Repeatability and reproducibility of a new spectral-domain optical coherence tomography biometer and agreement with swept-source optical coherence tomography based biometer by Xin Li, Chak Seng Lei, Rui Ning, Luze Liu, Aodong Chen, Xinning Yang, Giacomo Savini, Domenico Schiano-Lomoriello, Xingtao Zhou, Jinhai Huang

“…The evaluated parameters were axial length (AL), central corneal thickness (CCT), aqueous depth (AQD), anterior chamber depth (ACD), lens thickness (LT), flattest and steepest meridian keratometry (Kf and Ks), mean keratometry (Km), astigmatism (AST) magnitude, white-to-white (WTW) distance, and pupil diameter (PD). …”
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Comportamentos ansiogênicos de treinadores de voleibol infanto-juvenil by Juarez Vieira do Nascimento, Pablo Augusto Borges, Graziele Besen Barbosa, Maickon Felipe Wolff Pereira, José Cazuza de Farias Júnior

“…Além disso, encontrou-se uma baixa associação entre os comportamentos ansiogênicos dos treinadores com a classificação final na competição. …”
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Functional tests in children with type 1 diabetes and their correlation with hemoglobin A1c levels by V.R. Abdulina, I.S. Stepanova

“…The control group included 52 age-matched healthy children. Axial length (AL, mm) and lens thickness (LT, mm) were measured by US. …”
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AI-Assisted Compressed Sensing Enables Faster Brain MRI for the Elderly: Image Quality and Diagnostic Equivalence with Conventional Imaging by Gu W, Yang C, Wang Y, Hu W, Wu D, Cai S, Hong G, Hu P, Zhang Q, Dai Y

“…Wenquan Gu,1,* Chunhong Yang,1,* Yuhui Wang,2 Wentao Hu,3 Dongmei Wu,4 Sunmei Cai,1 Guoxiong Hong,1 Peng Hu,5 Qi Zhang,1 Yongming Dai5 1Department of Radiology, Shanghai Punan Hospital of Pudong New Area, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Neurology, Shanghai Punan Hospital of Pudong New Area, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Radiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 4Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 5School of Biomedical Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yongming Dai, School of Biomedical Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Tel/Fax +86 21 20685265, Email dymdym118@163.com Qi Zhang, Department of Radiology, Shanghai Punan Hospital of Pudong New Area, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Tel/Fax +86 21 20302000, Email 18918070996@189.cnPurpose: Conventional brain MRI protocols are time-consuming, which can lead to patient discomfort and inefficiency in clinical settings. …”
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Presenting the model of recruitment and selection of human resources of the public sector with the approach of the entrepreneurial government by Atieh sarayani, Vahid pourshahabi, Nourmohammad yaghobi, Amin reza kamaliyan

“…According to the data analysis, 545 final codes were extracted through open coding and then, using axial coding were categorized in the form of 121 concepts and 16 categories; contextual (environmental) factors, structural (organizational) factors, behavioral (content) factors, Recruiting human resources, selecting human resources, identifying entrepreneurial opportunities in the public sector, exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities in the public sector, executive and managerial obstacles, political and legal obstacles, economic obstacles, cultural and social obstacles, combined selection with domination of internal resources in experience-based jobs, combined selection with the domination of external resources in knowledge-based jobs, individual consequences, organizational consequences, social consequences, and finally, in the stage of selective coding, the process and multidimensional model has been presented for the first time at the level of government organizations of Sistan and Baluchistan province. …”
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Presenting the model of factors affecting the resilience of entrepreneurial behavior in Technical and Vocational University of Alborz province by Ali Abdi Jamayran, Manouchehr Niknam, Hasan Rangriz

