Objective Assessment of Active Display Screen Fixation Among Office Workers Using an Innovative Nonwearable Acquisition System: A Pilot Study by Edoardo Marelli, Davide Ruongo, Simone Dalola, Emma Sala, Cesare Tomasi, Vittorio Ferrari, Marco Ferrari, Giuseppe De Palma

“…Results: The obtained data allowed us to distinguish between the period of screen fixation and the presence in front of the monitor. The visual activity varied greatly on a daily basis because of the differences between tasks. …”
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Pheromone of the Banana-Spotting Bug, Amblypelta lutescens lutescens Distant (Heteroptera: Coreidae): Identification, Synthesis, and Field Bioassay by Ashot Khrimian, Harry A. C. Fay, Filadelfo Guzman, Kamlesh Chauhan, Chris Moore, Jeffrey R. Aldrich

“…The banana-spotting bug, Amblypelta lutescens lutescens Distant (Heteroptera: Coreidae), is one of the principal pests of tree fruits and nuts across northern and eastern Australia. Apart from visual damage assessment, there are currently no reliable methods for monitoring bug activity to aid management decisions. …”
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A Study to Determine the Association between Monocyte to HDL Cholesterol Ratio, Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio, Red Blood Cell Distribution Width (RDW), and Diabetic Retinopathy in... by Rupak Chatterjee, Arindam Naskar, Tania Ray Bhadra, Kingshuk Jana, Shambo Samrat Samajdar, Shatavisa Mukherjee

“…Background: Diabetic retinopathy is an important microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) leading to visual impairment. Inflammation of retinal vasculature plays a pivotal role in its pathogenesis. …”
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Vision-Threatening Diabetic Macular Ischemia Based on Inferred Progression Pathways in OCT Angiography by Miyo Yoshida, MD, Tomoaki Murakami, MD, PhD, Keiichi Nishikawa, MD, Kenji Ishihara, MD, PhD, Yuki Mori, MD, PhD, Akitaka Tsujikawa, MD, PhD

“…Purpose: To elucidate the progression pathways of diabetic macular ischemia (DMI) using OCT angiography (OCTA) images and to assess changes in visual acuity (VA) associated with each pathway. Design: A single-center, prospective case series study. …”
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Adjusting for covariates representing potential confounders, mediators, or competing predictors in the presence of measurement error: Dispelling a potential misapprehension and ins... by David M. Klurfeld, Nikhil V. Dhurandhar, Xiaoxin Yu, David B. Allison, Carmen D. Tekwe, Diana M. Thomas, Roger S. Zoh, Colby J. Vorland

“…In our derivation, the measurement reliabilities of exposures and confounders are not arbitrarily constrained to be equal. Further, our theoretical results are investigated using simulations. …”
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Levels of Zinc, Iron, and Copper in the Aqueous Humor of Patients with Primary Glaucoma by Yangjiani Li, Zhe Liu, Zhidong Li, Yingting Zhu, Shuxin Liang, Hongtao Liu, Jingfei Xue, Jicheng Lin, Ye Deng, Caibin Deng, Simei Zeng, Yehong Zhuo, Yiqing Li

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Text-Guided Distribution Calibration for Few-Shot Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images by Yu Cao, Jingyi Chen, Haoyu Wang, Lei Zhang, Chen Ding, Wei Wei, Shiqi Cao, Meilin Xie

“…We conducted experiments on the NWPU VHR-10 and DIOR datasets and clarified the superior performance of the proposed method compared with several state-of-the-art comparison methods.…”
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What Chicago community organizations needed to implement COVID-19 interventions: lessons learned in 2021 by David A. Moskowitz, Abigail Silva, Yvette Castañeda, Samuel L. Battalio, Madison L. Hartstein, Anne Marie Murphy, Sithembinkosi Ndebele, Matthew Switalski, Sarah Lomahan, Leilani Lacson, Abigail Plum, Emma Canty, Anna Sandoval, Paris Thomas, Marina De Pablo, Bonnie Spring, Molly Martin

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Prolonged periods of shallow sleep are associated with diabetic carotid atherosclerosis by Bingge Fan, Lingbing Meng, Lei Bai, Yaping Du, Haiyan Ding, Yu Chen, Yuna Zhang

“…This study aims to investigate the relationship between sleep patterns and carotid atherosclerosis in diabetic patients. Methods Experiments were designed, and Huawei Band 9 bracelets were utilized to monitor the sleep patterns of patients. …”
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Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Clinical Findings following Treatment with Antiangiogenic Drugs by Ricardo Casaroli-Marano, Roberto Gallego-Pinazo, Clemencia Torrón Fernández-Blanco, Marta S. Figueroa, Begoña Pina Marín, Gustavo Fernández-Baca Vaca, Antonio Piñero-Bustamante, Juan Donate López, José García-Arumí, Jordi Farrés Martí

