Music and low-frequency vibrations for the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain in elderly: A pilot study. by Thom A H Eshuis, Peter J C Stuijt, Hans Timmerman, Peter Michael L Nielsen, André Paul Wolff, Remko Soer

“…Multilevel linear model analyses were performed to study group and time effects.<h4>Results</h4>A total of 45 patients were analyzed according to intention-to-treat principle. …”
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Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation 2 (SCORE2), arterial stiffness, and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in a population-based study by Susanna Strömberg, Andreas Stomby, Jan Engvall, Carl Johan Östgren

“…This knowledge can be useful in primary care, where SCORE2 is frequently used as a risk prediction tool. The modest overlap between arterial stiffness and coronary calcification suggests that CACS and PWV describe different types of vascular damage.…”
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Designing a Control System for an Airplane Wing Flutter Employing Gas Actuators by A. R. Ansari, A. R. B. Novinzadeh

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The Personalization of Clopidogrel Antiplatelet Therapy: The Role of Integrative Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacometabolomics by Arwa M. Amin, Lim Sheau Chin, Dzul Azri Mohamed Noor, Muhamad Ali SK Abdul Kader, Yuen Kah Hay, Baharudin Ibrahim

“…Pharmacometabolomics which is an approach to identify novel biomarkers of drug response or toxicity in biofluids has been investigated to predict drug response. …”
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A Cross-Sectional Trait Versus State Biomarker Analysis of Inflammatory Cytokines and miRNAs in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder by Christopher Rockson, Chandrashekaran Girish, Harivenkatesh Natarajan, Vikas Menon

“…We quantified the gene expressions of plasma miR-16, miR-132, and miR-1202 using Quantitative Real Time-Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR). We estimated the total oxidant status and total antioxidant status levels in the serum by ELISA. …”
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Visual Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction of Two Continuous Range of Vision Intraocular Lenses by Micheletti JM, Hall B, Smiley HG, Langston WJ

“…Postoperatively, patients were tested for binocular uncorrected and distance corrected visual acuities at distance, intermediate (60cm), and near (40cm and 33cm), binocular defocus curve, and were administered questionnaires about quality of vision (QUVID) and spectacle independence (IOLSAT).Results: A total of 230 subjects completed the study, 153 in the PanOptix group and 77 in the Synergy group. …”
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Therapeutic Targeting of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors in Gastric Cancer by Mikito Inokuchi, Yoshitaka Fujimori, Sho Otsuki, Yuya Sato, Masatoshi Nakagawa, Kazuyuki Kojima

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Solving the Fragment Complexity of Official, Social, and Sensorial Urban Data by Hui Liu, Jingqing Jiang, Yaowei Hou, Jie Song

“…These types typically differ significantly from each other but are consolidated together for the smart urban services. Based on the sophisticated consolidation approaches, we argue that a new challenge, fragment complexity that represents a well-integrated data has appropriate but fragmentary schema and difficult to be queried, is ignored in the state-of-art urban data management. …”
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Solu: a cloud platform for real-time genomic pathogen surveillance by Timo Saratto, Kerkko Visuri, Jonatan Lehtinen, Irene Ortega-Sanz, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Samuel Sihvonen

“…In some cases, Solu identified antimicrobial resistance genes that were previously undetected. Together, these findings demonstrate the efficacy of our platform. …”
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Reinsurance in the Supplementary Health: A Counterfactual Study on the Impacts of Reinsurance Treaties Adoption by Healthcare Plans Operators in Brazil by Caio Alexandrino Costa Areias, João Vinícius de França Carvalho

“…Using industry microdata and applying the collective risk theory, implemented by the classic ruin model (Cramér-Lundberg), this study aimed to counterfactually verify how reinsurance would impact operators solvency in a hypothetical long-term scenario in which all of them had access to these tools. By introducing quota share, with retentions of 60% and 80% of the aggregate expenses, and Stop-Loss treaties, with retention limits of 80% and 95%, it was verified that the ruin probability decreased in the first case by around 40% and 20%. …”
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Different orthology inference algorithms generate similar predicted orthogroups among Brassicaceae species by Irene T. Liao, Karen E. Sears, Lena C. Hileman, Lachezar A. Nikolov

