Biswas, Rathin Arya, Kavi Deshpande, Shankar
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Applied Water Science
Sanitation problems faced by the humanity are tightly coupled with the ever-growing water problems. Better sanitation infrastructures ensure sustainable solutions to the health and water issues faced by the majority of the urban population on the planet. In this study, we investigated sanitation status for squatter settlements in Mumbai, a major gl...
Abegunde, O. A. Okujeni, C. Petrik, L. Siad, A. M. Madzivire, G. Wu, C.
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Environmental Earth Sciences
The generation of acidic drainage has become pervasive over the years and toxic elements are released due to exposure to oxidising agents, unforeseen circumstances, and human interactions. Uncontrolled acidic mine drainage release can result in substantial ecological disruption in sensitive and productive receiving waters. This study probes the ele...
Olson, Nathan D. Kumar, M. Senthil Li, Shan Braccia, Domenick J. Hao, Stephanie Timp, Winston Salit, Marc L. Stine, O. Colin Bravo, Hector Corrada
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Microbiome
BackgroundThere are a variety of bioinformatic pipelines and downstream analysis methods for analyzing 16S rRNA marker-gene surveys. However, appropriate assessment datasets and metrics are needed as there is limited guidance to decide between available analysis methods. Mixtures of environmental samples are useful for assessing analysis methods as...
Werkkala, Camilla Välimäki, Maritta Anttila, Minna Pekurinen, Virve Bressington, Daniel
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundPhysical health among people with severe mental illness (SMI) is a global concern. However, many people with SMI do not receive regular comprehensive health checks. There is currently no validated physical health check instrument systematically used in Finnish mental health services. Therefore, this study aims to validate and establish th...
Rosenbaum, S. Morell, R. Abdel-Baki, A. Ahmadpanah, M. Anilkumar, T. V. Baie, L. Bauman, A. Bender, S. Boyan Han, J. Brand, S.
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundPhysical inactivity is a key contributor to the global burden of disease and disproportionately impacts the wellbeing of people experiencing mental illness. Increases in physical activity are associated with improvements in symptoms of mental illness and reduction in cardiometabolic risk. Reliable and valid clinical tools that assess phys...
El Hajj Chehade, Fatima Younes, Rafic
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Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Structural reliability is now the leading method in the field of design optimization and assessment of civil engineering structures since it offers a rational treatment of the uncertainties in this kind of studies. However, structural reliability problems become more complex with time due to the high number of random variables leading to very compl...
Kennedy, Rachel A. Carroll, Kate McGinley, Jennifer L. Paterson, Kade L.
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
BackgroundWeakness is the primary impairment in paediatric neuromuscular diseases, impacting gait and gait-related functional activities in ambulant children affected by these rare and often degenerative diseases. Gait speed is an indicator of health and disability, yet gait is a complex, multi-faceted activity. Using the International Classificati...
Cella, Alberto De Luca, Alice Squeri, Valentina Parodi, Sara Puntoni, Matteo Vallone, Francesco Giorgeschi, Angela Garofalo, Valentina Zigoura, Ekaterini Senesi, Barbara
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Aging clinical and experimental research
Impaired physical performance is common in older adults and has been identified as a major risk factor for falls. To date, there are no conclusive data on the impairment of balance parameters in older subjects with different levels of physical performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between different grades of physica...
Elrefaie, Asmaa Mohammed Salem, Rehab Mohammed Faheem, Mohamed H
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Lasers in medical science
Most of the widely used scales to evaluate scars are subjective relying on clinical observations. There is a growing need to find out a noninvasive objective tool for this purpose. The study is aimed at evaluating the value of the high-resolution ultrasound in the assessment of the scars when compared with a clinical evaluation scoring system, the ...
Lee, Jaime B Kocherginsky, Masha Cherney, Leora R
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Neuropsychological rehabilitation
Studies suggest that individuals with aphasia present with impairments in attention. However, most research has been conducted with small sample sizes using experimental protocols that lack established psychometric properties. We examined the attention performance of 114 individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia using a standardised, norm-refere...
