Evaluation of the resistance of the breeding material beetroot to Cercospora amid epiphytoty in greenhouses the Moscow region by E. G. Kozar, S. A. Vetrova, I. A. Engalycheva, M. I. Fedorova

“…Phytomonitoring on beetroot plantings and sowing of the experimental production Department of the «Federal Scientific Vegetable Center» growing was carried out by methods of visual diagnostics and microscopy. Cercospora lesion in the breeding nursery was evaluated on an 11-point scale, the ranking of samples into five groups of resistance - according to the degree of disease development (R%). …”
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Influence of molar incisor hypomineralisation severity on dental hypersensitivity, anxiety/fear, and aesthetic self-perception: a cross-sectional study by Bianca Caroline GOMES, Lana CARDOSO-SILVA, Beatriz Kelly Barros LOPES, Roberta Paula de Faria MELO, Isabella Silva CATANANTI, Alexandra Mussolino de QUEIROZ, Francisco Wanderley Garcia PAULA-SILVA, David John MANTON, Fabrício Kitazono de CARVALHO

“…Hypersensitivity was measured with the visual analogue scale (VAS) and the Schiff Cold Air Sensitivity Scale (SCASS). …”
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Self-collected and clinician-collected anal swabs show modest agreement for HPV genotyping. by Racheal S Dube Mandishora, Trine B Rounge, Megan Fitzpatrick, Irene Kraus Christiansen, Ole Herman Ambur, Sonja Lagström, Babill Stray-Pedersen, Massimo Tommasino, Joel Palefsky, Zvavahera M Chirenje

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a cross sectional study with participants from a visual-inspection-with-acetic-acid and cervicography (VIAC) clinic, in Harare, Zimbabwe. …”
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Quantitative reservoir evaluation and hydrocarbon volumetrics :an integrated petrophysical and 3-D static modeling approach in ‘Hamphidex’ field, Niger-Delta, Nigeria by Akindeji Opeyemi FAJANA, Muhamed Adam, Hammed Oyesomi

“…Comprehensive facies models and petrophysical property models were developed for each reservoir sand (X, Y, and Z), integrating 3D visualizations of facies distributions, porosity, permeability, water saturation, and fluid contact models. …”
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Urban Land Use Classification Model Fusing Multimodal Deep Features by Yougui Ren, Zhiwei Xie, Shuaizhi Zhai

“…Subsequently, VGG-16 (Visual Geometry Group 16) is used to extract the image convolutional features of the block units, obtaining the raster structure deep features. …”
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Simplified Calculation of the Inertia Moment of the Cross Section of the Console under Loading by E. E. Deryugin

“…Each section is correlated with the stress distribution curve and its maximum value. This data is visualized in the form of diagrams. It is found that the inertia moment and the rigidity of the console do not change when the external applied force is rotated by 30° for a star-shaped section and by 45° for a square and a figured cross. …”
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Intracorneal Ring Segments in Keratoconus: A Narrative Literature Review by Hayat UK, Shiwani HA, Memon D, Walkden A

“…Usman K Hayat,1,&amp;ast; Haaris A Shiwani,1,&amp;ast; Danyal Memon,2 Andrew Walkden1 1Department of Ophthalmology, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, UK; 2Department of Ophthalmology, The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland&amp;ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Usman K Hayat, Department of Ophthalmology, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK, Tel +441612761234, Email Usman.Hayat@mft.nhs.ukBackground: Keratoconus is a bilateral, non-inflammatory corneal ectasia characterized by progressive thinning and conical protrusion, leading to irregular astigmatism, usually in association with high myopia. Visual rehabilitation options include corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL), rigid gas permeable contact lenses, intracorneal ring segments (ICRS), phakic intraocular lenses, and corneal transplantation. …”
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Vertebral level in pregnancy according to the posterior superior iliac spine: an observational study by Ping Li, Dong Luo, Haibo Qu, Xuesheng Li, Linli Luo

“…Two anesthesiologists used ink to mark the PSIS line through visual localization or palpation. Subsequently, an equilateral triangle was constructed with the PSIS line as the baseline, with the vertex intersected the lumbar spine towards the head. …”
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Neoplasias mamária e esplênica em cadela by Nathália Borstmann Machado, Daniela Lehmen

“…O paciente foi encaminhado para mastectomia regional e OVH após exame citológico compatível com carcinoma e, em exame ultrassonográfico pré-operatório, notou-se, em baço, formação nodular hipoecogênica singular, discretamente heterogênea, vascularizada ao Doppler e em contato íntimo com a cápsula esplênica em porção medial parietal, medindo 0,96 cm em seu maior eixo. Assim, em inspeção visual transoperatória após OVH e mediante aprovação do tutor, decidiu-se performar esplenectomia total e, após exame histopatológico, foi sabido que o órgão estava acometido por hemangiossarcoma. …”
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Voices of People With Disabilities: Integrating Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis to Study Disability Discourse on Social Media by Richard K. Lomotey, Sandra Kumi, Christian Nyaku, Ralph Deters

