The Role of Virtual Cystoscopy, after Multidetector Computed Tomography Imaging Reconstruction without the Use of Contrast Medium, in the Diagnosis and Evaluations of Bladder Tumor... by Kyriaki Kalokairinou, Achilles Ploumidis, Theodoros Kalogeropoulos, Lampros Vlachos, Kyriakos Stringaris, Ageliki Tavernaraki, Anastasios Thanos, Xenofon Papacharalampous, Vasilios Koutoulidis, Julien Letendre, Olivier Traxer, Athanasios Gouliamos

“…The radiologists involved in this prospective study were blinded to the exact findings. After draining any residual urine with a catheter, the bladder was retrogradely insufflated with 200–600 cc of air. …”
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Literature Review Comparing Laparoscopic and Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomies in a Pediatric Population by Madelen Lantz, Helena Hultin Larsson, Einar Arnbjörnsson

“…The results suggest that by performing laparoscopic gastrostomy in children it is possible to avoid the serious intestinal fistula complications caused by a blind puncture through the abdominal cavity when performing the PEG.…”
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A Study to Compare the Analgesic Efficacy of Intrathecal Bupivacaine Alone with Intrathecal Bupivacaine Midazolam Combination in Patients Undergoing Elective Infraumbilical Surgery by Anirban Chattopadhyay, Souvik Maitra, Suvadeep Sen, Sulagna Bhattacharjee, Amitava Layek, Sugata Pal, Kakali Ghosh

“…In this prospective, randomized, double blinded, and parallel group and open label study of 90 adult patients aged 18–60 years, of American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) status I and II, scheduled for elective infraumbilical surgery, were randomly allocated in two groups. …”
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Safety and immunogenicity in humans of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli double mutant heat-labile toxin administered intradermally by Marcela F. Pasetti, Patricia L. Milletich, Jessica A. White, Jessica Butts, Rebecca C. Brady, Michelle D. Dickey, Cassandra Ballou, Nicole Maier, Marcelo B. Sztein, Shahida Baqar, A. Louis Bourgeois, David I. Bernstein

“…Abstract Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) diarrhea is associated with a high burden of disease globally, for which no licensed vaccine is available. A Phase 1, double-blind, dose-escalation (0.1-2.0 µg) study was conducted to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of double mutant heat-labile toxin LTR192G/L211A (dmLT) delivered intradermally (ID) to healthy adults. …”
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Verifying the Placement of Nasogastric Tubes at an Emergency Center: Comparison of Ultrasound with Chest Radiograph by Çağdaş Yıldırım, Selçuk Coşkun, Şervan Gökhan, Gül Pamukçu Günaydın, Ayhan Özhasenekler, Uğur Özkula

“…This is a single-center, prospective, single-blind study. Patients who were admitted to our emergency department and had an indication of nasogastric tube placement were included. …”
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CFD Turbulence Study of PWR Spacer-Grids in a Rod Bundle by C. Peña-Monferrer, J. L. Muñoz-Cobo, S. Chiva

“…Various computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations have been performed and the results validated with the experiments of the OECD/NEA-KAERI rod bundle CFD blind benchmark exercise on turbulent mixing in a rod bundle with spacers at the MATiS-H facility. …”
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Safety of a Bioactive Polyphenol Dietary Supplement in Pediatric Subjects with Acute Diarrhoea by Shafiqul A. Sarker, Shamima Sultana, Mark Pietroni, Arthur Dover

“…The hematological and clinical chemistry profile for children aged 6 months to 5 years with acute diarrhoea was measured in a double blind clinical trial. Subjects were randomized to the study group (N=44) given a bioactive polyphenol dietary supplement in oral rehydration solution (ORS) or to the control group (N=41) given distilled water as a placebo in ORS twice daily for up to 4 days. …”
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Clinical application of hempseed or flaxseed oil-based lyotropic liquid crystals: Evaluation of their impact on skin barrier function by Vitek Mercedes, Matjaž Mirjam Gosenca

“…Herein, eight novel lyotropic liquid crystals (LCCs) were investigated for the first time in a double-blind, interventional, before-after, single-group trial with healthy adult subjects and a twice-daily application regimen. …”
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Multilevel Feature Extraction Method for Adaptive Fault Diagnosis of Railway Axle Box Bearing by Zhigang Liu, Long Zhang, Guoliang Xiong

“…This paper used the maximum second-order cyclostationary blind convolution (CYCBD) to weaken the influence of disturbances, enhancing weak transient shock components. …”
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Vulnerability Testing and Analysis on Websites and Web-Based Applications in the XYZ Faculty Environment Using Acunetix Vulnerability by Mifthahul Rahmi, Yuhandri Yunus, Sumijan Sumijan

