Patient Satisfaction and Visual Performance in Patients with Ocular Pathology after Bilateral Implantation of a New Extended Depth of Focus Intraocular Lens by Laureano A. Rementería-Capelo, Pilar Lorente, Virginia Carrillo, José M. Sánchez-Pina, Javier Ruiz-Alcocer, Inés Contreras

“…In both groups, 40% of patients reported being completely spectacle-independent, with the other 60% requiring glasses for near vision always or often. All patients reported being fairly or very satisfied with their vision. …”
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How destination image and trust mediate e-WOM's impact on halal tourism intentions by Dian Prihardini Wibawa, Yanto Yanto, Ariandi Zulkarnain

“…Originality – This study contributes to the literature by exploring the mediating effects of destination image and trust in halal tourism, challenging the assumption that positive perceptions are always translated into behavioral intentions. It expands the understanding of how e-WOM impacts tourist decision making within a specific cultural and religious context. …”
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Intelligent recognition algorithm of connection relation of substation secondary wiring drawing based on D-LLE algorithm by Hongzhi Liu, Bojie Yang, Fang Kang, Qian Li, Hongyang Zhang

“…The experimental results show that the completeness of connection information extraction of substation secondary wiring drawings obtained by the proposed algorithm is between 98.56% and 99.98%, and the mean absolute error of intelligent recognition drawings connection relationship is always lower than 0.01. It shows that the proposed algorithm can accurately and quickly identify the connection relationship in the substation secondary wiring drawings, significantly improve the recognition efficiency, and has strong robustness and versatility, which can provide strong support for the intelligent operation and maintenance of the power system.…”
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Design and application of a sterile urine culture specimen retention device with negative pressure suction device (一种带负压吸引装置的无菌尿培养标本留取装置的设计与应用)... by QIAN Xiaoge (茜晓格), SUN Xiumei (孙秀梅)

“…The entire process of urine is always in a sterile environment, which not only ensures the retention of sterile culture specimens to the greatest extent possible, improves the authenticity of specimen results, but also is easy to operate and mastered by nurses, It can reduce the occurrence of needle injuries, effectively protect medical personnel, reduce the exposure risk of contacts, reduce the workload of nursing staff, and improve nursing work efficiency. …”
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Study of effective removal of nickel and cobalt from aqueous solutions by FeO@mSiO2 nanocomposite by Wahran M. Saod, Nisreen Jassam Alaallah, Ekhlas A. Abdulkareem, Nahla Naji Hilal, Mohammad I. AlBiajawi

“…Many studies are focused on developing new treatment alternatives since, although treatment is often necessary, it is not always possible or accessible in a particular setting. …”
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An Alternative Method for Traffic Accident Severity Prediction: Using Deep Forests Algorithm by Jing Gan, Linheng Li, Dapeng Zhang, Ziwei Yi, Qiaojun Xiang

“…Traffic safety has always been an important issue in sustainable transportation development, and the prediction of traffic accident severity remains a crucial challenging issue in the domain of traffic safety. …”
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THE MEASURE OF ALL GODS: RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF THE ANTIQUITY AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS by A. V. Halapsis

“…The poverty of Roman mythology was compensated by a clear awareness of the unity of the community, which for all historical vicissitudes had always remained an unchanging ideal, and which was conceived as a reflection of the unity of the heavens. …”
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Comparative Study of 5-Day and 10-Day Cefditoren Pivoxil Treatments for Recurrent Group A β-Hemolytic Streptococcus pharyngitis in Children by Hideaki Kikuta, Mutsuo Shibata, Shuji Nakata, Tatsuru Yamanaka, Hiroshi Sakata, Kouji Akizawa, Kunihiko Kobayashi

“…A 5-day course of oral cephalosporins is not always recommended for treatment of GABHS pharyngitis in children who have repeated episodes of pharyngitis.…”
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Fourier or Wavelet bases as counterpart self-attention in spikformer for efficient visual classification by Qingyu Wang, Qingyu Wang, Duzhen Zhang, Xinyuan Cai, Tielin Zhang, Bo Xu

