Right Ventricular Remodeling and Dysfunction in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis by Abdirashit Maripov, Argen Mamazhakypov, Meerim Sartmyrzaeva, Almaz Akunov, Kubatbek Muratali uulu, Melis Duishobaev, Meerim Cholponbaeva, Akylbek Sydykov, Akpay Sarybaev

“…A systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to assess RV structure and function in OSA patients based on conventional echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging. Results. Twenty-five studies with 1,503 OSA patients and 796 controls were included in this study. …”
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The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the air environment in India by N. Gupta, A. Tomar, V. Kumar

“…The work involves the refining and preprocessing of raw data of this year and last year of various harmful pollutants present in the environment along with satellite images from National Aeronautics and Space Administration for comparison of different parameters. …”
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Bioelectronic osteosynthesis plate to monitor the fracture bone healing using electric capacitive variations by Diogo G. Pires, Nuno M. Silva, A. Completo, Marco P. Soares dos Santos

“…Current monitoring techniques predominantly rely on imaging methods, which can result in subjective assessments, and expose patients to unnecessary cumulative doses of radiation. …”
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Comparative analysis of mesozooplankton size fraction structure in bivalve aquaculture embayments in Atlantic and Pacific Canadian coastal regions by Ruben D. Cordero, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Ramón Filgueira, Julie Arseneau, Jeffrey Barrell, Timothy J. Barrett, Christopher W. McKindsey, Daria Gallardi, Olivia Gibb, Terri Sutherland, Thomas Guyondet

“…Using high-resolution imaging (FlowCam®) to measure individual zooplankton, we assessed the effects of location, tide, sampling day, season, and aquaculture pressure on the size distribution variation among and within bays. …”
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Pulmonary enteric adenocarcinoma with progression disease after second - line therapy: a case report by Ya Guo, Bin Zhang, Heng Zhang, Yunbin Gao, Haibo Zhao, Pei Jiang, Qing-Qing Yu

“…As a rare solid tumor in lung cancer, PEAC has unique clinical outcome, imaging, pathological and molecular characteristics, and poor prognosis. …”
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Transition of BiOCl nanosheet into cotton-like clusters for piezoelectric enhanced photocatalytic degradation of dye and photocatalytic hydrogen production by Zheng Luo, C.P. Leo, Fengbo Guo, Xin-ya Zhao

“…Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy images showed circular plate-like structures or spherical clusters with a diameter of approximately 1 μm when BiOCl was prepared using water or without the addition of PVP, respectively. …”
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Rock Art Conservation and Geotourism: A practical example from Foum Chenna engravings site, Morocco by Mohamed Abioui, Lhassan M Barki, Mohammed Benssaou, Abdelkrim Ezaidi, Nezha El Kamali

“…The engravings were predominantly made by pecking out images of human figures, animals and patterns, and the area today is the center of interest for the recently-formed Association of Rock Art Heritage of Southern Morocco, based in Zagora. …”
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The motion law of oil droplets and bubbles in air flotation-cyclone by WANG Wei, BAI Xu, CHU Xiaodan, ZHAO Xiang, MA Xueliang, LIN Wei, GONG Cheng, YU Jiuyang

“…Using this technology for oil-water separation, the effects of dissolved gas water microbubbles, cyclone fields, and flocculants on separation efficiency were investigated. High-speed imaging technology was utilized to study the interaction between microbubbles and oil droplets, as well as between microbubbles and flocs. …”
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Investigate on surface/subsurface damage mechanisms and manufacturability of ultra-smooth surface in ultra-precision ductile grinding of sapphire optics by Sheng Wang, Qinghe Zhang, Qingliang Zhao, Ming Zhou

“…Then, the subsurface damage characteristics and evolution mechanisms in ultra-precision ductile grinding of sapphire were thoroughly researched based on TEM images. Ultimately, a sapphire planar optics with sub-nanoscale surface roughness, smooth ductile grinding surface and ductile subsurface were achieved.…”
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QUANTIFICATION CONTRASTS OF LEXICAL MICROSYSTEMS WITH SYNONYMS SЪVEDETELЬ – POSLUKHЪ (A WITNESS) AND THEIR DERIVATIVES IN THE OLD EAST SLAVIC WRITTEN SOURCES (BASED ON MANUSCRIPT... by Oleg F. Zholobov

