Evaluation of the effect of a nurse-led vestibular rehabilitation program enriched with yoga on knowledge levels and vertigo symptoms in patients with vertigo by Gayathri Selvaraj, Santhanasamy Punitha, Ganesan Dayanidy, Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

“…The experimental group received a nurse-led vestibular rehabilitation program comprising vestibular exercises and designated yoga routines. By contrast, the control group received standard care, including prescription of drugs by the physician and follow-up. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…In this brief, exploratory paper, we combine two detailed local datasets to provide answers to these questions. We contrast an early industrializing town, with a typical proletarian sub-culture of tile bakers and a significant middle class (Woerden in the province of South-Holland) to an agrarian community (the village of Akersloot and surrounding area in the province of North-Holland). …”
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Study the Oil/Water Interfacial Behavior of Nanoemulsions Stabilized by Different Emulsifiers by YANG Yishuang, XIONG Housheng, XIE Xin’an, LI Pan, DU Bing, LI Lu

“…OSA-modified starch and T/S80 molecules tended to form van der Waals force with water molecules. In contrast, the two carbon chains of lecithin, with glycerol as its backbone, showed a more diverse range of weak interactions because of their mutual repulsion.…”
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From information to action: modelling social and cognitive factors in health decisions by Jiadong Yu, D. A. Bekerian

“…Reliance on formal sources positively correlated with compliance behaviors such as mask-wearing and vaccination, while perceived severity strongly predicted mask adherence. In contrast, perceived vulnerability was associated with conspiracy beliefs and informal information use. …”
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Transferability analysis of adversarial attacks on gender classification to face recognition: Fixed and variable attack perturbation by Zohra Rezgui, Amina Bassit, Raymond Veldhuis

“…The authors investigate the impact of two white‐box attacks on a gender classifier and contrast a defence method as a countermeasure. Then, using adversarial images generated by the attacks, a pre‐trained face recognition classifier is attacked in a black‐box fashion. …”
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Quantification of land use threats to a flagship species and its meadow habitats within urban landscape by K. Krzosek, P. Nowicki

“…Direct urbanisation pressure had the least impact on the metapopulation decrease in absolute terms, because it only affected poor-quality meadow fragments. In contrast, afforestation targeted relatively well-preserved meadows, and was responsible for substantial habitat loss and was the predominant reason for the decline in butterfly numbers. …”
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A Rare Cause of Ascites-Disseminated TB with Peritonitis in a Middle-Aged Female by Sahathevan Vithoosan, Ponnudurai Shanjeeban, Joseph Philip Anpalahan, Paramarajan Piranavan, Harindra Karunatilake, Ananda Jayanaga

“…Tuberculin skin test was positive with 17mm. Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography (CECT) abdomen revealed chronic liver disease with ascites. …”
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Submandibular Lateral Ectopic Thyroid Tissue: Ultrasonography, Computed Tomography, and Scintigraphic Findings by Metin Çeliker, Fatma Beyazal Çeliker, Arzu Turan, Mehmet Beyazal, Hatice Beyazal Polat

“…Neck ultrasonography, contrast-enhanced computed tomography, and scintigraphic examination were performed on the patient. …”
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STYLISTIC POTENTIAL OF GERMAN SYNTAX by L. V. Fadeeva

“…Disorder of a proper sentence structure makes its expressiveness. In contrast to a «syntactic tension», the article analyses a «syntactic loosening» of a normative sentence structure as a current trend in German syntax, as a source of syntactic expressiveness and the most productive instrument of simplification of a sentence structure. …”
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FFUNet: A novel feature fusion makes strong decoder for medical image segmentation by Junsong Xie, Renju Zhu, Zezhi Wu, Jinling Ouyang

“…Abstract Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have strong ability to extract local features, but it is slightly lacking in extracting global contexts. In contrast, transformers are good at long‐distance modelling due to the global self‐attention mechanisms while its performance in localization is limited. …”
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Electronic role of biosemiconductors with C=O bonds by Mikio Fukuhara, Tomonori Yokotsuka, Tetsuo Samoto, Chika Saito, Nobuhisa Fujima, Toshiyuki Hashida

