Impact of urate-lowering therapy on quality of life indicators in patients with gout by M. N. Chikina, O. V. Zhelyabina, M. S. Eliseev

“…Patients who did not reach the target UA level on febuxostat therapy improved such indicators as physical functioning, role-physical functioning, and bodily pain (p<0.05 in all cases). …”
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Tendencies in defense expenditure of NATO countries by D.M. Vyhivskyi

“…Analysis of the defense expenditures of the vast majority of the Alliance members showed their significant growth, however, according to the level of achievement of the target indicator, they can be divided into the following groups: those that have already reached 2 % of GDP or almost reached this level; those who are rapidly moving towards the target indicator and anticipate its achievement in the near future; those who plan to reach the target level of defense spending in the long term, but currently have an indicator below 1,5 %. …”
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Sportorthopädie by Stroehlein JK, van den Bongard F, Barthel T, Reinsberger C

“…Background: There is some evidence that regular physical activity has protective effects on cognitive functions in elderly people. The optimal dose of physical activity remains to be elucidated. …”
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Examining physical and technical performance among youth basketball national team development program players: a multidimensional approach by Kazimierz Mikołajec, Jorge Arede, Karol Gryko

“…A total of 234 athletes participated in a comprehensive test battery, assessing morphological (height, mass, standing reach), physical (sprinting, agility, jump height, endurance), technical (jump shot, free throws, dribbling), and functional movement screen variables. …”
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Resistance Training Combined with Balance or Gait Training for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study by Johanna Theresia Biebl, Monica Azqueta-Gavaldon, Cornelia Wania, Olena Zettl, Matthias Woiczinski, Leandra Bauer, Claudia Storz, Kai Bötzel, Eduard Kraft

“…The primary outcome parameters were the functional reach test to evaluate balance and stride length to evaluate gait. …”
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Exposures and hearing thresholds in music students due to training sessions by A. JAROSZEWSKI, T. FIDECKI, P. ROGOWSKI

“…Measurements of SPL's in sound emission from some wind instruments during training sessions of music students show all in excess of LAmax 110 dB and reach LAmax 132 dB in some cases. Long time average spectra in 1/3-octave bands and cumulative distribution functions show that e.g. sound pressure levels LA 50 are often around 100-110 dB and in most instruments the spectra cover substantial range of frequencies. …”
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Evolution of cetacean-specific conserved non-coding elements suggests their role in the limb changes during secondary aquatic adaptation by Zhenhua Zhang, Zhenpeng Yu, Yujie Chong, Yao Liu, Jia Liu, Wenhua Ren, Shixia Xu, Guang Yang

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Purification and Identification of Flavonoids from <i>Prunus mume</i> and Its Anti-Photoaging Activities on UVB-Induced Human Keratinocytes by Yuxuan Liu, Mengdie He, Xinxin Wei, Qifeng Han, Xiang Yang, Gangyi Huang, Chen Zhang, Mengqi Wu, Wenqing Zhang

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A mixed-methods formative process evaluation of the falls management exercise programme in an English county by Patricia Jessiman, Ruth Salway, Rona Campbell

“…Median levels of Timed-up-and-go, Functional Reach and the Turn 180o test improved across the 110 participants between baseline and the end of the FaME intervention (P < 0.001). …”
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Rational design of nitrogen and fluorine co-doped metal-free porous carbons electrocatalysts for highly efficient oxygen reduction and zinc-air batteries by Linqiang Li, Na Qin, Huayun Ma, Jing Liu, Zhiqiang Zhu, Yaxiong Huo, Lipeng Zhai, Liwei Mi

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All-Ceramic Fiber Fabry–Perot Cavity High-Temperature Pulsating Pressure Sensor Based on HTCC by Xiangcong Xu, Fei Wang, Guoqing Han, Huiyi Tang, Wanfeng Zhou, Xiaohua Lei, Xianming Liu

