Exploring Rehabilitation Patients’ Perspectives on What Matters for the Adoption of Home-Based Rehabilitation Technology: Q-Methodology Study by Karlijn E te Boekhorst, Sanne J Kuipers, Gerard M Ribbers, Jane M Cramm

“…By-person factor analysis identified common patterns in how participants ranked the statements. …”
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Evaluating domestication and ploidy effects on the assembly of the wheat bacterial microbiome. by Heidi M L Wipf, Devin Coleman-Derr

“…While numerous studies implicate the microbiome in host fitness, contributions of host evolution to microbial recruitment remain largely uncharacterized. …”
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Epidemiology of Pickleball-Related Foot and Ankle Injuries (2015 – 2023) by Kiera Kingston MD, Emily Belle Parker BS, Alexander Higgins DO, Jeremy T. Smith MD

“…The surge in pickleball’s popularity is largely attributed to a growing population of older adults in search of a relatively low-impact yet engaging physical activity. While pickleball is great for promoting both physical fitness and social interaction, it is not without risk of injury. …”
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Aging With Strength: Functional Training to Support Independence and Quality of Life by Brian Brogno DHSc

“…Functional resistance training (FRT) has been among the most popular fitness trends worldwide for over a decade, driven by its emphasis on movement patterns essential for daily activities and maintaining functional independence. …”
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AI-Driven Feedback Systems Reduce Sidewalk Riding on Shared E-Scooters by Mohammad Mehdi Oshanreh, Daniel Malarkey, Don MacKenzie

“…These results suggest AI feedback modifies behavior but doesn't fundamentally change diverse riding patterns.…”
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Training protocol characteristics in studies comparing functional versus traditional training: systematic review of controlled trials by Jader Alfredo Beck, Jean Marlon Machado, Amandda de Souza, Cristiano Gomes Sanchotene, Fábio Hech Dominski, Caroline Ruschel

“…Discussion: This review highlights the methodological overlap between FT and TT, making it difficult to clearly distinguish these approaches. While FT originates in rehabilitation and aims to improve movement patterns relevant to daily life, TT follows structured load manipulation principles to enhance muscular strength. …”
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Spatial behavior of mesocarnivores living in seasonal ecosystems: A case study in arid landscapes in northern-central Chile by Darío Moreira-Arce, Pablo M. Vergara, Alex Oporto, Alberto J. Alaniz, Claudia Hidalgo-Corrotea, Alfredo H. Zúñiga, Alejo Gutiérrez, Sebastián Moreno, Daniela Araya, Simone Ciuti

“…Extreme microclimate conditions can directly shape the habitat use patterns but also indirectly through seasonally modifying plant productivity, while terrain morphology (topography and elevation) acts as a regulator of extreme climate. …”
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Overweight and obesity among Saudi university students and their relationships with various lifestyle habits: a cross-sectional study by Gamil Ghaleb Alrubaiee, Talal Ali Alqalah, Sameer A Alkubati, Nabil A Al-Rabeei

“…Abstract Objective The primary aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of overweight/obesity among Saudi university students, while the secondary aim was to explore the associations of overweight/obesity and various lifestyle habits. …”
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Nonlinear Relationship Between the Elderly’s Perception of Green Spaces and Their Activity Characteristics by Yuanjing WU, Yongyi YOU, Wei ZHOU, Siren LAN

“…While previous studies have examined the influence of green spaces on the elderly, most have emphasized objective environmental characteristics — such as vegetation coverage, facility distribution, and spatial accessibility — while largely overlooking subjective perceptions that often guide behavior more directly. …”
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Effect of Static Balance Ability on Dual-Task Costs Under Different Walking TaskInterventions in Chinese Older Adults by WANG Chenglong, NIE Mingjian, XIAO Chenhui, WU Yini, WANG Jingjing

“…Under the dual-task intervention condition, compared to the low-balance group, the high-balance group exhibited an increase in single support time cost (0.35% vs. -1.51%, P=0.019) and swing time cost (0.33% vs. -1.20%, P=0.044), along with a reduction in stride frequency cost (-0.85% vs. 0.14%, P=0.042).ConclusionsWhile dual-task conditions generally impair gait parameters in older adults, individuals with higher balance abilities maintain more stable gait patterns during motor dual-tasks, demonstrating greater resilience to interference. …”
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Explaining drivers of housing prices with nonlinear hedonic regressions by Heng Wan, Pranab K. Roy Chowdhury, Jim Yoon, Parin Bhaduri, Vivek Srikrishnan, David Judi, Brent Daniel

