Tradeoffs and decision-making in moderate to severe psoriasis for oral versus injectable treatments: data from patients and dermatologists in Australia by Saxon D. Smith, Simon Fifer, Meredith Edwards, Anne Walter, Yichen Zhong, Joe Zhuo, Bronwyn West, Lynda Spelman

“…When treatment attributes were held equal, patients and dermatologists preferred oral versus injectable treatments for moderate disease. …”
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Comparative Cost Analysis of Four Interventions to Prevent HIV Transmission in Bandung, Indonesia by Eveline J.M. Verstraaten, Fenna M.M. Beeren, Jip L.C Janssen, Sophie Kemper, Adiatma Y.M Siregar, Noor Tromp, Rob Baltussen

“…Results: the total annualized costs for condom distribution, mobile voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), religious based information, communication, and education (IEC) and STI services equalled US$56,926, US$2,985, US$1,963 and US$5,865, respectively. …”
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Two‐stage stochastic energy and reserve market clearing model considering real‐time offering strategy of renewable energy by Zhengting Jiang, Yunpeng Xiao, Taishan Xu, Qi Liu, Jianxue Wang

“…The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated using the extended IEEE‐118 test system.…”
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Comparative Evaluation of Efficiency, Efficacy, and Patient Perception of Caries Excavation Burs in Pediatric Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Arundhati Goyal, Manvi Srivastava, Ritu Khanduja, Kusum Bharti

“…For patient acceptance, a significant difference was obtained (<italic>p</italic> = 0.000), diamond point and ceramic bur were equally acceptable to the patient and the least accepted was smart bur. …”
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A Machine Learning Approach to Quantitative Analysis of Enamel Microstructure from Scanning Electron Microscopy Images by Carli Marsico, Cameron Renteria, Jack R. Grimm, Juliana Fernandez‐Arteaga, Donna Guillen, Dwayne Arola

“…The methodology applied here is equally applicable to other hard tissues.…”
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Unveiling the situation of water hyacinth on fresh water bodies in Nigeria and South Africa: Management, workable practices and potentials by Ednah K. Onyari, Gloria U. Fayomi, Adesoji T. Jaiyeola

“…The presence of the weed in fresh water has become a major threat to economic, social activities especially to individuals who obtain their source of livelihood and survival from waterways, lack of access to clean water resulting to increased spread of water borne diseases and health implications is equally noted as continuous threat of this weed. Several efforts made to eradicate this weed have proved unsuccessful as the invasive weed outgrow the control methods. …”
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Small Intestinal Atresia: Should We Preserve the Peel or Toss It? by Benedetta Marino, Giulia Mottadelli, Marta Bisol, Maria Sergio, Piergiorgio Gamba, Elisa Zambaiti

“…We compared outcomes of apple-peel atresia based on different surgical approaches. Methods: a retrospective review from two institutions compared APA-resected and APA-preserved patients. …”
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A Unified Deep-Domain Adaptation Framework: Advancing Feature Separability and Local Alignment by Pranav Kumar, Jimson Mathew, Rakesh Kumar Sanodiya, Avinash Kumar Chouhan, Rahul Reddy Bukkasamudram, Chandra Sai Teja Adhikarla

“…Angular loss enhances feature discrimination through angular alignment, whereas LMMD equalizes local data distributions across domains, and entropy minimization refines the decision boundaries. …”
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Efficacy of diode laser application versus silver diamine fluoride (SDF) as a modification of Hall technique in primary teeth by Ghada A. Salem, Rasha F. Sharaf, Maryam El Mansy

“…Aim: The current study aimed to increase the success rate of the Hall technique in carious primary molars by eradicating bacteria present in carious lesions using SDF or diode laser in combination with the Hall technique. Materials and methods: A total of 159 children aged 4–8 years were randomly divided into three equal groups: Group I, application of the Hall technique; Group II, SDF with Hall technique; Group III, diode laser with Hall technique. …”
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Protocol: what are the ethnic inequities in care outcomes related to haematological malignancies, treated with transplant/cellular therapies, in the UK? A systematic review by Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Alastair K Denniston, Joht Singh Chandan, Nicola Adderley, David Burns, Samuel Cusworth, Zareen Deplano

