Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review by Milena Soriano Marcolino, Lucca Fagundes Ramos Oliveira, Lucas Rocha Valle, Luiza Marinho Motta Santa Rosa, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Thiago Barbabela de Castro Soares, Elidéa Lúcia Almeida Bernardino, Raniere Alislan Almeida Cordeiro, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos

“…We will present a comprehensive panel of findings, highlighting systems used to tackle communication barriers and offer a narrative comparison of current implementation practices. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)PRR1-10.2196/55427…”
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6G: The Intelligent Network of Everything by Harri Pennanen, Tuomo Hanninen, Oskari Tervo, Antti Tolli, Matti Latva-Aho

“…The global 6G vision has taken its shape after years of international research and development efforts. This work culminated in ITU-R Recommendation on “IMT-2030 Framework”. …”
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Delving into biomarkers and predictive modeling for CVD mortality: a 20-year cohort study by Zhen Wu, Abdullahi Mohamud Hilowle, Ying Zhou, Changlin Zhao, Shuo Yang

“…Model performance was evaluated using the concordance index (C-index), sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy, with internal validation conducted through bootstrap sampling. …”
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Prospective Multicenter Open-Label One-Arm Trial Investigating a Pumpkin Seed, Isoflavonoids, and Cranberry Mix in Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms/Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Pilo... by Elie Nemr, Elie El Helou, Georges Mjaess, Albert Semaan, Josselin Abi Chebel

“…Patients were evaluated by means of IPSS, urological quality of life (uQoL) index, and International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5) at 3 visits: baseline (visit 1), 30 days (visit 2), and 90 days after treatment (visit 3). …”
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GENDER EQUALITY AS A MODERN PHENOMENON by S. V. Storozhuk, I. M. Hoyan

“…This led to accumulating the unconscious internal resistance to dominant social standards, which was expressed primarily in behavioural arbitrariness that, whatsoever had not been acquiring any openness by the beginning of industrialization. …”
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InsectChange: Comment by Gaume, Laurence, Desquilbet, Marion

“…We show that in more than half of the original studies, the factors investigated were experimentally manipulated or were strong -often not natural- disturbances. These internal drivers created situations more frequently favouring an increase than a decrease in insects and were unlikely to be representative of habitat conditions worldwide. …”
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Is It Enough to Stop Distal Fusion at L3 in Mild to Moderate Lenke 5C Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients? by Chenkai Li, Xiaohan Ye, Haoran Zhang, Yang Yang, You Du, Yiwei Zhao, Shengru Wang, Jianguo Zhang

“…The main postoperative complications were distal adding‐on (11 cases), coronal imbalance (16 cases), proximal junctional kyphosis (2 cases), and internal fixation failure (4 cases). Logistic regression analysis revealed that age and postoperative C7‐CSVL were independent predictors of postoperative complications when selecting L3 as the LIV. …”
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The student profile of selcuk university, faculty of veterinary medicine by Mehmet Emin Tekin

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> The gender of students were as 87.3% male and 12.7% female; the majority of students who entered this Faculty from regions of Central Anatolia (39.3%), Mediterranean (18.9%) and Aegean (13.6%); the 84.3% of students described their mother as housewife; the students whose father is worker were maximum (31.1%) and students whose father is officer were 28.1%; the majority of students had two (35.3%) and three (26.8%) siblings; the secondary education origin of students were high school (49.2%), Anatolian high school (29.8%) and super high school (16.5%); the majority (86.8%) of students stayed at students homes and very few (13.2%) of them at youth hostels; the rates of whom knowing a foreign language at a good level were only 21.8% and the others' knowing of language were weak or moderate; only 21.6% of the students who were interns had not a lesson at subclasses but the 46.4% of them had 1-3 lectures at subclasses; 66.6% of students had an average of lesson as under 2.5 point and only 5.9% of him had an average that upper 3.0 point. …”
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Evaluating Tech Neck: A Pilot Study Using a Self-Developed Questionnaire on Symptoms, Posture, and Preventive Measures by Brigitte Osser, Csongor Toth, Carmen Delia Nistor-Cseppento, Gyongyi Osser, Caius Calin Miuța, Iosif Ilia, Diana Carina Iovanovici, Cristina Aur, Laura Ioana Bondar

“…Symptom intensity was assessed across common musculoskeletal issues. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach’s Alpha. …”
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The recent landscape of RSV vaccine research by Karen Kelleher, Nadisha Subramaniam, Simon B. Drysdale

“…With the ongoing rollout of the recently licenced vaccines and mAbs internationally, the landscape of RSV care is rapidly changing. …”
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Research on Battery Electric Vehicles’ DC Fast Charging Noise Emissions: Proposals to Reduce Environmental Noise Caused by Fast Charging Stations by David Clar-Garcia, Hector Campello-Vicente, Miguel Fabra-Rodriguez, Emilio Velasco-Sanchez

