Comparative Evaluation of Different Numerical Pain Scales Used for Pain Estimation during Debonding of Orthodontic Brackets by Mohmed Isaqali Karobari, Ali A Assiry, Mubashir Baig Mirza, Fazlur Rahman Sayed, Sufiyan Shaik, Anand Marya, Adith Venugopal, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Rithvitou Horn

“…Another scale known as Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) was used to evaluate the patient’s general attitude towards pain perception. …”
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<i>Ehrlichia</i> Species in Dromedary Camels (<i>Camelus dromedarius</i>) and Ruminants from Somalia by Aamir M. Osman, Ahmed A. Hassan-Kadle, Marcos R. André, Flávia C. M. Collere, Amir Salvador Alabí Córdova, Fabiano Montiani-Ferreira, Thállitha S. W. J. Vieira, Abdalla M. Ibrahim, Abdulkarim A. Yusuf, Rosangela Z. Machado, Rafael F. C. Vieira

“…Blood DNA samples were tested for PCR targeting <i>dsb</i> and <i>sodB</i> genes of <i>Ehrlichia</i> spp. and <i>PCS20</i> and <i>map1</i> genes of <i>E. ruminantium</i>. …”
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Associations between parental bonding and health-related quality of life in a clinical sample of youths aged 14–35 years in Singapore by Yoke Boon Tan, Eng Hong Tay, Shazana Shahwan, Yunjue Zhang, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Mythily Subramaniam

“…Short Form-12 measured physical health (physical component summary [PCS]) and mental health (mental component summary [MCS]) components of HRQOL, and the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire assessed depressive symptoms. …”
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Promising source material for winter triticale breeding under the conditions of the Middle Urals by G. N. Potapova, N. L. Zobnina, A. V. Bezgodov, M. S. Ivanova

“…High yield (571–670 g/m2) and density of productive stems (285–436 pcs/m2 ) with reduced winter hardiness (62–72%) and resistance to snow mold (30–35%) was observed in cvs. …”
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Possibilities for Advanced Encoding Techniques at Signal Transmission in the Optical Transmission Medium by Filip Čertík, Rastislav Róka

“…The analysis includes possible utilization of OOK, BPSK, DBPSK, BFSK, QPSK, DQPSK, 8PSK, and 16QAM modulation techniques together with RS, BCH, and LDPC encoding techniques for the signal transmission in the optical fiber. …”
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A new approach for calculation of relaxation time and magnetic anisotropy of ferrofluids containing superparmagnetic nanoparticles by Ahmadi R., Hosseini Madaah H.R.

“…Synthesized ferrofluids were characterized via TEM, XRD, VSM and PCS techniques and the results were used for the mentioned calculations.…”
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Clinical outcomes of asynchronous telerehabilitation through a mobile app are equivalent to synchronous telerehabilitation in patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized control study by Eren Timurtaş, İrem Hüzmeli, İlkşan Demirbüken, Mine Gülden Polat

“…Results No significant group-time interaction was found for total VAS, FIQ, SF 12, PCS, HADS, 6MWT, Arm curl tests, LI-RATT extension, LI-RATT flexion, LI-RATT right rotation scores (p > 0.05). …”
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Endoscopy-assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with internal fixation vs conventional surgery in the treatment of cervical disc herniation by Haicun Zhang, Yanbo Lin, Canglu Wu, Fangling Cheng, Danqing Bao, Yuyan Chen

“…The postoperative JOA, VAS, SF-12 PCS, and SF-12 MCS scores and RIS in the endoscopy-assisted surgery group were higher than in the conventional surgery group (P <⁠0.05). …”
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Health-related quality of life in patients with liver cirrhosis following adjunctive nurse-based care versus standard medical care: a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled... by Anncarin Svanberg, Maria Hjorth, Daniel Sjöberg, Elenor Kaminsky, Fredrik Rorsman, Riccardo Lo Martire

“…Group comparisons were non-significant of the PCS and MCS scores (−1.1, p=0.53 and −0.7, p=0.67, respectively), malnutrition (p=0.62) and decompensation events (p=0.46), after 24 months. …”
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Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Information Entropy and Relative Principal Component Analysis by Xiaoming Xu, Chenglin Wen

“…In traditional principle component analysis (PCA), because of the neglect of the dimensions influence between different variables in the system, the selected principal components (PCs) often fail to be representative. While the relative transformation PCA is able to solve the above problem, it is not easy to calculate the weight for each characteristic variable. …”
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Dual-Element PIFA Design with Dual Shorting Pins for Multiband Communication Devices by Muhammad Sajjad Ahmad, Che Young Kim

