Nutritional Habits’ Review of Amateur and Professional Football Players by Fatma Nur Türkoğlu, Orhan Şener, Ahmet Çöndü

“…We believe that it will be very useful to train athletes and coaches, with seminars, courses, panels, etc. and to have an expert dietitian in sports clubs, and to emphasize the importance of this issue in written and visual media.…”
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Microplastic levels in the indoor air of buildings based on plastic waste recycling in Indonesia by Tri Marthy Mulyasari, Jojok Mukono, I Ketut Sudiana, Nur Hilal

“…Results: Microplastics are found in the air of building spaces made from recycled plastic waste with varying levels every day. …”
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Linguistic Validation of a British-English Version of the SAMANTA Questionnaire and HMB-VAS Tool: A Step Toward Improved Diagnosis of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding by Josep Perelló-Capó, Joan Rius-Tarruella, Joaquim Calaf Alsina

“…The Heavy Menstrual Bleeding-Visual Analog Scale (HMB-VAS) tool, including the VAS for menstrual bleeding intensity (VAS-Int) and the VAS for its interference with daily activities (VAS-Imp), is useful for HMB screening. …”
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The Influence of Communication Modality on the “Saying-Is-Believing” Effect by Rui Yin, Xianyun Liu

“…Additionally, it explores the impact of different communication modalities on the SIB effect, considering the information dissemination context in the internet era and the unique characteristic of “visual anonymity” in online communication compared to offline communication. …”
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Search for the Blazhko Effect in Field RR Lyrae Stars Using LINEAR and ZTF Light Curves by Ema Donev, Željko Ivezić

“…No period or other differences are found for c type RR Lyrae. We find convincing examples of stars where the Blazhko effect can appear and disappear on timescales of several years. …”
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Arachidonic acid promotes the binding of 5-lipoxygenase on nanodiscs containing 5-lipoxygenase activating protein in the absence of calcium-ions. by Ramakrishnan B Kumar, Pasi Purhonen, Hans Hebert, Caroline Jegerschöld

“…TEM was used to assess the complex formation between 5LO and FLAP-nanodiscs along with, sucrose gradient purification, gel-electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. It was found that presence of AA by itself induces complex formation in the absence of added calcium. …”
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RUSVISK: DOMESTICALLY DEVELOPED PRODUCT OF HYALURONIC ACID: ASSESSMENT OF EFFICACY AND SAFETY IN EARLY STAGES OF THE KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS by N. V. Vas'kova, O. M. Lesnyak

“…They had pain at movement of more than 40 mm by visual analogue scale (VAS) and Lequesne index of 4–12. …”
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Factors Affecting the Formation, Severity and Location of White Spot Lesions during Orthodontic Treatment with Fixed Appliances by Khaled Khalaf

“…Significant (P < 0.05) relationships were found between the presence of WSLs and the following factors: poor oral hygiene (OH), males, increased treatment length, lack of use of fluoride supplements, use of carbonated soft drinks and/or fruit juices and the use of sugary foods. …”
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Analysis of retrospective natural history data collected from patients with SYNGAP1-related disorders: a preliminary examination of the Citizen database by Matthew R. Scott, Albert Misko, Yang Liu, Oleksandr Sverdlov

“…No evidence of a high frequency allele change in SYNGAP1 was found, indicating no dominant variant in this patient population. …”
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Mendelian randomization analysis of immune cell traits and their association with cervical cancer risk by Jie Yu, Yamei Zhang

“…Results The study found a slight positive association between activated secretory CD4 regulatory T cells and cervical cancer risk (OR = 1.001, 95% CI 1.000–1.002, p = 0.001), while resting CD4 regulatory T cells showed a potential protective effect (OR = 0.998, 95% CI 0.997–0.999, p = 0.004). …”
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GaVe: A webcam-based gaze vending interface using one-point calibration by Zhe Zeng, Sai Liu, Hao Cheng, Hailong Liu, Yang Li, Yu Feng, Felix Siebert

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Automated Search and Analysis of the Stylometric Features that Describe the Style of the Prose 19th-21st Centuries by Ksenia V. Lagutina, Alla M. Manakhova

“…Texts are combined by decades, for each decade there are found average values of stylometric features. The obtained models of decades are compared using standard similarity metrics, results of comparison are visualized in the form of the heat maps and dendrograms. …”
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THE REDUCTION OF ANXIETY AND PAIN DURING VENOUS BLOOD SAMPLING USING HYPNO-EFT (EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES) METHOD by Diah Navianti, Ardiya Garini, Karneli Karneli

“…Anxiety was measured using a Hamilton anxiety rating scale (HARS) modification and pain was measured using the Visual analogue scale (VAS) method. Wilcoxon and Manova multivariate test were used for data analysis. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Keyboard Distance on the Posture and 3D Moments of Wrist and Elbow Joints among Males Using OpenSim by Milad Gholami, Alireza Choobineh, Mohammad Abdoli-Eramaki, Azizallah Dehghan, Mohammad Taghi Karimi

“…No significant difference was found for the left elbow pronation, wrist, and elbow joint moments, in the studied keyboard distances. …”
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Can Sleep Quality be Associated With Positional Vertigo in Children With Dizziness? by Busra Umame Sahin, Tugce Gurel Soylemez, Gorkem Ertugrul

“…A significant positive correlation was found between the dizziness durations and SDSC scores (p = 0.03, rs: 0.42). …”
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Inter-agency collaboration to support the COVID-19 response and maintain malaria services in Guinea and Sierra Leone: A social network analysis. by Lukas Feddern, Ibrahima Kaba, Hanna-Tina Fischer, Brogan Geurts, Habibata Balde, Andrea Bernasconi, Vitali Merhi, Rike Böttcher, Karim Dumbuya, Francisco Pozo-Martin, Thurid Bahr, Sara Menelik-Obbarius, Karoline Stein, Abdul Karim Mbawah, Alexandre Delamou, Heide Weishaar, Charbel El-Bcheraoui

“…Results from the thematic analysis of key informant interviews were used to contextualize the social network data, which was visualized as sociograms. We found that malaria stakeholders worked closely with key stakeholders involved in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Bracing versus non-bracing after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery by Rebin Taha Salih, Zohair Mohsen Al-Saffar

“…The follow-up was based on the Lysholm functional score, Tegner activity level, manual Lachman test and pain by visual analog scale, each variable were recorded before surgery, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and one year after the surgery. …”
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Refractoriness in sustained visuo-manual control: is the refractory duration intrinsic or does it depend on external system properties? by Cornelis van de Kamp, Peter J Gawthrop, Henrik Gollee, Ian D Loram

“…In sustained control refractoriness was only found when the target reverses direction. In the presence of time varying actuators, systems and constraints, we propose that central refractoriness is an appropriate control mechanism for accommodating online optimization delays within the neural circuitry including the more variable processing times of higher order (complex) input-output relations.…”
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Biophilic Design as A Source of Inspiration in The Development of Creativity Process: An Example of Interior Architecture Design Studio by Dilek Yasar

“…The results suggested that the students included rich patterns of nature in their designs with an artistic sensitivity, used colors, textures, and motifs similar to those in nature, and showed a tendency to include visual folds and/or elevation differences in interiors similar to those found in nature. …”
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Clinical application of radiofrequency thermocoagulation under double needle guide in the treatment of recurrent mandibular neuralgia by CHEN Donglei, WANG Hui, CHEN Yongjun, XIE Dongping, WANG Xiang

“…After comparison of facial visual analogue scale(F-VAS), it was found that there were significant differences between the two groups(P&lt;0.05), and there were statistical differences between the observation group and the control group(P&lt;0.05). …”
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