Effect of a yogic stress management technique (cyclic meditation) on stress, mindfulness, and well-being: A systematic review by K. Ranisha, Sony Kumari

“…The review showcased the positive effect of CM, and the quality of the studies was consistent; however, more high-quality randomized controlled trials with the long-term follow-ups are needed to confirm the result in the clinical and nonclinical populations.…”
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Unemployment During the Recent COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Perspective of Fresh Graduates from a Developing Nation by Momen Md. Abdul, Shahriar Shamsul Huq Bin, Naher Nazmun, Nowrin Nafisa

“…It is a quantitative study in which 200 recent graduates were randomly chosen. Factor analysis, both exploratory and confirmatory, was used. …”
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Diversity of Woodland Communities and Plant Species along an Altitudinal Gradient in the Guancen Mountains, China by Dongping Meng, Jin-Tun Zhang, Min Li

“…Fifty-three quadrats of 10 m×20 m of woodland communities were randomly established along an altitudinal gradient. …”
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New Theories on Boundary Layer Transition and Turbulence Formation by Chaoqun Liu, Ping Lu, Lin Chen, Yonghua Yan

“…Based on our DNS observation, we propose a new theory on boundary layer transition, which has five steps, that is, receptivity, linear instability, large vortex structure formation, small length scale generation, loss of symmetry and randomization to turbulence. For turbulence generation and sustenance, the classical theory, described with Richardson's energy cascade and Kolmogorov length scale, is not observed by our DNS. …”
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Pain Vision System for Evaluating Chronic Pain: A Comparison with VAS Scoring by Bao-Kai Wang, Tang-Hua Liu, Fang Xie, Yan-Qing Liu

“…Seventy-one patients with chronic pain were randomly selected to receive pain treatments from August 1, 2018, to September 30, 2018, in the Pain Department of Li Zhuang Tongji Hospital. …”
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Enhancing Executive Functioning: The Impact of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Cochlear-Implanted Children by Karim Gharashi, Reza Abdi

“…A total of 24 children (13 girls and 11 boys) were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group. …”
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Clinical Observation on Low Back Pain Treated by DAVID Spinal System Core Muscles Training by Huazhong YANG, Lingjuan RAO, Zhili XU, Gaoming YUAN, Renming XIE

“…Objective:To observe the clinical effect of DAVID spinal system core muscles training on patients with chronic lower back pain.Methods:Sixty patients with chronic low back pain were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, with 30 cases in each group. …”
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Optimizing Indonesian-Sundanese Bilingual Translation with Adam-Based Neural Machine Translation by Anita Qotrun Nada, Aji Prasetya Wibawa, Dhea Fanny Putri Syarifa, Erliana Fajarwati, Fadia Irsania Putri

“…Also, it must be mentioned that no special hyperparameter selection was performed, as parameters were chosen randomly. In future studies, transformer-based models can be investigated since these architectures will better deal with complex language via their self-attention mechanism.…”
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Clinical study of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty by Wang Hongbin, Yuan Hua, Sun Xiaolong, Xu Mulan, Wu Xiangbo, Long Hua

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation(rTMS)on chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty(TKA).MethodsA total of 121 patients with postoperative chronic post-surgical pain(CPSP)who underwent unilateral TKA from January 2021 to June 2023 and who fulfilled the criteria were randomly assigned to receive rTMS(paralateral M1 area,10Hz,80% resting threshold,stimulation time of 1s,interval time of 3s,1200 pulses/min,once daily)or sham stimulation for one week.NRS scores and HSS scores for knee pain were compared between the two groups after 3 days,1 week,2 weeks,and 4 weeks of treatment,by repeated-measures analysis of variance.ResultsRepeated analyses of the NRS scores and total HSS scores in the two groups revealed statistically significant differences in rTMS compared with controls in pain (HSS1), joint activity (HSS3), flexion (HSS5), and subtraction (HSS7).ConclusionAs a safe and cost-effective neuromodulatory technique, rTMS is well suited to relieve chronic pain after TKA, improve the overall recovery of joint function, and improve quality of life, and is worthy of clinical application.…”
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Exercise as a mean to reverse the detrimental effect of high-fat diet on bone’s fracture characteristics by Ilias Doulamis, Despina N. Perrea, Panagiotis E. Chatzistergos, Athanasios S. Mitousoudis, Stavros K. Kourkoulis

