A Comprehensive Evaluation of Radiomic Features in Normal Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Investigating Robustness and Region Variations by Mahsa Shakeri, Ahmad Mostaar, Arash Zare Sadeghi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Ali Yaghobi Joybari, Hossein Ghadiri

“…The present study applied a novel radiomic framework to investigate the robustness and baseline values of radiomic features in normal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) regions. …”
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Integrated hip fracture care pathway (IHFCP): reducing complications and improving outcomes by Louise Heyzer, Rani Ramason, Joseph Antonio De Castro Molina, William Wai Lim Chan, Chen Yi Loong, Ernest Beng Kee Kwek

“…The evaluation utilised a descriptive design, with outcomes analysed separately for each of the five years of the programme. First-year results were treated as baseline. Results: The main improvements in process and outcome measures over five years, when compared to baseline, were: (a) increase in surgeries performed within 48 hours of admission from 32.5% to 80.1%; (b) reduced non-operated patients from 19.6% to 11.9%; (c) reduced average length of stay at acute hospital among surgically (from 14.0 ± 12.3 days to 9.9 ± 1.0 days) and conservatively managed patients (from 19.1 ± 22.9 to 11.0 ± 2.5 days); (d) reduced 30-day readmission rate from 3.2% to 1.6%; and (e) improved Modified Functional Assessment Classification of VI to VII at six months from 48.0% to 78.2%. …”
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Renal Complication and Glycemic Control in Korean Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes: A 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study by Ye An Kim, Young Lee, Je Hyun Seo

“…The risk of CKD was associated with baseline HbA1c from the first year of the study and dynamic HbA1c throughout the study period. …”
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Identification of lesion location and discrimination between benign and malignant findings in thyroid ultrasound imaging by Xu Yang, Hongliang Geng, Xue Wang, Lingxiao Li, Xiaofeng An, Zhibin Cong

“…This paper constructs an end-to-end thyroid nodule detection framework based on YOLOv8, enabling automatic detection and classification of nodules by extracting grayscale and elastic features from ultrasound images. First, an attention-weighted DCN is introduced to enhance superficial feature extraction and capture local information. …”
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Characteristics of Optic Neuritis in South Korean Children and Adolescents: A Retrospective Multicenter Study by Kyung-Ah Park, Hee Kyung Yang, Jinu Han, Seong-Joon Kim, Sung Eun Park, Haeng-Jin Lee, Sueng-Han Han, Sei Yeul Oh, Jeong-Min Hwang

“…Only disc swelling at presentation was associated with poor baseline BCVA (coefficient: 0.31, P=0.004) and greater improvement in BCVA (coefficient: 0.49, P = 0.001P=0.001); there were no significant associations between the baseline factors and final BCVA. …”
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Acemannan Induced Bone Regeneration in Lateral Sinus Augmentation Based on Cone Beam Computed Tomographic and Histopathological Evaluation by Hai Anh Trinh, Van Viet Dam, Wijit Banlunara, Polkit Sangvanich, Pasutha Thunyakitpisal

“…Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images were taken immediately as baseline and 6-month postoperation for evaluation. …”
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HSP70-Inducible hNIS-IRES-eGFP Reporter Imaging: Response to Heat Shock by Jiantu Che, Mikhail Doubrovin, Inna Serganova, Lyudmila Ageyeva, Tatiana Beresten, Ronald Finn, Ronald Blasberg

“…Increases in eGFP fluorescence and radiotracer uptake were first noted at 6 hours, reached a maximum at 24 hours, and fell toward baseline at 72 hours. …”
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Prospective Evaluation of 24 h/2 Days’ Monitoring of Systemic Blood Pressure in Patients with Traumatic Paraplegia – A Single-center Study by Vandana Chaudhary, N S Verma, Bhupendra Kumar, Kumar Rahul, Satish Kumar

“…Objectives: The objective of the study is to evaluate baseline heart rate (HR), baseline BP, and ambulatory arterial blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in traumatic paraplegia patients. …”
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Management of a Novel Autoimmune Disease, COPA Syndrome, in Pregnancy by Archana Ayyar, Rachel D. Seaman, Kalpalatha Guntupalli, Mary C. Tolcher

