Immediate versus Delayed Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Monali S Malvankar-Mehta, Yufeng Nancy Chen, Sangita Patel, Angela Pui-Kei Leung, Man Mohan Merchea, William G Hodge

“…<h4>Participants</h4>Not applicable.<h4>Methods</h4>Literature was systematically reviewed using EPPI-Reviewer 4 gateway. …”
Get full text

MULTIMODAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF SPECIALIZED TEXTS IN TECHNICAL DISCOURSE by Yuliia V. Polycheva, Volodymyr I. Vetokhin

“…The research design for this study is analytical and descriptive, which focuses on a deductive narrative approach and a complex of complementary theoretical methods: analyzing, summarizing and interpreting scholarly sources on the issue under scrutiny; conceptual analysis of the term “multimodal approach”; analyzing multimodal elements of a technical text; distributional analysis – to find out the environment, which contains various multimodal components; monographic method – to interpret the results obtained in a coherent logical way. …”
Get full text

Central alterations of brain networks in patients with optic neuritis: a resting state fMRI study by Liang Huang, Dan Song, Lei Zhong, Xuan Liao, Xian-Mei Zhou, Qian-Min Ge, Qian Ling, Yan-Mei Zeng, Xiao-Yu Wang, Jin-Yu Hu, Cheng Chen, Liang-Qi He, Qiong Zhou, Yi Shao

“…AIM: To assess the alterations in the resting-state function connections between the two cerebral hemispheres in patients with optic neuritis (ON) and healthy controls (HCs). METHODS: A total of 12 ON patients (six males and six females) and 12 HCs (six males and six females) who were highly matched for sex, age, and educational level were recruited. …”
Get full text

Comparison of three sacral screw internal fixation techniques in the treatment of L4–S1 lumbar degenerative disease with osteoporosis: a retrospective observational study by Guo-ning Gu, Teng Liu, Jie Ding, Hui-zhi Guo, Guo-ye Mo, Yong-xian Li, Kai Yuan, Zhi-dong Yang, Shun-cong Zhang, Yong-chao Tang

“…We aimed to compare the clinical efficacy and imaging results of sacral bicortical, tricortical, and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)-augmented pedicle-screw fixation in the treatment of L4–S1 LDD with osteoporosis. Methods This is a retrospective study, 72 patients were enrolled and divided into three groups according to the S1-screw fixation method: PMMA-augmented pedicle-screw fixation (Group A, n = 26), bicortical fixation (Group B, n = 22), and tricortical fixation (Group C, n = 24). …”
Get full text

Evaluation of in-office tooth whitening treatment with violet LED: protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial by Lara Jansiski Motta, Anna Carolina Ratto Tempestini Horliana, Sandra Kalil Bussadori, Maria Fernanda Setúbal Destro Rodrigues, Ana Eliza Castanho Garrini dos Santos, Marcelo Mendes Pinto, Dácio Antonio Pantano Junior, Aldo Brugnera Jr, Fátima Antonia Aparecida Zanin

“…This study describes a protocol for the first randomised controlled clinical trial to compare the effects of the two methods.Methods and analysis Eighty patients will be divided into four groups: G1 violet LED; G2 violet LED +35% carbamide peroxide; G3 35% H2O2 and G4 violet LED +gingivoplasty. …”
Get full text

Establishing and Validating a Predictive Model for the Risk of In-Hospital Mortality Post-Resuscitation in Patients with Sudden Death, as Well as Conducting Clinical Analysis Resea... by Yu Li, Zhen Chen, Xin Guo, Yifan Liang, Jueyan Wang, Jinglei Li, Xianting Yang, Fen Ai

“…This study aims to enhance the survival rate of patients experiencing sudden death by developing and validating a risk prediction model for in-hospital mortality following successful resuscitation. Method: This study is a retrospective analysis of data that were collected prospectively from a standardized clinical database. …”
Get full text

Effect of a Single Preventive Intravenous Dose of Ketorolac and Paracetamol on Reducing Postoperative Pain in Septorhinoplasty Patients: Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial by Laleh Dehghanpisheh, Fatane Jamshidi, Saeid Khademi, Shirin Farokhiani, Mohammad Reza Cheraghi, Mahsa Emadi, Reza Kaboodkhani, Ali Akbari, Naeimehossadat Asmarian, Mahsa Banifatemi

“…Pain intensity was measured using visual analog scale (VAS) 1 hour and 6 hours after surgery. …”
Get full text

Internal fixation of comminuted patellar fractures with only non-absorbable suture via nice knot: a retrospective study by Lian Zeng, Tian Xia, Xinyue Yang, Qiankun Xu, Yudong Sun, Chengfeng Li, Hongwei Lu, Wenzhe Sun, Peiran Xue, Pengqing Zhang, Jianwen Wang, Yanzhen Qu

“…This study aimed to evaluate the intraoperative and early postoperative outcomes of treating comminuted patellar fractures using non-absorbable sutures as the sole internal fixation method via the Nice knot technique. Methods This retrospective study reviewed 25 patients with unilateral closed comminuted patellar fractures who underwent open reduction and internal fixation using either non-absorbable sutures tied with a Nice knot (NK group, n = 12) or the traditional tension band technique (TB group, n = 13). …”
Get full text

A deep machine learning model development for the biomarkers of the anatomical and functional anti-VEGF therapy outcome detection on retinal OCT images by B.E. Malyugin, S.N. Sakhnov, L.E. Axenova, K.D. Axenov, E.V. Kozina, V.V. Vronskaya, V.V. Myasnikova

“…However, today it is a rather expensive method of treatment, which is accompanied by various complications. …”
Get full text

