Anatomical and Visual Outcomes after LASIK Performed in Myopic Eyes with the WaveLight® Refractive Suite (Alcon® Laboratories Inc., USA) by Imene Salah-Mabed, Sarah Moran, Emmanuelle Perez, Guillaume Debellemanière, Damien Gatinel

“…LASIK surgery for moderate to high myopia, performed with the WaveLight® Refractive Suite, showed good postoperative outcomes, with demonstrated safety, predictability, efficiency, and stability. This is probably due to well-controlled spherical aberration and the use of large optical zones. …”
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Clinical significance of PCT, CRP, IL-6, NLR, and TyG Index in early diagnosis and severity assessment of acute pancreatitis: A retrospective analysis by Xu Xinyu, Zhou Jiang, Ai Qing, Li Lihua, Liu Xiehong, Zhou Lin

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, DeLong test, and Bonferroni correction were used to evaluate predictive performance. Model robustness was validated via 5-fold cross-validation. …”
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Nasal Provocation Test with Cat and Dog Extracts: Results according to Molecular Components by Andres Sánchez, Ricardo Cardona, Marlon Munera, Victor Calvo, Manuela Tejada-Giraldo, Jorge Sánchez

“…Sensitization to pet dander extract identifies atopic patients, but its utility to predict clinical relevance is poor. Allergenic components could help to define the clinical relevance of sensitization to furry animals and could reduce the need for provocation test.…”
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Identification of Key Genes and Prognostic Value Analysis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis by Meng Wang, Licheng Wang, Shusheng Wu, Dongsheng Zhou, Xianming Wang

“…Kaplan-Meier survival curves indicated that high expression of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK1), cyclin B1 (CCNB1), cyclin B2 (CCNB2), MAD2 mitotic arrest deficient-like 1 (MAD2L1), and topoisomerase IIα (TOP2A) predicted poor overall survival in HCC patients (all log-rank P<0.01). …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of MRI-based radiomic features for EGFR mutation status in non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases: a meta-analysis by Yuqin Long, Rong Zhao, Xianfeng Du

“…ObjectiveThis meta-analysis aims to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based radiomic features for predicting epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with brain metastases.MethodsWe systematically searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus, Wanfang, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) for studies published up to April 30, 2024. …”
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Association of Visceral Adipose Tissue With Hypertension: Results From the NHANES 2011–2018 and Mendelian Randomization Analyses by Jia Liao, Miaohan Qiu, Jing Li, Yi Li, Yaling Han

“…Furthermore, VAT mass exhibited greater accuracy than body mass index (BMI) in predicting hypertension (areas under the curve [AUC]: 0.701 vs. 0.676, p for comparison < 0.001). …”
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A Reproducible Method for Donor Site Computed Tomography Measurements in Abdominally Based Autologous Breast Reconstruction by Damini Tandon, MD, Arthur Sletten, MD, PhD, Austin Ha, MD, Gary B. Skolnick, BA, MBA, Paul Commean, BEE, Terence Myckatyn, MD

“…Larger patient cohorts must be leveraged to determine correlations between abdominal CT scan findings and donor site outcomes using machine learning algorithms that generate models for predicting abdominal donor site complications.…”
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Ethical leadership and nurses’ job performance: the mediating role of self-compassion by Xingxing Liu, Fang He, Tian Tian, Fangli Guo, Jun Zhang, Yuexia Zhong

“…The mediating effect accounted for 26.62% of the total effect.ConclusionThe results of this study indicate that ethical leadership not only directly predicts nurses’ job performance but also indirectly influences it by enhancing their levels of self-compassion. …”
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Association of bud and anther morphology with developmental stages of the male gametophyte of melon (Cucumis melo L.) by M. L. Nguyen, T.N.B.T. Huyen, D. M. Trinh, A. V. Voronina

“…The corolla’s visual part was a less reliable morphological feature, and the anther’s length should not be used as a parameter to predict the developmental stages of the melon’s male gametophyte. …”
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The association between individual radiographic findings and improvement after chiropractic spinal manipulation and home exercise among older adults with back-related disability: a... by Michele J. Maiers, Andrea K. Albertson, Christopher Major, Heidi Mendenhall, Christopher P. Petrie

“…As such, this study provides preliminary data suggesting that imaging may be unhelpful for predicting response to chiropractic spinal manipulation and home exercise.…”
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Lights and Siren Transport and the Need for Hospital Intervention in Nontrauma Patients: A Prospective Study by Olivier Bertholet, Mathieu Pasquier, Elina Christes, Damien Wirths, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Olivier Hugli, Fabrice Dami

