The Dynamic Innovative Balance System Improves Balance Ability: A Single Blind, Randomized Controlled Study by Bunyamin Haksever, Irem Duzgun, Gul Baltaci

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A preliminary study for evaluating immediate post-vibration effects of whole body vibration on postural control by İzzet Kırkaya, Deniz Simsek, Abdullah Ruhi Soylu

“…There were no statistically significant differences between the pre-vibration and post-vibration normalized force values. …”
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Rare and syndromic tumours in South African children: A novel report from Sub-Saharan Africa by Alessia Pisapia, Guy Shemesh, Derek Harrison

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Application of Shear-Wave Elastography in the Evaluation of Hamstring Stiffness in Young Basketball Athletes by Paige Cummings, Nathan D. Schilaty, Takashi Nagai, Luca Rigamonti, Ryo Ueno, Nathaniel A. Bates

“…Shear wave elastography (SWE) presents a relatively new means for non-invasive evaluation of soft tissue elasticity pre- and post- injury or intervention…”
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Lower limb coordination patterns following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A longitudinal study by Cortney Armitano-Lago, Elizabeth Bjornsen, Caroline Lisee, Ashley Buck, Christin Büttner, Adam W. Kiefer, Todd A. Schwartz, Brian Pietrosimone

“…Background: Changes in lower limb joint coordination have been shown to increase localized stress on knee joint soft tissue—a known precursor of osteoarthritis. …”
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3GPP-Compliant Datasets for xG Location-Aware Networks by Andrea Conti, Gianluca Torsoli, Carlos A. Gomez-Vega, Alessandro Vaccari, Gianluca Mazzini, Moe Z. Win

“…Position estimates obtained via soft information-based localization and wireless channel quality indicators via blockage intelligence are also provided. …”
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Acute Effects of Percussive Therapy on the Posterior Shoulder Muscles Differ Based on the Athlete’s Soreness Response by Jack H Trainer, Matthew Pascarella, Ryan W Paul, Stephen J Thomas

“…# Background Percussive therapy is hypothesized to speed recovery by delivering gentle, rhythmic pulses to soft tissue. However, patients often present with a differential soreness response after percussive therapy, which may lead to altered clinical outcomes…”
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The Immediate Effects of Foam Rolling and Stretching on Iliotibial Band Stiffness: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Talin M Pepper, Jean-Michel Brismée, Phillip S Sizer Jr, Jeegisha Kapila, Gesine H Seeber, Christopher A Huggins, Troy L Hooper

“…A main effect for adduction PROM was observed, where PROM increased 0.8˚ post-treatment (p = 0.02)…”
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The Effects of TMR® Fab 6 on Hamstring Flexibility in Healthy Subjects; An Exploratory Observational Investigation by Richard D. Patterson, Alexander Zettlemoyer, Mary Plackowski, Russell Baker, Scott W. Cheatham, Alan Nasypany

“… # Results A significant time by group interaction was identified across all variables (p ≤ 0.001) for AKET and PSLR except the PSLR preferred leg from post-treatment to 24hr follow-up. The most significant increase in the AKET occurred in the TMR® group between baseline and post-treatment of the non-preferred leg (12.15°±2.94) when compared to the control group (7.15°±1.56)…”
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Fever and infections in surgical intensive care: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee clinical consensus document by Deborah M Stein, Hee Soo Jung, Lisa M Kodadek, Bryce Robinson, Aussama Khalaf Nassar, Joseph Cuschieri, Michael Steven Farrell, Abhijit Pathak, Samuel Mandell, Jasmeet Paul, Rachel D Appelbaum, Eden Nohra, Thomas Carver, Jordan Michael Kirsch

“…The evaluation and workup of fever and the use of antibiotics to treat infections is part of daily practice in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU). …”
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Multidetector-row Computed Tomography Analysis of the Radial Midpalmar Flap: A Retrospective Anatomical Study by Tien Linh Nguyen Doan, MD, PhD, Shimpei Ono, MD, PhD, Goh Akiyama, MD, PhD, Hoyu Cho, MD, Hiromitsu Hayashi, MD, PhD, Rei Ogawa, MD, PhD

