Pharmacological Treatment of Presbyopia Using Pilocarpine 1.25% Eye Drops by Seyed Abolghasem Mousavi, Zhale Rajavi, Hamideh Sabbaghi, Saeid Abdi, Nafeeseh Montazerin, Bahareh Kheiri, Azadeh Haseli- Monfared, Kourosh Sheibani, Hemn Baghban Jaldian

“… Purpose: To assess the efficiency and safety of pilocarpine eye drop 1.25% analogue (IRPilo) in comparison with its original brand-name drug (Vuity). Methods: In this non-randomized comparative study, 75 patients with presbyopia aged 40 to 60 years were enrolled. …”
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When spatial agency bias and the advantage of the first mention are in contradiction: Evidence from Czech, German, and Spanish by Anna Marklová, Renate Delucchi Danhier

“…The other factor playing an important role is the naming order. …”
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WETLAND AND BIOCULTURAL HERITAGE REGENERATION THROUGH THEMATIC ECOLOGICAL TOURISM PRACTICE: THE CASE OF PATAN SUB-DISTRICT, KHUN TAN DISTRICT, CHIANG RAI, THAILAND by Siripen YIAMJANYA, Kannapat KANKAEW, Bussaba SITIKARN, Parinya NAKPATHOM, Ali Mohsin Salim Ba AWAIN, Teerarat JABJAINAI

“…Other six factors enhance ecological tourism development namely: budget, knowledge, technological system, participation, community factors, and social factors. …”
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Nexus between risk factors and financial performance: The case of Ukrainian advertising and marketing companies by Tetiana Zavalii, Serhii Lehenchuk, Nina Poyda-Nosyk, Yana Ishchenko, Oleksandr Hrabchuk

“…Of the 11 independent variables that characterized companies’ risk factors, only three were confirmed to significantly impact financial performance indicators (risk factor “Location in the housing stock” reduces ROA and ROE; risk factor “Frequent institutional changes” increases ROA; risk factor “Found match by full name with a politically exposed person” reduces ROE).…”
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Disrupted Balance of Angiogenic and Antiangiogenic Signalings in Preeclampsia by Mitsuko Furuya, Kentaro Kurasawa, Kiyotaka Nagahama, Kae Kawachi, Akinori Nozawa, Tsuneo Takahashi, Ichiro Aoki

“…VEGFR1 and VEGFR2 are functional receptors for placental growth factor (PlGF) and VEGF, respectively, and PlGF-VEGFR1 and VEGF-VEGFR2 interactions are disturbed in many preeclamptic patients by excess amount of soluble form of VEGFR1 (also named sFlt1), a natural PlGF/VEGF antagonist. Recent studies have disclosed that excessive sFlt1 production in the placenta and aberrant AT1 signaling in the mother are closely associated with the pathology of preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). …”
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Discovery of Novel Caeridins from the Skin Secretion of the Australian White’s Tree Frog, Litoria caerulea by Lei Li, Qing Wu, Xi Wang, Huimin Lu, Xinping Xi, Mei Zhou, Chris J. Watson, Tianbao Chen, Lei Wang

“…In this study, three Caeridin peptides, namely, Caeridin-1, S5-Caeridin-1, and Caeridin-a1, were discovered from the skin secretion of the Australian White’s tree frog, Litoria caerulea, for the first time, by means of combining transcriptomic and peptidomic analyses. …”
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Investigating the Challenges and Barriers of Home Businesses from the Perspective of Business Experts and Owners (Case study of rural communities of Isfahan province) by ahmad hajarian, ahmad taghdisi, hamid barghi

“…In the quantitative section, using confirmatory factor analysis, there are 5 factors, namely: financial and economic factors, managerial and structural factors, weaknesses in comprehensive rules and policy, research and information, and personal and personality factors which are 78/73. …”
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Macro-Micro Response Characteristics of Surrounding Rock and Overlying Strata towards the Transition from Open-Pit to Underground Mining by Xiaoshuang Li, Shun Yang, Yunmin Wang, Wen Nie, Zhifang Liu

“…The mining deformation of the surrounding rock underground, and of the overlying strata, is shown to develop in three stages, namely: (1) small and local deformation, (2) continuous linear increase, and (3) the violent nonlinear collapse of the entire system. …”
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Influential factors in the competitiveness of mature tourism destinations by Margarida Custódio Santos, Ana Maria Ferreira, Carlos Costa

“…The first area concerns the deterioration of the destinations’ infrastructure; the second is related to the destinations’ management, namely the lack of a shared strategic vision among stakeholders; the third area is associated with the loss of economic vitality in the destinations; finally, the fourth area includes the impact of tourism development over the years on the territory, specifically social, environmental and cultural impacts. …”
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Dual intent view contrastive learning for knowledge aware recommender systems by Jianhua Guo, Zhixiang Yin, Shuyang Feng, Donglin Yao, Shaopeng Liu

