SHOULDER PAIN, ULTRASOUND CHANGES, AND FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN OBESE PATIENTS by Fabiana Alves Costa Menegassi, Glaucus Cajaty Martins, Zartur José Barcelos Menegassi, Sérgio Augusto Lopes de Souza, Bianca Gutfilen, Fábio Ramos Costa

“…Conclusions: These findings suggest that being overweight is an important exacerbating factor for shoulder pain, lower shoulder functional performance and pathological changes of the rotator cuff and c-reactive protein test. …”
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Glycemic Control and Lung Function in Younger and Older Patients with Diabetes by Nitita Piya-amornphan, Taweephol Sanpakdee, Chadaporn Permphet

“…Spirometry was performed for the lung function test. Self-reported respiratory symptoms were obtained. …”
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Influence of Family Functioning on Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents in the City of Milagro by Isabel Amarilis Leal Maridueña, Jennifer Carolina Velasco Zea, Luz Virginia Flores Valencia, Ketty Zoraida Vergara Mendoza, Elvia Isabel Elvia Isabel Crespo Baldeón

“…The results support that positive family functioning acts as a protective factor against depression in adolescents. …”
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Propofol Induces Postoperative Depression and Inhibits Microglial Function in Mice by Feng Song, Xiao Lv, Jing Meng

“…We found a single dose of propofol caused significant abnormal behavioural performance in tail suspension, forced swimming, and open field tests. We also examined the brain section of these mice and revealed that there was significant reduced expression of the CD11b protein, which demonstrated an inhibition of propofol on microglial function. …”
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Validation of functional activity index in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RAS) by V. N. Amirdjanova, O. M. Folomeeva, S. F. Erdes

“…Validity assessment was performed on 454 pts with definite RA,mainly female (85,2%) with mean age 51,3±11,3 years, mean disease duration was 9,1±8,5 years, 59,7% of pts were seropositive on rheumatoid factor, most pts had moderate or high inflammatory activity of the disease (95,6%), II or III radiological stage ( 44,7% and 27,8% respectively, II (53,5%) or III (31,8%) functional class. …”
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Design and Tests of a Large-Opening Flexible Seedling Pick-Up Gripper with Multiple Grasping Pins by Luhua Han, Meijia Zhang, Yan Wang, Guoxin Ma, Qizhi Yang, Yang Liu

“…Structural design and force analysis of the grasping mechanism were conducted to develop a functional prototype. As this represented the first prototype of this new gripper, multi-factor orthogonal tests and performance tests under local conditions were performed to evaluate its grasping effectiveness. …”
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A Bayesian Approach to Step-Stress Partially Accelerated Life Testing for a Novel Lifetime Distribution by Mervat K. Abd Elaal, Hebatalla H. Mohammad, Zakiah I. Kalantan, Abeer A. EL-Helbawy, Gannat R. AL-Dayian, Sara M. Behairy, Reda M. Refaey

“…Bayes estimators of the model parameters and acceleration factor are derived under both symmetric (balanced squared error) and asymmetric (balanced linear exponential) loss functions using informative priors. …”
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ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND ANALGESIC ACTIVITY OF HERTIA INTERMEDIA LEAF EXTRACT IN RATS by Razieh Amini Zadeh, Mojtaba Emam Bakhsh, Fariba Sharififar, Naeem Ur Rehman, Mehreen Arif, Khadijeh Esmaeilpour

“…It is possible that the extract functions through opioid receptors because naloxone administrations also dramatically decreased the latency in response to pain in the hot plate and tail flick tests. …”
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A Preterm Infant with Gene Mutation Presenting with Cardiac Tamponade and Hydrops Fetalis: A Case Report by Jae Hun Jeong, Young Hyun Kim, Dong Won Lee

“…Transthoracic echocardiography revealed substantial pericardial effusion and severely impaired cardiac function, and the preterm infant was diagnosed with pericardial tamponade. …”
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AC-YOLO: citrus detection in the natural environment of orchards by Xu Xiao, Yaonan Wang, Yiming Jiang, Haotian Wu, Zhe Zhang, Rujing Wang

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An Analysis of Influential Factors in the Use of Public Bicycles in Tehran by Ehsan Faghihi, Mojtaba Rafieian

