Quantitative Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Erbium Glass Laser Therapy for Acne Scars by Wiktoria Odrzywołek, Anna Deda, Dagmara Kuca, Małgorzata Bożek, Krzysztof Makarski, Sławomir Wilczyński

“…Improvements in texture roughness and pigmentation contributed to a visually coherent skin surface. Conclusions: Fractional erbium glass laser therapy effectively ameliorates the appearance of atrophic acne scars by increasing skin density, reducing dermal depressions, and improving texture and pigmentation uniformity. …”
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Simulation investigation of a Ka-band phase-locked klystron-type coaxial relativistic Cherenkov generator by Yunxiao Zhou, Jinchuan Ju, Wei Zhang, Dian Zhang, Ying Li, Tengfang Wang, Fugui Zhou, Zhuang Yu, Hongtao Yao, Jun Zhang

“…To achieve coherent power combination of Ka-band high-power microwave (HPM), a phase-locked klystron-type coaxial relativistic Cherenkov generator (PKC-RCG), which combines the advantageous characteristics of weak dimensional sensitivity of RCG and low input power ratio of relativistic triaxial klystron amplifier (TKA), is proposed and investigated in this paper. …”
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Determination of Ischemia Onset Based on Automatically Generated Spectralis SD-OCT Values in Acute Central Retinal Artery Occlusion by Maria Casagrande, Robert Kromer, Daniel A. Wenzel, Sven Poli, Martin S. Spitzer, Vasyl Druchkiv, Maximilian Schultheiss, Spyridon Dimopoulos

“…By manually measuring the relative retinal thickness increase (RRTI) in comparison to the contralateral eye based on optical coherence tomography (OCT), ischemia onset within the past 4.5 hours could be determined with 100% sensitivity and 94.3% specificity. …”
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Evaluation of Agreement between HRT III and iVue OCT in Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension Patients by A. Perdicchi, M. Iester, D. Iacovello, A. Cutini, M. Balestrieri, M. G. Mutolo, A. Ferreras, M. T. Contestabile, S. M. Recupero

“…To determine the agreement between Moorfields Regression Analysis (MRA), Glaucoma Probability Score (GPS) of Heidelberg retinal tomograph (HRT III), and peripapillary nerve fibers thickness by iVue Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Methods. 72 eyes with ocular hypertension or primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) were included in the study: 54 eyes had normal visual fields (VF) and 18 had VF damage. …”
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Evaluation of Navigated Laser Photocoagulation (Navilas 577+) for the Treatment of Refractory Diabetic Macular Edema by Fusae Kato, Miho Nozaki, Aki Kato, Norio Hasegawa, Hiroshi Morita, Munenori Yoshida, Yuichiro Ogura

“…Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters were measured at baseline, 1, 3, and 6 months, and final visit. …”
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MULTICRITERIA EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABILITY IN LAST-MILE LOGISTICS: A REVIEW by Franco Corti, Chiara D’Alpaos, Luciano Greco

“…Future research could delve deeper into the weighting process among criteria to elucidate the coherence between stated goals and actual decisions. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of epiretinal membrane using spectralis OCT in Fujian Eye Study by Yang Li, Xiaoxin Li, Yonghua Hu, Bin Wang, Mingqin Zhang, Qinrui Hu

“….), physical and ophthalmological examinations with height, weight, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate (HR), refraction, intraocular pressure (IOP), slit lamp, nonmydriatic fundus photograph and spectralis optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Nonmydriatic fundus photograph and Spectralis OCT were used to assess ERM according to a standardised protocol. …”
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Evolution in optical molecular imaging techniques guided nerve imaging from 2009 to 2023: a bibliometric and visualization analysis by Wenkai Liang, Yan Liu, Erlong Jia, Xiaofeng Yang, Shufeng Han, Jinzheng Wei, Jinzheng Wei, Wei Zhao

“…The main cluster of keywords in this field includes “axonal regeneration,” “mouse,” and “optical coherence tomography.”ConclusionThis bibliometric investigation offers a comprehensive portrayal of the structure of knowledge and the progression patterns, presents an all-encompassing synthesis of findings, discerns and illustrates the forefront within OMI guided nerve imaging for the first time. …”
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Improvements of Decision Support Systems for Public Administrations via a Mechanism of Co-creation of Value by Tindara Abbate, Clara Bassano, Giuseppe D’Aniello, Sergio Miranda, Mirko Perano, Paolo Piciocchi, Luigi Rarità

“…The comparison step is useful to understand if employees perform roles that are coherent with their own professional profiles. The proposed approach has been experimented on a small test case and the results show that its objective evaluation represents an improvement for a decision support system for the re-organization of Italian Public Administrations where, unfortunately often, people are engaged in activities that are not so close to their competences.…”
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Predictors of Endothelial Cell Loss after Phacoemulsification for the Treatment of Primary Angle Closure by Carlo Alberto Cutolo, Chiara Bonzano, Carlo Catti, Alessandro Bagnis, Riccardo Scotto, Letizia Negri, Sara Olivari, Francesca Cappelli, Carlo Enrico Traverso

