The Effect of a Foot Bath on Sleep Quality in the Elderly: A Single-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial by Sevilay Hintistan, Aynur Cin, Hatice Demirağ

“…Objective: This study was conducted as a single-blind, randomized controlled parallel-group study with 50 elderly individuals to investigate the effect of foot bath on sleep quality.Methods: The data were collected using the “Elderly Information Form” and the “Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)” between 1 May 2022-1 July 2022 at a State Hospital in Gümüşhane province. …”
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Profile of Brazilian Under-19 Volleyball Team Athletes: Anthropometry, Jump Performance, Stiffness and Pre-Stretch Augmentation Percentage by Guilherme Berriel, Ananda Silveira Cardoso, Maria Eduarda Cavagni, Luiz Fernando Kruel, Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate anthropometric profile, jump performance, stiffness and pre-stretch augmentation percentage (PSAP) in Brazilian under-19 volleyball team athletes. # Methods Twenty-nine male volleyball athletes who were members of the Brazilian under-19 volleyball team were recruited. …”
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RATIONAL SUPPORTIVE THERAPY FOR CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED ANEMIA: A PHARMACO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ERYTHROPOIETIN THERAPY IN CANCER PATIENTS IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION by V. B. Larionova, I. S. Krysanov, A. V. Snegovoy, P. A. Zeinalova, V. S. Krysanova, V. Yu. Ermakova

“…Modern anticancer therapy due to its intensity and molecular biology orientation allows achieving higher efficiency and theoretically reducing the incidence of complications. …”
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Antimicrobial Effects of Thonningianin a (TA)-Loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles Encapsulated by a PF-127 hydrogel in Diabetic Wound Healing by Lin Q, Zhu F, Shiye A, Liu R, Wang X, Ye Z, Ding Y, Sun X, Ma Y

“…Although considerable progress has been made in drugs and materials for treating it, it’s still an urgent clinical problem as the materials and drugs have potential therapeutic drawbacks, such as low delivery efficiency and poor tissue permeability. To promote diabetic wound healing, a composite of thonningianin A (TA)-loaded chitosan nanoparticles (CNPS) encapsulated by a Pluronic F-127 (PF-127) hydrogel (TA-CNPS-PF) was developed in this study.Methods: TA-CNPS was prepared by ionic gelation method and TA-CNPS was thoroughly dispersed into PF-127 hydrogel to prepare TA-CNPS-PF. …”
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Vortex-Induced Vibration Performance Prediction of Double-Deck Steel Truss Bridge Based on Improved Machine Learning Algorithm by Yang Yang, Huiwen Hou, Gang Yao, Bo Wu

“…The prediction model is more efficient in terms of computational efficiency compared to the numerical simulation method.…”
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Exploration and Practice of Classification Indexing Combined with Large Language Models by JIANG Peng, REN Yan, ZHU Beiling

“…On this basis, the actual indexing workflow is optimized to increase the systematicity and coherence of the indexing work, ensuring that every step from document input to final classification is more efficient and accurate. This optimized workflow has been put into use in the R and F categories of the collection, and it can improve the efficiency of indexing by 1.1 to 1.4 times. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Pitch Response for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines by Ruifeng Chen, Ke Zhang, Min Luo, Ye An, Lixiang Guo

“…However, traditional numerical modeling approaches like the finite element method are time-consuming, making them inefficient for generating the extensive datasets required. …”
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A Ship Emission Monitoring Option for Fuel Sulphur Content Measurement in Complex Environments by Fan Zhou, Xiaojia Lin, Liwei Hou

“…Limiting the fuel sulphur content (FSC) of ships can significantly reduce the harm caused by ship emissions, and analyzing ship exhaust gas to estimate FSC is a rapid, efficient, and low-cost monitoring method. To solve the difficulty in measuring FSC using sniffer equipment in a complex port area, a ship emission monitoring option for FSC measurement in complex environments is proposed here. …”
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Weibull-Type Incubation Period and Time of Exposure Using <i>γ</i>-Divergence by Daisuke Yoneoka, Takayuki Kawashima, Yuta Tanoue, Shuhei Nomura, Akifumi Eguchi

“…Moreover, applications to real-world surveillance data on COVID-19 illustrate the practical advantages of the proposed method. These findings highlight the method’s robustness and efficiency in scenarios where data contamination from secondary or tertiary infections is common, showing its potential value for early outbreak detection and rapid epidemiological response.…”
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Biogenic Synthesis of Ag Nanoparticles, ZnO Nanoparticles, and Ag@ZnO Nanocomposites as Photocatalysts for the Degradation of Brilliant Blue Dye by Vinidu Gamage, Gobika Thiripuranathar, Upul Nishshanka, Namal Priyantha, Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke, Beth Guiton, Siyath Gunewardene, Sumedha Jayanetti

