Intrascleral Suture Anchoring: A Flapless/Grooveless Four-Point Intraocular Lens Fixation Technique by Xin Hu, Bo Zhao, Haiying Jin

“…We describe a minimally invasive suture fixation technique for four-point fixation of intraocular lenses (IOLs) in the treatment of aphakic eyes, namely, the intrascleral suture anchoring technique. …”
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Regional Alteration within the Cerebellum and the Reorganization of the Cerebrocerebellar System following Poststroke Aphasia by Xiaotong Zhang, Zhaocong Chen, Na Li, Jingfeng Liang, Yan Zou, Huixiang Wu, Zhuang Kang, Zulin Dou, Weihong Qiu

“…Together, our findings provide evidence for regional alterations within the cerebellum and the reorganization of the cerebrocerebellar system following poststroke aphasia and highlight the important role of the cerebellum in language processing within aphasic individuals after stroke.…”
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Harnessing Biochar for Sustainable Horticulture: Strategies to Cope with Abiotic Stress by Matteo Lentini, Michele Ciriello, Youssef Rouphael, Emanuela Campana, Francesco Primo Vaccari, Stefania De Pascale

“…Biochar, an important by-product of the waste biomass pyrolysis process, shows great potential to reduce the environmental impact of and address the serious problems related to climate change as well as to define an efficient circular economy model. …”
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Peptides: Emerging Candidates for the Prevention and Treatment of Skin Senescence: A Review by Andrada Pintea, Andrei Manea, Cezara Pintea, Robert-Alexandru Vlad, Magdalena Bîrsan, Paula Antonoaea, Emöke Margit Rédai, Adriana Ciurba

“…Physical techniques include thermal ablation (radiofrequency and laser), electrical methods (electroporation, iontophoresis), mechanical approach (microneedles), and ultrasounds. …”
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Air Bubble Technique for Fundus Visualization during Vitrectomy in Aphakia by Mahmoud Mohamed Farouk, Takeshi Naito, Mohammed Elagouz, Hatem Ammar, Alahmady Hamad Alsmman, Engy Mohamed Mostafa

“…This study included 53 eyes of 53 patients who are phakic and indicated for phacovitrectomy (7 eyes, group 1), aphakic and indicated for vitrectomy (22 eyes, group 2), or underwent unplanned vitrectomy for immediate management of a phacoemulsification surgery complicated by rupture posterior capsule with dropped nucleus, fragments, or IOL (24 eyes, group 3). …”
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Comprehensive analysis of naturally occurring radionuclides in well water: Isotopic ratios, mitigation, and dose assessment by Francisco Piñero-García, Rimon Thomas, Eva Forssell-Aronsson, Mats Isaksson

“…On the other hand, the filtration and aeration purification treatment could help to remediate the radiological impact. …”
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CXCR6 Expression Is Important for Retention and Circulation of ILC Precursors by Sylvestre Chea, Cécilie Possot, Thibaut Perchet, Maxime Petit, Ana Cumano, Rachel Golub

“…Innate lymphoid cells are present at mucosal sites and represent the first immune barrier against infections, but what contributes to their circulation and homing is still unclear. …”
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Unified Quantile Regression Deep Neural Network with Time-Cognition for Probabilistic Residential Load Forecasting by Zhuofu Deng, Binbin Wang, Heng Guo, Chengwei Chai, Yanze Wang, Zhiliang Zhu

“…At last, forecasts of multiple quantiles are directly generated in one shot. With ablation experiments, the proposed model achieved the best results in the AQS, AACE, and inversion error, and especially the average of the AACE is grown by 34.71%, 75.22%, and 32.44% compared with QGBRT, QCNN, and QLSTM, respectively, indicating that our method has excellent reliability and robustness rather than the state-of-the-art models obviously. …”
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Impacts of Groundwater Recharge from Rubber Dams on the Hydrogeological Environment in Luoyang Basin, China by Shaogang Dong, Baiwei Liu, Huamin Liu, Shidong Wang, Lixin Wang

“…In the rubber dam’s impact area, the groundwater total hardness (TH) has declined since 2000, ultimately dropping to 100–300 mg/L in 2012. pH levels have shown no obvious changes. …”
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Loss of Lkb1 cooperates with BrafV600E and ultraviolet radiation, increasing melanoma multiplicity and neural‐like dedifferentiation by Kimberley McGrail, Elena González‐Sánchez, Paula Granado‐Martínez, Roberto Orsenigo, Yuxin Ding, Berta Ferrer, Javier Hernández‐Losa, Iván Ortega, Juan Martín‐Caballero, Eva Muñoz‐Couselo, Vicente García‐Patos, Juan A. Recio

