SCOLIOSIS ASSESSMENT VIA TELEHEALTH USING PHOTOGRAMMETRY: DEVELOPMENT AND ACCURACY by ISIS JULIENE RODRIGUES LEITE NAVARRO, ERIC PARENT, JEFFERSON FAGUNDES LOSS, CLÁUDIA TARRAGÔ CANDOTTI

“…The inclination of the RPL and VPL was measured using the DIPA-S© eHealth Analysis software. A total of 50 images using the App comprised this sample. …”
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A stacked CNN and random forest ensemble architecture for complex nursing activity recognition and nurse identification by Arafat Rahman, Nazmun Nahid, Björn Schuller, Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad

“…After intermediate and final feature extraction, we use an ensemble of a random forest classifier and a stacked convolutional neural network (S-CNN) model to detect activities and users. …”
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Bond Behavior of Wet-Bonded Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer-Concrete Interface Subjected to Moisture by Yiyan Lu, Tao Zhu, Shan Li, Zhenzhen Liu

“…The use of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite materials to strengthen concrete structures has become popular in coastal regions with high humidity levels. …”
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End-to-end 3D instance segmentation of synthetic data and embryo microscopy images with a 3D Mask R-CNN by Gabriel David, Emmanuel Faure

“…Our implementation adapts a widely used 2D TensorFlow Mask R-CNN by developing custom TensorFlow operations for 3D Non-Max Suppression and 3D Crop And Resize, facilitating efficient training and inference on 3D data. …”
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A research of the attitudes of sports sciences students towards disabled people by Gul Cavusoglu, İzzet Islamoglu, Saban Unver, Yucel Makaracı

“…The students who participated in the study were studying at the Faculty of Sports Sciences of Ondokuz Mayıs University during the academic year 2013-2014. Disabled people generally encounter negative attitudes. …”
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The effects of fatigue on instep kick performance in soccer by Bekir Mehtap, Sukru Balcı

“…The high intensity endurance protocol selected to be used in the present study has been previously applied to simulate soccer field conditions to occur fatigue on subjects. …”
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Association between traffic-related air pollution and risk of outpatient visits for dry eye disease in a megacity along the subtropical coast in South China by Fan Cao, Yue Chen, Yan-Chao Gui, Zi-Yue Fu, Zheng Lyu, Kou Liu, Li-Ming Tao, Zhi-Fan Chen, Hai-Feng Pan, Zheng-Xuan Jiang, Qian-Li Meng

“…This study aimed to investigate the associations between traffic-related air pollutants with risk of dry eye disease (DED) outpatient visits in a megacity (Guangzhou) along the subtropical coast in South China. …”
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Angular Power Spectrum of TeV–PeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropies by Wenyi Bian, Gwenael Giacinti, Brian Reville

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Tolerance and Social Harmonization of The Hindu Islamic Community of The Tengger Tribe in Eid Al-Fitr And Nyepi by ali Hasan Assidiqi, Ahmad Barizi, M. Lutfi Mustofa

“…For example, during the Nyepi celebration, Muslims also participate by limiting all activities including work and going out of the house so that they do not use lights or something shiny like Hindus do during Nyepi. …”
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Effects of Environmental Conditions, Core Temperature, and Hydration Status on Women’s Soccer Performance by Sean Collins, Abigail Poague, Robert Huggins, Thomas Bowman

“… National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division III athletes have restrictive rules on preseason practice timelines leading to questions about how performances are affected by environmental conditions during preseason practices. …”
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Static Standing Trunk Sway Assessment in Amputees – Effects of Sub-Threshold Stimulation by L. Ming-Yih, S. Kok-Soon, L. Chih-Feng

“…In this article, we hypothesized that the static balance of single leg quiet standing could be improved for providing proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation using sub-sensory stimulation in amputees. …”
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The Sarcoplasmic/Endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is present in pig sperm and modulates their physiology over liquid preservation by Ferran Garriga, Jesús Martínez-Hernández, Ainhoa Parra-Balaguer, Marc Llavanera, Marc Yeste

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CenterNet-Elite: A Small Object Detection Model for Driving Scenario by Lingling Wang, Xiang Li, Xiaoyan Chen, Bin Zhou

“…In the meantime, we construct multiple short connections to integrate feature maps of the same scale during the downsampling and upsampling stages, thereby retaining critical shallow spatial information. …”
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Thoracic load carriage impairs the acute physiological response to hypoxia in healthy males by Daniel A. Baur, Caroline M. Lassalle, Stephanie P. Kurti

“…Intensity was matched for absolute VO2 (2.0 ± 0.2 L·min−1) across conditions and relative VO2 (64.0 ± 2.6 %VO2max) across hypoxic conditions. With LH versus UH, there were increases in breathing frequency (5–11 breaths·min−1; p < 0.05) and decreases in tidal volume (10%–18%; p < 0.05) throughout exercise due to reductions in end inspiratory lung volumes (p < 0.05). …”
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Do Novice Runners Show Greater Changes in Biomechanical Parameters? by Wenjing Quan, Feng Ren, Dong Sun, Gusztáv Fekete, Yuhuan He

“…Group comparisons were made using an independent samples t-test to identify differences in the impact peak, loading rate, contact time, ankle, knee, and hip joint kinematics and kinetics during the stance phase. …”
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Time of day effect on oxygen uptake changes and lung function of active female by Farzaneh Movaseghı, Nasibeh Kazemı, Elahe Moeın

“…In summary, oxygen uptake changes didn’t vary during the time frame within which exercise is normally conducted. …”
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Heat Capacity of Fish Oil at High Temperatures and Pressures by Z.I. Zaripov, R.R. Nakipov, S.V. Mazanov, A.Kh. Sadykov, A.R. Gabitova, A.U. Aetov, F.M. Gumerov

“…Dev = 0.28% and maximum deviation Max. Dev = 0.39%). Additionally, a comparison was made of the state parameters obtained during the experiment and the literature data at the studied parameters. …”
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4-Nitroaniline Degradation by TiO2 Catalyst Doping with Manganese by Kai Zheng, Tong-chao Zhang, Pin Lin, Yu-hua Han, Hong-yi Li, Ren-jie Ji, Hai-yun Zhang

“…Stainless steel anode covered with layer film of TiO2 doped with manganese was utilized to decompose 4-nitroaniline in rectangular borosilicate glass reactor, while stainless steel mesh was chosen as cathode; the anode and cathode were connected to the direct-current power; meantime two 60 W (λmax = 365 nm) UV lamps were used as light source. …”
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Practical Consequences Resulting from the Analysis of a 21-Multigene Array in the Interdisciplinary Conference of a Breast Cancer Center by Hans-Ullrich Voelker, Lea Frey, Annette Strehl, Michael Weigel

“…In 50 hormone- receptor-positive, Her2neu-negative carcinomas of the breast with no or only minimal lymph node involvement (max. pT1a) we initiated an Oncotype DX® multigene assay in addition to the evaluation of usual parameters. …”
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How Fast Is Recovery of Impaired Glucose Tolerance after 21-Day Bed Rest (NUC Study) in Healthy Adults? by Martina Heer, Natalie Baecker, Stephan Wnendt, Annelie Fischer, Gianni Biolo, Petra Frings-Meuthen

“…Aim. We hypothesized that 4 days of normal daily activity after 21 days of experimental bed rest (BR) will not reverse BR induced impaired glucose tolerance. …”
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