“…Following a recapitulation process, several web alerts were identified for optimization, including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Blind SQL Injection, Application error message, HTML form without CSRF protection, Development configuration file, Directory listing, Error message on page, and User credentials sent in clear text. …”
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Potential Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review with Recommendations for Future Research by Nicholas J. Snow, Katie P. Wadden, Arthur R. Chaves, Michelle Ploughman

“…All studies showed high risk of bias, attributed largely to issues surrounding sample size justification, experimenter blinding, and failure to account for key potential confounding variables. …”
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Is reflux hypersensitivity truly a functional gastrointestinal disorder? A retrospective cross-sectional study. by Yanping Wu, Siyu Liao, Tianyao Qu, Jiaxuan Zhou, Fei Dai, Bin Qin, Xiaoyu Xu, Jun Zhang, Yan Cheng

“…This article presented a blinded retrospective analysis of 24 h MII-pH and HRM tracings from patients with NERD, RH, and FH to compare their clinical characteristics.…”
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The influence that JavaScript(TM) has on the visibility of a Website to search engines - a pilot study by M. Weideman, F. Schwenke

“…In general, crawlers did not follow Javascript(TM)-based links to Web pages blindly. <br><b>Conclusion.</b> . Most crawlers evade Javascript(TM) links, implying that Web pages using forms of this technology, for example in pop-up/pull-down menus, could be jeopardising their chances of achieving high search engine rankings. …”
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The effects of citrulline supplementation on athlete´s performance: systematic review by Silvia Burgos, Aysu Dursun, Valentin Emilio Fernández Elias

“…Randomized and double-blind study designs were used to include in this review. …”
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Special Problems Associated with Surgical Trials in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Robin S McLeod

“…Methodological issues include difficulties in standardization of the procedure, deciding on the timing of the trial and prevention of bias when blinding may be difficult or impossible. All these are challenges, but do not preclude the performance of RCTs. …”
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Therapeutic exercise protocol for the prevention of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in female soccer players with dynamic knee valgus (RCT) by Amanda Coves García, Emilio José Poveda Pagán

“…Methods Randomized, double-blind, single-center clinical trial protocol scheduled for the 2025–2026 women’s football season. …”
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Immediate efficacy of auricular acupuncture combined with active exercise in the treatment of acute lumbar sprains in 10 minutes: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial. by Xin Tang, Qifu Li, Gaoyangzi Huang, Xianmei Pei, Ziwen Chen, Ya Huang, Siwen Zhao, Taipin Guo, Zili Liu

“…The secondary outcomes include changes in pain intensity at other time points (2, 5 minutes), changes in lumbar range of motion (ROM) at different time points, blinded assessment, treatment effect expectancy scale evaluation, and treatment satisfaction scale evaluation. …”
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Model Construction and Performance Degradation Characteristics of a Deflector Jet Pressure Servo Valve under the Condition of Oil Contamination by Yuanbo Chu, Zhaohui Yuan, Xuegong He, Zhichao Dong

“…In which, firstly, the structural characteristics and working principle of the deflector jet pressure valve are analyzed; then, the entire dynamics model of the pressure valve is built using the braking cavity as the load blind cavity. Secondly, the two main failure modes induced by oil contamination such as erosion wear of pilot stage and stuck of slide valve stage’s valve core are determined based on the engineering experience, aimed at which the failure mechanism is analyzed; then, the sensitivity simulation model of the servo valve’s output pressure with respect to key degradation parameters is established and the sensitivity analysis is performed. …”
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Structuring and restructuring COVID-19 Intensive Care Units: a systematic review by Luis Fernando Reis Macedo, Kenya Waléria de Siqueira Coelho Lisboa, Thais Rodrigues de Albuquerque, Alexandre Pazetto Balsanelli, Sarah De Lima Pinto, Izabel Cristina Santiago Lemos de Beltrão, Gyllyandeson de Araujo Delmondes

“…The results were exported to the Rayyan software for subsequent screening and blind selection by two independent researchers as well as for assessing the risk of bias and individual methodological quality of selected studies. …”
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POSITIONING AHL AL-BAYT WITHOUT TENDENCIES: AL-SHAWKANI'S CONTRIBUTION TO DETERMINING THE HADITH IN ISLAMIC SHARIA by Ahmad Azmi Ahsantu Dhonni, Muhid, Andris Nurita, Afif Maulana

“…Al-Shawkani saw that the uncertain political conditions in Yemen and the rise of blind taqlid directed Muslims to go astray and heresy at that time. …”
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