«BRAIN DRAIN» FROM RUSSIA AS A POLITICAL-MANAGEMENT PROBLEM by M. V. Kharkevich

“…There are a number of attempts to establish a dialogue with the leading foreign authors and a deficit of discussion among Russian political scientists. Second, double blind peer review still remains a rear practice. …”
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Double-layered wrap-around sensor network for three-dimensional positioning of acoustic emission sources and its effect on monitoring crack propagation in rock samples by Jing Yang, Zonglong Mu, Guangjian Liu, Shaokun Gong, Atif Javed, Jinglong Cao, Bofei Yang, Fang Yuan

“…The present sensor arrangement in a cubic way for monitoring crack propagation in rock samples exhibits shortfalls of blind monitoring zone and large deviation. This study proposes a double-layered wrap-around sensor network, which enhances the monitoring range and improves the location accuracy of acoustic emission source. …”
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Does Motor Training of the Nonparetic Side Influences Balance and Function in Chronic Stroke? A Pilot RCT by Shanta Pandian, Kamal Narayan Arya, Dharmendra Kumar

“…A randomized controlled, double blinded trial was conducted on 39 poststroke hemiparetic subjects (21, men; mean age, 42 years; mean poststroke duration, 13 months). …”
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System- and sample-agnostic isotropic three-dimensional microscopy by weakly physics-informed, domain-shift-resistant axial deblurring by Jiashu Han, Kunzan Liu, Keith B. Isaacson, Kristina Monakhova, Linda G. Griffith, Sixian You

“…SSAI-3D enables robust axial deblurring by generating a diverse, noise-resilient, sample-informed training dataset and sparsely fine-tuning a large pre-trained blind deblurring network. SSAI-3D is applied to label-free nonlinear imaging of living organoids, freshly excised human endometrium tissue, and mouse whisker pads, and further validated in publicly available ground-truth-paired experimental datasets of three-dimensional heterogeneous biological tissues with unknown blurring and noise across different microscopy systems.…”
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Validity of a Sham Dry Needling Technique on a Healthy Population by Daniel M Cushman, Anna Holman, Lee Skinner, Keith Cummings, Peter Haight, Masaru Teramoto

“… # Study Design Validation study # Methods Runners capable of completing a half-marathon or marathon race and were randomized to receive true (using an introducer and needle) or sham (using an introducer and fixed, blunted needle) dry needling. Blinded subjects were asked to identify if they received sham or true dry needling following the procedure. …”
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Plants and fungi metabolites as novel autophagy inducers and senescence inhibitors by Rivka Ofir

“…New AI/SI can be identified using various approaches like hypothesis-driven approach for screening receptor agonists using an in-silico library of thousands of natural compounds; cheminformatics studies of phytochemicals using docking and molecular dynamics simulation, structure similarities/mimicry in vitro, “blind” high throughput screening (HTS) of libraries of natural metabolites against relevant models, and more. …”
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The Reliability and Validity of a Clinical Measurement Proposed to Quantify Humeral Torsion by Paul A. Salamh, William J. Hanney, Lauren Champion, Connor Hansen, Kari Cochenour, Celine Siahmakoun, Morey J. Kolber

“…Each measurement was performed three times and a third investigator recorded measures to ensure blinding. Reliability was investigated using utilizing an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC 3,k) # Results Intrarater reliability values were 0.923 and 0.849 for diagnostic ultrasound and BFA methods respectively. …”
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The Video Manipulation Effect (VME): A quantification of the possible impact that the ordering of YouTube videos might have on opinions and voting preferences. by Robert Epstein, Alex Flores

“…In two randomized, controlled, counterbalanced, double-blind experiments with a total of 1,463 politically-diverse, eligible US voters, we show that when a sequence of videos displayed by the simulator is biased to favor one political candidate, and especially when the "up-next" video suggested by the simulator favors that candidate, both the opinions and voting preferences of undecided voters shift dramatically toward that candidate. …”
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Epidural Dexamethasone for Postoperative Analgesia in Patients Undergoing Unilateral Inguinal Herniorrhaphy: A Comparative Study by M. R. Razavizadeh, MR. Fazel, N. Heydarian, F. Atoof

“…Forty-four patients were enrolled in this double-blind, clinical trial study. Patients were randomly allocated into dexamethasone or control group. …”
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Telediagnosis of Transbronchial Fine Needle Aspirations – A Feasibility Study by K. Kayser, G. Kayser, H. D. Becker, F. Herth

