Myopia Prevalence and its Correlation with Demographic Characteristics Before the COVID-19 Pandemic among Acehnese School Children (6-19 years) in Indonesia by Yusni YUSNI, Firdalena MEUTIA

“…Data analysis was descriptive and chi-square tests (p<0.05). We found that the prevalence of myopia in school-age children was 14.61%. …”
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QUANTIFICATION OF ECTOPIC FAT DEPOTS IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE by A. N. Kokov, N. K. Brel, V. L. Masenko, O. V. Gruzdeva, Yu. A. Dyleva, E. V. Belik, O. L. Barbarash

“…To visualize the epicardial fat depot with an assessment of the thickness of the adipose tissue layer, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart was performed.Results. …”
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Early breast cancer detection in CT scans using convolutional neural bidirectional feature pyramid network by Tahani Jaser Alahmadi, Adeel Ahmed, Amjad Rehman, Abeer Rashad Mirdad, Bayan Al Ghofaily, Shehryar Ali

“…While mammography is a widely used diagnostic tool, computed tomography (CT) scans are increasingly being explored for detecting breast cancer due to their high-resolution imaging and ability to visualize tissue in 3D. Despite the potential of CT scans in visualizing breast tissue in 3D with high resolution, extracting meaningful patterns from these scans is difficult due to the complex and nonlinear nature of the tissue features. …”
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Effectiveness of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and cognitive bias modification (CBM) in treating anxiety, depression, attentional bias, and drug craving in op... by Kiyanoosh Papi, Masoud Nosratabadi, Farhad Taremian, Nikzad Ghanbari, Maryam Ebrahimi Varkiyani

“…Significant differences were found in anxiety, drug dependence, and visual analog scale measures. …”
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An Experimental and Clinical Justification for Prolongation of Action of Anti-VEGF Drug in the “Wet” Form Age-related Macular Degeneration by the Introduction in the Back Subtenon... by R. V. Gaybaryan, A. N. Epikhin, Yu. F. Bondarenko

“…In a clinical study of stabilization was observed in 52,9 % of cases, improved visual function in 35,3 % of cases. Deterioration in visual functions noted in 11,8 % of cases. …”
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Effects of Acute Fatigue on Balance Control of Alpine Skiing Athlete by Javier Riscart-López, Elena Jiménez-Herranz, Isabel Mendoza-Puente, Miguel Ángel Rosety-Rodríguez, Jorge Bastos-García, Manuel Rodríguez-Huguet, Juan José Ramos-Álvarez

“…However, no differences were found when the results obtained with open and closed eyes were compared. …”
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Altered inter-hemispheric and intra-hemispheric functional connectivity dynamics in male cigarette smokers by Mengzhe Zhang, Huiyu Huang, Xiaoyu Niu, Jinghan Dang, Jieping Sun, Qiuying Tao, Weijian Wang, Shaoqiang Han, Jingliang Cheng, Yong Zhang

“…Finally, correlation analyses were conducted to explore the relationship between dFCD variability and clinical scales. Results We found shared dFCD variability in visual cortex of bilateral hemispheres among all smokers. …”
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Embedding class-I traversable wormhole in f(T,T) gravity via Karmarkar condition by Soubhik Paramanik, Krishna Pada Das, Ujjal Debnath

“…In each configuration, the validity of four primary energy conditions (null, weak, dominant, strong) has been checked graphically, and it has been found that all four energy conditions break down at the wormhole throat. …”
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Comparison of Subvastus and Medial Parapatellar Approaches in Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty in Term of Clinical Outcome by Soran Ibrahim Abdalrahman, Ali Abdalnabi Alwan Al-Tamimi, Areewan Muhamadsalh Saeed

