PHYSIOTHERAPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS IN ELDERLY by Cătălina Mihaela Dascălu, Paul Lucaci, Marius Neculăeș, Beatrice Aurelia Abalașei

“…The regular practice of exercises performed by patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, in an intervention program through adequate guidance, can helppreventing the loss of muscle strength and the restriction of daily activities.…”
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Participatory science methods to monitor water quality and ground truth remote sensing of the Chesapeake Bay. by Patrick Neale, Shelby Brown, Tara Sill, Alison Cawood, Maria Tzortziou, Jieun Park, Min-Sun Lee, Beth Paquette

“…In the program, trained volunteers have measured surface turbidity using a smartphone app, HydroColor, calibrated with a photographer's gray card. …”
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Dental and oral health assessments in the German National Cohort (NAKO) by Stefanie Samietz, Katrin Borof, Katrin Hertrampf, Ghazal Aarabi, Antonio Ciardo, Hannah Finke, Daniel Hagenfeld, Jan Kühnisch, Maurice Rütters, Sebastian-Edgar Baumeister, Stefan Lars Reckelkamm, Ti-Sun Kim, Thomas Kocher, Wolfgang Ahrens, Hermann Brenner, Carina Emmel, Beate Fischer, Amand Führer, Karin Halina Greiser, Jasmin Grischke, Kathrin Günther, Volker Harth, Stefanie Jaskulski, André Karch, Thomas Keil, Yvonne Kemmling, Alexander Kluttig, Lilian Krist, Oliver Kuss, Michael Leitzmann, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Karin B. Michels, Nadia Obi, Anette Peters, Nicole Pischon, Tobias Pischon, Sabine Schipf, Börge Schmidt, Henning Teismann, Stefan Rupf, Birte Holtfreter

“…Methods During baseline examinations (2014–2019), a total of 205,184 persons aged 19–74 years has been examined in 18 study centres, including, among others, a dental interview, stimulated saliva sampling, and recording of the numbers of present teeth and prostheses (standard Level 1 program). As part of the Level 2 program that was offered to 20% randomly selected participants, each study centre selected one of three modules, one of them being the Level 2 oral examination. …”
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PERAN GANDA SUBAK UNTUK PERTANIAN BERKELANJUTAN DI PROVINSI BALI (The Double Roles of Subak For Sustainable Agriculture in Bali Province) by I Wayan Budiasa

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Reconstructing missing data of damaged buildings from post-hurricane reconnaissance data using XGBoost by Hyunje Yang, Jun-Whan Lee, Steven Klepac, Armando Ulises Santos Cruz, Arthriya Subgranon, Junfeng Jiao

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Evaluating the Accuracy of Land-Use Change Models for Predicting Vegetation Loss Across Brazilian Biomes by Macleidi Varnier, Eliseu José Weber

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Coordinated Control and Load Shifting-Based Demand Management of a Smart Microgrid Adopting Energy Internet by Ali M. Jasim, Basil H. Jasim, Bilal Naji Alhasnawi, Aymen Flah, Habib Kraiem

“…The optimal demand management program minimizes peak energy consumption from 5.2 kWh to 4.6 kWh. …”
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Artificial Vision Systems for Mobility Impairment Detection: Integrating Synthetic Data, Ethical Considerations, and Real-World Applications by Santiago Felipe Luna-Romero, Mauren Abreu de Souza, Luis Serpa Andrade

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Using machine learning models to predict the impact of template mismatches on polymerase chain reaction assay performance by Brittany Knight, Taylor Otwell, Michael P. Coryell, Jennifer Stone, Phillip Davis, Bryan Necciai, Paul E. Carlson, Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Alyxandria M. Schubert, Yi H. Yan

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Enhancing mental health literacy and care through community-driven solutions in rural Bangladesh by Ryan Afreen, Sanjna L. Surya, Tasnim Jara, Ima Islam, Rahana Parvin, S. M. Ferdousuzzaman, Masum Salah Uddin, Nahreen Ahmed, Nahreen Ahmed

“…Additionally, five focus group discussions were conducted at local tech hubs with trained community health workers to explore participants' perceptions and attitudes toward mental health. …”
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Un quartier à soi : Demolició, le beau Raval de Virginie Manuel by Sonia Kerfa

“…Demolició reports this aesthetic and emotional relationship with the programmed ruin and with the construction workers who are transfigured by the cineast's camera. …”
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Figurative Languages Employed by EFL Lecturers in Teaching by Fatimah Fatimah, Siti Hardiyanti Amri, Rusan Rusan

“…The subjects of this research are two EFL lecturers and students at English Education Study Program of STKIP Dampal Selatan. The results of the research indicated that (1) kinds of figurative languages employed by EFL lecturers in teaching are: rhetoric, simile, metonymy, personification, repetition, paradox, metaphor, and litotes, (2) the reasons for using figurative languages are: to help students’ understanding the lessons, in motivating students in learning process, for introducing language and culture, as a feedback to increase students’ understanding on the lessons, and to train students’ critical thinking. …”
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Assessing the Elderly Health-related Unmet Needs and Some Related Factors in Hamadan City, Iran by Fatemeh Mansouri-Shad, Parvin Cheraghi, Sediqheh Mafakheri-Bashmagh, Qhadir Nouri, Zahra Cheraghi

“…To promote healthy and dynamic aging, it is essential to identify basic and immediate needs, continuously monitor progress, improve the quality and quantity of program services, and review the elderly care program. …”
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Education strategies are the most commonly used in pediatric rehabilitation implementation research: a scoping review by Sahar Ghahramani, Sophia C. Larson, Allison J. L’Hotta, Kelly M. Harris, Kim Lipsey, Elvin H. Geng, Lisa A. Juckett, Catherine R. Hoyt

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Symplectic machine learning model for fast simulation of space-charge effects by Jinyu Wan, Ji Qiang, Yue Hao

“…This model has been integrated into jutrack, a novel autodifferentiable accelerator modeling code developed in the julia programming language.…”
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From Viewing to Structure: A Computational Framework for Modeling and Visualizing Visual Exploration by Kuan-Chen Chen, Chang-Franw Lee, Teng-Wen Chang, Cheng-Gang Wang, Jia-Rong Li

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CARTOON-based educational intervention for children to foster hygiene knowledge and emotional resilience in preschool children: a randomized controlled trial by Philipp Steinbauer, Magdalena Bichler, Renate Fuiko, Sanja Seferagic, Hanna Haas, Tamara Lisy, Sophie Weinmüller, Angelika Berger, Monika Olischar, Agnes Panagl, Vito Giordano

“…Children were randomized into an intervention (specific psychoeducational program) and a control group (routine hygiene practices). …”
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Evaluation of Continuing Education Center Activities in Terms of Female Participants: A Qualitative Research at Istanbul University Continuing Education Center by Hanife Candır Şimşek

“…The interviews were coded using the program NVivo 10, after which the codes were gathered under categories and made meaningful. …”
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Optimal sizing of diesel-electric hybrid powertrain for locomotive by ZHANG Chi, WU Jian, ZHANG Weige, ZHENG Xinjie, CHE Zhanghang, ZHU Zhenlin

“…Although the traditional bi-loop optimal sizing method can generate the optimal parameters, the dynamic programming algorithms used as the inner-loop to improve energy management strategy results in a long computation time. …”
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An open-source tool for analysis and automatic identification of dendritic spines using machine learning. by Michael S Smirnov, Tavita R Garrett, Ryohei Yasuda

“…For this purpose, we present a program capable of automatically identifying dendritic spines in live, fluorescent tissue. …”
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