Experience of patients and physiotherapists within the AFTER pilot randomised trial of two rehabilitation interventions for people aged 50 years and over post ankle fracture: a qua... by David J Keene, Sarah E Lamb, Matthew L Costa, Elizabeth Tutton, Jenny Gould

“…Progressive exercise added value with a perceived increase in strength, motion, ability to undertake activities and continued use of the workbook. …”
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Relationship between physical presenteeism and productivity of nurses in intensive care units of hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences by Solmaz Vahedi, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri, Fatemeh Hajibabaee, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani

“…Given the high prevalence of presenteeism among nurses and its detrimental consequences, it is recommended to undertake various measures aimed at mitigating this issue. …”
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Evaluation of novel chromatographic prototypes for supercoiled plasmid DNA polishing by Pedro L. Ferreira, Helena Marie, Tim Berger, Bianca Edelmann, Oliver Rammo, Fani Sousa

“…To comply with the regulatory guidelines, pDNA must be available as a highly purified, homogeneous preparation of supercoiled pDNA (sc pDNA). This process undertakes several challenges, primarily due to the diversity of molecules derived from the producer organism. …”
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Weed Detection Using Deep Learning: A Systematic Literature Review by Nafeesa Yousuf Murad, Tariq Mahmood, Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan, Ahsan Morshed, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui

“…Finally, the study will serve as a starting point for researchers who wish to undertake further research in this area.…”
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Regional-Scale Systematic Mapping of Archaeological Mounds and Detection of Looting Using COSMO-SkyMed High Resolution DEM and Satellite Imagery by Deodato Tapete, Arianna Traviglia, Eleonora Delpozzo, Francesca Cigna

“…To this purpose, the 3 m resolution imaging capability allowed by the Italian Space Agency’s COSMO-SkyMed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation in StripMap HIMAGE mode was used in this study to generate DEM products of enhanced resolution to undertake, for the first time, a systematic mapping of tells and archaeological deposits. …”
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Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) – Effect on Knowledge, Self-Care Behavior, and Self-Efficacy Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Ethiopia: A Controlled Clinical Trial by Hailu FB, Moen A, Hjortdahl P

“…Fikadu Balcha Hailu,1,2 Anne Moen,1 Per Hjortdahl1 1Institute for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 2School of Nursing and Midwifery, Jimma University, Jimma, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Fikadu Balcha HailuInstitute for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayTel +251 911 00 4133Fax +251 471 111450Email fikadubalcha@gmail.comPurpose: Diabetes patients must be equipped with the necessary knowledge to confidently undertake appropriate self-care activities. We prepared a diabetes self-management education (DSME) intervention and assessed how it affected patients’ self-reported levels of diabetes knowledge, self-care behaviors, and self-efficacy.Patients and methods: A before-and-after, two-group intervention study was conducted at Jimma University Medical Centre among adult patients with type 2 diabetes. …”
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Evaluation of the Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Left Ventricular Diastolic and Systolic Function and Cardiac Chamber Size in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Interve... by Kourosh Soleimannejad, Younos Nouzari, Alireza Ahsani, Mostafa Nejatian, Kourosh Sayehmiri

“…Methods: In this randomized controlled study, 146 patients with CAD were divided equally into two groups: case group (undertaking CR after PCI) and control group (without rehabilitation after PCI). …”
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Bibliometric analysis of worldwide research trends on breast cancer about inflammation by Guangran Meng, Huilin Xu, Shengtao Yang, Feixiang Chen, Wenyuan Wang, Furong Hu, Gang Zheng, Yixin Guo

“…This study was aim to undertake a bibliometric analysis of breast cancer research associated with inflammation between 2013 and 2022 in order to identify the trends, dynamics, and scientific outputs in the field.MethodsFrom 2013 to 2022, original and review publications on breast cancer and inflammation-associated research were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) database. …”
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Critical evaluation of infill well placement and optimization of well spacing using the particle swarm algorithm by Evans Annan Boah, Obed Kwami Senyo Kondo, Abraham Aidoo Borsah, Eric Thompson Brantson

“…This is because many different well placement scenarios must be evaluated when undertaking the optimization program. Most often, the variables that affect the reservoir performance are nonlinearly correlated with some degree of uncertainty. …”
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Measuring morbidity and mortality attributable to rheumatic heart disease in Fiji: a prototype study of disease burden in a developing country by data linkage by Tom Parks, Joseph Kado, Isimeli Tukana, Andrew Steer

“…Motivated by the lack of up-to-date epidemiologic data from endemic settings, we sought to quantity morbidity and mortality attributable the condition in Fiji, a middle-income country where a high prevalence has consistently been reported. Having resolved to undertake the analysis using the existing routine clinical and administrative data at our disposal, we first set out to develop a data linkage procedure robust to the inherent limitations of data from low resource settings. …”
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Some open questions related to the minimum wage in the Republic of Serbia by Antić Aleksandar T., Urdarević Bojan P.

