Performance tracking in female youth soccer through wearables and subjective assessments by Stefan Kranzinger, Christina Kranzinger, Wolfgang Kremser, Burkhard Duemler

“…The aim of this study was to assess how subjective post-training ratings (intensity and happiness) relate to high-percentile performance outputs, and to identify longitudinal trends in female youth soccer players using IMU-based wearable data. …”
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COVID-19 global risk evaluation: rankings, reducing surveillance bias, and infodemic by Michał P. Michalak, Elżbieta Węglińska, Agnieszka Kulawik, Jack Cordes, Michał Lupa, Andrzej Leśniak

“…Conversely, the case fatality rate exhibited only a weak positive correlation with probabilistic metrics, though these correlations were not consistently statistically significant. …”
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Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis specialization in microbes is driven by biochemical constraints of flux sensing by Severin Josef Schink, Dimitris Christodoulou, Avik Mukherjee, Edward Athaide, Viktoria Brunner, Tobias Fuhrer, Gary Andrew Bradshaw, Uwe Sauer, Markus Basan

“…Moreover, decreasing both lag times simultaneously comes at the cost of reduced growth rate or higher futile cycling between metabolic enzymes. …”
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Research kinetics of the monochloroacetic acid esterification by Yu. V. Karpenko, T. V. Panasenko, V. I. Hencheva, Ye. O. Karpun, M. D. Yarova

“…Based on the obtained results, it may be established that temperature increase from 100 ℃ to 120 ℃ leads to the decrease of the reaction rate constant, and the reaction progresses by one order faster. …”
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A retrospective study to understand the impact of flooding on natural selection and physical growth dynamics by Mithun Sikdar

“…With a 78.9% response rate, the study assessed height growth variation using the Preece and Baines Growth Curve Model 1. …”
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How to Study the Effects of Dietary Lipids on the Small Intestinal Microbiome? Methodological Design and Evaluation of the Human HealThy fAt, haPpy mIcRobiome (TAPIR) Proof-of-Conc... by Lonneke JanssenDuijghuijsen, Karen Fransen, Ruolei Deng, Corine Perenboom, Nicole de Wit, Guido Hooiveld, Mara van Trijp

“…There were no significant changes in gastrointestinal complaints and stool patterns during the study. Mean aspiration capsule retrieval rate was 94.7%, with mean sample weights per timepoint between 84.2 and 95.4 mg and median transit times between 32.8 and 49.3 h. …”
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Burnout is a predictor of high ten-year risk of cardiovascular disease among health workers in Ghana by Kennedy Dodam Konlan

“…Abstract Introduction Burnout is said to affect a quarter of health workers globally and this rate is said to be higher in resource-constrained settings like those in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Effects of crushed wheat straw with plastic film mulch on soil hydrothermal properties and water use efficiency of sunflower in the northwestern arid region of China by Jinxia Zhang, Fangfang Ren, Rui Zhang, Lin Ding, Fuqiang Li, Xuan Li, Tao Zhong, Meng Yin, Liangliang Du, Runheng Yang, Pengliang Tian

“…Sunflower seedling emergence rate followed the order of SF > F > S > N, and M1 > M2. …”
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Preparation of Porous F-WO3/TiO2 Films with Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity by Microarc Oxidation by Chung-Wei Yeh, Kee-Rong Wu, Chung-Hsuang Hung, Hao-Cheng Chang, Chuan-Jen Hsu

“…Owing to the high specific surface area from the porous microstructure, the mTiO2 film shows a 61% and 50% rate increase in the photocatalytic dye degradation, as compared with the N,C-codoped TiO2 films under UV and Vis irradiation, respectively.…”
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Epigenetics in Plant Response to Climate Change by Wei Zhou, Min Wang, Lishan Wang, Yinghui Liu, Zaimin Tian, Linan Xie, Yu Wang

“…Given the unprecedented rate of contemporary climate change, epigenetic mechanisms may exert a more immediate and flexible influence than genetic modifications. …”
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Peltophorum pterocarpum flower mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles and its catalytic degradation of Acid Blue 113 dye by Ramesh Vinayagam, Stuthi A. Shetty, Gokulakrishnan Murugesan, Louella Concepta Goveas, Thivaharan Varadavenkatesan, Raja Selvaraj