“…To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel recommendation model named Dual-Intent-View Contrastive Learning network (DIVCL), inspired by recent advancements in contrastive and intent learning. …”
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Resistance of the Nahdlatul Ulama Party towards the New Order 1967-1969 by Mahmud Mahmud, Dewi Yuliati, Alamsyah Alamsyah

“…This study uses historical research methods, which consist of four stages of historical research methods, namely: heuristics, source criticism, interpretation and historiography. …”
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Can vulnerability and agency co-existin the presence of violence? by Hanzline R. Davids, Eugene Lee Davids

“…Kate Brown (2015) contours these complexities and richness of vulnerability across five subthemes/subtypes, namely, innate, situational, social disadvantage, universal, and risk vulnerability. …”
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The amino acids differences in epitopes may promote the different allergenicity of ovomucoid derived from hen eggs and quail eggs by Mengzhen Hao, Shuai Yang, Shiwen Han, Huilian Che

“…Quail egg ovomucoid can inhibit activation of basophils and eosinophils, while hen egg ovomucoid has been shown to be a major allergen, named Gal d 1. At present, the differences in structure and function between two ovomucoid are unclear. …”
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An Improved Harmony Search Algorithm for Proactive Routing Protocol in VANET by Ravie Chandren Muniyandi, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Mustafa Raad Hammoodi, Ali Maroosi

“…Therefore, this paper aims to propose an improved harmony search optimization (EHSO) algorithm that considers the configuration of the OLSR parameters by coupling two stages, a procedure for optimization carried out by the EHSO algorithm based on embedding two popular selection methods in its memory, namely, roulette wheel selection and tournament selection. …”
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Effects of Naringenin and Its Glycosides on Functional Properties of Oat Protein and Their Interaction Mechanism by Wuzhen LIU, Ti LI, Qin GENG, Jun CHEN, Jialong HAN, Chengmei LIU, Taotao DAI

“…The results showed that naringenin, naringin, and narirutin significantly improved the foaming and emulsifying properties of oat protein, and reduced the interfacial tension of oat protein, and the effect of glucoside flavonoids was better, namely naringin>narirutin>naringenin. The results of fluorescence and molecular simulation showed that the three flavonoids interact with oat protein mainly through hydrogen bonding and van der Waals force, and the binding constants at room temperature were narirutin (11.05×104 L/mol)>naringenin (6.25×104 L/mol)>naringin (0.23×104 L/mol). …”
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Utility of complexity analysis in electroencephalography and electromyography for automated classification of sleep-wake states in mice by Naoki Furutani, Yuki C. Saito, Yasutaka Niwa, Yu Katsuyama, Yuta Nariya, Mitsuru Kikuchi, Tetsuya Takahashi, Takeshi Sakurai

“…We introduced a novel methodology for sleep stage classification based on two types of complexity analysis, namely multiscale entropy and detrended fluctuation analysis. …”
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BWFER-YOLOv8: An Enhanced Cascaded Framework for Concealed Object Detection by Khalid Ijaz, Ikramullah Khosa, Ejaz A. Ansari, Syed Farooq Ali, Asif Hussain, Faran Awais Butt

“…This paper proposes a novel three-stage cascaded framework named BWFER-YOLOv8, which implements a new alpha-reshuffled bootstrap random sampling method in the first stage, followed by image reconstruction using an adaptive Wiener filter in the second stage. …”
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Fluorescence images of skin lesions and automated diagnosis using convolutional neural networks by Matheus B. Rocha, Sebastiao Pratavieira, Renan Souza Vieira, Juliana Duarte Geller, Amanda Lima Mutz Stein, Fernanda Sales Soares de Oliveira, Tania R.P. Canuto, Luciana de Paula Vieira, Renan Rossoni, Maria C.S. Santos, Patricia H.L. Frasson, Renato A. Krohling

“…The collected images were annotated and analyzed, creating a new dataset named FLUO-SC. Convolutional neural networks were then applied to classify skin lesions using these fluorescence images. …”
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IALight: Importance-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Arterial Traffic Cooperative Control by Lu WEI, Xiaoyan ZHANG, Lijun FAN, Lei GAO, Jian YANG

“…To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel importance-aware MARL-based method named IALight for traffic optimisation control. First, a normalised traffic pressure is introduced to ensure our state and reward design can accurately reflect the status of intersection traffic flow. …”
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Esophageal Clearance Patterns in Normal Older Adults as Documented with Videofluoroscopic Esophagram by Janice Jou, Jason Radowsky, Ronald Gangnon, Elizabeth Sadowski, Stephanie Kays, Jacqueline Hind, Eric Gaumnitz, Andrew Taylor, JoAnne Robbins

“…Healthy, asymptomatic adults underwent videofluoroscopic esophagram to evaluate for the presence of ineffective esophageal clearance, namely, intraesophageal stasis and intraesophageal reflux. …”
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