Ilizarov method combined with accordion technique for treating long bone defects in the lower limbs: a systematic review by Zhiqiang Ren, Jinghong Yang, Zi Wang, Lujun Jiang, Lian Tang, Jiyuan Yan, Juncai Liu, Yanshi Liu, Zhong Li

“…The bone healing rate was high, with the majority of patients rated as having excellent or good functional recovery, according to standards such as ASAMI and Paley. …”
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Impact of Body Image Perception on Behavioral Outcomes in Chinese Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Sarcoma by Yihui Wei, Chung Tin Ma, Michael Can Heng Li, Keary Rui Zhou, Herbert Ho Fung Loong, Kwok Chuen Wong, Chi Kong Li, Yin Ting Cheung

“…A negative body image perception may mediate the association between poor family functioning and psychological distress among adult survivors. …”
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Enhancing potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) resilience: The role of selenium in modulating growth, antioxidant capacity, and tuber quality under salinity stress by Aie Chen, Youhong Feng, Yan Yang, Yunxin Kong, Huijie Wang, Muzammal Rehman, Zahid Maqbool, Shah Fahad, Gang Deng, Hongyang Wang

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Cardiorespiratory Responses to Glittre ADL Test in Bronchiectasis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ravoori Hena, Gopala Krishna Alaparthi, K. Shyam Krishnan, R. Anand, Vishak Acharya, Pretham Acharya

“…So, the Glittre ADL test can be used as an assessment tool besides the six-minute walk test for the more complete evaluation of functional capacity and activities of daily living.…”
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Modulating physical properties of ASnF3 (A = K, Rb) perovskites under pressure: Insights for enhanced optoelectronic performance via first-principles by Md N.J. Rifat, Mohammad Nazmul Hasan, Jahid Kabir Rony, Md Murshidul Islam, Md Saiduzzaman, Minhajul Islam

“…Analysis of the elastic functions indicates that these compounds become even more versatile for various potential applications when subjected to hydrostatic pressure. …”
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AI-assisted 3D versus conventional 2D preoperative planning in total hip arthroplasty for Crowe type II–IV high hip dislocation: a two-year retrospective study by Zhenbao Lu, Cuihua Yuan, Qingshan Xu, Yuhua Feng, Qiujin Xia, Xiaolu Wang, Jianfu Zhu, Jinqing Wu, Tihui Wang, Jiliang Chen, Xu Wang, Qijin Wang

“…Results At 24 months, both groups demonstrated significant improvements in functional outcomes. Compared to the 2D X-ray group, the AI-3D group showed higher accuracy in implant size prediction (acetabular cup: 59.18% vs. 30.23%; femoral stem: 65.31% vs. 41.86%; both p < 0.05), a greater proportion of cups placed within the Lewinnek and Callanan safe zones (p < 0.05), shorter operative time, reduced intraoperative blood loss, and more effective correction of leg length discrepancy (all p < 0.05). …”
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Enhancing Soil Phosphorus Availability in Intercropping Systems: Roles of Plant Growth Regulators by Chunhua Gao, Weilin Kong, Fengtao Zhao, Feiyan Ju, Ping Liu, Zongxin Li, Kaichang Liu, Haijun Zhao

“…The major taxa changed from Actinobacteria (CK) to Proteobacteria (T1) and Saccharibacteria (T2) in fluvisols soil, and from Actinobacteria/Gemmatimonadetes (CK) to Saccharibacteria (T1) and Acidobacteria (T2) in luvisols soil. Functional gene dynamics indicated soil-specific regulation, where fluvisols soil harbored more <i>phoD</i> (organic phosphorus mineralization) and <i>relA</i> (polyphosphate degradation) genes, whereas <i>phnP gene</i> dominated in luvisols soil. …”
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Efficacy of low-magnitude high-frequency vibration (LMHFV) on musculoskeletal health of participants on wheelchair: a study protocol for a single-blinded randomised controlled stud... by Ronald Man-Yeung Wong, Simon Kwoon Ho Chow, Chung Yan Ho, Hiu Wun Wong, Yu Ning Chim, Wing Hoi Cheung

