Protection of Corneal Limbus from Riboflavin Prevents Epithelial Stem Cell Loss after Collagen Cross-Linking by Hyo Kyung Lee, Jin Suk Ryu, Hyun Jeong Jeong, Mee Kum Kim, Joo Youn Oh

“…Seven days before procedure, 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) was intraperitoneally injected. During procedure, riboflavin was applied to the corneal surface within a 9 mm diameter retention ring in 5 rabbits, thereby preventing the limbus from riboflavin exposure. …”
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Improving spleen segmentation in ultrasound images using a hybrid deep learning framework by Ali Karimi, Javad Seraj, Fatemeh Mirzadeh Sarcheshmeh, Kasra Fazli, Amirali Seraj, Parisa Eslami, Mohamadreza Khanmohamadi, Helia Sajjadian Moosavi, Hadi Ghattan Kashani, Abdoulreza Sajjadian Moosavi, Masoud Shariat Panahi

“…Specifically, our approach achieved a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 94.17% and a mean Dice (mDice) score of 96.82%, surpassing models such as Splenomegaly Segmentation Network (SSNet), U-Net, and Variational autoencoder based methods. …”
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Magnetically Diluted Dy³⁺ and Yb³⁺ Squarates Showing Relaxation Tuning and Matrix Dependence by Rina Takano, Takayuki Ishida

“…Applying <i>H</i>_DC = 400 Oe afforded <i>U</i>_eff = 61.2(14) and 62.5(16) K for Yb@Y-sq and Yb@Lu-sq, respectively. …”
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Penetration of linezolid and tedizolid in cerebrospinal fluid of mouse and impact of blood–brain barrier disruption by Marin Lahouati, Mélanie Oudart, Philippe Alzieu, Candice Chapouly, Antoine Petitcollin, Fabien Xuereb

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Hipotermiye Bağlı Ölümlerin Değerlendirilmesi by Ümit Naci Gündoğmuş, Şerafettin Demirci, Hasan Esen, Kamil Hakan Doğan

“…Ölümler en sık 5 olgu ile Ocak ayında meydana gelmiştir. Olguların 4’ü tarlada, 3’ü metruk binada bulunmuştur. 6 olguda psikiyatrik hastalık öyküsü mevcuttur. …”
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Gömülü kaninlerin transmigrasyon insidansının belirlenmesi by Beste İnceoğlu, Mehmet Fatih Şentürk, Tayfun Yazıcı, Bengi Öztaş

“…Bulgular: 4 hasta veri eksikliği nedeniyle çalışma dışı bırakılmıştır. 117 hastada 146 kanin dişinin içerisinde 3 ü üst çene (1 erkek, 2 kadın) 10’u alt çene(2 erkek, 8 kadın) de olmak üzere 13 (3 erkek,10 kadın) tek taraflı transmigrant kanin bulunmuştur. …”
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Influence of bio-filter configurations on hydraulic aspects while enhancing the sustainable self-purification of agricultural drainage water by Raid Alrowais, Raid Alrowais, Ashraf Jatwary, Marcela Bindzarova Gergelova, Mohammad Akrami, Bandar Alwushayh, Elsayed Elkamhawy, Elsayed Elkamhawy

“…Altering the shape of bio-filter inlet is predicted to significantly influence heading-up values, with triangular shapes showing the lowest heading-up values compared to basic, rounded, or sloped upstream U.S face shapes. Relative heading-up values will increase by 10.32%, 10.44%, 24.67%, and 31.86% when changing the bio-filter inlet shape from triangular to sloped U.S. face with respect to horizontal and vertical direction, rounded, and basic bio-filter, respectively. …”
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Large-scale mapping of plastic-mulched land from Sentinel-2 using an index-feature-spatial-attention fused deep learning model by Lizhen Lu, Yunci Xu, Xinyu Huang, Hankui K. Zhang, Yuqi Du

“…Results show that the IFSA_DLM model outperforms three compared U-Net series models with 94.48% Overall Accuracy (OA), 87.69% mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) and 93.38% F1 score. …”
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The Management of Iron Chelation Therapy: Preliminary Data from a National Registry of Thalassaemic Patients by Adriana Ceci, Laura Mangiarini, Mariagrazia Felisi, Franco Bartoloni, Angela Ciancio, Marcello Capra, Domenico D'Ascola, Paolo Cianciulli, Aldo Filosa

