Minimally Invasive Medial Plating of Low-Energy Lisfranc Injuries: Preliminary Experience with Five Cases by Jorge Javier del Vecchio, Mauricio Ghioldi, Nicolás Raimondi, Manuel De Elias

“…According to the radiological criteria established, the joint reduction was anatomical in four patients, almost anatomical in one patient (#4), and nonanatomical in none of the patients. At the final follow-up, the AOFAS score for the midfoot was 96 points (range, 95–100). …”
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The Value of Routine Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis of Intraocular Fluid Specimens in the Diagnosis of Infectious Posterior Uveitis by Marius A. Scheepers, Karin A. Lecuona, Graeme Rogers, Catey Bunce, Craig Corcoran, Michel Michaelides

“…The clinical diagnosis prior to PCR testing was nonspecific (uncertain) in 51 patients (32%), with PCR providing a definitive final diagnosis in 20 of these patients (39%); necrotizing herpetic retinopathy and ocular toxoplasmosis were particularly difficult to diagnose correctly without the use of PCR analysis. …”
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Guarding the Borders of Japan: Occupation, Korean War and Frontier Controls by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

“…In the last months of the Pacific War the center of the nearest big city, Matsuyama, had been reduced to a burnt-out wasteland by allied fire-bombing.2 The villages had been spared the worst of the air-raids, but during the final stages of the war their fishing boats had been requisitioned by the military or lain idle, unable to venture out into the dangerous waters of war. …”
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Beyond the “I” in the Obesity Epidemic: A Review of Social Relational and Network Interventions on Obesity by Janette S. Leroux, Spencer Moore, Laurette Dubé

“…Database searches and final article screening yielded 30 articles. Findings suggested that (1) social support was most often targeted; (2) few interventions were beyond the individual level; (3) most interventions were framed on behaviour change theories; and (4) the social relational component tended to be conceptually ancillary to the intervention. …”
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Characterization of Semolina Protein Film with Incorporated Zinc Oxide Nano Rod Intended for Food Packaging by Jafarzadeh Shima, Alias AbdKarim, Ariffin Fazilah, Mahmud Shahrom

“…FTIR and SEM were employed to characterize the final films. SEM images revealed that ZnO-nr particles were homogenously distributed throughout the film surface. …”
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Numerical Study on the Movement Laws of Overlying Strata in Shallow-Buried Stope Based on the Goaf Compaction Effect by Guangchao Zhang, Guangzhe Tao, Miao Chen, You Li, Pan Li, Yonghui Lai

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Coping and Beliefs as Predictors of Functioning and Psychological Adjustment in Fibromyalgia Subgroups by Laura Rubio Fidel, Azucena García-Palacios, Rocío Herrero, Guadalupe Molinari, Carlos Suso-Ribera

“…The backward binary logistic regression suggested a final model with six predictors (guarding, task persistence, harm, emotion, solicitude, and age) that explained 31% of the variance of group membership. …”
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And the Oscar Goes to Peripheral Blood Film for the Detection of Lead Poisoning in a Complicated Toxic Patient: A Case Report with a Review of Laboratory Clues by Amir Zamani, Ehsan Sarraf Kazerooni, S. Saeed Kasaee, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Sahand Mohammadzadeh, Golsa Shekarkhar, Neda Soleimani

“…Right after all these invasive, expensive, and time-consuming investigations during a month, finding coarse basophilic stippling in the red blood cells in the peripheral blood smear by an expert led to the final diagnosis. Elevated blood lead level and the presence of ring sideroblasts in the bone marrow study confirmed the diagnosis of lead poisoning, and the patient responded well to chelator therapy in a short period. …”
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Endometriosis Mimicking a Cecum Mass with Complete Bowel Obstruction: An Infrequent Cause of Acute Abdomen by Gabriel A. Molina, Darwin R. Ramos, Alberto Yu, Patricio A. Paute, Paul S. Llerena, S. Alexandra Valencia, Jose V. Fonseca, Jhonatan F. Morillo, Sandra C. López, Bernardo M. Gutierrez

