Pediatric vocal cord mobility: Translaryngeal ultrasound application for resource-limited laryngologists by Divya P. Ramyead, Fiona Kabagenyi, Sandhia Padayachee, Marc Jordaan, Shazia Peer

“…The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of an application-based translaryngeal ultrasonography (TLUS) as a screening tool for mobility of TVCs and to assess the feasibility of its use by an otolaryngologist not formally trained in ultrasonography. Methods: Forty children were recruited at the ear, nose and throat (ENT) clinic at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCWMCH). …”
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Multislice Computed Tomography in Diagnosing Changes in the Gluteal Muscles of Patients with Scoliosis at Different Ages and with Different Magnitudes of Deformation Before Treatme... by G. V. Diachkova, Yu. Zeynalov, M. A. Korabel’nikov, K. A. Diachkov, T. A. Larionova, I. V. Sutyagin

“…To study the gluteal muscles in patients with scoliosis of various etiologies using multislice computed tomography (MSCT).Material and methods. MSCT was first used to study the gluteal muscles of 27 patients with idiopathic scoliosis. …”
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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Warmed Versus Room Temperature Intravenous Fluids Administration to Prevent Intraoperative Heat Loss in Anaesthetised Calves Undergoing Umbilical... by Sitkican Okur, Latif Emrah Yanmaz, Mumin Gökhan Senocak, Ayse Golgeli, Ferda Turgut, Omer Tarik Orhun, Yakup Kocaman, Ugur Ersoz

“…Objectivxe To evaluate the effectiveness of warmed IV fluids administered to prevent intraoperative heat loss in anaesthetised calves undergoing umbilical herniorrhaphy. Methods Thirty Simmental breed calves (aged 10–30 days) were randomly divided between two equal groups, wherein the infusion fluid (Ringer's lactate, 5 mL/kg/h) was administered either at room temperature (Group RoT) or warmed (Group WF). …”
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Ellipsoidal <i>K</i>-Means: An Automatic Clustering Approach for Non-Uniform Data Distributions by Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, Abdel-Monem M. Ibrahim, Kheir Eddine Bouazza, Wael Deabes, Abdel-Rahman Hedar

“…In this paper, a new clustering technique, simulated-annealing-based ellipsoidal clustering (SAELLC), is proposed to automatically partition data into an optimal number of ellipsoidal clusters, a capability absent in traditional methods. SAELLC transforms each identified cluster into a hyperspherical cluster, where the diameter of the hypersphere equals the minor axis of the original ellipsoid, and the center is encoded to represent the entire cluster. …”
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Mechanism and application of full-anchor cable support mechanism for direct roof with thick soft rock in mining roadway by LI Yongchao, WANG Yin, LUO Gang, ZHANG Yangqiang

“…The full anchor cable support of equal length can anchor all thick soft rocks in the deep stable rock layer through methods such as homogenization stress and strengthened anchoring, and its support effect is better than that of anchor cable combined support. …”
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Causally-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Joint Communication and Sensing by Anik Roy, Serene Banerjee, Jishnu Sadasivan, Arnab Sarkar, Soumyajit Dey

“…Evaluation of the causally-aware RL framework in different JCAS scenarios shows the benefit of our proposed solution over baseline methods in terms of the higher reward. We have shown that in the presence of interfering users and sensing signal clutters, our proposed solution achieves 30% higher data rate in comparison to the communication-only state-of-the-art beam pattern learning method while maintaining sensing performance.…”
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Effectiveness of antimicrobials as contributing for scaling and root planing in adult periodontitis by Bernardo Pérez Barrero, Clara Ortiz Moncada, Walkyria del Carmen González Rodríguez, Yuliana Zambrano Rivero, Zuraikis Garbey Bonne, Jacquelín Hernández Senguen

“…Using the simple random probabilistic method, three groups with 48 members were formed voluntarily. …”
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Factors associated to mortality of critical geriatrics patients admitted in intensive care by Wilfredo Hernández Pedroso, Ricardo González Mesana, Aliusha Rittoles Navarro, Rafael Venegas Rodríguez, Raúl Santana Sánchez, Daily Chacón Montano

“…The variables studied were: age, sex, mortality, prognostic indices (APACHE II and SOFA), diagnostic profile, therapeutic methods, mechanical ventilation time and causes of death. …”
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The use of intraoperative ultrasound in patients with focal cortical dysplasia: preliminary observations by A. A. Sufianov, S. V. Mirhaydarov, Yu. A. Yakimov, O. M. Klimenko, A. A. Skripnikov, S. Z. Stefanov, O. N. Sadykova, R. S. Talybov, R. A. Sufianov

“…One alternative is the intraoperative ultrasound (US) test, which allows one to visualize areas of pathological tissue in real time.The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of using intraoperative US test.Materials and methods. …”
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Comparison between surgical outcome of bilateral recession and unilateral recession-resection in intermittent exotropia by Sheren M Aboshanab, Mohamed Y Saif, Elsayed M El Toukhi, Ahmed T. Gouda

