Changes in the Flavor of Cold-Pressed Tiger Nut Oil (<i>Cyperus esculentus</i> L.) During Refining Processes and Evaluation of Its Thermal Properties by Yue Zhao, Yang Sun, Heyi Sun, Tianying Sun, Jian Ren, Chunli Song

“…Oil extracted from tiger nut is a good, edible source owing to its richness in unsaturated fatty acids. …”
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Meta-analysis of Acupuncture Efficacy on Nerve Root Cervical Spondylosis Therapy by Xunlu YIN, Liguo ZHU, Minshan FENG, Xu WEI, Jie YU, Long LIANG

“…Meta analysis indicated that acupuncture combined with traction in the therapy of nerve root type cervical to improve spondylopathy pain relief [MD=-1.69, 95%CI (-2.63, -0.75) ];to improve the current pain conditions (PPI) [MD=-0.41, 95%CI (-0.56, -0.26) ];pain relief [VAS (McGill) ] [MD=-1.43, 95%CI (-2.21, -0.6) ];total pain score (PRI) [MD=-2.43, 95%CI (-4.06, -0.80) ];pain perception total score [PRI (S) ] [MD=-1.63, 95%CI (-2.07, -1.20) ];Pain Emotion Total Score [PRI (A) ] [MD=-0.89, 95%CI (-1.39, -0.38) ].The effect of acupuncture group in cervical spondylotic myelopathy therapy was better than that of the traction group, the difference was statistically significant (P&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Acupuncture has good curative effect and advantage in the therapy of cervical spondylosis of nerve root type. …”
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Construction of a miR-15a-based risk prediction model for vascular calcification detection in patients undergoing hemodialysis by Chen Fu, Yingjie Liu, Huayu Yang, Qiaojing Liang, Wenhu Liu, Weikang Guo

“…The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve had an area under the curve of 0.921, diagnostic threshold of 0.396, sensitivity of 0.722, and specificity of 0.932, indicating that this model had good discrimination. This study concluded that serum miR-15a levels, age, and white blood cell (WBC) count are independent risk factors for VC. …”
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Visual Performance after Bilateral Implantation of a Four-Haptic Diffractive Toric Multifocal Intraocular Lens in High Myopes by John S. M. Chang, Vincent K. C. Chan, Jack C. M. Ng, Antony K. P. Law

“…Bilateral implantation of the intraocular lens in high myopes appeared to be safe and achieved good visual performance and high satisfaction.…”
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Case Report: The Versatile Art of Reconstruction: A Decade‐Long Journey With Recurrent Facial Basal Cell Carcinoma by T. H. Pathirana, V. Bandaranayake, A. P. Nellihela, S. Nikeshala, T. Saranga, A. Abegunasekara, S. Gunathilake, N. J. Asanthi

“…In the absence of systemic therapies, advanced surgical techniques and intensive follow‐up resulted in a long disease‐free period with good functional and aesthetic outcomes, thanks to the successful use of innovative reconstruction even in a low‐resource setting.…”
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Patient-Reported Outcomes of Visual Disturbances with a Trifocal Intraocular Lens: A Meta-Analysis by Dagny Zhu, Suyen Karki, Mukesh Dhariwal, Erkki Soini, Christian Asseburg

“…Abstract Introduction Diffractive trifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) provide good vision at distance, intermediate, and near, but can also cause positive dysphotopsias. …”
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Mechanical Analysis of Preventing Reflection Cracks Based on Stress Absorbing Layer by Lingjie Han, Shihao Zhang, Zhengqi Zhang, Taotao Gao

“…The analyses show that the stress absorbing layer is a thin asphalt concrete layer with good fatigue resistance and low modulus between the old pavement and asphalt pavement, which delays the expansion of pavement reflection cracks. …”
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Comparison of Simulated and True Keratometry Measurements Using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography and Dual Scheimpflug–Placido Imaging by Elizabeth A. Urias, Efstathia Polychronopoulou, Rahul T. Pandit

“…Though there is overall good correlation between the IOLMaster 700 and Galilei G4 in SimK and astigmatism measurements, there is a significant difference in TrueK measurements, with the IOLM measuring steeper values by about 1.0 diopter as compared to the G4.…”
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Using microscopic imaging and ensemble deep learning to classify the provenance of archaeological ceramics by Qian Wang, Xuan Xiao, Zi Liu

“…The proposed model includes the following: the construction of a dataset for ancient ceramic microscopic images, image preprocessing methods based on Gamma correction and CLAHE equalization algorithms, extraction of image features based on three deep learning architectures—VGG-16, Inception-v3 and GoogLeNet, and optimal fusion. This latter is based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm, which allows optimal fitting of the fusion model parameters by freezing and unfreezing model layers. …”
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Preoperative vs Postoperative Patient Outcome and Recovery Expectations of Total Joint Arthroplasty by Siddhartha Dandamudi, BBA, Kyleen Jan, MD, Madelyn Malvitz, BS, Anne DeBenedetti, MSc, Omar Behery, MD, MPH, Brett R. Levine, MD, MS

