Cognitive Impairment after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Clinical Course and Impact on Outcome: A Swedish-Icelandic Study by Maud Stenberg, Alison K. Godbolt, Catharina Nygren De Boussard, Richard Levi, Britt-Marie Stålnacke

“…The BNIS subscales “orientation” and “visuospatial and visual problem solving” were associated with the GOSE and RLAS-R at 1 year. …”
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An Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Sorghum Weed Classification Using Multi-Scale Feature Enhanced DenseNet by Armaano Ajay, S. Sandosh, Aryan Saji, Harsh Agarwal

“…The model also integrates Triplet Attention (TA) to refine feature representations and employs Grad-CAM and LIME for visual interpretability, offering insights into the classification process. …”
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Object and action naming in adults and aged people with Down syndrome by Cláudia Lopes Carvalho, Aline de Souza Gonçalves Gomes da Conceição, Andressa Rodrigues Ramos, Livea Carla Fidalgo Garcez Sant’Ana, Maria de Fátima Rebouças da Silva, Octávio Gonçalves Ribeiro, Orestes Vicente Forlenza, Marcia Radanovic

“…Objective: To evaluate naming alterations in adults and older individuals with DS using the Object and Action Naming Battery (OANB) and to identify the influence of age, educational attainment, and degree of intellectual disability (ID) on linguistic performance. Methods: This study included 26 individuals diagnosed with DS aged ≥20 years, assessed with the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older Persons with Down Syndrome and Other People with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) for cognitive evaluation and the OANB, a visual confrontation naming test including 162 objects and one hundred actions. …”
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An Open Data Platform for Traffic Parameters Measurement via Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Video by Yuchuan Du, Cong Zhao, Feng Li, Xuefeng Yang

“…The proposed data platform also offers significant advantages over conventional methods that use historical and outdated data to run poorly calibrated traffic simulation models.…”
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Key Factors to Improve the Outcome of Retinal Reattachment Surgery in Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy and Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy by Svenja Deuchler, Hanns Ackermann, Pankaj Singh, Thomas Kohnen, Clemens Wagner, Frank Koch

“…Methods. The main goal was to reduce the retinal redetachment rate. …”
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Bibliometric analysis and description of research trends in the treatment of psoriasis with biologic agents in the past two decades (2004–2023) by Yingdong Wang, Junchen Li, Chenqi Guo, Guojing Yang, Haiyue Lin, Yu Zhang

“…To perform the bibliometric analysis and create visual knowledge graphs, CiteSpace, the Bibliometrix R package, and VOSviewers were utilized.Results The study included a total of 3800 articles. …”
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Treatment of periprosthetic knee joint infection using a spacer with a mixed carbonsilver antibacterial coating in the medium term by L. I. Malyuchenko, N. S. Nikolaev, V. Yu. Emel'yanov

“…In this work, we looked at the mid-term clinical outcomes of using spacers coated with linear chain carbon doped with silver ions (LC-Ag+) to treat PJI.Object and methods. The mid-term clinical results of 31 patients with LUP-Ag+ coated spacers were compared to 31 control patients groups utilizing tests of the functional and clinical scales KSS, visual analogue pain scale (VAS), EQVAS, and EQ-5D-5L 2 years following surgery.Results. …”
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Surgical outcomes of lamellar macular holes treatment using autologous platelet-rich plasma by D.O. Shkvorchenko, O.Yu. Vedernikova, A.A. Shpak

“…To evaluate the results of surgical treatment of lamellar macular holes (LMH) using autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in comparison with the standard surgical technique. Material and methods. The study included 71 patients (71 eyes) with LMH. …”
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Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles for Beta-Amyloid Detection by Nelly S. Chmelyuk, Aleksey A. Nikitin, Veronika V. Vadekhina, Vladimir A. Mitkevich, Maxim A. Abakumov

“…However, it is known that magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) can improve the T2 contrast in MR images of various targets. <b>Methods</b>: We used cubic MNPs, which were produced by thermal decomposition and then it was covalently bonded to a modified fluorescently labeled tetrapeptide, HAEE-Cy5, for visualizing beta-amyloid plaques. …”
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Noise-immune zeroing neural dynamics for dynamic signal source localization system and robotic applications in the presence of noise by Yuxin Zhao, Jiahao Wu, Mianjie Zheng

