Reducing the urge to be physically active in patients with anorexia nervosa through virtual reality: protocol for a randomised-controlled feasibility trial by Nina Timmesfeld, Georgios Paslakis, Georg Halbeisen

“…This trial will evaluate the feasibility of a virtual reality (VR)-based intervention as an add-on treatment to psychotherapy to improve activity urges and, consequently, initial treatment responses on core outcomes as targeted per AN treatment guidelines.Methods and analysis This single-centre feasibility trial adopts the single-blind, two-arm design and outcome measures of an intended full-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT) in order to establish that all necessary trial components work together as intended. …”
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Frequency of congenital hypothyroidism in new born admitted with neonatal jaundice at tertiary care hospital peshawar by Abdul Ahad, Romana Bibi, Sijad Ur Rehman, Majid Ali Shah, Matea Ullah, Shahinda

“…METHODOLOGY: Settings: removed for blind review Duration: Period of 1 year from January 2020- January 2021. …”
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Prognosis of Severe Covid-19 patients after treatment with Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) by Maliha Khalid, Faheem Feroze, Saad Bin Qamar, Naseem Abbas, Saeed Farooq, Aisha Siddiqui

“…METHODOLOGY:  Retrospective observational study which included 150 RT-PCR positive patients admitted in Covid ITC, from the time period of 1st February 2021 to 31st July 2021 –removed for blind review---Data was analyzed using SPSS software version 16. …”
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The Therapeutic Potential of Inflamed Gingiva-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Preclinical Studies: A Scoping Review of a Unique Biomedical Waste by Gamilah Al-Qadhi, Sarah Al-Rai, Layla Hafed

“…While most of the included studies lacked randomization, blinding, and sample size calculation, they were designed accurately in other aspects of the guidelines. …”
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Numerical Optimization of Drilling Parameters for Gas Predrainage and Excavating-Drainage Collaboration on Roadway Head by Mingkun Luo, Lei Yang, Haiou Wen, Dongsheng Zhao, Kun Wang

“…Too small included angle will reduce the area of gas content reduction, while too large included angle will result in a blind area on both sides of the roadway. The change in borehole spacing affects the decreasing rate of gas content in the rock and coal around the roadway. …”
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A Multi-ingredient Supplement Reduced Markers of Muscle Damage after a Rugby Match in Collegiate Male Players by Chang-Li Hsueh, Wang-Shiang Huang, Chen-Kang Chang

“…A position-matched, double-blind, randomized, and crossover design was employed in this study. …”
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Clinical Utility of Zuranolone for Postpartum Depression: A Narrative Review by Giannopoulos A, Singh J, Deligiannidis KM

“…This narrative review reports on the evidence for the clinical utility of zuranolone in PPD treatment. In double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trials, zuranolone demonstrated rapid, statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in depressive symptoms. …”
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Effects of acepromazine, xylazine and propofol on spinal reflexes in healthy dogs by Ali Sheykhbahaedinzade, Ali Asghar Sarchahi, Hossein Kazemi Mehrjerdi

“…Methods In a randomized, blinded study, ten native adult mixed‐breed dogs were participated in three groups with a 1‐week washout period between each group. …”
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Comparison of Intervention Programs to Improve Trunk Stability for Active Females by Kate Schwartzkopf-Phifer, Katie Whetstone, Mark Marchino, Kevin Brown, Kyle Matsel

“… # Study Design Randomized controlled trial # Methods All subjects were tested at baseline on Beighton criteria, the FMSTM, Y-Balance Test Upper Quarter and Lower Quarter, and grip strength by an evaluator blinded to group allocation. Subjects were randomized into the NEATS (n=17) or the Pilates group (n=19). …”
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Influence of teaching a structured and humanized method of care on the perception of medical student attitudes in the doctor-patient relationship. by Higor Chagas Cardoso, Edna Regina Silva Pereira, Viviane Soares, Marcelo Fouad Rabahi

“…<h4>Materials and methods</h4>Single-blind, randomized controlled experimental study that evaluated medical students in relation to patient care, based on a pre-post design, using the Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS). …”
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Isosorbide mononitrate for preinduction cervical ripening at or post-term pregnancy: randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial by Ramy Mohamed El-Naggar, Ahmed Nagy Shaker, Mohamed Attia Raslan, Heba Rady El-Bassyouny

