Resident Case Series: The Utility of the Athletic Shoulder Test Using Wireless Portable Force Plates for Measuring Peak Force in NCAA Division One Collegiate Quarterbacks by Carmen Sclafani, Patrick Smith, Terry McHugh, Patricia Crane

“…# Background Given the high incidence of shoulder injuries among quarterbacks due to the repetitive stress of the overhead throwing motion, there is a need for targeted, sport-specific assessments that reflect the functional demands of throwing. …”
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Motivation of pediatricians in Lower Saxony to teach medical students in outpatient practices: A questionnaire-based study by Rahn, Alexandros, Müller, Thomas, Stadlbauer, Benjamin, Herbach, Anna-Lena, Greiner, Lennart, Mücke, Urs

“…Given the total number of potential respondents, the generalizability of the results may be limited. The average teaching motivation was 7.5 out of 10 points. …”
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Encapsulation of paclitaxel into date palm lipid droplets for enhanced brain cancer therapy by Amal YOUSFAN, Nour MOURSEL, Abdulsamie HANANO

“…Our results showed that both DPLDs and MLLDs were spherical, with average diameters of 257 ± 36 nm and 416 ± 83 nm, respectively, and contained oil-rich cores of 392.5 and 612.4 mg mL−1. …”
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Health care resource use and costs associated with adult pneumococcal disease in the United States from 2017 to 2019, stratified by age and health risk: a retrospective cohort stud... by Nicole Cossrow, M. Doyinsola Bailey, Yi-Ling Huang, Lei Ai, Salini Mohanty, Valina C. McGuinn, Kelly D. Johnson

“…The costs associated with NBPP without hospitalization were also significantly higher in the oldest age group (≥65 years).ConclusionTargeting PD prevention efforts to high-risk groups based on age and/or health risk level could decrease the clinical and economic burden of adult PD in the US.…”
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Economic and health impacts of PM2.5 pollution in China’s urban air: Assessing the financial burden by Lingli Yang, Fang Bao

“…High-volume air sampling and GC-EI-MS/MS analysis revealed that the average total BTR concentration (∑BTRs) was highest in Shijiazhuang (5.73 ng·m⁻³), followed by Wuhan (3.91 ng·m⁻³) and Chengdu (2.84 ng·m⁻³). …”
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Correlates of internalized stigma and antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV in the Volta region of Ghana by Jerry John Ouner, Rachel G. A. Thompson, Nutifafa E. Y. Dey, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Akua O. Gyamerah

“…Its reduction is said to be critical in strengthening the continuous efforts targeted at preventing and controlling HIV, as it directly impacts antiretroviral treatment adherence. …”
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Possibilities of dry eye syndrome therapy in various types of ametropia by M. A. Kovalevskaya, V. B. Antonyan, M. I. Sergeeva

“…The first clinical group consisted of 34 students (68 eyes) with mild, moderate or high hyperopia, averagely aged 20.1 ± 0.5 years. The second clinical group consisted of 47 students (94 eyes) with mild, moderate or high myopia, average aged 20.6 ± 0.9 years. …”
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The experience of using thoracoscopic surgery for treatment of patients with acute nonspecific parapneumonic pleural empyema by V. I. Pertsov, Ya. V. Telushko, S. I. Savchenko

“…All patients (n = 51, 100%) were subject to thoracoscopic interventions. Results. The average age of patients was 44.4 ± 14.7 years. Men prevailed among them - 36 (71%). …”
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Thermal canopy segmentation in tomato plants: A novel approach with integration of YOLOv8-C and FastSAM by Hemamalini P, Chandraprakash MK, Laxman RH, Rathinakumari C, Senthil Kumaran G, Suneetha K

“…Advancing this methodology, we introduce a masked region of interest (ROI) temperature extraction technique, enabling targeted temperature extraction of segmented plant regions. …”
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Burden of smoking-related stroke in Saudi Arabia: trends from 1990 to 2021. by Jaber S Alqahtani, Ibrahim A AlDraiwiesh, Abdulelah M Aldhahir, Tope Oyelade

“…This emphasizes the need for targeted intervention focused mainly on the younger and middle-aged males.…”
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The impact of frequency-specific music stimulation on consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness by Haitao Yang, Wenhao Huang, Wei Wen, Shoufeng Long, Yujie Zhang, Xiangfeng Chi, Daihong Luo