“…It is hypothesised that new design of LMHFV is beneficial to wheelchair users in terms of vertebral BMD, muscle health and musculoskeletal functions.Methods This study is a single-blinded randomised controlled trial to investigate the effect of LMHFV on vertebral BMD, muscle health, balancing ability and functional ability in wheelchair users (mainly on wheelchair for outdoor activities). …”
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Microbial C/N metabolic capabilities contribute to the fate of crop residue N in plant-soil-microbe continuum over multiple seasons by Zhihuang Xie, Yansheng Li, Zhenhua Yu, Guanghua Wang, Xiaobing Liu, Caixian Tang, Junjie Liu, Judong Liu, Junjiang Wu, Stephen J. Herbert, Jian Jin

“…The study implies that soybean residue amendment may lower fertilizer N input more effectively than maize residue, considering the N balance between crop demand and soil supply in farming Mollisols.…”
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Enhancing room temperature electron mobility at high carrier concentration in transparent BaSnO3/La:BaSnO3/BaSnO3 heterostructures by Yingli Zhang, Haopeng Du, Dirui Wu, Jinxin Ge, Jiahao Song, Mengkang Xu, Qingjiao Huang, Jiangyu Li, Changjian Li

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On Solution Set Associated with a Class of Multiple Objective Control Models by Savin Treanţă, Omar Mutab Alsalami

“…To this end, we introduce a new notion of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>t</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>I</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> functionals determined by multiple integrals. To better emphasize the significance of the suggested <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>t</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>I</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> functionals and how they add to previous studies, we mention that the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>t</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>I</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and generalized <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>ϑ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>0</mn></msub><mo>,</mo><msub><mi>σ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>t</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>I</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>t</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>I</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> assumptions associated with the involved multiple integral functionals cover broader and more general classes of problems, where the convexity of the functionals is not fulfilled or the functionals considered are not of simple integral type. …”
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Magnetic Fields in Massive Star-forming Regions (MagMaR). V. The Magnetic Field at the Onset of High-mass Star Formation by Patricio Sanhueza, Junhao Liu, Kaho Morii, Josep Miquel Girart, Qizhou Zhang, Ian W. Stephens, James M. Jackson, Paulo C. Cortés, Patrick M. Koch, Claudia J. Cyganowski, Piyali Saha, Henrik Beuther, Suinan Zhang, Maria T. Beltrán, Yu Cheng, Fernando A. Olguin, Xing Lu, Spandan Choudhury, Kate Pattle, Manuel Fernández-López, Jihye Hwang, Ji-hyun Kang, Janik Karoly, Adam Ginsburg, A.-Ran Lyo, Kotomi Taniguchi, Wenyu Jiao, Chakali Eswaraiah, Qiu-yi Luo, Jia-Wei Wang, Benoît Commerçon, Shanghuo Li, Fengwei Xu, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Luis A. Zapata, Eun Jung Chung, Fumitaka Nakamura, Sandhyarani Panigrahy, Takeshi Sakai

“…Using the Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi method with an angle dispersion function analysis, we estimate in this core a magnetic field strength of 6.2 mG and a mass-to-magnetic-flux ratio of 18. …”
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Performance of the HAWC Observatory and TeV Gamma-Ray Measurements of the Crab Nebula with Improved Extensive Air Shower Reconstruction Algorithms by A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Bernal, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, F. Carreón, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, C. de León, D. Depaoli, N. Di Lalla, R. Díaz Hernández, B. L. Dingus, M. A. DuVernois, K. Engel, T. Ergin, C. Espinoza, K. L. Fan, K. Fang, N. Fraija, S. Fraija, J. A. García-González, F. Garfias, H. Goksu, M. M. González, J. A. Goodman, S. Groetsch, J. P. Harding, S. Hernández-Cadena, I. Herzog, J. Hinton, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, P. Hüntemeyer, A. Iriarte, S. Kaufmann, A. Lara, J. Lee, H. León Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, J. Martínez-Castro, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, J. A. Montes, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, L. Nellen, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, L. Olivera-Nieto, N. Omodei, M. Osorio-Archila, Y. Pérez Araujo, E. G. Pérez-Pérez, C. D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Salazar, D. Salazar-Gallegos, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, G. Schwefer, J. Serna-Franco, A. J. Smith, Y. Son, R. W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, E. Varela, X. Wang, I. J. Watson, K. Whitaker, E. Willox, H. Wu, S. Yu, S. Yun-Cárcamo, H. Zhou, HAWC Collaboration

