Effect Observation on Quanjing Acupuncture combined with Blood-letting Cupping Therapy on Upper Extremity Spasticity in Recovery Stage of Stroke by Zhulian ZHAN, Lu YANG, Mali XI, Xiaoying HU, Guoping ZHOU

“…The control group received routine diagnosis and rehabilitation treatment, and Quanjing acupuncture treatment, once a day, six times a week, two weeks in each course, continuous treatment for two courses; the treatment group was treated combined with blood-letting cupping therapy on the basis of the control group, once every other day, three times a week, two weeks in each course, continuous treatment for two courses.Modified MAS scale was used to evaluate the degree of upper limb spasm;simplified Fugl-Meyer motor function scale (FMA) was used to assess the limb motor function of patients; Barthel index (BI) was used to assess the daily living ability of patients.Results:Compared with the treatment before, MAS score of both groups was significantly lower, FMA score and BI score were significantly higher, with statistically significant difference (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05); Compared with the control group, MAS score of the treatment group decreased more significantly after treatment, FMA score and BI score improved more significantly, with statistically significant difference (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05);the effective rate of spasm improvement in the treatment group was significantly higher than that in the control group, with statistically significant difference (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Quanjing Acupuncture therapy combined with blood-letting cupping therapy can improve the degree of upper limb spasm, motor function and daily living ability of stroke patients at recovery stage, and has a good clinical effect.…”
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L’entrepreneuriat touristique local : une opportunité d’inversion du processus de marginalisation d’un centre historique ? Une analyse dans la médina de Fès au Maroc by Merryl Joly

“…Each entrepreneur profile puts forward its defense of a "Moroccan authenticity", articulated around the intangible heritage, particularly the family. …”
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A structural analysis of ordered Cs3Sb films grown on single crystal graphene and silicon carbide substrates by C. A. Pennington, M. Gaowei, E. M. Echeverria, K. Evans-Lutterodt, A. Galdi, T. Juffmann, S. Karkare, J. Maxson, S. J. van der Molen, P. Saha, J. Smedley, W. G. Stam, R. M. Tromp

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Le Musée instrumental du Conservatoire de Paris pendant la décennie Lang (1981-1993) by Florence Gétreau

“…Responding to its initial vocation as a "complete collection of instruments for our use, which by their perfection can serve as models", the Instrumental Museum of the Paris Conservatoire really opened up to instrument makers in 1961, when Geneviève Thibault de Chambure, its curator, founded a restoration workshop there. …”
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Health professionals’ experience of implementing and delivering a ‘Community Care’ programme in metropolitan Melbourne: a qualitative reflexive thematic analysis by Cylie Williams, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Brendan Shannon, Hollie Shannon, Nadine Andrew, Julia Morphet

“…Objectives To explore the experiences of health professionals involved in delivering a multidisciplinary Community Care programme that provides a transitional care coordination service for patients visiting a tertiary hospital service in Melbourne, Australia.Design Reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify themes from descriptions of delivering the programme, including its perceived strengths and challenges.Participants 12 healthcare professionals from four disciplines working in the Community Care programme were interviewed.Results Four themes were identified: (1) ‘increasingly complex’, depicts the experience of delivering care to patients with increasingly complex health needs; (2) ‘plugging unexpected gaps’, describes meeting patient’s healthcare needs; (3) ‘disconnected’, explains system-based issues which made participants feel disconnected from the wider health service; (4) ‘a misunderstood programme’, illustrates that a poor understanding of the programme within the health service is a barrier to patient enrolment which may have been exacerbated by a service name change.Conclusions The healthcare professionals involved in this study described the experience of providing care to patients as challenging, but felt they made a positive difference. …”
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A multi-modal dental dataset for semi-supervised deep learning image segmentation by Yaqi Wang, Fan Ye, Yifei Chen, Chengkai Wang, Chengyu Wu, Feng Xu, Zhean Ma, Yi Liu, Yifan Zhang, Mingguo Cao, Xiaodiao Chen

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Methdology for defining key performance indicators of development institutions as exemplified by the national project “Small and Medium-Sized Business” by A. N. Pyshkin

“…Using the example of an indicator in one of the areas of the national project “Small and Medium-Sized Business” (training activities) as an example, an integrated approach has been proposed to balance solution of the objectives of optimal spending of the federal budget and increasing the public outreach of its results.…”
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Do Power Meter Data Depend on the Device on Which They Are Collected? Comparison of Eleven Different Recordings by José-Antonio Salas-Montoro, Ignacio Valdivia-Fernández, Alejandro de Rozas, José-Manuel Reyes-Sánchez, Mikel Zabala, Juan-José Pérez-Díaz

