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Background/Objectives: Lower-extremity weakness in older adults is often overlooked, yet it can have reversible or medical causes that contribute to increased falls. Common factors include vision disturbances, impaired balance due to otolith dysfunct...

In the era of the fourth Industrial Revolution, software has recently been applied in many fields. As the size and complexity of software increase, security attack problems continue to arise owing to potential software defects, resulting in significa...

Muscle wasting begins as soon as in the first week of one’s ICU stay and patients with multi-organ failure lose more muscle mass and suffer worse functional impairment as a consequence. Muscle wasting and weakness are mainly characterized by a...

An association between respiratory muscle weakness and sarcopenia may provide a clue to the mechanism of sarcopenia development. We aimed to clarify this relationship among community-dwelling older adults. In total, 117 community-dwelling older adult...

Potential software weakness, which can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities, continues to pose a risk to computer systems. According to Common Vulnerability and Exposures, 14,714 vulnerabilities were reported in 2017, more than twice the numb...

Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness (ICU-AW) is a common and severe complication in critically ill patients, characterized by profound and often prolonged muscle weakness. The complexity of its diagnosis and management requires a multidimensional a...

Estrogens play a key role in an extensive range of physiological functions in various types of tissues throughout the body in females. We previously showed that estrogen insufficiency caused muscle weakness that could be rescued by estrogen administr...

The study aimed to show the potential clinical application of supplements used among sportsmen for patients suffering from Intensive Care Unit-acquired Weakness (ICUAW) treatment. ICUAW is a common complication affecting approximately 40% of critical...

Pompe disease is an autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disorder characterized by progressive myopathy with proximal muscle weakness, respiratory muscle dysfunction, and cardiomyopathy (in infants only). In patients with juvenile or adult disease o...

Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) occurs in critically ill patients stemming from the critical illness itself, and results in sustained disability long after the ICU stay. Weakness can be attributed to muscle wasting, impaired contractili...

Respiratory and airway-protective muscle weakness caused by the blockade of neuromuscular transmission is a major cause of early mortality from snakebite envenoming (SBE). Once weakness is manifest, antivenom appears to be of limited effectiveness in...

Skeletal muscle is a highly adaptable organ, and its amount declines under catabolic conditions such as critical illness. Aging is accompanied by a gradual loss of muscle, especially when physical activity decreases. Intensive care unit-acquired weak...

Rhabdomyolysis is a well-known clinical syndrome of muscle injury. Rhabdomyolysis following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has recently been reported. The patients’ weakness gradually subsided and did not recur. Rhabdomyolysis...

Phase angle (PhA), a marker of nutritional status obtained by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), is associated with the integrity of cell membranes. Damage to muscle fiber membranes can impact muscle strength, which is related to adverse outcome...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is often accompanied with muscle weakness; however, little is known about mechanical adaptions of the affected muscles. As the latter can be assessed using ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE), this study characterizes the...

Congenital facial weakness (CFW) encompasses a heterogenous set of rare disorders presenting with decreased facial movement from birth, secondary to impaired function of the facial musculature. The aim of the present study is to provide an analysis o...

Background: This study aimed to analyze the prevalence of sarcopenia in elderly people from Northern Brazil according to muscle weakness or walking slowness. Methods: The sample consisted of 312 elderly people (72.6 ± 7.8 years). For walking s...

Hereditary myopathies are a group of genetically determined muscle disorders comprising more than 300 entities. In Chile, there are no specific registries of the distinct forms of these myopathies. We now report the genetic findings of a series of Ch...

The COVID-19 pandemic has recently been the cause of a global public health emergency. Frequently, elderly patients experience a marked loss of muscle mass and strength during hospitalization, resulting in a significant functional decline. This paper...

Diaphragm weakness frequently develops in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients and is associated with increased morbidity, including ventilator weaning failure, mortality, and health care costs. The mechanisms underlying diaphragm weakness...

Weak contact metric structures on a smooth manifold, introduced by V. Rovenski and R. Wolak in 2022, have provided new insight into the theory of classical structures. In this paper, we define new structures of this kind (called weak nearly Sasakian...

Since the 1992 United Nations Conference on environment and development held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the adoption by China State Council in March 1994 of the “China Agenda 21”, sustainability has become a major issue in China urban...

The recent interest in geometers in the f-structures of K. Yano is motivated by the study of the dynamics of contact foliations, as well as their applications in theoretical physics. Weak metric f-structures on a smooth manifold, recently introduced...

The first-line management of cervical dystonia (CD) symptoms is intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin type A (BoNTA). However, a comparison of safety among BoNTAs is difficult because, per regulatory authorities, units of BoNTA activity are not...

Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) is one of the most common causes of muscle atrophy and functional disability in critically ill intensive care patients. Clinical examination, manual muscle strength testing and monitoring are frequently h...

Human T-cell leukemia virus-1 (HTLV-1)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a slowly progressive neurological disease that arises from HTLV-1 infection. Pathologically, the condition is characterized by diffuse myelitis, wh...

The heterosis in hybrid rice is highly affected by the environment and hybrid weakness occurs frequently depending on the genotypes of the hybrid and its parents. Hybrid weakness was also observed in our field experiments on nine rice hybrids produce...

