Protocol for a Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial on Jal Neti: Current Trends, Standardization of Process, and Clinical Efficacy by Dasarathan Sathyanath, Satya Lakshmi Komarraju, Kajal Gupta, Shivangi Pandey, Shrikanth Muralidharan

“…However, lack of standardization and limited high-quality evidence hinder its integration into clinical practice. Materials and Methods: This multicenter, double-blind, randomized controlled trial is conducted across seven yoga and naturopathy institutions in India. …”
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Image-based maturity detection for selective cauliflower harvesting in field condition by Ajay Kushwah, P.K. Sharma, H.L. Kushwaha, Brij Bihari Sharma, Naseeb Singh, Ramineni Harsha Nag, Manojit Chowdhury, Nrusingh Charan Pradhan, Gopal Carpenter, Silpa Mandal, Ali Salem

“…Three algorithms—the color difference method, the color component ratio method, and the chromatic aberration method—were developed to accurately segment cauliflower. …”
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Effects of strict versus lenient rate control on exercise capacity in atrial fibrillation: a retrospective analysis by Jinna Chang, Qian Du, Yuting Liu, Dujuan Li, Haofeng Zhou, Yingxue Liao, Junshuo Zhu, Bingqing Bai, Xiangyang Liu, Huan Ma

“…However, no significant differences were detected in the anaerobic threshold or ventilation parameters among these groups. …”
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Sidewalk thermal comfort in street canyon and role of pavements under perpendicular sun rays during summer by D. Jareemit, M. Srivanit

“…This analysis helped identify the threshold for comfortable summer conditions in Thailand. …”
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Association between red cell distribution width—albumin ratio and all-cause mortality in intensive care unit patients with heart failure by Ni Li, Junling Li, Kai Wang

“…Multivariate adjusted Cox regression and subgroup analysis demonstrated that individuals in Q2 [hazard ratio (HR) 1.15, 95%CI 0.98–1.34], Q3 (HR 1.65, 95%CI 1.39–1.96) and Q4 (HR 2.16, 95%CI 1.74–2.68) had an increased risk of mortality compared to individuals in Q1 (p for trend < 0.001), and this relationship was consistently observed across most subgroups, except for different ages. Subsequent analysis revealed that the inclusion of RAR significantly improved the prognostic value on the basis of SOFA and APACHE Ⅱ, and the concordance index increased from 0.636 to 0.658 for SOFA, from 0.682 to 0.695 for APACHE Ⅱ (p < 0.001 for both).ConclusionThe study found that high level of RAR was independently associated with an increased risk of 1-year all-cause mortality in ICU patients with heart failure, with a stronger effect in young and middle-aged patients and a threshold effect, which could potentially serve as an early warning indicator for high-risk populations.…”
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Prognostic nutritional index as a potential predictor of prognosis in patients with sepsis: a retrospective cohort study by Mingyuan Pan, Zheng Li, Shanfeng Sheng, Xiao Teng, Yuyang Li

“…Restricted cubic splines (RCS) explored the potential dose—response relationship between PNI and mortality, and threshold analysis determined the critical threshold of PNI. …”
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Detectability of Subclinical Hypothyroidism and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Levels Associated with Cardiovascular Diseases in Patients of North-West Region Hospital by A. R. Volkova, O. D. Dygun, O. N. Zhdanova, B. G. Lukichev, L. A. Belyakova, E. M. Sereda

“…To study the detectability of subclinical hypothyroidism, the range of thyroid-stimulating hormone values associated with CVD in patients who seek medical care at the multidisciplinary hospital of the North-West region.Material and methods. 1340 patients of different sex and age with normal TSH value (0.4-2.5 mlU/l) and subclinical hypothyroidism were included into the study. …”
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Association Between Inflammation Indices Derived From Complete Blood Count and Coronary Artery Calcification by He Y, Li L, Zhou T, Yang H, Liu T, Hu H

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis, smooth curve fitting, and threshold effect analysis were subsequently used to explore the potential linear or nonlinear relationships between CBC-derived inflammation indices and CAC. …”
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Vincristine Regulates C/EBP-β/TGF-β1 to Promote A1 Astrocyte Polarization and Induce Neuropathic Pain by Chen Y, Tang G, Lu J, Tang S, Xiong X, Chen C, Pei L, Shi J

“…In vitro experiment, the astrocyte model was constructed by Vincristine, and si-C/EBP-β was regulated before VCR administration. Pain threshold of rats was measured by thermal withdrawal latency (TWL) and mechanical withdrawal threshold (MWT), Elisa was used to detect the expression level of inflammatory factors, qRT PCR and Western blotting were used to detect astrocyte polarization markers, C/EBP-β, TGF-β 1, p-smad2 and p-smad3.Results: Following Vincristine administration, the TWL and MWT of rats exhibited a decrease. …”
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The effect of cognitive emotion regulation on direct-acting antivirals adherence in patients with hepatitis C by Adina Turcu-Stiolica, Irina Paula Doica, Bogdan Silviu Ungureanu, Mihaela-Simona Subtirelu, Dan Nicolae Florescu, Razvan-Aurelian Turcu-Stiolica, Ion Rogoveanu, Dan-Ionut Gheonea

