DAGESTAN - A MODEL OF INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION IN A POLYETHNIC REGION by Natalia Aleksandrovna Schitova, Ivan Alekseevich Soloviev, Vitaly Semenovich Belozerov

“…The purpose of this study is to analyze the course of the ethnic processes that are underway in Dagestan nowadays, and to identify the major interethnic issues. Materials and methods: The article is based on the data from field research carried out in 2018. …”
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Experiences of Wheelchair Users With Spinal Cord Injury With Self-Tracking and Commercial Self-Tracking Technology (“In Our World, Calories Are Very Important”): Qualitative Interv... by Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, Katerina Cerna, Alexandra Weilenmann, Mattias Rost, Tobias Holmlund

“…One of their aims is to assist the individual wearing them in adopting a healthier lifestyle through tracking and visualizing their data. Some of these devices and apps have a wheelchair mode that indicates that they are designed for different types of bodies (eg, wheelchair users with spinal cord injury [SCI]). …”
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Progression of Heart Failure in People with Type 2 Diabetes in Germany: An Analysis Using German Health Insurance Claims Data by Keni Cheng-Siang Lee, Tobias Wagner, Adee Kennedy, Michael Wilke

“…Disease progression was visualized by Sankey plots. # Results Among the 173 195 individuals with T2D identified in 2013, 6725 (median age, 74 years) developed HF in 2014 or 2015. 34.4% of individuals had MACEs, and 42.9% died over 5 years. …”
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Ophthalmologic Manifestations and Retinal Findings in Children with Down Syndrome by Adem Ugurlu, Emre Altinkurt

“…To evaluate ocular findings in children with Down syndrome and to compare with the healthy children group. Methods. The study patients were divided into two groups as the diagnosed Down syndrome group and the control group. …”
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Elevated Plasma Endothelin-1 Levels in Normal Tension Glaucoma and Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Meta-Analysis by Shengjie Li, Aiping Zhang, Wenjun Cao, Xinghuai Sun

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The kinetics of milk gel structure formation studies by electron microscopy by I. T. Smykov

“…The aim of this study is to enhance the comprehension of the mechanism of enzymatic gelation in milk by visualizing the evolution of its microstructure through transmission electron microscopy. …”
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Endometriosis Quality of Life Cohort Study: Long-term Impact of Radical Laparoscopic Excision of Endometriosis by Rose McDonnell, Jessica Gollow, Elizabeth Nathan, Dorota Doherty, Kingshuk Majumder, Eden Wilkinson, Bernadette McElhinney, Krishnan Karthigasu, Roger Hart

“…Secondary objectives include recurrence and reoperation rates and impact on fertility. Materials and Methods: Prospective observational cohort study Patients who underwent surgical management of histologically confirmed endometriosis completed pre- and postoperative QOL questionnaires. …”
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Do I-PRF adjuvant injections in TMJ arthrocentesis have a cumulative physiological effect? A retrospective cohort study by Tahsin Tepecik, Mert Zöngör, Ecem Gedik

“…During follow-up visits, pain was evaluated with a visual analog scale (pVAS) during function and maximum interincisal opening (MIO) was measured to assess jaw mobility. …”
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Comparison of outcomes in the management of Type II odontoid fractures in young patients – Is surgery overrated? by Jitesh Manghwani, Ganesh Kumar, Nagaraju Venishetty, Anuj Mundra

“…The clinical details included the Neck Disability Index (NDI), Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for neck pain, and S-Range of Movement (ROM)-Neck score. …”
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Retinal Vasculature and Microstructure in Early Dry-Type Myopic Maculopathy by Jiao Sun, Jialin Wang, Yanling Wang

“…The aim of this cross-sectional study was to characterize and compare the retinal vasculature and microstructure in patients with early dry-type myopic maculopathy. Methods. Patients with a refractive error of less than −6 diopters were enrolled and classified into two groups. …”
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The influence of renal function on surgical outcomes of vitrectomy in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy by Qiongzhen Yuan, Zhouquan Yang, Wei Fan, Xiaofan Chen, Huan Zou, Rongdi Yuan

