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A Comparative Study of Cerebral Oxygenation During Exercise in Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance are common in dialysis patients. Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation play a major role in both cognitive function and exercise execution; HD session per se aggravates cerebral ischemia in this population. This study aimed to compare cerebral oxygenation and perfusion at rest and in mild
Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou, Konstantina Dipla, Danai Faitatzidou, Fotini Iatridi, Areti Georgiou, Artemios Karagiannidis, Erasmia Sampani, Chrysostomos Dimitriadis, Aggelos Koutlas, Andreas Zafeiridis, Pantelis Sarafidis   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional Body Composition and Strength, Not Total Body Composition, Are Determinants of Performance in Climbers

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
Objective: To compare the body composition of Chilean climbers of different performance levels and to determine the relation between the forearm and upper-trunk lean mass and the handgrip and upper-body traction strength, respectively.
Fernando Carrasco, Maria Jose Arias-Tellez, Ignacio Solar-Altamirano, Jorge Inostroza, Gabriela Carrasco   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sharatchandra’s Caste and Gender Consciousness

SAGE Open, 2015
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s attitude to the prevalent caste system and social ethos, especially concerning sex, love, and marriage and chastity of married as well as widowed women, shows a marked ambivalence.
Narasingha Sil
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns and trends in contraceptive use among women attending Title X clinics and a national sample of low-income women

Contraception: X, 2019
Objectives: To describe the types of contraception used by women attending Title X-funded clinics and a comparable group of low-income reproductive-age women at risk of unintended pregnancy. Study design: We estimated the percentage of reproductive aged (
Christina I. Fowler, Katherine A. Ahrens, Emily Decker, Julia Gable, Jiantong Wang, Brittni Frederiksen, Ana Carolina Loyola Briceño, Susan B. Moskosky   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voting-Based Document Image Skew Detection

Applied Sciences, 2020
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an indispensable tool for technology users nowadays, as our natural language is presented through text. We live under the need of having information at hand in every circumstance and, at the same time, having ...
Costin-Anton Boiangiu, Ovidiu-Alexandru Dinu, Cornel Popescu, Nicolae Constantin, Cătălin Petrescu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Virtual Physics Laboratory Application Based on the Android Smartphone to Improve Learning Independence and Conceptual Understanding.

, 2018
The research study concerned here was to: (1) produce a virtual physics laboratory application to be called ViPhyLab by using the Android smartphone as basis; (2) determine the appropriateness and quality of the virtual physics laboratory application ...
Fitra Suci Arista, H. Kuswanto
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predicting the Future Burden of Renal Replacement Therapy in Türkiye Using National Registry Data and Comparative Modeling Approaches

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem worldwide, and the number of patients requiring renal replacement therapy is steadily increasing. Türkiye has experienced a similar rise in both the incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy over the past decades; however, national‐level projections of future ...
Arzu Akgül, Neriman Sıla Koç, Berrak Itır Aylı   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting community integration and wellbeing after relocation among older adults living alone: a study protocol for the welcome project in Japan

BMC Public Health
Background Japan’s population is aging rapidly, and the proportion of older adults living alone is increasing. Some older adults relocate owing to aging housing, health issues, or financial difficulties.
Mari Yamashita, Ayako Edahiro, Mariko Nishi, Mutsuko Okamura, Yukiko Kugimiya, Hana Sakurai, Nobuko Nagano, Kae Ito, Tsuyoshi Okamura   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

On calculation of the relative index of a fixed point in the nondegenerate case

Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2006
The paper is devoted to the calculation of the index of a zero and the asymptotic index of a linear completely continuous nonnegative operator. Also the case of a nonlinear completely continuous operator A whose domain and image are situated in a closed ...
A. V. Guminskaya, P. P. Zabreiko
doaj   +1 more source

Turbulence and Combustion Model Choice for Modeling Methane-air Low Swirl Burners [PDF]

Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics
Combustion plays a major role in satisfying enormous needs in our world, and burners are an essential component of industrial combustion applications. With its flame stabilization technique, low swirl burner (LSB) technology offers interesting outcomes ...
M. Ladjani, M. S. Lounici, S. Ouchikh
doaj   +1 more source