CAPTCHA as a Visual Performance Metric in Active Macular Disease by Gautam Vangipuram, Aaron Y. Lee, Kasra A. Rezaei, Lisa C. Olmos De Koo, Yewlin E. Chee, Jennifer R. Chao, Catherine Egan, Cecilia S. Lee

“…Results. 70 patients were recruited: 33 with active macular disease and 37 control subjects. Contrast sensitivity was found to be significantly different in both the IRF (p<0.01) and SRF groups (p<0.01). …”
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A machine learning framework for short-term prediction of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations using personal air quality monitors and lifestyle data by M. Atzeni, G. Cappon, J. K. Quint, F. Kelly, B. Barratt, M. Vettoretti

“…The SHAP analysis revealed that the contribution of environmental features is not uniform across all subjects. For instance, cumulative exposure to pollutants demonstrated greater predictive power in cluster 1. …”
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Presidential Initiatives as a Tool to Manage U.S. Foreign Assistance Policies in the XXI Century: From George W. Bush Jr. to Joseph R. Biden by V. I. Bartenev

“…The conclusion is drawn that presidential initiatives have gained in significance over the last two decades due to objective as well as subjective factors. On the one hand, U.S. presidents sought to expand the room for maneuver in foreign aid programming and budgeting, which had been very limited from the very beginning due to the legal constraints and which had contracted even further because of a quick proliferation of Congressional earmarks and directives. …”
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Multi-criteria decision-making method for emergency shelter site selection considering flood risk: A case study of Zhuhai, China by Bo Liu, Yingbing Li, Yan Zhang, Zhichao Wu, Yansong Pan, Meiquan Li

“…To address these two issues, this study innovatively proposes a new multi-criteria decision-making model for selecting urban emergency shelter sites. (1) For the first time, the model systematically classifies the factors affecting the location of emergency shelter sites into four categories: hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and relief capacity, from which 11 decision-making indicators, such as flood risk, precipitation, and slope, are selected; (2) The model integrates multiple algorithms, including analytic hierarchy process, entropy weight method, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and TOPSIS, during the decision-making process, and is capable of comprehensively weighing the expert's subjective preferences, objective indicator levels and the relationship between multiple indicators to achieve a more reasonable ranking. …”
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Evaluation of nutritional, anthropometric, and psychological outcomes in different metabolic and bariatric surgery techniques: a follow up study by Elham Hojaji, Zahra Veysi, Shadi Naderyan Fe’li, Neda Shalbaf, Moslem Arian, Cain C. T. Clark, Ahmad Reza Dorosty Motlagh

“…Methods A total of 96 subjects, who had been already referred to the obesity clinic of Firoozgar Hospital, Tehran, Iran, for MBS, were selected for the study and were followed for one year after MBS. …”
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The Effect of Anterior Uterocervical Angle on Primary Dysmenorrhea and Disease Severity by Mefkure Eraslan Sahin, Erdem Sahin, Yusuf Madendag, Ilknur Col Madendag, Ahter Tanay Tayyar, Fatma Özdemir, Gokhan Acmaz, Iptisam Ipek Muderris

“…Those with pathologies causing secondary dysmenorrhea were excluded from the study. Study subjects were grouped based on severity of pain. Demographic characteristics and uterocervical ultrasonographic measurements were compared among groups. …”
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Gambaran NAFLD pada Pasien dengan Sindrom Metabolik di Poliklinik Penyakit Dalam RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Nadila Andam Astari, Eva Decroli, Eti Yerizel

“…The result of this study showed 20 cases of NAFLD (67%) from 30 subjects found. From those 20 cases, 20 have central obesity (100%), 19 have impaired fasting blood sugar (95%), 13 have hypertriglyceridemia (65%), 13 have decrease of blood HDL level (65%), and 15 have hypertension (75%).…”
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Effects of Smoking on Intima-Media Thickness of the Common Carotid Artery Using Ultrasonography by Asmaa Mustafa Alsiddig, Ibrahim Abdelrhim Ali

“…The study was conducted on 100 Sudanese subjects (50 smokers as the case group and 50 non-smokers as the control group). …”
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Associations of Maternal Complaints to Levator Ani Muscle Trauma within 9 Months after Vaginal Birth: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study by N. Kimmich, J. Birri, A. Richter, R. Zimmermann, M. Kreft

“…A proper assessment of trauma and subjective complaints after birth could help to assess possible associations between them and their relevance to women’s daily life. …”
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Use of dietary supplements among lactating women in western Algeria. [Prise des compléments alimentaires chez des femmes allaitantes de l'ouest Algérien] by Amina BAYAZID, Kheira MELIANI, Meriem LEBAINI

“…To characterize the use of dietary supplements among BF women. Subjects and Methods. A cross-sectional study was carried out using a questionnaire among 510 BF women in the city of Sidi-Bel-Abbès (Algeria). …”
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Determination of Factors Affecting Sleep Quality in Postoperative Patients and Improvement of Correctible Causes by Ayşegül Özgök, Gökçe Selçuk Sert, Dilek Öztürk Kazancı

