Quality of Life of Patients with Back Pain by Bianka Misiak, Katarzyna Krystyna Snarska

“…Back pain often included one or two sections of the spine and the degree of pain perceived generated deterioration in the quality of life caused by an increase in absence from work, severity of depression, limited social interaction, and difficulties in carrying out physiological functions. 2. …”
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Stochastic Dynamics of Nonautonomous Cohen-Grossberg Neural Networks by Chuangxia Huang, Jinde Cao

“…Results of the development as presented in this paper are more general than those reported in some previously published papers. …”
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Optimal surgery sequence in the treatment of degenerative hip-spine syndrome: a propensity score-based inverse probability of treatment weighting analysis by Yiming Fan, Yi Huang, Tianhao Wang, Qi Wang, Han yu, Chao Xue, Guoquan Zheng, Yan Wang

“…When comparing between the two groups, the surgical sequence exhibits equivalent effects on functional improvement and complication rates. The radiological outcomes indicate that the THA→LF group shows more pronounced effects on PT and SS, suggesting a more favorable impact on pelvic alignment in patients undergoing this sequence. …”
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Vitamin D and susceptibility to infectious diseases: no cure for the common cold by Chris M. Florkowski

“…Further research, however may identify sub-groups to whom this intervention might be more appropriately targeted.…”
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Optimized Steffensen-Type Methods with Eighth-Order Convergence and High Efficiency Index by F. Soleymani

“…Per computing step, the derived methods require only four function evaluations. Experimental results are also given to add more supports on the underlying theory of this paper as well as lead us to draw a conclusion on the efficiency of the developed classes.…”
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Recombinant DNA Technology - ist Prospects for Fundamental Research an for Biotechnological Applications by Werner Arber

“…Attention is given here to ethical and environmental concerns with regard to such applications: 1) risks of introducing hybrid organisms with undesirable properties into the environment; 2) ethical barriers against attempts to transplant genes into human beings; 3) risks of abuse in the application of the methodology; 4) more general problems related to an undesirable increase in population density as a consequence of attempts to ameliorate human living conditions. …”
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Multidimensional assessment of women after severe maternal morbidity: the COMMAG cohort study by Renato T Souza, José Guilherme Cecatti, Maria Laura Costa, Elton C Ferreira, Rodolfo C Pacagnella, Carla Silveira, Carla B Andreucci, Dulce Maria Toledo Zanardi, Juliana P Santos, Carina R Angelini, Mary A Parpinelli, Maria Helena Sousa

“…Women who had SMM became more frequently sterile, had more abnormal clinical conditions after the index pregnancy and a higher score for altered functioning, while proportions of FSFI score or any drug use were similar between groups. …”
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MODERNIZING MOUNTAIN EDUCATION: ESTABLISHING A TECHNOLOGY-BASED ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL TO ENHANCE LEARNING QUALITY by Agung Wijaksono, Albadri Albadri

“…The appropriate application of technology can strengthen Pondok Pesantren's role in preparing a more competitive generation for the digital age. …”
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Chemodynamical Simulations of Dwarf Galaxy Evolution by Simone Recchi

“…In this review I give a summary of the state of the art for what concerns the chemo-dynamical numerical modelling of galaxies in general and of dwarf galaxies in particular. In particular, I focus my attention on (i) initial conditions, (ii) the equations to solve; (iii) the star formation process in galaxies, (iv) the initial mass function, (v) the chemical feedback, (vi) the mechanical feedback, (vii) the environmental effects. …”
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Resilience Assessment for Corroded Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers Against Vessel Impact by Zhijun Ouyang, Xing Wang, Biao Nie, Yuangui Liu, Hua-Peng Chen

“…Furthermore, resilience indices obtained from the negative exponential function generally exceed those from the triangular function, and this improvement becomes more significant at lower resilience levels. …”
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Optimized multi‐biometric enhancement analysis by Saliha Artabaz, Layth Sliman, Karima Benatchba, Mouloud Koudil

“…To do so, the study applies different functions that are generated using genetic programming (GP) on the 2000 multi‐biometric instances produced by the fusion of different biometric matching scores. …”
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Effects of Anisotropic Turbulent Ocean on Propagation of Asymmetric Bessel-Gaussian Beam by Lin Yu, Zhecheng Zhang, Yixin Zhang, Lifa Hu

“…The anisotropic turbulent condition is adopted to analyze turbulence impacts with more generality. The turbulence dominated by salinity fluctuation with lower anisotropy, larger temperature dissipation and smaller kinetic energy dissipation induces more beam spreading and wander. …”
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Zmiany modelu poznawczego uczniów w kontekście prac nad e-podręcznikiem by Jolanta Dyrda

“…The computer and multi-function mobile telephones accompany young people incessantly. …”
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Application of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Diagnostics in Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers, and Batteries by Chanho Kim, Inyoung Jang

“…Fuel cells are recognized for their ability to generate electricity from hydrogen and oxygen, with water as the only byproduct, and can also function in reverse as energy storage systems by producing hydrogen. …”
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Prescribing Peritoneal Dialysis for Elderly Patients Starting Peritoneal Dialysis by Andrew Davenport

“…Increased availability of dialysis services has led to both an increase in the number of elderly, frail, co-morbid patients with advanced chronic kidney disease now being offered dialysis and starting dialysis with residual kidney function. Traditionally, these patients would have been offered in-centre haemodialysis. …”
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Transmission Scheme for Massive MIMO Systems Using Nulling-Based Approach by Prateek Anand, Arti M.K., Manoranjan Kumar

“…The statistical properties of the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio are characterized at the receiver by deriving closed-form expressions of the moment-generating function (MGF). An approximate expression of the symbol error rate (SER) of the proposed scheme-based system is obtained by using the MGF expression. …”
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Glutamine and cancer: metabolism, immune microenvironment, and therapeutic targets by Ding Nan, Weiping Yao, Luanluan Huang, Ruiqi Liu, Xiaoyan Chen, Wenjie Xia, Hailong Sheng, Haibo Zhang, Xiaodong Liang, Yanwei Lu

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Role of leisure and sleep in promoting daily physical activity in adults with down syndrome by Melissa R. Jenkins, Victoria L. Fleming, Emily K. Schworer, Yiwen Dong, Dana L. Tudorascu, Benjamin L. Handen, Sigan L. Hartley

“…Although physical activity can mitigate the effects of these conditions, adults with DS spend more time sedentary relative to the adult general population. …”
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Muscle Fat and Volume Differences in People With Hip‐Related Pain Compared With Controls: A Machine Learning Approach by Chris Stewart, Evert O. Wesselink, Zuzana Perraton, Kenneth A. Weber II, Matthew G. King, Joanne L. Kemp, Benjamin F. Mentiplay, Kay M. Crossley, James M. Elliott, Joshua J. Heerey, Mark J. Scholes, Peter R. Lawrenson, Chris Calabrese, Adam I. Semciw

“…These changes may facilitate greater muscular efficiency for a given load, enabling the athlete to maintain their normal level of function. In addition, the CNNs for muscle segmentation was more efficient and demonstrated excellent reliability in comparison to manual segmentations.…”
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An Extended Closure Relation by LightGBM for Neutrino Radiation Transport in Core-collapse Supernovae by Shota Takahashi, Akira Harada, Shoichi Yamada

“…For training the model, we utilize some post-bounce snapshots from one of our previous Boltzmann radiation–hydrodynamics simulations; the Eddington tensor, as well as the zeroth and first angular moments, are calculated from the neutrino distribution function obtained in the simulation. LightGBM is light indeed, and its high efficiency in training enables us to feed a large number of features and figure out which features are more important than others. …”
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