THE SEVERITY OF THE COURSE, RATHER THAN IMPAIRED EXTERNAL RESPIRATORY FUNCTION, DETERMINES THE OUTCOME OF COPD TREATMENT by V.V. Bilko

“…All patients underwent assessment of the function of external respiration, assessment of quality of life by SF-36, SGRQ questionnaires, severity of dyspnoea and severity of symptoms - mMRC and SBP test, BODE index and predicted survival for 4 years were calculated. …”
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Social isolation increases impulsive choice with minor changes on metabolic function in middle‐aged rats by Jassmyn J. Venegas, Jacob M. Weisz, Chan Young Choi, Ren E. Herringshaw, Omar A. Nabelsi, Nu‐Chu Liang

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Environmental Changes Driving Shifts in the Structure and Functional Properties of the Symbiotic Microbiota of <i>Daphnia</i> by Minru You, Wenwu Yang

“…The gene functions of the microbiota in different generations of <i>D. magna</i> also changed significantly. …”
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Measurements of Serum Pituitary-Gonadal Hormones and Investigation of Sexual and Reproductive Functions in Kidney Transplant Recipients by Guang-chun Wang, Jun-hua Zheng, Long-gen Xu, Zhi-lian Min, You-hua Zhu, Jun Qi, Qiang-lin Duan

“…Thirty-three male recipients (55.93%) reobtained normal erectile function, and 49 kidney transplant recipients (61.25%) had children within the 3-year follow-up period. …”
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Evaluation of functional capacity and risk of depression in older patients with cancer as part of the comprehensive geriatric assessment by Wiesław Fidecki, Katarzyna Przylepa, Marek Wytrzyszczewski, Mariusz Wysokiński

“…The regression model showed that the NOSGER scale was a statistically significant variable explaining the geriatric depression scale score in the study group (p &lt; 0.001).ConclusionMost respondents were fully functional. The surveyed seniors suffering from cancer had the greatest difficulties in the areas of moods and emotions as well as instrumental activities of everyday life. …”
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Face Validity of Measures of Sexual Orientation and Family Functioning Among Hispanic Sexual Minority Youth by Alyssa Lozano, Vanessa Morales, Elliott R. Weinstein, Audrey Harkness, Manuel A. Ocasio, Tatiana Perrino, Ahnalee M. Brincks, Guillermo Prado

“…Measures of sexual orientation and family functioning are widely used among sexual minority populations. …”
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Is School Function in Children with Down Syndrome the Same as Their Normally Developing Peers? A Preliminary Study by Farnoush Khosravi, minoo kalantari, Marzieh Pashmdarfard, Hamidreza Rostami, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban, Faezeh Heidari Beni

“…Parents and teachers completed a demographic information questionnaire, and only teachers completed the School Function Assessment (SFA). Results: Children with DS had a moderate level of participation (criterion score = 60.04). …”
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Evaluation of a seed drill for barley and vetch sowing as a function of varying seeding ratios by Arzu Yazgi, Tuncay Gunhan, Behcet Kir, Gulcan Demiroglu Topcu, Erdem Aykas

“…Conclusions It appears that the results in this work demonstrated that the seed drill could have a great potential to be used effectively for the seeding of barley as well as vetch mixtures as a function of various ratios to enhance the overall yield of the crop.…”
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Responses of Soil Microbial Communities and Functions in an Alpine Grassland of the Qinghai Lake Basin With Grazing Disturbance by Caicai Sun, Quanmin Dong, Haitao An, Yuzhen Liu, Weidong Lv, Wenting Liu, Haiming Ji, Xiaoxia Yang

“…Metagenomic sequencing technology was employed to investigate the impact of these grazing intensities on the microbial community composition and functional attributes in alpine grasslands. The results indicated that: (1) Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Chloroflexi were the dominant bacterial communities in the soil, while Ascomycota, Mucoromycota, and Basidiomycota represented the primary fungal communities. (2) Grazing had a greater impact on soil fungal communities than on bacterial communities, altering the Shannon diversity index and Simpson index of soil fungal communities. (3) Soil pH and soil moisture were important factors influencing changes in soil microbial communities. (4) Functional analysis focusing on the “nitrogen metabolism” pathway indicated that under light grazing conditions, the relative abundance of multiple functional genes, particularly those involved in denitrification, decreased.…”
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Structural and Functional Characterization of the Signaling Molecule Autoinducer-2 Synthesis Enzyme S-Ribosylhomocysteinase in Limosilactobacillus fermentum by WEI Guangqiang, WANG Teng, XU Ziqi, WANG Yuzhu, ZHANG Wenbin, LI Xinglun, HUANG Aixiang

