Clinical Guidelines for Acupotomy Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis by Working Group of Acupotomy Medical Branch of China Association of Chinese Medicine, XIU Zhongbiao, CHEN Changxian, ZHANG Jianxin, LV Yanan, WEI Song, ZHOU Yu, WAN Quanqing, ZENG Weiquan, CHEN Guoqiang, HUANG Huirong, CAI Zhaolian, YAN Guohong, ZHAI Hongye, LIN Huayang, LIU Hong, ZHANG Liangzhi

“…This guideline summarizes the diagnosis and acupotomy treatment process of knee osteoarthritis from the aspects of scope, definition terminology, diagnosis of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, grading and staging, acupotomy treatment, and adverse reactions and management, aiming to provide guidance and reference for diagnosis and treatment in clinical, teaching and scientific research. 1) Diagnosis: the 2 parts, Chinese medicine diagnosis and Western medicine diagnosis, including diagnostic criteria, grading criteria, staging criteria, and Chinese medicine identification and classification. 2) Acupotomy treatment: including indications for treatment, contraindications to treatment, treatment protocol, post-treatment precautions, frequency and duration of treatment, outcome indicators, safety of acupuncture treatment, common adverse reactions and management. …”
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Preferences of pregnant women and obstetric healthcare professionals on using noninvasive prenatal testing to predict adverse pregnancy outcomes: a discrete choice experiment by Mireille N Bekker, Ewoud Schuit, Ian Smith, Ellis Becking, Elisabeth Akkerman, Peter Scheffer, Daphne Stemkens, Caroline J Bax, Neeltje Crombag, Lidewij Henneman

“…Objectives Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to screen for fetal aneuploidies by analysing cell-free DNA in maternal plasma is available to pregnant women worldwide. In the future, the scope of NIPT could potentially be expanded to the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes. …”
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Determination of Factors Affecting Sleep Quality in Postoperative Patients and Improvement of Correctible Causes by Ayşegül Özgök, Gökçe Selçuk Sert, Dilek Öztürk Kazancı

“…All questionnaires and scales were administered by the same researcher without specifying the participant's name in order to maintain consistency. After explaining the scope and purpose of the study, written consent of all participants was obtained. …”
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Protocol paper: randomized controlled trial of the smart online-to-offline model development for chronic diseases management through digital health in real world setting by Jae Eun Shin, Juho Choi, Heejung Lee, Suk-Won Lee, Juhwan Oh

“…By assessing its real-world effectiveness, this study can inform healthcare policies, expand the application scope of O2O service models, and identify additional chronic diseases that can benefit from digital health services. …”
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Research hotspots and trends in the antioxidant effects of acupuncture: A bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2024 by Zhilin Huang, Song Li, YiHao Zhou, Anhong Dai, Yi Zhang, Meifang Liu, Mengqi Le, Jing Shi

“…Methods: Articles pertaining to the acupuncture antioxidant effects were systematically retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database, encompassing the temporal scope from inception to September 6, 2024. Countries, publications, authors, co-citations, and keywords were visualized and analyzed using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and R software. …”
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POTENTIAL OF THE KANTIAN NOTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE by Z. Kieliszek

“…Furthermore, Kantian understanding of justice falls within the scope of the classical notion of contractual justice and remains present in the modern debates on justice, as exemplified by the thought of Rawls, Nozick and Höffe. …”
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Reduced Representation and Whole‐Genome Sequencing Approaches Highlight Beluga Whale Populations Associated to Eastern Canada Summer Aggregations by Luca Montana, Trevor T. Bringloe, Audrey Bourret, Caroline Sauvé, Arnaud Mosnier, Steven H. Ferguson, Lianne Postma, Véronique Lesage, Cortney A. Watt, Mike O. Hammill, Geneviève J. Parent

“…An expansion of the geographical scope and increase in number of genotyped individuals will, however, be needed to improve the characterization of the finer scale structure and of the extent of admixture between populations.…”
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Preliminary Assessment of Reference Region Quantification and Reduced Scanning Times for [18F]SynVesT-1 PET in Parkinson’s Disease by Kelly Smart, Carme Uribe, Kimberly L. Desmond, Sarah L. Martin, Neil Vasdev, Antonio P. Strafella

“…If further validated, these simplified procedures for [18F]SynVesT-1 PET quantification can facilitate its application as a clinical research imaging technology and allow for larger study samples and include a broader scope of patients including those with neurodegenerative diseases.…”
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All-fiber delivery of 100 W single-frequency laser through 100 m anti-resonant hollow-core fiber without stimulated Brillouin scattering by Shoufei Gao, Wenxiang Zha, Yujun Feng, Zhixi Liang, Yizhi Sun, Xiaobo Yang, Yingying Wang

“…This all-fiber architecture ensures high stability, compactness and efficiency, potentially expanding the application scope of single-frequency lasers in high-precision metrology, optical communication, light detection and ranging systems, gravitational wave detection and other advanced applications.…”
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Bariatric Endocrinology: Principles of Medical Practice by J. Michael Gonzalez-Campoy, Bruce Richardson, Conor Richardson, David Gonzalez-Cameron, Ayesha Ebrahim, Pamela Strobel, Tiphani Martinez, Beth Blaha, Maria Ransom, Jessica Quinonez-Weislow, Andrea Pierson, Miguel Gonzalez Ahumada

