Biofeedback Intervention for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression among Graduate Students in Public Health Nursing by Paul Ratanasiripong, Orawan Kaewboonchoo, Nop Ratanasiripong, Suda Hanklang, Pornlert Chumchai

“…A sample of 60 graduate students in public health nursing was randomly assigned to either the biofeedback intervention or the control group. …”
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Different Types of Resistant Starch Elicit Different Glucose Reponses in Humans by Mark D. Haub, Kelcie L. Hubach, Enas K. Al-tamimi, Sammy Ornelas, Paul A. Seib

“…Eleven healthy subjects consumed solutions containing 30 g of either dextrose (DEX), resistant starch type 2 (RS2), or cross-linked resistant wheat starch type 4 (RS4XL) on three separate occasions, which were assigned randomly. Finger stick blood samples were collected before and over the following two hours and measured for glucose. …”
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Repair of Posterior Vaginal Wall Defect Using Biologic Graft for Stage III-POP-Q Pelvic Organ Prolapse in a Patient with History of a J-Pouch by Ali Azadi, Stephanie Casey, Paravasthu Ramanujam, Darya Tehranchi, Donald Ostergard

“…In traditional posterior colporrhaphy, randomized controlled trials have not shown any benefit of graft augmentation (Maher, 2016). …”
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Mesotherapy: From Historical Notes to Scientific Evidence and Future Prospects by Massimo Mammucari, Enrica Maggiori, Domenico Russo, Chiara Giorgio, Gianpaolo Ronconi, Paola E Ferrara, Flora Canzona, Luciano Antonaci, Bartolomeo Violo, Renato Vellucci, Domenico Rocco Mediati, Alberto Migliore, Umberto Massafra, Barbara Bifarini, Fabio Gori, Massimo di Carlo, Stefano Brauneis, Teresa Paolucci, Piergiovanni Rocchi, Anna Cuguttu, Raffaele Di Marzo, Alessandro Bomprezzi, Stefania Santini, Manuela Giardini, Anna Rosa Catizzone, Fiammetta Troili, Dario Dorato, Alessandra Gallo, Costanza Guglielmo, Silvia Natoli

“…Despite the lack of randomized clinical trials in some fields of application, a general consensus is also reached in nonpharmacological mechanism of action, the technique execution modalities, the scientific rationale to apply it in some indications, and the usefulness of the informed consent. …”
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Nutrition and Physical Therapy in the Prevention and Treatment of Endometriosis by Paulina Krzemińska, Maciej Gołębski, Wojciech Nowak, Jagoda Mikołajczyk, Zuzanna Kukla, Stella Mieruszyńska, Izabela Sadowska, Joanna Kołodziej, Mirosław Sawicki, Jakub Włosiański, Sebastian Musialik

“…There is a lack of high-quality, robust, randomized studies. However, available studies show that diet and physical activity reduce inflammation that occurs in endometriosis. …”
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Combining transcranial direct current stimulation and robotic-assisted training to address upper extremity deficits in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report by Maureen Ahiatsi, Matthieu Vincenot, Christian Bocti, Guillaume Léonard, Marie-Hélène Milot

“…Further large-scale randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm these findings and rigorously assess the efficacy of this approach in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis individuals. …”
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A Case of Rituximab Use as an Induction and Maintenance of Remission in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis by Neveen Awad, Shahd Hafiz, Abdurahman Albeity, Hani Almoallim

“…She responded as laboratory c-ANCA titers turned negative and symptoms subsided. There are no randomized clinical trials addressing rituximab effect in induction and remission at the same time. …”
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AN EFFICIENT DEPTH-FIRST SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE MAXIMUM STABLE MARRIAGE PROBLEM WITH TIES AND INCOMPLETE LISTS by Le Quoc Anh, Hoang Huu Viet, Dinh Van Nam

“…Experimental results on randomly generated datasets show that our algorithm is effective in producing high- quality solutions to the problem.…”
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River Flow Estimation from Upstream Flow Records Using Support Vector Machines by Halil Karahan, Serdar Iplikci, Mutlu Yasar, Gurhan Gurarslan

“…Therefore, in this study, 60–90% of the data are randomly selected for training and then the remaining data are used for validation. …”
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ARE FARMERS USING MOBILE APPLICATION FOR AGRO-ADVISORY SERVICES: EVIDENCE FROM DEVCHULI MUNICIPALITY, NAWALPARASI EAST by Birendra Tiwar, Amrit Dumre, Mahesh Jaishi

“…This paper aims to explore the factors affecting the adoption of mobile-based applications for agro-advisory services in Devchuli Municipality Nawalpur. 96 farmers from 8 wards of the municipality were selected randomly and interviewed by using a semi structured close-ended questionnaire. …”
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Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma: Review and Updates of Current Management Strategies by Tiffany Tang, Kevin Tay, Richard Quek, Miriam Tao, Soo Yong Tan, Leonard Tan, Soon Thye Lim

