Long-Term Impact Evaluation of Ground-Base Skidding on Residual Damaged Trees in the Hyrcanian Forest, Iran by Sattar Ezzati, Akbar Najafi

“…We investigated the long-term effects of ground-base skidding on residual damage severity on the healing of residual damaged trees in forests of northern Iran twenty-years post logging operation. …”
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Measuring Fluid Intelligence in Healthy Older Adults by Mohammed K. Shakeel, Vina M. Goghari

“…Ninety-three healthy older (>65 years old) community-dwelling adults participated. …”
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Running trends in Switzerland from 1999 to 2019: An exploratory observational study. by Anja Witthöft, Thimo Marcin, Mabliny Thuany, Volker Scheer, Pantelis T Nikolaidis, Matthias Wilhelm, Katja Weiss, Thomas Rosemann, Beat Knechtle

“…Median age increased with longer race distance and decreased in ultra-marathon in recent years.<h4>Conclusion</h4>In summary, finishing numbers especially in ultra-marathons increased with a focus on trail runs, female and male athletes had a declining performance across years in all race distances and men ran faster than women. …”
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Regards artistiques sur l’observation photographique by Frédérique Mocquet

“…Bertrand Stofleth and Geoffroy Mathieu place at the heart of their personal practice the representation of the territory and changes in contemporary landscapes. …”
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Representation Degree Zero by Alberto Sdegno

“… “Conventionally, of course, drawing is an active process which leaves a trail of carbon on the paper. With a computer sketch, however, any line segment is straight and can be relocated by moving one or both of its end points.” …”
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Nest Relocation and Colony Founding in the Australian Desert Ant, Melophorus bagoti Lubbock (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Patrick Schultheiss, Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach

“…Even after years of research on navigation in the Red Honey Ant, Melophorus bagoti, much of its life history remains elusive. …”
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Assessment of Early Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Clinically Isolated Syndromes and Multiple Sclerosis by Leyla Baysal Kıraç, Özgül Ekmekçi, Nur Yüceyar, Ayşe Sağduyu Kocaman

“…The aim of our study was to investigate the frequency and pattern of cognitive impairment in patients with clinically isolated syndromes and definite diagnosis of multiple sclerosis within the last 2 years. Methods. We assessed the cognitive status of 46 patients aged 18–49 years with clinically isolated syndromes or definite diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who have onset of their symptoms within the last 2 years. …”
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L’Observatoire photographique national du paysage : transformations d’un modèle et hypothèses renouvelées de paysage by Frédérique Mocquet

“…“Paysages usagés, Observatoire photographique du paysage depuis le GR2013” (“Used Landscapes, A Photographic Observatory of the Landscape from the GR2013 Trail”), which was born of the initiative of a critical reinterpretation of the method by photographers Bertrand Stofleth and Geoffroy Mathieu, proposes a re-evaluation of the perspectives of photographic observation focusing on the aesthetic experience of the landscape as a plural mediation placing an artistic project at the heart of territorial planning.…”
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A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Lifestyle Intervention and Pioglitazone for Normalization of Glucose Status in Chinese with Prediabetes by Yingying Luo, Hongyuan Wang, Xianghai Zhou, Cuiqing Chang, Wei Chen, Xiaohui Guo, Jinkui Yang, Linong Ji, Sanjoy K. Paul

“…The participants were followed up for three years unless they reverted to normal glucose state or developed diabetes at the annual oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). …”
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Beyond image: evaluating the perceived effectiveness of workplace mental health programs in the insurance sector by Isabel Barbosa, Elizabeth Real de Oliveira

“…Thematic analysis with an audit trail and thick description was used to analyse data. …”
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Soil Assessment along Toposequences in Rural Northern Nigeria: A Geomedical Approach by Lena Hartmann, Marvin Gabriel, Yuanrong Zhou, Barbara Sponholz, Heinrich Thiemeyer

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Validation of a delirium predictive model in patients admitted to surgical intensive care units: a multicentre prospective observational cohort study by Kaweesak Chittawatanarat, Onuma Chaiwat, Sirirat Mueankwan, Sunthiti Morakul, Pitchaya Dilokpattanamongkol, Chayanan Thanakiattiwibun, Arunotai Siriussawakul