Hybrid weakness is a type of reproductive isolation in which F₁ hybrids of normal parents exhibit weaker growth characteristics than their parents. F₁ hybrid of the Oryza sativa Indian cultivars ‘P.T.B.7′ and ‘A.D.T.14′ exhibi...

Smart contracts on blockchain platforms are susceptible to security issues that can lead to significant financial losses. This study converts the Solidity code into abstract syntax trees and generates control flow graphs and data flow graphs. These g...

Background/Objectives: Many patients evaluated by shoulder specialists suffer from intractable pain, neuropathy, and weakness. The pectoralis minor (PM) remains the only scapula muscle to receive lower trunk (C8-T1) input. We propose a novel syndrome...

(1) Background: Female sex is considered a risk factor for Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness (ICUAW). The aim is to investigate sex-specific aspects of skeletal muscle metabolism in the context of ICUAW. (2) Methods: This is a sex-specific sub-an...

Otoferlin mRNA expression is increased in JDM patients’ PBMCs and muscle compared to healthy controls. This study aims to evaluate the role of otoferlin in JDM disease pathophysiology and its association with disease activity in untreated child...

Background: Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) is a set of physical, cognitive, and mental health symptoms that arise following intensive care (ICU) hospitalization. Regarding physical changes, muscle weakness is highlighted, potentially leading to...

As demonstrated in COPD, bronchiectasis patients may experience respiratory and peripheral muscle dysfunction. We hypothesized that respiratory and peripheral (upper and lower limbs) muscle function and nutritional status may be more significantly al...

The class of weak pseudoorders and left weak interior hyperideals in ordered hyperstructures is a generalization of pseudoorders and interior hyperideals. In this work, we study the concept of weak pseudoorders and left weak interior hyperideals in o...

Substitution of Ala for Glu residue in position 173 of γ-tropomyosin (Tpm3.12) is associated with muscle weakness. Here we observe that this mutation increases myofilament Ca²⁺-sensitivity and inhibits in vitro actin-activated ATPase activity o...

In this paper we continue to investigate weak pseudo-quasi-Wajsberg algebras which are called weak PQW-algebras for short. First, some definitions are recalled and the basic properties of weak PQW-algebras are presented. Next, we define the notions o...

Inactivity is known to induce muscle weakness, and chronically increased levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are proposed to have a central causative role in this process. Intriguingly, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), which involves burs...

The interlayer shear weakness zone (ISWZ) is a deformation zone in stratified rock masses, with different width and spacing, due to tectonic stresses. It represents the main flow path in rocks due to higher permeability compared with massive rocks. T...

Qualitative assessment by the Heckmatt scale (HS) and quantitative greyscale analysis of muscle echogenicity were compared for their value in detecting intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW). We performed muscle ultrasound (MUS) of eight skel...

This study considers equilibrium problems, focusing on identifying finite solutions for feasible solution sequences. We introduce an innovative extension of the weak sharp minimum concept from convex programming to equilibrium problems, coining this...

Assessment of nonspeech tongue function is common in speech-language pathology. This paper reviews techniques used to determine tongue strength and endurance, and describes a constant-effort task. These techniques are intended to reveal and quantify...

Let $(A,\Delta )$ be a weak multiplier Hopf algebra. It is a pair of a non-degenerate algebra A, with or without identity, and a coproduct $\Delta :A⟶M(A\otimes A)$, satisfying certain properties. In this paper, we continue the study of these objects and...

A weak homomorphism from graph G to graph H is a mapping $f:V\left(G\right)\to V\left(H\right)$, where either $f\left(x\right)=f\left(y\right)$ or $\left\{f\right(x),f(y\left)\right\}\in E\left(H\right)$ hold for all $\{x,y\}\in E\left(G\right)$. A rectangular grid graph is formed by taking the Cartesian product of two paths. Counting weak ho...

Aggregation is a mathematical process consisting in the fusion of a set of values into a unique one and representing them in some sense. Aggregation functions have demonstrated to be very important in many problems related to the fusion of informatio...

We investigate the relationships between the weak resolution dimensions of subcategories of module categories of Artinian algebras in the present paper. Let $\Lambda$ be an Artinian algebra, and $\mathcal{A}$, $\mathcal{B}$ and $\mathcal{X}$ subcategories of $\Lambda$-modules, such that...

In this paper, we prove some fixed point theorems for the nonlinear operator $A·B+C$ in Banach algebra. Our fixed point results are obtained under a weak topology and measure of weak noncompactness; and we give an example of the appl...

Serological weak D is a reaction of 2+ or less to anti-D reagent and includes weak D and partial D phenotypes. Although identifying the RhD subtype is important for transfusion safety, serological tests are insufficient for defining the RhD subtype,...

A ring R is of weak global dimension at most one if all submodules of flat R-modules are flat. A ring R is said to be arithmetical (resp., right distributive or left distributive) if the lattice of two-sided ideals (resp., right ideals or left ideals...

The presence of weak layers in geotechnical systems, including soil or rock masses, both natural and man-made, is more frequent than is normally believed. Weak layers can affect both failure mechanisms, in drained and in undrained conditions, as well...