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Impact of Tailored Multicomponent Exercise for Prevent Weakness and Falls on Nursing Home Residents' Functional Capacity.

Javier Courel-Ibanez, Angel Buendia-Romero, Jesus G Pallares, Silverio Garcia-Conesa, Alejandro Martinez-Cava, Mikel Izquierdo · 2021

We aimed to determine whether the benefits of long (24 weeks) and short (4 weeks) training programs persisted after short (6 weeks) and long (14 weeks) periods of inactivity in older adult nursing hom…

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Ventilatory parameters measured during a physiological study of simulated powered air-purifying respirator failure in healthy volunteers.

Lachlan F Miles, Timothy Makar, Chad W Oughton, Philip J Peyton · 2021

Powered air-purifying respirators (PAPR) are a high level of respiratory personal protective equipment. Like all mechanical devices, they are vulnerable to failure. The precise physiological consequen…

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Damping Low-Frequency Oscillations in Power Systems Using Grid-Forming Converters

Jose Luis Rodriguez-Amenedo, Santiago Arnaltes Gomez · 2021

The increasing incorporation of renewable energy in power systems is causing growing concern about system stability. Renewable energy sources are connected to the grid through power electronic convert…

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Processing Hundreds of SARS-CoV-2 Samples with an In-House PCR-Based Method without Robotics.

Theresa Mair, Maja Ivankovic, Christian Paar, Helmut J F Salzer, Angelika Heissl, Bernd Lamprecht, Elisabeth Schreier-Lechner, Irene Tiemann-Boege · 2021

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has required the development of multiple testing systems to monitor and control the viral infection. Here, we developed a PCR test to screen COVID-19 infections that can proces…

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An AI-based radiomics nomogram for disease prognosis in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia using initial CT images and clinical indicators.

Mudan Zhang, Xianchun Zeng, Chencui Huang, Jun Liu, Xinfeng Liu, Xingzhi Xie, Rongpin Wang · 2021

This study utilized a comprehensive nomogram to evaluate the prognosis of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. COVID-19 pneumonia data was divided into training set (256 of 321, 80%), internal validation…

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Corona pandemic: awareness of health care providers in Pakistan.

Sadia Minhas, Rabia Mushtaq Chaudhry, Aneequa Sajjad, Iram Manzoor, Atika Masood, Muhammad Kashif · 2020

Corona pandemic has resulted in a high mortality rate among health care professionals. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and practices of health care providers during this pandemic…

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Gamma and Proton Irradiation Tests on a Piezoelectric Actuator

Pablo Serrano Galvez, Santiago Andres Solis Paiva, Elisa Guillermain, Mark Butcher, Mario Di Castro, Alessandro Masi · 2019

Piezoelectric actuators are candidates for use in radioactive environments but specific radiation tests are necessary to understand the radiation effects on the whole actuator assembly. The results of…

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Electron Radiation Effects on the 4H-SiC PiN Diodes Characteristics: An Insight From Point Defects to Electrical Degradation

Peng Dong, Yazhou Qin, Xuegong Yu, Xingliang Xu, Zhe Chen, Lianghui Li, Yingxin Cui · 2019

Silicon carbide (SiC) devices have shown substantial promise in realizing ultrahigh-voltage and high power, and have been usually considered as a potential candidate for high radiation levels applicat…

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A Novel Control Method to Improve Current Regulation and Harmonics in Navigation Dimming Power Supply

Zhang Sun, Fan Wu, Weidong Jin, Jun Wang, Yunpu Wu, Xunbing Wu, Zhongjun Wei · 2019

Regulating the output current and reducing the harmonic distortion are key control problems in the airport navigation dimming power supply (DPS). In this study, a new method which could dynamically ad…

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Use of sexed sorted semen for fixed-time artificial insemination or fixed-time embryo transfer of in vitro-produced embryos in cattle.

 · 1970

Artificial insemination and in vitro embryo production are powerful tools for disseminating superior genetic qualities and improving the reproductive performance of dairy and beef cattle. In conjuncti…

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Bulge ductility of several occlusal contact measuring paper-based and plastic-based sheets.

 · 1970

Articulating paper/film is a sheet strip that is coated with ink- or dye-containing wax and is used for marking occlusal contacts and monitoring the results. New types of occlusal film systems have be…

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Remote vs. conventional navigation for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: insights from prospective registry data.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: Robotic (RNS) or magnetic navigation systems (MNS) are available for remotely performed catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF).OBJECTIVE: The present study compares remotely assist…

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Thoracic epidural block attenuates cardiovascular response to apnea in rabbits.

 · 1970

PURPOSE: Apnea is one of the potential complications during anaesthesia. If sympathetic nerve activity is blocked by epidural anaesthesia, circulatory responses to apnea might change. Our objective wa…

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Semiquantitative assessment of subchondral bone marrow edema-like lesions and subchondral cysts of the knee at 3T MRI: a comparison between intermediate-weighted fat-suppressed spin echo and Dual Echo Steady State sequences.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: Choice of appropriate MR pulse sequence is important for any research studies using imaging-derived data. The aim of this study was to compare semiquantitative assessment of subchondral bo…

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How do acetabular version and femoral head coverage change with skeletal maturity?

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: Normal changes in acetabular version over the course of skeletal development have not been well characterized. Knowledge of normal version development is important because acetabular retro…

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Ookinete rates in Afrotropical anopheline mosquitoes as a measure of human malaria infectiousness.

 · 1970

Anopheles gambiae s.1. and An. funestus were sampled for Plasmodium spp. ookinetes in two P. falciparum-endemic sites in western Kenya. Since the ookinete is a transitional stage of short duration, oc…

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Hypertension, hyperinsulinaemia and obesity in middle-aged Finns with impaired glucose tolerance.

 · 1970

The aim of the study was to analyse the data obtained from a 2-year follow-up study of middle-aged Finnish subjects (n = 183) with a previous history of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in order to el…

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Feasibility of fluorescence-guided resection of recurrent gliomas using five-aminolevulinic acid: retrospective analysis of surgical and neurological outcome in 58 patients.

 · 1970

Five-aminolevulinic-acid (5-ALA) is known for its benefits in surgery of primary gliomas, but has only been cautiously used in recurrent gliomas dreading over-resection, insufficient or false-positive…

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A comparison of vertical force and temporal parameters produced by an in-shoe pressure measuring system and a force platform.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the ability of Pedar in-shoe system to measure vertical force accurately, by comparing it with the Kistler force platform.DESIGN: In vivo experiment in normal subjects.BACKGR…

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The hearing aid revolution: fact or fiction?

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: To present the experiences of consumers with traditional hearing aids (T-HAs) and digital signal processing hearing aids (DSP-HAs) during the period 1999-2001, based on data obtained from a…

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