“…Thanks to these improvements, HAWC can now detect more sources, including the Galactic center.…”
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Marine fisheries monitoring programmes in South Africa by L. Hutchings, C.J. Augustyn, A. Cockcroft, C. Van der Lingen, J. Coetzee, R. Leslie, R. Tarr, H. Oosthuizen, M. Lipinski, M. Roberts, C. Wilke, R. Crawford, L. Shannon, M. Mayekiso

“…South Africa was an early leader in multidisciplinary studies of marine resources, particularly with the Benguela Ecology Programme in the 1980s and 1990s and catch records are available for some species dating back more than a century. Resources data have focused on trends in catches, fishing effort and changes in distribution and abundance of harvested resources, which often account for a major part of the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. …”
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Superelastic NiTi scaffolds with extensively tuneable mechanical and mass transfer properties by Shiyu Zhong, Lei Zhang, Ying Li, Wanying Wang, Gan Li, Yulun Luo, Dingfei Zhang, Jian Lu

“…Integrating these attributes is essential for the functionality and therapeutic efficacy of metallic scaffolds used in bone defect treatment. …”
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Community structure and diversity of soil nematodes in different slope directions of wild cherry plum forests in Xinjiang, China by CAO Jing, CUI Dong, JIANG Zhicheng, YAN Jiangchao, WU Yunhao, LIU Junqi, GUO Jinfeng, HAN Yaxin, HAN Shutong

“…Among them, the number of nodes, edges, edge density, and connectivity of the nematode network in the semi shaded slope soil were the highest, indicating that in this habitat, the nematode collinear network was more complex and had a more stable food web structure inside. …”
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AI-powered literature search: some observations and concerns by Farooq Azam Rathore, Fareeha Farooq

“…A brief overview of some tools that perform these functions is mentioned in Table I. However, in our role as physicians, faculty and researchers who have been using these tools for more than a year for various tasks including AI-powered literature search we have some concerns that need to be highlighted Recommending articles from the predatory journals We have noticed that some of the articles that these tools recommend are from predatory journals. …”
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Effectiveness of interventions for improving educational outcomes for people with disabilities in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review by Xanthe Hunt, Ashrita Saran, Howard White, Hannah Kuper

“…Such interventions involve a wide range of initiatives, from those focused on the individual level – such as teaching assistance to make mainstream classes more accessible to children with specific learning needs – to those which address policy or advocacy. …”
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Elbow-Hand Robotic Exoskeletons for Active and Passive Rehabilitation on Post-Stroke Patients: A Bioengineering Review by Mariela Vargas, Y. Vasquez, Daira de la Barra, Sandra Charapaqui, P. Tapia-Yanayaco, R. R. Maldonado-Gómez, L. M. Mendoza-Arias, Almendra Altatorre, Cristina Ccellccaro, M. Bedoya-Castillo, Renzo Charapaqui, A. Nacarino, Milton V. Rivera, Ricardo Palomares, M. Ramirez-Chipana, Jorge Cornejo, José Cornejo, Jhony A. de la Cruz-Vargas

“…In conclusion, the usefulness and importance of a RER in various applied clinical practices have found numerous advantages, such as a better evaluation of spasticity, neuromotor recuperation, promoting neuroplasticity, and much more, which is of global relevance since this study gives us a greater understanding of the potential of these new perspectives to improve the rehabilitation of compromised functions in post-stroke cases with the use of RER.   …”
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Alterations in fecal microbiota composition and cytokine expression profiles in adolescents with depression: a case-control study by Yiwen Cheng, Zhangcheng Zhu, Zhi Yang, Xia Liu, Xiulian Qian, Juntao Zhu, Xinzhu Hu, Peijie Jiang, Tingting Cui, Yuwei Wang, Wenwen Ding, Wenhui Lei, Jie Gao, Jingchen Zhang, Yating Li, Li Shao, Zongxin Ling, Weiming Hu

“…Given the rising prevalence and substantial impact of adolescent depression on functional impairment and suicidality, it is essential to focus more on this age group. …”
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