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Todd A. Astorino, Danielle Emma · 2021 · Sports
Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) is strongly associated with endurance performance as well as health risk. Despite the fact that VO2max has been measured in exercise physiology for over a century, robust procedures to ensure that VO2max is…
View details →Alon Shechter, Mirae Lee, Danon Kaewkes et al. · 2023 · Journal of the American Heart Association
Background There are limited data on repeat mitral transcatheter edge‐to‐edge repair for recurrent significant mitral regurgitation (MR). Methods and Results We conducted a single‐center, retrospective analysis of consecutive patients…
View details →Hyunjae Jeon, Sean Krysak, Steven J. Pfeiffer et al. · 2022 · International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training
Second anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury has similar biomechanical risk factors as primary injury. Standard of care rehabilitation does not adequately mitigate these biomechanical risks. This study examined the effectiveness of a…
View details →Qin Huo, Xuezhao Sun, Tingting Wu et al. · 2022 · Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Choline is an essential nutrient in ruminant diets, which contributes to the fundamental biological functions of the animal. However, choline is easily degraded in the rumen before it can be absorbed. Rumen-protected choline (RPC)…
View details →Koji Yoshida, Lucian Krille, Steffen Dreger et al. · 2017 · Journal of Radiation Research
Abstract Computed tomography (CT) is an essential tool in modern medicine and is frequently used to diagnose a wide range of conditions, particularly in industrial countries, such as Japan and Germany. However, markedly higher doses of…
View details →N. Hirter, A. Letko, I. M. Häfliger et al. · 2020 · Animal Genetics
Summary Entropion is a known congenital disorder in sheep presumed to be heritable but no causative genetic variant has been reported. Affected lambs show a variable inward rolling of the lower eyelids leading to blindness in severe cases.…
View details →Kerri Mocko, Cynthia S. Jones · 2021 · American Journal of Botany
Premise In semiarid regions, decreasing rainfall presents a challenge to perennial seedlings that must reach sufficient size to survive the first year’s seasonal drought. Attaining a large storage organ size has been hypothesized to…
View details →Olivia Wootton, Alexey A. Shadrin, Christine Mohn et al. · 2023 · Molecular Psychiatry
Abstract Reaction time variability (RTV), reflecting fluctuations in response time on cognitive tasks, has been proposed as an endophenotype for many neuropsychiatric disorders. There have been no large-scale genome-wide association…
View details →Rafael Mellado, Claudio Cubillos · 2025 · Applied Sciences
Generative artificial intelligence tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, are transforming the teaching of programming by providing real-time feedback and personalized assistance; however, their impact on learning, motivation, and cognitive…
View details →Sascha Hoffmann, Marina Ott, Franziska Bobbert et al. · 2024 · DIGITAL HEALTH
Objective Internet-based healthcare is a crucial facet of telemedicine. Here, we examine telemedicine methods in perioperative care for gynecological surgery from a patient's perspective. We aim to understand the patients’ needs during…
View details →Theodore Anton, Timothy Clifton · 2024 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Abstract We consider the form of Hubble diagrams that would be constructed by observers in universes that are homogeneous but anisotropic, when averaged over suitably large length-scales. This is achieved by ray-tracing in different…
View details →Mekala Sundaram, Nicole L Gottdenker, Patrick R Stephens · 2025 · BioScience
Abstract An enduring mystery in Ebolavirus research is what host species maintain the virus in the wild. Despite the efforts of multiple research groups over decades, no primary reservoir has ever been identified. To the contrary, finding…
View details →Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger · 2013 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Researchers and software developers require effective performance evaluation. Researchers must evaluate optimizations or measure overhead. Software developers use automatic performance regression tests to discover when changes improve or…
View details →Rossalina Christanti, Andreas Ari Sukoco · 2022 · Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)
What the job market demanded in the last few decades is overwhelming. Universities are working hard to meet the quality required by the job markets and it took a lot of effort, physically and mentally. Recently, the Minister of Education…
View details →Gillianne Bowman, Thierry Huber, Vanessa Burg · 2023 · Energies
Today, an energy transition is underway to tackle the problems of climate change and energy sufficiency. For this transition to succeed, it is essential to use all available renewable energy resources most efficiently. However, renewable…
