Factors Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life among Jordanian Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcer by Ahmad Abu Alrub, Dana Hyassat, Yousef S. Khader, Radwan Bani-Mustafa, Nidal Younes, Kamel Ajlouni

“…Patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and patients with obesity had lower DFS-SF and PCS8 quality of life. Conclusion. Patients with diabetic foot ulcer had low quality of life. …”
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Antibiofilm of metabolites of the Proteus myxofaciens JB 20B for the prevention and treatment of vaname shrimp infected with Vibrio harveyi bacteria by Nanda Tri Rezeki, Dinamella Wahjuningrum, Widanarni Widanarni, Diana Elizabeth Waturangi

“…The research design included eight treatments and three replicates: K- (negative control), K+ (positive control), KANC and KANG (antibiotic control 50 g/100ml for preventive and treatment), PCE (preventive extract 0.1 ml/Kg feed), PCS (preventive supernatant 20 ml/Kg feed), PGE (treatment extract 0.1 ml/Kg feed), and PGS (treatment supernatant 20 ml/Kg feed). …”
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Serum Oxidative Stress-related Biomarkers in Ocular Hypertension and Glaucoma by Mine Esen Baris, Onur Furundaoturan, Meltem Kocamanoğlu, Seray Sahin, Yasemin Akçay, Suzan Güven Yılmaz

“…Serum levels of total antioxidant capacity (TAC), ascorbic acid, protein carbonyls (PCs), advanced glycation end products (AGEs), neuronal pentraxin 2 (NPTX2), and β-amyloid precursor protein(Aβ) were analyzed. …”
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Ranking of diseases affecting the health-related quality of life of patients in Poland – a cross-sectional study by Marlena Krawczyk-Suszek, Arkadiusz Gaweł, Andrzej Kleinrok

“…Patients with ENT (ear, nose, throat) diseases had the highest chance of a better QoL among the studied subjects (Mental Component Summary (MCS)-OR: 27.4; Physical Component Summary (PCS)-OR: 27.9). Diseases such as cancers, diseases of the nervous system and cardiovascular diseases determined the lowest QoL in terms of MCS, PCS and ILQ (Index of Life Quality). …”
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Targeting OAS3 for reversing M2d infiltration and restoring anti-tumor immunity in pancreatic cancer by Shaopeng Zhang, Ximo Xu, Kundong Zhang, Changzheng Lei, Yitian Xu, Pengshan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Haitao Gu, Chen Huang, Zhengjun Qiu

“…Our study revealed that PC cells (PCs) promote macrophage polarization toward M2d through high lactate secretion. …”
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Aerobic-training effects on CD4 cell count and health related quality of life of people living with human immunodeficiency virus by Ignatius Onyewadume, Thabo Muswere

“…This study compared the effects of 12 weeks of aerobic training against baseline data of People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PLWH) Cluster of Differentiation 4 (CD4) cell count, and Health-Related Quality of life (HRQoL) (Physical-health Component Summary (PCS) and Mental-health Component Summary (MCS)). …”
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Characteristics and Evolution of Non-metallic Inclusions in Metallurgical Production of GCr15 Bearing Steel by Li　Weitao, Wu　Fapu, Yu　Guangfu, Wang　Huajun, Wang　Kaimin, Jia　Xingyu, Tang　Haiyan

“…However， the inclusion density decreases from 16.53 pcs/mm2 in the end of the LF stage to 14.02 pcs/mm2， resulting in an inclusion removal rate of approximately 15.2%. …”
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Competitive displacement of lipoprotein lipase from heparan sulfate is orchestrated by a disordered acidic cluster in GPIHBP1 by Anamika Biswas, Samina Arshid, Kristian Kølby Kristensen, Thomas J.D. Jørgensen, Michael Ploug

“…In functional assays, we showed that the acidic cluster at 19–30 also had the greatest impact on preserving LPL activity, mitigating ANGPTL4-catalyzed LPL inactivation, preventing PSCK3-mediated LPL cleavage, and, importantly, displacing LPL from HSPGs. …”
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Determining dry oak lumber consumption for the production of solid edge-glued panels by Volodymyr Mayevskyy, Rostislav Moroz, Serhiy Kopynets, Oleh Ferents, Roman Shchupakivskyy, Yevstakhii Myskiv

“…In the course of the experimental studies the following quantity of solid edge-glued panels were manufactured with the following dimensions: 20×800×1,800 mm – 7 pcs.; 20×750×1,800 mm – 3 pcs. from spliced billets . 20×600×1,200 mm – 2 pcs.; 20×700×1,400 mm – 2 pcs.; 20×900×1,600 mm – 1 pc.; 20×500×2,000 mm – 1 pc. from solid billets. …”
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Quality of Life in University Students with Diabetes Distress: Type 1 and Type 2 of Diabetes Differences by Samah A. Moawd

