Effect of Eyes Open/Closed on Plantar Pressure during Static Balance Evaluation by Qiang LIN, Wude CHEN, Yuxin ZHENG, Wanchen LIAO, Haidong HUANG, Haining OU, Junjie LIANG

“…In the comparison of the forefoot and hind foot in eyes open and closed, the hind foot load was significantly greater than the forefoot load (<italic>P</italic>&lt; 0.001).Conclusion:The findings of this experiment indicated that normal young subjects could adjust the balance function under different visual input status by changing the ellipse area and swing amplitude. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 2 diabetes care and factors associated with care disruption in Kenya and Tanzania by Richard E. Sanya, Caroline H. Karugu, Peter Binyaruka, Shukri F. Mohamed, Lyagamula Kisia, Peter Kibe, Irene Mashasi, Grace Mhalu, Christopher Bunn, Manuela Deidda, Frances S. Mair, Eleanor Grieve, Cindy M. Gray, Sally Mtenga, Gershim Asiki

“…Data were collected in February–April 2022 reflecting experiences at two time-points, three months before and the three months most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Probabilistic prediction of aero engine remaining useful life based on Bayesian graph attention transformer by Yanyan HU, Yating BAI

“…In addition, we validated the proposed method using an aero engine experimental dataset, comparing its performance against other methods through both comparative and ablation experiments. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and its superiority over existing methods.…”
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RBMDC-Net: Effective Jaw Cyst Segmentation Network Using Residual Bottleneck and Multiscale Dilated Convolution by Huixia Zheng, Xiaoliang Jiang, Xu Xu, Zhenfei Yuan

“…These metrics were 3.03%, 2.84%, and 4.88% higher than the corresponding values obtained using U-Net. Besides, ablation experiments also indicate the effectiveness of residual bottleneck module, multiscale dilated convolution module and multi-level feature guidance module.…”
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Attenuating susceptibility to ascites in cold‐stressed broiler chickens fed canola meal‐based diets by supplementing arginine or guanidinoacetic acid, either alone or in combinatio... by Negin Delfani, Mohsen Daneshyar, Parviz Farhoomand, Sina Payvastegan, Younes Ali Alijoo, Gholamreza Najafi

“…The temperature was then held at 15°C for the remainder of the experiment. Results The supplements ARG + PHE and GAA + PHE resulted in improved feed conversion ratios (FCR) when compared to the control group. …”
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Induction of Somatic Embryogenesis and Organogenesis in Zimbabwean Sweet Potato (cv Brondal) by Rose T. Masekesa, Edmore Gasura, Gaudencia T. Kujeke, Elizabeth Ngadze, Farisai Chidzwondo

“…The maturation stage would have assisted embryos to reach physiological maturity and a desired level of desiccation, both being critical elements in embryo to plantlet conversion. In this experiment, cv Brondal regeneration from leaf explants was successfully achieved via organogenesis using 0.05 mg/L 2,4-D and 0.5 mg/L Kinetin, and tentative steps towards development of SE based regeneration protocol were established using 0.5 mg/L 2,4-D and 0.1 mg/L Kinetin.…”
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Starvation Affects the Muscular Morphology, Antioxidant Enzyme Activity, Expression of Lipid Metabolism-Related Genes, and Transcriptomic Profile of Javelin Goby (Synechogobius has... by Xiangning Chen, Yili Xu, Xiangyu Cui, Siying Zhang, Xiangqi Zhong, Juntao Ke, Yuze Wu, Zhiyu Liu, Chaoqing Wei, Zhujin Ding, Jianhe Xu, Hanliang Cheng

“…However, the relative expressions of genes associated with lipolysis were decreased in the fasting experiment (P<0.05). Similar declines in the transcriptional response to starvation were found in muscle fatp1 and ppar γ abundance (P<0.05). …”
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Exploratory study of patients’ and carers’ preferences for postdischarge surgical wound monitoring using survey and interviews by Keith Wilson, Nigel Westwood, Catherine Wloch, Pauline Harrington, Luke J Rogers, Judith Tanner, Gavin Murphy, Colin S Brown, Jeremy Dearling, Ricky Vaja, Melissa Rochon, Lyn Brierley Jones

“…A new theme was identified where patients wanted to become more involved in treating their surgical wounds at home.Conclusion Experiences described by participants suggests there is a need to improve post-discharge wound monitoring. …”
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Examining factorial validity and internal consistency of Professional Quality of Life (ProQoL-9) among care aides working in Long-term Care (LTC) by Seyedehtanaz Saeidzadeh, Anni Wang, Yinfei Duan, Isaiah Hipel, Peter G. Norton, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…It is critical to use validated instruments to measure their experiences. The purpose of this study was to examine the internal consistency and factorial structure of the ProQoL-9 among care aides working in LTC. …”
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Ambient PM2.5 Temporal Variation and Source Apportionment in Mbarara, Uganda by Silver Onyango, Crystal M. North, Hatem A. Ellaithy, Paul Tumwesigye, Choong-Min Kang, Vasileios Matthaios, Martin Mukama, Nuriat Nambogo, J. Mikhail Wolfson, Stephen Ferguson, Stephen Asiimwe, Lynn Atuyambe, Data Santorino, David C. Christiani, Petros Koutrakis

