Impact of restorative treatment for symptomatic deep dentin caries on anxiety: the role of personality traits by Fikri Öcal, Yasemin Demirtaş Öcal

“…Pain and mood were measured using Visual Analog Scales (VAS-DP, VAS-M) before treatment and at three weeks post-treatment. …”
Get full text

LANDSCAPE AND RECREATIONAL CAPACITY OF THE TERRITORY OF CAUCASUS MINERALNYE VODY REGION FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT by V. S. Proskurin

“…Borders of classes are deined so that to group similar values and as much as possible to increase differences between classes for visual identification of zones. Results of researches and discussion: The main result of work - complex assessment of components of a landscape in relation to various directions of tourism. …”
Get full text

Effect of Articular Needling Therapy Combined with Proprioceptive Training on Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis by CHEN He, LI Xuemei, KUANG Xuehui, YU Jin

“…ObjectiveTo observe the clinical effect of articular needling therapy combined with proprioceptive training on patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA).MethodsA total of 90 KOA patients in the Foshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou University of Medicine from February 2021 to October 2022 were randomly divided into control group and observation group, with 45 cases in each group. …”
Get full text

Near working distances adopted by university students while viewing printed materials by Nabeela Hasrod

“…Back ground: With the increased near visual requirements among university students needed for studying and reading, both on printed material and with digital devices being used for these activities now more than pre-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the near working distance (NWD) may have shifted from the standard NWD of 40 cm. …”
Get full text

Disease Progression Modeling of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR): A Pharmacometrics Approach by Sohail Aziz, Sabariah Noor Harun, Siti Maisharah Sheikh Ghadzi

“…Model selection was based on the likelihood ratio test (5% significance level), objective function value (OFV), visual predictive check (VPC), relative standard error, and scientific plausibility. …”
Get full text

The visuomotor synchronization immersive virtual reality of a depression avatar in a stigma context experience mobilizes the fronto-parietal cortex and anterior insula by Kelssy Hitomi dos Santos Kawata, Kelssy Hitomi dos Santos Kawata, Wey Guan Lem, Koki Ono, Hiroshi Oyama

“…Although neuroimaging studies have explored the neural correlates of some SoE subcomponents of visuomotor synchronization, the neural correlates of individual differences in SoE and how humans acquire virtual body representations through SoE subcomponents remain to be investigated.MethodsHere, we used the right hand of a virtual patient with depression in immersive virtual reality (IVR) to induce SoE in participants and measured whole brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). …”
Get full text

Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Behaviour of 3D-Printed Part for Brake Pedal Applications by T. Niranjan, B. Singaravel, S. Srinivasulu Raju, R. Thanigaivelan

“…It can be used to collect visual data to recreate models of desired objects using 3D scanning methods. …”
Get full text

Choroidal microvascular dropout and its relationship to progression in primary open-angle and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma by Jimin Park, Youn Hye Jo, Kyung Rim Sung

“…Abstract Background To compare the longitudinal change of choroidal microvascular dropout (CMvD) and its relationship with glaucoma progression between primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXG). Methods The analysis included 114 eyes of 114 patients, with 57 POAG and 57 PXG eyes matched by age and visual field (VF) mean deviation (MD). …”
Get full text

Is relief the most common reaction to abortion? Self-assessed intensity of emotions attributed to abortion in a national sample of women aged 41 to 45 [version 2; peer review: 2 ap... by David Reardon

“…The objective of this study is to obtain self-assessed data on the intensity of emotional responses to abortion and pregnancy loss in a random national sample. Methods Using visual analog scales, a random sample of 1,925 women aged 41 to 45 completed a survey in which respondents rated the degree to which they experienced emotional responses to their first abortion or natural pregnancy loss. …”
Get full text

Gaze behavior and decision-making among handball referees: exploring gender and expertise differences by Jacek Świdwa, Stefanie Klatt, Adam Kantanista

“…This study investigates gaze behavior and decision-making processes among male and female handball referees of varying expertise levels. Methods A total of 51 handball referees (aged 30.25 ± 7.61 years), including 11 females and 40 males from the Polish Handball Federation, participated in the study. …”
Get full text

