High-Precision Sub-Wavelength Motion Compensation Technique for 3D Down-Looking Imaging Sonar Based on an Acoustic Calibration System by Jun Wang, Peihui Liang, Junqiang Song, Pan Xu, Yongming Hu, Peng Zhang, Kang Lou, Rongyao Ren, Wusheng Tang

“…To solve the problem that the resolution of the current imaging sonar reduces rapidly with increase in distance and a scanning gap exists in side-scan sonar, we designed a down-looking 3D-imaging sonar with a linear array structure. …”
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Comparison of 3 Grading Systems (House-Brackmann, Sunnybrook, Sydney) for the Assessment of Facial Nerve Paralysis and Prediction of Neural Recovery by Norhafiza MAT LAZIM, Hamizah ISMAIL, Sanihah ABDUL HALIM, Nik Adillah NIK OTHMAN, Ali HARON

“…Objective: Currently, multiple classification systems exist for the assessment of facial nerve paralysis. This study was designed to choose the most practical system for use in a clinical setting depending on the clinician need. …”
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Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) and Bloom’s Taxonomy in Theoretical Computer Science Education by Hashim Habiballa, Martin Kotyrba, Eva Volna, Vladimir Bradac, Martin Dusek

“…Recommendations are provided for educators on utilizing AI-based tools in education, emphasizing the coexistence of AI possibilities with well-designed assignments. The findings suggest that AI has a valuable role in education, and a thorough analysis of teaching approaches and student evaluation is essential in leveraging artificial intelligence effectively.…”
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Two Birds With One Stone: A Novel Nanocomposite Combining Silicon Nanoparticles and Carbon‐Doped Titania as the Fluorescence Probe and Visible Light Photocatalyst for Simultaneous... by Liyun Ma, Zhi Li, Yiyi Shi, Yuchen Xie, Ming Jiang, Xu Yu, Li Xu

“…Herein, a novel nanocomposite combining silicon nanoparticles and carbon‐doped titania, C‐TiO2/SiNPs, is designed as a fluorescence probe and visible‐light photocatalyst to simultaneously monitor and degrade oxytetracycline (OTC). …”
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The effect of acute sleep deprivation on cortisol level: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yifei Chen, Wenhui Xu, Yiru Chen, Jiayu Gong, Yanyan Wu, Shutong Chen, Yuan He, Haitao Yu, Lin Xie

“…There was no significant difference in cortisol levels between participants with acute sleep deprivation and normal sleep in 21 crossover-designed studies (SMD = 0.18; 95% CI: –0.11, 0.45; p = 0.208) or 3 RCTs (SMD = 0.26; 95% CI: –0.22, 0.73; p = 0.286). …”
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Applying Normalisation Process Theory to a peer-delivered complex health intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use by Rebecca Foster, Hannah Carver, Catriona Matheson, Bernie Pauly, Jason Wallace, Graeme MacLennan, John Budd, Tessa Parkes

“…Abstract Background The Supporting Harm Reduction through Peer Support (SHARPS) study involved designing and implementing a peer-delivered, harm reduction intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use. …”
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Integration of physical and mental health services for children and young people with eating disorders and functional symptom disorders: discrete choice experiment by Efthalia Massou, Mike Basher, Sophie D. Bennett, Tamsin Ford, Saheli Gandhi, Isobel Heyman, Josefine Magnusson, Raj Mehta, Pei Li Ng, Sara O’Curry, Angus I. G. Ramsay, Naomi J. Fulop, Stephen Morris

“…Our findings show the factors which ought to be considered when designing new integrated pathways and evaluating them.…”
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Challenges of Engaging Primary Care Providers in Specialized Telementoring Education About Sickle Cell Disease for Sickle Cell Specialists: Results from the Sickle Cell Disease Tra... by Lisa M. Shook, DHPE, MA, MCHES, Bailey House, MPH, Christina Bennett Farrell, MPH, Rosalyn Stewart, MD, Sophie Lanzkron, MD, MHS, Allison A. King, MD, MPH, PhD, Taniya Varughese, MSOT, J.J. Strouse, MD, PhD, Marsha Treadwell, PhD, Julie Kanter, MD

“…Conclusions: Despite a federal partnership, the STAMP outreach strategy was unsuccessful in recruiting PCPs to participate in a virtual telementoring education program designed to increase access to care for adults with SCD. …”
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Triplet Electron Exchange in Carbon Nanodots‐assisted Long‐persistent near‐infrared Chemiluminescence for Oncology Synergistic Imaging and Therapy by Run‐Wei Song, Tian‐Ci Jiang, Xue‐Yang Zhang, Cheng‐Long Shen, Qing Lou, Chong‐Xin Shan

“…As a proof‐of‐concept, the photosensitizers of carbon nanodots (CDs)‐loaded chlorin e6 (CDs‐Ce6) are designed and integrated with the peroxalate molecules, and the as‐prepare polymer carbon nanodots (p‐CDs) exhibit novel tumor microenvironment (TME)‐responsive long‐persistent near‐infrared CL and photochemical reactions, evoking the in vivo imaging and synergistic dynamic therapy in tumor tissue. …”
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Downregulation of Thromboxane A2 Receptor Occurs Mainly via Nuclear Factor-KappaB Signaling Pathway in Rat Renal Artery by Yaping Zhang, Man Mi, Yan-Hua Xie, Si-Wang Wang, Lars Edvinsson, Cang-Bao Xu