“…The analysis focused on effective connectivity and coupling strength (CS) values in response to different frequency stimulations, targeting regions such as the motor and somatosensory cortices.ResultsThe mean age of the patients was 49.4 years, with an average coma duration of 1.96 months. …”
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Aligning Public Policy with REPowerEU Program Objectives by Adopting EESS Solutions: A Technology Acceptance Model Approach by Ion Popa, Marian Mihai Cioc, Ștefan Cătălin Popa, Daniel Botez, Marius-Ioan Pantea

“…The results obtained suggest that the behaviour of household energy consumers towards adopting EESS is different depending on their age and average income. Additionally, through the IMPA model, a series of managerial interventions are formulated, mainly targeted at the authorities, in order to align Romanian public policies with the objectives of the REPowerEU program, in the context of promoting voluntary measures geared to the lifestyle and behaviour of household consumers by adopting EESS solutions. …”
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Factors driving minimal focal species response to the implementation of habitat guidelines on private lands by Dakotah R Shaffer, Darin J McNeil, Luke F Gray, Joseph E Duchamp, Jeffery L Larkin

“…Even after guideline implementation, only 25% of posttreatment locations we monitored met guideline targets for average tree diameter. The lack of large-diameter trees is characteristic of prior unsustainable harvest practices (e.g., high grading) that commonly occurred on private lands in eastern deciduous forests. …”
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Accelerometer-derived physical activity and sedentary time by cancer type in the United States. by Keith M Thraen-Borowski, Keith P Gennuso, Lisa Cadmus-Bertram

“…As such, sedentary behavior and light-intensity activity may be important intervention targets, particularly for those for whom moderate-to-vigorous activity is not well accepted.…”
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The Impact of Organizational and Managerial Factors on Integrated Resilience Engineering Indicators: A Case Study in a Petrochemical Complex Aimed at Enhancing Employee’s Health by Zahra KhosraviShapourAbadi, Zahra Naghavi-Konjin, Siavash Etemadinezhad, Jamshid Yazdani-Charati

“…Overall, the level of resilience in the studied complex was rated above average, indicating a promising foundation for further improvement through targeted interventions.…”
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Impacts on Indian Agriculture Due To Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention Using Agroclimatic Indices by Nina Grant, Alan Robock, Lili Xia, Jyoti Singh, Brendan Clark

“…The world is far from meeting crucial climate targets, prompting the exploration of alternative strategies such as stratospheric aerosol intervention (SAI) to reduce the impacts. …”
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Effect of Mn3O4 Nanoparticles on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammatory Factors in the Human Tendon Cells and Its Mechanism by Shangjun Fu, Zongyun He, Yongfeng Tang, Bo Lan

“…In addition, Mn3O4NP treatment remarkably increased the expression level of miR-181a-5p. NLRP1 is one of the targets of miR-181a-5p, and miR-181a-5p downregulated its expression. …”
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Development of macro and micro-nutrient rich integrated Jeevamrutha bio-fertilizer systems using rural and commercial precursors by Udaratta Bhattacharjee, Ramagopal V.S. Uppaluri

“…The wide range of temperature was considered to accomodate the average temperatures of summer and winter seasons of Guwahati, India. …”
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Psychophysiological correlates of attitudes to illness and stressovercoming behavior of patients with ischemic heart disease at the step of preparation for coronary artery bypass g... by A. V. Solodukhin, O. A. Trubnikova, M. S. Yanitsky, A. V. Sery, O. L. Barbarash

“…A clinical and psychological examination of 64 patients, men aged 44 to 73 years (average age 62.1 ± 5.2), with a diagnosis of stable coronary heart disease and undergoing preparation for coronary artery bypass grafting, was carried out. …”
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A Lightweight Algorithm for Detection and Grading of Olive Ripeness Based on Improved YOLOv11n by Fengwu Zhu, Suyu Wang, Min Liu, Weijie Wang, Weizhi Feng

“…Concurrently, existing deep learning-based detection models face issues such as insufficient feature extraction for small targets and difficulties in deployment due to their need for large numbers of parameters. …”
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