Personalized Treatment Response in Progressive MS: Can the Patient's Profile Influence the Outcome? by Francesca Bovis, Ludwig Kappos, Sophie Arnould, Goeril Karlsson, Maria Pia Sormani

“…Methods We developed an individualized response score (RS) to predict treatment response in patients with active secondary progressive MS (SPMS). …”
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Development of an Advanced Quality Assessment System for Specialized Flour for Fresh Rice Noodles Employing Multivariate Statistical Techniques by Miaoyuan WU, Luyan LIAO, Xianlong REN, Cao LIU, Weiguo WU

“…A tailored theoretical assessment model specifically designed for the specialized flour for fresh rice noodles was once developed, and the results characteristic indicators alongside with their corresponding threshold degrees were identified and delineated. The results indicated no statistically significant differences in amylose content and crude protein levels amongst rice flours produced using a variety of milling methods. …”
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Economic Evaluations of Treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Literature Review by Lachaine Jean, Miron Audrey, Catherine Beauchemin, on behalf of the iGenoMed Consortium

“…The objective of this literature review was to evaluate the existing evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of treatment options in IBD. Methods. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to identify economic evaluations of IBD therapy. …”
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Application of the Hough Transform to Dispersion Control of Overlapping Particles and Their Agglomerates by P. V. Gulyaev

“…Tests have shown that the errors in determining the size and number of particles of the multi-pass Hough transform are on the same level or exceed these indicators for analog methods.…”
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Times Matter, the Impact of Convective Dust Events on Air Quality in the Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona by K. Ardon‐Dryer, T. Aziz

“…The findings of this study demonstrated that the traditional methods that use daily or hourly averages underestimate the atmospheric PM10 concentrations during short convective dust events and therefore lower the estimated exposure. …”
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Assessment of the medial olivocochlear reflex in normal-hearing right-handed subjects using auditory brainstem response: a pilot study by Ahmed Zein-Elabedein, Ahmed Ragab, Hosam Sanyelbhaa, Ahlam Diab, Asmaa Moaty

“…There were no statistically significant differences between all participants regarding the latency and ABR threshold level with CAS and without CAS. …”
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Advanced bearing fault detection at varying rotational speeds using PSO-optimized SVM and CDET feature selection by Hongxu Chai, Xiaoshi Ma, Feng Zhu, Yandong Hu

“…The outcomes demonstrate that specific features can effectively differentiate various bearing conditions at different speeds, highlighting the efficacy of the recommended approach compared to other fault detection methods.…”
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Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Analysis on the Relationship between the Mandibular Third Molar and the Position of the Mandibular Canal in Koreans from the Yanbian Area and the Han... by Zhen-Long Liu, En-Shi Jiang, Lian-Yan Cui, Jing-Xu Li

“…The significance threshold was set at 0.05. Conclusion. There are some differences in the positional relationship between the mandibular canal in the MTM region and the rate of cortical bone disruption between Koreans from the Yanbian area and the Hans. …”
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The association between waist-to-height index and prostate cancer risk: evidence from the NHANES study by Qinghe Gao, Zongqi Lin, Yihua Zhang, Jiantong Cai, Shaopeng Li

“…However, it is unclear whether WWI is associated with the risk of developing PCa.MethodsSeventy thousand one hundred and ninety participants took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). …”
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A Universal Framework for Near-Real-Time Detection of Vegetation Anomalies from Landsat Data by Yixuan Xie, Zhiqiang Xiao, Juan Li, Jinling Song, Hua Yang, Kexin Lv

“…Many near-real-time (NRT) detection methods have been developed to detect these anomalies in a timely manner whenever a new satellite observation is available. …”
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Development and validation of the gift reciprocation anxiety scale (GRAS) for youths and adults in intimate relationships by Mohd. Ashik Shahrier, Shakira Khatun

“…To this end, the present study aimed to develop and validate the gift reciprocation anxiety scale (GRAS) using modern psychometric methods for Bangladeshi youths and adults engaged in informal romantic and formal marital relationships. …”
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The Value of Ketone Bodies in the Evaluation of Kidney Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Yimei Li, Yongze Zhang, Ximei Shen, Fengying Zhao, Sunjie Yan

