Cosmetics composed of synthetic and/or semi-synthetic polymers, associated or not with natural polymers, exhibit a dashing design, with thermal and chemo-sensitive properties. Cosmetic polymers are also used for the preparation of nanoparticles for t...
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) offers adaptive and dynamic multimedia streaming solutions to heterogeneous end systems. However, it still faces many challenges in determining an appropriate rate adaptation technique to provide the best q...
The current study was designed to examine the relationship between diet quality, as measured by the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) score, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components. The study was cross-sectiona...
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, characterized by high consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and limited intake of saturated fats, cholesterol, and refined sugars, has been suggested to reduc...
The idea of sustainability is based on three pillars—environmental, economic, and social—per the Brundtland report. Housing is a type of architecture with which any occupant can connect. It is a place that supports an occupant’s phy...
Background/Objectives: Gestational hypertension is associated with increased maternal and fetal morbidity. The DASH diet is designed to reduce blood pressure and improve cardiovascular health. Our aim is to evaluate the efficacy of adherence to the D...
Smartphone apps might provide an opportunity to support the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, a healthy diet designed to help lower blood pressure. This study evaluated DASH diet self-management apps based on their quality, likely...
Introduction: the objective of our study was to systematically review the current literature and perform a meta-analysis to evaluate the effect of the level of adherence to the DASH diet on blood pressure. Methods: The identification of relevant stud...
Background/Objectives: Dietary adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) pattern is associated with lower blood pressure; however, most prior studies have relied on office-based measurements and non-specific dietary assessment t...
Background: The emergence of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapy holds great promise in treating hematologic malignancies. While advancements in CAR design have enhanced therapeutic efficacy, the time-consuming manufacturing proces...
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) has prevailed as the dominant way of video transmission over the Internet. This technology is based on receiving small sequential video segments from a server. However, one challenge that has not been adequ...
As spectral resolution increases, the dimension of the Doppler Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne (DASH) interferometer increases. The existing approach for stably mounting the interferometer is limited to mounting a normal-sized DASH interferometer. In t...
The recognition of data matrix (DM) codes plays a crucial role in industrial production. Significant progress has been made with existing methods. However, for low-quality images with protrusions and interruptions on the L-shaped solid edge (finder p...
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet reduces serum urate (SU); however, the impact of the DASH diet has not been previously evaluated among patients with gout. We conducted a randomized, controlled, crossover pilot study to test th...
In this study, we develop a vegetation monitoring framework which is applicable at a planetary scale, and is based on the BACI (Before-After, Control-Impact) design. This approach utilizes Google Earth Engine, a state-of-the-art cloud computing platf...
While dietary patterns are related to the age-related progression of chronic diseases, to what extent different dietary patterns influence inflammatory and metabolic risk factors in older adults remains to be elucidated. Additionally, potential moder...
Objective: Our primary objective was to examine the associations of the Mediterranean (MED), the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), and the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) diet with total mortality. Our secondary objective was to e...
This paper presents an experimental characterization of the proposed radio link model for an underground mine sensor network. Power efficiency and range are critical factors to consider when designing a wireless sensor network, particularly for low d...
Background/Objectives: Percutaneous A1 pulley release effectively treats trigger finger, but the additional benefit of concomitant corticosteroid injection remains debated. Moreover, minimal clinically important difference (MCID), substantial clinica...
Energy harvesting is an effective technique for prolonging the lifetime of Internet of Things devices and Wireless Sensor Networks. In applications such as environmental sensing, which demands a deploy-and-forget architecture, energy harvesting is an...
We present a self-sustained battery-less multi-sensor platform with RF harvesting capability down to −17 dBm and implementing a standard DASH7 wireless communication interface. The node operates at distances up to 17 m from a 2 W UHF carrier. RF powe...
Background: Dietary patterns face substantial environmental pressures, but few studies compare the ecological impact of those derived from widely implemented or recently proposed dietary guidelines. Updates to the American dietary pyramid have raised...
Little is known about which currently available a priori dietary indexes provide best guidance for reducing cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRF) among hyperlipidemic patients. This study was designed to compare the associations between four a priori d...
Recent advancements in memory technology have opened up a wealth of possibilities for innovation in data structures. The emergence of byte-addressable persistent memory (PM) with its impressive capacity and low latency has accelerated the adoption of...
The ability to preserve cognitive function and protect brain structure from the effects of the aging process and neurodegenerative disease is the goal of non-pharmacologic, lifestyle interventions focused on brain health. This review examines, in tur...
Rhizarthrosis is the most frequent form of osteoarthritis and is responsible for pain, disability and reduced functionality. The aim of the study is to investigate the clinical effects of shock wave treatment in patients suffering from arthritis of t...
