Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health by Joseph A. Vassalotti, Anna Francis, Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos, Jr., Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Dina Abdellatif, Li-Li Hsiao, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Agnes Haris, Latha A. Kumaraswami, Siu-Fai Lui, Alessandro Balducci, Vassilios Liakopoulos

“…Evaluation for causes and risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) includes testing for diabetes and measurement of blood pressure and body mass index. …”
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Ta-YOLO: overcoming target blocked challenges in greenhouse tomato detection and counting by Yun Zhao, Yijia Chen, Xing Xu, Yong He, Hao Gan, Na Wu, Zhechen Wang, Xi Sun, Yali Wang, Petr Skobelev, Yanan Mi

“…Finally, we proposed the EWDIoU bounding box loss function, which leveraged a 2D Gaussian distribution to enhance the model’s accuracy and robustness. …”
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Evaluating the Potential Use of Wearable Fitness Devices as a Measure of Outcomes in Orthopaedics by Jordan Henderson BS, Santiago Logan-Baca BS, Sara Kisiel BS, Fadi Muheidat PhD, David Jaffe MD

“…Surveys utilized were the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure Computerized Adaptive Testing (FAAM CAT), PROMIS physical function, mobility and pain interference scores, and Visual Analog Scale (VAS). …”
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Designing A Blockchain-Empowered Telehealth Artifact for Decentralized Identity Management and Trustworthy Communication: Interdisciplinary Approach by Xueping Liang, Nabid Alam, Tahmina Sultana, Eranga Bandara, Sachin Shetty

“… BackgroundTelehealth played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to function as an essential component of health care. …”
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GDC: Integration of Multi‐Omic and Phenotypic Resources to Unravel the Genetic Pathogenesis of Hearing Loss by Hui Cheng, Xuegang Wang, Mingjun Zhong, Jia Geng, Wenjian Li, Kanglu Pei, Jing Wang, Lanchen Wang, Yu Lu, Jing Cheng, Fengxiao Bu, Huijun Yuan

“…Among the 201 human HL genes, 133 exhibit hearing abnormalities in mice; 35 have been tested in mice without exhibiting a hearing loss phenotype; and 33 lack auditory testing data. …”
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Does peripheral neuroinflammation predict chronicity following whiplash injury? Protocol for a prospective cohort study by Mara Cercignani, Stephen Bremner, Alex Novak, Chetan Trivedy, Colette Ridehalgh, Joel Fundaun, Rupert Young, Jane Greening, Annina Schmid, Andrew Dilley

“…Participants will be invited to participate in a sub-study investigating the contribution of cutaneous small fibre pathology to WAD2.Methods and analysis 115 participants within 1 month following whiplash injury and 34 healthy control participants will be recruited and complete validated questionnaires for pain, function and psychological factors. Data collection will take place at the Universities of Sussex and Oxford, UK. …”
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Are we working (too) comfortably?: the systematic development of an intervention to support workers to move more while working at home by Divya Sivaramakrishnan, Claire Fitzsimons, Sarah Morton, Jillian Manner, Ruth Jepson, Ailsa Niven

“…Intervention components were developed to address causal factors and presented as a toolkit on an online platform. …”
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Key Considerations for Ovarian Preservation during Radiotherapy for Cervical Carcinoma by Xiaolong Cheng, Jiping Liu, Xiaojuan Lv, Long Sun

“…Following serum hormone level tests, 73 patients presented normal ovarian function prior to radiotherapy, while 4 demonstrated signs of impaired function. …”
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A Research on Modification Method for NSM FRP-Concrete Bonded Joints Strength Models by Jing Li, Liwen Zhang, Yanggui Deng, Junping Zhang

“…For each model, a regression function f was established to eliminate the systematic nonrandom part of the model uncertainty factor. …”
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Comparative analysis of clinical characteristics of odontogenic maxillary sinus diseases associated with or without dental implants by Tae-Gyun Kim, Chang-Ho WhangBo, Mi-Kyung Ye, Seung-Heon Shin

