The effectiveness of Valsalva Maneuver-Assisted percutaneous vertebroplasty in reducing cement leakage in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures by Yongjie Wang, Xueming Chen, Qian Lu, Libin Cui, Xiangyu Li, Chao Kong, Shibao Lu

“…Methods 302 patients were enrolled in this study. …”
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Association between red blood cell distribution width to serum calcium ratio and all-cause mortality in critically ill patients with diabetic nephropathy: a retrospective analysis... by Yanyi Huang, Kaiwen Jiang, Yang Liu, Wei Mo, Yanping Zeng, Ying Yang, Jianlu Bi

“…Kaplan-Meier curves were used to visualize outcomes by quartiles. Cox proportional hazards regression and restricted cubic spline (RCS) methods assessed the RCR index’s impact on prognosis. …”
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Outcome of COVID-19 in children: results of a 12-month follow-up by T. M. Chernova, V. N. Timchenko, E. V. Barakina, A. A. Zherebtsova, N. S. Gusarova, Yu. S. Khabarova, V. V. Bulygina, D. E. Shakhrai, A. V. Zhiglova, E. A. Ttsvetkova

“…The course of rehabilitation therapy, including drug treatment and non-drug methods, made it possible to quickly restore the state of health of the observed children.Conclusion. …”
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Phylogeny and species delimitation of ciliates in the genus Spirostomum (class Heterotrichea) using single-cell transcriptomes by Shahed Uddin Ahmed Shazib, Auden Cote-L’Heureux, Ragib Ahsan, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, JunMo Lee, Laura A. Katz, Mann Kyoon Shin

“…We evaluated the utility of the transcriptomic data by constructing species trees using concatenation and coalescent-based methods. In addition, we used neighbor-net network analysis to visualize and quantify potential phylogenetic conflicts within the concatenated dataset. …”
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Effect of MED-TLIF Combined with Percutaneous Pedicle Screw Fixation on Function and Spinal Pelvic Parameters in Patients with Lumbar Spondylolisthesis by Huiqiang Lv, Hailiang Bi, Jianming Wei, Bin Xia

“…The aim of this study is to investigate the clinical effect of minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) combined with percutaneous pedicle screw fixation in the treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis under microscope. Methods. The clinical and surgical data of 106 patients with lumbar spondylolisthesis treated in our hospital were selected and divided into research group (56 cases) according to surgical methods (MIS-TLIF combined with percutaneous pedicle screw fixation). …”
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All‐Level Versus Alternative‐Level in Unilateral Laminoplasty: A Retrospective Comparative Study by Bin Zheng, Zhenqi Zhu, Yan Liang, Haiying Liu

“…There are no differences in sagittal parameters. All‐level fixation method showed better preservation of the spinal canal diameter.…”
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Immunomarker profiling in human chronic wound swabs reveals IL-1 beta/IL-1RA and CXCL8/CXCL10 ratios as potential biomarkers for wound healing, infection status and regenerative st... by Julian-Dario Rembe, Waseem Garabet, Matthias Augustin, Joachim Dissemond, Wiebke Ibing, Hubert Schelzig, Ewa K. Stuermer

“…Traditional diagnostic methods, including visual inspection and microbiological cultures, offer limited insight into the wound micro-environment. …”
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LIFE QUALITY OF PERSONS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN RUSSIA — IS THERE RELATION TO TREATMENT? (BY DATA FROM POPULATIONAL STUDY ESSE-RF) by Yu A. Balanova, A. V. Kontsevaya, S. A. Shalnova, A. D. Deev, A. V. Kapustina, S. E. Evstifeeva, G. А. Muromtseva, A. E. Imaeva, S. A. Boytsov

“…LQ was assessed with international eUROQOL-5D and visual analogue scale eQ-VAs. Integral LQ assessment was done with LW shaw et al. methodics. …”
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Efficacy of low molecular weight hyaluronic acid (500–730 kDa) in post-traumatic pathology of periarticular soft tissues at different sites: data from an open-label pilot clinical... by V. A. Nesterenko, M. A. Makarov, A. E. Karateev, E. I. Bialik, V. E. Bialik, A. A. Bialik

“…Local injection therapy (LIT) with hyaluronic acid (HA) medications is one of the most promising methods for the treatment of periarticular soft tissue pathology (PASTP) caused by injury or overuse.   …”
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Large-Scale Video Retrieval via Deep Local Convolutional Features by Chen Zhang, Bin Hu, Yucong Suo, Zhiqiang Zou, Yimu Ji