“…Research into the determinates of treatment efficacy, and access to treatments, is key to ensuring equal benefit across patients and patient safety. …”
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Study of Electrokinetic Possibilities of Bacteria (S.aureus) Separation and Concentration by Developed Four-electrode Biosensor Chip Formats with ITO Microelectrodes in Whole Blood by A. I. Drapeza, S. K. Lazaruk, G. A. Skorokhod, V. A. Loban, T. I. Orekhovskaya, A. I. Khmelnitsky, E. I. Gudkova, A. V. Dolbik

“…It is determined that the amplitude-frequency mode and biosensor chip format can be used to develop methodological support for the identification of bacterial species, but only by optical methods. It is shown that in order to increase the number of bacteria on both of the central electrode in the concentration mode, it is necessary to increase the speed of the electroosmotic flow at alternating current, by optimizing the composition of the medium and the parameters of the electrical regime in order to equalize the rates of separation and concentration processes.…”
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Design, implementation and evaluation of value-based payment models: a Delphi study by Diogo L. L. Leao, Lise A. M. Moers, Henricus-Paul Cremers, Dennis van Veghel, Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova

“…The Delphi technique was used to reach consensus among a panel of (inter)national experts on these factors. Methods An expert panel of 15 members participated in a three-round Delphi study. …”
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Impact of Digital Panoramic Radiograph Magnification on Vertical Measurement Accuracy by Marc El Hage, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Christophe Combescure, Lydia Vazquez

“…The purpose of this panoramic radiography study was to assess the impact of image magnification on the accuracy of vertical measurements in the posterior mandible. Methods. Six dental implants, inserted in the posterior segments of a resin model, were used as reference objects. …”
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Electroanalytical Performance of Graphene Paste Electrode Modified Al(III)-TiO2 Nanocomposites in Fipronil Solution by Muhammad Nurdin, Zul Arham, Sri Rahayu, La Ode Agus Salim, Maulidiyah Maulidiyah

“…Moreover, GAT shows good stability in the determination of fipronil with% RSD equal to 5%.…”
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Some results for the family of holomorphic functions associated with the Babalola operator and combination binomial series by Kholood M. Alsager, Sheza M. El-Deeb, Ala Amourah, Jongsuk Ro

“…Using the well-known Carathéodory's inequality for function with real positive parts and the Keogh-Merkes and Ma-Minda's in equalities, we determined the upper bound for the first two initial coefficients of the Taylor-Maclaurin power series expansion. …”
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The impact of donor-recipient age difference on graft survival after heart transplant in adults with congenital heart disease by William H. Marshall, V, MD, Brent C. Lampert, DO, Curt J. Daniels, MD, Deipanjan Nandi, MD, Lydia K. Wright, MD

“…Background: The impact of donor-recipient age difference in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients undergoing heart transplant (HT) is unknown. Methods: ACHD patients (≥18 years old) who underwent HT (2000-2020) were identified using the United Network for Organ Sharing database. …”
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Beyond Euclid: an illustrated guide to modern machine learning with geometric, topological, and algebraic structures by Mathilde Papillon, Sophia Sanborn, Johan Mathe, Louisa Cornelis, Abby Bertics, Domas Buracas, Hansen J Lillemark, Christian Shewmake, Fatih Dinc, Xavier Pennec, Nina Miolane

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EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT OF CHRONIC CATARRHAL GINGIVITIS IN CHILDREN WITH DIABETES MELLITUS IN LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS by L.F. Kaskova, V.A. Honcharenko

“…Materials and methods. In order to achieve the aim, 50 children with CCG aged 12 years were treated. …”
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Inspiring Social Capital Through Community Green Space: Pathways and Implications by Lin YE, Shi HE, Yinghao LI, Zhaohui YAN, Lei HUANG

“…The second stage carefully examines existing research to identify common research methods, areas of agreement among scholars, and ongoing debates in the field. …”
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Analysis and Prioritization of Indicators of Urban Development Strategy In the neighborhoods of the eight district of Shiraz by Issa Ebrahimzadeh, Mostafa Istgaldi, Fazel Hajizadeh

“…In addition to these, the complexity of urban systems and the inefficiencies of traditional methods that provide case solutions and inability of these methods to meet the existing multidimensional needs and problems has caused many developing cities, Without a proper and comprehensive program, it is in a state of fragility and faced an excessive spread of poverty and an uncertain future. …”
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