“…However, when comparing groups together, patients in subvastus group had better numerical visual analogue scale scores at 3rd day postoperatively, nevertheless, no significant differences were found at other follow up times (8.11, 6.05, 4.26, 2.32, 1.47 for medial parapatellar group and 8.20, 4.47, 4.0, 1.67, 1.07 for subvastus group at preoperative, 3rd day, 2, 6 and 12 weeks postoperative respectively for both groups). …”
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Evaluation of fatigue levels of individuals with chronic diseases: from the perspective of student nurses and patients by Sema Aytaç, Özlem Ovayolu, Sibel Serçe, Nimet Ovayolu

“…The mean fatigue score was found as 6.08 ± 2.06 according to patient evaluation and 5.95 ± 1.83 according to student nurses (p˃0.05). …”
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Damage assessment and test results of construction materials of a fire-damaged RC building by Md Abdul Momin, Khondaker Sakil Ahmed, Tanvir Mustafy, Md. Jahidul Islam

“…Based on the visual inspection, damage contours of the different zones of the floors are prepared to determine the damage intensity. …”
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The use of active intraocular drying in macular holes surgery by Yu. A. Belyy, A. V. Tereschenko, I. G. Trifanenkova, D. O. Shkvorchenko, N. M. Shilov

“…Central sensitivity increased to 22.36 ± 2.29 dB, total sensitivity rose to 23.7 ± 1.43 dB. Absolute scotoma was found to disappear in the center of the fovea. Conclusions. …”
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Acuity and colour vision changes post intravitreal dexamethasone implant injection in patients with diabetic macular oedema. by Ahmed Abdel-Hay, Sobha Sivaprasad, Ahalya Subramanian, John L Barbur

“…No significant changes were found in the YB thresholds with corresponding mean and range values of: 15.8 ± 4.6 (p = 0.23). …”
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Analysis of intravitreal using of anti vegf-medications for diseases of fundus accompanied by exudation and neovascularization by N. G. Zavgorodnya, I. A. Poplavska, S.L. Shevluk, D.V. Martynov

“…Considering this, anti-VEGF medications have found their application in the treatment of choroidal neovascularization in clinical practice. …”
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Effect of modified surgical conditions on the peripapillary microvasculature and RNFL in patients receiving vitrectomy: an OCTA study by Ting Pan, Cunxin Bian, Yuan Fang, Jingfan Wang, Yidan Xu, Ping Xie, Zizhong Hu

“…Results The primary metrics found was the radial peripapillary capillary (RPC) small vessel density. …”
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Predictive Factors for Successful Type 1 Big Bubble during Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty by Vincent M. Borderie, Sara Touhami, Cristina Georgeon, Otman Sandali

“…Results. Stromal scars were found in 91.8% of cases and were located in the anterior (90.9%), mid (67.5%), and posterior (36.4%) stroma. …”
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Building a machine learning-based risk prediction model for second-trimester miscarriage by Sangsang Qi, Shi Zheng, Mengdan Lu, Aner Chen, Yanbo Chen, Xianhu Fu

“…The most significant feature was cervical length, and the top ten features of second-trimester miscarriage were found using the SHAP technique based on relevance rankings. …”
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Arthroscopic Repair of a Posterior Midcapsular Rupture Causing Posterior Shoulder Instability by Gautam P. Yagnik MD, Kevin West MD, Bhavya K. Sheth MD, Luis Vargas MD, John W. Uribe MD

“…Background: Gross posterior instability is rare and when found likely has an injury or deficiency to the posterior static restraints of shoulder associated with it. …”
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Analysis of the effect of thermocycling on bonding cements to zirconia by Ghada Alrabeah, Sadeem Alomar, Azizah Almutairi, Hafsah Alali, Aws ArRejaie

“…Rely-X displayed the highest SBS among all the cements while no significant difference was found in mean SBS values of Calibra and Breez cements in all groups. …”
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Accommodative and binocular characteristics in myopes with age-related accommodation deficiency by Ruiyu Zhang, Yifei Yuan, Yu Zhang, Yueguo Chen

“…Lower BAF (OR, 4.990; 95% CI, 1.731–14.386) was more likely to be found in individuals with lower AA. The three most commonly reported visual discomforts were eye strain or soreness, ocular pain or headache, and blurred text. …”
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