“…Background:. Soft tissue defects on the palm side of the thumb can be effectively covered by using the radial midpalmar (RMP) flap, which is usually harvested as a pedicled flap. …”
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Optimal Conflict Resolution for Vehicles With Intersecting and Overlapping Paths by Johan Karlsson, Nikolce Murgovski, Jonas Sjoberg

“…Further, it is evaluated how the solutions differ when using various cost functions and how the controller handles disturbances in the form of a sudden lane blockage. Lastly, it is discussed how the presented controller could also be extended to handle mixed-traffic scenarios and how soft constraints can be used to avoid infeasibility in the case of missing or noisy traffic data.…”
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Uncertainty Estimation in Unsupervised MR-CT Synthesis of Scoliotic Spines by Enamundram Naga Karthik, Farida Cheriet, Catherine Laporte

“…In unsupervised learning tasks, where expert labels are unavailable, it becomes ever more important to critique the model through uncertainties. …”
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Use of Diced Cartilage for Management of Internal Mammary Vessel Exposure Sites in Autologous Breast Reconstruction by Ulf Dornseifer, MD, PhD, My L. Truong, Stephan Grumbrecht, MD, Peter P. Pfeiler, MD, Uli D. Haide, MD, DMD, Philipp Moog, MD, PhD, Michael Kimelman, MD

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A Simplified Method for Analysis of Laterally Loaded Piles considering Cyclic Soil Degradation by Yuzhe Yang, Xiaodong Gao, Wenbing Wu, Kangyu Xing

“…Then, a cyclic degradation model of soft clay considering the accumulation of plastic strain and pore water pressure is presented based on the cyclic triaxial test. …”
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The Frequency Dependence of Poisson’s Ratio in Fluid-Saturated Rocks by Liming Zhao, Tongjun Chen, Xin Zhang, Tao Xing

“…Then, we conducted a numerical example to indicate the effect of influence factors (the concentrations of stiff and soft pores, the aspect ratio of soft pores, and the pore fluid bulk modulus) on Poisson’s ratio from undrained state to unrelaxed state, and validated the theoretical analysis by the published experimental data. …”
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A Progressive Combined Variable Selection Method for Near-Infrared Spectral Analysis Based on Three-Step Hybrid Strategy by Hongmin Sun, Fanze Kong, Cheng Xiu, Weizheng Shen, Yan Wang

“…By analyzing functions of each step and characteristics of various variable selection methods, synergy interval partial least squares, iterative variable subset optimization, and bootstrapping soft shrinkage were chosen for three steps. To test the effect of the three-step hybrid method, it was applied to corn and soil spectral data and compared to other common methods. …”
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The Potential for a GPU-Like Overlay Architecture for FPGAs by Jeffrey Kingyens, J. Gregory Steffan

“…In particular, our soft processor architecture exploits multithreading, vector operations, and predication to supply a floating-point pipeline of 64 stages via hardware support for up to 256 concurrent thread contexts. …”
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Laboratory Model Tests on Consolidation Performance of Soil Column with Drained-Timber Rod by X. J. Chai, K. Deng, C. F. He, Y. F. Xiong

“…Timber pile is an ancient technology applied in soft ground improvement for more than 1000 years. …”
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Bioinspired hydrophobic pseudo-hydrogel for programmable shape-morphing by Zhigang Wang, Haotian Hu, Zefan Chai, Yuhang Hu, Siyuan Wang, Cheng Zhang, Chunjie Yan, Jun Wang, Wesley Coll, Tony Jun Huang, Xianchen Xu, Heng Deng

“…Abstract Inspired by counterintuitive water “swelling” ability of the hydrophobic moss of the genus Sphagnum (Peat moss), we prepared a hydrophobic pseudo-hydrogel (HPH), composed of a pure hydrophobic silicone elastomer with a tailored porous structure. …”
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