This article describes a sensor-based physical computing system, called the Data Sensor Hub (DaSH), which enables students to process, analyze, and display data streams collected using a variety of sensors. The system is built around the portable and...
Background: Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) is a common cause of lateral elbow pain and upper-extremity dysfunction. Mesotherapy, a minimally invasive local injection technique, has shown promising results in musculoskeletal pain, but comparativ...
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Break Up with Salt (BUWS) is a four-session community-based nutrition education program aimed at reducing key controllable hypertension risk factors. This pilot study utilized a pre-post survey design to assess short-term outcomes on food behaviors (...
Lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET) is a common upper limb pathology in people involved in manual occupations. The upper extremity functional index (UEFI) was specifically designed to evaluate functional limitations in patients with upper limb pathology...
Cancer remains a major public health challenge among women worldwide, and diet quality may play an important role in cancer prevention. This narrative review synthesized evidence on the association between standardized diet quality indices—the...
In fishway design, the combination of fish swimming behaviors and suitable fishway hydraulic characteristics increases the fish passage efficiency. In this study, the most representative grass carp among the “four major Chinese carps” was...
The definition of what constitutes a healthy diet is continually shifting to reflect the evolving understanding of the roles that different foods, essential nutrients, and other food components play in health and disease. A large and growing body of...
Video streaming solutions have increased their importance in the last decade, enabling video on demand (VoD) services. Among several innovative services, 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) systems consider the possibility of providing VoD-based solutions for sur...
Multimedia video streaming, identified as the dominant internet data consumption service, brings forth challenges in consistently delivering optimal video quality. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), while prevalent, often encounters bufferi...
To address the limitation of 2D lane detection methods with monocular vision, which fail to capture the three-dimensional position of lane boundaries, this study proposes a convolutional neural network architecture for 3D lane detection. The deep res...
The standard treatment for distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) instability involves repairing the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) and immobilizing the joint with a sugar tong slab, but this can cause elbow stiffness. To address this, a modified u...
Background/objective: Obesity and overweight have become growing health-related issues worldwide, which also applies to Poland. Excess fat mass is associated with an increased risk of metabolic and non-metabolic complications. The aim of our pre&ndas...
Origami structures exhibit significant potential for rapid deployment in post-disaster response and temporary architecture due to their ability to quickly fold and deploy. Further development of these structures into modular components that can be as...
This study examines six decades (1964–2023) of changes in motor skills and body dimensions among Japanese 13-year-old students, analyzing grip strength, handball throwing, 50 m dash, endurance running, and composite scores. National Physical Fi...
Background/Objectives: Dupuytren’s contracture is a chronic fibroproliferative disorder of the palmar fascia that leads to progressive flexion deformities and functional impairment. The Southampton Dupuytren’s Scoring Scheme (SDSS) is a d...
Background: Glenohumeral instability is one of the most frequent and clinically impactful complications following proximal humerus resection and reconstruction with a megaprosthesis, especially in patients treated for bone tumors or complex fractures...
Background and Objectives: Syndactyly is a common congenital hand anomaly that may affect hand appearance, function, and psychosocial well-being. This study aimed to evaluate long-term patient-centered outcomes after congenital syndactyly reconstruct...
Background/Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate the clinical, functional, and radiographic results of patients affected by three- or four-part proximal humeral fractures treated with reverse total shoulder arthroplasty, to investigate...
Background/Objectives: Rotator cuff repair (RCR) is a common orthopedic procedure, with healing outcomes strongly influenced by patient-specific factors such as tissue quality, tear characteristics, and biological healing potential. Bioinductive coll...
Video-centric applications have seen significant growth in recent years with HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) becoming a widely adopted method for video delivery. Recently, low-latency (LL) adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms have recently been proposed t...
Background: Chronic reducible scapholunate instability (SLI) remains a challenging condition, with multiple surgical options described, often associated with soft tissue disruption and postoperative stiffness. We describe a mini-invasive dorsal capsu...
The novel coronavirus whose outbreak took place in December 2019 continues to spread at a rapid rate worldwide. In the absence of an effective vaccine, inhibitor repurposing or de novo drug design may offer a longer-term strategy to combat this and f...
Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is consistently associated with a high prevalence of sleep disturbances across the lifespan, with reported rates ranging from 60% to 86% depending on age and clinical characteristics. Although this issue has...
Background and Objectives: The Western Ontario Shoulder Instability Index (WOSI) is a disease-specific self-administered questionnaire which is designed to measure health-related quality of life for patients with shoulder instability. The objective o...
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