Adherence to customized vestibular rehabilitation therapy: influencing factors and clinical implications in vestibulopathy by Yeon Hee Im, Hyun Jin Lee, Eun-Ju Jeon

“…Among patients with AUVH, poor functional reach test scores were significantly associated with lower adherence (p = 0.045). …”
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Quantitative accuracy of 177Lu SPECT imaging for molecular radiotherapy. by Emilio Mezzenga, Vincenzo D'Errico, Marco D'Arienzo, Lidia Strigari, Koutla Panagiota, Federica Matteucci, Stefano Severi, Giovanni Paganelli, Andrew Fenwick, David Bianchini, Francesco Marcocci, Anna Sarnelli

“…Moreover, the noise level and the concentration recovery coefficient were evaluated as a function of the number of 3D-OSEM updates by using the SPECT/CT images of the reference geometry phantoms and those of a cold Jaszczak phantom with three hot spheres (16ml, 8ml and 4ml), respectively. …”
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Acid Aging of CFRP Composite Materials for Solar UAV Structure by Bing Shen, HongJun Liu, Shengli Lv, Zheng Li, Wen Cheng

“…The composite material under the hygrothermal conditions finally reached the equilibrium moisture absorption content of 1.07%, and the flexural strength decreased by 8.77%. …”
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The Need for Change: A Roadmap for the Sustainable Transformation of the Chemical Industry by Klaus Günter Steinhäuser, Markus Große Ophoff

“…The speed of transformation is currently too slow to reach this goal. Science can drive innovation, but international agreements are necessary to establish a binding framework for action.…”
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Transfer and Metabolism of Triadimefon Residues from Rape Flowers to Apicultural Products by Ying-Hong Li, Bei-Lei Zhou, Ming-Rong Qian, Qiang Wang, Hu Zhang

“…Time to attain the maximum permissible limit of pollen in the European Union was 14.9 days, predicted from the index function.…”
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Features of Modern Anticoagulant Therapy in Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation and Chronic Kidney Disease by I. S. Daabul, A. A. Sokolova, D. A. Napalkov

“…According to the existing statistics its prevalence reaches about 2% so it is twice more, than it was considered in the last decade. …”
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Three-dimensional Simulation of Wet Combustion of Hydrogen-methane Mixture in the Annular Combustion Chamber of a Microturbine by A. Sohrabi, S. M. Mirsajedi

“…With hydrogen’s high heating value, the chamber temperature reaches 2376 K, significantly increasing NOx and CO emissions. …”
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SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AS THE PROBLEM OF DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT by V. V. Zakharenkov, I. V. Viblaya, E. A. Zabrodina

“…It is specified that complications of sexually transmitted infections lead to formation of congenital diseases, break reproductive function of younger generation, negatively affect birth rate indicators, worsen a demographic situation, aggravating depopulation processes in Russia and its territorial units. …”
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Optimization of biosensor based on nitride-photonic crystal operating in visible range for Glucose detection by Hassen Dakhlaoui, Walid Belhadj

“…Furthermore, the resonant wavelength, the quality factor (Q) and the sensitivity (S) of the proposed biosensor were evaluated as a function of the number of periods and glucose concentration. …”
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Beam-steering of a single-element nano-antenna with two transferring dielectric flat lenses by Fatma E. Helmy, Ibrahim I. Ibrahim, Amany M. Saleh

“…Moreover, the PSO algorithm is provided to maximize the pre-specified fitness function.…”
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Atmospheric mixed Rossby–gravity waves over the tropical Pacific during the austral summer by H. A. Braga, V. Magaña

“…Using an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of the high-frequency meridional component anomalies of the wind at 200 hPa, for zonal wavenumbers 4–6, episodes of intense MRGW activity are detected. …”
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THE LAWS OF CAVITATION EROSION OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS by V. P. Rodionov, A. I. Ukolov

“…Experimental dependences and the analytical function of erosion penetration rate over time, as well as the relative distance  between the sample and the cavitator's cut-off, obtained using the  regression analysis method, are presented. …”
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Combining Dielectric and Hyperspectral Data for Apple Core Browning Detection by Hanchi Liu, Jinrong He, Yanxin Shi, Yingzhou Bi

