Severe Beta Thalassemia by Yuke Chen, Xiuping Huang, Qingmei Lu, Jian Lu, Xiaoxiao Huang, Yanni Luo, Fengxing Huang

“…The application effect of the mobile app-based FCC model combined with the comprehensive iron removal treatment program in children with severe beta thalassemia is significant, which can significantly improve the quality of life, family function, self-care ability, and medication compliance of children, and has high clinical application value.…”
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Options of improvement of efficacy of gastroesophageal reflux disease treatment by dioctaedric smectite by O. A. Storonova, A. S. Trukhmanov, N. Yu. Ivashkina, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The chief advantage in treatment of GERD is ability of the drug to stop all reflux types: acidic, weakly acidic, and weakly alkalinic.…”
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Screening of necroptosis-related genes and evaluating the prognostic capacity, clinical value, and the effect of their copy number variations in acute myeloid leukemia by Dake Wen, Ru Yan, Lin Zhang, Haoyang Zhang, Xuyang Chen, Jian Zhou

“…Here, we evaluated the diagnostic ability, prognostic capacity of necroptosis-related genes (NRGs) and the effect of their copy number variations (CNVs) in AML. …”
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Current methodologies of creating material passports: A systematic literature review by Ioannis Markou, Derek Sinnott, Ken Thomas

“…These limitations affect their ability to accurately track materials and maintain data integrity throughout the building's operational life. …”
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Analysis of community older adult care facility construction and demand differentiation based on residential area and population attribute differences by Yanzhe Liu, Yaolei Wang, Guiping Guo, Tubao Yang, Tubao Yang, Yupeng Liu, Hongmei Gao, Tiejian Jiang, Xiangmin Li

“…The construction and efficient utilization of community older adult care facilities have become urgent issues that need to be addressed. …”
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Prognostic Factors for COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients with Preexisting Type 2 Diabetes by Yuanyuan Fu, Ling Hu, Hong-Wei Ren, Yi Zuo, Shaoqiu Chen, Qiu-Shi Zhang, Chen Shao, Yao Ma, Lin Wu, Jun-Jie Hao, Chuan-Zhen Wang, Zhanwei Wang, Richard Yanagihara, Youping Deng

“…High concordance index (C-index) was achieved, and the calibration curves showed the model had good prediction ability within three weeks of COVID-19 onset. Conclusions. …”
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The capacity and training needs of primary health care workers in Nyeri and Nakuru counties of Kenya: a cross-sectional study by Josphat Martin Muchangi, Kioko Kithuki, Sarah Jebet Kosgei, Mary Mathenge, Deborah Kioko, Bryson Sifuma, Billian Sawenja, Samuel Kamau

“…As for the training needs data, the participants selected any of the 12 components that they needed training in. …”
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NIR Triggered Bionic Bilayer Membrane-Encapsulated Nanoparticles for Synergistic Photodynamic, Photothermal and Chemotherapy of Cervical Cancer by Ding J, Zhang X, Guo L, Xiong J, Zhang C, Du Z, Zhu L, Alifu N, Dong B

“…In vitro performance evaluation showed that RBC@ICG-DOX NPs obtained excellent photothermal conversion ability and well reactive oxygen generation performance under near-infrared laser irradiation. …”
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Accelerated TLPD bonding of reliable IMCs micro joints using Cu–8Ni substrate under thermal gradient: Experiments and theoretical calculations by Yanqing Lai, Mingjie Wang, Donghui Zheng, Meiping Liu, Bao Chen, Jinmei Lv, Ning Zhao

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Methodological approach to assessing the competitiveness of the region's manufacturing sector by Khmeleva Galina, Skreblov Nikita

“…In modern conditions, the competitive economy of the region means the ability to provide domestic and foreign markets with products from manufacturing industries. …”
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