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Kinga Polanska, Anna Krol, Pawel Kaluzny, Danuta Ligocka, Karolina Mikolajewska, Seif Shaheen, Robert Walton and Wojciech Hanke
A reliable assessment of smoking status has significant public health implications and is essential for research purposes. The aim of this study was to determine optimal saliva cotinine cut-off values for smoking during pregnancy. The analyses were based...
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Daniela Piacentini, Francesco Troiani, Tommaso Servizi, Olivia Nesci and Francesco Veneri
The stream length-gradient (SL) index is widely used in geomorphological studies aimed at detecting knickzones, which are extensive along-stream deviations from the typical concave-up shape assumed for stream longitudinal profiles at steady-state conditi...
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Mehmet Tolga Taner,Bülent Sezen,Lutfihak Alpkan,Selim Aren
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The HDI has played an influential role in the debate on human development. No index is perfect and so is the Human Development Index of United Nations Development Program. This paper aims to measure the performance of 182 countries in terms of performanc...
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Tineke De Vriendt, Inge Huybrechts, Charlene Ottevaere, Inge Van Trimpont and Stefaan De Henauw
This paper investigated the validity of self-reported height and weight of adolescents for the diagnosis of underweight, overweight and obesity and the influence of weighing behaviour on the accuracy. A total of 982 adolescents reported their height, wei...
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Jaime González-García, Manuel Conejero and Jorge Gutiérrez-Hellín
Understanding the reliability of jump testing is essential to determine the neuromuscular progress of athletes and make informed decisions. This study aimed to assess the reliability of several countermovement jump (CMJ) and drop jump (DJ) test metrics i...
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Sungmin Han, Jeonghyun Lee and Sangkyun Lee
Model induction is one of the most popular methods to extract information to better understand AI?s decisions by estimating the contribution of input features for a class of interest. However, we found a potential issue: most model induction methods, esp...
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Andrius Apsega, Liudvikas Petrauskas, Vidmantas Alekna, Kristina Daunoraviciene, Viktorija Sevcenko, Asta Mastaviciute, Dovydas Vitkus, Marija Tamulaitiene and Julius Griskevicius
Background and objectives: One of the greatest challenges facing the healthcare of the aging population is frailty. There is growing scientific evidence that gait assessment using wearable sensors could be used for prefrailty and frailty screening. The p...
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Masahiro Kitamura, Kazuhiro P. Izawa, Masakazu Yaekura, Yumi Mimura, Yuichi Ikeda, Hitomi Nagashima and Peter H. Brubaker
Purpose: This investigation aimed to examine the relationship among activities of daily living (ADL), nutritional status and 90-day hospital readmission in elderly heart failure (HF) patients. Methods: Participants were selected from 634 HF patients cons...
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Nita Aryanti, Tutuk Djoko Kusworo, Wiharyanto Oktiawan, Dyah Hesti Wardhani
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Oil exploration waste, also called produced water, contains hazardous pollutants, such as benzene; benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX); naphthalene, phenanthrene, and dibenzothiophene (NDP); polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); and phenol. Produced water is ...
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Natalia Mrozinska, Katarzyna Glinska-Lewczuk, Pawel Burandt, Szymon Kobus, Wojciech Gotkiewicz, Monika Szymanska, Martyna Bakowska and Krystian Obolewski
River restoration projects rely on environmental engineering solutions to improve the health of riparian ecosystems and restore their natural characteristics. The Kwacza River, the left tributary of the Slupia River in northern Poland, and the recipient ...
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Dongxu Ouyang, Jiahao Liu, Mingyi Chen and Jian Wang
Numerous lithium-ion battery (LIB) fires and explosions have raised serious concerns about the safety issued associated with LIBs; some of these incidents were mainly caused by overcharging of LIBs. Therefore, to have a better understanding of the fire h...
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H. ABDEL BASSET,A. GAHEIN
A diagnostic analysis of a Mediterranean system and the associated tropopause folding for the period 27 February to 10 March, 1987 is presented. Geopotential height, potential vorticity (PV) and relative humidity distributions w...
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