Number 3: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Stopping Smoking: It is Never Too Late by Douglas MC Wilson

“…Smokers with chronic lung disease can often function better, breathe more easily and cough less, just by stopping smoking. …”
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Echocardiography in the Evaluation of the Right Heart by Angelos Tsipis, Evdokia Petropoulou

“…Integrating and combining multiple parameters may be a more reliable way to determine normal or abnormal function. …”
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Effect of Occupation Performance Coaching with Four-Quadrant Model of Facilitated Learning on Children with Specific Learning Disorder by Amin Ghaffari, Akram Azad, Mehdi Alizadeh Zarei, Mehdi Rassafiani, Hamid Sharif Nia

“…In the intervention phase, all six mothers of children with SLD individually received OPC and 4QM interventions once a week for 14 sessions of 60 minutes and during this period, children were evaluated six more times for executive function skills according to SCWT and WCST. …”
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Morphological Edge Detection Algorithm of Colon Pathological Sections Based on Shearlet by Shasha Li, Caixia Deng, Tong Wang, Zhaoru Zhang

“…Based on those, in order to get the new Meyer wavelet function, we use the sigmoid function to construct more general scale functions. …”
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New Lifetime Distribution and its Application to Cancer Data by Samuel Adewale ADEROJU, Nihimat Iyebuhola Aleshinloye, Bako Lukmon Taiwo, Bello Ishola Sanni

“…Some of its mathematical properties such as the density function, cumulative distribution function, survival function, hazard rate function, moment generating function, Renyi entropy and order statistics are obtained. …”
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FUNGSI TINDAK TUTUR PENGAJAR BIMBEL DALAM STATUS FACEBOOK TENTANG PENYAMBUTAN TAHUN BARU MASEHI by Desi Afrianti

“…It is interesting to be analyzed because every discoursehas one function. Moreover, the fact found in field was one discourse has more than one function. …”
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Comparison of the hypothetical 57 Co brachytherapy source with the 192 Ir source by Mohammad Taghi Bahreyni Toossi, Mahdi Ghorbani, Atefeh Rostami, Mohsen Khosroabadi, Sara Khademi, Courtney Knaup

“…The anisotropy function for the 57 Co source at various distances from the source is more isotropic than the 192 Ir source. …”
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The Impact of Aquatic Physiotherapy on the Motor Development of 5-Month-Old Infants: Parental Knowledge, Expectations, and Experiences by Rosita Kiaulakytė, Lina Budrienė

“…The older the parents, the more they emphasised the importance of motor development and the more likely they were to choose aquatic physiotherapy for their infants. …”
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Effect of levetiracetam on cognition in patients with cognitive decline: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials by Claudia Faini, Arjune Sen, Michele Romoli

“…Although LEV did not improve global cognitive function, there were improvements in visuospatial function and, more marginally, executive function. …”
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RELIABILITY PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON THE 3CAW DISTRIBUTION (MT) by FAN LiTian, QI HongLiang, CHEN HongWen

“…In complex systems, a mixture distribution is more appropriate. This article introduces the 3CAW distribution, which provides a more flexible failure rate function, especially a bathtub-shaped failure rate with a long constant region, which is suitable for more complex systems. …”
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SMA Community Priorities for Future Drug Therapies: Cross-Sectional Survey Findings Representing 410 Adults with SMA by Ilse S. Peterson, Ramaa Chitale, Mary A. Curry, Lisa T. Belter

“…Most notably, people with more severe types of SMA and lower mobility were more likely to report items related to lung function and bulbar function as important. …”
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Exploiting the similarity of dissimilarities for biomedical applications and enhanced machine learning. by Mohammad Neamul Kabir, Li Rong Wang, Wilson Wen Bin Goh

“…In protein function prediction, recognizing dissimilarities alongside similarities provides a more detailed understanding of evolutionary processes, allowing for a deeper exploration of regions that influence biological functionality. …”
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The apothecary order – the origin and formation. Part 5 by K. S. Guzev

“…Medicinal plants were purchased abroad, in Moscow merchant’s rows, and were also cultivated and introduced in apothecary gardens. Over time, more and more attention was paid to this work of the Apothecary prikaz, and this function gradually became a duty.…”
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A novel semi-empirical supervised model of vortex-induced vertical force on a flat closed-box bridge deck by Xiaoxia Tian, Jingwen Yan

“…The terms in this function are deleted when they meet one of the following cases: the frequency amplitudes are close to 0; the correlation coefficients with the vortex-induced vertical force are less than 0.3; the correlation coefficients with other low-order terms are more than 0.8. …”
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A conceptual approach to the –ING construction: aspects of radiality and subjectification by Sandra Aparecida Faria de Almeida, Iván de Jesús Davis Ulloa

“…These functions, in turn, exhibit a more peripheral role and are linked to the verbal function through metaphorical extension relationships (Goldberg, 1995, 2006). …”
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L’argumentation journalistique, déclin ou renouveau ? by Nicolas Pélissier

“…After defining the argumentative function of journalism, this paper puts in discussion the possible decline of this function nowadays. …”
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An Empirical Study on Intelligent Rural Tourism Service by Neural Network Algorithm Models by Jingzhi Chen, Hongbo Xue, Sang-Bing Tsa

“…With the continuous development of social economy, tourism has become one of the many choices and is becoming more and more popular. However, it should be noted that how to provide high-quality and efficient tourism services is extremely important. …”
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A trusted IoT architecture model by Ansheng YIN, Shijun ZHANG

“…The internet of things (IoT) has been widely concerned and developed in the world,and its security has been paid more and more attention.However,due to the characteristics of the IoT itself,a lot of security measures in the internet field can’t be applied directly.The current security strategy mainly provide solutions according to the threat of the IoT one by one.In face of increasingly intelligent,systematic,integrated security threats,a trusted IoT architecture of two layers and tri-elements,which brought about a whole trusted security mechanism according to the function of IoT.Starting with the integrity and safety inspection of hardware and software of sensor devices,the trusted chain was transmitted until the application layer,and data was processed according to behavior trusted value in application layer.At the same time,the control function and the data function were separated,and the security strategies cooperated and verified with each other,therefore improving the ability of the IoT to deal with security threats effectively.…”
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AN ITERATION METHOD OF COMPANY MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION USING INvERSE CALCULATIONS by B. E. Odintsov, A. N. Romanov

“…Therefore, some authors suggest non-linear «soft» models as a substitute for linear ones since they are supposed to make an optimized system more robust. The rigidity of a model that is set as an optimization task is concerned not so much with linearity or non-linearity of its target function as with the lack of flexible substitution of resources in case of their shortage. …”
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A bi-institutional observational study comparing short-term and long-term outcome of operative and non-operative management of clinical and radiological flail chest injuries by Eva-Corina Caragounis, Monika Fagevik Olsén, Lena Sandström, Rauni Rossi Norrlund, Lovisa Strömmer, Hans Granhed

“…Clinical follow-up after six weeks, six months and one year concerning lung function, CT-lung volume, physical function, pain, and quality of life (QoL) was performed. …”
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