“…Time angle of arrival (AoA) and time difference of arrival (TDOA) are two widely used methods for solving dynamic signal source localization (DSSL) problems, where the position of a moving target is determined by measuring the angle and time difference of the signal's arrival, respectively. …”
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Validation of Indonesian Graves’ Ophthalmopathy Quality of Life Questionnaire and Its Association with Clinical Activity and Severity of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy by Cecilia Anggraini, Syntia Nusanti, Dicky Levenus Tahapary, Levina Chandra Khoe

“…The Cronbach’s alpha for the visual function subscale value was 0.971, the appearance subscale value was 0.993, and the total score was 0.986. …”
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Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare the Safety and Efficacy of Tamsulosin, Solifenacin, and Combination of Both in Treatment of Double-J Stent-Related Lower Urinary Symptoms by Essam Shalaby, Abul-fotouh Ahmed, Aref Maarouf, Iman Yahia, Mohamed Ali, Ammar Ghobish

“…We evaluated the effectiveness and safety of tamsulosin, solifenacin, and combination of both in reducing double-J stent-related lower urinary symptoms. Materials and Methods. A total of 338 patients with double-J ureteral stenting were randomly divided, postoperatively, into 4 groups. …”
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Effects of group music sessions on cognitive and psychological functions in healthy older adults by Takamitsu Shinada, Michio Takahashi, Akari Uno, Keishi Soga, Yasuyuki Taki, Yasuyuki Taki

“…Playing musical instruments, which requires the integration of auditory, visual, and somatosensory functions, is considered an effective way to prevent the development of dementia. …”
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Hardware Module Design and Software Implementation of Multisensor Fire Detection and Notification System Using Fuzzy Logic and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) by Robert A. Sowah, Kwaku Apeadu, Francis Gatsi, Kwame O. Ampadu, Baffour S. Mensah

“…Convolutional Neural Networks are mainstream methods of deep learning due to their ability to perform feature extraction and classification in the same architecture. …”
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Comparison of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss with Tinnitus and Short-Term Tinnitus by Fang Qi, Liang Chaoqun, Yan Lin, Yang Jianming

“…The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), visual analog scale with respect to tinnitus loudness (VAS), and RI in each group were evaluated. …”
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Dual-Stream Global Relationship Learning for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images by Peng Sun, Yongbin Zheng, Wanying Xu, Jiansong Yang

“…One of the reasons is that existing methods mainly focus on local features, while overlooking the correlation among objects and common sense knowledge, which is inconsistent with the human visual system. …”
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SAMU-Net: A dual-stage polyp segmentation network with a custom attention-based U-Net and segment anything model for enhanced mask prediction by Radiful Islam, Rashik Shahriar Akash, Md Awlad Hossen Rony, Md Zahid Hasan

“…Our process produced a dice coefficient score of 0.94, which is very impressive and has a considerable improvement over the existing state-of-the-art polyp segmentation methods. Moreover, the qualitative results also visualize that the SAMU-Net is capable of accurately segmenting polyps of wide ranges, thus, it is a relevant tool for computer-aided detection as well as the diagnosis of colorectal cancer.…”
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Phish Fighter: Self Updating Machine Learning Shield Against Phishing Kits Based on HTML Code Analysis by Gabriela Brezeanu, Alexandru Archip, Codrut-Georgian Artene

“…Phishing attacks are a growing threat that has evolved along with technological advancements. Existing detection methods struggle with constantly evolving tactics and &#x201C;zero-day&#x201D; attacks that exploit unknown vulnerabilities. …”
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Carbon Ion Beam Radiotherapy for Sinonasal Malignant Tumors Invading Skull Base by Nobuo Ohta, Yusuke Suzuki, Azusa Hasegawa, Masaru Aoyagi, Seiji Kakehata

“…A retrospective clinical study at the Yamagata University School of Medicine. Subjects and Methods. Three patients with sinonasal malignant tumors invading skull base were presented in present study. …”
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Acupuncture plus night splint for quality of life and disability in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized controlled trial by Nihal Tezel, Ebru Umay, Volkan Yılmaz, Aytul Cakci

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effects of acupuncture plus night splinting on quality of life, function and pain in patients with CTS. Methods: This research is a prospective randomized, single-center trial. …”
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