“…This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of ISMN for cervical ripening before labour induction at term or post-term.Methods In this double-blinded randomised controlled trial, 160 primigravidas with an unripe cervix (Bishop score&lt;6) undergoing labour induction at term or post-term were enrolled. …”
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Always Clear Days: Degradation Type and Severity Aware All-in-One Adverse Weather Removal by Yu-Wei Chen, Soo-Chang Pei

“…To this end, we propose a degradation type and severity aware model, called UtilityIR, for blind all-in-one bad weather image restoration. To extract weather information from a single image, we propose a novel Marginal Quality Ranking Loss (MQRL) and utilize Contrastive Loss (CL) to guide weather severity and type extraction, and leverage a bag of novel techniques such as Multi-Head Cross Attention (MHCA) and Local-Global Adaptive Instance Normalization (LG-AdaIN) to efficiently restore spatial varying weather degradation. …”
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Effects of whole-body vibration training on lower limb motor function and neural plasticity in patients with stroke: protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial by Mingkai Zhang, Jianing Wei, Xueping Wu

“…The prior purpose of this study is to explore effects of WBVT on lower limb motor function and neuroplasticity in patients with stroke.Methods A single-blind randomised controlled trial will be conducted. …”
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The magnitude of ivacaftor effects on fluid secretion via R117H-CFTR channels: Human in vivo measurements. by Jessica E Char, Colleen Dunn, Zoe Davies, Carlos Milla, Richard B Moss, Jeffrey J Wine

“…We focused on an R117H-7T/F508del subject who produced quantifiable C-sweat off ivacaftor and was available for 1 blinded, 3 off ivacaftor, and 3 on ivacaftor tests, allowing us to estimate in vivo fold-increase in sweat rates produced by ivacaftor's effect on the open probability (PO) of R117H-CFTR. …”
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Self-Adaptive K-Means Based on a Covering Algorithm by Yiwen Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Xing Guo, Jintao Wu, Qiang He, Xiao Liu, Yun Yang

“…CA self-organizes and recognizes the number of clusters k based on the similarities in the data, and it requires neither the number of clusters to be prespecified nor the initial centers to be manually selected. Therefore, it has a “blind” feature, that is, k is not preselected. The second phase performs the Lloyd iteration based on the results of the first phase. …”
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Eye Donation: Awareness, Knowledge, Willingness, and Barriers among Paramedical and Allied Health Science Students at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in South India by Aimanfatima Kacheri, Rekha Mudhol, Sanjeev Chougule, Rhema Reny, Sagarika Kamath, Rajesh Kamath

“…A total of 1.285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide of which 39 million are categorised as blind. These figures are startling, given that 80 percent of known vision impairments are either treatable or preventable. …”
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Pretreatment with Low-Dose Esketamine for Reduction of Propofol Injection Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Danyun Fu, Dingding Wang, Wenxian Li, Yuan Han, Jie Jia

“…Methods. In this double-blind, randomized, controlled trial, patients scheduled for elective ear surgery under general anesthesia received either normal saline (NS), or 40 mg lidocaine, or 0.15 mg/kg esketamine 30 seconds before manual injection of propofol. …”
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Customised Enriched Coconut Oil as Panacea for Oral Biofilm Mediated Diseases - A Prospective Study by Shamini Sai, Raga T Nivedha, Srinivasan Narasimhan, Aruna K. Veronica, Jayaraman Selvakumar, Anand V. Susila

“…Settings and Design: Parallel, double-blinded (outcome assessor and statistician), randomised controlled institution-based pilot study. …”
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A long road to educational equity: Tracking trends through PISA 2000–2018 by Ekaterina Enchikova, Tiago Neves, Cibelle Toledo, Gil Nata

“…THE AUTHORS INFORMATION IS BLINDED: The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has reported on the levels of educational equity in participating countries since its inception in 2000. …”
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Enpostil Lowers Elevated Serum Gastrin Concentrations in Patients with Pernicious Anemia by P Kirdeikis, M Mant, L Zuk, D Fisher, L Bynum, ABR Thomson

“…A double-blind, randomized, crossover, placebo controlled study of Latin square design was conducted to determine the gastrin-lowering effects of a synthetic orally administered prostaglandin, enprostil, in fasted and fed patients with hypergastrinemia due to pernicious anemia. …”
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