“…The article specifies grounds and chronology of the first examples of the bookish lexeme sъvědětelь transforming into the neutral svidětel’, which replaced the East Slavic analogue posluchъ during the competitive confrontation of denotative images. …”
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The Estimates of Retinal Ganglion Cell Counts Performed Better than Isolated Structure and Functional Tests for Glaucoma Diagnosis by Bruno L. B. Esporcatte, Andrea C. Kara-José, Luiz Alberto S. Melo, Luciano M. Pinto, Ivan M. Tavares

“…All eyes underwent 24-2 SITA SAP and structural imaging tests. RGC count estimates were obtained using a previously described algorithm, which combines estimates of RGC numbers from SAP sensitivity thresholds and SD-OCT retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) average thickness. …”
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Pursuit on the plane by objects moving away from the trajectory of defending object, with simulation of detection area by A. А. Dubanov, T. V. Ausheev

“…Based on the results of the research, animated images are created. As an example, where the model developed in the article could be in demand, the following can be given. …”
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Surgical management of a lateral sphenoid sinus encephalocele: 2-Dimensional operative video by Ryan W. Sindewald, Michael G. Brandel, Arvin R. Wali, Carol H. Yan, David R. Santiago-Dieppa

“…The video demonstrates the skull base approach, encephalocele extraction, collagen inlay, and nasal septal bone and vascularized pedicled nasoseptal flap placement. Postoperative imaging confirmed the placement of the collagen inlay and nasal septal bone autograft. …”
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How do we measure the costs, benefits, and harms of sharing data from biomedical studies? A protocol for a scoping review [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Lauren Maxwell, Ankur Krishnan, Priya Shreedhar

“…Introduction The benefits of sharing participant-level data, including clinical or epidemiological data, genomic data, high-dimensional imaging data, or human-derived samples, from biomedical studies have been widely touted and may be taken for granted. …”
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Evolution of plastic deformation during multi-pass ECAP of an AA6060 aluminum alloy – An experimental flow line analysis by Nadja Berndt, Nadja A. Reiser, Martin F.-X. Wagner

“…., flow lines, are analyzed from the partially deformed billets using optical images and a graphics software. For the analysis of the material flow we use a phenomenological model that describes the material path along the flow line based on a super-ellipse function, with only one parameter defining the evolution of curvature along the flow line. …”
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Pavement Disease Visual Detection by Structure Perception and Feature Attention Network by Bin Lv, Shuo Zhang, Haixia Gong, Hongbo Zhang, Bin Dong, Jianzhu Wang, Cong Du, Jianqing Wu

“…Experimental results on real-world pavement disease images show that the mAP@0.5 of the proposed SPFAN increases from 66.2% to 71.2%, an improvement of 7.55%, while the F1-score also increases by 9.03%, compared to the baseline YOLOv8n model. …”
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SKYSURF. VI. The Impact of Thermal Variations of HST on Background Light Estimates by Isabel A. McIntyre, Timothy Carleton, Rosalia O’Brien, Rogier A. Windhorst, Sarah Caddy, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen, John MacKenty, Scott J. Kenyon

“…The SKYSURF project constrained extragalactic background light and diffuse light (DL) with the vast archive of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. Thermal emission from HST itself introduces an additional uncertain background and hinders accurate measurement of the DL level. …”
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MSTD: A Multi-Scale Transformer-Based Method to Diagnose Benign and Malignant Lung Nodules by Xiaoyu Zhao, Jiao Li, Man Qi, Xuxin Chen, Wei Chen, Yongqun Li, Qi Liu, Jiajia Tang, Zhihai Han, Chunyang Zhang

“…However, the varied sizes, diverse morphologies, non-fixed positions, and dynamic growth of lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) images make their accurate identification challenging. …”
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Model to Simulate Brain Biopsies Using a Navigated Robotic Guiding System and a Bone Cutting Laser by Tu Ha Thanh, Luder Yann, Röthlisberger Michel, Schicker Martina, Morawska Marta, Cordier Dominik

“…Brain biopsies are necessary in cases of unclear lesions on imaging studies to establish a treatment plan based on the histologic diagnosis. …”
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Multidetector-row Computed Tomography Analysis of the Radial Midpalmar Flap: A Retrospective Anatomical Study by Tien Linh Nguyen Doan, MD, PhD, Shimpei Ono, MD, PhD, Goh Akiyama, MD, PhD, Hoyu Cho, MD, Hiromitsu Hayashi, MD, PhD, Rei Ogawa, MD, PhD

“…This retrospective cross-sectional study included all eligible patients from 2014 to 2019. All Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) data were analyzed by the DICOM viewer. …”
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