“…Material and Methods: A double blind study was performed on cytological slides of 54 randomly selected cases with transbronchial fine needle aspirations. …”
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Antimicrobial efficacy of superoxide water as an intracanal irrigant in primary anterior teeth against facultative anaerobes: A randomized clinical trial by Deepika Narasimha Chari, Bhavna Haresh Dave

“…Materials and Methods: A triple-blinded randomized clinical trial was carried out among children between the age groups of 3 and 7 years. …”
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A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL EXPERIENCE OF TRANSVERSEABDOMINAL PLANE (TAP) BLOCK VERSUS LOCAL ANESTHESIAINFILTRATION AT SURGICAL SITE IN OPEN APPENDICECTOMIES by Rabia Tabassum et al

“… OBJECTIVE: To know the duration of analgesia of right-sided transversus abdominis plane block versus local anaesthetic infiltration around incision site after open appendicectomy. METHODS: A double blind, randomized controlled study conducted in the operation theatre of a private hospital, during 8 months period from January 2017 till August 2017. …”
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The Effect of External Cold and Vibration on Infiltration-Induced Pain in Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Reihaneh Faghihian, Mona Esmaeili, Hossein Asadi, Mohammad Hossein Nikbakht, Fateme Shadmanfar, Mehdi Jafarzadeh

“…Thirty children aged 6–12 years who required profound restoration of deciduous or permanent first molars were recruited in this randomized double-blind clinical trial. The anesthetic gel and BUZZY device were used in half of the children’s jaws, and the anesthetic gel and the cold alone were used in the other half of the jaws. …”
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Beneficial Effects of Palmitoylethanolamide on Expressive Language, Cognition, and Behaviors in Autism: A Report of Two Cases by Nicola Antonucci, Alessandra Cirillo, Dario Siniscalco

“…We propose appropriate double-blind clinical trials to further explore palmitoylethanolamide efficacy and safety.…”
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Effects of Linear-Polarized Near-Infrared Light Irradiation on Chronic Pain by Dong Huang, Yong-Hong Gu, Qin Liao, Xue-Bin Yan, Shai-Hong Zhu, Chang-Qing Gao

“…In order to study the efficacy of linear-polarized near-infrared light irradiation (LPNIR) on relieving chronic pain in conjunction with nerve block (NB) or local block (LB), a 3-week prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled study was conducted to evaluate the pre- and post-therapy pain intensity. …”
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Interobserver Reproducibility of Dna-Image-Cytometry in Ascus or Higher Cervical Cytology by Vu Quoc Huy Nguyen, Hans Jürgen Grote, Natalia Pomjanski, Kristiane Knops, Alfred Böcking

“…The second measurements were blinded to the result of the first and consecutively performed. …”
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A Single Dose of Beetroot Gel Rich in Nitrate Does Not Improve Performance but Lowers Blood Glucose in Physically Active Individuals by Julia Vasconcellos, Diego Henrique Silvestre, Diego dos Santos Baião, João Pedro Werneck-de-Castro, Thiago Silveira Alvares, Vânia M. Flosi Paschoalin

“…Methods. Through a double blind, crossover, placebo-controlled study, 25 healthy runners ingested a single dose of beetroot and placebo gels. …”
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Predicting carbon dioxide emissions using deep learning and Ninja metaheuristic optimization algorithm by Anis Ben Ghorbal, Azedine Grine, Ibrahim Elbatal, Ehab M. Almetwally, Marwa M. Eid, El-Sayed M. El-Kenawy

“…The data preparation used in the present methodology involves sophisticated stages such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as well as Blind Source Separation (BSS) to reduce noise as well as to improve feature selection. …”
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Feasibility of Using Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation for Pain in Persons with Parkinson's Disease by Diana H. Rintala, Gabriel Tan, Pamela Willson, Mon S. Bryant, Eugene C. H. Lai

“…Randomized, controlled, double-blind trial. Setting. Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Community. …”
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Metformin for neurocognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: a systematic review by Zhen-Juan Qin, Zhan-Ming Shi, Li-Juan Li, Xin Wei, Hui-Lin Hu, Wei Wei, Zhi-Yuan Xie, Hang-Xi Ji, Yu-Hua Wei, Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng

“…However, further large-scale, double-blind, high quality RCTs are warranted to validate these findings.…”
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