“…All participants pedaled on a controlled-resistance cycle ergometer, and the data were recorded using the ergometer itself and ten synchronized cycle computers of the same brand, configured to record at 1 Hz. …”
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Reclaiming our Black bodies: reflections on a portrait of Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman and the destruction of Black bodies by the state by I. D. Mothoagae

“…In this article, I will argue that the use of violence by the colonial, imperial system against Sarah Baartman (Black people) has its origins in colonialism and slavery. I maintain that there is a distinction between “a body” and “the Body”. …”
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Le dessin de design en tant qu’œuvre en soi by Airton Cattani

“…Like text, interpretation of the design drawing has to be seen in the light of a “grammar of images” which will take into account the particularities of its time. Drawing, in its various forms, is essential in all areas of design, but its functions will apparently be exhausted at the end of the object’s production process, since its original functions will have been fulfilled. …”
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Prospect Analysis of Paleocene Coalbed Methane: A Case Study of Hangu Formation, Trans-Indus Ranges, Pakistan by Hamza Azam Qadri, Ali Wahid, Numair Ahmed Siddiqui, Syed Haroon Ali, Ahmed Abd El Aal, Amirul Qhalis Bin Abu Rashid, Mohd Najib Bin Temizi

“…This case study is helpful to find the occurrence, trapping ability, and methane extraction capacity in its cleat structures and pores. A number of samples were tested from the different coal mines in terms of these debatable components. …”
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Beyond unital noise in variational quantum algorithms: noise-induced barren plateaus and limit sets by Phattharaporn Singkanipa, Daniel A. Lidar

“…We identify the associated phenomenon of noise-induced limit sets (NILS) of the VQA cost function and prove its existence for both unital and HS-contractive non-unital noise maps. …”
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Biological Properties and Clinical Significance of Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 in Ischemic Stroke by Shuang Zhang, Shuchun Huang, Dingju Hu, Fenglong Jiang, Yanli Lv, Guoqi Liu

“…Ischemic stroke, which occurs following blockage of the blood supply to the brain, is a leading cause of death worldwide. Its main cause is atherosclerosis, a disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on the inner artery walls. …”
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Explainable machine learning for modeling of net ecosystem exchange in boreal forests by E. Ezhova, T. Laanti, A. Lintunen, P. Kolari, T. Nieminen, I. Mammarella, K. Heljanko, K. Heljanko, M. Kulmala

“…When the data sets from both stations were mixed, soil water content, the only variable clearly different between Hyytiälä and Värriö data sets, emerged as one of the most important variables, but its importance diminished when input variables labeling sites were added. …”
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Working with Nonprofit Organizations in Community Settings: Preparing your Organization to Work with Volunteers by Elizabeth B. Bolton, Anna Guest-Jelley

“…Bolton and Anna Guest-Jelley that provide guidance for building a non-profit organization, from establishing its mission to effectively lobbying. Includes references. …”
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Infrastructures critiques, vulnérabilisation du territoire et résilience : assainissement et inondations majeures en Île-de-France by Annabelle Moatty, Magali Reghezza-Zitt

“…Finally, we discuss how sanitation system is taken into account in preparedness to major floods and describe the potential consequences of its damage or failure for crisis management and post-disaster recovery.…”
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Exploring the evolution of structure growth in the universe with field-fluid interactions through dynamical stability analysis by Anirban Chatterjee, Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Debasish Majumdar

“…This model effectively captures the evolutionary features of the universe across its various phases at both the background and perturbation levels. …”
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Corporate social responsibility as a tool of interaction with the external environment during the economic crisis by V. V. Vetrova, P. S. Shcherbachenko

“…The prospects for this study may be the description of modified tools of CSR implementation, taking into account the modern development of technologies and the deepening of its impact on economic relations. As a result of the work done, a conclusion was obtained about the predominance of positive effects from the implementation of this strategy in a situation of increased resource constraints.…”
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Dissociative psychosis or dissociative schizophrenia? Comparison of two phenomena by Mahir Akbudak, Hasan Belli, Hasan Gökçay, Uğur Takım

“…Further, we have investigated the symptoms of dissociation, its relation to childhood traumatic experiences, and psychotic symptoms. …”
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A Review of Amoebic Liver Abscess for Clinicians in a Nonendemic Setting by Terry Wuerz, Jennifer B Kane, Andrea K Boggild, Sigmund Krajden, Jay S Keystone, Milan Fuksa, Kevin C Kain, Ralph Warren, John Kempston, Joe Anderson

“…The parasite is transmitted via the fecal-oral route, and once it establishes itself in the colon, it has the propensity to invade the mucosa, leading to ulceration and colitis, and to disseminate to distant extraintestinal sites, the most common of which is the liver. …”
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