“…Spearman correlation analysis was conducted to explore the relationships between adherence and different factors. ROC-curves were used to evaluate the adherence threshold to achieve SVR. …”
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Occurrence and Exposure Assessment of Rare Earth Elements in Zhejiang Province, China by Shufeng Ye, Ronghua Zhang, Pinggu Wu, Dong Zhao, Jiang Chen, Xiaodong Pan, Jikai Wang, Hexiang Zhang, Xiaojuan Qi, Qin Weng, Zijie Lu, Biao Zhou

“…This may be attributed to differences in moisture content, root absorption mechanisms, and processing methods. …”
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Investigating anisotropic effects and optimizing parameters in ultra-short pulsed (USP) laser machining of single crystalline diamond (SCD) by Kiran Michael, Lukas Greiner, Matthias Putzer, Jodok Weixler, Timo Schudeleit, Markus Bambach, Konrad Wegener

“…The results show different ablation thresholds for each plane, with the {100} plane having the highest threshold for both SCD types. …”
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Nanomaterial isolated extracellular vesicles enable high precision identification of tumor biomarkers for pancreatic cancer liquid biopsy by Zachary F. Greenberg, Samantha Ali, Andrew Brock, Jinmai Jiang, Thomas D. Schmittgen, Song Han, Steven J. Hughes, Kiley S. Graim, Mei He

“…However, isolating EVs with well-defined homogeneous populations from complex biological samples is challenging. Different methods have been found to derive different EV populations carrying different biomolecules, which significantly confound biomarker discovery for developing clinical diagnostics. …”
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The effect of language typology on the students’ writing skills: A case of the undergraduate students of Arabic language and literature at Arak University by Tahereh Khanabadi, Isa Motaghizadeh, Hayat Ameri, hadi nazarimonazam

“…This effect was higher in specific components with the obtained value of 76.7% than in different components with the value of 48.3%. As for the common components, with the obtained value of 4.6%, and based on covariance analysis, the mentioned teaching method was not effective in improving the students' progress in understanding and applying this component. …”
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Heterogeneity in susceptibility and connectivity for epidemic models by Mr Tarek Alrefae

“…Methods: We extend previous work (Gomes 2022) by considering distributions for these two sources of heterogeneity other than gamma, and showcase the relation between the distribution choice and HITs/attack rates. …”
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Image Segmentation Techniques for Intelligent Monitoring of Putonghua Examinations by Hui Liu

“…Among them, they can be broadly classified as region-based segmentation methods, threshold-based segmentation methods, edge-based segmentation methods, specific theory-based segmentation methods, and deep learning-based segmentation methods. …”
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Perfusion index as a predictor of successful PNS-guided supraclavicular block: A prospective study by Monika Gandhi, Khushboo Ranpise, Aseem Sharma, Manish Banjare

“…ROC curve analysis identified a PI threshold of 2.80 and a PI ratio threshold of 2.45 as strong predictors of successful block. …”
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In Silico Assessment of the Influence of Talus Osteochondral Lesion Size and Location on Ankle Joint Stability using Tilted Talar Dome Plane Orientations by Lercan Aslan MD, Omer Subasi PhD, Bedri Karaismailoglu MD, FEBOT, Cihad C. Gedik, Batuhan Yuruk, Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani MD, Ilker Eren

“…Our study aims to evaluate the stress distribution and joint stiffness effect of OLTs on all the 9-cell partition zones of the talar dome in three different ankle positions during gait. Methods: A simplified ankle geometry of an adult female was computationally modeled with 1 mm of cartilage at both sides of the tibiotalar contact. …”
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In vivo variability of MRI radiomics features in prostate lesions assessed by a test-retest study with repositioning by Kevin Sun Zhang, Christian Jan Oliver Neelsen, Markus Wennmann, Thomas Hielscher, Balint Kovacs, Philip Alexander Glemser, Magdalena Görtz, Albrecht Stenzinger, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Johannes Huber, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, David Bonekamp

“…Radiomics feature (RF) extraction was performed from MRI segmentations accounting for intra-rater and inter-rater effects, and three different image normalization methods were compared. …”
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To estimation of contact-fatigue durability of thermo-chemically strengthened gears by Nikolay P. Onishkov, Victor I. Korotkin

“…However, these processes have essentially different mechanisms of contact-fatigue durability with fundamentally different mechanisms of the contact-fatigue life. …”
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