“…To survey the management of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nvAMD) in Spain. Methods. An observational retrospective multicenter study was conducted. …”
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TV-SAM: Increasing Zero-Shot Segmentation Performance on Multimodal Medical Images Using GPT-4 Generated Descriptive Prompts Without Human Annotation by Zekun Jiang, Dongjie Cheng, Ziyuan Qin, Jun Gao, Qicheng Lao, Abdullaev Bakhrom Ismoilovich, Urazboev Gayrat, Yuldashov Elyorbek, Bekchanov Habibullo, Defu Tang, Linjing Wei, Kang Li, Le Zhang

“…This study presents a novel multimodal medical image zero-shot segmentation algorithm named the text-visual-prompt segment anything model (TV-SAM) without any manual annotations. …”
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Comprehensive plant health monitoring: expert-level assessment with spatio-temporal image data by Alvaro Fuentes, Alvaro Fuentes, Syed Ali Asgher, Syed Ali Asgher, Jiuqing Dong, Jiuqing Dong, Yongchae Jeong, Mun Haeng Lee, Taehyun Kim, Sook Yoon, Dong Sun Park, Dong Sun Park

“…To address this challenge, we propose a deep learning-based framework for expert-level, spatiotemporal plant health assessment using sequential RGB images. Our method categorizes plant health into five levels, ranging from very poor to optimal, based on visual and morphological indicators observed throughout the cultivation cycle. …”
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Altered Brain Activity and Functional Connectivity in Unilateral Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss by Jiawei Chen, Bo Hu, Peng Qin, Wei Gao, Chengcheng Liu, Dingjing Zi, Xuerui Ding, Ying Yu, Guangbin Cui, Lianjun Lu

“…SSNHL causes functional alterations in brain regions, mainly in the striatum, auditory cortex, visual cortex, MTG, AG, precuneus, and limbic lobes within the acute period of hearing loss.…”
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Regional homogeneity differences between the brains of young men and young women: A resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study by Xiaoci Li, Lingling Sun, Ziyu Zeng, Shihong Yan, Abao Rui, Jian Cai, Qingyu Wang, Jian Mei, Yun Yu, Yue Yu

“…We employed the statistical method of regional homogeneity (ReHo) to compare the brains of males and females. …”
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Prevention and treatment of the refractive amblyopia in pediatric keratoconus by Karyna Castro Cárdenas, Yaney Zayas Ribalta, Daniel Yulius Mayea Díaz, Linette Martínez Cereijo, Maikel Roque Morgado, Ricardo Andrés Molina Verona, Yumila Pupo García

“…Material and Methods: Pre-experimental study in 408 eyes of 224 pediatric patients with diagnosis of keratoconus, among May 2013 and April 2023. …”
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Comparison of detection and manifestations of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma by ultrasound at different frequencies by Hong QIN, Yuli ZHU, Qiannan ZHAO, Feihang WANG, Hansheng XIA, Wentao KONG, Wenping WANG

“…Conclusions6-9 MHz ultrasound detects metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, especially superficial lesions, more effectively than 1-5 MHz ultrasound and better visualizes characteristics.…”
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Evaluation of Clinical and Ultrasonographic Parameters in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Treated with Adalimumab: A Retrospective Study by M. Teoli, A. Zangrilli, M. S. Chimenti, M. Talamonti, M. Bavetta, D. Graceffa, R. Perricone, S. Chimenti

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical and US-PD parameters in PsA during adalimumab treatment. Methods. A retrospective study has been conducted in forty patients affected by moderate-to-severe peripheral PsA. …”
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Neural correlates of audiovisual integration in schizophrenia – an ERP study by A. Borgolte, C. Sinke, L. Michalke, L. Möde, N. Lepsy, D. Wiswede, S. Bleich, S. Bleich, G. R. Szycik, E. Ghaneirad

“…Since the underlying mechanisms of these aberrations are not yet fully understood, the present study aims to investigate multisensory processing in schizophrenia in more detail.MethodsIndividuals with schizophrenia (SZ) and healthy controls (HC) performed a simultaneity judgement task, a paradigm that is suitable for the examination of multisensory integration processes. …”
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Drone Navigation and Target Interception Using Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Cascade Reward Approach by Ali A. Darwish, Arie Nakhmani

“…By leveraging our methodology, drones can successfully navigate complex indoor and outdoor environments and effectively intercept targets based on visual cues.…”
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HAT: Achieving Comprehensive Inpainting of Lunar Spectral Imagery by Dingruibo Miao, Depei Gu, Jianguo Yan, Zhigang Tu, Jean-Pierre Barriot

“…., those within data missing regions), and hence, generate completed images that are more visually and semantically realistic. Through comparative experiments with existing mainstream methods, our HAT model has demonstrated outstanding repair performance. …”
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