“…In the light of international labour standards, according to the Minimum Wage Fixing Convention No. 131 of the International Labour Organization, each member of the International Labour Organization which ratifies this Convention undertakes to establish a system of minimum wages which covers all groups of wage earners whose terms of employment are such that coverage would be appropriate. …”
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Further development and validation of the Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire (MTBQ) by Line Guénette, Daisy Gaunt, Lauren J Scott, Chris Salisbury, Katherine Chaplin, Shoba Dawson, Polly Duncan, Yvette Pyne, Muzrif Munas

“…Objectives To undertake further psychometric testing of the Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire (MTBQ) and examine whether reversing the scale reduced floor effects.Design Survey.Setting UK primary care.Participants Adults (≥18 years) with three or more long-term conditions randomly selected from four general practices and invited by post.Measures Baseline survey: sociodemographics, MTBQ (original or version with scale reversed), Treatment Burden Questionnaire (TBQ), four questions (from QQ-10) on ease of completing the questionnaires. …”
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The GP tests of competence assessment: which part best predicts fitness to practise decisions? by Hirosha Keshani Jayaweera, Henry W. W. Potts, Karim Keshwani, Chris Valerio, Magdalen Baker, Leila Mehdizadeh, Alison Sturrock

“…Data were collated on 153 GPs who were required to undertake a ToC as a part of being investigated for FtP issues between February 2010 and October 2016. …”
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The Frameworks of Jurisprudential Rules in Legal Review of Voluntary Activities in Iran Libraries by Davoud Nojavan, Reza Akbarnejad, َAbolfazl Nojavan

“…Findings: The activity of the "rule of beneficence", was concluded that voluntarily activities in libraries means that a person who undertakes such an activity cannot be blamed for the results of these activities, since his work is beneficial. …”
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Across-breed genetic investigation of canine hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, and anterior cruciate ligament rupture using whole-genome sequencing by Emily E. Binversie, Mehdi Momen, Guilherme J. M. Rosa, Brian W. Davis, Peter Muir

“…There is a critical knowledge gap regarding the optimal approach to undertake categorical GWAS without individual phenotypes. …”
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Involvement of people who use alcohol and other drug services in the development of patient‐reported measures of experience: A scoping review by Anke E. van derSterren, Sally Nathan, Patrick Rawstorne, Elisabeth Yarbakhsh, Chris Gough, Devin Bowles

“…Only four measures were developed for use in harm reduction‐specific settings, and fewer than half reported undertaking analysis of underlying scale structure and constructs. …”
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Sensor-based telerehabilitation system increases patient adherence after knee surgery by Jürgen Höher, Betty Lischke, Wolf Petersen, Natalie Mengis, Daniel Niederer, Thomas Stein, Thomas Stoffels, Robert Prill, Caroline Schmidt-Lucke

“…Patients with the app in the home environment were more likely to stick to recommendations of exercises given by doctors and physiotherapists and train harder compared to those only undertaking physiotherapy. Doctors and physiotherapist used sensor data and the medical app to decide what type of exercise a patient should perform. …”
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Letter from the editor by Miguel Angel Huerta

“…Alejandro Cabello Pasini has now abdicated this position to undertake other academic projects at the Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexico). …”
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Experimental Verification of Tritium Production Rate in CFETR Water Cooled Ceramic Breeder Blanket Mock up by ZHU Qingjun;CHEN Wuhui;BAO Jie;ZHAO Zijia;DU Hua;HUANG Kai;LIU Songlin

“… As one of CFETR’s candidate blankets, water cooled ceramic breeder (WCCB) blanket undertakes important nuclear-related functions such as tritium breeding, nuclear heat extraction, and neutron shielding. …”
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Time scale and influencing factor variations of water and heat fluxes in sandy land by Xiaoyuan Li, Shengwei Zhang, Tingxi Liu, Xi Lin, Ruishen Li, Shuai Wang

“…These results suggest that the time scales of flux and impacting factors should be considered when undertaking water and heat flux analyses of sandy land and other ecosystems. …”
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