MID-TERM OUTCOMES OF MID-SHAFT CLAVICULAR NONUNIONS TREATED BY PLATE FIXATION WITH AUTOLOGOUS BONE GRAFTING: DOES THE TYPE OF INITIAL TREATMENT HAVE AN INFLUENCE ON THE SURGICAL RE... by Mehmet Demirel, Emre Kocazeybek, Serkan Bayram, Dağhan Koyuncu, Ali Erşen

“…The mean Preoperative Visual Analogous Scale (VAS) score went down from 7 to 2 (p<0.001). …”
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Disaster in the Headlines: Quantifying Narrative Variation in Global News Using Topic Modeling and Statistical Inference by Fahim Sufi, Musleh Alsulami

“…The findings reveal that disaster narratives vary by event type and geopolitical context, supported by a mathematically robust, scalable, data-driven method for analyzing media framing of global crises.…”
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Efficacy of Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate in Patients With Detrusor Underactivity or Acontractile Bladder by Seongik Choi, Jong Hoon Lee, Jiwoong Yu, Jin Seok Kang, Kwang Jin Ko

“…The VE trend over time was visualized using Python’s Seaborn library with the locally weighted scatterplot smoothing method, and plots were generated using Matplotlib. …”
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Research hotspots and development trends of Brucellar spondylitis in the past 30 years: a bibliometric analysis by Jinyu Wu, Jinyu Wu, Hongxia Yuan, Hongchao Chen

“…This study employed bibliometric analysis to visually illustrate the scientific advancements and research trends in the field of Brucellar spondylitis research, providing a scientific basis for public health prevention and control strategies.MethodThe data were sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection database, covering the period from January 1, 1984, to December 31, 2023. …”
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Ultra-short stem intercalary prosthetic reconstruction for joint preservation in metaphyseal tumor management: a retrospective review of twenty-five cases by Leming Mou, Dayong Liu, Wanping Zhu, Dengxing Lun, Shilong Zhu, Jingyu Zhang, Yancheng Liu, Yongcheng Hu

“…Survival rates were calculated using the Kaplan–Meier method, and complications were classified according to the Henderson system. …”
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THE COMPUTER-AIDED CONTROLLING OF TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL PLANTS IN THE WAVELET MEDIUM by Fedosenkov D.B., Tokarev S.V., Simikova A.A., Iskhakov R.R., Fedosenkov B.A.

“…Methods of formalizing material flows created in certain knots of structure-and-functional diagram of the mixture producing aggregate are considered, that are founded on transforming one-dimensional initial flow signals into multi-dimensional ones. …”
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A MEMS seismometer respiratory monitor for work of breathing assessment and adventitious lung sounds detection via deep learning by Brian Sang, Haoran Wen, Greg Junek, Wendy Neveu, Lorenzo Di Francesco, Justin Romberg, Farrokh Ayazi

“…Since these assessment methods are subjective, a low-profile device used for an accurate and quantitative monitoring approach could provide valuable preemptive insights into respiratory health, proving to be clinically beneficial. …”
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FORENSIC DOCUMENT EXAMINATION IN ECONOMIC CRIME INVESTIGATIONS by Artem Kovalenko, Mykola Zhdan, Oleksandr Shapovalov

“…The study employs a combination of general and specialized scientific methods. Using the formal-legal approach the authors clarify the procedural status of physical documents as evidence under the current Ukrainian criminal procedure legislation. …”
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Construction of a nomogram prediction model for the influencing factors for spinal nerve injury in elderly parturients after intraspinal block by SHI Yu, YUE Xiuqin, WANG Zhen

“…Objective To establish a nomogram model for predicting the influence factors for spinal nerve injury in elderly parturients after intraspinal block. Methods A total of 480 elderly parturients who received intraspinal block for delivery in our hospital from February 2019 to December 2021 were enrolled. …”
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Potato precision planter metering system based on improved YOLOv5n-ByteTrack by Cisen Xiao, Changlin Song, Junmin Li, Min Liao, Yongfan Pu, Kun Du

“…Currently, manual statistical methods are inefficient and challenging to evaluate in real-time. …”
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Advanced Trajectory Analysis of NASA’s Juno Mission Using Unsupervised Machine Learning: Insights into Jupiter’s Orbital Dynamics by Ashraf ALDabbas, Zaid Mustafa, Zoltan Gal

