Efficacy and Tolerability of Two Different Low-Volume Split-Dose Polyethylene Glycol Electrolytes Solution Bowel Preparation for Morning Colonoscopy by Hefeng Tian, Hui Li, Xuanrui Zhu, Wenlong Liu, Ying Fan, Lei Shi, Xiu Wang

“…A total of 120 patients were randomized to receive either the control group (n = 64) or the experimental group (n = 65). …”
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Evaluation of the effect of soil and irrigation water characteristics on the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of Mentha spicata L. essential oil: A plant used in tra... by Vajiheh Gandomi Hosnaroodi, Mansureh Ghavam

“…For plant sampling, in August 2022, three points were randomly selected in each area, and then at each point, stems and leaves were randomly collected from different plants (150–200 plants at each point). …”
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Comparative efficacy of acupuncture therapies in premature ovarian failure: A systematic review and network meta-analysis by Yonghang Yi, Fengjun Ma, Yang Jiao, Rongqi Zhang, Yunhao Yi, Yuxia Ma

“…Design: We systematically searched six databases from their inception to April 2024 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of acupuncture therapies for POF. …”
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Zingiber striolatum phytochemicals ameliorated hyperglycemia symptoms by modulating gut microbial communities in mice with type 2 diabetes mellitus by Tingting Liu, Xiaodong Ge, Lu Song, Huanhuan Wu, Xue Qian, Bowen Jia, Chao Zhao, Yi Zhuang

“…However, the regulatory influence of Z. striolatum ethanol extract (ZSE) on the gut microbiota of T2DM mice or its potential relationship with T2DM pathology remains unexplored.MethodsAfter a one-week acclimation period, 12 mice were randomly selected as the normal group. The remaining 48 mice were employed T2DM model, and then randomly assigned to four groups: the model group, a low-dose ZSE group (ZSE-L, 100 mg/kg/day), a high-dose ZSE group (ZSE-H, 300 mg/kg/day), and a positive control group treated with metformin hydrochloride (MET, 100 mg/kg/day).ResultsAfter a 4-week intervention, the results revealed that ZSE significantly ameliorated fasting blood glucose (FBG), area under the curve of oral glucose tolerance test (AUC of OGTT) and glycated serum protein (GSP) in T2DM mice. …”
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Effect of feedback-integrated reflection, on deep learning of undergraduate medical students in a clinical setting by Zainab Maqsood, Madiha Sajjad, Raheela Yasmin

“…Objective To evaluate the impact of feedback-integrated reflection versus reflection alone on higher-order MCQ scores among undergraduate medical students in a gynecology clinical setting. Methods A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 68 final-year medical students randomly assigned to a study group (feedback-integrated reflection) and a control group (reflection alone). …”
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Comparison of the safety of remimazolam and propofol during general anesthesia in elderly patients: systematic review and meta-analysis by Xianchun Liu, Longyi Zhang, Li Zhao, Xuelei Zhou, Wei Mao, Linlin Chen, Hongyu Zhu, Ying Xie, Linji Li

“…Data extraction and quality assessment were performed independently by two researchers.ResultsEight randomized controlled trials involving 571 participants were included. …”
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Oxidative Stability of the Meat of Broilers Fed Diets Supplemented with Various Levels of Blackcurrant Extract (Ribes nigrum L.) during Different Time Period by Kamil Sierżant, Małgorzata Korzeniowska, Barbara Król, Janusz Orda, Aneta Wojdyło

“…A number of 120 fifteen-d-old Hubbard Flex male chicks (initial BW 363.5 ± 22.9 g) were randomly allocated to five groups: the control and four treatments (6 replicates, 4 birds per cage in each group). …”
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Kinesiotherapy for Post-stroke Rehabilitation： Analysis of Characteristics of Clinical Trials in the Past 20 Years Based on Clinical Trials Registry Platform by WANG Hui, FENG Yuting, YU Yongpei, HU Chenhua, TAO Liyuan

“…The clinical trials registered in this field have been increasing year by year, and the number of studies (977) registered in American registry platforms is significantly higher than that in China (50). Randomized controlled design was the main clinical trial design (79.47%), followed by single-arm objective performance criteria (OPC) design (16.04%) and non-randomized controlled design (4.01%). …”
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Analgesia and sedation strategies in neonates undergoing whole-body therapeutic hypothermia: A scoping review. by Mahima Joshi, Javed Muneer, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Ipsita Goswami

“…<h4>Results</h4>The eligible publications (n = 97) included cohort studies (n = 72), non-randomized experimental studies (n = 2), pharmacokinetic studies (n = 4), dose escalation feasibility trial (n = 1), cross-sectional surveys (n = 5), and randomized control trials (n = 13). …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Different Acupuncture Treatments for Cancer-Related Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis by Tianle Xie MD, Can Liu MD, Yudi Wu MD, Xiuxiu Li MD, Qianyun Yang PhD, Jing Tan PhD

