Development and Testing of a Patient Outcome Measure for Interprofessional Tuberculosis Care: A Delphi Study by Bau D. Ardyansyah, Reinie Cordier, Margo Brewer, Dave Parsons

“…Tuberculosis requires a team-based care model that provides resilience and coordinated work, such as the one offered by an interprofessional collaborative practice team. …”
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Changing Clinical Presentation, Current Knowledge-Attitude-Practice, and Current Vision Related Quality of Life in Self-Reported Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Retinopathy in Easter... by Taraprasad Das, Batriti Wallang, Preeti Semwal, Soumyava Basu, Tapas R. Padhi, Mohd Hasnat Ali

“…In a decade time, 2001 to 2011, there was a change of retinopathy status at presentation (more often nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, NPDR). …”
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Thermal processing to bainite structure of cast iron details by L. R. Dudetskaja, A. I. Pokrovsky, I. S. Gaukhshtein, M. I. Demin, P. S. Gurchenko

“…The concrete modes of heat treatment of gear out of cast iron for bainite in conditions of MAZ are offered.…”
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The Impact of Draw Weight on Archers’ Posture and Injury Risk Through Motion Capture Analysis by Xiaoxu Ji, Zainab Al Tamimi, Xin Gao, Davide Piovesan

“…However, this repetitive sport carries some injury risk in the shoulder, elbow, and back during the draw and release phases. While research often explores factors affecting shooting performance, limited studies have examined the interplay between gender-specific biomechanics and bow-related variables on lumbar stress and shooting mechanics. …”
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The multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of paediatric chronic pain: a qualitative analysis through focus groups by Aldana Paola Ercolano, Sabrina Galvan, Tessa Louise Marchesan, Alessia Gavioli, Gerardo Papa, Mariarita Todaro, Lidia Berforini D’Aquino, Alessia Zanatta, Andrea Vianello

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Nobility and domestic conviviality in the paintings of archduchess Maria Christine by Michael Yonan

“…By inserting her monarchical family into scenes representing bourgeois activities, Maria Christine utilized painting to explore aspects of her monarchical life that otherwise could not be represented in official art. …”
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Perspectives on Intelligence in Soft Robotics by Vera Gesina Kortman, Barbara Mazzolai, Aimeé Sakes, Jovana Jovanova

“…In the field of soft robotics, various approaches offer insight into how intelligence can be integrated into artificial agents. …”
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Urology pathways for the primary care physician by J John

“…The ratio is even more dire if we only include urologists in the public sector. This article offers pragmatic strategies for addressing common urological conditions. …”
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Special Types of Pesticides by Frederick M. Fishel

“…This document is PI-47, one of a series of the Pesticide Information Office, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Effect of Internal Curing with Superabsorbent Polymers on Bond Behavior of High-Strength Concrete by Xiao Lei, Rui Wang, Hanwan Jiang, Faxiang Xie, Yanni Bao

“…However, because of its low water-to-cement ratio, external curing water hardly enters the dense internal structure of HSC so that high self-desiccation shrinkage often takes place. As a result, superabsorbent polymers (SAP) are added as an internal curing material to effectively reduce the shrinkage of high-performance concrete. …”
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Recovery experiences among mental health service users going through the Balancing Everyday Life™ intervention – A deductive qualitative study by Mona Eklund, Elisabeth Argentzell

“…The findings support CHIME, while also indicating that BELTM offers some additional avenues for personal recovery.Significance An occupational therapy intervention can support mental health service users towards personal recovery.…”
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Select the Sex of Your Next Calf Prior to Mating: Using Sexed Semen by Gary R. Hansen

“… Through recent advances in reproductive technology, scientists have the ability to pre-select the sex of mammalian offspring prior to mating. This is accomplished through a procedure known as flow cytometry cell sorting where X- (female) or Y-(male)-chromosome-bearing cells are sorted based on DNA content of the sperm cell. …”
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Emergence of Prediction by Reinforcement Learning Using a Recurrent Neural Network by Kenta Goto, Katsunari Shibata

“…In a task where an agent gets a reward when it catches a moving object that can possibly become invisible, it was observed that the agent learned to detect the necessary factors of the object velocity before it disappeared, to relay the information among some hidden neurons, and finally to catch the object at an appropriate position and timing, considering the effects of bounces off a wall after the object became invisible.…”
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The quality of licensing services: an analysis of the impact of leadership and communication on the effectiveness of licensing services in Indonesia by Rachmat Rachmat

“…The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) has delegated authority to the XYZ Regency Investment and One-Stop Integrated Services Office or it called DPMPTSP to organize licensing in the XYZ region through the Public Service Mall. …”
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An Electrically Actuated Liquid-Metal Gain-Reconfigurable Antenna by George B. Zhang, Ryan C. Gough, Matthew R. Moorefield, Kareem S. Elassy, Aaron T. Ohta, Wayne A. Shiroma

“…Zero external power is required to maintain the position of the slug. The 5 GHz antenna offers more than 10 dB of analog gain tuning, from −5.90 to 4.43 dB.…”
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Modeling Portfolio Optimization based on behavioral Preferences and Investor’s Memory by vahideh mousavi kakhki, Sanaz Khatabi

“…However, these models often fail to capture the complexities of real-world investment decisions, which are often influenced by behavioral factors. …”
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Pengembangan Gim Simulasi Kehidupan untuk Peningkatan Literasi Grafik Menggunakan Framework DPE by Erico Silitonga, Eriq Muhammad Adams Jonemaro, Muhammad Aminul Akbar

“…This is somewhat worrying because the ability to interpret data from reading charts is a very important ability to have. The solution offered in this study is an alternative to graphic learning using serious games as a learning resource. …”
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Analisando as decisões do COPOM by Paulo Rogério Faustino Matos, Jayme Andrade Neto

“…Os resultados obtidos, observando - se o período de janeiro de 2002 a julho de 2010 com frequência semanal, sugerem que o COPOM seja influenciado pelos gastos governamentais e que este po ssua um comportamento forward - looking, atendo - se às expectativas do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) e da inflação oficial do país. Além desta evidência relevante na discussão sobre o equilíbrio entre políticas fiscal e monetária no Brasil, a autoridade monetár ia brasileira teoricamente possui um comportamento alinhado ao observado na prática, porém apresentando uma maior sensibilidade às variações macroeconômicas, reagindo mais frequentemente e em menor intensidade.…”
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Transforming Children’s Attitudes Toward Insects Through In-School Encounters by Kathleen M. Miller, Dana K. Beegle, Stephanie Blevins Wycoff, Daniel L. Frank

“…In response, the department launched Hokie BugFest on the Go, which offered smaller-scale, in-person learning opportunities during these closures. …”
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Modelization and Calibration of the Power-Law Distribution in Stock Market by Maximization of Varma Entropy by Chang Liu, Chuo Chang

“…However, many empirical studies found that the distribution tails of many financial assets drop off more slowly than the Gaussian distributions. …”
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