“…For analysis, open and axial and selective coding through MAXQDA software was used. …”
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The biomechanical effects of treating double-segment lumbar degenerative diseases with unilateral fixation through interlaminar fenestration interbody fusion surgery: a three-dimen... by Kai-Kai Feng, Xiao-Bing Xiang, Cheng-Peng Li, Kai-Yin Gao, Wei-Wei Zhang, Zhen-Yu Nie, Wen-Xin Liao, Dong Zhao, Guang-Ru Cao

“…Methods A three-dimensional finite element model of L3-5 was established based on CT data from a recruited young male volunteer, and the model was validated to have reasonable predictive capability. …”
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Mid- to long-term clinical outcomes of modified technique skip-level titanium plate fixation in cervical laminoplasty compared to continuous fixation by Shuo Feng, QiRui Zhu, Yang Sun, ZiYao Ding, Zhe Zhuang, Heng-Heng Yu, Ma-Ji Sun, Feng Yuan

“…The healing of the C4 and C6 laminae in Group B was superior to that in Group A (P < 0.05), but there were no differences in healing at the last follow-up (P > 0.05). The incidence of axial symptoms was similar (10.9% in Group A and 14.8% in Group B, P = 0.523). …”
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Inserção de profissionais de educação física no Sistema Único de Saúde: análise temporal (2007-2021) by Rinelly Pazinato Dutra, Vanise dos Santos Ferreira Viero, Alan Goularte Knuth

“…Entre as regiões, os maiores quantitativos foram observados nas regiões Nordeste e Sudeste, enquanto nos estados a maior concentração foi em Minas Gerais, seguido de São Paulo, Pernambuco, Bahia e Rio Grande do Sul. Observou-se uma tendência crescente de PEF nas regiões Norte e Sul. …”
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Influence of preoperative variables on the 3-month functional outcomes of the Vivity extended depth-of-focus intraocular lens: a prospective case series by Giacomo Savini, Alice Galzignato, Catarina P. Coutinho, Jinhai Huang, Yue Wu, Piero Barboni, João Mendanha Dias, Filomena J. Ribeiro, Domenico Schiano-Lomoriello

“…Methods In a prospective, single-center, non-randomized study, axial length, keratometry, anterior chamber depth, scotopic and photopic pupil diameters, pupil decentration, corneal asphericity, corneal higher-order aberrations (HOAs), coma and spherical aberration were measured preoperatively. …”
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Designing an Innovative Human Resources Model Based on Perceived Organizational Support Case Study of Qazvin's Government organizations by Hossein Rasouli, Morteza Mousakhani, Mahdi Alvani, parham azimi

“…For data analysis, the qualitative section leveraged MaxQDA software for detailed triple coding—axial, selective, and open coding. …”
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Identification of genetic mechanisms of non-isolated auditory neuropathy with various phenotypes in Chinese families by Yang Cao, Xiaolong Zhang, Lan Lan, Danyang Li, Jin Li, Linyi Xie, Fen Xiong, Lan Yu, Xiaonan Wu, Hongyang Wang, Qiuju Wang

“…Hearing loss varied from mild to profound, with 57.1%(4/7) of patients having risk factors and 71.4%(5/7) exhibiting additional systemic symptoms such as muscle weakness, ataxia, and high arches. Functional enrichment analysis revealed that genes associated with non-isolated AN predominantly involve mitochondrial processes, affecting the central and peripheral nervous, musculoskeletal, and visual systems. …”
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Voxelwise characterization of noise for a clinical photon-counting CT scanner with a model-based iterative reconstruction algorithm by Luigi Masturzo, Patrizio Barca, Luca De Masi, Daniela Marfisi, Antonio Traino, Filippo Cademartiri, Marco Giannelli

