Sex and Age Comparisons in Neuromuscular And Biomechanical Characteristics of the Knee in Young Athletes by Erin R Pletcher, Travis J Dekker, Scott M Lephart, Tim C Sell

“…What is known about the subject: Generally, both males and females get stronger and jump higher as they get older but the results comparing balance and biomechanics between genders or across age groups have been mixed. …”
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CSF shunts as conduits for metastasis: is there a discrepancy between retrograde and antegrade spread? by Andrea Cuschieri, Robert Pisani, Shawn Agius

“…All primary tumours were in the abdomen or pelvic cavity with treatment from metastasis depending on patient characteristics. Generally, the prognosis was poor, with one patient succumbing to peritonitis, four cases showing residual disease, and one patient receiving palliative care. …”
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Investigation of Hydro-Geochemical Characteristics of Groundwater In Port Harcourt City, Nigeria: Implication for Use and Vulnerability by HO Nwankwoala, GJ Udom

“…Microbial analysis of the water samples to determine the presumptive coliform count of the water indicates the presence of coliform bacteria in majority of the analysed samples, indicating anthropogenic contamination of groundwater. The water is generally classified as soft and fresh based on its hardness and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), which ranges from 2.50mg/l – 142mg/l and 2.60mg/l – 401mg/l, respectively. …”
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Worth the effort? A practical examination of random effects in hidden Markov models for animal telemetry data by Brett T. McClintock

“…I focused on sampling scenarios more typical of telemetry studies, which often consist of relatively long time series (30–250 observations per animal) for relatively few individuals (5–100 animals). I generally found mixed HMMs did not improve state assignment relative to standard HMMs. …”
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GEOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE MINING ENGINEERS by Vladimir S. Morkun, Serhiy O. Semerikov, Svitlana M. Hryshchenko

“…The program of experimental research to test the effectiveness of methods of using Geoinformation technologies in the formation of environmental competence was implemented in three stages: analytical and stating, design and search and forming and generalizing. The discrepancies identified at the analytical and stating stage of the pedagogical experiment required the development of a new competence system with separate components of environmental competence. …”
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Associations of four obesity indices with diabetes mellitus in Korean middle-aged and older adults using the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) by Yiseul Lee, Nam-Kyoo Lim, Hyun-Young Park

“…ABSI showed steady and slightly increasing ORs with increasing age although the ORs in both sexes were generally low for DM. For IDI and cfNRI, WHR had the highest values among all age groups. …”
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Single-shot super-resolved fringe projection profilometry (SSSR-FPP): 100,000 frames-per-second 3D imaging with deep learning by Bowen Wang, Wenwu Chen, Jiaming Qian, Shijie Feng, Qian Chen, Chao Zuo

“…However, the imaging speed of current FPP methods is generally capped at several kHz, which is limited by the projector-camera hardware and the number of fringe patterns required for phase retrieval and unwrapping. …”
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INDEPENDENCE AND FINANCIAL EXPERTISE OF AUDIT COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Saidu MUSA, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman, Paul B. Ogunwole

“…The information derived from the eleven years was statistically analysed using the Generalized Linear Regression. The result shows that audit committee composition does not significantly influence disclosure practices of listed DMBs in Nigeria (z=0.372, p>0.05) and audit committee independence constitutes a significant influence on the voluntary disclosure practice of listed DBMs in Nigeria (z=3.069, p-value < 0.01). …”
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Multimorbidity in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Associations With Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Healthcare Costs: A Real-World Evidence Study by Dingwei Dai, Joaquim Fernandes, Xiaowu Sun, Laura Lupton, Vaughn W. Payne, Alexandra Berk

“…ACEs and healthcare costs were assessed using all data within 12 months after the index date. Multivariable generalized linear models were performed to examine the associations between multimorbidity and ACEs and healthcare costs. …”
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EN The combined effect of heating zone length and inclination angle on start-up, transient and operational characteristics of pulsating heat pipe by К. Мане, Є.С. Алексеїк

“…The impact of inclination angle varies with the coolant used; generally, water outperforms methanol and pentane across all orientations. …”
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El trabajo: concepciones de jóvenes que laboran en Call Centers en una ciudad intermedia colombiana by Mariana Castaño-Ravagli, Claudia Milena Álvarez-Giraldo