“…PwD with ADHD struggle with the effects of medications, household chores, sleep, attention span, and oversubscribing to online payment services. The PwD, who are visually impaired, feel alienated by society, struggle with public transit systems, have limited employment, and experience harassment. …”
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Quantifying degradation in animal acoustic signals with the R package baRulho by Marcelo Araya‐Salas, Erin E. Grabarczyk, Marcos Quiroz‐Oliva, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Alejandro Rico‐Guevara

“…With this data, we showcase baRulho's functions to prepare master sound files, annotate re‐recorded test sounds, as well as to calculate and visualize measures that quantify the degradation of acoustic signals in the time and frequency domain. …”
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Mapping stakeholders, services, data, and the information system for adolescent health in the West Bank by Aisha Shalash, Maysaa Nemer, Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, Mohammad Kittaneh, Dervla Kelly, Khalifa Elmusharaf

“…Thematic analysis was performed on interview data, and geospatial analysis was used to visualize the distribution of services and providers across 11 governorates using ArcMap 10.5. …”
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Leveraging digital twins for community-driven sustainable WEFE nexus management by Ali Shehadeh, Odey Alshboul, Mohammad Tamimi

“…The research started by developing a dynamic Revit model of typical housing in Irbid Camp to develop a digital platform for sustainable infrastructural changes to be visualized and planned. An extensive survey of 500 residents explored attitudes towards water, energy, food, and environmental management, including aspects of cultural heritage. …”
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Clinical efficacy of percutaneous endoscopic foraminal approach in the treatment of upper lumbar disc herniation by ZHU Hai，XU Yongyi，WANG Shuai，JI Feng

“…Preoperative, 1 ⁃ day postoperative，1 ⁃ month postoperative，and last follow ⁃ up evaluations included assessment of low back and leg pain using the Visual Analog Scale（VAS），and evaluation of lumbar function improvement using the Oswestry Disability Index（ODI）and Japanese Orthopaedic Association（JOA）scores. …”
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Therapy and rehabilitation of women with diabetic adhesive capsulitis by Iryna Zharova, Yevhen Orlenko

“…Observations were carried out using specific clinical (content analysis of medical records, review, clinical laboratory research), instrumental methods (bioimpedance diagnostics of body composition, goniometry, radiography) and sociological (visual analogue pain scale VAS, international questionnaire for assessing the quality of life MOS SF-36 (Medical Outcomes Study)) research methods. …”
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La influència de l’art contemporani en la noció moderna d’arxiu by Anna Titus i Soler

“…Més específicament, em proposo explorar aquesta influència des de diferents moviments artístics fins a arribar a l’art visual amb l’estudi de cas Arxiu d’arxius, de l’artista catalana Montserrat Soto. …”
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Semantic influence of programming on the development of thinking of students: background, research and prospects by M. U. Mukasheva, Y. V. Payevskaya

“…The semantic influence of programming on the development of computational thinking implies that with continuous learning to program, that requires high level of abstraction and logic, repetition of experimental verification actions (automatism), visual representation of results, and the work with the elimination of syntactic and logical errors have a significant impact on the development of students’ mental abilities.Purpose is to study the semantic influence of knowledge and programming skills on the development of secondary school students’ computational thinking in the context of programming training.Materials and methods. …”
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Revision surgeries following artificial disc replacement of cervical spine by Jong-Beom Park, Han Chang, Jin S. Yeom, Kyung-Soo Suk, Dong-Ho Lee, Jae Chul Lee

“…At the 2-year follow-up, neck (7.3 vs 1.6) and arm (7.0 vs 1.3) visual analog scales and Neck Disability Index score (46.7 vs 16.32) were improved (all, p < 0.05). …”
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Alcohol use and viral suppression in HIV-positive Kenyan female sex workers on antiretroviral therapy. by Jessica E Long, Barbra A Richardson, George Wanje, Kate S Wilson, Juma Shafi, Kishorchandra Mandaliya, Jane M Simoni, John Kinuthia, Walter Jaoko, R Scott McClelland

“…Adherence measures were collected monthly and included late ART refill (>48 hours) and self-reported adherence, using both a validated self-rating scale of ability to take medication and visual analog scale (VAS) of ART use in the last month. …”
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Association Between Patient-Reported Pain and Remission or Low Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from RA-BE-REAL Prospective Observational Study by Peter C. Taylor, Walid Fakhouri, Samuel Ogwu, Ewa Haladyj, Inmaculada de la Torre, Bruno Fautrel, Rieke Alten, Peter Nash, Eugen Feist

“…Pain was measured using the visual analogue scale (VAS) (0–100 mm) and clinically meaningful pain improvement thresholds of ≥ 30%, ≥ 50% and ≥ 70% from baseline to 3, 6, 12 and 24 M. …”
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