Do Chairs Reduce a Navigator’s Mobility? Pilot Study on the Influence of Navigation Bridge Design on Lookout Routines by Stopa Michał

“…Despite technological progress in the maritime industry, navigators are still the final link of the decision-making chain and rely not only on equipment, but also on human senses. Visual observation of the vessel’s surroundings still plays a crucial role in navigation. …”
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Case report: Primary intraosseous meningioma: a radiological study of two cases confirmed pathologically by Yue Wang, Jibo Hu

“…The second case is a 56-year-old male patient who exhibited an irregular soft-tissue mass in the right sphenoid as visualized on brain CT. The patient underwent a surgical intervention for a skull base neoplasm. …”
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EFFECT OF SWIMMING AND PHYSIOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH NEPHROLITHIASIS by Nikolay Izov, Ivan Maznev, Milena Nikolova, Dance Vasileva

“…Aim: This research aims to evaluate the effect of swimming and physiotherapy in a complex treatment of patients with nephrolithiasis treated under sanatorium conditions. Materials and methods: Twenty patients with nephrolithiasis who can swim, were surveyed and all of them were included in the experimental group (EG n=20). …”
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The Weather Radar as a Tool for Collecting Quantitative Data on Migrating Birds by Roberto Nebuloni, Carlo Capsoni

“…However, turning a radar sensor into a tool for quantitative measurements of birds in flight requires calibration, ad-hoc data sampling strategies, models of birds as radar targets and methods for extracting data from the raw radar echoes. …”
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Macrophage Evolution during Progression of Hepatitis Virus B-Related Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure by Jiawei Rao, Dongmei Ye, Ao Ren, Wenjin He, Xuzhi Zhang, Pengrui Chen, Qian Jian, Zongli Fu, Ronghai Deng, Yixin Hu, Yifang Gao, Yi Ma

“…However, there is a lack of information on the comprehensive landscape of the immune microenvironment. Methods: In this study, single-cell ribonucleic acid sequencing was performed on liver samples obtained from patients diagnosed with hepatitis, cirrhosis, and acute-on-chronic liver failure, which were caused by HBV. …”
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Pattern of horizontal squint presentation in pediatric eye department at Civil Hospital Karachi by Tarique Saleem Shaikh, Sajida Parveen Shaikh, Waheed Ahmed Shaikh

“… Objective: To estimate the magnitude and types of horizontal strabismus in children presenting in pediatric ophthalmic and orthoptic clinics. Materials and Methods: A prospective analytical study was conducted on strabismic children presenting in the outpatient department of pediatric ophthalmology and orthoptic clinics at Civil Hospital Karachi from 2008 to 2012. …”
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Comparative Approach of Tracking COVID-19 in Balkan Countries Using Interactive Web-Based Dashboard by Oriana Zaçaj, Etleva Beliu, Endri Raço, Kleida Haxhi, Kostaq Hila

“…The design and implementation of an online dashboard to support data-driven decision-making and joint coordination between health institutions and government bodies in the Balkan countries faced with new COVID-19 waves in the region. Methods. Shiny R dashboard tracks COVID-19 in real-time using a comparative approach to interactively visualize national-level data from various official sources. …”
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The Cobra Catheter: A Novel Concept and Device for the Thru-Septal Myocardium Approach by Min-Ku Chon, Dong-Hoon Shin, Su-Jin Jung, June-Hong Kim

“…This study aimed to evaluate the Cobra catheter as a backup catheter to overcome this limitation in swine. Methods. We designed the guiding Cobra catheter. It consisted of three major parts (the external pull-wire steerable distal tip, the C-shaped shaft, and the steering adjustment handle). …”
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Vision Mamba and xLSTM-UNet for medical image segmentation by Xin Zhong, Gehao Lu, Hao Li

“…Abstract Deep learning-based medical image segmentation methods are generally divided into convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based models. …”
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New insights on the role of auxiliary information in target speaker extraction by Mohamed Elminshawi, Wolfgang Mack, Srikanth Raj Chetupalli, Soumitro Chakrabarty, Emanuël A. P. Habets