“…In this prospective case series, ECD was evaluated by noncontact specular microscopy and biometric parameters by both noncontact optical biometry and anterior segment optical coherence tomography, preoperatively and at 12 months after surgery. …”
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Influence of Gd alloying and ultrasonic vibration hybrid treatment on the microstructures, mechanical properties and strengthening mechanisms of Al/Mg interface by compound casting by Qingqing Li, Wenming Jiang, Yuancai Xu, Linghui Yu, Ziwei Peng, Yunchang Xin, Zitian Fan

“…The Mg2Si particles, Al2Gd and Al8Mn4Gd precipitates were dispersed and refined. The coherent relationships among Mg2Si, Al12Mg17 and δ-Mg as well as the Gd contained precipitates and Al12Mg17 were revealed. …”
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Choroidal and Retinal Thickness of Highly Myopic Eyes with Early Stage of Myopic Chorioretinopathy: Tessellation by Yanping Zhou, Minlu Song, Minwen Zhou, Yiming Liu, Fenghua Wang, Xiaodong Sun

“…RT and CT were quantified using optical coherence tomography with enhanced depth imaging (EDI-OCT). …”
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The Significant Effects of Threshold Selection for Advancing Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Whole Genome of Bread Wheat by Mohammad Bahman Sadeqi, Agim Ballvora, Said Dadshani, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui, Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Ahossi Patrice Koua, Jens Léon

“…There are several ways to address this problem, including the family‐wise error rate and false discovery rate (FDR), raw and adjusted p‐value(s), consideration of threshold coherence and consonance, and the properties of proportional hypothesis tests in the threshold definition. …”
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Accelerated Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking Using Topography-Guided UV-A Energy Emission: Preliminary Clinical and Morphological Outcomes by Cosimo Mazzotta, Antonio Moramarco, Claudio Traversi, Stefano Baiocchi, Alfonso Iovieno, Luigi Fontana

“…Uncorrected (UDVA) and corrected (CDVA) distance visual acuity, topography, in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM), and anterior segment optic coherence tomography (AS-OCT) were evaluated preoperatively and at the 1, 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively. …”
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A method for monitoring three dimensional surface deformation in mining areas combining SBAS-InSAR, GNSS and probability integral method by Qiuxiang Tao, Ruixiang Liu, Xuepeng Li, Tengfei Gao, Yang Chen, Yixin Xiao, Huzhen He, Yunguang Wei

“…This method leverages high-coherence points in mining areas and GNSS data from vegetation-covered regions to invert the parameters required by PIM, thus obtaining three-dimensional surface deformation results. …”
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One Year Outcomes and Stability of a Novel Scleral Anchored Intraocular Lens by Edoardo Abed, Matteo Forlini, Edlira Bendo, Aurelio Imburgia, Alessandro Mularoni, Corrado Gizzi, Giuseppe Santino, Daniele Corazza, Giacomo Costa

“…Patients were evaluated preoperatively and at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after surgery by best-corrected distance visual acuity (BCVA) assessment, intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement, corneal specular microscopy, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) of both the macula and anterior segment. …”
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Hierarchical forecasting of causes of death with trend breaks in mortality modeling: Kenyan case by Nicholas Bett, Juma Kasozi, Daniel Ruturwa

“…To address these challenges, the study aims to determine and incorporate trend breaks among individual causes of death and coherently forecast them by applying the bottom-up hierarchical forecasting approach for life insurance models. …”
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Systematic review and meta‑analysis of factors predicting postoperative lung function after lung cancer resection by Hongling Wang, Lihong He, Xiaoyun Hu, Gongxue Xian

“…The I2 value was computed as a metric of coherence among studies, while funnel plots and the Begg test were used to evaluate the likelihood of publication bias. …”
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Drift-Alfvén wave turbulence induced particle and heat transport in I-mode pedestal plasmas by Junang Zhang, Lu Wang, Weixin Guo

“…In this work, most of the weakly coherent mode (WCM) characteristics and the level of transport coefficients observed in I-mode pedestal plasmas of C-Mod are reproduced theoretically. …”
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Evidence-based Algorithms for Free Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Salvage in Autologous Breast Reconstruction by Anna R. Todd, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Mawaddah Alrajraji, MD, Kathryn Sawa, MD, Joan E. Lipa, MD, MSc, Laura Snell, MD, MSc

“…Algorithms 2 (venous congestion) and 3 (vascular thrombosis) provide specific intraoperative strategies surrounding mechanical decompression, pedicle exposure, assessment and extraction of thrombosis, identification and use of alternative recipient vessels, and the usage of intraoperative thrombolytics. Conclusions:. A coherent and stepwise approach to DIEP flap compromise in breast reconstruction was developed. …”
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