“…Background: Patient satisfaction with total joint arthroplasty (TJA) remains a challenge, with up to 20% of patients expressing dissatisfaction despite good clinical outcomes. This study aims to assess patient expectations and experiences prior to and after undergoing a primary TJA. …”
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IMC-YOLO: a detection model for assisted razor clam fishing in the mudflat environment by Jianhao Xu, Lijie Cao, Lanlan Pan, Xiankun Li, Lei Zhang, Hongyong Gao, Weibo Song

“…Comparison with other mainstream object detection models confirmed that IMC-YOLO strikes a good balance between accuracy and numbers of parameters.…”
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Acute Angiographic and Intermediate-Term Clinical Results of Patients with Non-Left Main Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Treated with BVS by Jailed Semi-Inflated Balloon Technique and... by Chieh-Shou Su, Keng-Hao Chang, Chih-Hung Lai, Yu-Wei Chen, Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Hung-Chih Pan, Tsun-Jui Liu, Wen-Lieng Lee

“…The intermediate-term clinical outcomes were good in terms of incidence of target lesion failure, target lesion revascularization, target vessel revascularization, myocardial infarction, and all-cause death in both groups. …”
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Prediction of the Bending Strength of Boltless Steel Connections in Storage Pallet Racks: An Integrated Experimental-FEM-SVM Methodology by Zhi-Jun Lyu, PeiCai Zhao, Qi Lu, Qian Xiang, HongLiang Li

“…The results obtained indicate that the SVM algorithms slightly outperform the ANN algorithms, although both of them are in good agreement with FEM and physical test. From the point of view of engineering application, DDM is able to provide much more effective help for structural engineers to make rapid decisions on steel members design.…”
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The Swallowing Clinical Assessment Score in Parkinson’s Disease (SCAS-PD) Is a Valid and Low-Cost Tool for Evaluation of Dysphagia: A Gold-Standard Comparison Study by Larissa L. Branco, Sheila Trentin, Carla Helena Augustin Schwanke, Irenio Gomes, Fernanda Loureiro

“…SCAS-PD has been shown to have a good concordance with the VFSS. Considering this, SCAS-PD is highly applicable in clinical settings, since it is a simple and low-cost diagnostic tool for detecting dysphagia in PD patients.…”
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Clinically interpretable multiclass neural network for discriminating cardiac diseases by Agnese Sbrollini, Chiara Leoni, Micaela Morettini, Cees A. Swenne, Laura Burattini

“…Results: Performance ranged from 89.88% to 90.10% (95.98 ± 3.32%) in the learning dataset and from 69.15% to 91.14% (83.65 ± 8.24%) in the testing dataset. These results are good considering the difficult, realistic multiclass classification task. …”
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Patient Knowledge About Diabetes: Illness Symptoms, Complications and Preventive Personal Lifestyle Factors by Rakesh Kumar, Ramaiah Itumalla, Bilesha Perera, Mohamed Tharwat Elabbasy, Mahesh Singh

“… # Conclusions Our study findings has confirmed that respondents have good level of knowledge about diabetes mellitus (DM) and the associated risk factors, symptoms and chronic complications. …”
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Liver cystic echinococcosis: A retrospective study on the demographics and clinical profile of patients managed at a single tertiary institution in central Eastern Cape Province, S... by A Govindasamy, P R Bhattarai, J van Niekerk, J John

“…The disease often has a nonspecific clinical presentation, necessitating imaging for the diagnosis. We observed good short-term outcomes in patients managed with combined partial cystectomy and medical therapy, although there is a risk of perioperative bile leak. …”
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Preparation and mechanical properties of (SiCnp+NiTip)/Al composites with triple-modal grain structure by Xue Zhang, Mingfang Qian, Xuexi Zhang, Lin Geng

“…These simultaneously enhanced strength and ductility were attributed to the good interfacial bonding strength of NiTi/Al and the back stress strengthening effect from the tri-modal grain structure design that meets the stress matching requirements of NiTip. …”
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Evaluation of twin-arginine translocation substrate proteins as potential antigen candidates for serodiagnosis of brucellosis by Yao Wu, Yao Wu, Xin Yan, Mingjun Sun, Xiaohan Guo, Jiaqi Li, Xiangxiang Sun, Xiangxiang Sun, Mengda Liu, Mengda Liu, Haobo Zhang, Haobo Zhang, Wenlong Nan, Weixing Shao, Fangkun Wang, Xiaoxu Fan, Xiaoxu Fan, Shufang Sun

“…Both the combined protein group and YxeI displayed no cross-reactivity with rabbit serum immunized against Yersinia enterocolitica O9, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Vibrio cholerae, Legionella, and Salmonella, indicating relatively good specificity.ConclusionThe findings of this study suggest that Tat substrate proteins serve as promising candidate antigens with significant potential value for the clinical diagnosis of brucellosis.…”
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Microstructural Analysis and Constitutive Modeling of Superplastic Deformation Behavior of Al-Mg-Zn-Cu-Zr-xNi Alloys with Different Ni Contents by Zarnigor S. Turaeva, Ahmed O. Mosleh, Olga A. Yakovtseva, Anton D. Kotov, Anastasia V. Mikhaylovskaya

“…An Arrhenius-type constitutive model with good agreement between the predicted and experimental flow stresses was developed for the alloys with different Ni contents.…”
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