“…The present study was designed to examine if nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) signaling pathway is involved in the downregulation of TP receptors in rat renal artery. …”
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Six events that shaped antibody approvals in oncology by Suman Paul, Suman Paul, Shibin Zhou, Shibin Zhou

“…In the last three years, the EMA and FDA greenlighted eighteen antibodies, the majority of them designed in the formats of antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) and bispecific antibodies (BsAb). …”
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Acupuncture as prophylaxis for chronic migraine: a protocol for a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial by Claire Shuiqing Zhang, Bin Li, Lin Zeng, Lu Liu, Luo-peng Zhao, Kelun Wang, Jingxia Zhao, Linpeng Wang, Xianghong Jing

“…However, the effects of acupuncture as migraine prophylaxis have not been confirmed. This study is designed as a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture compared with topiramate in patients with chronic migraine.Methods and analysis A total of 60 participants will be randomly assigned to two different groups. …”
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Moderate stability of risk and ambiguity attitudes across quantitative and qualitative decisions by Ohad Dan, Chelsea Y. Xu, Ruonan Jia, Emily K. Wertheimer, Megha Chawla, Galit Fuhrmann Alpert, Terri Fried, Ifat Levy

“…Specifically, we ask whether decision-makers exhibit similar attitudes towards uncertainty, focusing on ambiguity, across domains with quantitative and qualitative outcomes. We designed an online decision-making task where participants made binary choices between alternatives offering either guaranteed low outcomes or potentially better outcomes that were associated with some uncertainty. …”
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RED-Net: A Neural Network for 3D Thyroid Segmentation in Chest CT Using Residual and Dilated Convolutions for Measuring Thyroid Volume by Min-Ji Kim, Jin-A Kim, Naae Kim, Yul Hwangbo, Hyun Jeong Jeon, Dong-Hwa Lee, Ji Eun Oh

“…Unlike the lungs or the heart, the thyroid gland is not a primary target in chest computed tomography (CT) scans and is relatively small; hence, it is difficult for radiologists to always clinically delineate it in chest CT to incidentally detect a goiter. We designed a residual and dilated convolution neural network (RED-Net), which automatically measures thyroid volume by segmenting the thyroid gland in contrast-enhanced chest CT scans. …”
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Versatility of the Anterolateral Thigh Flap for Abdominal Wall Reconstruction by Nadine E. Pedrazzi, MD, Riccardo Schweizer, MD, Holger J. Klein, MD, Stephan Steiner, MD, René Vonlanthen, MD, Thomas Hermanns, MD, Didier Schneiter, MD, Pietro Giovanoli, MD, Jan A. Plock, MD

“…This study aimed to illustrate the versatility of the anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap in its different designs for the reconstruction of complex defects of the abdominal wall. …”
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A rapid method for the preparation of an in vitro osteoporosis model of calf vertebrae: histological and biomechanical study by Anli Shi, Anli Shi, Yijie Liu, Qiang Ma, Jiaxin Li, Jiawang Fan, Zhaohui Ge, Zhaohui Ge

“…BackgroundIn vitro biomechanical testing is crucial for the preclinical assessment of novel implant designs. Given the constraints of limited supply and high costs associated with human specimens, calf spines are frequently employed as surrogates for human spines in both in vivo and in vitro biomechanical studies.MethodsThis study selected 60 spinal vertebrae from calves aged between 12 and 18 weeks. …”
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Osteopontin as a Biomarker for Coronary Artery Disease by Georgia R. Layton, Ibrahim Antoun, Alice Copperwheat, Zaidhan Latif Khan, Sanjay S. Bhandari, Riyaz Somani, André Ng, Mustafa Zakkar

“…They included case series, case–control, cross-sectional, and cohort study designs. OPN has been linked to higher cardiovascular risk and unfavourable cardiovascular outcomes. …”
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A novel data augmentation tool for enhancing machine learning classification: A new application of the higher order dynamic mode decomposition for improved cardiac disease identifi... by Nourelhouda Groun, María Villalba-Orero, Lucía Casado-Martín, Enrique Lara-Pezzi, Eusebio Valero, Jesús Garicano-Mena, Soledad Le Clainche

“…The classification performance of the designed trained CNN shows that combining the original images with the DMD modes improves the results in all the testcases, as it improves the accuracy by up to 22%. …”
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Soybean cultivars under the foliar application of a compounded biofertilizer in different plant phenological stages and doses by Fernando Simoni Bacilieri, Roberta Camargos de Oliveira, Ludyellen Cristina Medeiros Santos, Mara Lúcia Martins Magela, Regina Maria Quintão Lana, Ernane Miranda Lemes

“…This study evaluates the agronomic performance of soybeans with biofertilizer (BF) applications in different soybean phenological stages.Method Experiments were performed in two regions and designed in randomized blocks using a 2×4 factorial scheme (two cultivars and four BF managements). …”
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CDR-Detector: a chronic disease risk prediction model combining pre-training with deep reinforcement learning by Shaofu Lin, Shiwei Zhou, Han Jiao, Mengzhen Wang, Haokang Yan, Peng Dou, Jianhui Chen

“…Current studies mainly focused on developing well-designed deep learning models to predict the disease risk based on large-scale and high-quality longitudinal EHR data. …”
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