“…The African continent experiences some of the worst ambient air pollution in the world, yet there are relatively little African data characterizing ambient pollutant levels and source admixtures. …”
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Co-Design of an Escape Room for e-Mental Health Training of Mental Health Care Professionals: Research Through Design Study by Joyce J P A Bierbooms, Wouter R J W Sluis-Thiescheffer, Milou Anne Feijt, Inge M B Bongers

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to co-design an escape room for training mental health care professionals’ eMH skills and test the escape room’s usability by exploring their experiences with this concept as a training method. …”
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Experiencias de enfermeras en el cuidado de personas diagnosticadas de anorexia nerviosa: un estudio cualitativo by Victoria Velasco-Cabrero, Julio González-Luis

“…To explore nurses’ experiences in the therapeutic relationship with people with anorexia nervosa and its consequences. …”
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Mechanism of Spica Prunellae in Suppressing Proliferation and Stem Cell Properties of Colorectal Cancer Cells Based on Notch Signaling Pathway by TIAN Haoyuan, XIE Yi, FANG Yi, CHENG Ying, LIN Yan, SU Daifeng, WEI Lihui

“…After 24 hours of intervention, the subsequent experiments were performed. The cell growth morphology and density were observed by inverted microscope. …”
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DIDADTIC TOOLS FOR THE STUDENTS’ ALGORITHMIC THINKING DEVELOPMENT by T. P. Pushkaryeva, T. A. Stepanova, V. V. Kalitina

“…On the whole, the use efficiency of the didactic means when training graduates of engineering specialties has been proved in the course of the carried out experiment on kinesthetic tools introduction into educational process with the subsequent diagnostics of the levels of AT skills development, and the quality of training in programming among the students of theSiberianFederalUniversity.Practical significance. …”
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Evaluasi Usability Aplikasi Elektronik-Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak (e-KIA) by Fitra Abdurrachman Bachtiar, Retno Indah Rokhmawati, Fajar Pradana, Intan Yusuf Habibie

“…The identified problems are simplified to three categories of Selection Driven Command, Content Organization, and Visual Representation. The experiment has found 18 problems in Selection Driven category, 10 problem in Content Organization, and 7 problems in Visual Representation category.  …”
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A Hyper-Textual Interpretation of the Seven Planets` Motif Design in Seljuk Art (Case study «Enamel bowl» and book of «Aja'ib al-Makhluqat» by Zakariya al-Qazwini) by Alireza Azizi Yousefkand, Farnosh Shomeili, Mohamad Khazaie, Bahman NamvarMotlagh

“…The artists in the Seljuk era were completely aware of the art developments of their own time and also the previous eras, as they tried their best to improve the art of their time by benefiting from the experiences of other artists.Conclusion: the research finding showed that the planet motifs in «Ajaib al-Makhluqat» (hypertext) which is inspired by the planet motifs in the enamel bowl (pre-text or hypotext) have a transposition or transformation with serious function according to the hypertextuality of Genette. …”
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Knowledge, behaviour and attitudes towards Chagas disease among the Bolivian migrant population living in Japan: a cross-sectional study by Chris Smith, Kenji Hirayama, Nguyen Tien Huy, Inés María Iglesias Rodríguez, Dao Huy Manh, Tieu Minh Thuan, Hugo Alberto Justiniano, Sachio Miura, George Ito

“…The activity brings the possibility to explore not only the level of knowledge but also to reveal experiences and to understand the needs of the people at risk. …”
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Blood Meal Utilization as Organic Fe Source for Polka Dot Grouper Cromileptes altivelis Growth Performance by Mia Setiawati, P. Purnama, I. Mokoginta

“… This experiment was designed to examine the use of spray dried cell blood meal as organic Fe source in polka dot grouper (Cromileptes altivelis) feed to substitute inorganic Ferosulphate (FeSO4.7H2O). …”
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Expectation and Satisfaction with Nursing Care among Hypertensives Receiving Care at a Resource-Constrained Hospital in Ghana by Kennedy Dodam Konlan, Mavis Armah-Mensah, Rita Aryee, Theresa Akua Appiah

“…In this qualitative study, a phenomenological approach was used to gather data about the lived experiences of patients with hypertension about nursing care. …”
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Streptomycin as alternative postharvest treatment to prolong vase life of gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii L.) cut flowers by Onur Sefa Alkaç, Muhammed Esad Tuncel, Onur Saraçoğlu, Sabriye Belgüzar

“…Vase solution Streptomycin concentrations were 0 (control), 200, 400, and 600 ppm alone, combined with 5% sugar. The experiments were conducted in a completely randomised design (CRD) with three replications and three cut flowers were used in each replication. …”
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