“…These findings highlight OPTICS as a more effective method for identifying outliers in elliptical orbit data, albeit with higher computational resource requirements and longer processing times. …”
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DGCFNet: Dual Global Context Fusion Network for remote sensing image semantic segmentation by Yuan Liao, Tongchi Zhou, Lu Li, Jinming Li, Jiuhao Shen, Askar Hamdulla

“…Extensive experiments on the Vaihingen, Potsdam, and BLU datasets have shown that the proposed DGCFNet method can achieve better segmentation performance, with mIoU reaching 82.20%, 83.84% and 68.87%, respectively.…”
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Clinical case of the surgical treatment of complete rupture of distal biceps tendon using two cortical buttons by A. E. Medvedchikov, E. A. Anastasieva, V. M. Prokhorenko, I. A. Kirilova

“…The scores of the scales (VAS, DASH, ASES) turned out to be better than when using other common methods. The technique of dipping distal biceps tendon stump into the formed oval canal of the “anatomical impression” using the proposed method meets the objectives of careful attitude to the tendon and provides the largest area of its contact with the bone.…”
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Industrial Image Anomaly Detection via Synthetic-Anomaly Contrastive Distillation by Junxian Li, Mingxing Li, Shucheng Huang, Gang Wang, Xinjing Zhao

“…Industrial image anomaly detection plays a critical role in intelligent manufacturing by automatically identifying defective products through visual inspection. While unsupervised approaches eliminate dependency on annotated anomaly samples, current teacher–student framework-based methods still face two fundamental limitations: insufficient discriminative capability for structural anomalies and suboptimal anomaly feature decoupling efficiency. …”
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Statistical analysis of the formation mechanism of concepts-representations in organizational and technical systems by Alexander A. Solodov

“…Concept representation is a generalized sensual-visual image of the object or phenomenon and is characterized by a number of features, the number of which may vary in the course of the system operation.The method of Markov chains is used to study the statistical characteristics of the mechanism of formation of concepts-representations. …”
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Efficacy analysis of arthroscopic reduction combined with orthopedic robot-guided screw placement for Hawkins type II fractures of the talus neck by Mingliang Xu, Renlong Li, Rongjian Shi, Guoliang Chen, Lin Li, Jing Chen, Chun Wang

“…According to the blind envelope method, 21 patients were enrolled in the study group, and 21 patients were enrolled in the control group. …”
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Superficial Retinal Microvasculature and Choriocapillaris Alterations after Photodynamic Therapy in Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy by Morteza Entezari, Iman Ansari, Alireza Ramezani, Humayoun Nikkhah, Parisa Mohammadi, Bahar Kheiri

“…To compare superficial retinal vascular, choriocapillaris (CC), and choroidal thickness changes in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) patients after half-dose photodynamic therapy (PDT). Method. In this prospective interventional case series study, fifteen eyes of 14 patients with chronic CSCR undergoing half-dose PDT treatment were enrolled. …”
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Nuanced perspectives on the challenges, prospects and opportunities confronting sustainable access to potable water and sanitary services in South Africa’s Nompumelelo community by Shadreck Muchaku, Shadreck Muchaku, Leocadia Zhou

“…A matrix questionnaire method was also applied to evaluate the alignment between key informants’ views and broader community perspectives. …”
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Development of content for a mobile application aimed to increase medication adherence among older adults by Aysu Selcuk, Selin Soydan, Volkan Atmis, Ahmet Yalcin, Asuman Bozkir, Murat Varli

“…The aim of this Delphi survey study is to develop the content of a mobile application aimed to improve medication adherence among older adults by obtaining views from a panel including healthcare professionals, patients and patient care givers. Methods An online Delphi method was implemented by using a questionnaire platform to obtain consensus on key content for a mobile application. …”
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Insights from feature tracking of optical satellite data for studying rock glacier kinematics in the Northern Tien Shan by Ella Wood, Ella Wood, Tobias Bolch, Tobias Bolch, Richard Streeter

“…This study employed a frequency domain cross-correlation method to investigate rock glacier velocities in the Northern Tien Shan. …”
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