“…In addition, its structural and functional properties were explored by protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis. …”
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Impact of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta on gastrointestinal function with a matched cohort study by Shokei Matsumoto, Tomohiro Funabiki, Makoto Aoki, Masayuki Shimizu

“…We used propensity score matching analysis to compare the gastrointestinal function between subjects who underwent REBOA and those who did not. …”
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Characteristics of functional constipation and analysis of intestinal microbiota in children aged 0–4 in Zunyi region by Shungang Gong, Zhengbo Yu, Yuan Ding, Yue Wang, Xi Li, Shengli Gu

“…Abstract Background Functional constipation (FC) significantly impacts children’s health. …”
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Prevalence of Functional Constipation and Relationship with Dietary Habits in 3- to 8-Year-Old Children in Japan by Asami Fujitani, Tsuyoshi Sogo, Ayano Inui, Kiyoshi Kawakubo

“…Of the 3595 subjects evaluated, 718 (20.0%) had functional constipation. The association between functional constipation and gender was not statistically significant (p=0.617). …”
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Effect of packaging and storage conditions on the pasting and functional properties of pretreated yellow-fleshed cassava flour by Esther Ekeledo, Adebayo Abass, Joachim Müller

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The impact of constipation on lower urinary tract function and treatment response in patients with non-monosymptomatic enuresis by Yi-Ju Chou, Stephen Shei-Dei Yang

“…Abstract Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the differences in lower urinary tract function and treatment response between non-monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (NMNE) pediatric patients with and without constipation. …”
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Divergent structural and functional brain alterations in HIV-infected patients: a multimodal meta-analysis by Zhong Li, Xingxing Jin, Meng Zhang, Hongxia Wang, Wangyi Liu, Beiran Wang, Baolin Wu, Xuekun Li

“…Eleven whole-brain VBM studies and eight resting-state functional studies were included. HIV-infected patients showed structural abnormalities alone in the bilateral medial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex, bilateral calcarine cortex and left amygdala, and had functional abnormalities alone in the left middle frontal gyrus, left parahippocampal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus and visual cortices. …”
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The effects of lymphocele formation after living donor kidney transplantation on mid-term allograft function by Christian Kuhn, Bernd Jänigen, Laura Matuschik, Max J. Rieger, Daniel Sidler, Stefan Zschiedrich

“…While long-term outcomes such as patient and allograft survival are well studied, the impact of lymphocele formation on mid-term allograft function remains unclear. Methods This multicentric study included 711 recipients of living donor kidney transplants to investigate the impact of lymphocele formation on mid-term graft function. …”
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Functional performance of patients submitted to cardiac surgery with different levels of sleep quality: an observational study by André Luiz Lisboa Cordeiro, Hayssa de Cássia Mascarenhas Barbosa, Daniel Silva Mascarenhas, Junior, Jandesson Cena dos Santos, André Raimundo França Guimarães

“…Patients who were in the SDB group had a lower functional performance than the other groups. 6MWT (meters) in the GSQ was 499 ± 87, versus 487 ± 91 in the PSQ and 430 ± 78 in the SD (p = 0.02). …”
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Impact style of the changeable resistance in the development some of physical & functional changes for the National team for the badminton by Abeer Dakhil Hatim

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Performance of Colorimetric Lateral Flow Immunoassays for Renal Function Evaluation with Human Serum Cystatin C by Xushuo Zhang, Sam Fishlock, Peter Sharpe, James McLaughlin

“…Even though the developed LFIA had an increased bias in low CysC concentration (below 2 mg/L) detection, the developed LFIA can still alert patients at the early stages of renal function impairment.…”
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