Postoperative Corneal and Surgically Induced Astigmatism following Superior Approach Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery in Patients with Preoperative Against-the-Rule Astigmati... by Edmund Arthur, Ahmed Abdul Sadik, David Ben Kumah, Eugene Appenteng Osae, Felix Agyemang Mireku, Frank Yeboah Asiedu, Reynolds Kwame Ablordeppey

“…The aim of the study was to report postoperative corneal and surgically induced astigmatism (SIA) in patients with preoperative against-the-rule (ATR) astigmatism who underwent superior approach manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS). 58 eyes of 58 cataract patients with preoperative ATR astigmatism were involved in this study. …”
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Justification for the physiological isolation of the torus based on the pain sensitivity of the oral mucosa by Alijon Sobirov, Sunnatullo Gafforov, Nurmukhamet Ruzuddinov, Raykhon Pulatova, Ravshanbek Jambilov, Kalamkas Ruzuddinova, Zukhriddin Djumaev, Sevara Gafforova

“…The results showed that after orthopedic dental treatment, the proportion of patients who considered their quality of life to be good increased significantly (78.4%), with the initial indicator (8.1%). …”
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Development of a New Malnutrition Screening Tool for Patients: Human Key Tool of Nutrition by Kotono Oishi, MSc, Arisa Inoue-Hamano, PhD, Yasuhiro Hamada, MD,PhD

“…Methods: This study enrolled 10,375 patients aged ≥18 years who were admitted at Tokushima University Hospital. …”
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Laparoscopic Surgery Can Reduce Postoperative Edema Compared with Open Surgery by Dong Guo, Jianfeng Gong, Lei Cao, Yao Wei, Zhen Guo, Weiming Zhu

“…The study aimed to investigate the impact of laparoscopic surgery and open surgery on postoperative edema in Crohn’s disease. Methods. Patients who required enterectomy were divided into open group (Group O) and laparoscopic group (Group L). …”
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Comparative analysis of alectinib and brigatinib in real-world treatment of advanced NSCLC with ALK rearrangements by Kyuhwan Kim, Kyu Yean Kim, Hye Seon Kang, Ah Young Shin, Sung Kyoung Kim, Chan Kwon Park, Sang Haak Lee, Seung Joon Kim, Jeong Uk Lim, Chang Dong Yeo

“…Prior crizotinib treatment significantly shortened TTD for second-generation TKIs ( p  = 0.025), but the overall TKI treatment duration did not show a significant difference between patients who received frontline second-generation ALK TKIs and those who received second-generation ALK TKIs sequentially after crizotinib. …”
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Case report: Tongue metastasis as an initial sign of clear cell renal cell carcinoma and its prognosis by Shuo Liu, Hongyun Liu, Bowen Weng, Sichuan Hou

“…We present a case of a 62-year-old man who presented with a painful lump on the right anterior border of his tongue. …”
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A Special, Strict, Fat-Reduced, and Carbohydrate-Modified Diet Leads to Marked Weight Reduction even in Overweight Adolescents with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) by Walter Bonfig, Kathi Dokoupil, Heinrich Schmidt

“…We conclude that in a period of 2–6 years, our strict, fat-reduced, and carbohydrate-modified diet, with 10 kcal/cm height, is effective even in adolescents with PWS who are already overweight.…”
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Perspectives from Nurse Managers on Informatics Competencies by Li Yang, Dan Cui, Xuemei Zhu, Qiuli Zhao, Ningning Xiao, Xiaoying Shen

“…The factors identified in this study can serve as a reference for nurse managers who were wishing to improve their informatics competency, hospital administrators seeking to provide appropriate training, and nursing educators who were making decisions about nursing informatics curricula. …”
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An annotated high-content fluorescence microscopy dataset with EGFP-Galectin-3-stained cells and manually labelled outlineszenodo by Salma Kazemi Rashed, Malou Arvidsson, Rafsan Ahmed, Sonja Aits

“…Outlines were labelled by three annotators, who had high inter-annotator agreement between them and with a biomedical expert, who labelled some of the objects for comparison and reviewed a subset of the labels, making minor corrections as needed.The dataset comprises over 2200 annotated cell objects in total, making it sufficient in size to train high-performing neural networks for instance or semantic segmentation. …”
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The Effect of Path and Beginning Time of Ascending on Incidence of Acute Mountain Sickness around Mount Damavand in Iran (5671 m) by Reza Alizadeh, Vahid Ziaee, Lotf-Ali Frooghifard, Mohammad-Ali Mansournia, Ziba Aghsaeifard

