Host Mesh Fitting of a Generic Musculoskeletal Model of the Lower Limbs to Subject-Specific Body Surface Data: A Validation Study by Katja Oberhofer, Silvio Lorenzetti, Kumar Mithraratne

“…This study presents a crucial step towards personalized musculoskeletal modelling for gait analysis by demonstrating the feasibility of fitting a generic anatomically based lower limb model to 3D body surface data of children with and without CP using the HMF technique. …”
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Coupled CRC 2D and ALI 3D Cultures Express Receptors of Emerging Viruses and Are More Suitable for the Study of Viral Infections Compared to Conventional Cell Lines by Siyu Xia, Jun Liu, Yan Yang, Ming Wu, Lina Ye, Si Chen, Tao Zhang, Zhihong Zeng, Kang Zhang, Kaihong Cai, Xiang Long, Wenbin Gao, Shisong Fang, Hui Li

“…This integrated 2D CRC and 3D ALI cultures provide a physiological and personalized in vitro model to study the infection of emerging viruses. …”
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Combating economic crime in Ukraine in 1946–1949 by V. A. Grechenko

“…The most common crimes were the following: 1) maliciously delaying the repair of agricultural machinery, allegedly due to the lack of spare parts and specialists; 2) theft of grain during its transportation and sowing by persons responsible for this (weighers, field crew leaders, guards); 3) theft of seeds and fuel by security guards; 4) theft and embezzlement of seeds by officials of collective and state farms and subsidiary farms; 5) theft of seed by reducing the seeding rate and theft of fuel due to lack of control over its consumption; 6) theft of seeds by employees of storage facilities with their subsequent resale at markets at speculative prices; 7) creation of surplus seeds by weighing, moistening, writing off for drying, and increasing waste during sorting. …”
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Positions of Soviet secret service in totalitarian Soviet Union by Kristina Burinskaitė

“…While the Cheka, GPU, and KGB were strictly subordinated to the party, Stalin made it his instrument in fighting his personal enemies and used it against the party itself in the 1930s. …”
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A Study to Assess the Prevalence of Depression among Alcoholics, among Patients, Admitted to Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research, Dimapur, Nagaland by Nukshijungla Ao

“…The effect ripple down not only in the life of the person abusing alcohol but also to the immediate and extended family members, which can be multiple and detrimental. …”
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ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS, WORK LIFE BALANCE AND EMPLOYEES’ EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S (BiH) IT SECTOR by Ognjen Riđić, Adnan Avdibegović, Senad Bušatlić

“…Although 64.80% of participants stated that their work life is balanced with their personal life, there is always place for improvement. …”
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Severe pneumonia caused by Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in a patient with bronchiectasis and IgA nephropathy: a case report by Yi Lin, Zhao-Zhao Jiang, Xiao-Qian Chi, Jian-Sheng Chen, Chao Wen, Chao Zhang, Ying-Ying Wang, Guang-Liang Xie

“…Appropriate bacterial culture methods and efficient identification techniques should be adopted to promptly identify pathogens, and personalized treatment plans should be developed based on antibiotic sensitivity tests to save patients’ lives.…”
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Bias-corrected serum creatinine from UK Biobank electronic medical records generates an important data resource for kidney function trajectories by Mathias Gorski, Simon Wiegrebe, Ralph Burkhardt, Merle Behr, Helmut Küchenhoff, Klaus J. Stark, Carsten A. Böger, Iris M. Heid

“…Abstract Loss of kidney function is a substantial personal and public health burden. Kidney function is typically assessed as estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based on serum creatinine. …”
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Exploring the potential cost-effectiveness and societal burden implications of screening for fracture risk in a UK general radiography setting by E. Söreskog, B. Lopez, T. Bean, P. Lewis, N. Ashley, J. Da Palma Lopes, R. Meertens, A. Ratcliffe

“…The analysis took the perspective of the National Health Service (NHS) and Personal Social Services in the UK. Results The results showed that screening with IBEX BH was associated with a gain of 0.013 QALYs and a cost saving of £109 per patient compared with usual care, making it a dominant (cost-saving) strategy. …”
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Treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: reasonable expectations of physicians and patients by A.B. Durasov

“…., accurate evaluation of some patient characteristics (baseline visual acuity, type of choroidal neovascularization, comorbidities, status of retinal fluid and its differentiation), timely (as early as possible) treatment initiation after verifying diagnosis, and strict adherence to a proactive personalized "Treat-and-Extend" (T&E) regimen that implies a required number of injections with individual intervals. …”
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Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and the Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review, Content Analysis, and Bibliometric Analysis by Georgios Lampropoulos, Georgios Evangelidis

