Integrating telerehabilitation and serious gaming during home-based exercise intervention after stroke: A randomized controlled pilot trial of the DISKO-tool by Elisabet Åkesson, Maria Bergqvist, Maja Eder, Nanna Bäckström, Erika Franzén, Jörgen Borg, Susanne Palmcrantz

“…Results The study design was feasible including safety, resource capacity, a retention rate of 87%, high compliance to the protocol (mean 30 training days), and highly rated experience of the tool (median 10 of 10) despite some technical issues. …”
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Enhanced Learning Behaviors and Ability Knowledge Tracing by Fanglan Ma, Changsheng Zhu, Peng Lei, Peiwen Yuan

“…The learning layer quantifies learning gain by analyzing differences between current and previous learning embedding, interval times, and relative knowledge states, employing a learning gate to assess students’ capacity to absorb knowledge. The forgetting layer models forgetting behavior with forgotten erasing and retention functions, based on previous knowledge states, current learning gains, and interval times. …”
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An In Vitro and In Vivo Comparison of Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells by Jamie Mollentze, Chrisna Durandt, Michael S. Pepper

“…MSCs display varying phenotypic profiles and osteogenic differentiating capacity depending and their site of origin. MSCs have been successfully differentiated into osteoblasts both in vitro an in vivo but discrepancies exist when the two are compared: what happens in vitro does not necessarily happen in vivo, and it is therefore important to understand why these differences occur. …”
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Effect of olive oil pomace applications at different irrigation levels on soil quality by Pelin Alaboz, Ahmet Ali Işildar, Bilge Batmaz, Satı Çağlar

“…This study, which basically aims to determine the effect of on soil quality, includes the application of 0(D0), 0.5(D0.5), 1(D1), 2(weight/weight) (D2) % levels and irrigation water at 50(I0.5), 75(I0.75) and 100 (I1)% of the field capacity to a medium-textured soil. In the study, the creation of comparison matrices for the examined features was carried out according to the F-AHP method within the scope of the fuzzy importance scale, and the linear combination technique, which is a parametric approach, was used to determine the quality index. …”
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“National Champions” and Technological “Little Giants”: Chinese Industrial Policy Between Modernization and Tradition by I. V. Danilin

“…The relevance of this study lies in evaluating China's capacity to adapt to a shifting international environment, heightened technological competition from Western countries, and domestic pressures such as an aging population and slowing economic growth.The paper seeks to assess current strategies for the development of China's national innovation system (NIS) and critically analyze the transformation of its industrial policy. …”
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Impacts of Livestock Grazing on Wild Ungulate Habitat in the Khata Corridor, Bardiya, Nepal by Usha Dahal, Nirjala Raut, Anubhav Dhital, Suruchi Mainali, Deepak Gautam, Shankar Tripathi

“…However, the carrying capacity is highly unevenly observed across the region, and overgrazing is found in many areas of the forest corridor. …”
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Enhancing Cervical Cancer Classification: Through a Hybrid Deep Learning Approach Integrating DenseNet201 and InceptionV3 by Abhiram Sharma, R. Parvathi

“…The hybrid model leverages DenseNet201’s efficient feature reuse and InceptionV3’s capacity for handling multi-scale and hierarchical features through fine-tuning and feature fusion techniques. …”
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Decoration of carbohydrate nanocomposite with silver nanoparticles for highly efficient adsorption of methylene blue and antimicrobial against human pathogens by Ahmed K. Saleh, Rasha Jame, Fatimah A. Alotaibi, Mahmoud A. Abdelaziz, Noha Omer

“…The adsorption results were best suited by the Langmuir isotherm model, and the maximum adsorption capacity for the TEMPO/CNF/Ch and TEMPO/CNF/Ch/Ag-NPs nanocomposite was 369 and 432 mg/g, respectively, at the optimized media pH of 7 with a contact time of 60 min at 88 to 90 mg/g of MB. …”
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Comparative assessment of crises and recovery in the Romanian tourism market by Iuliana Tudose (Pop), Daniel Bulin, Luciana-Floriana Poenaru, Antonela Toma, Elena-Corina Cipu, Delia Popescu

“…The analysis shows that the Romanian tourism sector has proven to be resilient, as operational capacity exceeded pre-crisis levels after the COVID-19 crisis, although demand fell sharply and has not fully recovered to date. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing six monthly multi-month dispensing of antiretroviral therapy in two urban HIV clinics during the COVID-19 Era in Malawi. by Rachel Chamanga, Agatha Bula, Denview Magalasi, Stella Mahuva, Mulinda Nyirenda, Kwasi Torpey, Thulani Maphosa, Mitch Matoga

“…Major facilitators to transition to 6-MMD included health care worker capacity building, teamwork and use of electronic medical records while major barriers included low drug supplies and lack of understanding of policy guidance. …”
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Effect of temperature and various pre-treatments on seed germination parameters of Stachys circinata and Stachys saxicola subsp. platyodon by Amal Maurady, Soumaya El Ismaili, Mohammed Reda Britel, Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali

“…No germination was observed at low and high temperature regimes (10/0 and 40/25 °C, respectively) for both species. Germination capacity was improved by mechanical scarification in S. circinata (75% vs 60% for control), while for S. saxicola subsp. platyodon, it was improved by GA3 treatment at 250 mg/l (52.5% vs 35.0% for control). …”
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A New Pabs Model for Quantitatively Diagnosing Phosphorus Nutritional Status in Corn Plants by Xinwei Zhao, Shengbo Chen, Yucheng Xu, Zibo Wang

“…Results demonstrated a correct diagnosis rate of 75%, underscoring the model’s capacity to accurately estimate phosphorus requirements on a regional scale. …”
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Mapping Supply Chain Risks and Resilience Strategies For Startups Using The SCOR and FMEA Model: An Innovation Hub Perspective by Armah Kemi Daisy, Alim Setiwan Slamet, Eko Ruddy Cahyadi

“…Conclusion: By continuously refining their risk management strategies, startups can enhance their resilience, promote sustainability, and improve their capacity to manage supply chain disruptions, thereby boosting their growth potential in the innovation landscape. …”
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Understanding City-Wide Ride-Sourcing Travel Flow: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach by Chuqiao Chen, Simon Hu, Washington Y. Ochieng, Na Xie, Xiqun (Michael) Chen

“…The bus station builds on locations with high demand, but its capacity is not large enough to reduce the ride-sourcing flow to a low level, which results in a positive coefficient. …”
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Total Vitamin C, Ascorbic Acid, Dehydroascorbic Acid, Antioxidant Properties, and Iron Content of Underutilized and Commonly Consumed Fruits in Sri Lanka by Hashini I. Abeysuriya, Vajira P. Bulugahapitiya, Jayatissa Loku Pulukkuttige

“…The main parameters of the comparison were the contents of ascorbic acid (AA), total vitamin C (TVC), total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), total iron (Fe), and antioxidant capacities (ACs). The mean AA, TVC, TPC, TFC, and Fe contents in 100 g of fresh edible portions of fruits ranged from 2.0 to 185.0 mg, 8.1 to 529.6 mg, 12.9 to 2701.7 mg gallic acid equivalent, 0.2 to 117.5 mg quercetin equivalents, and 0.1 to 1.1 mg, respectively. …”
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Economic assessment of renewable power generation based on wind speed and solar radiation in urban regions by Y. Kassem, H. Gökçekuş, H. Çamur

“…The results indicated that Weibull and Logistic were the best distributions for analyzing the wind speeds and global solar radiation data of the studied regions, respectively. Furthermore, the capacity factors of the selected regions ranged between 1.92% and 48.53%. …”
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Cooperation and competition in an oligopolistic and mature industry: A case study on the cationic reagent industry based on an optimization model by Joohang Kang, Byoungil Choi, Chaehong Lim, Joonyup Eun

“…Numerical experiments are conducted to explore scenarios that can occur in real market environment, such as levels of risk hedging, trade disputes, decreases in demand, and changes in production capacity. The experimental results provide managerial implications. …”
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Preparation and Performance Evaluation of Polymeric Microspheres Used for Profile Control of Low-Permeability Reservoirs by Fajun Zhao, Hongbao Zhang, Yanping Wu, Dawei Wang, Yufei Zhang

“…A distillation–precipitation polymerization method was adopted to prepare nanometer-sized polymeric microspheres, whose structure, apparent pattern, thermal endurance, particle size, hydration, and swelling capacity were tested and analyzed by a series of techniques, including infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetry, high-pressure and high-temperature rheometry, and dynamic light scattering. …”
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Abnormal Esophageal Scintigraphy Associates With a Distinct Clinical Phenotype in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis by Antonio D. Salas, Lisa R. Yanek, Laura K. Hummers, Ami A. Shah, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan

“…Patients with delayed esophageal transit were more likely to have diffuse SSc (24 [32%] vs 11 [22%]; P = 0.024), severe lung involvement (22 [41%] vs 7 [19%]; P = 0.034), severe Raynaud (36 [47%] vs 15 [31%]; P = 0.063), and a higher median (interquartile range [IQR]) diarrhea GIT score (0.5 [IQR 0–1] vs 0 [IQR 0–1]; P = 0.050). Lower diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide values correlated with a higher esophageal transit time (ρ = −0.32; P = 0.014). …”
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A Single-Layer S/X- Band Shared Aperture Antenna with MIMO Characteristics at X-Band for Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Applications by Raja Babu Bandi, Venkata Kishore Kothapudi, Lakshman Pappula, Rajkumar Kalimuthu, Srinivasa Kiran Gottapu

“…However, the X-band antenna is a multi-input and multioutput antenna that is to be validated by using MIMO characteristic parameters such as envelope correlation coefficient (ECC), diversity gain (DG), channel capacity loss (CCL), mean effective gain, and mutual coupling. …”
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