Mental Health Insurance in India: An Examination of Policy Implementation Post-MHCA 2017 by Vijaya Chandra Reddy Avula, Sangha Mitra Godi, Shashidhara Munivenkatappa, Sridhar Amalakanti

“…Conclusion: We evaluated 235 policies provided by 30 insurance companies and found that 37.5% (88) of policies covered mental illnesses, 11.5% (28) covered persons with disabilities, whereas 51% (119) did not offer any coverage. …”
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Effect of Physical Exercise on Telomere Length: Umbrella Review and Meta-Analysis by Juan Luis Sánchez-González, Juan Luis Sánchez-Rodríguez, Rogelio González-Sarmiento, Víctor Navarro-López, Raúl Juárez-Vela, Jesús Pérez, Javier Martín-Vallejo

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to explore the needs and expectations of individuals with physical disabilities and their interventionists for the use of a virtual reality physical activity platform in a community organization. …”
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Short-term Effectiveness of High-intensity Laser Therapy in De Quervain Tenosynovitis: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study by Emine DUNDAR AHI, Hulya SIRZAI2

“…Pre- and post-treatment evaluations were made using a visual analog scale (VAS); Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire; Short Form-36 Health Survey; and hand grip strength test. …”
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Heart Failure Status among Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients: A Hospital-Based Study by Fatemeh Ravandi, Arsh Haj Mohamad Ebrahim Ketabforoush, Fereshteh Azedi, Mohsen Hoshyarkhani, Farimah Fayyaz, Nahid Abbasi Khoshsirat

“…Strokes in HF patients could be life-threatening and lead to severe disabilities, longer hospitalization time, and mortality. …”
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Worsening spasticity due to catheter breakage during intrathecal baclofen therapy: a case report by Yasutaka Takagi, Hiroshi Yamada, Hidehumi Ebara, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Inatani, Yuta Nakamura, Ryo Sugihara, Aki Nakanami, Kenji Kagechika, Tetsutaro Yahata, Satoru Demura

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Exploring a New Cueing Device in People Who Experience Freezing of Gait: Acceptance of a Study Design by Agnes Wilhelm, Tanja Riedl, Christian Paumann, Jessie Janssen

“…Freezing of Gait (FoG) is a disabling symptom of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and is defined as a “brief episodic absence or marked reduction of forward progression of the feet despite the intention to walk.” …”
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Machine learning prediction of combat basic training injury from 3D body shape images. by Steven Morse, Kevin Talty, Patrick Kuiper, Michael Scioletti, Steven B Heymsfield, Richard L Atkinson, Diana M Thomas

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Athletes and military personnel are both at risk of disabling injuries due to extreme physical activity. …”
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Subjective Experiences and Sensitivities in Women with Fibromyalgia: A Quantitative and Comparative Study by P. De Roa, P. Paris, J. L. Poindessous, O. Maillet, A. Héron

“…The prevalence of significant characteristics was compared with others patients consulting at the same pain unit who suffer from rebel and disabling form of chronic migraine. Psychometric tests were anonymously completed by 78 patients of the Pain Unit (44 fibromyalgia patients and 34 migraine patients). …”
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Automated Fog Node Audit and Certification Scheme With Multiple Attestation Certificate Authorities by Shuaib Anath, Tahmid Quazi, Bashan Naidoo

“…This study examines the CA service availability in the FoNAC scheme, revealing that a single centralized attestation CA leads to a single point of failure that disables FoNAC and causes service bottlenecks. This paper proposes a distributed multiple attestation CA system to overcome these limitations. …”
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Transforming Tofu Quality Control: Integrating Statistical Process Control, Ishikawa, and Interpretive Structural Modeling for Superior Outcomes by DWI IRYANING Handayani, Qurtubi

“…Although traditional control methods often fail to overcome the production complex that causes a disabled product. This research proposes integrating Statistical Process Control (SPC), Ishikawa diagrams, and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to improve control quality. …”
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Clinical severity grading of NF2-related schwannomatosis by Anna C. Lawson McLean, Denise Löschner, Said Farschtschi, Nora F. Dengler, Steffen K. Rosahl

“…There is a wide range of disabilities these patients may suffer from and there is no validated clinical classification for disease severity. …”
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How Can ChatGPT Facilitate Teaching and Learning: Implications for Contemporary Education by Turgut Karakose, Tijen Tülübaş

“…When used with proper guidance and awareness, ChatGPT can facilitate the development of twenty-first century 4C skills (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity) as well as supporting students with disabilities or learning difficulties. ChatGPT can also help teachers enrich their instruction through providing them with creative ideas and solutions as well as helping them write lesson plans, develop presentations, reach content and materials tailored to their students’ needs. …”
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Children Who Experience Unintentional Injuries: Their Functional Profiles by Sara Rosenblum, Tal Nardi-Moses, Helly Goez, Naor Demeter

“…Sixty percent of the children in the research (injured) group had been prediagnosed with learning disabilities or attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, compared with no child in the control (uninjured) group. …”
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Recent evidence comparing combination of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis by Abhishek Zanwar, Sakir Ahmed, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal, Aman Sharma, Anupam Wakhlu, Vir Singh Negi

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, disabling inflammatory arthritis often treated with a variety of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), whether conventional synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs), targeted synthetic DMARDs (tsDMARDs), or biological DMARDs (bDMARDs). …”
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Evaluation of the impact of continuous nursing and cluster nursing on carpal tunnel syndrome release surgery by Yang Chen, Ruihua Li, Yongqiang Zhu, Ran Chen

“…The Boston carpal tunnel question, the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire (DASH) and the Barthel index were used to compare hand function recovery, hand pain, sleep quality, and quality of life between the two groups before and 3 months after surgery. …”
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Autologous Fat Grafting in the Treatment of Facial Scleroderma by Mehdi Gheisari, Arman Ahmadzadeh, Nilofar Nobari, Behzad Iranmanesh, Nikoo Mozafari

“…Orofacial manifestations of systemic sclerosis are extremely disabling and treatment options are limited. In this study, we aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of autologous fat grafting in the face of patients with systemic sclerosis. …”
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Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies in Türkiye by Regions via Multidimensional Scaling and Clustering Analysis by Özlem Demir, Batuhan Ersöz

“…Therefore, regarding the participation of social groups such as women, youth, and disabled individuals in employment, ALMP represents a policy instrument that enables a connection between the needs of the labour market and the demands of these groups. …”
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Staffing of the Ukrainian SSR militia in 1945 by V. A. Grechenko

“…The main reasons for the turnover in the police in 1945 were as follows: a) reduced admission requirements to the militia (recruited people without inspection by the medical commission, sometimes clearly disabled); b) insufficient verification of new recruits; c) weak educational work among the staff. …”
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The effect of acute slow resistance exercise on post-exercise blood pressure in active normotensive male recreational athlete by Ali Ramezanı, Naser Heıdarı

“…In our study all exercise bouts promote systolic and diastolic PEH in active normotensive subjects, while HI and SL exercise decreases DBP more than LI. perhaps Because SL method could promote PEH as much as HI method, although exercise intensity was lower in SL, it is recommended for people with special disabilities those who want to control hypertension with low exercise intensity and volume.…”
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Controlling Embedded Systems Remotely via Internet-of-Things Based on Emotional Recognition by Mohammad J. M. Zedan, Ali I. Abduljabbar, Fahad Layth Malallah, Mustafa Ghanem Saeed

“…Nowadays, much research attention is focused on human–computer interaction (HCI), specifically in terms of biosignal, which has been recently used for the remote controlling to offer benefits especially for disabled people or protecting against contagions, such as coronavirus. …”
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