“…The 18 scored questions of the scale consist of 7 components. Subjective Sleep Quality, Sleep Latency, Sleep Duration, Habitual Sleep Efficiency, Sleep Disorder, Sleeping Drug Use, and Daytime Dysfunction. …”
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THE MUNICIPAL LEGAL AWARENESS: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS by Denis O. Bobrovnyk

“…The author considers that, unlike municipal legal psychology, which is formed mainly spontaneously, depending on subjective events in municipal life and the experience of past generations, municipal legal ideology is formed in a systemic way as a result of: a) scientific (doctrinal), theoretical reflection of the municipal legal reality, b) based on the generalization and development of the most famous and significant municipal legal theories of the past and present; c) study of the main regularities of the formation, development and functioning of municipalism and its regulatory support and maintenance; d) study of the fundamental principles of municipalism, which are enshrined in international legal standards of local democracy; e) study of the basic principles of the state municipal policy. …”
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Automated post-run analysis of arrayed quantitative PCR amplification curves using machine learning [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] by David Garrett Brown, Darwin J. Operario, Lan Wang, Shanrui Wu, Daniel T. Leung, Eric R. Houpt, James A. Platts-Mills, Jie Liu, Ben J. Brintz

“…However, the manual post-run analysis of TAC data is time consuming and subject to interpretation. We sought to automate the post-run analysis of TAC data using machine learning models. …”
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Association between Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Elastographic Parameters of Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis: Controlled Attenuation Parameter and Liver Stiffness Measurements by Ivana Mikolasevic, Goran Poropat, Tajana Filipec Kanizaj, Nadija Skenderevic, Marko Zelic, Marija Matasin, Luka Vranic, Andrea Kresovic, Goran Hauser

“…Even though we have found an upward trend in the prevalence of GERD, hiatal hernia, and insufficient cardia, there was no significant difference between subjects with fibrosis (F) 1-2 and F3-4 stage of fibrosis or F1 and F2-4. …”
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The importance of trunk motion in wearable based infant spontaneous movement analysis by María Marín-Palma, Ignacia Rojas-Sepulveda, Jessica Becerra-Caroca, José Carrasco-Plaza, Ramiro Zepeda, Pablo Ignacio Burgos

“…It was a cross-sectional study with 116 separate subjects divided into 3 groups: 0 M Group (N = 43), 3 M Group (N = 44), and 6 M (N = 29). …”
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Optimal Adaptation Period for Metabolic Cage Experiments in Mice at Different Developmental Stages by TAN He, YANG Xiaohui, ZHANG Daxiu, WANG Guicheng

“…Methods A total of 80 male C57BL/6J mice at three developmental stages (weaning period M1, adolescent M2, and adulthood M3) were subjected to a 7-day metabolic cage experiment. Data on food intake, water intake, energy expenditure, respiratory quotient, body weight, and activity levels were recorded every five minutes. …”
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Improving prenatal diagnosis with combined karyotyping, CNV-seq and QF-PCR: a comprehensive analysis of chromosomal abnormalities in high-risk pregnancies by Jia-pei Liu, Shan-Bing Wang, Li Luo, Ya-mei Guo

“…CNV-seq uniquely identified additional pathogenic copy number variations in 2.1% of cases and variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in 3.2% of cases, both undetectable by conventional karyotyping. Subjects with high-risk non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) results had the highest abnormality detection rate (57.6%, p &lt; 0.05). …”
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Novel strategy to control the elevated drizzle scale in chemical EOR pilot with unfavorable harsh environment of sandstone reservoir by Mohammad Yunus Khan

“…Abstract The subject sandstone reservoir is highly heterogeneous due to amalgamated tidal-influenced distributary channels. …”
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Two studies in one: A propensity-score-matched comparison of fingolimod versus interferons and glatiramer acetate using real-world data from the independent German studies, PANGAEA... by Jonathan Alsop, Jennie Medin, Christian Cornelissen, Stefan Viktor Vormfelde, Tjalf Ziemssen

“…For change in disease severity from baseline (assessed by clinicians using the Clinical Global Impressions scale; PANGAEA, n = 1207; PEARL, n = 427), a larger proportion of patients had subjective improvement and a smaller proportion had worsening status in PANGAEA than PEARL (improvement: 28.2% vs 15.2%; worsening: 16.4% vs 30.4%; p < 0.0001).…”
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Unravelling the transcriptomic symphony of muscle ageing: key pathways and hub genes altered by ageing and caloric restriction in rat muscle revealed by RNA sequencing by Gulam Altab, Brian J. Merry, Charles W. Beckett, Priyanka Raina, Inês Lopes, Katarzyna Goljanek-Whysall, João Pedro de Magalhães

“…Therefore, total RNA was isolated from the muscle tissue of both rats fed ad libitum and CR rats. RNA-seq data were subjected to Gene Ontology, pathway, co-expression, and interaction network analyses. …”
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