“…The real-time identification, tracking, monitoring, analysis, and visualization of multimodal learning data of students’ behavior, emotions, cognitive and affective states and the overall learning and teaching processes emerged as a significant benefit that contributes greatly to the realization of adaptive and personalized learning. Finally, it was revealed that the combination of extended reality technologies with learning analytics and educational data mining can support collaborative learning and social learning, improve students’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning, and increase students’ learning gains, academic achievements, knowledge retention, motivation, and engagement.…”
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Differed brain spontaneous neural activity between limb-onset and bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients by Si-Jie Chen, Qing-Yang Li, Jiang Zhou, Qian Wu, Yu Zhang, Qian-Qian Zhang, Hao Hu, Xiao-Quan Xu, Fei-Yun Wu, Qi Niu

“…Our findings offer a new insight into the neural mechanism of ALS, underscoring the importance of personalized diagnostic approaches for this complex neurological disorder.…”
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Antibody Responses to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Among Healthcare Workers in Outpatient Clinics in Japan by Teruhime Otoguro, Keita Wagatsuma, Toshiharu Hino, The Society of Ambulatory and General Pediatrics of Japan, Yusuke Ichikawa, Tri Bayu Purnama, Yuyang Sun, Jiaming Li, Irina Chon, Hisami Watanabe, Reiko Saito

“…These findings provide valuable insights for developing personalized vaccination strategies and future vaccine development.…”
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Obstacles and opportunities for care collaboration through the utilisation of a preventive care process for frail older adults: a study protocol for a mixed methods study design by Åsa Larsson Ranada, Elisabet Rothenberg, Helle Wijk, Martina Karin Boström, Pia Skott, Anette Erichsen

“…Municipalities with high and low compliance indices will be identified and analysed together with data on demographics, socioeconomics and organisation from Statistics Sweden.Phase 2 (qualitative) Focus group interviews will be conducted in residential care units in the municipalities identified in phase 1 with interprofessional teams and older persons/next of kin. Additionally, 30 semi-structured individual interviews with residential care managers and other relevant stakeholders will explore obstacles and opportunities for effective care collaboration.Discussion We foresee that the results will contribute to the development of a model for effective PcP and care collaboration that can be used to improve patient safety and quality of care for frail older adults. …”
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Effectiveness of ultra-rapid (20 min) high-frequency in-situ cardiac arrest simulations in a high-volume operating department – A tool for evaluating and implementing emergency rou... by Anna Sundelin, Anders Stålman, Therese Djärv

“…Staff confidence significantly improved after the project, with median scores increasing from 4.5 to 7.0 (IQR 2.25–7 before, 6–8 after) for personal ability (p < 0.001) and 6.5 to 8.5 (IQR 4–7.25 before, 8–9 after) for team ability (p < 0.001). …”
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Analisis Tingkat Kematangan Pendistribusian Ruang Kelas dengan Framework COBIT 4.1 Menggunakan Domain DS10 by Imroatul Muthoharoh, Elfara Fraksi Dwipa, Renny Sari Dewi

“…Hasil yang didapatkan adalah nilai compliance 8.125 persen dan maturity level yang berada di tingkat 1 yaitu senilai 1.6 (skala 5). …”
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“Liikumisega” vene laulude kultuurilisi tähendusi Udmurdimaa Debjossõ rajooni Varni külas by Svetlana Tolkachova

“…For the performance of these songs, singers demonstrate a more personal approach to the reproduced sonic fabric, expressing their individuality and uniqueness at the sound level. …”
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Political technologies: structural and functional indifference by O. N. Zabuzov

“…These examples show the functional indifference of political technologies.The functional indifference of political technologies has been shown: in terms of their content, structure and functions, political technologies are "indifferent" to the political process, to the person who uses them.…”
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Preoperative CT-based radiomics nomogram to predict the micropapillary pattern in lung adenocarcinoma of size 2 cm or less by Xiaoyu Pan, Liang Fu, Jiecai Lv, Lijuan Feng, Kai Li, Siqi Chen, Xi Deng, Liling Long

“…DCA confirmed that the nomogram model had the better clinical benefit.ConclusionsThe nomogram model achieved promising prediction efficiency for identifying the presence of the MPP in LUAD tumors ≤2 cm, allowing clinicians to develop more rational and efficacious personalized treatment strategies.…”
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Las relaciones entre la enseñanza de la Historia Reciente Presente y la formación ciudadana by Francisca Díaz-Zúñiga, Antoni Santisteban Fernández, Neus González-Monfort

“…El vínculo entre la HRP y la formación ciudadana es clave para historizar la experiencia personal y colectiva del alumnado. Dentro de las conclusiones que son posibles de plantear, se encuentra que la enseñanza de la historia puede promover que el alumnado comprenda dinámicas persistentes y promueva la búsqueda de alternativas a problemáticas que le sean cercanas y atingentes. …”
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