Effect of cool dialysate on vital signs, comfort and adequacy by Seyed Reza Borzou, Fateme Farghadani, Khodayar Oshvandi, Mahmood Gholyaf, Hosein Mahjub

“…Eligible patients were selected by simple sampling method and then three sessions of interventions were done. …”
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Comparison of Primary Dysmenorrhea, Anxiety, Depression, Sexual Experience, and Quality of Life in Women Receiving a Copper-containing and Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine Dev... by Rukiye Türk Delibalta, Tuğçe Sönmez, Hasan Çılgın, Füsun Terzioğlu

“…Data were collected using the visual analog scale, Spielberg state and trait anxiety, Beck depression, short form (SF) 36-quality of life, and Arizona sexual experiences. …”
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Using Attention for Improving Defect Detection in Existing RC Bridges by Sergio Ruggieri, Angelo Cardellicchio, Andrea Nettis, Vito Reno, Giuseppina Uva

“…Overall, the proposal revealed its potential to improve the effectiveness of the survey, lowering the burden on surveyors and engineers and providing a reliable method to improve the overall security in large RC bridges portfolios.…”
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Risk factors for dementia in a rural area of Northeastern Brazil Fatores de risco para demência em uma área rural do nordeste do Brasil by Manuela Oliveira de Cerqueira Magalhães, Josecy Maria de Souza Peixoto, Mônica Hupsel Frank, Irênio Gomes, Bernardo Mota Rodrigues, Carla Menezes, Eduardo Cardoso, Fernando Carvalho, Roque Aras, Ailton Melo

“…OBJECTIVE: To identify risk factors for dementia among the elderly in a rural area of Northeastern Brazil. METHOD: The subjects assessed were all 60 years old or older, and lived in a rural region of Bahia, a Northeastern State of Brazil. …”
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LIFE QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS WITH STABLE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AFTER MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION by I. A. Narkevich, O. D. Nemyatykh, K. A. Kovaleva, L. G. Ratova, I. O. Trushnikova, E. N. Parizhskaya, A. O. Konradi

“…The aim of this study is to assess the life quality of patients with stable coronary artery disease after angioplasty and stenting of coronary arteries at the post-hospital stage.Materials and methods. Methods of the sociological analysis (questionnaire surveys) and methods of mathematical statistics (descriptive statistics, time series method, factor and variance analyses) were used at different stages of the prospective observational study. …”
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Re-Implementation of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) in the Community: Findings From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Melanie J Woodfield, Sarah Fortune, Tania Cargo, Sally Merry, Sarah E Hetrick

“…Method This pragmatic, parallel-arm, randomized, controlled pilot trial ran for a 6-month period and included PCIT-trained clinicians who were not delivering, or only rarely using PCIT in their work. …”
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Magnesium sulphate and sodium bicarbonate as additives for periarticular local infiltration analgesia improve pain management after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a prospectiv... by Yuchen Zhu, Shaoning Shen, Longkang Cui, Lianguo Wu, Bingbing Zhang

“…Abstract Background Periarticular local infiltration analgesia (LIA) has become a widely used method for postoperative pain management after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA). …”
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Effect of vestibular rehabilitation treatment (VRT) on patients with unsteadiness after intratympanic gentamicin in Menière’s disease: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Peixia Wu, Yue Zhou, Qiling Tong, Huiqian Yu

“…Currently, vestibular rehabilitation treatment (VRT) has been proven to be an effective method for controlling vestibular symptoms and has been applied to patients with various vestibular diseases. …”
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Cutting-edge dynamics and research hotspots on boswellic acid in cancer: a bibliometrics analysis from 1994 to 2024 by Minghe Lv, Lei Tang, Yue feng, Su Zeng, Hongwei Zeng, Jingping Yu, Qing Ji, Ruping Zhao

“…The primary objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the research landscape, knowledge structure, and emerging trends surrounding boswellic acid and its potential use in oncology. Method We conducted a search in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database for publications related to boswellic acid and cancer from 1994 to 2024. …”
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Information and communication technologies as a basis for the development of the information society: Russia in the system of international statistical indicators by Svetlana G. Bychkova, Lidiya S. Parshintseva