“…A total of 26 adult male C57bl/6J mice were randomly assigned into three groups: (A) Control group (n=6), (B) High-fat diet group (n=10), (C) High-fat diet and exercise group (n=10). …”
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Erector Spinae Plane Block for Control of Postoperative Pain in Patients Undergoing Thoracolumbar Spinal Fracture Fixation by Sushruta Bhattacharya, Priti Banerjee, Sunit Hazra, Kiran Kumar Mukhopadhyay

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 40 patients enrolled for the study were randomly allocated into two groups, 20 patients received GA without ESB and 20 patients with GA and ESB. …”
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Human Settlements Interactions and Deforestation in Gambari Forest Reserve located in Oluyole Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State, Nigeria by E.O. Toyinbo, R.A. Fasasi, C.F. Agbor, C.O. Fakorede

“…Community leaders and randomly selected community dwellers in each of the selected settlements were sampled for group discussion to obtain information on population and services of the forest that attract them to the reserve. …”
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Outcomes of tutorial teaching. Strategies for nursing training in the new pedagogical model. by Zulema Bos Rodríguez, Antonio Rodríguez Hernández, María Julia Placeres Hernández, Jorge Luis Maceira Brito

“…<strong> Methods: </strong>A descriptive study of intervention and evaluation which started in the 1^st academic year on September, 2004 collecting the application and evaluation of the strategy applied in the tutorial process of the nursing new pedagogical model. 163 students of the 2^nd academic year of the Bachellor of Science in Nursing were the universe of this investigation. 50 % of them were taken as a randomized sample from 82 groups. Differente documents were reviewed and a survey was applied in order to evaluate the strategy according to the attention received by their tutors and the mark obtained in the practical final exam of 1^st and 2^nd academic year of their study.…”
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Successfully Climbing the “STAIRs”: Surmounting Failed Translation of Experimental Ischemic Stroke Treatments by Michael P. Kahle, Gregory J. Bix

“…Specific points of interest discussed include the incorporation of human comorbid conditions and drugs, the benefits of defining a proposed mechanism of action, replication of results using multiple methods, using clinically relevant routes of administration and treatment time windows, and performing and reporting good experimental methods to reduce bias such as, as suggested by the updated STAIR recommendations, sample size calculations, randomization, allocation concealment, blinding, and appropriate inclusion/exclusion criteria. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Topical Corticosteroids for Management of Oral Chronic Graft versus Host Disease by Basma Abdelaleem Elsaadany, Eman Magdy Ahmed, Sana Maher Hasan Aghbary

“…Six studies were included: 2 randomized clinical trials (RCTs), 3 cohort studies, and 1 pre-post clinical trial. …”
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Research on Multi-Strategy Fusion of the Chimpanzee Optimization Algorithm and Its Application in Path Planning by Xing He, Chenxv Guo

“…In the initialization phase, the algorithm introduces a hybrid good point set and chaos initialization strategy, combining the advantages of both to enhance the randomness and homogeneity of the initial population. …”
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The Effect Of 0.01% Atropine On Myopia Progression by Amber Khalid

“…Method: This prospective randomized controlled trial was conducted in the Ophthalmology department of Ziauddin University Hospital, Karachi. …”
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Predicting roadkill: a regional-scale model for the Northern Tamandua integrating environmental and road characteristics by Silvio Boyat, Esmeralda Arévalo-Huezo

“…It has been shown that roadkill does not randomly occur across space and is distributed depending on environmental and ecological factors, such as habitat suitability and landscape connectivity of the interest species. …”
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An Enhanced Two-Level Metaheuristic Algorithm with Adaptive Hybrid Neighborhood Structures for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem by Pisut Pongchairerks

“…To generate each neighbor solution, the lower-level algorithm randomly uses one of two neighbor operators by a given probability. …”
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Physiological Stimulation of the Synthesis of Preelastic Fibers in the Dermis of a Patient with Fibrosis by Jose Maria Pereira de Godoy, Lívia Maria Pereira de Godoy, Maria de Fatima Guerreiro Godoy, Dalisio de Santi Neto

“…Main outcomes and measures are biopsies before and after treatment. Ten randomly selected histological fields were evaluated using the multipoint morphometric method. …”
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