RESULTS OF NEW RUSSIAN INTRAOCULAR LENSES IMPLANTATION by D. D. Dementyev, M. V. Sysoeva, A. V. Shipunova, I. M. Ivanchikova

“…Purpose: to analyze the data obtained from a multicenter study of the hydrophobic IOL Citrin and a hydrophilic IOL Aquamarine implantation and a comparison of the Acrysoft IQ with Citrine and IOL by the given parameters.Patients and methods. A total of 100 IOLs produced by NanOptic (96 hydrophobic IOLs Citrine and 4 hydrophilic IOLs Aquamarine) and 24 IOL Acrysoft IQ were implanted. 7 ophthalmological clinics in different Russian cities took part in the study. …”
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New indicators of illegal drug use to compare drug user populations for policy evaluation by Francesco Fabi, Alessia Mammone, Carla Rossi

“…</p><p><span><strong>Results:</strong> </span>The method is applied to the drug user populations interviewed in Communities and Low Threshold Services within the Problem Drug Use 2012 survey in four different European countries. …”
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Is less more? Intravenous immunoglobulin for pediatric immune thrombocytopenia by Eyal Elron, Joanne Yacobovich, Orly Efros, Osama Tanous, Sarina Levy-Mendelovich, Esti Shamba, Orna Steinberg-Shemer, Tracie Goldberg, Shai Izraeli, Oded Gilad

“…Outcomes were short and long-term treatment responses and adverse events to the different doses. Results: A total of 168 children were included in our cohort. …”
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Wearable System Applications in Performance Analysis of RaceRunning Athletes with Disabilities by Mohsen Shafizadeh, Keith Davids

“…Results showed that weekly training loads (player and race loads) followed acceptable threshold levels, according to assessment criteria (smallest worthwhile change, acute/chronic work ratio). …”
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Sensory and Motor Function, Pain, and Health Status in Children with Arthrogryposis and Myelomeningocele by Åsa Bartonek, Marie Eriksson

“…An additional purpose of this study was to explore pain, skin irritations, and health status. Methods: Nineteen children with AMC, twenty-three with MMC, and twenty-two typically developing (TD) children (7–18 years old) were tested using a somatosensory test battery in ankle kinesthesia and in identifying four different types of floors. …”
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Spinal protein kinase A and phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling are involved in the antinociceptive effect of phytohormone abscisic acid in rats by Mahtab MOLLASHAHI, Mehdi ABBASNEJAD, Saeed ESMAEILI-MAHANI

“…ABA in male Wistar rats. Methods: The animals were cannulated intrathecally and divided into different experimental groups (n=6‒7): Control (no surgery), vehicle (received ABA vehicle), ABA-treated groups (received ABA in doses of 10 or 20 µg/rat), ABA plus H.89 (PKA inhibitor)-treated group which received the inhibitor 15 min prior to the ABA injection. …”
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Research on bank financing strategy of e-commerce supply chain driven by blockchain by Lei Yang, Qiaoming Hou

“…Bank financing helps to alleviate these financing difficulties, and blockchain trust mechanisms can optimize bank financing strategies.MethodsTo address the issue of capital constraints for suppliers, based on the two operating modes of Consignment and Direct Selling in the e-commerce supply chain, using the Stackelberg game, considering the company’s risk-averse behavior and consumers’ green preferences, a game model is constructed to explore the impact of factors such as blockchain, risk aversion, product greenness, guarantee interest rates, and information verification efforts on bank financing strategies.Results and discussionWhen the blockchain technology is adopted within a certain threshold, the supplier can obtain higher financing income by adopting consideration than Direct Selling. …”
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Deploying AI on Edge: Advancement and Challenges in Edge Intelligence by Tianyu Wang, Jinyang Guo, Bowen Zhang, Ge Yang, Dong Li

“…Standing at the threshold of an exciting new era, we believe edge intelligence will play an increasingly critical role in transforming industries and enabling ubiquitous intelligent services.…”
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Gender relations and women's empowerment in small-scale irrigated forage production in Ethiopia. by Immaculate Omondi, Esther Njuguna-Mungai, Melkamu Bezabih Derseh, Nils Teufel, Alessandra Galiè, Nelly Njiru, Eunice Kariuki, Annet Abenakyo Mulema, Isabelle Baltenweck, Chris Stephen Jones

“…Women's empowerment differed significantly with different dimensions of gender relations, types of forages grown, and small-scale irrigation practice. …”
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Population substructure and control selection in genome-wide association studies. by Kai Yu, Zhaoming Wang, Qizhai Li, Sholom Wacholder, David J Hunter, Robert N Hoover, Stephen Chanock, Gilles Thomas