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Bivariate Chebyshev Type Inequalities for Alpha Diamond Integrals via Time Scale Calculus by Khaled Aldwoah, Ammara Nosheen, Faez A. Alqarni, Khuram Ali Khan, Masud Ahmad, Rostin M. Mabela

“…In this article, some generalizations of inequalities involving Chebyshev functional depending upon two parameters, for the class of twice differentiable functions on time scales, are studied. …”
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Nitrogen Supply Mitigates Temperature Stress Effects on Rice Photosynthetic Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Water Relations by Zhuang Xiong, Fangzhou Zheng, Chao Wu, Hui Tang, Dongliang Xiong, Kehui Cui, Shaobing Peng, Jianliang Huang

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A Surface Plasmon Biosensor Based on a D-Shaped Microstructured Optical Fiber With Rectangular Lattice by Lu Peng, Fukun Shi, Guiyao Zhou, Shu Ge, Zhiyun Hou, Changming Xia

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Superinfection of a Dead Hepatic Echinococcal Cyst with a Cutaneous Fistulization by Giuseppe Cicero, Alfredo Blandino, Giorgio Ascenti, Tommaso D’Angelo, Luciano Frosina, Carmela Visalli, Ignazio Salamone, Maria Adele Marino, Marco Cavallaro, Silvio Mazziotti

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Onset of End-Stage Atrophic Age-Related Macular Degeneration as an End Point—A Delphi Study: Classification of Atrophy Meetings Report 7 by Zhichao Wu, BAppSc(Optom), PhD, Srinivas R. Sadda, MD, Thomas Ach, MD, Barbara A. Blodi, MD, Ferdinando Bottoni, MD, Usha Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, Emily Y. Chew, MD, Christine A. Curcio, PhD, Frederick L. Ferris, III, MD, Monika Fleckenstein, MD, K. Bailey Freund, MD, Juan E. Grunwald, MD, Frank G. Holz, MD, Glenn J. Jaffe, MD, Sandra Liakopoulos, MD, Tock Han Lim, FRCSEd, Jordi M. Monés, MD, PhD, Sergio Pagliarini, MD, FRCOphth, Daniel Pauleikhoff, MD, Maximilian Pfau, MD, Philip J. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD, David Sarraf, MD, Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD, Richard F. Spaide, MD, Janet R. Sparrow, PhD, Giovanni Staurenghi, MD, Adnan Tufail, MD, Francesco Viola, MD, Robyn H. Guymer, MBBS, PhD

“…Consensus was also reached for the statement that such an end point should be defined based on anatomical changes that have been previously shown in clinical studies to be associated with marked, but not necessarily complete, functional loss (95% responses in agreement). …”
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Design and implementation of J2EE-based statement feature recognition in English teaching system optimization by Lina Wang

“…This paper analyzes and explains the overall structure of the J2Ee-based English teaching system, briefly introduces the overall framework of the whole website, and introduces the main functions of each functional module of the website. …”
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Building and validation of wireframe for software prototype aimed at occupational vaccines by Joice Rodrigues Machado Hahn, Melanie Schröder, Silvana Aline Cordeiro Antoniolli, Elizete Maria de Souza Bueno, Luccas Melo de Souza, Adriana Aparecida Paz

“… To build and validate the functionality and interface of the wireframe of a software prototype for managing worker vaccinations. …”
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Empowerment delle donne e Well-being dei bambini: un approccio allo sviluppo umano by Alba Francesca Canta

“…Indeed, the latter value people’s life only in terms of owned assets considering them only as an end and never as a mean to reach something else. Basing on the capability approach we conducted an empirical research, using qualitative and quantitative techniques, into two Italian areas: Caltanissetta and Rome in order to assess the women’s and children’s quality of life and suggest new approaches to reach equality and opportunities. …”
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High Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensor Based on Trapezoidal Subwavelength Grating Slot Microring Resonator by Hanyue Li, Longsheng Wu, Yi Jin, Aimin Wu

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