“…Kenaf, chitosan, conifer, and RCH2OH (R = C11H17O9) exhibited ESR spectra showing unpaired electrons at 295 K, demonstrating rectifying effects at room temperature. In contrast, RCOONa (C12H17O11Na) and α-chitin, which did not exhibit observable ESR spectra, showed ohmic conduction behavior. …”
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Constructing Multiple-Objective Portfolio Selection for Green Innovation and Dominating Green Innovation Indexes by Meng Li, Kezhi Liao, Yue Qi, Tongyang Liu

“…Investors thus fully envisage the trade-offs and enjoy the freedom of choosing preferred portfolios on the surface. In contrast, the screening-indexing strategies inflexibly leave investors with only one point (i.e., the green innovation index). …”
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Processing of Super Tough Plasticized PLA by Rotational Molding by Antonio Greco, Francesca Ferrari, Alfonso Maffezzoli

“…Despite the very low cooling rates attained in rotational molding, completely amorphous samples were obtained with neat PLA and PLA plasticized by cardanol derivatives. In contrast, PEG plasticized PLA showed a very high degree of crystallinity, as highlighted by DSC and XRD analysis, which made the extraction of the rotomolded box-shaped specimens impossible. …”
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Forecast uncertainties real-time data-driven compensation scheme for optimal storage control by Arbel Yaniv, Yuval Beck

“…Incorrect or improper adjustments to mitigate forecast uncertainties can result in suboptimal energy management, significant financial losses and penalties, and potential contract violations. The revised algorithm optimizes the operation of the battery system in real time and safeguards its state of health by limiting the charging/discharging cycles and enforcing adherence to contractual agreements. …”
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THE EFFECTS OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION: A COMPARISON OF FINNISH AND VIETNAMESE ENTERPRISES by Nguyễn Hà Thu

“…The findings also illustrate that Finnish staff take clear goal setting and fairness as prerequisite features of a performance appraisal; Vietnamese employees, in contrast, view the relationship with supervisors and rewards received as more significant criteria.This study provides suggestions of retaining talents for managerial practices. …”
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Formulation of Flame-Retardant Waxes and Evaluation of Combustion Characteristics of Treated Wood Using Mass Loss Calorimetry by Hyung Woo Lee, Jae Hee Jung, Jong-Shin Lee, Soon Park, Seon-Mee Yoon

“…The findings revealed that wood treated with flame-retardant wax demonstrated no notable change in the weight loss rate before and after weathering treatments. In contrast, wood treated exclusively with flame retardants exhibited a discernible increase in the extent of weight loss. …”
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Effect of Adiponectin Variant on Lipid Profile and Plasma Adiponectin Levels: A Multicenter Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Guiqing Wang, Yufeng Wang, Zhi Luo

“…Variants of rs2241766 and rs266729 were associated with decreased adiponectin and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), as well as increased triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. In contrast, the rs1501299 variant was correlated with increased adiponectin and HDL-C, as well as decreased TG, TC, and LDL-C levels. …”
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Contact ion-pair SN2 reactions activated by Lewis Base Phase transfer catalysts by Ju Gyeong Jeong, Young-Ho Oh, Tae Hyun Park, Sung-Sik Lee, Dong Wook Kim, Sungyul Lee

“…Examination of the prototype reactions demonstrates that the novel CIP mechanism, which is in sharp contrast to the conventional perspectives, may account for the observed phenomenal efficiency of the SN2 processes using the alkali metal salts under the influence of various PTCs. …”
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El papel del tutor en la Educación Superior by Jayce Díaz Díaz, Gisela Bravo López, Yamirka González Puerto, Esther Hernández Pérez, Lisbet Menes Ortega, Yaima Bratuet Abreus

“…El análisis teórico realizado permitió identificar la tutoría como un elemento inherente a la función docente, que implica el contacto continuo y directo entre el tutor y el tutorado que favorece el aprendizaje personalizado hacia una formación crítica, científica y humanística.…”
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Building Farmers’ Economic Resilience: The Role of Quality Seeds, Fertilizers, and Land Size in Increasing Farmers’ Income by Ahmad Fauzi, Sri Rosmiati, Rollis Juliansyah

“…The results revealed that quality seeds did not have a significant effect on farmers’ income (p = 0.488 > 0.05), leading to the rejection of the first hypothesis (H1). In contrast, fertilizers had a significant impact on farmers’ income (p = 0.003 < 0.05), supporting the second hypothesis (H2). …”
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