Wearable Smartphone-Based Multisensory Feedback System for Torso Posture Correction: Iterative Design and Within-Subjects Study by Amanda Polin Pereira, Olibario Jose Machado Neto, Valeria Meirelles Carril Elui, Maria da Graca Campos Pimentel

“…We assessed the Postural SmartVest in a within-subject experiment with poststroke patients (n=40, average age 57.1) and therapists (n=20, average age 31.3) during rehabilitation sessions. …”
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Geometrical Analysis of 3D-Printed Polymer Spur Gears by Levente Czégé, Gábor Ruzicska

“…Similarly, the span over four teeth measurements resulted in an average deviation of 0.153 mm for FDM gears, while SLS gears demonstrated a markedly higher mean error of 0.773 mm. …”
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Effects of subsurface drip irrigation and nitrogen fertilizer management on N2O emissions and forage yield in alfalfa production by Hongxiu Ma, Quan Sun, Xiaojuan Zhang, Peng Jiang

“…Reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) while improving forage yield and quality is essential for sustainable agriculture in the context of global warming. …”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban sprawl in China from 2000 to 2020 by Yiming Hou, Qingxu Huang, Qiang Ren, Tianci Gu, Yihan Zhou, Pengxin Wu, Yuxiang Fan, Guoliang Zhu

“…However, existing research mainly focused on the sprawl of a single city or urban agglomerations in China, while national scale studies mainly used short-term remote sensing data to quantify urban sprawl. …”
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Ecological vulnerability assessment and spatial-temporal variations analysis in typical ecologically vulnerable areas of China by Min Xu, Chunxiang Cao, Shaobo Zhong, Xinwei Yang, Barjeece Bashir, Kaiming Wang, Heyi Guo, Xiaotong Gao, Jingbo Li, Yujie Yang

“…However, the region with the lowest average EVI value varies. In 2005 and 2015, it was Taihe County, while in 2010 and 2020, it was the Sanjiangyuan region. …”
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Experience of using a thrombofibrin clot of plateletrich plasma in ulcerative lesions of the cornea by E. V. Fedoseeva, E. V. Chentsova, N. V. Borovkova, I. N. Ponomarev, V. A. Vlasova, Yu. A. Pavlenko

“…Thus, the average time of healing of the ulcer with complete epithelization occurred was 15 days. …”
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Association of new Life’s Essential 8 with biological aging among the national health and nutrition examination surveys by Xiaoli Chen, Xin Yin, Xin Chen, Yajie Gao, Nan Ye, Xingkang He

“…A total of 17,153 individuals with an average age of 47.54 were included in the study. The average LE8 score was 68, and the average Phenotypic age was 44.61. …”
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Comparative analysis of various clinical specimens in detection of SARS-CoV-2 using rRT-PCR in new and follow up cases of COVID-19 infection: Quest for the best choice. by Kuldeep Sharma, Pragya Aggarwala, Deepa Gandhi, Anuniti Mathias, Priyanka Singh, Somya Sharma, Sanjay Singh Negi, Anudita Bhargava, Padma Das, Ujjwala Gaikwad, Archana Wankhede, Ajoy Behra, Nitin M Nagarkar

“…Combined swabs showed a positivity rate of 100% followed by NPS (91.5%), OPS (72.3%), sputum (63%), while nCoV was found undetected in urine, plasma and serum specimens. …”
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Epidemiology and medical service use for spontaneous pneumothorax: a 12-year study using nationwide cohort data in Korea by In-Hyuk Ha, Yoon Jae Lee, Doori Kim, Boyoung Jung, Bo-Hyoung Jang, Seol-Hee Chung

“…The average medical costs were $94.50 for outpatients and $2523 for hospital admissions. …”
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iYOLOV7-TPE-SS: Leveraging Improved YOLO Model With Multilevel Hyperparameter Optimization for Road Damage Detection on Edge Devices by Haniah Mahmudah, Aulia Siti Aisjah, Syamsul Arifin, Catur Arif Prastyantyo

“…The results of iYOLOV7 model demonstrate the smallest total loss of 0.1, indicating a significant performance improvement where a precision value of 0.986, an average recall (AR) of 0.970, a mean average precision mAP@0.5 of 0.988, a mean average precision mAP@0.5-0.9 of 0.806, and an F1-score of 0.978. …”
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Evaluation of the relationship between worry and anxiety with the general health status of pregnant women at risk of diagnosing abnormalities by Maryam Hassanzadeh Bashtian, Morvarid Irani, Alireza Afshari-Safavi, Fatemeh Keramati, Roya Ram, Tooba Farazmand

