959 papers
This cross-sectional study of 83 long-term care residents demonstrates that while both the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) and the Barthel Index effectively identify self-care dependency, the DEMMI offers superior sensitivity for older adults with severe mobility limitations by avoiding the floor effect observed in the Barthel Index.
This qualitative study identifies that pregnant women's barriers to oral healthcare stem from a complex interplay of knowledge gaps, structural and economic constraints, pregnancy-related fears, and social influences, highlighting the need to integrate oral health into prenatal services and improve access to affordable care.
This study integrates genomic and transcriptomic data from Thoroughbred horses to identify specific causal genes and variants underlying athletic performance traits, distinguishing between inherited genetic factors and acquired molecular responses to exercise and training.
This paper introduces Aquametrics Plus, a dedicated software tool designed to streamline the Water Accounting Plus (WA+) framework by automating complex calculations and satellite image analysis, thereby enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and calibration precision, as demonstrated through a successful case study in the Zayandehrood basin.
This study demonstrates that agar oligosaccharides (AOS) mitigate lipopolysaccharide-induced apoptosis and inflammatory damage in ovine rumen epithelial cells by inhibiting the TLR4-MyD88-NF-κB signaling pathway, suggesting AOS as a potential green feed additive for alleviating ruminant metabolic diseases.
This study presents the development and comprehensive validation of a highly sensitive and specific recombinant gE blocking ELISA that outperforms commercial alternatives in detecting bovine alphaherpesvirus-1, effectively enabling serological surveillance and differentiation of infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA).
This retrospective study of 939 head and neck cancer patients demonstrates that applying the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC framework can significantly identify system-level inefficiencies and potentially reduce speech therapy rehabilitation duration by up to 65%.
This paper proposes a novel "asymptotic ridge" framework that extends classical ridge regression by introducing a heuristic combined algorithm based on an asymptotic elastic-net penalty function, supported by two new theorems, to achieve improved regularization and lower mean square errors through dynamic hyperparameters in high-dimensional datasets.
This study utilizes single-cell and bulk transcriptomic analyses to demonstrate that citrullination-related candidate biomarkers (LTF, MMP9, MMP8, IL10, LCN2, and S100A12) are primarily localized to myeloid cells and serve as indicators of neutrophil activation and monocyte/macrophage regulatory remodeling in sepsis.
This review synthesizes findings from 48 studies to identify six interrelated factor groups and proposes a hexagonal conceptual model as an integrated diagnostic framework for optimizing the quality of adaptive reuse in cultural heritage buildings.