“…The biogenic WA-mediated ZnO NPs show a remarkable photodegradation efficiency of 65.8% under the optimum conditions of catalytic load, pH, and dye concentration, whereas WA-mediated Ag NPs and Ag@ZnO NC show 13.9% and 63.7% photodegradation efficiency, respectively, at 240 min. …”
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Rapid, Tailored Dietary and Health Education Through A Social Media Chatbot Microintervention: Development and Usability Study With Practical Recommendations by Shahmir H Ali, Fardin Rahman, Aakanksha Kuwar, Twesha Khanna, Anika Nayak, Priyanshi Sharma, Sarika Dasraj, Sian Auer, Rejowana Rouf, Tanvi Patel, Biswadeep Dhar

“…Microinterventions have shown promise as a platform for rapid, tailored resource dissemination yet have been underexplored as a method of standardized health or dietary education; social media chatbots display unique potential as a modality for accessible, efficient, and affordable educational microinterventions. …”
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Evaluating Manganese-Doped Magnetic Nanoflowers for Biocompatibility and In Vitro Magnetic Hyperthermia Efficacy by Andreea-Elena Petru, Cristian Iacovita, Ionel Fizeșan, Roxana Dudric, Ionut-Valentin Crestin, Constantin Mihai Lucaciu, Felicia Loghin, Bela Kiss

“…Cellular uptake was quantified via a colorimetric iron determination method, while in vitro MH efficacy was tested by subjecting Mn-NF-loaded A549 cells to AMF exposure at different field strengths and nanoparticle concentrations. …”
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Problems in Modeling Three-Phase Three-Wire Circuits in the Case of Non-Sinusoidal Periodic Waveforms and Unbalanced Load by Konrad Zajkowski, Stanislaw Duer

“…Asymmetry in the supply voltage in three-phase circuits disrupts the flow of currents. This worsens the efficiency of the distribution system and increases the problems in determining the mathematical model of the energy system. …”
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An Improved Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Disease Detection and Diagnosis for Multi-crop Plants by Florence Choong Chiao Mei, Bryan Ng Jan Hong

“…This paper proposes a convolutional neural network to determine multi-class plant diseases that is memory efficient, has a small trainable parameter number, and is compact enough to work even on mobile devices. …”
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Phenomenon of suppression of estrogen signaling in breast cancer cells under ultraviolet irradiation: role of Snail proteins by D. V. Sorokin, O.  E. Andreeva, A. M. Scherbakov, D. I. Salnikova, M. V. Gudkova, M. A. Krasil’nikov

“…The study of the effect of irradiation or any other DNA-damaging agents on the sensitivity of tumors to conservative therapy, drug or hormonal, is among the most imporant tasks that determine the efficiency of combined therapy of cancer patients.Aim. …”
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Detecting early gastrointestinal polyps in histology and endoscopy images using deep learning by Intissar Dhrari Hajsalem, Yassine Ben Ayed

“…Five datasets, such as CRC-VAL-HE-7K, CRC-VAL-HE-100K, Kvasir_v2, a dataset from Beijing Cancer Hospital, and a weakly labeled dataset, containing histology and endoscopic images, were utilized to train and evaluate our method.ResultsThe outcomes showed the effectiveness of our approach, with these pretrained models obtaining the best efficiency for recognizing gastrointestinal polyps. …”
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Surgical treatment of varicose vein using the tumescent technique of local anesthesia by Bjelanović Zoran, Leković Ivan, Drašković Miroljub, Mišović Sidor, Veljović Milić

“…The purpose of this study was to determine efficiency of surgical treatment of varicose vein using TLA as an alternative method to a conventional treatment for varicose vein. …”
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Evaluation and ranking of solutions to overcome the barriers of Industry 4.0 enabled sustainable food supply chain adoption by Swapnil Lahane, Vishal Paliwal, Ravi Kant

“…The relative weights of each barrier are determined using the PF-AHP technique, and the solution to these barriers is prioritized using the PF-EDAS method. …”
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Generation of electricity in BFC by the biological product 'Doctor Robik' during the purification of nitrogen-containing wastewater by G.O. Zhdanova, D.I. Stom, N.Yu. Yudina, S.V. Alferov, Z.U. Dzhangidze, A.D. Stom, M.Yu. Tolstoy, I.A. Bogdanova, A.N. Chesnokova

“…The nitrogen-containing substrates were determined using photometric methods. The number of microorganisms was calculated by Koch’s method. …”
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Photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye with biosynthesized Hematite α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles under UV-Irradiation by Mohamed Bilal Goudjil, Halima Dali, Souad Zighmi, Zineb Mahcene, Salah Eddine Bencheikh

“…In this study, hematite (α-Fe2O3) NPs were synthesized using a cost-effective and environmentally friendly method involving the utilization of a biomass filtrate of Mentha pulegium as a bio-reducer. …”
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