“…Methods. A retrospective study of 955 patients with T2DM (426 women and 529 men) admitted to our hospital from December 2017 to September 2019 was conducted. …”
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Development of the Persian Listening in Spatialized Noise Sentence Test: A Preliminary Study by Zahra Hosseini Dastgerdi, Nasrin Gohari, Abbas Yousefi, Nematollah Rouhbakhsh

“…This research aimed to develop The Persian version of the LiSN-S, for assessing auditory processing disorders in the Persian speakers’ population. Methods: The PLiSN-S test was developed based on its original Australian version. …”
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Hardware assurance with silicon photonic physical unclonable functions by Mohammad Amin Mahdian, Ebadollah Taheri, Kaveh Rahbardar Mojaver, Mahdi Nikdast

“…These findings underscore the potential of silicon photonic PUFs in enhancing security for optical communication systems of different scales. The integration of such photonic PUFs offers robust and reliable security solutions for applications where traditional electronic methods introduce additional attack surfaces and fail to provide adequate protection.…”
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Research on community characteristics of vegetation restoration in hilly power engineering based on multi temporal remote sensing technology by Chen Bin, Lei Dong, Huang Liangjun, Liu Qingdong, Zhao Xuan, Shi Yuanping

“…Combining the deep learning model with the multi model hierarchical classification algorithm, the remote sensing prediction map based on deep learning is used as the classification base map, and the normalized difference vegetation index threshold is used to classify the uncovered area. …”
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Comparison of branded rugby headguards on their effectiveness in reducing impact on the head by Erin R A Frizzell, Graham P Arnold, Weijie Wang, Rami J Abboud, Tim S Drew

“…Aim To compare the available brands of rugby headguards and evaluate their impact attenuation properties at various locations on the cranium, with regard to concussion prevention.Methods Seven different branded headguards were fitted onto a rigid headform and drop-tested in three different positions. …”
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The impact of psychostimulant use on office based buprenorphine treatment retention by Ryan Edgerton, Peter Rebeiro, Sam MacMaster, Lisa Bell, Parul Patel, Loren Ginn, Kyra Beach, Veeraj Shah, R. Lyle Cooper

“…The objective of this study was to identify the effects of psychostimulant use on buprenorphine treatment retention. Methods We conducted an analysis of a cohort of 143 individuals with opioid use disorder that initiated treatment in a low-threshold, urban office based opioid treatment (OBOT) clinic located in Nashville Tennessee between 2018 and 2020. …”
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Optimizing Automated Hematoma Expansion Classification from Baseline and Follow-Up Head Computed Tomography by Anh T. Tran, Dmitriy Desser, Tal Zeevi, Gaby Abou Karam, Julia Zietz, Andrea Dell’Orco, Min-Chiun Chen, Ajay Malhotra, Adnan I. Qureshi, Santosh B. Murthy, Shahram Majidi, Guido J. Falcone, Kevin N. Sheth, Jawed Nawabi, Seyedmehdi Payabvash

“…This threshold excluded 47–88% of test-negative predictions from expert review of automated segmentations for different HE definitions, with less than 2% false-negative misclassification in both internal and external validation cohorts. …”
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Identification of Exiguobacterium acetylicum by a double real- time polymerase chain reaction assay by GAO Cancan, LIU Jiamei, LI Junjie, LU Zhaoxin, LÜ Fengxia, ZHANG Chong, ZHAO Haizhen, BIE Xiaomei

“…The R² values of standard curve were 0.994 and 0.999, respectively, indicating that the assay was credible, and the RT- PCR showed high repeatability. When DNA of different concentrations were added as templates, there was no obvious different in standard deviation of threshold (C_t), and the coefficient of variation of the same concentration was fluctuation during 0.51 to 1.12. …”
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Assessing the diagnostic utility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in evaluating coronary artery disease by Jianhua Xie, Yuan Liang, Xiaobo Huang, Yuxue Qin, Hai Huang, Jianxiong Liu

“…Objective This retrospective study aimed to investigate the correlation between the cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) and the severity of coronary stenosis (SYNTAX score) in patients with stable coronary artery disease (SCAD), thereby assessing CPET’s diagnostic value. Methods We classified 220 patients who underwent coronary angiography into coronary heart disease (CHD) and non-CHD groups based on stenosis severity. …”
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