“…The results from extensive experiments on two publicly available datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior efficiency as well as accuracy over other state-of-the-art visual search methods.…”
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Vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling for stellate nonhereditary idiopathic foveomacular retinoschisis: a case report by O.S. Pyrozhkova, M.M. Umanets

“…Purpose: To report a case of a rare disease, stellate nonhereditary idiopathic foveomacular retinoschisis (SNIFR), its clinical course and the results of vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling. Material and Methods: Comprehensive ophthalmological examination (including visual acuity testing, biomicroscopy, ophthalmoscopy, tonometry, Goldmann kinetic perimetry and imaging with ocular ultrasound, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and fluorescein angiography (FA)) was performed before surgery and 1 month, 3 months and 12 months thereafter. …”
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CFD Design Performance Analysis for a High-Speed Propeller by Marian Ristea, Adrian Popa, Octavian-Narcis Volintiru

“…The use of numerical methods allows to determine the thrust forces on the propellers, to highlight the areas in the propeller blade where the maximum and minimum pressures occur, to identify the cavitation zone and to visualize the degree of turbulence of the fluid flow on the propeller blades in rotational motion. …”
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A lightweight transformer with linear self‐attention for defect recognition by Yuwen Zhai, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao, Yiping Gao

“…Abstract Visual defect recognition techniques based on deep learning models are crucial for modern industrial quality inspection. …”
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A Low‐Cost Alternative Technique for Eye Protection During Prone Positioning in Spinal Surgery by John Emelifeonwu, Douglas Duncan, Jay J. Park, Andreas K. Demetriades

“…Methods In our centre, we practiced a cost‐effective method to ensure proper patient positioning, eye protection, and consistent assessment of eye position during prone spinal surgery. …”
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High-Precision Depth Estimation Networks Using Low-Resolution Depth and RGB Image Sensors for Low-Cost Mixed Reality Glasses by Wei-Jong Yang, Hsuan Tsai, Din-Yuen Chan

“…In recent years, with the booming development of the three-dimensional and mixed reality (MR) industries, depth estimation tools have become increasingly important to support many visual problems. Intrinsically, the restriction of computational resources hardly lets complex depth completion methods be implemented on MR glasses. …”
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When Readers Do Not Fight Falsehood: An Exploration of Factors Influencing the Perceived Realism of False News on International Disputes by Mingxiao Sui, Yunjuan Luo, Newly Paul

“…Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers’ perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general trust in mainstream Chinese media and that in mainstream U.S. media, as well as news literacy. …”
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The effect of body massage lying face down on intraocular pressure in normal eyes by Jose E.E. League, MD, Jonathan A. Rivera, MD, Edgar U. Leuenberger,MD

“…Objective: This study determined changes in intraocular pressure (IOP) of normal eyes during face-down body massage. Methods: Forty-six participants were recruited and underwent detailed ophthalmic examination including gonioscopy, corneal pachymetry, and visual-field examination. …”
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Single-cell RNA-Seq Clustering Based on Dual Autoencoder with Variational Bayes by JIA Jihua, XU Yaokui, WANG Minghui

“…Finally, the variational Bayesian Gaussian mixture model is used to cluster the cells and visualize the clustering results. The experimental results on ten scRNA-seq datasets show that the ARI index of the proposed method is superior to other methods on six datasets, and the ARI index value on Biase and Klein datasets reaches 0. 90 or above.…”
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INTERPLEURAL ANALGESIA AFTER SURGERY INTERVENTIONS ON THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN IN TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS PATIENTS by O. N. Pulkina, G. E. Ulrich, D. V. Kuklin, V. M. Bragilevsky

“…Goal of the trial: to evaluate efficiency interpleural administration of local anesthetics for pain management after surgery on the thoracic spine. Materials and methods. Tuberculosis spondylitis patients after the surgery on the thoracic spine were divided into two groups depending on the way of postoperative anesthesia. …”
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The EDI Multi-Modal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Dataset (EDI-SLAM) by Peteris Racinskis, Gustavs Krasnikovs, Janis Arents, Modris Greitans

“…In this paper, we describe the methods used to collect the dataset, its contents, and its intended use.…”
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