The beneficial effect of spiritual social support on depression and quality of life in chronic renal failure patients undergoing haemodialysis by Susanti, Bistara Difran Nobel, Arif Helmi Setiawan, Ikwan Mochamad, Umamah Faridah, Zahroh Chilyatiz, Sham Fatimah Binti, Nordin Roswati Binti, Cherry Mustamu Alva

“…Methods: The current investigation utilised a quasi-experimental approach with a preand post-test control group structure. Ninety-two patients from Rumah Sakit Islam Surabaya were separated into two groups: intervention (n = 46) versus control (n = 46). …”
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Accelerometer measurement error in a randomized physical activity intervention trial in breast cancer survivors was nondifferential but attenuated the intervention effect by Laura Q. Rogers, Douglas Midthune, Kevin Dodd, Heather Bowles, Edward McAuley, Kerry S. Courneya, Brian Barrett, Spiro Razis, Gary R. Hunter, Stephen J. Carter, Raymond J. Carroll, Victor Kipnis

“…The trial included a sub-study (n = 106) wherein unbiased measures of total energy expenditure (doubly labeled water), and resting energy expenditure (indirect calorimetry) were collected. A linear mixed measurement error model characterized the structure of measurement error in accelerometry-estimated physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE), and corrected for bias in the estimated intervention effect due to measurement error. …”
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Comorbidity in patients with lobular panniculitis-lipodermatosclerosis by O. N. Egorova, B. S. Belov, E. G. Sazhina

“…The onset of LDS falls on the age of 50–60 years, when many patients already have comorbid pathology requiring complex therapy, which affects the course, the choice of treatment and prognosis of LDS, as well as the quality of life.Objective: to study the structure and frequency of comorbid conditions in patients with LDS.Patients and methods. 53 patients (3 men and 50 women), 18–80 years old, with a verified diagnosis of LDS were included, all of them had an average follow up of 10 years (they were observed in the V.A. …”
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Modeling the Meaning of Individual Words Using Cultural Cartography and Keystroke Dynamics by Tatiana A. Litvinova, Olga V. Dekhnich

“…., “cultural cartography using word embeddings”) and a new list of features developed by the authors to describe individual differences in the meaning of a word based on the data from neurobiology about the meaning structure of word. A set of data analysis methods (linear mixed models, principal components analysis, hierarchical clustering on principal components) implemented in R packages is used to reveal individual differences in the word meaning in terms of the proposed list of features and association of the revealed differences with participants’ characteristics. …”
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The impact of deprivation and neighbourhood food environments on home food environments, parental feeding practices, child eating behaviours, food preferences and BMI: The Family F... by Andrea D Smith, Alice Kininmonth, Kristiane Tommerup, David Boniface, Chiara Gericke, Tiffany Denning, Carolyn Summerbell, Christina Vogel, Clare Llewellyn

“…Greater deprivation was also associated with a more obesogenic home food environment (β = -0.19, p < 0.001) and lower meal structure (β = 0.17, p < 0.001). Exposure to less healthy neighbourhood food environments around and between home and school were associated with a more obesogenic home food environment (β = -0.07, p < 0.01), but no significant associations were found with feeding practices, child eating behaviours or child BMI. …”
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Multisensor Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing with Noisy Unbalanced Data via Intuitionistic Fuzzy Weighted Least Squares Twin Support Higher-Order Tensor Machine by Shengli Dong, Yifang Zhang, Shengzheng Wang

“…First, the multimodal feature tensor is constructed: the fourier synchro-squeezed transform is used to convert the multisensor time-domain signals into time–frequency images, and then the tensor is reconstructed to retain the three-dimensional structural information of the sensor coupling relationship and time–frequency features. …”
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Femoral strength after cephalomedullary nail removal can be predicted preoperatively using CT based FE models by Alexander Synek, Gilbert M. Schwarz, Andreas G. Reisinger, Stephanie Huber, Sylvia Nürnberger, Lena Hirtler, Jochen G. Hofstaetter, Dieter H. Pahr

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Aboveground biomass relationship with canopy cover and vegetation to improve carbon change monitoring in rangelands by Chiara Pasut, Jacqueline R. England, Melissa Piper, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Keryn I. Paul

“…For most structural vegetation classes assessed, estimates of BAG from C were statistically significant, with Lin's concordance coefficients of 0.67–0.79 and proportional error of <36% relative to the BAG across all the classes. …”
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Contributions of lifestyle, education, and cardiovascular risk factors to the brain age gap by Kostas Stoitsas, Pieter Bakx, Trudy Voortman, Jing Yu, Gennady Roshchupkin, Daniel Bos

“…A convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained on structural MRI scans from dementia-free participants in the Rotterdam Study.Scans were collected every 3–4 years from 2005 to 2016. 10,989 images from 5,167 participants (mean age: 64 years [range: 45–98], 54 % female) were used to train and evaluate the model. …”
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Large‐scale phosphomimetic screening identifies phospho‐modulated motif‐based protein interactions by Johanna Kliche, Dimitriya Hristoforova Garvanska, Leandro Simonetti, Dilip Badgujar, Doreen Dobritzsch, Jakob Nilsson, Norman E Davey, Ylva Ivarsson

