Clinical significance of serum cystatin C‐to‐creatinine ratio as a surrogate marker for incident osteoporotic fracture predictions by Ichiro Yoshii, Naoya Sawada, Tatsumi Chijiwa

“…Patients who were followed up until termination or the first osteoporotic fracture were included, and loss of follow‐up or death was excluded. …”
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Evaluation of the Results of Patients Who Were Treated with Laparoscopic Simple Tunnel Hysterosacropexy Method to Prevent Uterine Prolapse: A New Approach by Erdal Seker, Evindar Elci

“…There were not any complications during the intraoperative period and postoperative follow-ups. During the first six-month follow-up, there were not any recurrence of prolapse. …”
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Factors Affecting Visual Prognosis of Myopic Foveoschisis after Macular Buckling by Xiujuan Zhao, Yanbing Wang, Yuqing Chen, Silvia Tanumiharjo, Yijin Wu, Ping Lian, Shida Chen, Xia Huang, Bingqian Liu, Lin Lu

“…Anatomical success was achieved in 151/155 eyes (97.42%) after the first surgery and in 155/155 eyes (100%) at the 2-year follow-up visit. …”
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Netarsudil as an Adjunctive Therapy: Efficacy and Factors Contributing to a Favorable IOP-Lowering Effect by Sandy Samuel, Hani El Helwe, Cameron E. Neeson, Nathan Hall, Ryan Sameen Meshkin, Nino Odishelidze, Rebecca Ye, Ta C. Chang, David Solá-Del Valle

“…Results. 236 eyes of 236 patients were included. The mean baseline IOP was 19.06 ± 4.6 mmHg on an average of 4 ocular hypotensive medications. 196 (83.1%) patients experienced IOP reduction at the first follow-up visit of 2.84 ± 0.30 mmHg at 55.66 ± 51.89 days. …”
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Observational Study of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients: Two-year Follow-up Outcomes by Sidika CESUR, Ayca CIPRUT, Sengul TERLEMEZ

“…The most significant increase in scores occurred within the first six months following the baseline and then continued to increase gradually at a slower pace over time. …”
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Efficacy and safety of post-discharge oral nutritional supplements for patients with gastric cancer undergoing gastrectomy: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Qiuman Liang, Siyi Wang, Beibei Wang, Yanyan Hong

“…The two groups were comparable in age, gender (male), weight at baseline, BMI at baseline, albumin at baseline, and hemoglobin at baseline. …”
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Learning Innovations Through Exploration and Exploitation in Russian Regions: A Nonlinear Panel Data Interaction Model by Yegor Leonidovich Domnich

“…The baseline and joint effects of exploitation and exploration of technologies as ways of learning innovation are not obvious, and therefore are the focus of numerous studies. …”
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Multicenter randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study of the effect of prolonged noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation on posture or gait in vestibulopathy. by Chisato Fujimoto, Takuya Kawahara, Yayoi S Kikkawa, Makoto Kinoshita, Teru Kamogashira, Mineko Oka, Tsukasa Uranaka, Naoya Egami, Kentaro Ichijo, Kayoko Kabaya, Sachiyo Katsumi, Ikumi Takashima, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Masato Yagi, Tatsuya Yamasoba, Shinichi Iwasaki

“…The primary outcome was the difference of the mean percent change from the baseline in the velocity of center of pressure during 3 h of stimulation between the noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation and placebo periods. …”
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The population structure and habitat use of resident of Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) in Wu River (Southwest China) by Canshi Hu

“…This information will contribute to provide baseline knowledge on the resident population of Mandarin ducks, and enhance understanding of the causes and consequences of breeding partial migration.…”
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Insider threat detection based on operational attention and data augmentation by Guanyun FENG, Cai FU, Jianqiang LYU, Lansheng HAN

“…In recent years, there has been an increased focus on the issue of insider threats.Insider threats are a major cause security breaches in organizations and pose an ongoing challenge.By analyzing the existing insider threat data, it was identified that the biggest challenge in insider threat detection lies in data imbalance and the limited number of labeled threat samples.In the Cert R4.2 dataset, which is a classic dataset for insider threat detection, there are over 3.22 million log data, but only 7,423 are marked as malicious operation logs.Furthermore, most of the operation types in the logs are not related to malicious behavior, and only two types of operations are highly correlated with malicious behavior, such as leaking company data, creating interference in the detection process.To address this challenge, a data processing framework was designed based on operational attention and data augmentation.Anomaly evaluation was first performed on operations by the framework, and operations with low anomaly scores were then masked.This makes the model better focus on operations related to malicious behavior, which can be considered as a hard attention mechanism for operations.Next, the characteristics of the insider threat dataset were analyzed, and three rules were designed for data augmentation on malicious samples to increase the diversity of samples and alleviate the substantial imbalance between positive and negative samples.Supervised insider threat detection was regarded as a time-series classification problem.Residual connections were added to the LSTM-FCN model to achieve multi-granularity detection, and indicators such as precision rate and recall rate were used to evaluate the model.The results indicate superior performance over existing baseline models.Moreover, the data processing framework was implemented on various classic models, such as ITD-Bert and TextCNN, and the results show that the methods effectively improve the performance of insider threat detection models.…”
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Study on the correlation between carotid plaque calcification types and acute ischemic stroke by Tianyu Chu, Zhongping Guo, Yonggang Zhang, Ying Liu, Yan Gu