“…In this study, we employ interpretable ML to analyze the patterns driving the housing market in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. …”
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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

“…Six themes were identified: occupational hazards while farming, practice patterns for managing occupational hazards, uses of protective eyewear while farming, benefits and challenges of protective eyewear, perceptions about protective eyewear and suggestions for improvement. …”
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Polygenic Genetic Analysis of Principal Genes for Yield Traits in Land Cotton by Xiaoman Ma, Weifeng Guo, Liangrong He, Xinchuan Cao

“…The optimal genetic model for single boll weight and seed index was PG-ADI, while MX2-ADI-AD best fit the traits of boll number per plant and lint percentage. …”
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Optimization of heat and mass transfer in chemically radiative nanofluids using Cattaneo-Christov fluxes and advanced machine learning techniques by Shazia Habib, Saleem Nasir, Zeeshan Khan, Abdallah S. Berrouk, Waseem Khan, Saeed Islam

“…The overall AE fall within 10-03-10-07.The MSE values lie within the interval of 1001-10-05.The FIT spread over the range of 100-10-12 while the MAD values lie in the interval 10-01-10-07.The Mean values observed between 10-03 and 10-04 while the Standard deviation values fall within the range 10-02-10-04, demonstrating that the proposed methodology is precise and consistent. …”
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Training Rarámuri Criollo Cattle to Virtual Fencing in a Chaparral Rangeland by Sara E. Campa Madrid, Andres R. Perea, Micah Funk, Maximiliano J. Spetter, Mehmet Bakir, Jeremy Walker, Rick E. Estell, Brandon Smythe, Sergio Soto-Navarro, Sheri A. Spiegal, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Santiago A. Utsumi

“…The study found that Rarámuri Criollo cows can effectively adapt to virtual fencing technology, achieving over 99% containment rate while displaying typical diurnal patterns for grazing, resting, or traveling behavior. …”
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Mycorrhizal and nutrient controls of carbon sequestration in tropical rainforest soil by Jie Chen, Xin Tang, Han Xu, Yanpeng Li, Adriana Corrales, Yide Li, Yakov Kuzyakov, Zhanfeng Liu, Shirong Liu

“…The AM tree community patterns had inconsistent regulations on SOC, with basal area showing a positive while species richness exerting a negative effect on SOC content. …”
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The Ethical Significance of Brain-Computer Interfaces as Enablers of Communication by Toma Gruica

“…Funding models must evolve beyond traditional reimbursement schemes ill-fitted to support the sustained maintenance and upgrading necessary for BCI functionality. …”
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Dimensional accuracy of 3D-printed surgical cutting guides after hospital sterilization: a comparative evaluation of ten MEX materials by Diana Popescu, Mariana Cristiana Iacob, Rodica Marinescu

“…After hydrogen peroxide sterilization, PETG, PC, and PETG-CF kept a high accuracy, while PLA, PLA-HP, PA, and PA6-CF showed significant deformations. …”
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Genre as diversity, and rhetorical mode as unity in language use by José Luiz Meurer

“…Within this perspective I propose that while genres stand for diversity and fit the notion of specific text type identifiable by specific format and used in specific social contexts to fulfil specific functions, rhetorical modes stand for unity as they constitute general patterns of language organisation strategically used by authors/ writers as linguistic resources in the creation of specific genres. …”
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Image rain removal network based on checkerboard transformer and CNN hybrid mechanism. by Yutian Yang, Jianyu Lin, Xinyue Dai, Zhipei Zhang, Shuijin Zhang, Yingyu Chen, Guangxin Kong, Xin Li

“…The network seamlessly integrates the advantages of Transformer and fitted neural network (CNN) in a checkerboard architecture, fully utilizing the global modeling capability of Transformer and the local feature extraction efficiency of CNN.ChessFormer adopts a multilevel feature extraction and progressive feature fusion strategy to efficiently achieve the rain line while preserving the We design a multidimensional transposed attention (MSTA), which enhances the network fusion for different rain patterns and mechanism image textures by combining self-attention with gated phase operation. …”
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