“…Objective To internally and externally validate a delirium predictive model for adult patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) following surgery.Design A prospective, observational, multicentre study.Setting Three university-affiliated teaching hospitals in Thailand.Participants Adults aged over 18 years were enrolled if they were admitted to a surgical ICU (SICU) and had the surgery within 7 days before SICU admission.Main outcome measures Postoperative delirium was assessed using the Thai version of the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU. …”
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Hip Abduction Strength: Relationship to Trunk and Lower Extremity Motion During A Single-Leg Step-Down Task in Professional Baseball Players by M. Christopher Zipser, Hillary A Plummer, Nathan Kindstrand, Johnathan C Sum, Bernard Li, Lori A Michener

“… # Study Design Cross sectional, cohort study # Methods One hundred-eighteen Minor League baseball players (age=21.6 ± 2.0 years; n=68 pitchers, n=50 position players) participated. …”
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Quantifying the Elasticity Properties of the Median Nerve during the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1 by Ming Lin, Yaodong Chen, Weixin Deng, Hongying Liang, Suiqing Yu, Zhijie Zhang, Chunlong Liu

“…The upper limb neurodynamic test 1 (ULNT1) consists of a series of movements that are thought to detect an increase in neuromechanical sensitivity. In vivo, no trail was made to quantify the association between the nerve elasticity and different limb postures during ULNT1. …”
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SegChaNet: A Novel Model for Lung Cancer Segmentation in CT Scans by Mehmet Akif Cifci

“…The SegChaNet method encodes CT slices of the input lung into feature maps utilizing the trail of encoders. Finally, we explicitly developed a multiscale, dense-feature extraction module to extract multiscale features from the collection of encoded feature maps. …”
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The role of statins in dementia or Alzheimer’s disease incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies by Ye Du, Zhangjie Yu, Chengyi Li, Yanxing Zhang, Buyun Xu, Buyun Xu

“…In subgroup analyses, compared to studies enrolling participants with a mean/median age over 70 years, those younger than 70 years exhibited greater efficacy of statins in preventing dementia (HR: 0.67, 95% CI: 0.56–0.81 vs HR: 0.86, 95% CI: 0.78–0.95; P = 0.02) and AD (HR: 0.47, 95% CI: 0.44–0.50 vs. …”
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Executive functions in adults born small for gestational age at term: a prospective cohort study by Mariell Nordgård, Martine Reitan Udnæs, Kristina Anna Djupvik Aakvik, Silje Dahl Benum, Sigrid Hegna Ingvaldsen, Siri Weider, Kari Anne I. Evensen

“…In conclusion, we found that 32-year-old adults born SGA at term showed poorer performance on some executive function tasks than controls. …”
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Sub-regional efforts to achieve gender equality in land ownership by Marcel Loyd MINKA

“… Context and background A typical character of land tenure or property systems in sub-Saharan Africa is that the systems exclude women (implicitly and explicitly) (Chigbu, 2019). Over the past twenty years, several African countries have done some efforts towards improving the state of women’s land rights as a means to achieve gender equality in land ownership. …”
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One-stage versus two-stage video-assisted thoracic surgery for synchronous bilateral pulmonary nodules: protocol for a single center, non-randomized clinical trial (OTVATS-1) by Yu Han, Weixun Zhang, Peihang Xu, Zhoujunyi Tian, Yang Hao, Jin Zhang, Tai Ren, Chaoyang Liang

“…This trial plan to enroll 198 patients from a single institution during a period of 5 years. The primary outcome is 5-year overall survival. …”
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Impaired Recent Verbal Memory in Pornography-Addicted Juvenile Subjects by Pukovisa Prawiroharjo, Hainah Ellydar, Peter Pratama, Rizki Edmi Edison, Sitti Evangeline Imelda Suaidy, Nya’ Zata Amani, Diavitri Carissima

“…We used Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) to measure verbal memory, Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT) for visual memory, along with Trail Making Test A and B (TMT-A and TMT-B) for attention. …”
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