Daily home monitoring of potassium, creatinine, and estimated plasma volume in heart failure post‐discharge by Patrick Rossignol, Renaud Fay, Nicolas Girerd, Faiez Zannad

“…This study aimed at describing the daily variations in estimated plasma volume (ePV, a surrogate of congestion computed from haemoglobin and haematocrit), blood potassium, and estimated glomerular filtration rate during 2 months post‐hospitalization for decompensated HF with reduced ejection fraction. …”
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The assessment of the tear film lipid layer in different types of dry eye syndrome by T.N. Safonova, V.V. Averich, E.S. Medvedeva

“…The evaluation of all patients included determining the number of blinking movements and the completeness of eyelid closure, conducting the Norn's test, and using an improved thiascopy method. The computed analysis of the obtained digital images was performed with "Lacrima" software. …”
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Unified Mobile App for Streamlining Verbal Autopsy and Cause of Death Assignment in India: Design and Development Study by Harleen Kaur, Stuti Tripathi, Manjeet Singh Chalga, Sudhir K Benara, Amit Dhiman, Shefali Gupta, Saritha Nair, Geetha Menon, B K Gulati, Sandeep Sharma, Saurabh Sharma

“…Traditional methods have primarily involved paper-based questionnaires and physician-coded approaches for COD assignment, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive. Although computer-coded algorithms have advanced the COD assignment process, data collection in densely populated countries like India remains a logistical challenge. …”
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Defining geosciences research data through metadata reuse: by Alexandre Ribas Semeler, Luana Farias Sales, Adilson Luiz Pinto, Roberta Pereira da Silva de Paula, Valquer Cleyton Paes Gandra, Heloisa Costa

“…The data come from a range of disciplines, including geochemistry, atmospheric science, paleontology, oceanography, geophysics, and hydrology, using technologies such as satellites, electronics microscopes, climate sensors, ships, computer modeling, and others. In addition, the data are augmented by other sources related to the study of the Earth and its processes. …”
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Effects of music training on executive functions in preschool children aged 3–6 years: systematic review and meta-analysis by Yanan Lu, Lin Shi, Lin Shi, Ahmad Faudzi Musib

“…A random-effects meta-analysis was used to compute standardized mean differences (SMD) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).ResultsIn all, 10 studies were included in the meta-analysis, in which children’s music training groups showed significantly improved inhibitory control (SMD = 0.38, 95% CI: 0.16–0.6), working memory (SMD = 0.35, 95% CI: 0.16–0.54), and cognitive flexibility (SMD = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.04–0.42) in comparison with control groups. …”
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Risk factors for low resilience among Grade 10 adolescents in the Gampaha district, Sri Lanka: a case-control study by Pavithra Godamunne, Shamila Manori, Pushpa Lalani Jayawardana

“…For the case-control study, the computed sample size for each case and control group was 128, who were selected by applying simple random sampling. …”
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A first study on sperm sexing in water buffalo through magnetic nanoparticles by Syed Murtaza Hassan Andrabi, Muhammad Hammad Fayyaz, Muhammad Shafiq Haider, Ghulam Muhammad Ali

“…After aspiration, each group’s progressive motility (PM, %) of spermatozoa was assessed through a computer-assisted sperm analyzer (CASA). After that, spermatozoa were centrifuged at 226 × g for 5 minutes to remove the mHTF, and DNA was extracted. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) in mediastinal lesions: patient characteristics, diagnostic outcomes, safety, and efficacy: a multi-country study by Hussein Okasha, Eyad Gadour, Ghias Un Nabi Tayyab, Andrada Seicean, Elbacha Hicham, Emad Emad, Turki Alamri, Nadeem Tehami, Heero Ismael Faraj, Ahmed Alzamzamy, Hiwa Hussein, Mohammed Tag-Adeen, Mohamed Elbasiony, Abed Al-Lehibi, Shereen Saleh, Zaher Houmani, Mohamed Abdelghani, Khaled Ragab, Zahi Ismaili, Othmane Drir, Elsayed Ghoneem, Omar Abdallah, Souad Rebiai, Nonthalee Pausawasdi, Fedoua Rouibaa, Mohamed Borahma, Hassan Atalla, Mahmoud Farouk, Ahmed Altonbary

“…The diagnosis of these lesions is primarily based on imaging studies such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, which confirm the presence of the lesions and suspected metastatic disease. …”
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Effectiveness of a Videoconference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program for Patients with Schizophrenia: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Masayuki Katsushima, Hideki Nakamura, Yuki Shiko, Hideki Hanaoka, Eiji Shimizu