“…Accommodative convergence/accommodation ratio was measured using the gradient method. The amblyopia cases were not included in this study. …”
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Acupuncture Treatment of Postoperative Complications from 2003 to 2023 by Zhu D, Xu W, Ye W, Jiang Y, Jiao L, Chen R

“…Therefore, in this study, the bibliometric method was adopted to analyze the relevant literature, thereby exploring the research hotspots and trends in this field.Methods: Through the web of science core database, we collected the relevant literature on the acupuncture treatment of postoperative complications from 2003 to 2023, used citespace software to analyze the author, publishing institution, country, keywords, references, cited journals and other information of these literature, and analyzed its research hotspots and research trends through a visual view.Results: A total of 213 articles were obtained, and the annual publication volume overall is on the rise, especially in recent years when the publication volume has surged. …”
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Longitudinal Analysis of Risk Factors for Pulmonary Function Decline in Chronic Lung Diseases Over Five Years by Li L, Meng J, Chen J

“…A random forest model was developed using Python, and the importance of the feature was visualized through the SHAP method. The predictive performance of the model was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, calibration curve analysis, and decision curve analysis.Results: After screening, a total of 553 patients with CLDs were included in the study. …”
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Results of neurotrophic keratopathy treatment by direct corneal neurotization by M.B. Gushchina, S.B. Butsan, V.Yu. Sergeeva, K.S. Salikhov, A.V. Tereshchenko, E.V. Erokhina, S.A. Mal’kov

“…The only pathogenetically justified method of treating this pathology is corneal neurotization. …”
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Statistical analysis of carbon and nitrogen sources for growth and sporulation of Exserohilum rostratum causing banana leaf spot disease by Du Ruiqing, Lin Shanhai, Huang Siliang, Zhang Zhengtian, Qin Liping, Li Qiqin

“…The effects of carbon and nitrogen sources on colony diameters and sporulation among different isolates of E. rostratum have been analyzed using conventional variance analysis method; however, this method was impossible to differentiate the common carbon and nitrogen sources from the species and the isolate-specific ones for growth and sporulation.In-depth difference analyses of various carbon and nitrogen sources were performed to determine the nutritional characteristics of E. rostratum causing banana leaf spot disease, and to provide a basis for disease management.Three isolates (CLER09, D087 and JL05) of the pathogen were used as the experimental ones. …”
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DYNAMICS OF INDICATORS OF MARKERS OF BONE METABOLISM IN BONE DEFECT REPLACEMENTFABRIC EQUIVALENTS OF BONE TISSUE ON THE BASIS OF MMSC-AT by A.V. Bambuliak, P.P. Perebujnis, S.V. Tkachuk, A.V. Javorskiy

“…The "gold standard" is still considered to be an autologous bone transplant, but this method has some drawbacks associated with additional surgery. …”
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Investigating the metastability of amorphous calcium carbonate by droplet microfluidics experiments using machine learning by Ryan Santoso, Lisa Guignon, Guido Deissmann, Jenna Poonoosamy

“…However, accurate quantification of this transformation requires analyzing more than thousands of droplets identifying the different polymorphs of calcium carbonate during an experiment, which is labor-intensive. Here we develop a visual-based machine learning method, combining cascading U-Net and K-Means clustering, to allow efficient analysis of droplet microfluidics experiment results. …”
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Three-dimensional model reconstruction of pipeline with inner wall corrosion based on ultrasonic phased array technology by Yulong ZHANG, Rongguo HOU, Rui WANG, Miaomiao ZHANG, Zhe LYU

“…The inner wall corrosion of pipelines is concealed and hard to monitor in time. In order to visualize the shape of the internally corroded pipeline, as well as the defect volume and its spatial distribution, a three-dimensional (3D) model reconstruction method based on the ultrasonic phased array technology was proposed for the internally corroded pipeline. …”
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ITT: Long-Range Spatial Dependencies for Sea Ice Semantic Segmentation by Javier Noa Turnes, Mingzhe Jiang, Saeid Taleghanidoozdoozan, Linlin Xu, David A. Clausi

“…The method is trained to capture long-range spatial dependencies to overcome nonstationary class statistics. …”
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Spatiotemporal survival analysis for movement trajectory tracking in virtual reality by Omar Fahmi Jubran, Maximilian Philipp Wolkersdorfer, Vera Eymann, Nicole Burkard, Daniela Czernochowski, Marc Herrlich, Cees van Leeuwen, Thomas Lachmann

“…Abstract We present a novel method for analyzing response trajectory tracking data. …”
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An Explainable Framework Integrating Local Biplots and Gaussian Processes for Unemployment Rate Prediction in Colombia by Diego Armando Pérez-Rosero, Diego Alejandro Manrique-Cabezas, Jennifer Carolina Triana-Martinez, Andrés Marino Álvarez-Meza, German Castellanos-Dominguez

“…(ii) Then, we used a Local Biplot technique from the widely recognized Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) method along with local affine transformations as an unsupervised representation of non-stationary and non-linear data patterns in a simplified and comprehensible manner. …”
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