“…Despite the abundance of proposed solutions, including publicly available benchmarks, it is difficult to assess which tool is most suitable for plant species, which commonly have complex genomic histories. …”
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Vilnius as a Center of the Jewish Bund by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…In 1899-1900, a political break took place among the Bundists. The essence of this break was expressed perhaps most explicitly by M. …”
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On the Characterization and Enumeration of Some Generalized Trapezoidal Numbers by Somphong Jitman, Chakrit Phongthai

“…Properties of m-trapezoidal numbers have been studied together with their trapezoidal representations. In the special case where m=2, the characterization and enumeration of such numbers have been given as well as illustrative examples. …”
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INTRODUCTION OF THE CHERRY GENE POOL IN THE NORTHERN ENVIRONMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE RESULTS OF ITS STUDYING FOR 50 YEARS by A. A. Yushev, S. Yu. Orlova

“…The main goal was to identify sources of the highest winter hardiness, frost tolerance and resistance to harmful diseases, such as cherry leaf spot and brown rot of the fruit, as well as other biological and economic traits valuable for breeders, such as self-fertility or large fruit size. …”
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New trends of additive manufacturing using materials based-on natural fibers and minerals : A systematic review by Joao Ribeiro, Manuel Rodríguez-Martín, Joaquín Barreiro, Ana Fernández-Abia, Roberto García-Martín, Joao Rocha, Susana Martínez-Pellitero

“…Polymeric materials based on natural fibers and minerals are currently being researched and their development is still in its infancy but is expected to increase in the coming years (being nowadays a hot topic). Their main advantage is that they make it possible to use waste and by-products of agricultural, forestry, and mineral origin to generate materials for Additive Manufacturing. …”
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Edge intelligence for poultry welfare: Utilizing tiny machine learning neural network processors for vocalization analysis by Ramasamy Srinivasagan, Mohammed Shawky El Sayed, Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Rasheed, Ali Saeed Alzahrani

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The Effect of Embryo Transfer Process Duration on Implantation Success by Isıl Kasapoglu, Kiper Aslan, Adnan Orhan, Ozge Albayrak, Seyma Haskoylu, Goktan Kuspinar, Berrin Avcı, Gürkan Uncu

“…RESULTS: Between Group-1 and Group-2, there was no significant difference for the period of cervical cleaning and placing the outer catheter into the cervix (Respectively; 63 sec vs. 76 sec; p=0.18), the period of embryo loading (Respectively; 69sec vs. 71sec; p=0.46), the period between embryo loading and embryo transfer (Respectively; 10 sec vs. 10 sec; p=0.74, retracing the outer catheter (Respectively; 25.5sec vs. 24sec; p=0.42 and the total period of embryo transfer (182sec vs. 182.5 sec; p=0.55). …”
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Vascular Inflammation and Endothelial Dysfunction in Experimental Hypertension by Carmine Savoia, Lidia Sada, Luigi Zezza, Lorenzo Pucci, Francesco Maria Lauri, Alberto Befani, Alessandro Alonzo, Massimo Volpe

“…The endothelium is a crucial regulator of vascular tone. Its function is impaired in patients with hypertension, with reduced vasodilation, increased vascular tone associated with a proinflammatory and prothrombotic state. …”
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Identifying a Serum Exosomal-Associated lncRNA/circRNA-miRNA-mRNA Network in Coronary Heart Disease by Jia Mao, Yufei Zhou, Licheng Lu, Ping Zhang, Runhua Ren, Yaqiong Wang, Jing Wang

“…Subsequently, a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was established to screen out on which hub genes enrichment analyses should be performed, and a ceRNA network (lncRNA/circRNA-miRNA-mRNA) was constructed to elucidate ceRNA axes in CHD. Results. A total of 312 DEMs, 43 DELs, and 85 DECs were identified between CHD patients and normal controls. …”
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Twelve-Week Quadriceps Strength as A Predictor of Quadriceps Strength At Time Of Return To Sport Testing Following Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Autograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament Re... by Joseph P Hannon, Sharon Wang-Price, Shiho Goto, Steven Singleton, Lindsey Dietrich, James Bothwell, Curtis Bush, Craig Garrison

“… # Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between early (12 weeks following ACL-R) isokinetic peak torque and isokinetic peak torque at time of return to sport (RTS) testing…”
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