The Impact of Nanoparticle Coatings on the Color of Teeth Restored Using Dental Adhesives Augmented with Magnetic Nanoparticles by Carina Sonia Neagu, Andreea Codruta Novac, Cristian Zaharia, Meda-Lavinia Negrutiu, Izabell Craciunescu, Vlad Mircea Socoliuc, Catalin Nicolae Marin, Ionela-Amalia Bradu, Luminita Maria Nica, Marius Stef, Virgil-Florin Duma, Mihai Romînu, Cosmin Sinescu

“…MNPs had a marginal effect on the adhesive’s photopolymerization. The mean color difference between G0 and G2 was close to the 50:50% acceptability threshold, whereas the other groups were far apart from G0. …”
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SIGNIFICANCE OF ETV6-RUNX1 FUSION GENE TRANSCRIPT DETECTION IN PEDIATRIC B-CELL PRECURSOR ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA WITH TRANSLOCATION t(12;21)(p13;q22) by G. A. Tsaur, Т. О. Riger, A. M. Popov, T. Yu. Verzhbitskaya, L. V. Vakhonina, A. A. Vlasova, Yu. V. Olshanskaya, А. N. Kazakova, O. V. Streneva, O. V. Makarova, S. V. Tsvirenko, L. I. Saveliev, О. R. Arakaev, L. G. Fechina

“…While ETV6-RUNX1 status at day 15 did not allow to divide patients with different outcomes. By ROC curve analysis we determined threshold levels (TL) for ETV6-RUNX1/ABL1 ratio at days 0, 15, 36 and 85. …”
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Exploring Effects of Age at the Onset of Myopia on Multiple Diseases Using Electronic Health Records by Xiayin Zhang, PhD, Shan Wang, MD, Yu Huang, PhD, Yanjie Xie, PhD, Ishith Seth, MD, Gabriella Bulloch, MD, Chunran Lai, MD, Yijun Hu, PhD, Xianwen Shang, PhD, Mingguang He, PhD, Zhuoting Zhu, PhD, Honghua Yu, PhD

“…Results: Our study population comprised 315 568 UK Biobank participants, and 1000 unique phecodes from 17 different disease categories were included for analysis. …”
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Comparison of Endoscopic Unilateral Laminectomy for Bilateral Decompression (Endo‐ULBD) and Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (PLIF) in Managing Multi‐Segmental Lumbar Spinal Steno... by Kunpeng Su, Qingyu Yao, Mingzhi Liu, Sheng Chang, Mengxuan Wang, Antao Lin, Guantong Sun, Yichen Jiang, Shengwei Meng, Hao Zhang, Wentao Liu, Hongtao Ge, Zengjie Wu, Zirui Wang, Derong Xu, Chuanli Zhou

“…Surgical intervention is often required when conservative treatments fail, but the choice between different surgical techniques remains a topic of ongoing debate. …”
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New design paradigm for federated edge learning towards 6G:task-oriented resource management strategies by Zhiqin WANG, Jiamo JIANG, Peixi LIU, Xiaowen CAO, Yang LI, Kaifeng HAN, Ying DU, Guangxu ZHU

“…The training loss under the optimal quantization level and optimal bandwidth allocation reaches the predetermined threshold in a shorter time and can achieve the highest test accuracy. …”
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Factors predicting conversion from colon capsule endoscopy to conventional optical endoscopy: findings from the CESCAIL Study by Ian Io Lei, Ioanna Parisi, Anirudh Bhandare, Francisco Porras Perez, Thomas Lee, Chander Shehkar, Mary McStay, Simon Anderson, Angus Watson, Abby Conlin, Rawya Badreldin, Kamran Malik, John Jacob, Andrew Dixon, Jeffrey Butterworth, Nicholas Parsons, Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Ramesh Arasaradnam

“…Our findings would benefit from validation in different populations to develop a robust CCE Conversion Scoring System (CECS) and ultimately improve the cost-effectiveness of treatment.…”
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Hemodynamic effects of adjunct arginine vasopressin to norepinephrine in septic shock: insights from a prospective multicenter registry study by Max Melchers, Vivienne de Smet, Chrissie Rooijakkers, Jonathan Huising, Wander Vermeulen, Beyza Nur Nisa Köktaş, Karlijn Johanna van de Vusse, Kimia Milani Sabzewar, Shakti Bedanta Mishra, Carina Bethlehem, Dirk P. Boer, Nedim Cimic, Mirella van Duijnhoven, Tim Frenzel, Jordi Liesveld, Gianluca Paternoster, Susanne Stads, Jan J. Weenink, Barbara Festen-Spanjer, Peter Pickkers, Arthur Raymond Hubert van Zanten

“…However, relying solely on a NE threshold has limitations, as other factors may be valuable in guiding AVP therapy during septic shock. …”
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Exploring the association of erythrocytic NO-ferroheme, a surrogate marker of endothelial function with perioperative cardiovascular events in low/intermediate risk patients underg... by Hasnae Boughaleb, Jerome Linden, Arvind Soni, Nathalie Fabian, Irina Lobysheva, Virginie Montiel, Mona Momeni, Marie-Agnès Docquier, Annie Robert, Nancy Van Overstraeten, Jean-Luc Balligand

