Home-based exercise for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: a feasibility study by Chieko Miyata, Hirokazu Furuta, Kohei Mizuno, Yoshiyuki Nagayama, Yosuke Hosaka

“…Secondary outcomes included sensory nerve function, physical function, manual dexterity, QOL, and chemotherapy adherence. …”
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Athletic Shoulder Test Differences Exist Bilaterally in Healthy Pitchers by Aaron Trunt, Brandon T. Fisher, Lisa N. MacFadden

“…# Background There is a lack of valid and reliable tests that assess upper extremity strength and function for rehabilitation and injury prevention purposes in throwing athletes. …”
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Research on the Liquor Yield Prediction Model Integrating Hybrid Kernel Support Vector Regression and Dung Beetle Optimizer by Qinwen Deng, Yibo Xu, Qiang Han, Suyi Zhang, Xianguo Tuo

“…The results show that the root mean square error (RMSE) and coefficient of determination for the multiple linear regression model were 0.1295 and 0.6987, respectively; for the DBO-optimized radial basis function, the RMSE and coefficient of determination were 0.0824 and 0.7268. …”
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An adaptive cuckoo search based algorithm for placement of relay nodes in wireless body area networks by Tushar Kanta Samal, Sushree Chinmayee Patra, Manas Ranjan Kabat

“…The evolution of wireless body area networks (WBAN) has changed the human life for its applications in the field of healthcare, fitness, entertainment and sports etc. …”
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Capturing trial-by-trial variability in behaviour: people with Parkinson’s disease exhibit a greater rate of short-term fluctuations in response times by Hayley J. MacDonald, Ole Bernt Fasmer, Olav T. Jønsi, Lin Sørensen

“…Higher IIVRT in Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been associated with poor executive function but almost exclusively studied using standard deviation (SD). …”
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Dvoyetochiye [Colon]: A Historical-Linguistic Study by A. V. Ivanov

“…The study reveals that from the early 17th century to 1810, the colon as a punctuation and diacritical mark served a range of functions, each corresponding to a distinct meaning of the term. …”
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Design of a Two order Active Disturbance Rejection Controller of a Stable Platform by ZHU Hai rong, LI Qi

“…In order to facilitate engineering implementation, ESO is designed by linear function which can simplify its structure and retain the excellent performance of ADRC. …”
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Association between herbicide exposure and liver enzyme levels in a middle-aged and elderly population by Weiya LI, Zhuoya ZHAO, Xu CHENG, Jun AN, Shiyang ZHANG, Chengyong JIA, Meian HE

“…BackgroundThe widespread use of herbicides has led to environmental contamination and has implications for human health. …”
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RQdeltaCT: an open-source R package for relative quantification of gene expression using delta Ct methods by Daniel Zalewski, Anna Bogucka-Kocka

“…Furthermore, the package offers functions that cover other essential steps of analysis, including importing datasets, multistep quality control of data, numerous visualisations, and enrichment of the standard workflow with additional analyses (correlation analysis, Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis, linear and logistic regression). …”
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Magnitude Modelling of HRTF Using Principal Component Analysis Applied to Complex Values by Oscar Alberto RAMOS, Fabián Carlos TOMMASINI

“…The HRTF log-magnitude is the most used format of input data to the PCA, but it has been shown that if the input data is HRTF linear magnitude, the cumulative variance converges faster, and the mean square error (MSE) is smaller. …”
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Dynamical Analysis and Optimization of Combined Vibration Isolator with Time Delay by Yaowei Wang, Xiangyu Li

“…Vibration control has long been a key concern in engineering, with low-frequency vibration isolation remaining particularly challenging. …”
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Matroidal Structure of Generalized Rough Sets Based on Tolerance Relations by Hui Li, Yanfang Liu, William Zhu

“…Matroid theory generalizes the linear independence in vector spaces and has many applications in diverse fields, such as combinatorial optimization and rough sets. …”
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Software Implementation of the Epps-Pulley Criterion in Matlab Modeling Environment by A. A. Tipikin, A. A. Prusakov, N. A. Timoshenko

“…We obtained critical statistical values for the sample size ranging from 8 to 1000 elements with two-dimensional linear interpolation of tabular values. We used an approximation by a beta function of the third kind for a sample of over 1000 elements.Results. …”
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A refined lion optimizer for deep learning by Jian Rong, Chenhao Ma, Qinghui Zhang, Yong Cao, Weili Kou

“…In this paper, a Refined Lion Optimizer(RLion) introduce a novel update rule for the optimizer by leveraging a non-linear continuous bounded function that maps the product of momentum and a scaling factor. …”
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Serum α-Klotho mediates the association between blood toluene and BUN: A cross-sectional study from NHANES 2013–2016 by Zhu Tian, Cheng Guo, Xiaorui Zhang, Kai Liu, Juan Xie

“…Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) is a by-product of protein metabolism and is commonly used as an indicator to assess renal function. α-Klotho protein is detected mainly in the kidney and has antioxidant, anti-aging, and nephroprotective properties. …”
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Increasing constraint of aridity on tree intrinsic water use efficiency by Mengjie Wang, Shushi Peng, Zihan Lu, Xiangtao Xu, Andrew Felton, Anping Chen

“…Our study highlights the increasing aridity control on tree W variation and implies the resilience of tree intrinsic functions to aridity variability under future climate change.…”
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Interferon Alpha Association with Neuromyelitis Optica by Nasrin Asgari, Anne Voss, Troels Steenstrup, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Egon Stenager, Soeren Thue Lillevang

“…Interferon-alpha (IFN-α) has immunoregulatory functions in autoimmune inflammatory diseases. …”
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Unveiling spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of ecosystem service value: interpretable HGB-SHAP machine learning model by Xiangming Xu, Xinyi Zhang, Linghua Qin, Rui Li

“…Furthermore, the driving factors of ESV were explored using the explainable machine learning method.ResultsThe findings are as follows: (1) The net ESV of the Gangjiang Upstream Basin (GUB) has undergone a decline from 1990 to 2000, with climate regulation and hydrological regulation collectively accounting for approximately 50% of all functions. (2) A mere 0.69% of the areas exhibited an increase in the level of ESV, while 11.19% demonstrated a decline by 2020, based on the grid scale. …”
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Bottom trawling and environmental variables drive the biodiversity of mediterranean demersal assemblages by Davide Agnetta, Ivano Vascotto, Diego Panzeri, Igor Celić, Cosimo Solidoro, Tomaso Fortibuoni, Saša Raicevich, Simone Libralato

“…Bottom trawling instead has a quasi-linear erosion effect on α- and β-diversity in all areas. …”
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YOLO-SDLUWD: YOLOv7-based small target detection network for infrared images in complex backgrounds by Jinxiu Zhu, Chao Qin, Dongmin Choi

“…The “SDLUWD” refers to the combination of the Spatial Depth layer followed Convolutional layer structure (SD-Conv) and a Linear Up-sampling fusion Path Aggregation Feature Pyramid Network (LU-PAFPN) and a training strategy based on the normalized Gaussian Wasserstein Distance loss (WD-loss) function. …”
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