“…However, the four groups demonstrated no statistically significant differences in terms of Lund-Mackay scores, SNOT-22 scores, olfactory function tests, allergic status, or comorbidities. …”
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Intermediate cell states in spermatogonial stem cell differentiation: enhancing neurogenesis and angiogenesis in spinal cord injury by Xinyu Guo, Hao Yang, Haihong Zhang

“…SSC–CM markedly promoted HUVEC migration and increased the expression of angiogenic factors. Transdifferentiated neurons survived and maintained neuronal function after transplantation into SCI rats. …”
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An association of cognitive impairment with diabetes and retinopathy in end stage renal disease patients under peritoneal dialysis. by Jin-Lan Liao, Zu-Ying Xiong, Zhi-Kai Yang, Li Hao, Gui-Ling Liu, Ye-Ping Ren, Qin Wang, Li-Ping Duan, Zhao-Xia Zheng, Jie Dong

“…We investigated both of these two factors and their relationship with global and specific cognitive functions in end stage renal disease patients under peritoneal dialysis (PD).…”
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Workbench for a Parabolic Trough Solar Collector with a Tracking System by Luciano A. Fiamonzini, Gustavo A. R. Rivas, Oswaldo H. Ando Junior

“…Yet, the efficiency in function of the flow became optimal when the flow regime became turbulent. …”
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Cofilin-1: a modulator of anxiety in mice. by Martin Goodson, Marco B Rust, Walter Witke, David Bannerman, Richard Mott, Chris P Ponting, Jonathan Flint

“…By searching for common Gene Ontology functions in candidate genes positioned within those intervals, we identified actin depolymerizing factors (ADFs), including cofilin-1 (Cfl1), as genes involved in regulating anxiety in mice. …”
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Risk of COVID­-19 Infection among Employees of a Large Anti­tuberculosis Institution in Moscow: Survey Results by E. M. Bogorodskaya, I. V. Nozdrevatykh, E. L. Khristoforova, E. M. Belilovsky

“…When answering questions, participants provided information about demographic factors (age, gender), place of actual residence, the fact of contracting a new coronavirus infection, frequency of laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2, immunization against COVID-19, possible places of contact with patients with COVID-19, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) at home and at work, the regular use of skin antiseptics, as well as other information that allowed us to establish the risks of infection of workers at home and at work. …”
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A model of energy dissipation at fatigue crack tip in metals by Oleg Plekhov, Aleksei Vshivkov, Anastasia Iziumova, Balasubramaniam Venkatraman

“…It has been shown that dissipation in a reversible plastic zone is a function of the applied stress amplitude only. This causes a decrease of energy dissipation at constant stress intensity factor. …”
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The Genetic Basis of Non-Contact Soft Tissue Injuries-Are There Practical Applications of Genetic Knowledge? by Beata Borzemska, Paweł Cięszczyk, Cezary Żekanowski

“…On the other hand, novel genetic testing methods identify numerous variants of uncertain physiological relevance. …”
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Predictive Model for <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> in RTE Meats Using Exclusive Food Matrix Data by N. A. Nanje Gowda, Manjari Singh, Gijs Lommerse, Saurabh Kumar, Eelco Heintz, Jeyamkondan Subbiah

“…The good-quality growth rate data (<i>n</i> = 596, R² > 0.9) were randomly divided into 80% training (<i>n</i> = 480) and 20% testing (<i>n</i> = 116) datasets. The training growth rates were used to develop a secondary gamma model, followed by validation in testing data. …”
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Liver damage and hepatomegaly in COVID-19 patients by Pınar Yürük Atasoy, Engin Beydoğan

“… Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the patients with high liver function test results detected at admission to the hospital diagnosed with COVID-19. …”
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Quantitative study on contribution of dynamic imbibition to oil production during fracturing and huff-n-puff in tight reservoirs by Hongxian LIU, Lei BAI, Qiang LUO, Tongjing LIU, Jiangfei SUN, Jiaxing LIU

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