TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY OF FIVE TIMES SIT TO STAND TEST (FTSST) IN ADULTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

Test-Retest Reliability of Five Times Sit to Stand Test (FTSST) in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Functional independence in adults is conditioned by lower limb muscle strength.Thus, it seems important to assess lower limb strength using reliable and easy to reproduce measurements.The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to collect studies that examined the test-retest reliability of the Five Times Sit to S

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Topological and hydraulic metrics-based search space reduction for optimal re-sizing of water distribution networks

Pipe re-sizing of water distribution networks (WDNs) aims at improving the service performance to the required level, while minimizing the cost of replacing pipes in the network.The main challenge comes from the identification of the most effective pipes to re-size from a large number of interacting components.Performing a global search over all pi

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The coexistence of hermaphroditic and dioecious plants is associated with polyploidy and gender dimorphism in Dasiphora fruticosa

Dasiphora fruticosa comprises bettinardi studio stock 28 center shaft male, female and hermaphrodite plants, which are distributed sympatrically in some populations on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.To explore what governs the coexistence of these three sexual phenotypes, we investigated the DNA contents, pollen and ovule production, pollen deposition,

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