Immediate Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Line Kessel, Jens Andresen, Ditte Erngaard, Per Flesner, Britta Tendal, Jesper Hjortdal

“…A systematic literature review in PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane central databases identified three randomized controlled trials that compared outcome in patients randomized to ISBCS or bilateral cataract surgery on two different dates. …”
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Comparison of rituximab vs. cyclophosphamide in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease and its correlation with spirometry by Mohammed Abdullah Saleem, Atiya Parveen, Fazeel Zubair Ahmed

“…The inclusion and exclusion criteria, randomization process, and treatment protocols for each group are thoroughly described. …”
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Brain Metastases Research 1990–2010: Pattern of Citation and Systematic Review of Highly Cited Articles by Carsten Nieder, Anca L. Grosu, Minesh P. Mehta

“…Twenty of these randomized clinical trials were published before 2008. …”
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Patients’ Perceptions of their Participation in a Clinical Trial for Postoperative Crohn’s Disease by ED Kennedy, JE Blair, R Ready, BG Wolff, AH Steinhart, PW Carryer, RS McLeod

“…OBJECTIVE: To explore patients' perceptions of their participation in a randomized controlled trial.…”
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Phases I–III Clinical Trials Using Adult Stem Cells by Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz, Enrique Gutiérrez Ibañes, Adolfo Villa Arranz, María Eugenia Fernández Santos, Pedro L. Sánchez Fernández, Francisco Fernández-Avilés

“…First randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that stem cell therapy can improve cardiac recovery after the acute phase of myocardial ischemia and in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease. …”
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Efficacy and safety of currently approved and lower starting doses of inotuzumab ozogamicin in adult patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a phase IV s... by Muhit Özcan, Ryan D. Cassaday, Ewa Zarzycka, Erik Vandendries, Fan Zhang, Ying Chen, Alejandra Nieto, Fatih Demirkan, Pau Montesinos, Fevzi Altuntas

“…In patients who proceeded to HSCT, post-HSCT SOS rates were 20%, 28.6%, 25.8%, and 16.7% in 1.2 mg/m2/cycle (run-in), 1.2 mg/m2/cycle (randomized), 1.2 mg/m2/cycle (run-in and randomized), and 1.8 mg/m2/cycle (randomized), respectively. …”
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Parameter selection of autocorrelation test for block ciphers by FAN Li-min1, FENG Deng-guo1, ZHOU Yong-bin1

“…Autocorrelation test was a statistical test to evaluate the correlation between one sequence and the corresponding non-cyclic left-shifted d bits sequence.It was impractical to adopt all the values of d since its range was often very wide.Three relations between parameters of randomness test were defined firstly.Then the relationships among the subclass D={1,2,m/4,m/2,3m/4,m,2m}of autocorrelation test for block cipher were studied by statistical experiments,where m was block length.The experiments show that the prefer choice of parameter d is m when doing autocorrelation test for block cipher.The method is also available for parameter selection of other randomness test for other types of cryptosystem.…”
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Underwater acoustic communication physical layer key generation scheme by Jingmei LIU, Zhiwei SHEN, Qingqing HAN, Jingwei LIU

“…To ensure the communication safety of unmanned underwater vehicle,a physical layer key generation scheme of underwater acoustic channel based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system was proposed.First,a local pilot assistance channel sounding protocol was proposed to solve the reciprocity impaired caused by the great propagation delay in the underwater acoustic channel,ensure high key randomness and enhance the defenses against nearby eavesdroppers.Secondly,double-layer compensation centralized combined with adaptive guard interval quantization method was proposed to improve key agreement rate and key generation rate.Simulation results show that the scheme effectively overcomes the problems of impaired reciprocity and ensures high key generation rate and high randomness on the premise that the key agreement is superior to the existing schemes.…”
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Effect of Folic Acid Supplementation in Pregnancy on Preeclampsia: The Folic Acid Clinical Trial Study by Shi Wu Wen, Josee Champagne, Ruth Rennicks White, Doug Coyle, William Fraser, Graeme Smith, Dean Fergusson, Mark C. Walker

“…The FACT study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2009, and regulatory approval from Health Canada was obtained in 2010. A web-based randomization system and electronic data collection system provide the platform for participating centers to randomize their eligible participants and enter data in real time. …”
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Barriers to dental providers’ use of a clinical decision support tool for pain management following tooth extractions by Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Jan Gryczynski, Donald C. Worley, Stephen E. Asche, Anjali R. Truitt, D. Brad Rindal