“…However, it seems that self-attention is not always necessary, especially in sparse spike-form calculation manners. …”
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The Screening of Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Obstetric Antiphospholipid Syndrome-Like Events: A Regional Perspective by Onder Onen, Fusun Gulizar Varol

“…Obstetric antiphospholipid antibody syndrome should always be taken into account clinically prior to laboratory findings. …”
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BIM Use Assessment (BUA) Tool for Characterizing the Application Levels of BIM Uses for the Planning and Design of Construction Projects by María J. Rojas, Rodrigo F. Herrera, Claudio Mourgues, José L. Ponz-Tienda, Luis F. Alarcón, Eugenio Pellicer

“…Likewise, in interorganizational project teams with a diversity of factors from various companies, it is possible to evaluate the capacity at a specified time with specified factors, but it is not possible to evaluate the repeatability unless the client always works with the same project teams. Therefore, despite the existence of various BIM uses in the literature, there is no instrument to evaluate the level of implementation of them in construction projects. …”
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Statehood of Palestine and the Exercise of Jurisdiction by the International Criminal Court with Emphasis on the Decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber by Savalan Mohamadzadeh, SEYED TAHA MOUSAVI MIRKOLAEI, keivan eghbali

“…The occupation of a large part of Palestinian lands and long history of war and killings in parts of the said land have always made the existence of a Palestinian state in international law ambiguous. …”
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Essential Oils as Bioinsecticides Against <i>Blattella germanica</i> (Linnaeus, 1767): Evaluating Its Efficacy Under a Practical Framework by Ana Manzanares-Sierra, Eduard Monsonís-Güell, Crisanto Gómez, Sílvia Abril, Mara Moreno-Gómez

“…Remarkably, some EOs registered as low-risk biocides performed as well as the ones registered as standard biocides, suggesting that this category does not have to always be at odds with efficacy. Future research should adopt practical, application-driven approaches to ensure bioinsecticides balance performance and safety, meeting both regulatory and consumer demands.…”
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Navigating the energy crisis: automakers’ coopetition strategies under dual credit policy by Yuan Kaifu, Wang Chuanji, Xiao Fang

“…Key findings include: (1) R&D subsidies boost NEVs R&D investments but may not always optimize social welfare. (2) When NEVs technology spillovers are low, firms should fully cooperate; otherwise, the FVs R&D cooperation is optimal, especially with high FVs spillovers. (3) Investments and outputs in both vehicle types positively correlate with technology spillovers, and consumer preferences. …”
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Sacralization of Peace by the Choice of Dates for Conclusion of International Treaties within Westphalian System by L. I. Ivonina

“…The issues of peace have always been important for historical science. However, in recent years, international historiography began to pay attention to Peace congresses' symbolism and socio-cultural design. …”
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Research on the hazards of gas leakage and explosion in a full-scale residential building by Chengjun Yue, Li Chen, Zhan Li, Bin Feng, Ruizhi Xu

“…The gas explosion in residential building has always been a highly concerned problem. Explosions in homogeneous mixtures have been extensively studied. …”
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CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF METAPHORICAL FRAMING IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE by T. V. Andryukhina

“…The author shares an opinion that the metaphorical structure of basic concepts of a nation always correlates with its fundamental cultural values. …”
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Floral Resources and Nesting Requirements of the Ground-Nesting Social Bee, Lasioglossum malachurum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), in a Mediterranean Semiagricultural Landscape by Carlo Polidori, Alice Rubichi, Valeria Barbieri, Luca Trombino, Marta Donegana

“…On the other side, the exploited soil was variable in soil granulometry (although always high in % of silt or sand) and it was moderately variable in content of organic matter and highly variable in vegetation cover. …”
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Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR on Combating Economic Crime in the Middle of 1950s by V. A. Grechenko

“…It has been emphasized that the analysis of these phenomena by the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was not always in-depth; there were repetitions and superficial judgments. …”
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Investigating the Contact Responses of the Roller Cavity Surfaces in the Compressor Blade Rolling Process by Qichao Jin, Wenhu Wang, Ruisong Jiang

“…The local sliding velocity magnitudes in the backward slip zones were always bigger than those in the forward slip zones, and the magnitudes of local sliding at the rolling entrance sections were bigger than those at the rolling exit sections. …”
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