Incidence and Implications of Culture-Positive Corneoscleral Rims in Corneal Transplantation by Meeraalam Z, Alreshidi SO, ALBalawi HB, Alali NM, Hashem F, Kirat OM

“…Statistical analysis revealed no significant association between CPCR occurrence and death-preservation or preservation-surgery times.Conclusion: The study underscores the reduced impact of contaminated CPCR on graft outcomes, advocating for targeted fungal culturing, intraoperative practices to mitigate post-transplant infections, and maintaining current prophylactic antibiotic regimens, such as optisolGS ™, which contains streptomycin and gentamicin.Keywords: corneal transplant, keratitis, endophthalmitis, infection, bacterial keratitis…”
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A prognostic index model for predicting long-term recurrence of uterine leiomyoma after myomectomy. by Xiu Ming, Junying Zhou, Jinhai Gou, Na Li, Dan Nie, Luqi Xue, Zhengyu Li

“…In the model group, the high-risk group had a significantly 4.55 times greater recurrence risk of UL than that in the low-risk group [cumulative recurrence rate (CR): 82.1% vs 29.5%, HR = 4.55, 95% CI 2.821-7.339]; the intermediate-risk group had a significantly 2.81 times greater recurrence risk of UL than that in the low-risk group (CR: 62.3% vs 29.5%, HR = 2.81, 95% CI 2.035-3.878). …”
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Effects Of Metformin And Myo-Inositol In Combination Versus Metformin As Monotherapy On The Metabolic Profile Of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Patients With Infertility by Hira Ehsan Khattak, Muhammad Imran Aftab, Tayyaba Anis Chaudhry, Jaleel Kamran, Zoia Ehsan Khattak, Misbah Ehsan Khattak

“…One hundred fourteen PCOS females with infertility were randomly assigned to 57 people made up Group A, which received oral Metformin in a dose of 500 mg 3 times per day together with oral Myo-inositol 4 g once per day; 57 people made up Group B, which received oral Metformin in a dose of 500 mg 3 times per day only. …”
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Utilization of Integrated Community Case Management and Its Factors in Southern Ethiopia: Facility Based-Cross-Sectional Study by Samuel Yohannes, Yitagesu Habtu, Bereket Abreham, Menen Ayele

“…Participants who were not members of the women’s development team were about 2.23 times more likely not to utilize ICCM services when compared to their counterparts. …”
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Rheumatoid-like hand deformities and aortic valve disease in a 13-year-old girl with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: a case report by Anjuman Ara Rahman, Abhijit Datta, Kamal Uddin Ahmed, Anindita Das Barshan, Mohammad Jahid Hasan

“…Early detection allows timely intervention, such as lifestyle modifications and pharmacological treatments, which can significantly reduce these risks. …”
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Synthesis of Acetylene Black and Polyvinylidene Difluoride to Improve the Conductivity of Li-ion Nickel Manganese Cobalt Batteries by Totok Dermawan, Agus Sudjatno, Edy Yulianto, Yustinus Purwamargapratala, Suroso Suroso, Budi Suhendro, Ign Agus Purbhadi Wirgiyanto

“…The results showed that the addition of additives increased the conductivity of NMC 111 by more than five times, from 23.27x10-8 S.cm-1 to 119.34x10-8 S.cm-1, and NMC 811 by more than twelve times, from 6.43x10-8 S.cm-1 to 81.79x10-8 S.cm-1. …”
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College students’ entrepreneurship education path and management strategy of start-up enterprises using causal attribution theory by Qingquan Liu, Xuewei An, Wei Chen

“…Moreover, the management strategy based on DL and AI can help start-up enterprises accurately and timely predict risks, find their source of risks, and minimize potential losses. …”
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Surgical treatment of the initial stages of progressive keratoconus in children by S.B. Izmailova, E.Yu. Markova, A.Z. Ciganov, L.L. Arutyunyan

“…However, even timely and perfectly performed surgery for progressive keratoconus may have different consequences depending on the degree of connective tissue dysplasia. …”
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Permeability Enhancement of Coal Seam by Lower Protective Layer Mining for Gas Outburst Prevention by Aiping He, Hua Fu, Bingjie Huo, Chaojun Fan

“…When advanced to 80 m, the permeability of the protected layer of the #3 coal seam increased sharply, and the permeability increased by 873 times. With the continuous advancement, the permeability of the protected layer in #3 coal seam tended to increase steadily, and the permeability increased by 1100–1200 times. …”
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Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks of arsenic exposure in drinking water in the rural environment by D. Mahan, O. Waissbluth, D. Caceres

“…Extremely high HQ values were estimated in children, at 1.3–119.8 times the threshold. Furthermore, CR values were several orders of magnitude (3.06–10790.6) above the tolerable value among all age strata. …”
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Case of surgical treatment of ascending aorta and aortic arch aneurysm in a patient with unclassified connective tissue disease by B.M. Todurov, A.Y. Shkandala, O.V. Zelenchuk, M.F. Rotar, N.S. Gnoyanko

