Comparative Study on the Efficacy and Safety of Tumor Resection in Vitrectomy for Retinal Vasoproliferative Tumors by Bin Zheng, Yan Chen, Lifeng Chen, Huan Chen, Jingwei Zheng, Feng Chen, Zongming Song, Lin Fu, Xuting Hu, Jiandong Pan, Hengli Lian, Lijun Shen, Qiuming Li

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The Impact of Weighted Blanket Use on Adults with Sensory Sensitivity and Insomnia by Rhonda Davis-Cheshire, Savannah Bennington, Allison Hartsek, Teresa Kelly, Janeene Marinelli, Amanda Perez

“…Through convenience sampling, four participants scoring 15 or greater on the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), which categorizes them as having moderate to severe insomnia, and much more than most people in sensory sensitivity on the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile were recruited. First, seven-day baseline sleep data was gathered, followed by two weeks of weighted blanket use, concluding with a seven-day withdrawal phase. …”
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Effectiveness of Spinal Stabilization Exercises on Movement Performance in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain by Khalid Alkhathami, Yousef Alshehre, Kelli Brizzolara, Mark Weber, Sharon Wang-Price

“…Post hoc analysis showed significant between-group differences between baseline and four weeks (_p_ = 0.005) and between baseline and eight weeks (_p_ = 0.026) favor SSEs over GEs. …”
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A phase III, randomized, controlled noninferiority trial to study the efficacy and safety of imipenem/cilastatin/relebactam (IMI/REL) vs piperacillin/tazobactam (PIP/TAZ) in patien... by Junjie Li, Feng Wei, Peng Xiang, Zhengang Tang, Lianshu Ding, Luke Francis Chen, Maria Losada, Zlatka Iamboliyska, Fang Sun, Mingfen Zhu, Xiaodan Guo, Xiaoling Du, Chang Chen, Christopher Bruno, Sandra Koseoglu, Katherine Young, Min Zhou, Jieming Qu

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An Improved Stochastic Configuration Networks With Compact Structure and Parameter Adaptation by Sanyi Li, Hongyu Guan, Peng Liu, Weichao Yue, Qian Wang

“…There are two key improvements: First, the stopping condition for generating neurons is optimized to improve the effectiveness of new neurons. …”
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Lumbar Spondylolysis in Juveniles from the Same Family: A Report of Three Cases and a Review of the Literature by Atsuhisa Yamada, Koichi Sairyo, Isao Shibuya, Ko Kato, Akira Dezawa, Toshinori Sakai

“…The second boy, a 10-year-old baseball player, had terminal stage right side unilateral spondylolysis. …”
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Longitudinal Alterations of Retinal and Choroidal Structure in Patients Recovered from COVID-19 by Mojtaba Abrishami, Kiana Hassanpour, Ghodsieh Zamani, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini, Nasser Shoeibi, Zahra Emamverdian, Amir Zamani, Nasibeh Amini, Majid Abrishami

“…While the stromal component showed a significant decrease between the baseline and first-month values (1.16 ± 0.29 to 1.01 ± 0.27, P = 0.03), the luminal area mostly changed between months 1 and 3 (2.03 ± 0.28 to 1.91 ± 0.23, P = 0.045). …”
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Short-term urban traffic forecasting in smart cities: a dynamic diffusion spatial-temporal graph convolutional network by Xiang Yin, Junyang Yu, Xiaoyu Duan, Lei Chen, Xiaoli Liang

“…Compared to several baseline models, the experimental results show that the model is 7% better than other models on several metrics and demonstrates the necessity of the module through ablation experiments.…”
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Weight loss for overweight and obese patients with prostate cancer: a study protocol of a randomised trial comparing clinic-based versus Telehealth delivered EXercise and nutrition... by Robert U Newton, Daniel A Galvão, Dennis R Taaffe, Suzanne K Chambers, David Joseph, Amanda Devine, Colin I Tang, Nigel Spry, Emily Jeffery, Dickon Hayne, Pedro Lopez, P Lyons-Wall, Christine Kudiarasu

“…Measurements will be undertaken at baseline, 6 months (post intervention), and at 12 months of follow-up. …”
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Second-line treatment patterns and outcomes in advanced HCC after progression on atezolizumab/bevacizumab by Meng Wu, Claudia A.M. Fulgenzi, Antonio D’Alessio, Alessio Cortellini, Ciro Celsa, Giulia F. Manfredi, Bernardo Stefanini, Y. Linda Wu, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Anwaar Saeed, Angelo Pirozzi, Tiziana Pressiani, Lorenza Rimassa, Martin Schoenlein, Kornelius Schulze, Johann von Felden, Yehia Mohamed, Ahmed O. Kaseb, Arndt Vogel, Natascha Roehlen, Marianna Silletta, Naoshi Nishida, Masatoshi Kudo, Caterina Vivaldi, Lorenz Balcar, Bernhard Scheiner, Matthias Pinter, Amit G. Singal, Joshua Glover, Susanna Ulahannan, Fredrich Foerster, Arndt Weinmann, Peter R. Galle, Neehar D. Parikh, Wei-Fan Hsu, Alessandro Parisi, Hong Jae Chon, David J. Pinato, Celina Ang