“…So far, many researches have been conducted on the components affecting the functional stability of the shared bicycles system, for example Si et al. in 2020 found that factors of efficiency, economic benefits, environmental awareness, and infrastructure incentives influence the willingness to use the shared bicycle system. …”
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Process Factors Affecting the Preparation and Characterization of Dutasteride Nanosuspension by Shaimaa N. Abd-Alhammid, Rusul Wahhab Kadhum

“… Dutasteride, a synthetic compound belonging to the 4-azasteroid class, functions as a selective and competitive inhibitor of both type 1 and type 2 5-alpha-reductase enzymes. …”
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Deep factorization machine model based on attention capsule by Yiran GU, Zhupeng YAO, Haigen YANG

“…Aiming at the problems of single feature combination of recommendation model, resolution of a large amount of valuable feature information, and over-fitting in deep learning, a new attentional scoring mechanism called attention capsule was designed, and a deep factorization machine model based on attention capsule was proposed.Users’ historical clicking and candidate items were processed through weight calculation based on the DeepFM model, reducing the impact of irrelevant features on the model, and the differential impact of different historical behaviors on users’ interests was fully explored.The adaptive regularization formulation was added to the training, which effectively reduced over-fitting without affecting the training speed.The comparison test on two public data sets shows that the proposed model is significantly enhanced in loss function and GAUC compared to other models.…”
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Deep factorization machine model based on attention capsule by Yiran GU, Zhupeng YAO, Haigen YANG

“…Aiming at the problems of single feature combination of recommendation model, resolution of a large amount of valuable feature information, and over-fitting in deep learning, a new attentional scoring mechanism called attention capsule was designed, and a deep factorization machine model based on attention capsule was proposed.Users’ historical clicking and candidate items were processed through weight calculation based on the DeepFM model, reducing the impact of irrelevant features on the model, and the differential impact of different historical behaviors on users’ interests was fully explored.The adaptive regularization formulation was added to the training, which effectively reduced over-fitting without affecting the training speed.The comparison test on two public data sets shows that the proposed model is significantly enhanced in loss function and GAUC compared to other models.…”
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Risk Factors for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an Urban Area of Algeria by Sabrina Abderrahim, Samya Taright

“…Background: Algeria and North Africa have limited data on tuberculosis (TB) risk factors. In addition, pretreatment assessments often do not include fasting blood glucose or renal function tests. …”
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Relationship of Physical Factors to the Occurrence of Injuries in Young Gymnasts by Yuria Kobayashi, Yasuharu Nagano, Makoto Suzukawa

“…Joint range of motion (hip, ankle, shoulder, and wrist), tightness (Thomas test, Ely test, straight leg raise \[SLR], triceps surae, combined abduction test \[CAT], horizontal flexion test \[HFT]), and muscle elasticity (multifidus) were assessed to compare differences in physical function between injured and non-injured participants…”
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Factors associated with knee pain at early stages of osteoarthritis by A. R. Khalmetova, Lila A. M., E. A. Taskina, L. I. Alekseeva, N. M. Savushkina, N. G. Kashevarova, E. A. Strebkova, O. G. Alekseeva

“…Objective: To investigate key risk factors associated with knee pain in early-stage osteoarthritis (OA).Material and methods. …”
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Differences in cognitive deficits and brain functional impairments between patients with first-episode and recurrent depression by Lianzi Guan, Yifei Li, Hui Kong, Jie Fang, Jiakuai Yu, Ting Wang, Jiajia Zhu, Daomin Zhu

“…Two-sample t-tests were used to compare cognitive functioning, ERP parameters, and brain functional indices between FED and RMD groups. …”
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Defect Trends in Fire Alarm Systems: A Basis for Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) Approaches by Stefan Veit, Frantisek Steiner

“…Additionally, while ring bus technology supports less frequent functional testing, cable and wire systems require heightened attention in the early operational years. …”
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Risk Factors and Predictive Models for Sarcopenia in Older Adults by Shiyuan Zhang, Xue Yang, Nina An, Meng Lv, Lanyu Yang, Rui Liu, Song Hu, Weiguo Chen, Wenjing Feng, Yongjun Mao

“…ABSTRACT Objectives Sarcopenia as an age‐related syndrome is marked by a progressive loss of muscle strength and mass or reduced physical function. It is insidious in onset and presents a high prevalence. …”
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