“…The average total score of general health was 15.49 ± 7.14, while the average total worry and anxiety scores were 16.81 ± 11.74 and 45.12 ± 6.06, respectively. …”
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Fatty Acid Profile and Health Lipid Quality Indices of Daily Meals Provided in Kindergartens in Novi Sad, Serbia by Radmila Velicki, Milka Popović, Sanja Bijelović, Ljilja Torović

“…The highest mean PUFA intake was observed during autumn (4.8 g/day), while the winter and spring seasons displayed intakes of 3.5 and 4.0 g/day, respectively. …”
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Effects of Environmental Degradation, Economic, and Demographic Variables on Life Expectancy: Panel Data Analysis for High-Income Countries by Şehadet Bulut, Saltuk Ağıralioğlu

“…Meanwhile, a 1% increase in unemployment in Canada leads to a 0.034% increases in life expectancy, while a 1% increase in the infant mortalityrate causes a 0.239% decrease in life expectancy. …”
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Predictive and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Weight Loss After Sleeve Gastrectomy: Insights from Wide and Deep Learning with Medical Image and Non-Image Data by Jaechan Park, Sungsoo Park, Kwang-Sig Lee, Yeongkeun Kwon

“…The corresponding accuracy outcomes were 61%, 100%, and 75% for the minimal, moderate, and significant change groups (average 71%). When the minimal and moderate change groups were combined, the accuracy was 100% for the combined group and 75% for the significant change group, with an overall average accuracy of 88%. …”
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Key Design Considerations and Assessment of a Serious Game for Hand and Wrist Rehabilitation Using a Leap Motion Controller by Selina Breuer, Rene Baranyi, Christoph Aigner, Dominik Hoelbling, Werner Hoerner, Thomas Grechenig

“…The UES results indicate a high level of user engagement, with an overall engagement score of 4.0/5.0, while an average SUS score of 78.0 suggests the game has good usability. …”
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Association of food environment with diet quality and Body Mass Index (BMI) of school-going adolescents in Nepal. by Pragya Sharma, Neha Limaye, Rajeeb Kumar Sah, Archana Shrestha

“…Participants who had starchy staple available had a BMI score lower by 5.59 kg/m2 on average (95% CI: - 10.78, - 0.40), and when two participants whose parental modeling scores differed by a unit were compared, the one with a higher score had on an average 0.19 kg/m2 greater BMI (95% CI: 0.01, 0.37).…”
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Comparative Analysis of Bladder Volume Consistency Using Portable Ultrasound Scanners and Biofeedback in Radiotherapy for Pelvic Tumors by Haitao Wang B.Sc., Lu Zeng M.S., Quan Zhong M.S., Zhonghua Deng B.Sc., Renming Zhong PhD

“…Group A waited for patients to provide feedback on urination, while Group B waited for 1 h. Subsequently, three consecutive measurements using two BSs were performed. …”
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Management of an Earthquake in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit by Murat Tanyıldız, Ömer Özden, Lasin Özbek, Karya Şenköylü, Aysu Çakar, İlker Eren, Aslıcan Çakkalkurt, Mehmet Emin Menentoğlu, Ilmay Bilge

“…Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) was given to two of the three patients with acute kidney injury, while one received intermittent hemodialysis. Four patients underwent an average of 5.2±9.5 therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) sessions. …”
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Flow and heat transfer characteristics of microchannel with grooves structure on sidewalls by ZHU Qifeng, CUI Yang, ZHAO Tongle, WEN Xiaoping, SUN Haolei, HE Wenqiang

“…Furthermore， a comparison of the flow and heat transfer performances of the grooved microchannel heat sinks with that of the smooth one was promoted.ResultsWith the increase of volume flow rate， the liquid flow pressure dropped， average Nusselt number and enhanced heat transfer factor increased， while the flow friction factor， temperature increment and field synergy number decreased accordingly， indicating that the pump power consumption of the liquid flow in microchannels increasesd， but its convective heat transfer performance and heat transfer efficiency were significantly improved. …”
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The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study. by Andrew T Kunzmann, Helen G Coleman, Wen-Yi Huang, Sonja I Berndt

“…We aimed to evaluate the association between average lifetime alcohol intakes and risk of both cancer incidence and mortality.…”
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