“…Background & Aims: Atezolizumab/bevacizumab (A/B) is now a standard first-line treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the optimal second-line regimen is not known. …”
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Reinforcement learning-based vehicle travel path reconstruction from sparse automatic licence plate recognition data by Qiuping Li, Hui Meng, Li Zhuo

“…Evaluation on a randomly selected set of 100 pairs of adjacent ALPR sensors demonstrates that the proposed model significantly outperforms two baseline methods, achieving reductions of 24.3% and 22.5% in deviation from the real paths.…”
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Long-Term Use of Aldosterone-Receptor Antagonists in Uncontrolled Hypertension: A Retrospective Analysis by Pieter M. Jansen, Koen Verdonk, Ben P. Imholz, A. H. Jan Danser, Anton H. van den Meiracker

“…In patients that received treatment >5 years, SBP was 33±20 and DBP was 16 ± 13 mmHg lower than at baseline. Multivariate analysis revealed that baseline BP and follow-up duration were positively correlated with BP response. …”
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FREQUENCY OF NEONATAL SEPSIS AMONG NEONATES PRESENTING WITH SEIZURES by Abid Imran, Sijad-Ur- Rehman, Imran Qadir, Kainaat Sheikh, Romana Bibi, Muhammad Idrees

“… BACKGROUND:  Neonatal seizures may be the first and sometimes the only clinical symptom of neonatal central nervous system disease. …”
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An Approach of Community Search with Minimum Spanning Tree Based on Node Embedding by Jinglian Liu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang

“…The experimental results show that our algorithm is more effective for community search than baselines.…”
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Transformer-based short-term traffic forecasting model considering traffic spatiotemporal correlation by Ande Chang, Yuting Ji, Yiming Bie

“…It is compared with six baseline methods, with Mean Absolute Error, Mean Absolute Percentage Error, and Root Mean Square Error used as metrics. …”
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Sex-Related Effects of Adrenergic Drugs on Conditioned Pain Modulation: A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Double-Blind Trial by Marie-Philippe Harvey, Marie-Chantal Dubois, Philippe Chalaye, Yanick Sansoucy, Serge Marchand

“…Thirty healthy participants were enrolled to assess CPM efficacy in 4 experimental sessions. The first session consisted of the determination of baseline CPM effectiveness. …”
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Study of Sweep and Induced Dihedral Effects in Subsonic Axial Flow Compressor Passages—Part I: Design Considerations—Changes in Incidence, Deflection, and Streamline Curvature by P. V. Ramakrishna, M. Govardhan

“…This article presents the study of Tip Chordline Sweeping (TCS) and Axial Sweeping (AXS) of low-speed axial compressor rotor blades against the performance of baseline unswept rotor (UNS) for different tip clearance levels. …”
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Research on Recommendation Algorithm of Joint Light Graph Convolution Network and DropEdge by Haicheng Qu, Jiangtao Guo, Yanji Jiang

“…For the Gowalla dataset, compared with the optimal baseline method, recall@20 and ndcg@20 increased by 2.53% and 2.39%, respectively. …”
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Post-vaccination campaign evaluation of systemic and mucosal immunity of trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine in Karachi, Pakistan (2020–2021): a cross-sectional studyResearch in cont... by Ali Faisal Saleem, Visalakshi Jeyaseelan, Zaubina Kazi, Mahjabeen Zehra, Muhammad Masroor Alam, Grace Macklin, Rocio Lopez Cavestany, Sajid Muhammad, Najeeb Rehman, Ondrej Mach

“…The stool samples collected at baseline, 7, 14, and 28 days (after each tOPV dose) were tested for the presence of poliovirus. …”
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Correlates of and changes in aerobic physical activity and strength training before and after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: findings from the HEBECO study by Lion Shahab, Abigail Fisher, Phillippa Lally, Aleksandra Herbeć, Dimitra Kale, Verena Schneider

“…Objectives Understanding changes in moderate to vigorous aerobic physical activity (MVPA) and muscle-strengthening activity (MSA) at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and their correlates (socio-demographics, health characteristics, living and exercise conditions and pre-pandemic MVPA/MSA) can inform interventions.Design A cross-sectional analysis of retrospective and concurrent data on MVPA/MSA.Setting An online survey in the UK.Participants 2657 adults (weighted n=2442, 53.6% women) participating in the baseline survey (29 April 2020–14 June 2020) of the HEalth BEhaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic (HEBECO) study.Primary and secondary outcome measures Meeting WHO-recommended levels for MVPA/MSA/both (vs meeting neither) during the first lockdown and changes in MVPA/MSA from before to since the COVID-19 pandemic following stratification for pre-pandemic MVPA/MSA.Results A third of adults maintained (30.4%), decreased (36.2%) or increased (33.4%) MVPA. …”
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