Looking for the origins of the human brain: The role of South Africa in the history of palaeoneurology by Amélie Beaudet, Edwin de Jager, Mirriam Tawane, Brendon Billings

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Sex-related Anthropometrics in a Lower-Body Mobility Assessment Among Professional Soccer Athletes by Corbin A. Hedt, Jessica T. Le, Tyler Heimdal, Justin Vickery, Erin Orozco, Patrick C. McCulloch, Bradley S. Lambert

“… # Conclusions Lower body FMS™ scores differ between male and female professional soccer athletes and are related to anthropometric factors that may influence screening and outcomes for the FMS™ and YBT, respectively. Thus, these anatomical factors likely need to be taken into account when assessing baseline performance and risk of injury to improve screening efficacy…”
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3D-augmentation of 2D ultrasound for appendicitis diagnosis: A cross-sectional pilot study by Rebecca G. Theophanous, Elias Jaffa, Matthew R. Morgan, Carl D. Herickhoff, Erica Peethumnongsin, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Joshua S. Broder

“…An emergency physician captured 3DUS images using a Sonosite M-Turbo machine equipped with an inertial measurement unit and customized software. Our primary outcome was 3DUS acquisition times compared to 2DUS and CT. …”
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Geographical origin traceability of kiwifruit products using stable isotope and multi-element analysis with multivariate modeling: Feature extraction, selection of model and variab... by Wang Shuanhui, Chen Chang, Tian Jing, Liu Zhi, Mei Xianxian, Zhou Jialu, Wang Dongguang, Zhu Shaohua

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Immune gene features and prognosis in colorectal cancer: insights from ssGSEA typing by Anwen Huang, Jinxiu Wu, Jiakuan Wang, Chengwen Jiao, Yunfei Yang, Huaiwen Xiao, Li Yao

“…Lastly, we created a Nomogram to customize the prediction of survival outcomes in CRC patients. …”
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Role of Financial Management in Influencing the Performance of Kabale District Local Government. by Ahwera, Ruth

“…These included the CAO, CFO, accounting Officer, staff of Kabale District Local Government, and customers. Both simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used in identifying the study sample size. …”
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Diagnostics and Treatment of Esophageal Achalasia (Clinical Guidelines of the Russian Gastroenterological Association, Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medicine, Russ... by V. T. Ivashkin, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. V. Maev, O. M. Drapkina, A. I. Martynov, O. A. Storonova, E. A. Godgello, M. P. Korolev, T. L. Lapina, P. V. Pavlov, A. V. Paraskevova, I. A. Tarasova, E. D. Fedorov, A. T. Tskhovrebov, M. P. Shapka, A. L. Shestakov, A. V. Yurasov

“…Treatment of achalasia can be pharmacological, endoscopic (pneumatic balloon dilation, peroral endoscopic myotomy, botulinum toxin injection), aimed at regulating the tone and motility of the esophagus and cardia while preserving all anatomical structures, and surgical (laparoscopic esophagocardiomyotomy, esophagectomy), in which the muscle fibers of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction are intersected or the altered esophagus is completely removed with simultaneous formation of an artificial esophagus from the stomach or colon (esophagoplasty).Conclusion. …”
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Exploring patient preferences for intraocular lenses selection in age-related cataract: a discrete choice experiment study by Qiaolin Zhu, Qiaolin Zhu, Qiaolin Zhu, Qianqian Sun, Qianqian Sun, Qianqian Sun, Yujia Huo, Yujia Huo, Yujia Huo, Xiaoling Yang, Xiaoling Yang, Xiaoling Yang, Hehe Huang, Hehe Huang, Hehe Huang, Shanshan Qian, Shanshan Qian, Shanshan Qian, Wenjing Lin, Wentao Yan, Wentao Yan, Wentao Yan

“…These findings underscore the need for personalized IOLs recommendations and signal opportunities for innovation and customization in the IOLs industry.…”
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Optimizing the dose-averaged linear energy transfer for the dominant intraprostatic lesions in high-risk localized prostate cancer patients by Bo Zhao, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Shuri Aoki, Shinichiro Mori, Hideyuki Mizuno, Takamitsu Masuda, Hideyuki Takei, Hitoshi Ishikawa

“…Furthermore, these improvements were consistent across all cases, irrespective of their anatomical features, including the boost volume’s size, location, and shape. …”
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Towards autonomous robotic THz-based in vivo skin sensing: the PicoBot by Anubhav Dogra, Dominic Jones, Arturo Ignacio Hernandez Serrano, Shruti Chakraborty, Jacob Joshua Young, Benjamin George Page, Joseph Hardwicke, Pietro Valdastri, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson

“…The PicoBot can 3D scan and segment out the region of interest on the skin’s surface, precisely position (± 0.5/1 mm/degrees) the probe normal to the surface, and apply a desired amount of force (± 0.1N) to maintain firm contact for the required 60 s during THz data acquisition. The robotic automation improves the stability of the acquired THz signals, reducing the standard deviation of amplitude fluctuations by over a factor of four at 1 THz compared to hand-held mode. …”
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Effect of Radiation, Organic Solvents and Vibration Occupational Exposure on the Thyroid Disease: Results from Project ELEFANT by Bibo Yuan, Citlalli Osorio-Yáñez, Junkai Fang, Lei Zhao, Ander Wilson, Marco Sanchez-Guerra, Hongbin Liu, Peng-Hui Li, Liqiong Guo

“…We reviewed the medical records, including the thyroid disease history, of young adult participants and measured the TSH levels in the females via automated immunometric assay. Logistic models adjusted for confounders revealed significant associations between exposure to radiation (odds ratio [OR]: 1.73; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.1–2.7), organic solvents (OR: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.3–2.9) and vibration (OR: 4.4; 95% CI: 2.0–8.75), and an increased risk of thyroid disease. …”
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Comparison evaluation of bacterial DNA extraction methods for improved molecular diagnostic accuracy of sepsis-causing pathogens in clinical whole blood samples by Byungjoon Na, Junghun Park, Sojin Park, Eunseon Park, Jimin Jang, Yu-Hee Kim, Jinyeop Lee, Hae-Sun Chung

“…These findings highlight the superior performance of magnetic bead-based methods, particularly when automated, for extracting bacterial DNA from whole blood samples. …”
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The external validity of machine learning-based prediction scores from hematological parameters of COVID-19: A study using hospital records from Brazil, Italy, and Western Europe. by Ali Safdari, Chanda Sai Keshav, Deepanshu Mody, Kshitij Verma, Utsav Kaushal, Vaadeendra Kumar Burra, Sibnath Ray, Debashree Bandyopadhyay

“…The unprecedented worldwide pandemic caused by COVID-19 has motivated several research groups to develop machine-learning based approaches that aim to automate the diagnosis or screening of COVID-19, in large-scale. …”
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AppCraft: Model-Driven Development Framework for Mobile Applications by Lyan Alwakeel, Kevin Lano, Hessa Alfraihi

“…The results demonstrate that AppCraft is applicable and beneficial for the automated generation of usable mobile apps, highlighting significant reductions in development time and effort.…”
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Solving Truthfulness-Privacy Trade-Off in Mixed Data Outsourcing by Using Data Balancing and Attribute Correlation-Aware Differential Privacy by Abdul Majeed, Seong Oun Hwang

“…Our method first identifies quality-related issues in the data and solves them in an automated manner by adding the fewest possible good-quality synthetic records. …”
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An unbiased cell morphology-based screen for new, biologically active small molecules. by Masahiro Tanaka, Raynard Bateman, Daniel Rauh, Eugeni Vaisberg, Shyam Ramachandani, Chao Zhang, Kirk C Hansen, Alma L Burlingame, Jay K Trautman, Kevan M Shokat, Cynthia L Adams

“…We have implemented an unbiased cell morphology-based screen to identify small-molecule modulators of cellular processes using the Cytometrix (TM) automated imaging and analysis system. This assay format provides unbiased analysis of morphological effects induced by small molecules by capturing phenotypic readouts of most known classes of pharmacological agents and has the potential to read out pathways for which little is known. …”
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An advanced approach to directly calculate eutectic points in quaternary and higher-order slags: A case study on CaF2–Al2O3–CaO–MgO–SiO2 slag systems by Yi-ming Li, Jia-long Tian, Zhou-hua Jiang

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Smart building energy management with renewables and storage systems using a modified weighted mean of vectors algorithm by Mohamed Ebeed, Sabreen hassan, Salah Kamel, Loai Nasrat, Ali Wagdy Mohamed, Abdel-Raheem Youssef

“…Abstract With the advancement of automation technologies in household appliances, the flexibility of smart home energy management (EM) systems has increased. …”
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Design and experiment of air-suction drum-type seedling seeder for irregular-shaped vegetable seeds by Yanjun Li, Yunqiang Liu, Yichao Ning, Hongxin Wu, Yaqian Zhao

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Flow-induced Flutter Derivatives of Bridge Decks by B. Su, Y. Liu, M. Chambalile, G. Wang, M. M. Alam, E. Barati

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