“…We performed a detailed follow‐up on a phospho‐dependent interaction between clathrin and the mitotic spindle protein hepatoma‐upregulated protein (HURP), demonstrating the essentiality of the phospho‐dependency to the mitotic function of HURP. Structural characterisation of the clathrin‐HURP complex elucidated the molecular basis for the phospho‐dependency. …”
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Gray matter morphology and pain-related disability in young adults with low back pain by Jo Armour Smith, Rongwen Tain, Isaac Chrisman, Kelli G. Sharp, Laura M Glynn, Linda R. Van Dillen, Jesse V. Jacobs, Steven C. Cramer

“…Structural neuroplasticity in the brain may contribute to the persistence of low back pain (LBP) symptoms and the disability associated with them. …”
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Fish Diversity Patterns in Rivers Receiving Ecological Water Supplement Driven by Riparian Land Use by LIU Han, LI Lu-dan, GUO Wei-jie, QIAO Qiang-long, GONG Dan-dan, DU Qi, LI Hang, ZHAO Wei-hua

“…Statistical analyses included: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance (PERMANOVA) to test interannual differences; Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) to visualize community structure; Pearson correlation analysis to examine relationships among diversity indices; and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) models to quantify the driving effects of riparian land use on fish diversity. …”
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Behavioral Intention to Use Mobile Learning: Evaluating the Role of Self-Efficacy, Subjective Norm, and WhatsApp Use Habit by Jeya Amantha Kumar, Brandford Bervell, Nagaletchimee Annamalai, Sharifah Osman

“…The nonlinear findings indicate that the relationships between these constructs, which were previously reported as linear, are prone to saturation and warrants further investigation. …”
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Thin-Layer Chromatography Combined with Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Simultaneous Detection of Four Sudan Dyes in Hot Pepper Products by CONG Yang, SU Rihui, YANG Shaoxin, YAN Jun

“…Separation before detection was adopted as a strategy to simultaneously quantify four structurally similar Sudan red dyes in hot pepper products. …”
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Differences in Morphology of Rural vs. Urban Individuals of the Flightless Ground Beetle, <i>Carabus convexus</i> by Tibor Magura, Roland Horváth, Szabolcs Mizser, Mária Tóth, Gábor L. Lövei

“…Urbanization causes significant environmental and structural changes in habitats, one of them being increased fragmentation. …”
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High‐Gain PMMA‐Modified Graphene Photodetectors for Dual‐Wavelength Secure Communication Utilizing Distinct Temporal Photoresponses by Jinhua Wu, Hao Sun, Ruiling Zhang, Shipeng Yao, Zhangyu Hou, Cun‐Zheng Ning

“…The research introduces a straightforward yet efficient structural design for photodetectors with temporally distinct photoresponses at specific wavelengths and represents a significant advancement in the field of secure communication.…”
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Electrolytic Plasma Hardening of 20GL Steel: Thermal Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Surface Modification by Bauyrzhan Rakhadilov, Rinat Kurmangaliyev, Yerzhan Shayakhmetov, Rinat Kussainov, Almasbek Maulit, Nurlat Kadyrbolat

“…Microhardness profiling and metallographic examination confirmed surface strengthening and structural refinement, which intensified with increasing voltage. …”
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Unlocking efficiency in column chromatography with packed bed supporting inserts by Romone M. Fancy, David H. Abraham, Matthew R. Taylor, Cole McMullin, Nicholas S. Brann, Daniel M. Bailey, David I. Brown, Heather Bethea Horne, Leslie S. Wolfe

“…OMEGA was shown to reduce the effective hydraulic radius of packed resin beds, increase the permeability of packed columns by 44%–73%, and yield a 42%–50% decrease in pressure differential across the resin bed at a comparable linear velocity. The structural support provided by OMEGA enables higher operational flow rates and increased resin bed height without impact to either dynamic binding capacity or purified product quality. …”
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Magnetic Particle-Based Automated Chemiluminescence Immunoassay for the Determination of Hydrocortisone Residues in Milk by Yuan-Yuan Yang, Bao-Zhu Jia, Zhen-Lin Xu, Yi-Xian Liu, Lin Luo

“…The method demonstrated stability and exhibited no cross-reactivity with structural analogues. Spiked recoveries of milk samples ranged from 85.85% to 100.30%, with results strongly correlating with those obtained from LC-MS/MS. …”
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Design of Partially Suspended Silicon Nitride Slot Waveguides for Efficient Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering by Kang Wang, Junqiang Sun, Ming Cheng

“…We analyze the impacts of structural parameters on the SBS properties, which produces the optimal parameters for maximum SBS gain. …”
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