“…A novel permutation procedure was developed for the correction of PS that identified a smaller set of principal components and achieved a better control of type I error (to lambda of 1.032 and 1.006, respectively) than currently used methods. The overlap between sets of SNPs in the bottom 5% of p-values based on the new test and the test without PS correction was about 80%, with the majority of discordant SNPs having both ranks close to the threshold. …”
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Backward erosion piping mechanism in dike foundations with and without landside blanket layers: numerical simulation of size effects by Qiuling Yao, Xiping Yan, Zebin Wu, Huiqing Hao, Meihong Ma, Meihong Ma

“…The objective is to understand how different model dimensions affect the hydraulic gradients and piping behavior in dike systems.MethodsNumerical simulations were performed using the finite element method (FEM), where the dike foundation was modeled in 3D and seepage flow was simulated under various hydraulic gradients. …”
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Establishing a Geological Knowledge Base for Braided River Deltas Using Google Earth by Xiaoyu Yu, Mengjiao Dou, Shaohua Li

“…., Yukon–Kuskokwim, Poyang Lake, Lena River deltas). Methods include listwise deletion for missing data (retaining 87% of Poyang Lake delta samples) and sensitivity analysis (threshold changes ≤2.4%). …”
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METABOLISM OF FATTY ACIDS IN LEFT VENTRICLE MYOCARDIUM AND THE EFFICACY PROGNOSIS OF CARDIO-RESYNCHRONIZING THERAPY IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY PATIENTS by M. O. Gulya, Yu. B. Lishmanov, K. V. Zavadovsky, D. I. Lebedev

“…The best threshold value of calculated end- systolic volume dynamics — 34,02 confirms the 87,5% sensitivity and 100% specificity of RT.Conclusion. …”
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Radiation Damage in Electronic Memory Devices by Irfan Fetahović, Milić Pejović, Miloš Vujisić

“…The effect of direct ionizing radiation on semiconductor memory behavior has been analyzed by using Monte Carlo simulation method. Obtained results show that gamma radiation causes decrease in threshold voltage, being proportional to the absorbed dose of radiation. …”
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Efficient DDoS attack detection and prevention scheme based on SDN in cloud environment by Heng HE, Yan HU, Lianghan ZHENG, Zhengyuan XUE

“…For addressing the problem of two typical types of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in cloud environment,a DDoS attack detection and prevention scheme called SDCC based on software defined network (SDN) architecture was proposed.SDCC used a combination of bandwidth detection and data flow detection,utilized confidence-based filtering (CBF) method to calculate the CBF score of packets,judged the packet of CBF score below the threshold as an attacking packet,added its attribute information to the attack flow feature library,and sent the flow table to intercept it through SDN controller.Simulation results show that SDCC can detect and prevent different types of DDoS attacks effectively,and it has high detection efficiency,reduces the controller’s computation overhead,and achieves a low false positive rate.…”
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Diagnostics of Olfactory Impairment Using the Novel Olfactory Test Panoramic Smell Test by Tolstikhin, Y.V., Gavrilova, N.Y., Soprun, L.A., Chernyshova, O.A., Taalaibek-kyzy, Y.

“…The Kruskal-­Wallis test, Friedman test and Spearman correlation coefficient were used for statistical analysis. Results. Threshold testing: median score = 6.0 (IQR 6.0–6.0), with no significant differences across concentrations. …”
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Main differential endometrial microbiota associated with recurrent implantation failure: a case control study by Hong Gao, Hong Gao, Jing Xiao, Bingyan Liang, Xiaolan Wang, Huanhuan Li, Genlin Li, Baoyu Wu

“…To identify the main differential endometrial microbiota associated with RIF and to establish threshold values for their relative abundance.MethodsThis case-control study was conducted in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine at two large hospitals. …”
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Predicting Suicide or Self-Harm Crises Based on Decision Tree Analysis of Life Events and Coping Style: A Population-Based Study in China by Shumeng Ma, Ping Li, Liwen Ren, Ning Jia

“…While the impact of negative life events and coping styles on suicide crises showed cross-sex consistency, sex differences were observed for self-harm crises. Among male students, only interpersonal relationships exceeded the 10% threshold in importance, whereas a wider range of events surpassed this threshold for female students. …”
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Effects of glycyrrhizinic acid on neuromotor function in leptin-resistant mice by T. M. Matuzok, V. A. Prikhodko, S. M. Napalkova, O. V. Buyuklinskaya, S. V. Okovityi

“…To study the effects of course administration (1 month) of glycyrrhizinic acid (GA) (20 mg/kg/d) on neuromotor function in female leptin-resistant diabetic db/db mice of different ages using stimulation electroneuromyography (ENMG).Materials and methods. …”
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DNA methylation biomarker panels for differentiating various liver adenocarcinomas, including hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, colorectal liver metastases and pancreat... by Tina Draškovič, Branislava Ranković, Nina Zidar, Nina Hauptman

“…Reevaluation of the same bioinformatic data with new additional CRLM projects demonstrated that the lower dPCR methylation threshold still effectively differentiates between the included cancer types. …”
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