Normative Reference Values and Validity for the 30-Second Chair-Stand Test in Healthy Young Adults by Donald H. Lein Jr., Mansour Alotaibi, Marzouq Almutairi, Harshvardhan Singh

“…Training and rehabilitation professionals could use the 30CST for testing functional LE muscle strength for athletes in pre-season or during rehabilitation. …”
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Qatar residents' satisfaction for using the Doha Metro Rail System: An analysis for sustainable transportation by Larry C. Flores, Ardvin Kester S. Ong, Maela Madel L. Cahigas, Ma. Janice J. Gumasing, Crisha Mae M. Cedron

“…To encourage commuters to use sustainable public transportation, it is imperative to design methods to assess public travel satisfaction concerning public transportation use as Qatar moves toward a sustainable public transportation system. …”
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Post-operative Rehabilitation for Scapular Muscle Reattachment: A Case Report by Wendy Burke, W Ben Kibler, Tim L Uhl

“… # Case Description A 47-year-old female physical therapist experienced a traction injury to bilateral upper extremities during a medical procedure resulting in bilateral rhomboid, and bilateral lower trapezius muscles were detached from the medial scapular border. …”
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THE DIGITAL FRONTIER: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR CULTIVATING EDUCATIONAL-STRATEGIC COMPETENCE  FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS by Vira Svyrydiuk, Ostap Bodyk, Larysa Kalinina, Nataliya Prokopchuk, Nina Khrystych

“…The didactic possibilities of digital tools during the production of German-language texts are investigated. …”
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Characteristics of VOCs and their Potentials for O3 and SOA Formation in a Medium-sized City in Eastern China by Peilin Chen, Xinye Zhao, Ou Wang, Min Shao, Xinxin Xiao, Shanshan Wang, Qin’geng Wang

“…The results show that the mean VOC concentration was much lower in the urban center than in the suburbs. …”
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Traffic flow modelling of vehicles on a six lane freeway: Comparative analysis of improved group method of data handling and artificial neural network model by Isaac Oyeyemi Olayode, Alessandro Severino, Frimpong Justice Alex, Elmira Jamei

“…Traffic flow data were obtained from a six-lane freeway during off-peak and on-peak hours using South African road transportation systems as a case study. …”
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Comparison and Impact Factor Analysis of Ground PM2.5 Retrieved by Aqua and Himawari-8 Satellite Products in Guangdong, China by Tingyuan Li, Xuejiao Deng, Jingyang Chen, Jie Xu, Jin Shen

“…Abstract Fine particulate matter (particles sizes < 2.5 µm; PM2.5) concentrations can be obtained at high spatial resolutions using satellite remote sensing. Previous studies on PM2.5 concentrations in Guangdong have used the aerosol optical depth (AOD) determined by MODIS sensors on the Terra and Aqua satellites, which both have a transit time of once per day. …”
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Facilitators and barriers to protective eyewear acceptance among Indian farmers: A qualitative study by Gopinath Madheswaran, K Eshwari, Judith Shefali Jathanna, Syed Ibrahim, Krithica Srinivasan, Lakshmi Shinde, Ramesh S Ve, Rashima Asokan, S Saravanan, SB Saranya

“…Conclusions Although there is awareness regarding the need for protective eyewear, it is often not used due to discomfort during work or concerns about possible breakage of the spectacles. …”
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Differential risk of cardiovascular complications in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus in Ghana: A hospital-based cross-sectional study. by Christian Obirikorang, Evans Asamoah Adu, Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah, Samuel Nkansah Darko, Frank Naku Ghartey, Samuel Ametepe, Eric N Y Nyarko, Enoch Odame Anto, William Kwame Boakye Ansah Owiredu