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Cardiac Effects of Thyrotropin Oversuppression with Levothyroxine in Young Women with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer by Kyung-Soon Hong, Jung-Woo Son, Ohk Hyun Ryu, Moon-Gi Choi, Ji Yeon Hong, Seong Jin Lee

“…They satisfied the following criteria: (1) a serum level of TSH < 0.1 mU/L in the intermediate-risk or TSH < 0.3 mU/L in the low-recurrence-risk group and (2) having been receiving a fixed dose of LT4 before the study. …”
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Cross-referencing French hematology teams’ knowledge and perception of end-of-life situations: a national mixed-methods survey by Chloé Prod’homme, Côme Bommier, Laurène Fenwarth, Stephane Moreau, Alice Polomeni

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Correlation of physicochemical properties with antioxidant activity in phenol and thiophenol analogues by R. Bernadett Vlocskó, Maxim Mastyugin, Béla Török, Marianna Török

“…Several physicochemical properties of the compounds were determined by density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the (U)B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory for gas phase calculations and at the (U)B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) scrf = (smd, solvent = water) level for the solvated ones. …”
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About oxide dispersion particles chemical compatibility with areas coherent dissipation/sub-grains of bcc-alloys in Fe - (Cr, V, Mo, W) systems by Udovsky A., Fabrichnaya O.

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InSAR-YOLOv8 for wide-area landslide detection in InSAR measurements by Ruopu Ma, Haiyang Yu, Xuejie Liu, Xinru Yuan, Tingting Geng, Pengao Li

“…We also replace the original C2f module with the lighter C2f_Faster module to process information more efficiently, making the model lighter and more efficient. Finally, the SIoU loss function replaces the CIoU loss function to improve the bounding box regression and enhance detection accuracy. …”
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Acquired hypothyroidism, iodine status and hearing impairment in adults: A pilot study. by Tereza Grimmichova, Ludmila Verespejova, Zuzana Urbaniova, Martin Chovanec, Martin Hill, Radovan Bilek

“…<h4>Results</h4>The H and C groups had significantly different thyroid hormone levels (medians with 95% CI) TSH mU/L 13.3 (8.1, 19.3) vs. 1.97 (1.21, 2.25) p =  0 and fT4 pmol/L 10.4 (9.51, 11.1) vs. 15 (13.8, 16.7) p =  0. …”
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Clustering and drivers of symptoms observed at week six after antidepressant treatment in depressed outpatients by Michel Danon, Daphnée Poupon, Philippe Courtet, Philip Gorwood

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Safety-Critical Oracles for Metamorphic Testing of Deep Learning LiDAR Point Cloud Object Detectors by Simon Speth, Maximilian Trien, Dominik Kufer, Alexander Pretschner

“…Another challenge is prioritizing failures by safety criticality, as not all failing test cases, as evaluated by current intersection over union (IoU)-based metamorphic oracles, pose the same safety risk. …”
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Russia and NATO’s ‘Open Door’ Policy in the Post-Bipolar Period by P. Ye. Smirnov

“…The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) was not dissolved after completing the mission it had been created for; moreover, it started taking on ever new responsibilities to keep the European allies in the U.S. sphere of influence. In this respect, the ongoing NATO enlargement — primarily by accession of the former Warsaw Treaty allies of the USSR — has become one of the key policy tools for Washington after the breakup of the bipolar system in Europe. …”
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Enhanced stability and oxidation resistance of Acer truncatum Bunge seed oil Pickering emulsion using rice bran protein modified by phytic acid by Jianjun Huang, Ruyi Sha, Jing Dai, Zhenzhen Wang, Min Cai, Xianxiu Li, Jianwei Mao

“…Additionally, and the surface hydrophobicity was increased from 50 ± 3.63 (a.u.) to 429 ± 20.03 (a.u.), and the range of the particle size distribution was reduced from 1 to 10 μm to 295–459 nm, and the zeta potential decreased from −23.43 ± 0.46 mV to −53.4 ± 1.35 mV. …”
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The Role of Big Data Analytics in Revolutionizing Diabetes Management and Healthcare Decision-Making by Muhammad Nauman, Ahmad S. Almadhor, Mohammed Albekairi, Ali R. Ansari, Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz, Raheel Nawaz

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