“…Methods Forty repeated axial acquisitions (tube voltage 120 kV, tube load 200 mAs, slice thickness 0.4 mm) of a homogeneous water phantom and CTP404 module (Catphan-504) were performed. …”
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Residual Effect of Silicate Agromineral Application on Soil Acidity, Mineral Availability, and Soybean Anatomy by Mariana de Carvalho Ribeiro, Antonio Ganga, Isabella Silva Cattanio, Aline Redondo Martins, Rodrigo Silva Alves, Luís Gustavo Frediani Lessa, Hamilton Seron Pereira, Fernando Shintate Galindo, Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira Filho, Cassio Hamilton Abreu-Junior, Gian Franco Capra, Arun Dilipkumar Jani, Thiago Assis Rodrigues Nogueira

“…Stomatal density was higher on the adaxial face of plants cultivated in the medium-textured soil. …”
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Clinical and radiological evaluation of the Bristow–Latarjet procedure in patients with 30 or more years of follow-up by Arnaldo Amado Ferreira Neto, MD, PhD, Mauro Emilio Conforto Gracitelli, MD, PhD, Jorge Henrique Assunção, MD, PhD, Fernando Brandão de Andrade e Silva, MD, PhD, Verônica Yulin Prieto Chang, MD, Eduardo Angeli Malavolta, MD, PhD

“…The screws presented bicortical fixation in 76.5% of the shoulders and inclination in the axial plane of less than 15° in 64.7%. A total of 58.8% of the cases presented with glenohumeral arthropathy, and 75% of the magnetic resonance imagings showed the absence of fatty degeneration. …”
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Editorial by Alice De Marchi Pereira de Souza, Amana Mattos, Andréa Barbará da Silva Bousfield, Edna Lúcia Tinoco Ponciano, Fábio Santos Bispo, Filipe Degani-Carneiro, Jimena de Garay Hernández, Kamilly Souza do Vale, Laura Cristina de Toledo Quadros, Marcos Vinicius Brunhari, Nazaré Albuquerque Hayasida, Patrícia Lorena Quitério, Rebeca Valadão Bussinger, Rosana Lazaro Rapizo, Rodolfo Rodrigues de Souza, Sabrina Dal Ongaro Savegnago, Silvia Renata Magalhães Lordello Borba Santos, Vitor Castro Gomes

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A deep learning algorithm to generate synthetic computed tomography images for brain treatments from 0.35 T magnetic resonance imaging by Luca Vellini, Flaviovincenzo Quaranta, Sebastiano Menna, Elisa Pilloni, Francesco Catucci, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Claudio Votta, Michele Aquilano, Andrea D’Aviero, Martina Iezzi, Francesco Preziosi, Alessia Re, Althea Boschetti, Danila Piccari, Antonio Piras, Carmela Di Dio, Alessandro Bombini, Gian Carlo Mattiucci, Davide Cusumano

“…A conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) was trained on pre-processed axial paired images. sCTs were validated using mean absolute error (MAE) and mean error (ME) calculated within the patient body. …”
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Prevalence of psoriatic arthritis in Italy: insights from the multicentric MAPSI study by Teodora Serban, Giuseppina Tramontano, Monica Pendolino, Dario Roccatello, Oscar Massimiliano Epis, Florienzo Iannone, Ilenia De Andres, Marta Favero, Nicoletta Romeo, Guido Rovera, Leonardo Santo, Enrico Tirri, Alberto Bergamini, Roberta Foti, Carlotta Schenone, Gerolamo Bianchi

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Avaliação de Índices de Qualidade após Medidas Promovidas pelo Monitoramento Externo da Qualidade dos Exames Citopatológicos Cervicais Realizados pelo SUS no Espírito Santo by Débora De'nadai Dalvi, Ana Maria Gonçalves Cruz, Lyvia Neves Rebello Alves, Joana Zorzal Nodari, Jaqueline Pegoretti Goulart, Rodrigo Ribeiro Rodrigues

“… Introdução: Nas últimas décadas, apesar dos esforços do Ministério da Saúde para ampliar o acesso a programas de rastreio e monitoramento da qualidade dos exames citopatológicos, as taxas de morbimortalidade do câncer cervical no Brasil permaneceram altas. …”
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