Impact of plyometric training and weight training on vertical jumping ability by Jaswant Thakur, Mukesh Mıshra, Vishan Rathore

“…For the present study 24 male students from Department of Physical Education, BHU Varanasi were selected randomly as the subjects for the study. The age of the subjects ranged between 18 - 21 years. …”
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The Effect of a Combined Modified Pectoral and Stellate Ganglion Block on Stress and Inflammatory Response in Patients Undergoing Modified Radical Mastectomy by Jun Geng, Jing Wang, Yaowen Zhang, Wenxiang Song, Junjia Zhu, Jianqing Chen, Zhen Wu

“…This is a prospective randomized controlled trial. Fifty patients with breast cancer were randomly allocated to receive an ultrasound-guided PNB (n=25, PNB only group) or ultrasound-guided PNB combined with SGB (n=25, combined blockade group). …”
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A comparative study between classically inverted and temporally inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique in the treatment of macular hole by Hassan M. Hegazy, Ashraf M. Gad, Ibrahim F.M. Ibrahim

“…Patients and methods A prospective, randomized, interventional, comparative study was conducted at Al-Azhar University hospitals on 40 eyes of 40 patients with macular holes randomized to two groups: group I (20 patients) undergone pars plana vitrectomy with classic inverted ILM flap and group II (20 patients) undergone pars plana vitrectomy with the temporal inverted ILM flap technique. …”
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Propensity Score Matching: should we use it in designing observational studies? by Fei Wan

“…PSM crafts matched datasets, mimicking some attributes of randomized designs, from observational data. In a valid PSM design where all baseline confounders are measured and matched, the confounders would be balanced, allowing the treatment status to be considered as if it were randomly assigned. …”
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Disentangled Contrastive Learning From Synthetic Matching Pairs for Targeted Chest X-Ray Generation by Euyoung Kim, Soochahn Lee, Kyoung Mu Lee

“…This framework synthesizes CXR images that preserve the same patient identity—either real or randomly generated—while selectively varying the presence or absence of specific diseases. …”
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Effect of Topically Administered Chitosan-N-acetylcysteine on Corneal Wound Healing in a Rabbit Model by Corinna Fischak, Robert Klaus, René M. Werkmeister, Christine Hohenadl, Martin Prinz, Leopold Schmetterer, Gerhard Garhöfer

“…Animals were randomized to receive either C-NAC two times daily or placebo. …”
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A Split-Mouth Study to Evaluate the Adjunctive Role of Guided Pocket Recolonization (GPR) to Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy by Yasir Shahab Khan, Bikram Singh Brahma, Amitabh Srivastava, Vivek Srivastava, Shivam Yadav, Tanu Sahney

“…Materials and Methods: Twenty systemically healthy participants with chronic periodontitis, with at least two periodontal pockets in each quadrant exhibiting probing depth (PD) ≥5 mm and clinical attachment level (CAL) ≥3 mm, participated in this split-mouth randomized controlled research. Two randomly chosen sites were chosen for each subject: one for testing, where SRP was followed by subgingival placement of the probiotic-prebiotic cocktail, and the other for control, where SRP alone was used. …”
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Assessment of efficacy and safety of imatinib as an adjunct host-targeted therapy for parasite clearance in chloroquine-resistant malaria: a prospective case control study by Fazeel Zubair Ahmed, Shaifulla P

“…Patients were randomized into two groups: a control group receiving standard anti-malarial therapy and a test group receiving standard therapy plus imatinib (400 mg daily for 3 days). …”
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Shear Bond Strengths and Morphological Evaluation of Filled and Unfilled Adhesive Interfaces to Enamel and Dentine by Vajihesadat Mortazavi, Mohammadhosein Fathi, Ebrahim Ataei, Niloufar Khodaeian, Navid Askari

“…Forty-eight extracted intact noncarious human mandibular molars were randomly assigned to two groups of 24 one for bonding to enamel and the other for bonding to dentine. …”
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Effect of Tai Chi combined with music therapy on the cognitive function in older adult individuals with mild cognitive impairment by Chunhui Zhou