A cytoderm metabolic labeling TPAPy-Tre for real-time detection of vitality of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum by Mengru Yang, Guiqin Dai, Dan Li, Pengfei Zhao, Senlin Zhan, Hongjuan Qin, Hongzhou Lu, Mingbin Zheng, Peize Zhang

“…TPAPy-Tre shows potential as a rapid, visual method for tracking bacterial vitality during TB treatment, offering immediate feedback on treatment response. …”
Get full text

TPDTNet: Two-Phase Distillation Training for Visible-to-Infrared Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection by Siyu Wang, Xiaogang Yang, Ruitao Lu, Shuang Su, Bin Tang, Tao Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu

“…Extensive experiments are conducted on three optical-to-infrared datasets, and the experimental results show that our TPDTNet method achieves state-of-the-art results relative to those of the baseline model.…”
Get full text

Sri Lanka Child Growth Cohort (SLCGC): a population-based study on growth faltering of children by Abner Daniel, Dhammica Rowel, Upul Senarath, Vithanage Pujitha Wickramasinghe, Shreenika De Silva Weliange, Guwani Liyanage, Yasaswi Niranjala Walpita, Indika Siriwardena, Kunarathinam Partheepan, Suganya Yogeswaran, Hiranya Senani Jayawickrama, Shreenika D S Weliange, Yasaswi N Walpita, Kunarathinum Partheepan, Hiranya S Jayawickrama, Harendra De Silva, Jagath C Ranasinghe, Gitanjali Sathiadas, Ishani Rodrigo, Amali Dalpatadu, Heshan Jayaweera, Wasana Bandara, Deepthi Samarage

“…A sample of 1875 mother–child pairs were recruited using two-stage stratified cluster sampling method. Data on sociodemographic characteristics, pregnancy care, feeding practices, childhood illnesses and home risk factors were collected through direct interviews with the caregivers. …”
Get full text

A multiplex assay of leptin, resistin, and adiponectin by immunoaffinity enrichment and targeted mass spectrometry by Jie Pu, Xinxin Yang, Tai-Tu Lin, Thomas L. Fillmore, Marina A. Gritsenko, Shane S. Kelly, Adam C. Swensen, Tujin Shi, Stephen R. Master, James P. DeLany, Bret H. Goodpaster, Wei-Jun Qian, Jun Qu

“…Although these biomarkers have historically been quantified using immunoassays, the specificity of antibody-based methods has frequently been questioned. As a result, there is an increasing interest in developing reliable, multiplexed clinical assays that utilize mass spectrometry for improved accuracy. …”
Get full text

Assessment of the absorbed doses in the fetus from the computed tomography of the chest for the pregnant women by A. V. Vodovatov, L. A. Chipiga, P. A. Piven, G. E. Trufanov, G. V. Berkovich, I. A. Mashchenko, P. S. Druzhinina, V. G. Puzyrev, S. A. Ryzhov

“…However, there are no existingn approved methods for the assessment of the absorbed dose in the fetus in the Russian Federation. …”
Get full text

Measuring Faculty Excellence: Introducing a Model by Anoush Dehnadi Moghadam

“…Excellence Score = Technical Skills × approach to teaching × Professional Competence The multiplication method was chosen because the presence of competence in all three areas is mandatory, meaning that the absence of competence in one area makes the result equale to  zero. …”
Get full text

Modulation of rat aortic contractions by ultradisperse TiO2 nanoparticles of crystalline forms of anatase and rutile by Platon Zub, Olga Tsymbalyuk, Oleksandr Chunikhin, Tamara Davydovska, Stanislav Myakushko, Khrystyna Sholota, Ivan Voiteshenko, Oleksandr Tsuvariev, Sergiy Sukhopara, Valerii Skryshevskyi

“…The contractions were analysed by the methods of mechanokinetic analysis with the estimation of maximal velocities of the contraction and relaxation phases. …”
Get full text

The success of reforestation after experimental strip-shelterwood felling in the pine stands of the Eastern Polissia of Ukraine by Anatolyi Zhezhkun

“…The width of the strip with removed trees was equal to the average height of the parent stand (25-30 m). …”
Get full text

Establishing a clinical prediction model for diabetic foot ulcers in type 2 diabetic patients with lower extremity arteriosclerotic occlusion using machine learning by Yubo Wang, Chunyu Jiang, Yi qi Xing, Linxuan Zou, Mingzhi Song, Xueling Qu, Zhuqiang Jia, Lin Zhao, Xin Han, Junwei Zong, Shouyu Wang

“…Internal validation of the model was undertaken using the bootstrap method, combing with external temporal validation, with the results visually presented through the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve and the Calibration curve. …”
Get full text

Efficacy of ultrasound-guided intensive silver needles in the treatment of shoulder pain by LUO Jia, LIU Jitong, ZHANG Weiwei, LIAO Qian, LIAO Yongqiong

“…Objective To investigate the effects of ultrasound.guided intensive silver needles on the efficacy, pain, shoulder function, inflammatory factors and pain.causing substances in patients with shoulder joint pain. Methods A total of 92 patients with frozen shoulder admitted to Hunan Provincial People..s Hospital from January 2022 to May 2023 were selected, and were divided into two groups with 46 cases in each group by random number table method. …”
Get full text

Review of research progress on the theory and bearing characteristics of post-grouting for prestressed concrete pipe pile ends and sides by HOU Zhenkun, CHEN Xuanlin, TANG Mengxiong, LING Zao, DU Xidong, XU Feng, HE Shaoyang, LIANG Shihua

“…After grouting， the bearing capacity of pipe piles installed using the intermediate excavation method generally exceeds 4 000 kN. Additionally， the bearing capacity of static drilling and planting bamboo joint piles increases by more than 20%， while the bearing capacity of drilling and pipe piles typically exceeds 20 000 kN. （2） Existing grouting theories have facilitated advancements in grouting technology. …”
Get full text