“…Presento los resultados desde los imaginarios, representaciones, sentido y concepción de los jóvenes y las jóvenes frente al trabajo y sus percepciones de calidad de vida, lo cual en términos generales refleja su adaptación y aceptación de las condiciones actuales de flexibilidad laboral en el país -particularmente en la región-, y la vulnerabilidad en que se encuentran. …”
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Effects of bioactive peptides combined with probiotics on serum uric acid in patients with hyperuricemia by HAN Dan，ZHAO Ya，HUANG Enshan，YE Shuhua，WANG Wanjin，WU Fangmin，WANG Dingliang，ZHANG Ronghua

“…The differences of SUA levels between the two groups were compared using generalized estimation equation. Results: Totally 108 patients with HUA were recruited, including 54 patients in the intervention group and 53 patients in the control group (1 dropout). …”
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Exposure to artificial intelligence in Canadian jobs: Experimental estimates by Tahsin Mehdi, Marc Frenette

“…Past studies on technological transformation examined the potential impact of automation on the Canadian labour market (Frenette and Frank, 2020). Automation is generally understood to be the use of machines to perform simple, routine and non-cognitive tasks. …”
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VICTIM OF AN OFFENCE: LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN AN INTERJURISDICTIONAL CONTEXT by Andrii Borovyk, Oleksandr Golovach, Oleksandr Shyra

“…It is noted that, while the median economic losses from crimes are generally modest, crimes with significant financial impacts are rare but disproportionately covered in the media. …”
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Self-reported illnesses in Thatta: Evidence from a rural and underdeveloped district in Sindh province, Pakistan. by Muhammad Ashar Malik, Rahat Batool, Muhammad Ahmed, Imran Naeem Abbasi, Zafar Ahmed Fatmi, Sarah Saleem, Sameen Siddiqui

“…The influence of important socio-demographic covariates on the illnesses and multiple comorbidities was explored by estimating prevalence ratios with a Generalized Linear Model of the Poisson family and by Zero-Inflated Poison Distribution respectively.…”
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A Fourfold Bi-Filter and Permuted Bi-Quad-Wrapper Feature Selection Method for Finding Optimal Moments of Multi-Trajectory Transient Records in Transient Analysis by Seyed Alireza Bashiri Mosavi, Omid Khalaf Beigi

“…Due to kernel-based learning necessity in NTES, embedding the radial basis function (RBF), dynamic time warping (DTW), and polynomial (POL) kernels into dual HCs is on the agenda. Generally, wrapper stages include <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${ }_{TWSVM}^{SVM} \textrm {IWSS}_{RBF/\,POL}^{RBF/\,DTW\,} $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${ }_{TWSVM}^{SVM} \textrm {IWSSr}_{RBF/\,POL}^{RBF/\,DTW\,}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in a 24-way permutation. …”
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Beyond averages: dissecting urban-rural disparities in skilled antenatal care utilization in Bangladesh - a conway-maxwell-poisson regression analysis by Md. Muddasir Hossain Akib, Farzana Afroz, Bikash Pal

“…We have applied the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson regression model (CMPRM) to deal with the overdispersion in skilled ANC count data, as this model shows the least AIC compared to the classical negative-binomial regression model (NBRM) and the generalized Poisson regression model (GPRM). Results Significant disparity (p-value < 0.001) has been observed in the mean number of SANC taken by rural (3.17) and urban (4.52) women. …”
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Automatic Classification of Difficulty of Texts From Eye Gaze and Physiological Measures of L2 English Speakers by Javier Melo, Leigh Fernandez, Shoya Ishimaru

“…The results showed acceptable levels of generalization to new participants (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Acc_{LoPo} = 0.434$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) and documents (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Acc_{LoDo} = 0.521$ </tex-math></inline-formula>). …”
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Transformation and fate of Fe(III) in petroleum-hydrocarbon-contaminated soil and groundwater by Essouassi Elikem, David Bulmer, Kris Bradshaw, Ardalan Hayatifar, Matthew B. J. Lindsay, Steven D. Siciliano, Derek Peak

“…The fraction of Fe(II) in the subsoils generally increased after about 22 weeks of continuous amendment injection. …”
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Awareness and Attitudes of Medical Students, Interns, and Residents Toward Telemedicine in Medical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survey-Based Cross-Sectional Study From... by Rahmat Allah Sharififar, Mahdi Mazandarani, Narges Lashkarbolouk, Somayeh Ghorbani

“…The mean score for participants’ attitudes was above 3 ( M  = 3.78, SD  = 0.24) indicating a generally favorable view of telemedicine. A significant gap was noted between participants’ awareness and attitudes, with residents showing the lowest scores in both areas ( P -value = .02). …”
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