“…Only early diagnosis and timely reconstructive surgery are able to reduce the percentage of complications and reduce mortality in this pathology. …”
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Surgical Management of Traumatic Retinal Detachment with Primary Vitrectomy in Adult Patients by Katarzyna Nowomiejska, Tomasz Choragiewicz, Dorota Borowicz, Agnieszka Brzozowska, Joanna Moneta-Wielgos, Ryszard Maciejewski, Anselm G. Jünemann, Robert Rejdak

“…Mean follow-up period was 14 months; mean timing of PPV was 67 days. Twenty-seven (66%) eyes had a functional success; 32 eyes (78%) had anatomical success. …”
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Citrus Irrigation Management by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold Schumann, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Irrigation is practiced to provide water when rainfall is not sufficient or timely to meet water needs. Proper irrigation scheduling is the application of water to crops only when needed and only in the amounts needed; that is, determining when to irrigate and how much water to apply. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning framework with irregular-majority users by Qianxin CHEN, Renwan BI, Jie LIN, Biao JIN, Jinbo XIONG

“…In response to the existing problems that the federated learning might lead to the reduction of aggregation efficiency by handing the majority of irregular users and the leak of parameter privacy by adopting plaintext communication, a framework of privacy-preserving robust federated learning was proposed for ensuring the robustness of the irregular user based on the designed security division protocol.PPRFL could enable the model and its related information to aggregate in ciphertext on the edge server facilitate users to calculate the model reliability locally for reducing the additional communication overhead caused by the adoption of the security multiplication protocol in conventional methods, apart from lowering the high computational overhead resulted from homomorphic encryption with outsourcing computing to two edge servers.Based on this, user could calculate the loss value of the model through jointly using the verification sets issued by the edge server and that held locally after parameter updating of the local model.Then the model reliability could be dynamically updated as the model weight together with the historic information of the loss value.Further, the model weight was scaled under the guidance of prior knowledge, and the ciphertext model and ciphertext weight information are sent to the edge server to aggregate and update the global model parameters, ensuring that global model changes are contributed by high-quality data users, and improving the convergence speed.Through the security analysis of the Hybrid Argument model, the demonstration shows that PPRFL can effectively protect the privacy of model parameters and intermediate interaction parameters including user reliability.The experimental results show that the PPRFL scheme could still achieve the accuracy of 92% when all the participants in the federated aggregation task are irregular users, with the convergence efficiency 1.4 times higher than that of the PPFDL.Besides, the PPRFL scheme could still reach the accuracy of 89% when training data possessed by 80% of the users in the federated aggregation task were noise data, with the convergence efficiency 2.3 times higher than that of the PPFDL.…”
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Investigating the Effect of Urban New Technologies on the Iranian Lorry Drivers’ Behavior by Abdolreza Sheikholeslami, Ehsan Ayazi, Ali Moghadari

“…The statistical analysis of data using a multivariate logistic regression model showed that drivers loading and unloading five or six times per month are less likely to commit overloading than drivers loading and unloading more than 12 times per month. …”
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Determination of Biological Treatability Processes of Textile Wastewater and Implementation of a Fuzzy Logic Model by Harun Akif Kabuk, Yasar Avsar, S. Levent Kuzu, Fatih Ilhan, Kubra Ulucan

“…Textile wastewater, oxidized by ozonation, was fed to the MBR at different hydraulic retention times (HRT). During the process, color, chemical oxygen demand (COD), and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) removal efficiencies were monitored for 24-hour, 12-hour, 6-hour, and 3-hour retention times. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of Public Health Strategies on COVID-19 Control: A Systematic Review by Ajaree Rayanakorn, Siew Lian Leong, Pattaranai Chaiprom, Shaun Wen Huey Lee

“…Tight and timely adoption of effective intervention at the early stage of pandemic is key in shrinking the number of cases. …”
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Acorus shannai (Acoraceae), a new species from Southern China by Zhuo Cheng, Xinyu Liu, Nianting Yu, Weizhe Chen, Haofeng Zhao, Feifei Li, Chunlin Long

“…Key distinguishing features include a strong fennel odor (vs. aromatic in “A. tatarinowii” and A. gramineus), fruit with prominent dorsal sutures (vs. inconspicuous dorsal sutures in “A. tatarinowii” and A. gramineus), and a leaf-shaped spathe that is about 2–3 times as long as the spadix (vs. more than 3 times in “A. tatarinowii”). …”
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Study of the vaccination effects against <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>, causing mastitis and endometritis in cows by E. V. Ivanov, A. V. Kapustin, N. N. Avduevskaya

“…In the test group, the pathogen was detected in 20% of cases, which is 2.5 times lower than in the control group.…”
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Crochet increases attention through a requiring motor skill learning by Davide Rossi Sebastiano, Cristina Muscio, Dunja Duran, Deborah Bonfoco, Sara Dotta, Paola Anversa, Elisa Pellencin, Pietro Tiraboschi, Elisa Visani

“…Data revealed that crochet determined a significant effect (before, T0, vs after, T1, the crochet session) on reaction times (for all cue and stimulus types), improving alertness and orienting networks (but not executive control) only in the CRO group. …”
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