“…The resonant frequency bands covered are GSM850/900, DCS1800, PCS1900, UMTS2100, and LTE2300/2600 MHz. Details of the design considerations for the proposed antenna are described and the simulated and measured results are presented and discussed, which are in agreement.…”
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Fast Differential Analysis of Propolis Using Surface Desorption Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Xue-yong Huang, Xia-li Guo, Huo-lin Luo, Xiao-wei Fang, Teng-gao Zhu, Xing-lei Zhang, Huan-wen Chen, Li-ping Luo

“…Principal component analyses (PCA) for the two mass ranges showed similarities in that the colors had a significant correlation with the first two PCs; in contrast there was no correlation with the climatic zones from which the samples originated. …”
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Compact Antenna with Frequency Reconfigurability for GPS/LTE/WWAN Mobile Handset Applications by Lingsheng Yang, Biyu Cheng, Yongan Zhu, Yajie Li

“…The measured −6 dB impedance bandwidth of the presented antenna is 683–960 MHz and 1460–2820 MHz, which is able to cover the LTE700/GSM850/900 and GPS/DCS1800/PCS1900/UMTS2100/LTE2300/2500 bands. The antenna gain, radiation efficiency, and radiation patterns are also described in the paper.…”
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A Framework for the AI-based visualization and analysis of massive amounts of 4D tomography data for end users of beamlines by Steffen Kieß, Thomas Lang, Tomas Sauer, Andreas Michael Stock, Andrey Chernov, Yipeng Sun, Andreas K. Maier, Tomáš Faragó, Alexey Ershov, Gabriel Lefloch, Guilherme Silva, Tilo Baumbach, Simon Zabler, Astrid Hölzing, Kilian Dremel, Ali Riza Durmaz, Akhil Thomas, Ingo Manke, Nikolay Kardjilov, Tobias Arlt, Tak Ming Wong, Regine Willumeit-römer, Julian Moosmann, Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Dieter Froning, Sven Simon

“…This is made possible by compressing TBs of data to less than 128 GB, allowing powerful PCs to process TBs of 4D tomography data.  …”
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Analysis and Design of a Novel Multiband Antenna for Mobile Terminals by Yuan Yao, Wanzhong Chen, Xiaodong Chen, Junsheng Yu

“…These operating bandwidths cover GSM900, DCS, PCS, UMTS, LTE2500, and LTE’s low frequency band (450–470 MHz). …”
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Health-related quality of life and its predictors among chronic kidney disease patients: A hospital-based cross-sectional study. by Tasmia Tasnim, Kazi Muhammad Rezaul Karim, Tanjina Rahman, Harun-Ur Rashid

“…The mean domain scores of physical component summary (PCS), mental component summary (MCS), burden of kidney disease (BKD), effect of kidney disease (EKD), symptoms and problems of kidney disease (SPKD) subscales were 37.19, 45.94, 31.49, 63.95, and 73.35, respectively. …”
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The role of sex, age, and BMI in treatment decisions for knee osteoarthritis: conservative management versus total knee replacement by Fabiola Ojeda, Laura Tío, Francisco Castro-Domínguez, Simone Tassani, Jerome Noailly, Jordi Monfort

“…TKR patients demonstrated significantly worse scores in WOMAC, HADS, and PCS compared to the conservative management group, though DPA levels remained similar between both groups. …”
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Validity, reliability, and feasibility of the Malay version of Obstetric Quality-of-Recovery tool (ObsQoR-10) by Pamela Chia, Chin Wen Tan, Jitsupa Nithiuthai, Rehena Sultana, Farida Ithnin, Pervez Sultan, Ban Leong Sng

“…EQ-5D-3L (health status), Hospital Depression and Anxiety Scale (HADS; depression and anxiety), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS; pain catastrophizing), and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS; postnatal depression) questionnaires were completed. …”
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Changes in quality of life 5 years after sleeve gastrectomy: a prospective cohort study by Karl Ove Hufthammer, Tone Merete Norekvål, Grethe S Tell, Ronette L Kolotkin, Tone Nygaard Flølo, Anny Aasprang, Villy Våge, John Roger Andersen

“…Greater %EBMIL 5 years after surgery was significantly associated with improvements in OP and PCS scores, but not with MCS and Cantril Ladder scores. …”
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Long-Haul COVID: Investigating the Effects Within the Mauritian Context by Aïsha B. Soreefan, Manish Putteeraj, Jhoti Somanah

“…Both Long COVID and severe fatigue (F = 73.266, <i>p</i> < 0.001) negatively impacted PCS-12. Fatigue had no significant impact on MCS-12. …”
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