471 Defining proteomic and cellular elements of the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumor microenvironment with mass spectrometry imaging by Caroline Kittrell, Blake Sells, Lyndsay Young, Peggi Angel, Richard Drake

“…Finally, a distinct distribution of ECM peptides within and surrounding tumor tissue was visualized, and putative identifications have been assigned to these stromal elements. …”
Get full text

Evaluating Eye Tracking Technology in Nursing Education: A Scoping Review on Medication Administration Training by Jiranut Chaichana, Rob Eley, Chris Watling, Linda Ng

“…Eye tracking helped to reveal differences in visual focus between novice and expert nurses, with certain interventions shown to improve attention and concentration. …”
Get full text

An efficient fire detection algorithm based on Mamba space state linear attention by Yuming Li, Yongjie Wang, Xiaorui Shao, Anbo Zheng

“…Compared to existing methods, the proposed approach maintains high detection performance while exhibiting significant computational efficiency advantages.…”
Get full text

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Research into Chinese University Students’ Mental Health: A Bibliometric Analysis by Zhexian Zhu, Michela Montesi

“…Descriptive statistics and visual analysis tools were employed to explore publication trends and collaboration patterns. …”
Get full text

A systematic review and meta-analysis on surgical treatment for painful neuromas by Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, William Andrés Florez-Perdomo, Juan Sebastián Reyes Bello, Claudia Marcela Restrepo Lugo, Amgad Hanna

“…Preoperative pain levels were significantly reduced post-surgery, as indicated by mean preoperative scores on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) of 8.4 (SE 0.117, p < 0.00000001) for upper extremity neuromas and 8.38 (SE 0.158, p < 0.00001) for lower extremity neuromas. …”
Get full text

THE FIRST EXPERIENCE IN USING ELASTOGRAPHY IN COMBINATION WITH ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY FOR MEDIASTINAL PATHOLOGY: PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF FEASIBILITY AND COMPARISON OF CHAR... by I. V. Sivokozov, T. L. Silina, V. N. Korolev, P. A. Pravednikov, B. S. Lenskiy

“…Objective: to preliminarily assess the feasibility of elastography in endobronchial ultrasonography and to compare characteristics via different accesses.Material and methods. The investigation enrolled 3 patients (malignant, benign mediastinal adenopathy, paratracheal tumor). …”
Get full text

Therapeutic interventions for the non-motor strokes sequelae: an overview by Rami Algahtani, Raed Gasemaltayeb, Zubida Binsiddiq, Maha Almatrafi, Saja Felimban, Reham Alsaud

“…Non-pharmacological interventions like cognitive rehabilitation, psychotherapy, physical exercise, mindfulness-based therapy, and neuromodulation methods like transcranial magnetic stimulation are increasingly recognized for their comprehensive and complementary benefits. …”
Get full text

Comparison of Concurrent and Same-Day Balance Measurement Approaches in a Large Sample of Uninjured Collegiate Athletes by Jessica Saalfield, Kelsey L. Piersol, Robert Monaco, Jason Womack, Scott A Weismiller, Carrie Esopenko, Sabrina M Todaro, Fiona N Conway, Kyle Brostrand, Jennifer F. Buckman

“…Individual-level data were plotted to visually depict the relationships. # Results C3Logix ellipsoid volume and concurrently recorded error counts were significantly correlated in five of the six BESS conditions (rs:.22-.62; p< 0.0001). …”
Get full text

The majority of Norwegian patients with treatment-resistant chronic pain regained normal national health standards within 12 months after De-Qi acupuncture - a prospective observat... by Veronika Lindberg, Jan Baak

“…Patients self-assessed pain using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), and health using the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) before treatment and at 3- and 12-months of follow-up. …”
Get full text

A Robust Scheme of Vertebrae Segmentation for Medical Diagnosis by Faisal Rehman, Syed Irtiza Ali Shah, Naveed Riaz, Syed Omer Gilani

“…The results reveal that our proposed method is robust over multiple segmentations and outperformed the recently published state of art methods.…”
Get full text