Genetics and Traumatic Brain Injury: Findings from an Exome-Based Study of a 50-Patient Case Series by Alesya S. Gracheva, Darya A. Kashatnikova, Ivan V. Redkin, Vladislav E. Zakharchenko, Artem N. Kuzovlev, Lyubov E. Salnikova

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Monitoring handgrip strength to motivate lifestyle choices for patients with diabetes type 2 – a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Lena Bornhöft, Susanne Bernhardsson, Lena Nordeman, Anna Grimby-Ekman, Maria Dottori, Maria E. H. Larsson

“…Physical strength can be an important parameter to monitor for patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) to promote healthy lifestyle choices. Functional measurements can contribute to healthcare advice and possibly motivate more active lifestyles. …”
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EEG Oscillations as Neuroplastic Markers of Neural Compensation in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: The Role of Slow-Frequency Bands by Guilherme J. M. Lacerda, Lucas Camargo, Marta Imamura, Lucas M. Marques, Linamara Battistella, Felipe Fregni

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Chapter 5: Network biology approach to complex diseases. by Dong-Yeon Cho, Yoo-Ah Kim, Teresa M Przytycka

“…We start this chapter with a description of the general characteristics of complex diseases followed by a brief introduction to physical and functional networks. …”
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Evaluation and driving force analysis of relative effectiveness in the giant panda national park in Sichuan, China by Bao Meng, Bao Meng, Mengchao Wang, Zhifeng Zhang, Hongyi Pan

“…The Qionglaishan and Adjacent Areas General Control Area (QLA-GCA) is dominated by the interaction of landscape pattern index with its remaining factors, and the rest of the functional areas are dominated by the interaction of natural factors such as temperature, evapotranspiration with its remaining factors. …”
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Efficacy of Curcuma longa in relieving pain symptoms of knee osteoarthritis patients: a systematic review and metaanalysis of clinical trials by Rudy Hidayat, Faisal Parlindungan, Jihan Izzatun Nisa, Arya Ivan Mahendra, Muhammad Izza Indika, Cristopher Efendi

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Progress on the mechanism of intestinal microbiota against colorectal cancer by Guoqiang Xing, Yu Cui, Zhiyue Guo, Bing Han, Guogang Zhao

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STENOSIS IN NONCORONARY AREAS AND LIFE QUALITY IN ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE by A. N. Sumin, M. G. Mos’kin, A. V. Bezdenezhnykh, E. V. Korok, A. V. Shcheglova, O. L. Barbarash

“…Also in the MFA group’s values of LQ were significantly lower, than in those without MFA by the scales: general health, physical functioning, physical condition and emotional condition. …”
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Mortality and outcome of acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis, kidney injury and bacterial infection. by Karina Cazarin-Chávez, Paloma M. Diego-Salazar, Diego F. Abendaño-Rivera, Santiago Camacho-Hernández, Fatima Higuera-De la Tijera, José L. Pérez-Hernández

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Age differences in preference and memory for advertisements: the roles of advertisement type and product type by Wanying Chen, Lei Zhang, Siyu Yang, Zixu Shen, Fang Xie, Valerie Benson

“…For general food products, older adults showed more intention to purchase, and also better recall for emotionally-meaningful advertisements compared with young adults. …”
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An exchange rate model where the fundamentals follow a jump-diffusion process by Jean René Cupidon, Judex Hyppolite

“…This approach leads to the branch of differential equations called functional differential equations and more specifically the so-called delay differential equations. …”
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Morphological variation in liverwort traits influences community assemblage along an elevational gradient in northern Madagascar by Lovanomenjanahary Marline, Claudine Ah-Peng, Olivier Flores, Terry Hedderson

“…However, despite their ecological importance, epiphytic bryophytes in Madagascar remain poorly studied, especially in terms of their functional traits and responses to environmental change. …”
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Proverbs and Sayings of the Swahili Language in Written Discourse by Victoria S. Shatokhina

“…Media texts skillfully use the allegorical function of proverbs and thereby make the text of articles and headlines sound even more vividly and accurately, which once again confirms the relevance of the use of paremiological units in modern texts, including in written discourse.…”
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A progress in the inverse matrix method in QCD sum rules by Zhen-Xing Zhao, Yi-Peng Xing, Run-Hui Li

“…Considering that the narrow-width approximation may still be a good approximation, we separate the ground state from the spectral density. We then follow the general steps of the inverse matrix method to extract physical quantities such as decay constants that we may be more interested in.…”
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Analysis of the anatomical and biomechanical characteristics of the pelvic floor in cystocele by Chuqiao Song, Wei Wen, Lei Pan, Jiaqian Sun, Yun Bai, Jinhua Tang, Chen Zhong, Bangmin Han, Shujie Xia, Yiping Zhu

“…Material and methods In this observational case‐controlled study (clinical trial identifier BOJI201855L), 102 women with normal pelvic floor function and 273 patients diagnosed with cystocele degrees I–III were identified at Shanghai General Hospital from October 2016 to December 2019. …”
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Is befriending a possible intervention in people living with schizophrenia? by Felicia Iftene, Adriana Farcas, Simon O’Brien

“…IntroductionBefriending is a non-specific intervention that may be valuable, cost-effective and easy to implement, complementing the complex therapeutic approach that schizophrenia requires.ObjectivesThis is a prospective, repeated-measures study design aimed to evaluate the possible clinical and functional changes in people living with schizophrenia undergoing 4 individual-basis, weekly Befriending sessions. …”
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Le mari de Jill Biden l’a emporté sur le mari de Melania : la construction référentielle dans la presse people sur Internet by Mathilde Salles

“…Many definite descriptions, such as Jill Biden's husband to designate Joe Biden and Melania's husband to designate Donald Trump, appear unrelated to the subject matter of the articles, and sometimes in contexts where a personal pronoun would be more appropriate than a nominal expression. We first point out how much these definite descriptions deviate from the ordinary uses of highly specified referring expressions in general and definite descriptions in particular and what risks some of them, falling within the category of Milner's “presuppositional anaphors”, may present for the good referential interpretation. …”
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Exponential Stability of Cohen-Grossberg Neural Networks with Impulse Time Window by Mei Liu, Haijun Jiang, Cheng Hu

“…Hence, the impulses here can be more applicable and more general. By utilizing Lyapunov functional theory, inequality technique, and the analysis method, we obtain some novel and effective exponential stability criteria for the Cohen-Grossberg neural networks. …”
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The Pink Tax: Sex and Gender Disparities in Peripheral Artery Disease by Andrea Martinez, Jingwen Huang, Arash Harzand

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Intuitionistic Hesitant Fuzzy Rough Aggregation Operator-Based EDAS Method and Its Application to Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Problems by Muhammad Kamraz Khan, Muhammad Sajjad Ali Khan, Kamran, Ioan-Lucian Popa

“…In conclusion, a numerical example of the constructed model is demonstrated, and a general comparison between the investigated models and the current methods demonstrates that the investigated models are more feasible and efficient than the present methods.…”
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