Analysis of Resistivity Anisotropy of Loaded Coal Samples by Xiangchun Li, Zhenxing An, Qi Zhang, Xiaolong Chen, Xinwei Ye, Suye Jia

“…Loading coal resistivity anisotropy degree is a dynamic change trend; the load increases anisotropy significantly under axial pressure, and the degree of anisotropy has a higher discreteness under confining pressure. It is mainly the randomness of the internal pore-fracture compaction, closure, and development of the heterogeneous coal under the confining pressure; the more rapid the decline in this stage, the larger the stress damage degree.…”
Get full text

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound versus Brachytherapy for the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer: A Matched-Pair Analysis by Fouad Aoun, Ksenija Limani, Alexandre Peltier, Quentin Marcelis, Marc Zanaty, Alexandre Chamoun, Marc Vanden Bossche, Thierry Roumeguère, Roland van Velthoven

“…HIFU and brachytherapy are safe with no significant difference in cancer specific survival on long term oncologic follow-up. Nonetheless, a randomized controlled trial is needed to confirm these results.…”
Get full text

The application of mind mapping in the standardized education of inpatient physicians in nephrology by Yao Hu, Yuanbin Xiang, Min Lei, Yuxi Wu, Min Sun

“…Sixty trainees undergoing rotations in the Nephrology Department at Chengdu University Affiliated Hospital between January 2021 and December 2023 were randomly assigned to control and observation groups, each comprising 30 trainees. …”
Get full text

MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy for Moderate-to-Severe Tremor in Parkinson’s Disease by Ilana Schlesinger, Ayelet Eran, Alon Sinai, Ilana Erikh, Maria Nassar, Dorith Goldsher, Menashe Zaaroor

“…Thalamotomy using MRgFUS is safe and effective in PD patients. Large randomized studies are needed to assess prolonged efficacy and safety.…”
Get full text

Effects of hydrolyzed collagen supplementation for Skin Anti-Aging by Anna Gliwa, Marek Kurowski, Karolina Kuczapska, Monika Ryglewicz, Dariusz Fabian, Elbieta Leszczynska-Knaga, Natalia Jakubczyk, Weronika Rutkowska-Kawalec, Paweł Moczydłowski, Karolina Michhalczuk

“…However, further large-scale randomized controlled studies taking into account factors such as excipients in the supplements, age range and general lifestyle of the subjects are needed to confirm these results. …”
Get full text

Efficacy of Robotic-Assisted Prostatectomy in Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials by Carolina Sandoval Salinas, Andrés L. González Rangel, Juan G. Cataño Cataño, Juan C. Fuentes Pachón, Juan S. Castillo Londoño

“…Databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, and CENTRAL were searched for randomized clinical trials that directly compared two or more radical prostatectomy approaches. …”
Get full text

Inferring transcriptomic dynamics implicated in odor fatty acid accumulation in adipose tissue of Hulun Buir sheep from birth to market by Yechan Zhao, Zhangyan Li, Huimin Ou, Zhiliang Tan, Jinzhen Jiao

“…Thirty-two Hulun Buir lambs were selected and randomly assigned to four different sampling stages following their growth trajectories: neonatal (day 1), weaning (day 75), mid-fattening (day 150), and late-fattening (day 180) stages. …”
Get full text

Effect of Stocking Density on Stress-Related Gene Expression of Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Infected with Infectious Myonecrosis Virus (IMNV) by Moch. Nurhudah, Nur Komariah Baladrat, Sinung Rahardjo, Heny Budi Utari, Putu Angga Wiradana

“…This study aimed to determine the expression of genes encoding white shrimp stress after density treatment and the infectious myonecrosis virus (IMNV) challenge test. A completely randomized design (CRD) was carried out with 6 treatment groups, i.e. 3 different stocking density groups without IMNV infection (100, 200, and 400 shrimp/m2) and 3 different stocking density groups + IMNV infection (100, 200, and 400 shrimp/m2). …”
Get full text

Geographical origin traceability of kiwifruit products using stable isotope and multi-element analysis with multivariate modeling: Feature extraction, selection of model and variab... by Wang Shuanhui, Chen Chang, Tian Jing, Liu Zhi, Mei Xianxian, Zhou Jialu, Wang Dongguang, Zhu Shaohua

“…A blind test was conducted using 63 samples randomly selected from Chinese market. The predicted result indicated a significantly high probability of origin mislabeling of imported kiwifruit products, with percentages ranging from 30.0 % to 90.0 %. …”
Get full text

EFFECTS OF LIME, VERMICOMPOST, AND BLENDED FERTILIZER ON MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.) POSTHARVEST SELECTED SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTIES IN ASSOSA DISTRICT, NORTH WESTERN ETHIOPIA by Abdisa Abebe, Markku Yli-Halla, Lemma Wogi, Abdissa Bekele