“…Publication bias and quality of randomized controlled trials were assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool and the Jadad scale, and network meta-analyses were performed using Stata 15 and R 4.3.2. …”
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Effects of Propofol versus Sevoflurane on Postoperative Pain and Neuroendocrine Stress Response in Oocyte Pickup Patients by Yavuz Orak, Fatma İnanç Tolun, Murat Bakacak, Aslı Yaylalı, Hakan Kıran, Hafize Öksüz, Adem Doğaner, Işıl Yağmur, Ahmet Altun

“…Methods. We randomly allocated patients to groups P (remifentanil/propofol, n = 30) and S (remifentanil/sevoflurane, n = 30). …”
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Impact of cooling diabetic patients’ fingertips compared to vibrating stimulation on pain from the glucometer needle: A cross-over trial study by Vahid Vejdanihemmat, Hiva Azami, Leili Tapak, Shiva Borzouei, khodayar Oshvandi

“…One hand was randomly selected for the intervention, while the other served as a control, with only the needle inserted. …”
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Donor site morbidity following radial forearm free flap reconstruction with split thickness skin grafts using negative pressure wound therapy by Jessica M. Clark, Shannon Rychlik, Jeffrey Harris, Hadi Seikaly, Vincent L. Biron, Daniel A. O’Connell

“…Methods Adult patients undergoing RFFF with STSG were identified preoperatively and randomized to receive NPD or SPD following their RFFF reconstruction. …”
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Fuzzy Reliability Optimal Design of Multi-stage Planetary Gear Train with Multi-objective by Hao Liping

“…The problem of randomness and fuzziness of mechanical design could effectively dealed with through the fuzzy reliability optimization design which established by the combination of fuzzy mathematics method and mechanical optimization technique.Taking the multi-stage planetary gear train as research object,the optimization and allocation of transmission ratio is implemented by the conventional optimization design method.On this basis,taking the fuzzy reliability constraints as the main constraint condition,the volume,transmission efficiency and contact ratio as object,the multi-objective fuzzy reliability optimization mathematical model is established.Then the fuzzy reliability optimization design is transformed into conventional reliability optimization design through the multistage fuzzy comprehensive evaluation,and the optimization design is carried out by using Matlab optimization toolbox.…”
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Modelling and Metaheuristic for Gantry Crane Scheduling and Storage Space Allocation Problem in Railway Container Terminals by Ming Zeng, Wenming Cheng, Peng Guo

“…A series of computational experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm under some randomly generated cases based on the practical operation conditions. …”
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Development and Validation of a Semi-Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire to Assess Dietary Intake of Turkish School-Aged Children by Güneş Fatma Esra, Elmacıoğiu Funda, Aktaç Şule, Sağlam Duygu

“…The aim of this study was to develop and validate a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) on the dietary intake of Turkish school-aged children. Fifty randomly selected students aged 7–12 from urban areas of Istanbul were included in this study. …”
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Joint intelligent optimization of task offloading and service caching for vehicular edge computing by Lei LIU, Chen CHEN, Jie FENG, Qingqi PEI, Ci HE, Zhibin DOU

“…Given the contradiction between limited network resources and massive user demands in Internet of vehicles, an intelligent vehicular edge computing network architecture was proposed to achieve the comprehensive cooperation and intelligent management of network resources.Based on this architecture, a joint optimization scheme of task offloading and service caching was furtherly devised, which formulated an optimization problem about how to offload tasks and allocate computation and cache resources.In view of the dynamics, randomness and time variation of vehicular networks, an asynchronous distributed reinforcement learning algorithm was employed to obtain the optimal task offloading and resource management policy.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves significant performance improvement in comparison with the other schemes.…”
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Exploring QSAR for Antimalarial Activities and Drug Distribution within Blood of a Series of 4-Aminoquinoline Drugs Using Genetic-MLR by Amir Najafi, Soheil Sobhanardakani, Mehdi Marjani

“…Leave-many-out (LMO) and Y-randomization methods confirmed the models' robustness.…”
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Construction method and performance analysis of chaotic frequency-hopping sequences based on Logistic-Sine-Cosine mapping by CAO Chunjie, WANG Yinglin, SUN Yang, TAO Hongfei, YANG Haoning, SHI Jingcheng, DAI Junhao, SUN Jingzhang

“…Finally, experiments show that the chaotic frequency-hopping sequence can effectively improve the randomness and complexity of the sequence under the premise of maintaining good balance and Hamming correlation, and can strengthen the anti-prediction and anti-interference in the communication process.…”
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Adaptive selection method of differential privacy GAN gradient clipping thresholds by Peng GUO, Shangping ZHONG, Kaizhi CHEN, Hang CHENG

“…A method of adaptive selection of differential privacy GAN gradient clipping threshold was proposed.The method assumes that a small portion of public data that is identically distributed with the private data can be accessed,a batch of data is randomly selected from the public data,a clipping threshold is set as an average gradient norm of the batch of data,and the above operations are iterated until the network converges.The method was verified on the Mnist and Cifar10 data sets.The results show that under a reasonable privacy budget,the accuracy of CNN classifiers is improved by 1%~4% compared with the differential privacy auxiliary classifier GAN,inception scores increased by 0.6~1.2.…”
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