“…The most common medical TCHI was the fast-track (65.2% of all TCHI). LST was predictive of the need for TCHI (p<0.001), as was the clinical condition of the patient and also when EMS providers expected TCHI. …”
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Hybrid Modeling of an Induction Machine to Support Bearing Diagnostics by Praneet Amitabh, Dimitar Bozalakov, Frederik De Belie

“…The ultimate goal of this methodology is to generate extensive datasets encompassing diverse operating conditions that can be used further to estimate the health of the bearing and possibly be used for training predictive algorithms to estimate bearing RUL in motors. …”
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Heart rate variability, a potential assessment tool for identifying anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders in elderly individuals by Wenna Liu, Shutong Wang, Hanyang Gu, Rong Li

“…Sleep disorders independently predicted reduced PNN50 and SDANN (P &lt; 0.01).ConclusionHRV indices of individuals with varying emotional states and sleep disorders exhibited varying degrees of decrease. …”
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X-ray pulsed light curves of highly compact neutron stars as probes of scalar–tensor theories of gravity by Tulio Ottoni, Jaziel G. Coelho, Rafael C. R. de Lima, Jonas P. Pereira, Jorge A. Rueda

“…Our investigation is motivated by the increased sensitivity of the pulse to the scalar charge of the spacetime in such high compactness regimes, making these systems exceptionally suitable for scrutinizing deviations from GR, notably phenomena such as spontaneous scalarization, as predicted by STT. We find significant differences in NS observables, e.g., the flux of a single spot can differ up to 80% with respect to GR. …”
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Data linkage of German statutory health insurance claims data and care needs assessments preceding a population-based cohort study on nursing home admission by Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Dominik Domhoff, Kathrin Seibert, Susanne Stiefler, Dirk Peschke

“…The resulting dataset should enable the identification of factors in healthcare predicting the time between the onset of long-term care dependency and the admission to a nursing home in Germany in subsequent analyses.Design A deterministic record linkage was conducted using the key variables region, sex, date of birth and care level. …”
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Salvage pathway of vitamin B12 absorption in chickens with mutant tumor virus a receptor by Yun Ji Shin, Jin-Kyoo Kim, Seung Je Woo, Byung Chul Park, Jae Yong Han

“…Notably, TVAR chickens had significantly higher levels of vitamin B12 than TVAWT chickens, a finding contrary to the predicted lower uptake. Expression of vitamin B12 carrier related genes (i.e., AMN, GIF, and TCN2) in chickens showed a stepwise increase: TVAWT > TVASNP > TVAR. …”
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Disulfidptosis-related lncRNA signature to assess the immune microenvironment and drug sensitivity in acute myeloid leukemia by Yuying Zhao, Hai-en Cheng, Jingfei Wang, Yunke Zang, Zhijun Liu, Yanhua Sun, Yanli Sun

“…Overall, we formulated a pioneering prognostic model utilizing DRLs, achieving precise AML outcome predictions. The correlations between the DRL prognostic models and the AML immune microenvironment, drug sensitivity, and tumor subtype were explored. …”
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A two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis between telomere length and hyperthyroidism by Shiben Zhu, Ziyu Hao, Qihang Chen, Xiaoliu Liu, Wenyan Wu, Fang Zhang

“…The risk of hyperthyroidism decreased as genetically predicted TL increased by one standard deviation, as determined by the IVW form GWAS Catalog (OR:0.659,95%CI: 0.541-0.802, p &lt;0.001) and IVW from FinnGen(OR:0.634, 95%CI: 0.479-0.840, p = 0.001). …”
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Establishment of wetland conservation networks in response to climate change and anthropogenic activities: A case study from the Liaohe River Basin in Liaoning Province, China by Kexin Chen, Shuxiu Liang, Pifu Cong, Zhaochen Sun

“…Furthermore, based on the succession patterns observed between 2010 and 2020, the wetland area is predicted to diminish from 1,575.82 km2 in 2030 to 1,015.63 km2 in 2090, while the building land area is expected to expand from 8,324.14 km2 in 2030 to 12,719.31 km2 in 2090. …”
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Study of Interactions Between Individual Phenolics of Aronia with Barley Beta-Glucan by Lidija Jakobek, Petra Matić, Jozo Ištuk, Andrew R. Barron

“…Furthermore, there was a correlation between maximum adsorption capacities predicted by models and measured adsorption capacities (r 2 0.76, 0.81, and 0.34 for Langmuir, Dubinin-Radushevich, Hill isotherms, respectively). …”
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