Comparison of the Effect of Ranibizumab and Aflibercept on Changes in Macular Choroidal Thickness in Patients Treated for Diabetic Macular Edema by Valérie Sarda, Pauline Eymard, Linda Hrarat, Franck Fajnkuchen, Audrey Giocanti-Aurégan

“…Inclusion criteria were treatment-naive DME eyes without concomitant panretinal photocoagulation, associated with a decrease in best-corrected visual acuity ≤75 letters on the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) scale. …”
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Oral and Intestinal Bacterial Substances Associated with Disease Activities in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Clinical Study by Kaori Kitamura, Hiroshi Shionoya, Suguru Suzuki, Richio Fukai, Shinichi Uda, Chiyuki Abe, Hiromitsu Takemori, Keita Nishimura, Hisashi Baba, Kou Katayama, Kuniaki Terato, Takaki Waritani

“…Anti-Pg-LPS IgG antibody levels were inversely correlated with activity indices such as patient global assessments using visual analogue scale (VAS) (p=0.002) and painVAS (p<0.001). …”
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Sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer. Experience in implementing at the regional level. Priority issues by A. Yu. Vorontsov, A. N. Volodin, M. A. Kurochkina, V. V. Radovskiy, T. V. Burova, S. V. Gamayunov

“…Sentinel lymph nodes were visualized using the radioisotope colloid 99mTc-Nanotop. …”
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Intensive versus Guideline Blood Pressure and Lipid Lowering in Patients with Previous Stroke: Main Results from the Pilot 'Prevention of Decline in Cognition after Stroke Trial' (... by Philip M Bath, Polly Scutt, Daniel J Blackburn, Sandeep Ankolekar, Kailash Krishnan, Clive Ballard, Alistair Burns, Jonathan Mant, Peter Passmore, Stuart Pocock, John Reckless, Nikola Sprigg, Rob Stewart, Joanna M Wardlaw, Gary A Ford, PODCAST Trial Investigators

“…However, intensive lipid lowering therapy was significantly associated with improved scores for ACE-R at 6 months, trail making A, modified Rankin Scale and Euro-Qol Visual Analogue Scale. There was no difference in rates of dementia or serious adverse events for either comparison.…”
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Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking Study on the Mechanism of the Therapeutic Effect of Strychni Semen in NSCLC by He Geng, Yujie Xue, Binghua Yan, Zhaoxue Lu, Hengjin Yang, Peng Li, Jundong Zhou

“…In addition, Strychni Semen’s effects on NSCLC involved mainly the Calcium pathway, the Estrogen pathway, and the cGMP-PKG and cAMP pathways. This study visually demonstrated the mechanism of the therapeutic effect of Strychni Semen in NSCLC through multiple components, targets and pathways which provides a basis for clinical treatment and further experimental research.…”
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Amyloid-beta 40 as a biomarker of cognitive impairment in acute ischemic stroke by Aleksey A. Kulesh, Viktor E. Drobakha, Elena M. Kuklina, Vladimir V. Shestakov

“…Aβ 40 concentration more than 436,4 pg/mL was also associated with a lower global cognitive status (according to the MMSE and MoCA), as well as the reduction in certain cognitive functions, namely, attention, visual-spatial functions and memory.Conclusions. The concentration of Aβ 40 in the cerebrospinal fluid is a biological marker of severity type of post-stroke cognitive impairment. …”
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A Spatial–Frequency Combined Transformer for Cloud Removal of Optical Remote Sensing Images by Fulian Zhao, Chenlong Ding, Xin Li, Runliang Xia, Caifeng Wu, Xin Lyu

“…Experimental evaluations on the public datasets demonstrate that SFCRFormer outperforms state-of-the-art methods across various quantitative metrics, including PSNR and SSIM, while delivering superior visual results.…”
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Quantitative and Fiber-Selective Evaluation for Central Poststroke Pain by Jian-Min Chen, Qing-Fa Chen, Zhi-Yong Wang, Guo-Xin Ni

“…In patients with thalamic lesions, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) had a positive correlation with 5 Hz CPT on the shoulder (r=0.010, p value = 0.005), 250 Hz CPT on the finger (r=0.690, p value = 0.009) from the contralesional side, and 2000 Hz CPT on the knee (r=0.690, p value = 0.009). …”
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Prospective and retrospective memory in mild Alzheimer's disease Memória prospectiva e retrospectiva na doença de Alzheimer leve by Sergilaine Pereira Martins, Benito Pereira Damasceno

“…There was no correlation between prospective memory and attention, visual perception, executive function, or depression scores. …”
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Evaluation of corneal epithelial mapping in type-2 diabetes mellitus by Esraa R. Hassaan, Mostafa M. Bahgat, Ahmed F. El-Shahed

“…Clinical data showed a high statistically significant (P<0.001) decreased best-corrected visual acuity in patient’s group. No statistically significant difference (P=0.979) between studied groups as regards intraocular pressure. …”
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Comparison of Presbyopia Between Glaucoma Patients Using Prostaglandin F Receptor Agonists and Fixed Combination Therapy by Ayaki M, Hanyuda A, Negishi K

