Quality of life reported by patients with ecchymosis following total knee arthroplasty by Zhibing Gong, Hanglin Qiu, Huantang Zhang, Yanyan Xu, Rongkai Wu, Qianjin Zhang, Hanghui Lin, Zhaoke Wu, Fudong Xu, Zhikun Zhuang, Changyu Huang

“…The ecchymosis group demonstrated more significant pain and poorer joint function postoperatively, with significantly lower scores in the SF-36 dimensions and 7 subdomains compared to the non-ecchymosis group. …”
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The impact of current-loop control parameters on the electromagnetic transient voltage performance of voltage-source converter by Xiaoyu Ding, Hongwei Chen, Xiaobo Zhou, Qianhong Shi, Guanzhong Wang

“…First, the current inner loop dynamic in the converter’s synchronous coordinate is converted into an equivalent transfer function in the stationary coordinate, and the transfer function between the transient voltage disturbance at the grid connection point and the inner loop current output is established. …”
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No myocardial vulnerability to mental stress in Takotsubo stress cardiomyopathy. by Olov Collste, Per Tornvall, Örjan Sundin, Mahbubul Alam, Mats Frick

“…Our objective was to investigate the effects of mental stress on myocardial function, heart rate variability (HRV) and salivary cortisol (SC) in TSC patients.…”
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Olfactory Mucosal Auto-transplantation in Spinal Cord Injury: A Clinical Trial, Saudi Arabia by Ahmad Najib Ashraf, Abdulaziz Shebreen

“… Introduction: Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in loss of nervous tissue and consequently loss of motor and sensory function. Despite significant improvements in the early medical and surgical management of SCI, there is no effective treatment available that restores the injury-induced loss of function to a degree that an independent life can be guaranteed. …”
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Elliptic Flow of Hadrons via Quark Coalescence Mechanism Using the Boltzmann Transport Equation for Pb+Pb Collision at sNN=2.76 TeV by Mohammed Younus, Sushanta Tripathy, Swatantra Kumar Tiwari, Raghunath Sahoo

“…A Boltzmann-Gibbs blast wave (BGBW) function is taken as an equilibrium function to get the final distribution and a power-like function to describe the initial distributions of partons produced in heavy ion collisions. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF CORONARY BYPASS ON ENDOTHELIAL AND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE by S. A. Pomeshkina, E. V. Pomeshkin, T. Yu. Sergeeva, I. N. Sizova, O. L. Barbarash

“…Others, with non-affected erectile function, after the operation had higher chances to save it. …”
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Intelligent wearable devices with audio collection capabilities to assess chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity by Chunbo Zhang, Kunyao Yu, Zhe Jin, Yingcong Bao, Cheng Zhang, Jiping Liao, Guangfa Wang

“…Conclusions Audio data were more strongly correlated with lung function in COPD patients than were physiological parameters. …”
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Laparoscopic versus open radical cystectomy in bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies. by Kun Tang, Heng Li, Ding Xia, Zhiquan Hu, Qianyuan Zhuang, Jihong Liu, Hua Xu, Zhangqun Ye

“…<h4>Background and objective</h4>More recently laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC) has increasingly been an attractive alternative to open radical cystectomy (ORC) and many centers have reported their early experiences in the treatment of bladder cancer. …”
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Progress on the Main Mechanism Affecting Flap Survival by LI Jinpeng, GUO Jie, LIU Tao, WEI Xiaotao, SONG Yuan, WANG Weiwei, HE Zhijun

“…The multiple roles played by cellular autophagy, oxidative stress, inflammatory response, MSCs function, and vascular regeneration in influencing postoperative flap survival are hereby elaborated. …”
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The MentalPlus® Digital Game Might Be an Accessible Open Source Tool to Evaluate Cognitive Dysfunction in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Hypertensive Patients: A... by Valeria Fontenelle Angelim Pereira, Livia Stocco Sanches Valentin

“…The MentalPlus® was designed to possibly evaluate specific cognitive functions separately, like attention, memory, executive function, and language, because each phase evaluates specific functions shortly. …”
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Kratopenia as an indicator of sarcopenia in smokers: Cut-off points for peak knee torque. by Paolla Sanches, Karina A de S Souza, Alexandre R P Ambrozin, André R Pereira, Leandro L da Silva, Amanda S Cano, Luciana Pinato, Tiago V Barreira, Dionei Ramos, Mahara Proença