“…The effectiveness of the auxiliary information in SE is typically evaluated by comparing the extraction performance of SE with uninformed speaker separation (SS) methods. Following this evaluation procedure, many SE studies have reported performance improvement compared to SS, attributing this to the auxiliary information. …”
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Prevalence of Graves ophthalmopathy among patients with thyroid disease by Erwin D. Palisoc, MD, Evelyn S. Morabe, MD, Paulo Ma. N. Pagkatipunan, MD

“…Objective: This study determined the prevalence of Graves ophthalmopathy among thyroid-disease patients at a tertiary government hospital. Methods: Patients with thyroid disease seen at a tertiary hospital from February to September 2007 were enrolled. …”
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Ferroptosis in ocular diseases: mechanisms, crosstalk with other cell death pathways, and therapeutic prospects by Shuai Huang, Yuying Sun, Xinxin Yu, Xuan Ren, Lei Wang, Yan Sun, Aijun Deng

“…BackgroundOcular diseases pose a significant threat to visual health, with ferritin ferroptosis playing a critical role in the pathogenesis of many such conditions. …”
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Intraoperative floppy iris syndrome: Our experience by Aisha Khan, Afroz Khan, Rayees Ahmad Sofi

“…Purpose: The purpose of this study was to anticipate the incidence and severity of intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) due to tamsulosin and manage it for better visual outcome. Methods: This study was conducted on 59 patients who were on tamsulosin and underwent phacoemulsification. …”
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Ultrasound Biomicroscopy in Evaluation of Complicated Pseudophakia by Hansa Thakkar, Kopal Mittal

“…Aim: To evaluate the role of ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) in assessment of eyes with complicated pseudophakia. Material and methods: A prospective investigational study was conducted from May 2006 to May 2009 on 150 pseudophakic patients with post operative visual acuity of less than 3 meters. …”
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Analysis and Forecasting the Price of the S&P 500 Index Using the Arima Model by Vadym Dun

“…The application of various statistical methods, such as moving statistics and stationarity tests, made it possible to identify trends and seasonality in the data. …”
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Peripheral refraction of young adults with myopia: a cross-sectional study by Ali Alsaqr, Manal Alharbi, Noura Aldossary, Abdulaziz Alruwished, Mohammed Alharbi, Khalid Alghaib, Abeer Alabdulkarim, Alhamdan Shatha, Ali Abusharha

“…Due to a varying prevalence of myopia across different ethnic groups, the aim of the present study was to investigate the peripheral refraction profile in an Arabic population. Methods Adults attending an optometry clinic were recruited into this cross-sectional study. …”
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Frequency of Episiotomy and Perineal Injury in Home Births and Influencing Factors by Emel Ay, Menekşe Nazlı Aker

“…The aim of this study is to examine perineal outcomes (episiotomy and perineal injury) in planned home births and the associated factors.Methods: This descriptive study was conducted between August 2021 and January 2022. …”
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Strategies for Coping with Neuropathic Pain and Impact of Pain on the Functional Condition of Patients by Małgorzata Kołpa, Ewa Mężyk

“…The study aimed at assessing strategies to cope with pain by patients suffering from neuropathic pain. Material and Methods. The study group consisted of 60 patients of the Pain Management Unit aged of 25–80 years suffering from neuropathic pain. …”
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Expanding kinetoplastid genome annotation through protein structure comparison. by Juan Manuel Trinidad-Barnech, José Sotelo-Silveira, Darío Fernández Do Porto, Pablo Smircich

“…Although the amount of genomic information on these parasites has grown substantially, assigning gene functions through traditional sequence-based homology methods remains challenging. Recently, significant advancements have been made in in-silico protein structure prediction and algorithms for rapid and precise large-scale protein structure comparisons. …”
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A case report and literature review of rare isolated metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma in the orbit by Behzad Khademi, Zahra Zia

“…In this case report, we present a rare isolated orbital metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Methods A case report and literature review study. …”
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