“…This could provide new insights into the clinical evaluation and treatment of ischemic stroke.MethodsThis study obtained information on patients undergoing head and neck CTA examinations at the First People's Hospital of Lianyungang between September 2022 and August 2023 to investigate the clinical differences in baseline data between the acute ischemic stroke and control groups. …”
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Effectiveness of the Federal ‘Clean Air’ Project to Improve Air Quality in the Most Polluted Russian Cities by Roman V. Gordeev, Anton I. Pyzhev, Ekaterina A. Syrtsova

“…As a result, the revised emissions estimates produced by the project were found to exceed not only the target benchmarks but also the baseline. The planned targets are largely on track, and it is likely that the target of a 20% reduction in emissions from the 2017 baseline will be met. …”
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Changes in Renal Function Following Administration of Oral Sodium Phosphate or Polyethylene Glycol for Colon Cleansing before Colonoscopy by Ramy Abaskharoun, William Depew, Stephen Vanner

“…Seven hundred sixty-seven patients (51% female and 49% male; 81% oral NaP and 19% PEG) with normal baseline Cr levels were identified through the endoscopy unit database at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario). …”
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Modeling the impact of extreme weather events and future climate on the radiologically contaminated sites of Enewetak Atoll by Lakshitha Premathilake, Saikat Ghosh, Rajiv Prasad, Sourav Taraphdar, Taiping Wang, Tarang Khangaonkar, Bruce Napier, Tracy Ikenberry, Lai-yung Leung

“…Abstract Enewetak Atoll underwent 43 historical nuclear tests from 1948 to 1958, including the first hydrogen bomb test, resulting in a substantial nuclear material fallout contaminating the Atoll and the lagoon waters. …”
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Dynamic relationships between environment-related technologies, agricultural value added, transport infrastructure and environmental emissions in the five most populous countries by Yinuo Wang, Arshad Ali, Zhaojie Chen

“…Abstract Densely populated countries have higher demand for agricultural products and greater use of fuel and vehicles, resulting in higher environmental emissions, so this study considers transportation infrastructure and the agricultural sector as the two major drivers of environmental degradation in the top five densely populated countries. In a baseline regression, this study first unveils the impact of investments in transportation infrastructure, agricultural value addition, and environment-related technologies on per capita CO2 emissions using CS-ARDL approach from 1990 to 2021 in the five most populous countries. …”
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VRU-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Scenes by Yunxiang Liu, Yuqing Shi

“…To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes an improved VRU detection algorithm based on YOLOv8, named VRU-YOLO. First, we redesign the neck structure and construct a Detail Enhancement Feature Pyramid Network (DEFPN) to enhance the extraction and fusion capabilities of small target features. …”
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The urinary microbiome in association with diabetes and diabetic kidney disease: A systematic review. by Tiscar Graells, Yi-Ting Lin, Shafqat Ahmad, Tove Fall, Johan Ärnlöv

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>This systematic review summarizes trends seen throughout published data available to have a first baseline knowledge of the urinary microbiome, and its microbiota, in association with diabetes including the decreased richness and α-diversity in urinary microbiota in individuals with diabetes compared to healthy controls and the decreased α-diversity with the evolution of kidney disease independently of the cause.…”
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Use of a Non-Pharmacological Pain Relief Kit to Reduce Opioid Use Following Orthopedic Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Study by Denis J O'Hara, Timothy F Tyler, Malachy P McHugh, Susan Y Kwiecien, Tyler Bergeron

“…Patients completed the SF-36 and either the DASH or LEFS questionnaires consistent with their surgery at baseline and four weeks post-op. Both groups reported daily pain (Visual Analogue Scale), opioid use, and over the counter medication use. …”
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Polyethylene Glycol 3350 in the Treatment of Chronic Idiopathic Constipation: Post hoc Analysis Using FDA Endpoints by Stacy B. Menees, Anthony J. Lembo, William D. Chey

“…The proportion of subjects with gastrointestinal adverse events decreased markedly after the first week of treatment in the polyethylene glycol 3350 group. …”
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Efficacy of short term non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in Indian patients with axial spondyloarthritis by Shubha Bhalla, Shallu Verma, Anand Narayan Malaviya

“…Background: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are considered the first-line drugs for axial spondyloarthritis because of their high efficacy in controlling symptoms. …”
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