“…This study investigates the effects of Tai Chi combined with music therapy on the cognitive function in older adult individuals with MCI.MethodsIn this randomized controlled trial, 66 older adult participants with MCI were randomly assigned to one of the following three groups: a Control Group (CG), a Tai Chi Group (TCG), and a Tai Chi Combined with Music Group (TCMG), with 22 participants in each group. …”
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Cognitive Stimulation for Apathy in Probable Early-Stage Alzheimer's by Linda L. Buettner, Suzanne Fitzsimmons, Serdar Atav, Kaycee Sink

“…We studied changes in apathy among 77 community-dwelling older persons with mild memory loss in a randomized clinical trial comparing two nonpharmacological interventions over four weeks. …”
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Estimating the Effect of Adhering to the Recommendations of the 2019 Canada’s Food Guide on Health Outcomes in Older Adults: Protocol for a Target Trial Emulation by Didier Brassard, Nancy Presse, Stéphanie Chevalier

“…Although ideal, conducting a large randomized controlled trial is unrealistic in the short term. …”
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Estimation of Rock Burst Grades Using Rock Mass Strength by Yalei Wang, Jinming Xu, Junshuai Xu, Chuanjiang Zhong

“…According to the actual situation of rock bursts, a modified rock burst estimation criterion using the ratio of σcm to σmax (maximum geostress) was proposed. The influence of randomness on the reliability of rock burst estimation criterion was considered. …”
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Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation on Periodontal Inflammation and Pocket Depth Reduction by E M Arshad Ali, Kiran Dodani, Ankur Singh Rajpoot, Pallavi Goswami, Varsha Choubey, Aanchal Gupta

“…Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled study of 60 individuals suffering from persistent periodontitis was carried out. …”
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Comparative study between biofeedback pelvic floor training with and without transabdominal electrucal nerve stimulation in consitpation in children with spina bifida by Mervat Sheta Elsawy, Hadir Hassouna, Ahmed Elrouby

“…These patients were divided randomly into two groups: the 1st group (Group A) was managed by biofeedback alone and the 2nd group (Group B) was managed by biofeedback in association with trans-abdominal electrical nerve stimulation. …”
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Sustainability of One WASH Facilities in the Rural Settings of North Shoa Zone, Amhara Region, North East Ethiopia, 2020 by Muluken Tessama Aemiro, Yohannes Getachew

“…A total of 768 households were randomly selected based on the proportional size of the number of households in each woreda. …”
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Effectiveness of a Nurse-led Brief Intervention on Motivation toward Alcohol Cessation and Treatment-seeking Behavior by Esther Chinneikim, Nanda Kumar Paniyadi, Shree Mishra, Manas Kumar Panigrahi, Asha P. Shetty

“…Settings and Design: Gastroenterology outpatient department in a tertiary care hospital. A randomized, pretest, posttest control group design was used. …”
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Evaluation of Surgical Treatment by PHILOS Plate versus Conservative Treatment for Displaced Proximal Humeral Fractures in Elderly patients by Hamdy A. Tammam, Elsayed Said, Hossam Hamed, Ahmed Khairy

“…Patients and methods: This was a prospective randomized comparative study that was conducted on a total of 40 patients that fulfilled inclusion criteria presented with displaced proximal humeral fracture randomly selected from those seeking the medical care of the Orthopedic Surgery Department of our institute between 2022 and 2023, managed either by conservative management or by PHILOS plate. …”
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A novel numerical solution of nonlinear stochastic model for the propagation of malicious codes in Wireless Sensor Networks using a high order spectral collocation technique by Junjie Zhu, Misbah Ullah, Saif Ullah, Muhammad Bilal Riaz, Abdul Baseer Saqib, Atif M. Alamri, Salman A. AlQahtani

“…However, due to the inherent randomness and uncertainty present in WSNs, stochastic modeling approach is essential for a comprehensive understanding of the propagation of malicious codes in WSNs. …”
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Efficacy of dexamethasone implant in the management of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy without choroidal neovascularization by Umesh Chandra Behera, Anand S Brar, Anup Kelgaonkar, Jyotiranjan Sahoo, Raja Narayanan, SriniVas R Sadda

“…Design: Prospective, non-randomized, open-label study. Methods: In this study, subjects with chronic CSC without signs of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) received intravitreal DEX implant therapy. …”
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