Postural Muscle Dyscoordination in Children With Cerebral Palsy by Jolanda C. van der Heide, Mijna Hadders-Algra

“…The children totally or partially lacked direction specificity in their postural adjustments and could not sit independently for more than 3 seconds. Some children functioning at GMFCS level IV have intact direction-specific adjustments, whereas others have problems in generating consistently direction-specific adjustments. …”
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Green extraction method and microencapsulation of tannins from young coconut husks-based food waste using gelatin/nanofiber cellulose by Luh Putu Wrasiati, Ardhinata Antares, Anak Agung Made Dewi Anggreni, Bambang Admadi Harsojuwono, Ida Bagus Wayan Gunam, Vilas Nitivattananon, I Wayan Arnata

“…The surface morphology of microcapsules dried in thin layers appeared relatively rough and exhibited non-uniform size compared to those dried with a spray dryer. Analysis of functional groups indicated interactions between the functional groups of tannins and those of gelatin and NFC. …”
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Archaeal diversity in the microbiomes of four wild bird species by Trevor Hunter, Lauren Chance, Chris S. Elphick, Sarah M. Hird

“…In Bacteria-Archaea co-occurrence networks, Archaea-Specific primers found many more significant interactions than the Universal primers alone. …”
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A Comparative Study of Storage Batteries for Electrical Energy Produced by Photovoltaic Panels by Petru Livinti

“…The work involved the construction of a model in MATLAB-Simulink for controlling the loading/unloading of storage batteries with energy produced by photovoltaic panels through a buck-type DC-DC convertor, controlled by means of the MPPT algorithm implemented through the method of incremental conductance based on a MATLAB function. The program for the MATLAB function was developed by the author in the C++ programming environment. …”
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A modern approach to identifying and characterizing child asthma and wheeze phenotypes based on clinical data. by Bronwyn K Brew, Flaminia Chiesa, Cecilia Lundholm, Anne Örtqvist, Catarina Almqvist

“…Latent class analysis using current and historical clinical symptom data generated asthma and wheeze phenotypes. Characterization was then performed with regression analyses using diagnostic data: lung function and immunological biomarkers, parent-reported medication use and risk-factors. …”
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Lightweight Explicit 3D Human Digitization via Normal Integration by Jiaxuan Liu, Jingyi Wu, Ruiyang Jing, Han Yu, Jing Liu, Liang Song

“…This loss function provides a more accurate measure of surface reconstruction quality and enhances the overall reconstruction performance. …”
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MAP kinase phosphatase-2 plays a critical role in response to infection by Leishmania mexicana. by Mashael S Al-Mutairi, Laurence C Cadalbert, H Adrienne McGachy, Muhannad Shweash, Juliane Schroeder, Magdalena Kurnik, Callum M Sloss, Clare E Bryant, James Alexander, Robin Plevin

“…However, there was no intrinsic defect in MKP-2(-/-) T cell function as measured by anti-CD3 induced IFN-γ production. …”
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Effect of Calcium on the Characteristics of Action Potential Under Different Electrical Stimuli by Xuan Qiao, Wei Yao

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Site specific mutation of the Zic2 locus by microinjection of TALEN mRNA in mouse CD1, C3H and C57BL/6J oocytes. by Benjamin Davies, Graham Davies, Christopher Preece, Rathi Puliyadi, Dorota Szumska, Shoumo Bhattacharya

“…This technology enables allelic series of mutations to be generated quickly and efficiently in diverse genetic backgrounds and will be a valuable approach to rapidly create mutations in mice already bearing one or more mutant alleles at other genetic loci without the need for lengthy backcrossing.…”
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New insights into measurement variability in glaucomatous visual fields from computer modelling. by Richard A Russell, David F Garway-Heath, David P Crabb

“…One million VF simulations were generated from 1,000 VFs (1,000 simulations per 'ground-truth' VF), and the variability of simulated MDs was characterized as a function of ground-truth MD and Pattern Standard Deviation (PSD).…”
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ROLE OF FLUID ON THE CONTACT DEFORMATION RESPONSE OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE by Michael V. Swain