“…Methods We conducted a prospective, monocentric study in adult patients scheduled for elective non-cardiac surgery. …”
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Characteristic of herd immunity among the population of Stavropol region amid the COVID-19 epidemic by A. Yu. Popova, E. B. Ezhlova, A. A. Melnikova, V. S. Smirnov, L. V. Lyalina, A. V. Ermakov, N. I. Solomashchenko, I. V. Kovalchuk, E. A. Vasilenko, E. N. Romanenko, A. V. Zvoliborskaya, A. V. Ryabykh, L. I. Dmitrienko, N. A. Mezhlumyan, A. A. Sharova, V. V. Vetrov, A. A. Totolian

“…Seroprevalence had no gender differences and ranged from 9.3% to 10.8%. When assessing the distribution of the proportion of seropositive persons in different geographic territories of the region, it was found that the maximum proportion was found in the Kochubeevsky district (23.1%), the minimum in Kislovodsk (7.7%). …”
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Balance Ability and Proprioception after Single-Bundle, Single-Bundle Augmentation, and Double-Bundle ACL Reconstruction by Yubao Ma, Masataka Deie, Daisuke Iwaki, Makoto Asaeda, Naoto Fujita, Nobuo Adachi, Mitsuo Ochi

“…Body sway and knee kinesthesia (using the threshold to detect passive motion test (TTDPM)) were measured to indicate balance ability and proprioceptive function, respectively. …”
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Leveraging Perspective Transformation for Enhanced Pothole Detection in Autonomous Vehicles by Abdalmalek Abu-raddaha, Zaid A. El-Shair, Samir Rawashdeh

“…This paper introduces a novel approach that utilizes perspective transformation to enhance pothole detection at different distances, focusing particularly on distant potholes. …”
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Comparison Between Titanium and Thermally Activated Prostheses in Stapes Surgery by Mila Vasiljević, Klara Dragović, Petra Povalej Bržan, Janez Rebol

“…Audiometric evaluations revealed no statistically significant differences in bone conduction thresholds on the first postoperative day (<i>p</i> = 0.275) or at six weeks (<i>p</i> = 0.899), postoperative air-bone gap (<i>p</i> = 0.810), air-bone gap closure (<i>p</i> = 0.489), overclosure (<i>p</i> = 0.436), or bone conduction at 4 kHz (<i>p</i> = 0.324). …”
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Sequence-to-pattern analysis for predicting buying decisions on imbalanced clickstream data by Nur Adlina Marini Binti Amir Suharman, Amy Hui-Lan Lim, Hui-Ngo Goh

“…Preprocessed imbalanced clickstream data with various ratios of buyer and non-buyer groups, namely 4:96, 3:97, 2:98, and 1:99, were prepared by adjusting the thresholds for the similarity score, and their prediction performance was observed. …”
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Using N-Version Architectures for Railway Segmentation with Deep Neural Networks by Philipp Jaß, Carsten Thomas

“…In addition, we implement a new method for evaluating and combining prediction confidence values in the N-version architecture during runtime. …”
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Uncertainty evaluation and model optimization in multi-source reservoir modeling by Pingshan Ma, Chengyan Lin, Haocheng liu, Shaohua Li, Shun Wang

“…Finally, combining the Monte Carlo random simulation method, the distribution of cumulative probability reserves is obtained, and the 3P reserves of the study area are predicted to test the effectiveness of the multivariate regression model.…”
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Differential modulation of the cortical alpha rhythm and activation of distinct neural networks during tactile perception training by learners and non-learners by Kei Saito, Kei Saito, Naofumi Otsuru, Naofumi Otsuru, Kaito Tateishi, Ryuji Kurebayashi, Hideaki Onishi, Hideaki Onishi

“…Most individuals demonstrate tactile perceptual learning, but with marked differences in efficiency. Here, we investigated the neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in tactile learning efficiency at the network level.MethodsElectroencephalographic (EEG) signals were recorded from 25 neurologically healthy participants at baseline, after one training session (50 trials) on the tactile grating orientation discrimination task (GOT), and again after four sessions of GOT training (200 training trials in total). …”
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Effect of turmeric products on knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Han Su Wai, Thanika Pathomwichaiwat, Thanarat Suansanae, Surakit Nathisuwan, Wipharak Rattanavipanon

“…The primary outcome measured pain reduction, using the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), while secondary outcomes evaluated pain using other tools. Mean differences (MDs) were pooled using a random-effects model, and the concept of minimum clinically important difference (MCID) was considered. …”
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Frontline evaluation: Atezolizumab–bevacizumab versus lenvatinib for BCLC stage B hepatocellular carcinoma exceeding the up‐to‐seven criteria by Masamichi Kimura, Koji Nishikawa, Jun Imamura, Kiminori Kimura

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on 49 consecutive patients with HCC treated at Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital between May 2018 and October 2023. …”
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Physical therapy vs. glucocorticoid injection in patients with meniscal tears and knee osteoarthritis: a multi-center, randomized, controlled trial by Mingzhu Lee, Chao Jing, Kainan Lee

“…The data are reported as percentages (%) (n), and the threshold for statistical significance was p < 0.05. …”
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Functional state of the cardiorespiratory system after orthotopic heart transplantation with prolonged cold ischemia time by I. Yu. Loginova, O. V. Kamenskaya, A. V. Fomichev, D. V. Doronin, A. M. Chernyavskiy, V. V. Lomivorotov

“…At the same time, the survival rate and incidence of graft rejection reactions in the early and late post-HT periods in the studied groups did not differ significantly. Peak oxygen consumption in the general group in the long term after HT was 17 (14.7–21.0) mL/kg/min, VE/ VCO2 slope was 30 (29–36) at 100 (90–120) W threshold load power. …”
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