“…Notably, the IRF group had worse baseline best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) (p = 0.039) and showed greater BCVA improvement at 3 months (p = 0.008), 6 months (p = 0.047), 1 year (p = 0.007), 2 years (p = 0.003), 3 years (p = 0.009), and 4 years (p = 0.024) after surgery. …”
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Color image reversible data hiding based on adaptive capacity allocation and pixel value similarity distance sorting by Ningxiong Mao, Chunping Ouyang, Yaping Wan, Lingfeng Qu, Yuan Yuan

“…It enhances pixel sequence smoothness, thereby improving the accuracy of the PVO prediction method. Experimental results demonstrate that the stego-images generated by the proposed scheme exhibit significantly superior visual quality compared to those from other state-of-the-art schemes. …”
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Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv. resistance to herbicides in Lithuania and Ukraine by O. Auskalniene, V. Zadorozhnyi

“…Beauv. to herbicides from the class of inhibitors acetolactate that are used in crops of winter wheat. Methods. Field and laboratory studies. Visually evaluated the treatment efficacy 4 weeks after application (WAT4). …”
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Enhanced medical image segmentation using novel level set evolution and efficient optimization by Samad Wali, Adil Jhangeer, Ariana Abdul Rahimzai, Samina Samina, Mudassar Imran

“…Our findings were validated using qualitative and quantitative methods such as dice coefficient assessment, sensitivity, accuracy, and mean absolute distance (MAD). …”
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The prevalence of tractional retinal detachment in diabetic retinopathy at King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Amro Alhazimi, Ahmed Khalaf, Majed Alharbi, Ghada Alshehri, Sarah Aljefri, Faisal Albalawi, Leena Alqarawi, Saeed Alshahrani, Sadique Zameer

“…Early detection and treatment of TRD are critical to prevent visual impairment. Patients and methods This retrospective study was conducted at King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to assess the prevalence of TRD in patients with diabetes mellitus of various ages and to describe the epidemiological characteristics of individuals with TRD. …”
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Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia by orthopaedic surgeons in fixation of distal radius fracture by Chun Lok Chow, Yuk Chuen Siu, Chun Man Ma, Tun Hing Lui

“…A total of 12 patients (2 male/10 female) with a mean age of 60.6 were evaluated for the type of injury by AO classification, American Society of Anesthesiologists Classification (ASA), intraoperative visual analog scale pain (VAS) scores, duration of operation, post-operative pain control, complications and duration of hospitalisation. …”
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Altered static and dynamic functional connectivity in major depressive disorder accompanied by high anxiety: evidence from the REST-meta-MDD consortium by Lujun Li, Zhijun Zeng, Yaling Zhou, Jinfei Lin, Jiayuan Li

“…However, the underlying pathological mechanisms remain unclear.MethodsThe sample comprised 178 participants, including 73 MDD with high anxiety symptom subjects, 55 MDD with low anxiety symptom, and 50 healthy controls registered from multiple sites based on the REST-meta-MDD Project in China. …”
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Stability study of oxaliplatin and doxorubicin for intraperitoneal administration with hyperthermia by V. Escudero-Ortiz, M.ª J. Duart-Duart, C. Pérez-Ruixo, J. J. Pérez-Ruixo, B. Valenzuela

“…Physical stability wasfocused on visual control of particles or precipitates in solutions, dischargeof gases, odor and color. …”
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Effects of Lavender Oil Aromatherapy on Pain, Anxiety, and Comfort after Cesarean Section: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Sevban Arslan, Evşen Nazik, İpek Köse Tosunöz, Sevgi Deniz Doğan, Seda Karaçay Yıkar

“…Data were collected through the “Personal Information Form”, the “Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)”, the “Trait Anxiety Inventory (TAI)”, the “State Anxiety Inventory (SAI)”, and the “Postpartum Comfort Scale (PCS)”. …”
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In silico Evaluation of WWC1 in Melanoma Using Bioinformatic Analyses by Dilara Kamer Çolak, Ufuk Ünal, Sema Bolkent

“…Therefore, it was aimed to evaluate the WWC1 gene expression profiles in melanoma, an aggressive malignant skin tumor. Materials and Methods: Quantitative data from melanoma samples (n=592) were clinically evaluated using cBioPortal. …”
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