“…Blood pressure and adiposity indices were measured during recruitment. The risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was defined using Framingham scores and standard low-density lipoprotein thresholds. …”
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Chronic hepatitis B and risk of kidney involvement by M. V. Mayevskaya, I. N. Tikhonov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…HBV-associated renal disease can develop as glomerulonephritis within systemic CHB manifestation or as complication of interferon-therapy due to nephrotoxicity of some antiviral agents, or as infection during replacement renal therapy (hemodialysis, transplantation of kidneys, etc.), as well as acute damage of kidneys or CRF (HRS of the 1st or 2nd type) in patients with decompensated LC at CHB outcome. …”
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Combining machine learning algorithms for bridging gaps in GRACE and GRACE Follow-On missions using ERA5-Land reanalysis by Jaydeo K. Dharpure, Ian M. Howat, Saurabh Kaushik, Bryan G. Mark

“…Unlike previous studies, we use a combination of Machine Learning (ML) methods—Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), Deep Neural Network (DNN), and Stacked Long-Short Term Memory (SLSTM)—to identify and efficiently bridge the gap between GRACE and GFO by using the best-performing ML model to estimate TWSA at each grid cell. …”
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Initial versus Subsequent Injury and Illness and Temporal Trends Among Professional Hockey Players by Chelsea Martin, Allison Lieb, John Tokish, Ellen Shanely, Stefan Kluzek, Gary Collins, Garrett Bullock

“…Centers had the highest overall IR at 15.14 per 1000 athlete game exposures (AGEs) (95%CI:15.12-15.15) and were 1.4 times more likely to sustain a subsequent injury compared to other positions. …”
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Anti-Obesity Effects of Arum maculatum, Nasturtium officinale Plant Extracts and Exercise in High Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rats by Zana Hassan Ibrahim

“…Corresponding treatments were established to the respective groups during study period. Rat body weights (BW) and food intake were obtained weekly. …”
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Length-weight relationship, condition factors and reproductive biology of the spineless cuttlefish Sepiella inermis (Ferussac &amp; d’Orbigny, 1848) in the southeastern regions of... by Roksana Jahan, Md. Nasim Mahmud

“…The major spawning season in males was observed during January and May 2023. GSI had a negative correlation with condition factors in females and males. …”
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USING A DIDACTIC TOOL WITH IT-SUPPORT FOR TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN A SPECIAL SCHOOL IN SLOVAKIA by Viktor Hladush, Slávka Bendíková, Barbora Kovačova, Marcela Čarnická

“…During this study, we analyzed and compared the level of geography knowledge among students over a span of 6 academic years (2016 – 2018 – traditional education, 2019 – 2021 – education using e-Learning). …”
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Predicting species distributions in the open ocean with convolutional neural networks by Morand, Gaétan, Joly, Alexis, Rouyer, Tristan, Lorieul, Titouan, Barde, Julien

“…As biodiversity plummets due to anthropogenic disturbances, the conservation of oceanic species is made harder by limited knowledge of their distributions and migrations. …”
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Do the Street Sweeping and Washing Work for Reducing the Near-ground Levels of Fine Particulate Matter and Related Pollutants? by Sheng-Lun Lin, Yunzhou Deng, Ming-Yeng Lin, Shih-Wei Huang

“…The primary pollutants are more easily reduced by the street-cleaning process, while the secondary one did not.…”
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Unhealthy alcohol use and risk of coronary heart disease among young and middle-aged adults by Jamal S. Rana, Felicia W. Chi, Isaac Acquah, Stacy A. Sterling

“…Objective: To examine the associations between unhealthy alcohol use and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) among women and men aged 18–65 years. …”
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Navigating Host Immunity and Concurrent Ozone Stress: Strain‐Resolved Metagenomics Reveals Maintenance of Intraspecific Diversity and Genetic Variation in Xanthomonas on Pepper by Amanpreet Kaur, Ivory Russell, Ranlin Liu, Auston Holland, Rishi Bhandari, Neha Potnis

“…Both standing genetic variation and de novo parallel mutations contributed toward evolutionary modifications during adaptation onto the resistant cultivar. The presence of elevated O3, however, led to a relatively higher genetic polymorphism, with random and transient mutations. …”
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Multimorbidity in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Associations With Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Healthcare Costs: A Real-World Evidence Study by Dingwei Dai, Joaquim Fernandes, Xiaowu Sun, Laura Lupton, Vaughn W. Payne, Alexandra Berk

“…Association rule mining was applied to identify comorbid condition combinations. …”
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