“…In this regard, the actual issue is the formation of an adequate information base for studying information and communication technologies not only as an independent object, but also as the most important factor in the formation of the functioning of the digital economy and the formation of the information society.Materials and methods. For the study, the methods of multidimensional classification, analysis of variation, as well as a tabular method of visual presentation of the research results were used as statistical tools. …”
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Does Dynamic Taping Affect Pain, Endurance, Disability, Mobility, and Kinesiophobia in Individuals with Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain? A Randomized Controlled Trial by Kanagaraj Rengaramanujam

“…Dynamic tape (DT) is a relatively new treatment technique, which is increasingly being used as an adjunctive method to treat musculoskeletal problems. To the best of our knowledge, no study has investigated the application of DT in individuals with CNLBP. …”
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Assessment of Wavefront Aberrations in Children with Myopia Against the Background of Ocular Surface Disorders in Combination with Computer Vision Syndrome Digital and Eye Strain by I. L. Plisov, E. M. Naumova, A. I. Smoleva

“…All patients used glasses as a method of optical correction and were constantly worn. …”
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Association between late age-related macular degeneration and dietary intake of copper, iron, zinc and selenium: a 2005–2008 NHANES cross-sectional observational study by Yicheng Lu, Chen Li, Yueqi Liu, Tianhong Wu, Peirong Lu

“…Method In this cross-sectional study, we utilized data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted during 2005–2008. …”
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Role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in restaging and prognosis of recurrent melanoma after curative surgery by Dharmender Malik, Ashwani Sood, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Rajender Kumar Basher, Anish Bhattacharya, Gurpreet Singh

“…The diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT (visual interpretation as well as semi-quantitative parameter) was determined on the basis of subsequent imaging and clinical follow-up. …”
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Comparison of the effects of high-intensity intermittent training and moderate-intensity continuous training on cardiometabolic factors in type 2 diabetic patients: a systematic re... by Fatemeh Kazemi Nesab, Omid Zafarmand

“…Conclusion: HIIT appears to be a favorable training method with efficient outcomes for improving cardiometabolic factors in patients with type 2 diabetes compared to MICT.…”
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Improvement of SAM2 Algorithm Based on Kalman Filtering for Long-Term Video Object Segmentation by Jun Yin, Fei Wu, Hao Su, Peng Huang, Yuetong Qixuan

“…The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in pixel-level object segmentation for both static and dynamic visual content. Its streaming memory architecture maintains spatial context across video sequences, yet struggles with long-term tracking due to its static inference framework. …”
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Causality Between 91 Circulating Inflammatory Proteins and Various Asthma Phenotypes: A Mendelian Randomization Study by Zhang S, Zhang X, Wei C, Zhang L, Li Z

“…Inverse variance weighting (IVW) was used as the main method for MR Analysis, supplemented by Mr-Egger, Weighted median, Simple mode, and Weighted mode. …”
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The effect of ultrasound-guided thoracic paravertebral nerve block combined with hydromorphone on postoperative analgesia and inflammatory response in thoracoscopic surgery: a rand... by Lin Zeng, Xiaoxue Yu, Ting Yang, Jing Liao, Yinghui Ouyang

“…The patients were randomly assigned into two groups of UTPB combined with hydromorphone PCIA group (T group) and hydromorphone PCIA group (H group) according to the random number table method. T group underwent UTPB with ropivacaine before induction of general anesthesia. …”
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Effects of sufentanil in combination with dexmedetomidine for patient-controlled intravenous analgesia after renal transplantation by Ma Jun, Yang Yawen, Sun Linhao, Wu Tingting

“…Nowadays, the most convenient analgesic method is patient-controlled intravenous injection of one or more adjuvant drugs. …”
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Calculating Depth for Dark Images Using Self-Supervised Learning: An Investigation of the Role of Edge Maps as Input by Shwetang Dubey, Satvik Watts, Ashok Malhotra, Kunal Prajapati, Pavan Chakraborty

“…In this paper, we propose a novel method for depth estimation in low-light conditions that utilizes edge information. …”
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