“…The mean scores for Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) and six subscales of the SF-36 v2 demonstrated no significant differences between T1DM and T2DM (p>0.05). …”
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Izbor lokacija za smeštaj rezervi tehničkih materijalnih sredstava primjenom metoda operacionih istraživanja by Mladen Beović, Dušan Bobić, Salih Džafić

“…Rješavanje problema izbora lokacije za smeštaj rezervi TMS kao nekapacitiranog problema lokacije ne predstavlja klasičan jednokriterijski pristup, jer se izbor lokacija u suštini vrši prema dva kriterija: troškovi transporta od stacionarnog skladišta TMS do potencijalne lokacije za PSkTMS, i troškovi transporta od potencijalnih lokacija za PSkTMS do jedinica. …”
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Safety of electromagnetic factors for the workplace equipped with personal computers in residential premises by Yu. G. Ryabov, N. M. Legkiy, G. V. Lomaev

“…The aim of this paper is to analyze the electromagnetic safety of 50Hz industrial frequency electrical networks in residential buildings when using workplaces equipped with personal computers (PCs), as well as to develop recommendations on reducing the impact of levels of industrial frequency electromagnetic fields on human health in residential premises.Methods. …”
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The Use of Oral Analgesics and Pain Self-Efficacy Are Independent Predictors of the Quality of Life of Individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Akira Hashimoto, Motoki Sonohata, Masaaki Mawatari

“…EQ-5D-5L score had a significant positive association with PSEQ (r = 0.414) and significant negative association with age, disease duration, DAS28-CRP, PDQ, and PCS (r = −0.217, −0.343, −0.217, −0.277, and −0.384, respectively). …”
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A Novel Complex Valued Cuckoo Search Algorithm by Yongquan Zhou, Hongqing Zheng

“…To expand the information of nest individuals, the idea of complex-valued encoding is used in cuckoo search (PCS); the gene of individuals is denoted by plurality, so a diploid swarm is structured by a sequence plurality. …”
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Integrative Analytics for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge by Jin-E. Zhang

“…In this paper, we deeply analyze the general framework of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK): it mainly involves technological knowledge (TK), pedagogical knowledge (PK), content knowledge (CK), technological content knowledge (TCK), technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Meanwhile, we also show that the conceptual framework of TPACK can help teachers to integrate a lot of complexity and tension in teaching and learning. …”
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Combination of an E-Nose and an E-Tongue for Adulteration Detection of Minced Mutton Mixed with Pork by Xiaojing Tian, Jun Wang, Zhongren Ma, Mingsheng Li, Zhenbo Wei

“…For the combined system, the combination of extracted data of 6 PCs of E-nose and 5 PCs of E-tongue was proved to be the most effective method. …”
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Plastic debris characteristics and the effect of wind on Bawean Island Beaches, East Java, Indonesia by Nurhafizh Sri Albarra, Defri Yona, Muhammad Arif Asadi, Syarifah Hikmah Julinda Sari, Riski Agung Lestariadi, Akhmad Amirudin

“…The average abundances of plastic debris were almost similar between leeward (0.169±0.123 pcs m -2) and windward beaches (0.841±0.577 pcs m-2). …”
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Harnessing multivariate insights coupled with susceptibility indices to reveal morpho-physiological and biochemical traits in heat tolerance of cotton by Tahira Luqman, Manzoor Hussain, Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan

“…Physiological traits such as photosynthetic rate and cell membrane stability% decreased severely under stress conditions. The first five PCs under control and the first six PCs under stresses depicted eigenvalues > 1 and presented 72.96%, 76.11%, and 77.93% of total cumulative variability under control, T1 and T2, respectively. …”
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Occupational burn-out, fatigue and stress in professional rescuers: a cross-sectional study in Kazakhstan by Denis Vinnikov, Zhangir Tulekov, Gulnara Kapanova, Zhanna Romanova, Ilya Krugovykh, Sundetgali Kalmakhanov, Aliya Ualiyeva, Kaini Baigonova, Damet Ongarbaeva

“…Lower PCS (beta −0.03 (95% CI −0.06 to −0.01)) and FSS (beta 0.02 (95% CI 0.01 to 0.03)) could predict more CY burn-out. …”
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EMG- BASED HAND GESTURE RECOGNITION USING DEEP LEARNING AND SIGNAL-TO-IMAGE CONVERSION TOOLS by SABRINA AKTER, BIMAL KUMAR PRAMANIK, MD EKRAMUL HAMID

“…Here a threshold-based approach is also proposed to select the principal components (PCs). Then the Continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is carried out to prepare the time-frequency representation of images which is used as the input of the classifier. …”
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