“…Here, we report that, in a mouse model, concomitant neonatal BrafV600E activation and Lkb1 tumor suppressor ablation in melanocytes led to full melanoma development. …”
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Utilizing hydrophobic sand to construct an air permeable aquiclude to enhance rice yields by Jing Wu, Xiaoyan Ma, Yuming Su, Shengyi Qin, Francesco Pilla

“…Abstract The Chinese government attaches great importance to the ecological restoration of abandoned open-pit mines, increasing the area of cultivated land, and ensuring food security. …”
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D-MGDCN-CLSTM: A Traffic Prediction Model Based on Multi-Graph Gated Convolution and Convolutional Long–Short-Term Memory by Linliang Zhang, Shuyun Xu, Shuo Li, Lihu Pan, Su Gong

“…The model is tested against 10 algorithms using the PeMSD7(M) and PeMSD7(L) datasets, improving MAE, RMSE, and ACC by an average of 1.38% and 13.89%, 1% and 1.24%, and 5.92% and 1%, respectively. Ablation experiments, parameter impact analysis, and visual analysis all demonstrate the superiority of our decompositional approach in handling the dual characteristics of traffic data.…”
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Growth performance study of Koi fish, Anabas testudineus (Bloch) by utilization of poultry viscera, as a potential fish feed ingredient, replacing fishmeal by Pratyush Bhaskar, Saroj Kumar Pyne, Arun Kumar Ray

“…Further, a feeding trial was conducted for 60 days in 90-L circular fibre tanks with proper aeration, to evaluate poultry viscera, in the formulated diet for A. testudineus. …”
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Contrast-Based 3D/2D Registration of the Left Atrium: Fast versus Consistent by Matthias Hoffmann, Christopher Kowalewski, Andreas Maier, Klaus Kurzidim, Norbert Strobel, Joachim Hornegger

“…For augmented fluoroscopy during cardiac ablation, a preoperatively acquired 3D model of a patient’s left atrium (LA) can be registered to X-ray images recorded during a contrast agent (CA) injection. …”
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A novel knowledge distillation framework for enhancing small object detection in blurry environments with unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted images by Sayed Jobaer, Xue-song Tang, Yihong Zhang, Gaojian Li, Foysal Ahmed

“…Based on the experiment results, our proposed model achieves an improvement of 4.3% accuracy in the VisDrone synthetic motion blur dataset and 4.6% in detecting objects within synthetic blurry images in our developed small object detection dataset (SOD-Dataset), as well as competitive results compared with other state-of-the-art methods. Meanwhile, ablation experiments and a visualization analysis validate the contributions of each component of the model.…”
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Transmission Lines Insulator State Detection Method Based on Deep Learning by Xu Tan, Shiying Hou, Fan Yang, Zhimin Li

“…Finally, using a confusion matrix combined with comparative and ablation experiments, the results of insulator state detection are analyzed. …”
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Refractory Obstructive Sleep Apnea in a Patient with Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis by Ara Darakjian, Ani B. Darakjian, Edward T. Chang, Macario Camacho

“…This patient had an initial apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of 145 events/hour and was treated with uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, genial tubercle advancement, hyoid suspension, septoplasty, inferior turbinoplasties, and radiofrequency ablations to the tongue base which reduced his AHI to 40 events/hour. …”
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Aspect category sentiment analysis based on pre-trained BiLSTM and syntax-aware graph attention network by Guixian Xu, Zhe Chen, Zixin Zhang

“…The performance evaluation of this method is carried out on five user comment text datasets, and the comprehensive ablation experiments prove that this method performs best compared with baseline models.…”
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Clinical Presentation, Risk Factors, and Treatment Modalities of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Single Tertiary Care Center Experience by Abdulrahman A. Aljumah, Hadi Kuriry, Mohammed AlZunaitan, Mohammed Al Ghobain, Mohamed Al Muaikeel, Ashwaq Al Olayan, Fahad Azzumeea, Bader Almutairi, Abduljaleel AlAlwan, Hamdan AlGhamdi

“…Treatment was classified into surgical resection/liver transplantation; locoregional ablation therapy; transarterial embolization; systemic chemotherapy; and best supportive care. …”
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Photoluminescence Response in Carbon Films Deposited by Pulsed Laser Deposition onto GaAs Substrates at Low Vacuum by F. Caballero-Briones, G. Santana, T. Flores, L. Ponce

“…Hexagonal and orthorhombic carbon was found in all the films and there was no evidence of nitrogen or oxygen incorporation during ablation process. Broad photoluminescence bands were observed and, particularly, emission peaks at 475–480 nm, 540–550 nm, 590 nm, and 625 nm. …”
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