“…Bariatric endocrinology was conceived from the need to address the neuro-endocrinological derangements that are associated with adiposopathy, and from the need to broaden the scope of the management of its complications. In addition to the well-established metabolic complications of overweight and obesity, adiposopathy leads to hyperinsulinemia, hyperleptinemia, hypoadiponectinemia, dysregulation of gut peptides including GLP-1 and ghrelin, the development of an inflammatory milieu, and the strong risk of vascular disease. …”
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD: A Reappraisal (2008–2012) by Pierachille Santus, Linda Bassi, Dejan Radovanovic, Andrea Airoldi, Rita Raccanelli, Francesco Triscari, Francesca Giovannelli, Antonio Spanevello

“…Pulmonary rehabilitation is aimed to eliminate or at least attenuate these difficulties, mainly by promoting muscular reconditioning. The scope of this paper has been the analysis of the literature on pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD patients has appeared in the last five years, focusing on the principal outcomes obtained. …”
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Resilience-oriented passenger subsidy design for taxi travel under pandemic control by Lei Xia, Zhengfeng Huang, Gao Gao, Pengjun Zheng

“…These findings suggest that a reduction in the scope and duration of pandemic control measures can maintain a high level of taxi travel resilience. (2) In addition to pandemic control measures, the virus’s incubation period and infectivity have a significant impact on travel resilience. (3) Model results show that increasing passenger subsidies can quickly improve taxi travel resilience, but it cannot guarantee a consistent increase in social benefits. …”
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Luminescent Lanthanide Infinite Coordination Polymers for Ratiometric Sensing Applications by Ziqin Song, Yuanqiang Hao, Yunfei Long, Peisheng Zhang, Rongjin Zeng, Shu Chen, Wansong Chen

“…Progress in these areas could significantly broaden the scope of ratiometric Ln-CP applications, especially in biosensing, environmental monitoring, and other advanced fields.…”
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Predicting the effects of introducing an emergency transport system in low-income and middle-income countries: a spatial-epidemiological modelling study by Justine Davies, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Stephen Tabiri, Richard Lilford, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Samuel I Watson, Katie Scandrett

“…Maps showing the probability of reduced transfer time with the ambulance service may be particularly useful and allow for resource allocation planning.Conclusions Although there is scope for improvement in our model and in the data available to populate the model and inform parameter choices, we believe this work provides a foundation for pioneering methodology to predict the effect of introducing an ambulance system. …”
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Hepatitis E virus infection among blood donors in Zhengzhou by ZHAO Hongna, WEI Yueguang, YAN Lumin, TU Tiantian, WANG Shumin, WEI Yihui, WANG Yifang, ZHAO Lei, CHEN Mingjun

“…[Conclusion] There is HEV infection among blood donors in Zhengzhou, and it is necessary to expand the screening scope to comprehensively explore the prevalence and genotype distribution of HEV among blood donors.…”
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Smart Manufacturing Application in Precision Manufacturing by Amr T. Sufian, Badr M. Abdullah, Oliver J. Miller

“…An environmental sustainability impact is realized by a reduction in the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 43%, mostly due to the reduction in the Scope 2 emissions in operations by 50%, which is significantly impacted by the reduction of energy consumption and better power consumption management. …”
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Blockchain-Assisted Hierarchical Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme for Secure Information Sharing in Industrial Internet of Things by A. Sasikumar, Logesh Ravi, Malathi Devarajan, A. Selvalakshmi, Abdulaziz Turki Almaktoom, Abdulaziz S. Almazyad, Guojiang Xiong, Ali Wagdy Mohamed

“…The edge devices will produce enormous quantities of data daily as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) expands in scope. Still, most IIoT data is stored in data centers, making it challenging to transfer data between domains safely. …”
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Identification of HPV16 E1 and E2-specific T cells in the oropharyngeal cancer tumor microenvironment by Christine McInnis, Lakshmi Srinivasan, Anthony J Coyle, Shilpa Bhatia, Glenn J Hanna, Ann Marie Egloff, Brinda Vijaykumar, Qiaomu Tian, Yanbo Sun, Del Leistritz-Edwards, Charles T Quinn, Ravi Uppaluri, Daniel C Pregibon

“…The viral etiology of these cancers provides the opportunity for antigen-directed therapies that are restricted in scope compared with cancers without viral components. …”
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The Role of Clinician-Developed Applications in Promoting Adherence to Evidence-Based Guidelines: Pilot Study by Madhu Prita Prakash, Aravinda Thiagalingam

“…Furthermore, apps are relatively easy to develop using existing online platforms, with the scope for clinicians to develop such apps for other evidence-based guidelines and across different specialties.…”
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A bibliometric study on organization citizenship behavior for the environment by M.M. Sulphey, N.S. AlKahtani, N.A.M. Senan, A.H.E. Adow

“…This study also discusses the limitations and scope for future research. These limitations include limiting the study to the Scopus database and methodology used. …”
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