“…Method Twenty dental providers who took part in the larger randomized trial were purposively selected to complete a semi-structured qualitative interview. …”
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The Importance of Risk and Subgroup Analysis of Nonparticipants in a Geriatric Intervention Study by Elizabeth Rosted, Ingrid Poulsen, Carsten Hendriksen, Lis Wagner

“…Comparative study based on a randomized controlled trial. Setting. University hospital in the Capital Region of Denmark. …”
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Treatment of gingival recession with vestibular incision subperiosteal tunnel access and advanced platelet-rich fibrin by Marwa Abdelhaleem, Wafaa Saleh, Samah Elmeadawy

“…Therefore, the aim of the current randomized clinical trial is to evaluate the effect of A-PRF with VISTA technique in the treatment of Cairo class 1 gingival recession (RT1). …”
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How Cognitive Reserve should Influence Rehabilitation Choices using Virtual Reality in Parkinson’s Disease by Letizia Pezzi, Andrea Di Matteo, Roberta Insabella, Sara Mastrogiacomo, Carlo Baldari, Victor Machado Reiss, Teresa Paolucci

“…PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Web of Sciences databases were analysed to identify randomized clinical trials (RCT) and randomized pilot trials that addressed the rehabilitation of motor symptoms in subjects with PD using VR. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Lymph Node Metastasis Prediction for T1 Colorectal Cancer: Promise and Challenges by Jung Ho Bae

“…The patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to a new or conventional method group. …”
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Neural Density Functional Theory of Liquid-Gas Phase Coexistence by Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt, Robert Evans

“…Local learning of the one-body direct correlation functional is based on Monte Carlo simulations of inhomogeneous systems with randomized thermodynamic conditions, randomized planar shapes of the external potential, and randomized box sizes. …”
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Effectiveness of health literacy and relaxing music on quality of sleep and risk for antenatal depression by Meena Konsam, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Sunita Panda, Jyothi Shetty, N. Ravishankar, Sonia R. B. D’Souza

“…Methods: A four-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial was adopted; 128 low-risk primigravid women were recruited and randomly assigned to the four groups using block randomization. …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of neuromuscular electrical stimulation post-botulinum toxin injection in children with cerebral palsy by Fu-An Yang, Jie-Ren Mi Le, Chia-Hsiang Lu, Chao-Chun Huang, Hung-Chou Chen

“…Two independent reviewers extracted data, and risks of bias were assessed using the PEDro scale for randomized controlled trials. We included 5 randomized controlled trials in this meta-analysis. …”
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Combined Effects of Glenohumeral Mobilization, Stretching, and Thoracic Manipulation on Shoulder Internal Rotation Range of Motion by Brian T Swanson, Marissa Hagenbruch, Bernardine Lapaan, Kirill Skipalskiy

“…Participants were randomized to receive five 30 seconds bouts of either grade III PGM or sleeper stretching. …”
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Method of diversity software protection based on fusion compilation by Xiaobing XIONG, Hui SHU, Fei KANG

“…For the obvious characteristics and single mode of the existing common protection methods,with the help of the LLVM framework,a diversity software protection method based on fusion compilation was proposed.In the proposed method,the target software is encrypted randomly,and deeply integrated with the bunker code at the compilation level,and the encrypted target software is decrypted by memory execution technology.Then it is executed in the form of no process in memory,and the diversified protection effect of the target software is realized by the diversity of the bunker and the randomness of the fusion strategies.A number of commonly used software are selected as the test case,and the proposed method is tested from the aspects of resource cost,protection effect,comparative experiment and so on.Compared with the traditional methods such as obfuscation and packing,the proposed method has great advantages in anti-static analysis and anti-dynamic debugging,and can effectively resist the mainstream methods of reverse analyzing and cracking.…”
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Scheduling strategy for science workflow with deadline constraint on multi-cloud by Bing LIN, Wenzhong GUO, Guolong CHEN

“…In view of the deadline-constrained scientific workflow scheduling on multi-cloud,an adaptive discrete particle swarm optimization with genetic algorithm (ADPSOGA) was proposed,which aimed to minimize the execution cost of workflow while meeting its deadline constrains.Firstly,the data transfer cost,the shutdown and boot time of virtual machines,and the bandwidth fluctuations among different cloud providers were considered by this method.Secondly,in order to avoid the premature convergence of traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO),the randomly two-point crossover operator and randomly one-point mutation operator of the genetic algorithm (GA) was introduced.It could effectively improve the diversity of the population in the process of evolution.Finally,a cost-driven strategy for the deadline-constrained workflow was designed.It both considered the data transfer cost and the computing cost.Experimental results show that the ADPSOGA has better performance in terms of deadline and cost reducing in the fluctuant environment.…”
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