“…The experiment consisted of three vermicompost levels (0, 2.5, and 5 t ha-1), and three blended NPSZnB fertilizer levels (0, 100, and 200 kg ha-1) with and without lime that are arranged in a randomized complete block design with three replications. …”
Get full text

Performance Based Skills Gap Analysis in Tanzanian Small Scale Manufacturing Firms by Galan Mashenene, Gordian Bwemelo, Evelyne Magambo, Alfred Sallwa

“…Gathering of quantitative data was performed under usage of a standardized questionnaire from 175 randomly selected small-business owner and employed managers. …”
Get full text

Experimental evidence of high tick infestation limiting chick growth and survival in a colonial seabird by Teresa Militão, Augustin Clessin, Amandine Gamble, José Pedro Granadeiro, Thierry Boulinier, Paulo Catry

“…To investigate this, we daily removed the ticks from 28 randomly selected chicks during their first 14 days of life (treated chicks) and compared their growth and survival with 49 chicks of a control group. …”
Get full text

High-resolution X-ray phase-contrast tomography of human placenta with different wavefront markers by Sara Savatović, Davis Laundon, Fabio De Marco, Mirko Riedel, Jörg U. Hammel, Madleen Busse, Murielle Salomé, Lorella Pascolo, Irene Zanette, Rohan M. Lewis, Julia Herzen, Pierre Thibault

“…Modulation-based imaging (MBI) extracts phase information from the distortion of reference patterns, generated by periodic or randomly structured wavefront markers (e.g., gratings or sandpaper). …”
Get full text

Knowledge, practice, and information sources regarding infectious diseases among Chinese children and adolescents: a National-Level cross-sectional study by Yuan Zeng, Feifei Li, Wei Liang, Yinyue Liu, Zhiyong Zou, Julien S. Baker, Yanhui Dong, Jun Ma, Jie Hu, Yide Yang, Bin Dong

“…Methods This study used data collected from the baseline survey of a China national multi-centered cluster-randomized controlled trial in 2013. A total of 30,287 children completed a questionnaire package that included measures for knowledge, preventive practice and information sources related to infectious diseases. …”
Get full text

Teratogenic Effects of Coadministration of Fluoxetine and Olanzapine on Rat Fetuses by Azam Bakhtiarian, Nasrin Takzare, Mehdi Sheykhi, Narges Sistany, Farahnaz Jazaeri, Mario Giorgi, Vahid Nikoui

“…Forty-two pregnant rats were divided into seven groups, randomly. The first group received 0.5 mL of normal saline as the control. …”
Get full text

Efficacy of tranexamic acid in improving visual clarity and operative time of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Yushun Qian, Anqing Jiang, Jun Yan, Shouchun Zhang, Siqiang Zhu

“…Twelve studies, 10 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and 2 retrospective studies were considered eligible. …”
Get full text

Voluntary Spatial Attention has Different Effects on Voluntary and Reflexive Saccades by Stephanie K. Seidlits, Tammie Reza, Kevin A. Briand, Anne B. Sereno

“…Reflexive saccades showed little or no cueing effects and exhibited significant facilitation only when these cues were randomly intermixed with uncued trials. In addition, the present study tested the effects of fixation condition (gap, step, and overlap) on attentional modulation. …”
Get full text

Mycovirome of Diaporthe helianthi and D. gulyae, causal agents of Phomopsis stem canker of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) by Chien-Fu Wu, Elizabeth Regedanz, Febina Mathew, Ruchika Kashyap, Karthika Mohan, Shin-Yi Lee Marzano

“…In this study, the mycovirus population was characterized in D. gulyae and D. helianthi using 52 and 42 isolates, respectively, that were recovered from diseased sunflower plants randomly sampled from commercial sunflower fields in the U.S. states of Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. …”
Get full text

Handle Region Peptide Ameliorating Insulin Resistance but Not β Cell Functions in Male Rats Neonatally Treated with Sodium L-Glutamate by Guo-shu Yin, Shao-da Lin, Dong-chuan Xu, Ru-qiong Sun, Kun Lin, Chu-jia Lin

“…At the age of 8 weeks, the MSG rats were randomly divided into MSG control group, HRP treated group with minipump (MSG-HRP group), losartan treated group (MSG-L group), and HRP and losartan cotreated group (MSG-HRP-L group) and fed with high-fat diet for 4 weeks. …”
Get full text

Effects of Scheduled Exercise on Cancer-Related Fatigue in Women with Early Breast Cancer by Anne Marie Lunde Husebø, Sindre Mikal Dyrstad, Ingvil Mjaaland, Jon Arne Søreide, Edvin Bru

“…Sixty-seven women were randomized to an exercise intervention group (n=33, performed strength training 3x/week and 30 minutes brisk walking/day) and a control group (n=34, performed their regular physical activity level). …”
Get full text