“…The vCBTp program was conducted once a week, with each session lasting for 50 minutes, for a total of 7 sessions conducted in real-time and in a one-on-one format remotely using a loaned tablet computer (iPad). The primary outcome was the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) total score, which measures the difference in the mean change from baseline (week 0) to posttest (week 8). …”
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A multi-layer neural network-based evaluation of MHD radiative heat transfer in Eyring–Powell fluid model by Muflih Alhazmi, Zahoor Shah, Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja, Nafisa A. Albasheir, Maryam Jawaid

“…This work on integrating AI into this classical fluid dynamics problem is an entirely new paradigm that involves a smart combination of computational strategies with advanced physical modeling techniques. …”
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Trends and Outcomes in Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma: Analysis of the National Cancer Data Base by Luke L. Wang, Dhruv Puri, Cesare Saitta, Franklin Liu, Jonathan A. Afari, Margaret F. Meagher, Kevin Hakimi, Mimi V. Nguyen, Aastha Shah, Saeed Ghassemzadeh, James D. Murphy, Juan Javier-Desloges, Rana R. McKay, Ithaar H. Derweesh

“…Overall survival (OS) was computed via Kaplan-Meier analysis. Key findings and limitations: sRCC incidence increased from 3.9% in 2010 to 4.1% in 2019 (p = 0.020). …”
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Measuring Bound Attention During Complex Liver Surgery Planning: Feasibility Study by Tim Schneider, Timur Cetin, Stefan Uppenkamp, Dirk Weyhe, Thomas Muender, Anke V Reinschluessel, Daniela Salzmann, Verena Uslar

“…MethodsElectroencephalography (EEG) signals were recorded using a passive auditory oddball paradigm while 9 participants performed surgical planning for liver resection across 3 different conditions: (1) using AR glasses, (2) VR glasses, and (3) the conventional planning software on a computer. ResultsThe electrophysiological results, that is, the potentials evoked by the auditory stimulus, were compared with the subjectively perceived stress of the participants, as determined by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) questionnaire. …”
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A clinical efficacy analysis of single-port thoracoscopic lung resection in the treatment of male patients with non-small cell lung cancer using surface localization and CT-guided... by Qinghua Wang, Yujie He, Xiaowei Xie, Qinghua Wu

“…Background: This study was done to explore the effectiveness of single-port thoracoscopic anatomical lung wedge resection in conjunction with Computed Tomography (CT)-guided sclerosants and surface localization for treating male patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …”
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EyeLiner by Yoga Advaith Veturi, MSc, Steve McNamara, OD, Scott Kinder, MS, Christopher William Clark, MS, Upasana Thakuria, MS, Benjamin Bearce, MS, Niranjan Manoharan, MD, Naresh Mandava, MD, Malik Y. Kahook, MD, Praveer Singh, PhD, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, PhD

“…Main Outcome Measures: We computed the mean distance (MD) between manually annotated keypoints from the fixed and the registered moving image. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Associated Factors towards Physical Assessment among Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study by Bikis Liyew, Ambaye Dejen Tilahun, Tilahun Kassew

“…Data were entered by using Epi Info 7.2.2 and analyzed by using STATA 14. The result was computed by descriptive statistics and to explore predictors of knowledge, and attitude linear regression analysis models were fitted, and the adjusted unstandardized beta (β) coefficient at 95% CI was used. …”
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Application Of ArtifiCial Intelligence in E-Governance: A Comparative Study of Supervised Machine Learning and Ensemble Learning Algorithms on Crime Prediction. by Niyonzima, Ivan, Muhaise, Hussein, Akankwasa, Aureri

“…Machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, has been used by government agencies in developed countries in different operations like face recognition, computer forensics, image and video analysis to identify criminals and crime predictions. …”
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Automated Recipe Generation AI Tool from Food Images using Machine Learning. Approach for Ingredient Extraction and Cooking Instructions by Lwamaza, Eddy, Nuwasiima, Happy

“…This report represents a crucial step towards fulfilling the requirements for a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Kabale University. It is structured into three main chapters, each playing a distinct role in advancing the understanding and implementation of the proposed project. …”
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On Trees with a Given Number of Vertices of Fixed Degree and Their Two Bond Incident Degree Indices by Abeer M. Albalahi, Muhammad Rizwan, Akhlaq A. Bhatti, Ivan Gutman, Akbar Ali, Tariq Alraqad, Hicham Saber

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Evaluating accuracy and reproducibility of large language model performance on critical care assessments in pharmacy education by Huibo Yang, Mengxuan Hu, Amoreena Most, W. Anthony Hawkins, Brian Murray, Susan E. Smith, Sheng Li, Andrea Sikora

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