View details →Guoqing Diao, Dan-yu Lin · 2020 · BMC Genetics
Abstract Background Associations between haplotypes and quantitative traits provide valuable information about the genetic basis of complex human diseases. Haplotypes also provide an effective way to deal with untyped SNPs. Two major…
View details →Marcelo Boareto, Nestor Caticha · 2014 · Microarrays
Microarray data analysis typically consists in identifying a list of differentially expressed genes (DEG), i.e., the genes that are differentially expressed between two experimental conditions. Variance shrinkage methods have been…
View details →Şeyma Çağlar‐Özhan, Perihan Tekeli, Selay Arkün‐Kocadere · 2025 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
ABSTRACT Background Feedback is an essential part of the educational process as it enriches students' learning experiences, provides information about their current performance, shows them what is lacking in achieving goals, and provides…
View details →Sarvnaz Karimi, Jie Yin, Jiri Baum · 2015 · Computational Linguistics
In recent years, many studies have been published on data collected from social media, especially microblogs such as Twitter. However, rather few of these studies have considered evaluation methodologies that take into account the…
View details →G. Annie Mailloux, Mazvita Chikomo, Ying Fan · 2025 · Ecography
Plant roots have been observed up to 70 m in depth – what would compel a plant to root so deeply? Earlier work shows that the climate, soil and drainage all affect rooting depth, but with conflicting results. For example, both the deepest…
View details →Karolina Cyll, Sven Löffeler, Birgitte Carlsen et al. · 2022 · Scientific Reports
Abstract Active surveillance (AS) is standard of care for patients with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa), but its feasibility in intermediate-risk patients is controversial. We compared outcomes of low- and intermediate-risk patients managed…
View details →Huijun Tang, Jiangbo Qian, Yangguang Liu et al. · 2022 · International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Abstract Statistically significant pattern mining (SSPM) is to mine patterns with significance based on hypothesis test. Under the constraint of statistical significance, our study aims to introduce a new preference relation into high…
View details →Ann Oakley · 2012 · Evidence & Policy
The contrasting careers of two government-sponsored commissions of inquiry in the late 1960s are the focus of this paper, which examines what can be learnt from them about the impact, or lack of impact, of such bodies on policy making. The…
View details →Andrea Montanari, Yuchen Wu · 2024 · Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA
Abstract We consider a class of statistical estimation problems in which we are given a random data matrix ${\boldsymbol{X}}\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n\times d}$ (and possibly some labels ${\boldsymbol{y}}\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n}$) and would like to…
View details →Sreeram V Ramagopalan, Andrew P. Skingsley, Lahiru Handunnetthi et al. · 2015 · F1000Research
Background : We and others have shown a significant proportion of interventional trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov have their primary outcomes altered after the listed study start and completion dates. The objectives of this study…
View details →Keewoo Lee · 2024 · IACR Communications in Cryptology
We revisit the question of what the definition of bit security should be, previously answered by Micciancio-Walter (Eurocrypt 2018) and Watanabe-Yasunaga (Asiacrypt 2021). Our new definition is simple, but (i) captures both search and…
View details →Wenli Zhang, Yuxin Liu, Chenhuizi Wang et al. · 2024 · Horticulture Research
Abstract Traditional agriculture is gradually being combined with artificial intelligence technology. High-performance fruit detection technology is an important basic technology in the practical application of modern smart orchards and…
View details →Zhi Shan Chan, Mohamad Azhari Abu Bakar · 2021 · Journal of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development
The present study investigates gender differences in working memory performance, both verbal and visuospatial working memory performance. Quasi-experimental research was conducted individually on 32 undergraduates at a public university in…
View details →Víctor Navas-Portella, Abigail Jiménez, Álvaro Corral · 2020 · Scientific Reports
Abstract Coulomb-stress theory has been used for years in seismology to understand how earthquakes trigger each other. Whenever an earthquake occurs, the stress field changes, and places with positive increases are brought closer to…
View details →Eldré W. Beukes, Gerhard Andersson, Vinaya Manchaiah · 2024 · Audiology Research
Background: This study aimed to investigate whether Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy intervention (ICBT) for individuals with tinnitus had an indirect effect on the third-party disability noticed by significant others (SOs).…
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