“…All natural biological materials contain fluid and function in a fluidic environment, which plays a critical role in responding to loading events as well as tissue nutrition. …”
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Distinct types of fibrocyte can differentiate from mononuclear cells in the presence and absence of serum. by S John Curnow, Marianne Fairclough, Caroline Schmutz, Steve Kissane, Alastair K O Denniston, Kate Nash, Christopher D Buckley, Janet M Lord, Mike Salmon

“…The differentiation of fibrocytes remains poorly characterised and this has limited understanding of their biology and function. In particular two methods are used to generate fibrocytes in vitro that differ fundamentally by the presence or absence of serum.…”
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Upper-Bound Analysis of Slope Reliability Considering Anisotropic Spatial Variability and Reinforcement with Anti-slide Piles by ZHAO Zi-hao, WANG Jia-rui, FU Tao-tao, ZHU En-lin

“…To ensure that the random field demonstrates general rotational anisotropy, the autocorrelation function was transformed through a coordinate system conversion before the decomposition of the autocorrelation coefficient matrix. …”
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AFMF: adaptive fusion of multi-hop neighborhood features in graph convolutional network by Kang Liu, Xinyu Li, Lian Liu, Zhihao Xv, Aohang Pei, Runshi Ji

“…The cross entropy loss function drives the network to preserve critical information. …”
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A modification of Jacobson et al.'s (1997) individual branch‐antlered male method for censusing white‐tailed deer by Mark Weckel, Robert F. Rockwell, Frank Secret

“…For each sex–age group, we evaluated RPO as a function of TS using linear regression to generate photographic counts standardized by TS (standardized photographic occurrences [SPO]). …”
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Mechanism of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain by SUN Yu-jia, ZHANG Jun-feng, YAN Long, FAN Shi-yu, QIAN Yu-lin, CONG Shan, YU Tao

“…The mechanisms discussed include modulation of synaptic plasticity，functional reorganization of neural networks （inducing cortico-cortical functional connectivity and subcortical functional connectivity），adjustment of afferent nerve fiber sensitivity，alteration of neurotransmitter levels，and effects on neuroimmune interactions. …”
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The “What” of Athletes’ Goal Pursuit and Its Relationships to Goal-Related Processes and Well- and Ill-Being by Natalia Martínez-González, Francisco L. Atienza, Joan L. Duda, Isabel Balaguer

“…The results showed that intrinsic goals, assessed in an open-ended format, were more heterogeneous in terms of content, and more common among athletes than extrinsic goals. …”
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Constructing a web recommender system using web usage mining and user’s profiles by T. Mombeini, A. Harounabadi, J. Rezaeian Sheshdeh

“…Web usage mining was designed to function on web server records, which are included in user search results. …”
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Deformation anisotropy and lamellar α re-orientation of TC17 alloy under the different slip modes of HCP structure by Cong Li, Jiao Luo

“…Therein, the variation of the rotation factor with tilt angle conforms to the quadratic function, reaching a maximum value around 45°. When the rotation factor is small, the ratio of (01–11) [1–210] slip system with small Burgers vector at the phase boundary is large, the rotation tendency is poor, and the intragranular dislocation slip replaces the grain rotation as the strain accommodation mechanism, the lamella is more prone to globularization. …”
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Transcriptional Profiling Underscores the Role of Preprocurement Allograft Metabolism and Innate Immune Status on Outcomes in Human Liver Transplantation by Joohyun Kim, MD, PhD, Michael T. Zimmermann, PhD, Angela J. Mathison, PhD, Gwen Lomberk, PhD, Raul Urrutia, MD, Johnny C. Hong, MD

“…We performed liver allograft biopsies at 4 time points: baseline (B, before donor cross-clamp), at the end of cold ischemia (CI), during early reperfusion (ER, after revascularization), and during late reperfusion (LR). Data were generated and then recipients grouped by post-OLT outcomes categories: immediate allograft function (IAF; n = 11) versus early allograft dysfunction (EAD; n = 6) groups. …”
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