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Objective Frailty occurs prematurely in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is associated with poor health outcomes. We compared the performance of four frailty instruments, including a pragmatic alternative measure using chair sit‐to‐stand (STS), and evaluated their abilities to predict poor health outcomes.
Kylie E. Riggles +14 more
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Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns +2 more
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Trajectories of Physical Function in Canadian Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Objective We describe trajectories of physical function in children newly diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and identify trajectories with persisting functional impairments and associated baseline characteristics. Methods We included patients enrolled in the Canadian Alliance of Pediatric Rheumatology Investigators (CAPRI) Registry ...
Clare Cunningham +81 more
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Discordance Between Patient and Physician Global Assessments in Early Systemic Sclerosis
Objective This study aims to identify factors associated with patient global assessment (PtGA) and physician global assessment (PhGA) and discordance between them in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Methods Data from adults with early SSc (<5 years) from the Collaborative National Quality and Efficacy Registry were included.
Ellen Romich +35 more
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Chemical pulp is characterized by its average lignin content, commonly expressed as the pulp-kappa number. However, this average kappa number provides no information about the distribution of kappa number within the pulp .
Alexandersson, Daniel +3 more
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A Q‐Learning Algorithm to Solve the Two‐Player Zero‐Sum Game Problem for Nonlinear Systems
A Q‐learning algorithm to solve the two‐player zero‐sum game problem for nonlinear systems. ABSTRACT This paper deals with the two‐player zero‐sum game problem, which is a bounded L2$$ {L}_2 $$‐gain robust control problem. Finding an analytical solution to the complex Hamilton‐Jacobi‐Issacs (HJI) equation is a challenging task.
Afreen Islam +2 more
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Kappa ($\kappa$): The Largest Real Number, Constructed Through Limit Theory
We construct a real number $\kappa$, defined as the limit of the predecessor function $f(n) = n - 1$ as $n \to \infty$. The central argument is straightforward: \textbf{in mathematics, the limit of a function or sequence, when it exists as a value, is a real number.} Since $\kappa$ is defined as such a limit, it IS a real number.
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Low‐cycle fatigue damage in Mn–Mo–Ni reactor pressure vessel steel is examined using a combined electron backscatter diffraction and positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy approach. The study correlates texture evolution, dislocation substructure development, and vacancy‐type defect formation across uniform, necked, and fracture regions, providing
Apu Sarkar +2 more
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One Number, Two Names: kappa = tau = 0.9539
A short genesis note on a single empirically-anchored number, 0.9539, which appears in the author's prior work under two distinct labels: tau, the cosine-similarity rejection threshold in the Anti-Drift Cognitive Control Loop (ADCCL); and kappa, the Sovereign Invariant of Geometrically Ordered Dynamics (GOD Theory), which couples redshift-dependent ...
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Effect of unbleached pulp kappa number on the kinetics of chlorine dioxide delignification
Chlorine dioxide delignification of different unbleached kraft pulps from Eucalyptus globulus, having Kappa numbers of 12 to 18, was studied in the temperature range of 285 K to 358 K.
Simões, Rogério +3 more
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