“…The risk of occurrence of AMS was 1.9 times as large for trekkers who ascended from southern route.…”
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The Impact of C-Peptide and Diabetes Mellitus on Coronary Ectasia and Effect of Coronary Ectasia and C-Peptide on Long-Term Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Kenan Toprak, Mustafa Kaplangoray, Ali Palice

“…This study aimed to reveal the impact of C-peptide and diabetes mellitus (DM) on CAE and the effect of C-peptide and coronary ectasia on long-term outcomes in patients who underwent coronary angiography. Methods. A total of 6611 patients who underwent coronary angiography were followed up retrospectively, and their major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) status of an average of sixty months was recorded. …”
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Sports in Udmurt State Agrarian University (using the example of participation in various competitions from 1954 to 2024) by Rubtsova, Lyubov V., Zhuikov, Roman A., Vorotova, Maria S.

“…A great contribution to the work of the department was made by Professor N. A. Solovyov, who worked for more than 50 years at UdGAU. In 2023, Professor N. …”
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The effect of nutrition-related patterns on primary infertility among couples in Gaza Strip: A case-control study by Amal DHAIR, Maha NUBANI HUSSEINI, Yehia ABED

“…Infertile couples were chosen from patients who were registered in five fertility centers from 2016 to 2018. …”

Helicobacter pylori Infection in Persons with Intellectual Disability in Residential Care in Israel by Joav Merrick, Shoshana Aspler, Inessa Dubman

“…The purpose of the study was to determine the occurrence of H. pylori infection in persons who presented with severe dyspeptic symptoms and to monitor clinically the effect of treatment. …”
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Time to First-Line Antiretroviral Treatment Failure and Its Predictors among HIV-Positive Children in Shashemene Town Health Facilities, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, 2019 by Endale Zenebe, Assefa Washo, Abreham Addis Gesese

“…The finding also demonstrated that children treated with nevirapine-based nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors at initial and advanced WHO clinical stages at baseline were at higher risk of treatment failure.…”
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Patient Activation in Type 2 Diabetes: Does It Differ between Men and Women? by Steven H. Hendriks, Laura C. Hartog, Klaas H. Groenier, Angela H. E. M. Maas, Kornelis J. J. van Hateren, Nanne Kleefstra, Henk J. G. Bilo

“…In men, lower age (p=0.001), a higher WHO-5 score (p<0.001), and a lower BMI (p=0.013) were associated with a higher PAM score. …”
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The frequency of post-COVID-19 condition and its clinical relevance after COVID-19 disease of employees in facilities of preschool childcare by Michelle Nina Braun, Anna Wolfschmidt, Andrea Kaifie, Ruediger Stephan Goertz

“…Methods: A structured questionnaire collected data from two distinct collectives: Collective 1 (C1) consisted of a prospective cohort of 44 employees after COVID-19 disease, whereas Collective 2 (C2) included 222 employees who were retrospectively interviewed. The questionnaire mainly focused on symptoms and wellbeing during or after COVID-19. …”
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Impact of pediatric COVID-19 isolation on children’s well-being and caregiver mental health by Song I. Yang, Chi-Hyun Choi, Eun Joo Lee, Sun Hee Jee, Mi Seon Han

“…This study investigated the mental health of children and caregivers who underwent mandatory hospital isolation due to COVID-19. …”
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GIS-BASED ASSESSMENT OF GROUND WATER QUALITY FOR DRINKING PURPOSE BY WATER QUALITY INDEX APPROACHES IN BAHAWALPUR, PUNJAB by Ali Hassan, Haroon Rashid, Ahsan Sarfraz, Kashif Javed, Dawood Nawaz, Muhammad Faizan

“…The characteristics of the groundwater did not comply with WHO standards. These findings suggest that there is a pressing need to address water pollution in Bahawalpur. …”
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Analisis Tingkat Kematangan Pendistribusian Ruang Kelas dengan Framework COBIT 4.1 Menggunakan Domain DS10 by Imroatul Muthoharoh, Elfara Fraksi Dwipa, Renny Sari Dewi

“…IT auditors are people who conduct audits, who have the task of collecting evidence through interviews, surveys, observations, and documentation reviews. …”
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