“…At last, five traditional classifiers, such as k-Nearest Neighbors, a support vector machine with radial basis function kernel and polynomial kernel, Decision Tree, and neural network, are trained on the fused feature vectors to discriminate apple core browning. …”
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Political Governance and Economic Growth: Institutional Analysis of Russian Experience by I. A. Mankovsky

“…Dependence of the economic system efficiency on the quality of managerial (political) decision-making, institutional environment of national economy developed on their basis, the level of economic plan implementation and the degree of economic system readiness to function in conditions of external challenges was demonstrated by interdisciplinary analysis. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Subsea Oil and Gas Pipelines with Corrosion Defects Under Impact Load by Zeng Wei, Tian Xumin, Zheng Jilin, Zhu Dongrun

“…On this basis， a reliability calculation method for subsea pipelines with corrosion defects based on the function response value KG prediction model was proposed， and the influences of impact velocity， pipeline burial depth and pipeline corrosion depth on the reliability of subsea oil and gas pipelines were investigated. …”
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Reversible data hiding scheme based on enhanced image smoothness by Jinghan WANG, Hui ZHU, Helin LI, Hui LI, Xiaopeng YANG

“…With the prosperity of Internet technology and the popularity of social networks, reversible data hiding technology has been widely adopted in concealed information transmission of medical and military fields with its advantages on secret information recovery.Traditional reversible data hiding schemes mainly focus on the enhancement of embedding capacity and the reduction of the distortion rate of stego image, but pay less attention to the understanding of image details with the human eyes.Thus, it is difficult to resist hidden information detection methods.To solve the above challenge, a reversible data hiding algorithm was proposed, which ensured the visual quality of the stego image in the process of data hiding through the image visual smoothness enhancement.Specifically, the original image was divided into reference area and non-reference area.The secret data was embedded through the translation of the difference, which was calculated according to the predicted pixel value and the original pixel value of the non-reference area.To guarantee the visual quality of the image, smoothing mechanism was constructed, in which a Gaussian filter was utilized as a template to filter the predicted value and to add the filter difference into the cover image without loss.The pixel value of the reference region was used as edge information for lossless restoration of the original image.The filtering coefficient in Gaussian function was exploited as the embedded key to ensure the security of secret information.Simulation results regarding a large number of classical image data sets illustrated that the visual smoothness of stego image processed by this scheme was effectively enhanced with lower distortion rate, higher embedding rate, and higher embedding and extraction efficiency.In a typical circumstance, the similarity between the generated stego image and the Gaussian filter image can reach 0.9963.The PSNR and the embedded capacity can be up to 37.346 and 0.3289 BPP, respectively.…”
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Hyperspectral RGB Imaging Combined With Deep Learning for Maize Seed Variety Identification by Jian Li, Fan Xu, Shaozhong Song, Qi Ji, Junling Liu

“…While incorporating model improvements, the accuracy of the model on the reconstructed dataset reached 88.18%, surpassing other relevant models and leading to an overall accuracy improvement of 4.79%. …”
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Research on the Optimization of the Electrode Structure and Signal Processing Method of the Field Mill Type Electric Field Sensor by Wei Zhao, Zhizhong Li, Haitao Zhang

“…Experimental results indicate that within the simulated electric field intensity range of 0–20 kV/m in the laboratory, the measurement resolution of this system can reach 18.7 V/m, and the measurement linearity is more than 99%. …”
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Intuition-guided Reinforcement Learning for Soft Tissue Manipulation with Unknown Constraints by Xian He, Shuai Zhang, Jian Chu, Tongyu Jia, Lantao Yu, Bo Ouyang

“…A regulator factor is designed as an action within this framework to coordinate the IM approach and the SAC network. A reward function is designed to balance the exploration and exploitation of large deformations. …”
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Lower Extremity Kinematics of the Y-Balance Test in Healthy and ACL Injured Adolescent Females by Alison Bulow, Alixandra Bellemare, Judy E Anderson, Jeff R S Leiter, Peter B MacDonald, Jason D Peeler

“…The Y-Balance Test (YBT) is frequently used to evaluate neuromuscular control and lower extremity function. However, few studies have quantified 2D lower extremity kinematics during performance of the YBT, and there is an absence of kinematic data specific to at-risk adolescent females…”
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