Measuring Global Dietary Diversity by Considering Nutritional Functional Dissimilarity and Dietary Guidelines by Shiwen Quan, Wenbo Zhu

“…This study recommends context-specific use of indices, policy attention in developing countries to maintain diversity during dietary transitions, and the development of more inclusive dietary guidelines that emphasize not only variety but also balance and nutritional function.…”
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Analysis of polypharmacy in elderly patients with decreased kidney and liver function: Case Report by Rina Widiyawati, Khoirul Anam, Nur Oktafiyani, M. Hari Pristantiningtyas, Herya Putra Dharma, Muhammad Muchlis, Jainuri Erik Pratama, Fauna Herawati, Adji Prayitno, Marisca Evalina Gondokesumo

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Modern Challenges to Effective Functioning of Local Self-Government (On the Example of Saint Petersburg) by V. A. Semenov, V. V. Ereshkin

“…The existence in the legal field of an internally highly conflictual representative body generates social tension in society, political destabilization and, as a consequence, a general distrust of public authorities in general, since public authorities are directly involved in the formation of local government in St. …”
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A study of connectivity features analysis in brain function network for dementia recognition by Siying Li, Peng Wang, Zhenfeng Li, Lidong Du, Xianxiang Chen, Jie Sun, Libin Jiang, Gang Cheng, Zhen Fang

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Changes in renal function and morphological variations of kidney diseases in rheumatoid arthritis patients by Yan Tang, Yuliya Varavko, Raisa Aringazina, Irina Menshikova

“…For studying the morphological changes in the kidneys under ultrasound examination, renal biopsy was performed in 31 patients with RA with urinary syndrome (proteinuria more than 0.3 g per day and hematuria). Results: Nephropathy in RA is characterized by impaired renal function and manifested by an increased blood creatinine and a decrease in glomerular filtration rate and renal functional reserve. …”
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Mass Function of Stellar Black Holes as Revealed by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observations by Xiao-Fei Dong, Yong-Feng Huang, Zhi-Bin Zhang, Xiu-Juan Li, Ze-Cheng Zou, Chen-Ran Hu, Chen Deng, Yang Liu

“…The Lynden-Bell C ^− method is further applied to derive the mass distribution and density function of black holes. It is found that the mass distribution can be expressed as a broken power-law function. …”
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Improving Physically Unclonable Functions’ Performance Using Second-Order Compensated Measurement by Jorge Fernández-Aragón, Guillermo Diez-Señorans, Miguel Garcia-Bosque, Raúl Aparicio-Téllez, Gabriel López-Pinar, Santiago Celma

“…In this paper, we study the performance of second-order compensated measurement to generate a multi-bit response in physically unclonable functions (PUFs). …”
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The theory of mind construct in adulthood: perspective taking in relation to language and executive function by Derek E. Montgomery, Virginia Tompkins, Xin Feng

“…This study investigated the nature of the ToM construct and its relation to cognitive variables by administering a battery of ToM measurements along with measurements of executive function and general vocabulary to 207 (Mage = 19.26) adult participants. …”
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Spatial structure of a city and the mobility of its residents: functional and planning aspects by Parysek Jerzy J., Mierzejewska Lidia

“…What we shall present in this paper are structural and functional conclusions resulting from an analysis of the mobility of residents relevant for planning. …”
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Obesity, Physical Function, and Training Success in Community-Dwelling Nonsarcopenic Old Adults by O. G. Geirsdottir, M. Chang, P.V. Jonsson, I. Thorsdottir, A. Ramel

“…After the intervention, body composition and physical function significantly improved in all three BMI categories; however, normal weight participants lost more body fat (−1.53 ± 0.78%, P=0.014), gained more lean mass (0.70 ± 0.36 kg, P<0.001) and relative quadriceps strength (0.31 ± 0.16 N/kg, P=0.017), and improved more on the 6MWD (24 ± 12 m, P<0.001) but gained less grip strength (−2.4 ± 1.3 N/kg, P=0.020) compared to obese. …”
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Standardization of epistemic trust/mistrust/credulity questionnaire: Examining validity and reliability among adolescents Standardization of ETMCQ among adolescents by Raziyeh Hashemi, Mehdi Reza Sarafraz, Habib Hadian Fard, Mohammad Reza Taghavi

“…In the second part, additional self-report scales were administered to examine the relationship between ETMCQ scores and reflective performance, experiences of close relationships (attachment), childhood trauma, and general self-efficacy.This study used the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ), Adult Attachment Styles Questionnaire, General Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, and Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). …”
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On efficiency of methods and algorithms for solving optimization problems considering objective function specifics by E. N. Ostroukh, Yu. O. Chernyshev, L. N. Evich, P. A. Panasenko

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A functional imaging study of self-regulatory capacities in persons who stutter. by Jie Liu, Zhishun Wang, Yuankai Huo, Stephanie M Davidson, Kristin Klahr, Carl L Herder, Chamonix O Sikora, Bradley S Peterson

“…Frontostriatal hyper-responsivity to conflict resembles prior findings in other disorders of frontostriatal pathology, and therefore likely represents a general mechanism supporting functional compensation for an underlying inefficiency of neural processing in these circuits. …”
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Effects of Trimetazidine Combined with Atorvastatin on Cardiac Function in Patients with Stable Angina Pectoris of Coronary Heart Disease by Zhang N, Ren Y, Qin D, Yang X, Chen Z, Zhao L

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Ontology of functional synergetics in virtual cognitive-semiotic design of information processes and systems by R. G. Bolbakov, V. A. Mordvinov, P. V. Berezkin, I. I. Sivitsky

“…It is these three concepts, revealed by synergetics as a functional eyepiece, that distinguish functional synergetics from the generally accepted definition of synergetics as such. …”
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Midterm Functional Outcomes of Synthetic Cartilage Implant (SCI) Arthroplasty for Hallux Rigidus by Aysha Rajeev FRCS, George Koshy MRCS, Kailash Devalia FRCS

“…The general health was assessed by EQ-5D which included EQVAS. …”
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Upper extremity function and quality of life in patients with breast cancer related lymphedema by Bojinović-Rodić Dragana, Popović-Petrović Svetlana, Tomić Sanja, Markez Stanislava, Živanić Dobrinka

“…The highest values of SF-36 were found in the domains of Mental Health (67.7 ± 22.9) and Social Function (70.1 ± 23.1). The lowest scores were registered in the domains of Role Physical (46.9 ± 39.1) and General Health (49.3 ± 20.1). …”
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Analysis of P-Superquadraticity and Related Integer and Fractional Order Inequalities with Applications by Dawood Khan, Saad Butt

“…The analysis reflects that inequalities associated with P-superquadratic functions are far more refined than those deduced from P-convex functions. …”
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Clinical and functional features of elderly patients with frailty syndrome receiving treatment at home by K. Sh. Garunov, A. A. Gertsog, T. E. Morozova

“…The presence of senile asthenia syndrome worsens nutritional status indicators (10 [9; 12] points, (p = 0,005), negatively affects functional activity (Barthel scale, mean score 65,00 [45,00; 80,00], Lawton scale, mean score 0,00 [0,00; 2,00], р &lt; 0,001), and the relationship with non-dementia cognitive disorders and dementia is more often determined (28,9% and 60,2% of patients, respectively, p &lt; 0,001). …”
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Potential of right ventricular function assessment with echocardiography in transcatheter aortic valve replacement: by Yoshihisa Morita, Taro Kariya, Michael Dougherty, Andrew Peters, Nicholas Ruggiero

“…Abstract Background Right ventricular (RV) function assessment by echocardiography can be challenging due to its complex morphology. …”
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