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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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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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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Non-Invasive Diagnosis and Monitoring of Diabetic Nephropathy: Assessment of Renal Function and Fibrosis by Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging by Yuan JL, Hu LA, Wang XY, Shi ZY, Chen T, Huang XZ, Wu Y, Cai QJ, Yang ZX, Chen XY, Yuan L, Zhang Y

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Subjective experience, psychosocial functioning and different psychomotor clusters in catatonia: How are they connected? by Geva A. Brandt, Stefan Fritze, Dilsa Cemre Akkoc Altinok, Sebastian Volkmer, Jacqueline Kukovic, Jonas Daub, Katharina M. Kubera, Georg Northoff, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Dusan Hirjak

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Current situation of pharmacy services in community health centers and the functioning of pharmacists in family doctor teams in Shanghai by Rui LIU, Yu CAO, Aiqun CHU, Huanyun WU

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Probing Environmental Dependence of High-Redshift Galaxy Properties with the Marked Correlation Function by Emy Mons, Charles Jose

“…Moreover, the amplitude of the marked correlation function is generally higher for LBG samples compared to that of $z \sim 0$ galaxies from previous studies. …”
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High functional diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis driven by genetic drift and human demography. by Ruth Hershberg, Mikhail Lipatov, Peter M Small, Hadar Sheffer, Stefan Niemann, Susanne Homolka, Jared C Roach, Kristin Kremer, Dmitri A Petrov, Marcus W Feldman, Sebastien Gagneux

“…We show that the members of MTBC affecting humans are more genetically diverse than generally assumed, and that this diversity can be linked to human demographic and migratory events. …”
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Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning by Patrick K. Thomas, Marrit Jacob, Esteban Acevedo‐Trejos, Helmut Hillebrand, Maren Striebel

“…Abstract Biodiversity generally increases productivity in ecosystems; however, this is mediated by the specific functional traits that come with biodiversity loss or gain and how these traits interact with environmental conditions. …”
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Some Simpson’s Riemann–Liouville Fractional Integral Inequalities with Applications to Special Functions by Jamshed Nasir, Shahid Qaisar, Saad Ihsan Butt, Khuram Ali Khan, Rostin Matendo Mabela

“…We expect that present outcomes are the generalization of already obtained results. Applications to beta, q-digamma, and Bessel functions are also provided.…”
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Comparing Family Functioning and Maternal Anxiety in Children with Attention and Hyperactivity Disorder and Controls by Gonca OZYURT, Aynur AKAY PEKCANLAR, Yusuf OZTURK

“…If the relationship between maternal anxiety, family functioning and ADHD is understood well, treatment of ADHD will be provided more effectively. …”
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