“…Endometriosis was the final diagnosis for the observed condition.…”
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Mapas de produtividade fotovoltaica para o Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil) by Arno Krenzinger, César Wilhelm Massen Prieb, Fabiano Perin Gasparin

“…Este trabalho fez parte da elaboração do Atlas Solar do Rio Grande do Sul, publicado no final de 2018. …”
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Translation, psychometric evaluation, and network analysis of the parental acceptance and action questionnaire (PAAQ) among Arab parents of children with and without specific learn... by Norah Alkhateeb

“…Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate internal consistency. Finally, the centrality measures are derived from network theory (betweenness, closeness, and strength). …”
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Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Based on Improved Sequential Deep Learning by Dongfang Mao, Haojie Lin, Xuyang Lou

“…Next, we combine a deep neural network (DNN) with Weighted K-Nearest Neighbors (WKNN) to refine the final location prediction. Then, we validate our method using the publicly available <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>U</mi><mi>J</mi><mi>I</mi><mi>n</mi><mi>d</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>r</mi><mi>L</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dataset, demonstrating superior accuracy compared to existing methods. …”
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DTI-MHAPR: optimized drug-target interaction prediction via PCA-enhanced features and heterogeneous graph attention networks by Guang Yang, Yinbo Liu, Sijian Wen, Wenxi Chen, Xiaolei Zhu, Yongmei Wang

“…Subsequently, principal component analysis is applied to distill the most informative features, with the random forest algorithm employed for the final decoding of the integrated data. Our method outperforms six baseline models in terms of accuracy, as demonstrated by extensive experimentation. …”
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Emerging Technologies to Promote Fans Interaction in Football Events: A Systematic Review by Francisco Martins, Cíntia França, Pedro Paixão, Diogo V. Martinho, Pedro Campos, Bruna Gouveia, Helder Lopes, Andreas Ihle, Eduardo Marques, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia

“…The search was conducted in the PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases. The final sample included eleven studies for analysis. …”
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Enseñar la indagación narrativa en la formación docente. Una experiencia de investigación que nos acerca by Valeska CABRERA CUADROS, Claudia SOTO GARCÍA

“…Para el relato se consideraron: escrito inicial y final de los estudiantes; observaciones y registros de conversaciones de clases y la descripción de la práctica puesta en movimiento. …”
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Effect of Dosage of Alkaline Activator on the Properties of Alkali-Activated Slag Pastes by Zhenzhen Jiao, Ying Wang, Wenzhong Zheng, Wenxuan Huang

“…All the AAS pastes exhibited properties such as fast setting, good workability, and high early compressive strength. The final setting time varied from 9 to 36 min, and the fluidity was in the range of 147–226 mm. …”
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INTEGRATION OF A DATA-DRIVEN SOFTWARE APPLICATION AND A MULTIMODAL LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL FOR ENHANCED NUTRITIONAL GUIDANCE: A CASE STUDY by IAPĂSCURTĂ, Victor, ȚURCANU, Dinu, SIMINIUC, Rodica

“…This paper describes an attempt at integrating the proprietary software application HN-Assistant with GPT-4o to empower final users to make better nutritional decisions. …”
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Ocular traumatic behavior in patients discharged from the Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology. by Dany Curbelo Concepción, Idalia Triana Casado, Juan C. Medina Perdomo

“…<strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> The final results show the occurrence of ocular traumas during certain events or factors. …”
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Comparison of Multi-Satellite Precipitation Data from the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission and Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission Datasets: Seasonal and Diurnal Cycles by Yilei Wang, Qiaoyan Wu

“…A comparison was made between seasonal and diurnal variations in the Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) version 06B Final run and TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) 3B42 version 7 products from April 2014 to March 2019. …”
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Deformation of Early Freezing Concrete in the Assessment Stress-Strain State of Reinforced Concrete Structures by D. S. Dekhterev, D. V. Elifantiev

“…To assess the effect of early freezing times on the final strength of concrete and to plot deformation curves, compression tests were carried out on cube samples with an edge of 100 mm with different periods of curing of concrete before its freezing. …”
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