“…EVs can now deal with long trips, with travel times only slightly longer than those of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Fast charging capabilities and infrastructure, such as 350 kW chargers, are essential for making EV travel times comparable to ICE vehicles, with brief stops every 2–3 h. …”
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Gestational diabetes mellitus and offspring’s carotid intima–media thickness at birth: MySweetHeart Cohort study by Umberto Simeoni, Antje Horsch, Arnaud Chiolero, Yvan Vial, Nicole Sekarski, Jardena J Puder, Pascal Bovet, Stefano Di Bernardo, Yvan Mivelaz, Adina Mihaela Epure, Sandrine Estoppey Younes, Bobby Stuijfzand, Leah Gilbert, Stefano Lanzi, Justine Gross, Stefano Di Bernardo, Dan Quansah, Jean-Benoît Rossel, Amar Arhab, Sandrine Estoppey Younes, Seyda Mayerat

“…GDM was diagnosed based on the criteria of the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups. …”
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Molecular genetic and morphological characteristics of Micractinium thermotolerans and M. inermum (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) from pyroclastic deposits of the Kamchatka Peninsu... by R. Z. Sushchenko, V. Yu. Nikulin, V. B. Bagmet, A. Yu. Nikulin

“…Identification of the strains was carried out within the framework of an integrative approach using microscopic and molecular genetic methods, including preliminary taxon identification, obtaining nucleotide sequences of the small subunit and the internal transcribed spacer rRNA, reconstruction of phylogenetic trees and secondary structures of the ITS1 and ITS2 rRNA regions. …”
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Risk of lung disease in the PI*SS genotype of alpha-1 antitrypsin: an EARCO research project by Teresa Martín, Catarina Guimarães, Cristina Esquinas, Maria Torres-Duran, Alice M. Turner, Hanan Tanash, Carlota Rodríguez-García, Angelo Corsico, José Luis López-Campos, Eva Bartošovská, Jens-Ulrik Stæhr Jensen, José María Hernández-Pérez, Maria Sucena, Marc Miravitlles

“…Our study aimed to characterize this genotype and its risk for lung disease and compare it with the PI*ZZ and PI*SZ genotypes using data from the European Alpha-1 antitrypsin Deficiency Research Collaboration international registry. Method Demographic, clinical, functional, and quality of life (QoL) parameters were assessed to compare the PI*SS characteristics with the PI*SZ and PI*ZZ controls. …”
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Feasibility of Cognitive Training in Combination With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in a Home-Based Context (TrainStim-Home): study protocol for a randomised controlled t... by Ulrike Grittner, Agnes Flöel, Rafal Nowak, Friederike Thams, Daria Antonenko, Merle Rocke, Robert Malinowski

“…Results will be available through publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at national and international conferences.Trial registration number NCT04817124.…”
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Understanding the impact of racism on surgical outcomes in settler nation-states USA and Canada: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mary Brindle, Oluwatomilayo Daodu, Tyara Marchand, Saffa Aziz, Ifeoluwa Adedipe, Mirna Matta

“…This study will be communicated through presentations at international conferences and published in peer-reviewed literature. …”
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Quality of life in children with glaucoma: a qualitative interview study in Australia by Emmanuelle Souzeau, Jamie E Craig, Sandra E Staffieri, Lachlan S W Knight, Bronwyn Ridge, Mallika Prem Senthil

“…NVivo V.12 software (QSR International Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia) was used to analyse and code data to identify QoL themes. …”
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Observations of wind farm wake recovery at an operating wind farm by R. Krishnamurthy, R. K. Newsom, C. M. Kaul, S. Letizia, M. Pekour, N. Hamilton, D. Chand, D. Flynn, N. Bodini, P. Moriarty

“…In addition, the performance of large-eddy-simulation-based semi-empirical internal boundary layer height model estimates incorporating real-world atmospheric and turbine inputs was evaluated using observations during LLJ conditions.…”
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Are patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy at risk for cardiac events? Results from a retrospective cohort study by Juliette Degens, D De Ruysscher, Ruud Houben, Bastiaan Kietselaer, Gerben Bootsma, Lizza Hendriks, Ellen Huijbers, Annemie Schols, Anne-Marie C Dingemans

“…The majority of patients did not have pre-existent cardiac comorbidity (n=322). Elevated WHO/International Society of Hypertension score was not identified as a significant predictor for cardiac events.Conclusion One-third of patients with stage III NSCLC treated in daily clinical practice develop a new cardiac event within 5 years after CRT. …”
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Thulium laser enucleation of the prostate plus thulium fiber laser therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia combined with bladder stones by Chen Wang, Yuanwei Li, Yongjun Yang, Junjie Chen, Zhuo Li, Guangqing Song, Jia Chen, Liu Zhe, Yili Teng, Qiang Lu

“…Data collection involved assessing differences in the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), hemoglobin (Hb) levels, maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax), and quality of life (QoL) before and after surgery, along with follow-up results. …”
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