“…Due to the low prevalence of this disease, diagnosis and optimal treatment of patients have not been studied prospectively in large randomized trials. Nevertheless, there has been development in the understanding of T-cell lymphomas and how they should be managed; FDG-PET emerges as an increasingly important tool in diagnosis, gene-expression signatures may aid with prognostication in the future, and novel therapies are currently being studied to improve outcomes in T-cell lymphomas. …”
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Risk Assessment Method for Cable System Construction of Long-Span Suspension Bridge Based on Cloud Model by Zhifang Lu, Chaofan Wei, Muyu Liu, Xiaoguang Deng

“…This study proposes a risk assessment method for cable system construction of suspension bridges based on the cloud model, which can combine randomness and fuzziness of risk information effectively. …”
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The Current Role of Androgen Deprivation in Patients Undergoing Dose-Escalated External Beam Radiation Therapy for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer by Michael J. Smith, Naveed H. Akhtar, Scott T. Tagawa

“…The benefit of adding ADT to dose-escalated RT is still uncertain. Prospective randomized trials, several of which are ongoing, are necessary to more adequately examine this issue. …”
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Learning and forecasting open quantum dynamics with correlated noise by Xinfang Zhang, Zhihao Wu, Gregory A. L. White, Zhongcheng Xiang, Shun Hu, Zhihui Peng, Yong Liu, Dongning Zheng, Xiang Fu, Anqi Huang, Dario Poletti, Kavan Modi, Junjie Wu, Mingtang Deng, Chu Guo

“…Here we propose a physics-inspired supervised machine learning approach to efficiently and accurately predict the functioning of quantum processors in the presence of correlated noise, which only requires data from randomized benchmarking experiments. To demonstrate the efficacy of our technique, we analyze the data from a superconducting quantum processor with tunable correlated noise. …”
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Management of Residual Neuromuscular Blockade Recovery: Age-Old Problem with a New Solution by Michael S. Green, Archana Gundigi Venkatesh, Ranjani Venkataramani

“…We discuss a case where sugammadex reduced the time of the recovery from NMB in a patient who had incomplete antagonisms following adequate treatment with neostigmine, aiding timely extubation without persistent residual NMB, and hence prevented the requirement of postoperative ventilation and the improvement in patient care. More randomized control studies are needed in order to conclude the appropriate dose of sugammadex in cases of incomplete reversal.…”
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An Improved Genetic Algorithm Based Robust Approach for Stochastic Dynamic Facility Layout Problem by Yunfang Peng, Tian Zeng, Lingzhi Fan, Yajuan Han, Beixin Xia

“…Mont Carlo simulation method is used to randomly generate different scenarios. A mathematical model is established to describe the dynamic facility layout problem with the consideration of transport device assignment. …”
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Memory-Based Multiagent Coevolution Modeling for Robust Moving Object Tracking by Yanjiang Wang, Yujuan Qi, Yongping Li

“…A number of such memory-based agents are randomly distributed nearby the located object region and then mapped onto a 2D lattice-like environment for predicting the new location of the object by their coevolutionary behaviors, such as competition, recombination, and migration. …”
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Correlations between Geometric Properties and Permeability of 2D Fracture Networks by Xiaolin Wang, Liyuan Yu, Hanqing Yang

“…When the fractal dimensions of fracture network structures and intersections exceed the critical values, the effect of randomness of fracture locations is negligible. The equivalent permeability of a fracture network increases with the increment of fracture density and/or fractal dimensions proportionally.…”
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Treatment of Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: A New Rehabilitation Technique by D. Testa, G. Castaldo, C. De Santis, A. Trusio, G. Motta

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new technical variant applied to the Gufoni's manoeuvre, in the treatment of horizontal canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HSC-BPPV). 87 patients with BPPV of HSC (55 women and 32 men), aged between 21 and 80 years, were randomized either to modified Gufoni's manoeuvre or to the Gufoni's manoeuvre. 93% of patients treated with modified Gufoni's manoeuvre was cured after the first treatment session, of which only 2% had a conversion into PSC-BPPV, while the Gufoni's manoeuvre led to a symptoms resolution in 88% of cases, of which 16% had a conversion into PSC-BPPV. …”
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The Effect of Different Planning Conditions versus Explicit Grammar Instruction on Young EFL Learners’ Oral Production of a Picture Promoted Task and Grammar Gain by Karim Sadeghi, Azadeh Hamidi

“…To this end, 34 EFL learners were randomly assigned into three experimental groups, namely online planning, pre-planning, and explicit instruction, and one control group. …”
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