“…Catalytic studies showed rapid degradation of Acid Blue 113 dye in the presence of NaBH4, achieving a rate constant of 0.247 min−1 at 30 mg/L. These results demonstrate the environmental remediation potential of biogenically synthesized AgNPs and underscore the benefits of sustainable green synthesis approaches for industrial wastewater treatment.…”
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Features of Investment Activity in Agriculture in the South of Russia and Ways of its Activation by Vladimir Ivanovich Trukhachev, Igor Yurievitch Sklyarov, Yuliya Mikhailovna Sklyarova, Vitaliy Zelimkhanovich Mazloev, Anna Vladimirovna Volkogonova

“…The fall in the rouble exchange rate to foreign currencies made foreign agricultural products and food too expensive on the Russian market and sales fell sharply in Russia. …”
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Acute Pesticide Poisoning in Children: Hospital Review in Selected Hospitals of Tanzania by Elikana Lekei, Aiwerasia V. Ngowi, Leslie London

“…The annual APP incidence rate was 1.61/100,000. Conclusion. APP is common among children in this region of Tanzania. …”
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A robust and adaptive framework for interaction testing in quantitative traits between multiple genetic loci and exposure variables. by Julian Hecker, Dmitry Prokopenko, Matthew Moll, Sanghun Lee, Wonji Kim, Dandi Qiao, Kirsten Voorhies, Woori Kim, Stijn Vansteelandt, Brian D Hobbs, Michael H Cho, Edwin K Silverman, Sharon M Lutz, Dawn L DeMeo, Scott T Weiss, Christoph Lange

“…Using extensive simulation studies, we demonstrate that RITSS controls the type 1 error rate in a wide range of scenarios, and we show how the screening strategy influences statistical power. …”
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Nonlinear variations and drivers of vegetation NPP on the Tibetan Plateau: Interaction of natural and human factors. by Jie Tang, Xinghong Peng, Wenfu Peng

“…Results revealed nonlinear fluctuations in NPP during the study period, ranging from 184.06 to 208.53 gC m-2.a-1, with an average annual growth rate of 1.16 gC m-2.a-1. Significant spatial differences were observed, with higher NPP in the grasslands and forests of the southeast, while lower productivity was found in the alpine deserts of the northwest. …”
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Optimization of CNN Activation Functions using Xception for South Sulawesi Batik Classification by Aswan Aswan, Eva Yulia Puspaningrum, Billy Eden William Asrul

“…With identical hyperparameters including a learning rate of 0.001, a batch size of 64 and training for 100 epochs using the Adam optimizer, ReLU, ELU, Leaky ReLU and Swish activation functions were compared. …”
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Residential Location Preferences in a Post-Conflict Context: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Assess High-Demand Areas in Kabul New City, Afghanistan by Vineet Chaturvedi, Walter Timo de Vries

“…The model simulates three alternative growth rate scenarios, i.e., ambitious, moderate, and steady. …”
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Initial Stages of Electrocrystallization of Coatings with Tin and Tin-Copper and Tin-Copper-Ultradisperse Diamond Alloys by I. I. Kuzmar, D. Y. Gulpa, L. K. Kushner

“…With an increase in electrocrystallization over-voltage, the rate of nucleation increases and their size decreases, while fine-grained and dense deposits are formed. …”
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Using Eye Tracking to Assess Reading Performance in Patients with Glaucoma: A Within-Person Study by Nicholas D. Smith, Fiona C. Glen, Vera M. Mönter, David P. Crabb

“…Reading duration and saccade rate were significantly different on average in the worse eye when compared to the better eye (P<0.001) in 14 patients with glaucoma that had median (interquartile range) between-eye difference in mean deviation (MD; a standard clinical measure for VF loss) of 9.8 (8.3 to 14.8) dB; differences were not related to the size of the difference in MD between eyes. …”
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User Perception and Acceptance of Central Bank Digital Currency in Developed and Developing Countries: An Empirical Study using Technology Acceptance Model.

“…Furthermore, the study highlights the importance of understanding individuals' intention to use CBDC in the digital economy era. The growth rate of mobile payments in China has been significant over the past decade, indicating the increasing importance of mobile payments and digital currencies in the Chinese economy and the potential for further growth in the future. …”
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