“…At time of entry to care, patients should have a baseline work-up including a radiographic imaging, complete blood count, complete metabolic panel, lactate dehydrogenase, and a 24-hour urine protein collection for baseline. …”
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Natalizumab Treatment Modulates Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors Expression in Women with Multiple Sclerosis by Véronique Ferret-Sena, Alexandra Maia e Silva, Armando Sena, Inês Cavaleiro, José Vale, Bruno Derudas, Giulia Chinetti-Gbaguidi, Bart Staels

“…We analyzed gene expression of PPAR in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) as well as blood inflammatory markers in women with MS previously medicated with first-line immunomodulators (baseline) and after NTZ therapy. …”
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Five-Year Prospective Follow-Up of Patients with Hepatitis C Virus Infection Treated with Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents by Zhang Y, Xia H, Fan L, Jiang L, Yang B, Wang F

“…Furthermore, liver stiffness measurement (LSM) exhibited a significant decrease compared to baseline. Additionally, patients in the cirrhosis group showed reductions in APRI score, FIB-4 index and ALBI score to different degrees.Conclusion: Cirrhotic patients exhibited increased susceptibility to virological relapse, HCC, unfavorable prognosis, and liver disease progression following DAA treatment. …”
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Prodromal Parkinson’s disease and subsequent risk of Parkinson’s disease and mortality by Xiao Chen, Yaqi Li, Yun Shen, Michael A. Schwarzschild, Xiang Gao

“…We included 501,475 participants without PD at baseline. Eight prodromal features were measured. Incident PD cases were identified via hospital admission, death register, and self-report. …”
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Feasibility of Dual-Task Gait Training for Community-Dwelling Adults after Stroke: A Case Series by Prudence Plummer, Raymond M. Villalobos, Moira S. Vayda, Myriam Moser, Erin Johnson

“…We examined single and dual-task performance in four different dual-task combinations at baseline, after 6 and 12 sessions, and if possible, at 1-month followup. …”
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Decreased mental health care utilization following a psychosocial intervention in caregivers of hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients by Rita Ouseph, Calvin Croy, Crystal Natvig, Teresa Simoneau, Mark L. Laudenslager

“…Assessments of caregivers’ service utilization were collected at baseline and 1, 3, and 6 months post-transplant. During the first 30 days after patient transplant, caregiver medical and mental health professional service use decreased while support group attendance peaked. …”
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A new electoral bottom-up model of institutional governance by Carlos M. Garrido, Francisco C. Santos, Elias Fernández Domingos, Ana M. Nunes, Jorge M. Pacheco

“…Here we make use of the CRD to develop, for the first time, a bottom-up institutional governance framework of GRC. …”
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Multi-dimensional oscillatory activity of mouse GnRH neurons in vivo by Su Young Han, Shel-Hwa Yeo, Jae-Chang Kim, Ziyue Zhou, Allan E Herbison

“…Abrupt 8 min duration episodes of GCaMP activity continued to occur on top of the rising surge baseline before ceasing in estrus. These observations provide the first description of GnRH neuron activity in freely behaving animals. …”
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IALight: Importance-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Arterial Traffic Cooperative Control by Lu WEI, Xiaoyan ZHANG, Lijun FAN, Lei GAO, Jian YANG

“…Comprehensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world traffic scenarios demonstrate that the proposed IALight outperforms the traditional and deep reinforcement learning baselines by more than 20.41% and 17.88% in average vehicle travel time, respectively.…”
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A Unified Bayesian Model for Generalized Community Detection in Attribute Networks by Qiang Tian, Wenjun Wang, Yingjie Xie, Huaming Wu, Pengfei Jiao, Lin Pan

“…Experiments on a number of synthetic and real networks show that our model has superior performance compared with some baselines on community detection.…”
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LHB-YOLOv8: An Optimized YOLOv8 Network for Complex Background Drop Stone Detection by Anjun Yu, Hongrui Fan, Yonghua Xiong, Longsheng Wei, Jinhua She

“…In addition we compare the LSKAttention mechanism with other attention mechanisms to verify the effectiveness of the improvements. Compared with the baseline model, our method improves the average accuracy mAP@0.5 by 4.8%. …”
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Are We Moving Too Fast?: Representation of Speed in Static Images by Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn

“…In Experiment 1, we compared subjective speed ratings given for motion lines trailing behind movers, suppletion lines replacing parts of the movers and backfixing lines set in the background against the baseline of having no extra cue. Experiment 2 was a replication of the first experiment with an addition of several motion lines considering the effect of quantity on conveyed speed. …”
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