“…Masahiko Ayaki,1,2 Akiko Hanyuda,1 Kazuno Negishi1 1Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 2Grand Central Tower Tokyo Eye Clinic, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence: Masahiko Ayaki, Grand Central Tower Tokyo Eye Clinic, 2-16-3 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 1080075, Japan, Email mayaki@olive.ocn.ne.jp Kazuno Negishi, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan, Email kazunonegishi@keio.jpObjective: The purpose of this study was to compare the near add power among glaucoma patients using prostaglandin F (FP) receptor agonists and fixed combination therapies and controls.Methods: Participants were aged from 40 to 69 years and phakic with visual acuity of 20/25 or better, and included 2200 controls, 784 patients using FP receptor agonist for primary open-angle glaucoma (FP), and 412 patients using fixed combination (Combi). …”
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Natural training tools of informatics in conditions of embodied and mental approach realization by Daria A. Barkhatova, Elmira A. Nigmatulina, Tatyana A. Stepanova

“…In the conditions of information education, the combination of embodied and mental approaches will allow to acquaint students with the essence of the studied subject due to activation of motor area of the memory and the kinesthetic and visual perception channels. The instrument of realization of this idea is offered to use natural tools in informatics, what is actualized by age features of cognitive abilities of students and individual requirements to ways of perception and mastering of the material, matched according to the level of their knowledge.The research results describe the models of natural tools, developed by students and lecturers of the basic Department of Informatics and Information Technologies in Education of Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. …”
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The intelligent evaluation model of the English humanistic landscape in agricultural industrial parks by the SPEAKING model: From the perspective of fish-vegetable symbiosis in new... by Yiping He, Mingyue Gao, Luyao Wang

“…It addresses two primary challenges: (1) the absence of robust theoretical grounding in existing translation evaluation systems, which leads to partial and insufficiently contextualized assessments in agricultural industrial park translations; and (2) difficulties in maintaining consistency and readability across multimodal translation tasks, particularly in speech and visual modalities. The proposed optimization model integrates linguistic theory with deep learning techniques, providing a detailed analysis of contextual translation elements. …”
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Efficacy of ketorolac versus tramadol for analgesia during percutaneous vertebroplasty

“…Operation time and analgesic consumption of the two groups were recorded and compared; The mean artery pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) were recorded at following times point: entering operation room (T0), beginning of surgery (T1), injection of bone cement into the vertebral body (T2), ending of surgery (T3); pain visual analogue scale (VAS) were recorded at admission, after analgesic medication, intraoperative maximum, at discharge and 1 year after surgery; Oswestry disability index (ODI) 1 year after surgery, satisfaction scores of patient, adverse events happened intraoperatively and postoperatively were also collected for comparison. …”
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Participatory modeling meets African swine fever – Systems Thinking in action by Lisa Rogoll, Katja Schulz, Jana Schulz

“…Causal Loop Diagrams were developed jointly with stakeholders to capture and visualize the interconnections within the system from stakeholders’ perspective. …”
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Patient Satisfaction and Resource Utilization Following Introduction of Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine (LAIB) in Scottish Prisons by Sayers C, Mogford D

“…The following outcomes were evaluated at 12, 24, and 52 weeks: patient satisfaction using the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM), patient-reported craving using a 100 mm visual analog scale (VAS), and opioid withdrawal using the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS). …”
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Risk assessment of landslides induced by the Ms6.2 earthquake in Jishishan, Gansu Province by Xiuqin WANG, Quanfu NIU, Hao WANG, Xi’an CHENG, Kegong LI, Hulin NIU

“…Utilizing high-resolution satellite imagery from before and after the earthquake, this study employs a MaxEnt model, constructed with visually interpreted disaster points and a set of impact factor characteristics, to assess the post-earthquake landslide hazard post-earthquake landslide hazard. …”
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A scoping review of national policies for hierarchical medical system in China since the 2009 health reform by Tingting Cai, Yuting Hua, Leyi Fang, Yunhui Xia, Jiantong Shen, Jiantong Shen, Jianlin Lou

“…Policy maker, policy initiatives, policy instrument, policy structure and evolution were visually analyzed. The people-centered integrated care model was used as the framework for analysis.Results150 policy documents were included, most of which were issued in the 13th Five-Year Plan. …”
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Mix-­and­-match Implantation of Multifocal and Extended Depth of Focus IOLs by K. B. Pershin, N. F. Pashinova, А. Yu. Tsygankov, E. A. Antonov, I. V. Kosova, L. V. Batalina

“…The advantage of combined implantation for achieving better near visual acuity and comparable incidence of adverse optical phenomena was shown.…”
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How Does Energy Harvesting from a Fluttering Foil Influence Its Nonlinear Dynamics? by Dilip Thakur, Faisal Muhammad, Muhammad Saif Ullah Khalid

“…The voltage output correlates with variations in the lift force, reaching its maximum at an intermediate resistance before declining due to a suppressing nonlinearity. Flow visualizations identify various vortex shedding patterns, including single (S), paired (P), triplet (T), multiple-pair (mP) and pair with single (P + S) that weaken at higher resistances and reduced velocities. …”
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