“…Kratopenia was present in > 50% of participants based on peak torque (Nw) (56% of knee extension and 52% of knee flexion), being more prevalent in women. Peak knee torque measurements, especially those of extension and flexion, can determine kratopenia in limited functional smokers. …”
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Upper Limb Outcome Measures Used in Stroke Rehabilitation Studies: A Systematic Literature Review. by Leire Santisteban, Maxime Térémetz, Jean-Pierre Bleton, Jean-Claude Baron, Marc A Maier, Påvel G Lindberg, Påvel G Lindberg

“…For thorough assessment the FMT needs to be combined with functional measures. These findings illustrate the need for strategies to build international consensus on appropriate outcome measures for upper limb function after stroke.…”
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An Empirical Study of Self-Supervised Learning with Wasserstein Distance by Makoto Yamada, Yuki Takezawa, Guillaume Houry, Kira Michaela Düsterwald, Deborah Sulem, Han Zhao, Yao-Hung Tsai

“…Thus, this study empirically investigates a strategy for optimizing the SSL with the Wasserstein distance and finds a stable training procedure. More specifically, we evaluate the combination of two types of TWD (total variation and ClusterTree) and several probability models, including the softmax function, the ArcFace probability model, and simplicial embedding. …”
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Detection of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction by global longitudinal strain imaging in diabetic and prediabetic patients and its correlation with high-sensitivity C-reactiv... by Nupur Goyal, Satyajit Singh, Amritava Ghosh, Surendra Kumar Naik, Abhishek Kumar, Amratansh Varshney, Nabodoy Majumder, Rounak Kumar

“…This supports GLS use for LV function assessment. Strain imaging can reveal preclinical systolic dysfunction before overt changes in the ventricular filling, identifying early myocardial impairment despite normal LVEF and diastolic function.…”
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Hunting for Cold Exoplanets via Microlensing by Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe

“…Ground based microlensing will provide soon the mass function of cold planets down to few Earth Masses. …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of the use of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors for treatment of erectile dysfunction following bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. by Xiao Wang, Xinghuan Wang, Tao Liu, Qianwen He, Yipeng Wang, Xinhua Zhang

“…The comparative efficacy of treatments was analyzed by fixed or random effect modeling. Erectile function was measured using the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), Sexual Encounter Profile (SEP) question-2, 3 and the Global Assessment Question (GAQ). …”
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Advances in the study of the role of high-frequency mutant subunits of the SWI/SNF complex in tumors by Jiumei Zhao, Jing Zhu, Yu Tang, Kepu Zheng, Ziwei Li

“…As a catalytic subunit of the SWI/SNF complex, SMARCA4 has ATPase activity that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ATP to produce energy and power the chromatin remodeling complex, which is critical to the function of the SWI/SNF complex. The study data indicate that approximately 25% of cancers have one or more SWI/SNF subunit genetic abnormalities, and at least nine different SWI/SNF subunits have been identified as having repeated mutations multiple times in various cancers, suggesting that mutations affecting SWI/SNF subunits may introduce vulnerabilities to these cancers. …”
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Anti-remodeling efficacy of eprosartan in patients with essential hypertension, and gene polymorphism of angiotensin II type 1 receptors by B. Sh. Karimova, M. R. Eliseeva, D. R. Kurbanova, N. Z. Sirozhiddinova, G. Zh. Abdullaeva, F. M. Khasanova

“…AC+CC genotypes were associated with more severe LVH, LV diastolic dysfunction, and EF disturbances. …”
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Public security patrol path planning recommendation method based on wolf-pack optimization algorithm using DAF and BRS by Dongxing Wang, Gaomin Zhang, Fangbo Wu, Zhiyang Huang, Yiping Chen

“…The results indicated that the time-spent of DAF-BRS-CWOA was shortened and the optimization accuracy is the highest as well as S3PRM-DAF-BRS-CWOA has the best effect and is more time-efficient for solving public safety patrol path planning.…”
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Aerobic exercise training combined or not with okra consumption as a strategy to prevent kidney changes caused by metabolic syndrome in Zucker rats. by Monique Marques da Silva, Moisés Felipe Pereira Gomes, Elizabeth de Orleans Carvalho de Moura, Mariana Matera Veras, Melina Chiemi Kubota, Ana Paula Takano, Ana Carolina Cardoso Dos Santos, Carolina Gonçalves Dos Reis José, Graziele Aparecida da Silva Souza, Naiara Magalhães Cardoso, Debora Estadella, Rafael Herling Lambertucci, Alessandra Medeiros

“…In conclusion, ET combined or not with O seems to be beneficial in preventing the progression of renal disease when renal function is not yet altered.…”
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