The vernacular cultural landscape in traditional villages: global hotspots, emerging trends, and a case study of China’s Qilu cultural district by Zhao Pan, Yile Chen, Yile Chen, Yuhao Huang, Liang Zheng, Liang Zheng

“…First, CiteSpace 6.1.R6 and VOSviewer1.6 software were used to perform a visual bibliometric analysis of the vernacular cultural landscape. …”
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Phacoviscocanalostomy versus phacoemulsification alone for glaucoma associated with cataract: a meta-analysis by Dillan Cunha Amaral, Milton Ruiz Alves, Karina de Oliveira Caneca, Ana Luiza Machado Ribeiro Pimentel, Bruna Gabriel Miranda, Adroaldo de Alencar Costa Filho, Mário Luiz Ribeiro Monteiro, Jaime Guedes, Ricardo Noguera Louzada

“…A lower medication at six months (mean difference: 0.68; p < 0.00001), no difference in the visual acuity (mean difference: −0.02; p = 0.77), and a higher rate of adverse events (odds ratios: 236.96; p = 0.004) were found. …”
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Brolucizumab for the Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema: An Optical Coherence Tomography-Based Analysis by Marco R. Pastore, Serena Milan, Stefano Gouigoux, Olimpia Colombo, Silvia Rinaldi, Gabriella Cirigliano, Daniele Tognetto

“…The WHR was 1.23 ± 0.46, and a negative correlation to final CST (<i>p</i> < 0.0001) was found. In FAZ and VD analysis, no significant variation was detected. …”
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Synergistic Effects of Flower Color and Mechanical Barriers on Pollinator Selection Within the Papilionoideae of Fabaceae by Xiang Zhao, Ruochun Gao, Jie Bai, Jing Rong, Xuexia Wei, Hairong Wang, Xiaojuan Zhu, Kun Sun, Qinzheng Hou

“…Although no linear correlation was found between flower color (RGB color space) and mechanical strength, the combined analysis revealed synergistic screening where color attracted specific pollinators from a subset capable of overcoming mechanical barriers. …”
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Exudative perifoveal vascular anomalous complex (ePVAC) resembling lesion in a patient with adult-onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy by Serena Milan, Marco Rocco Pastore, Andrea Gaggino, Silvia Rinaldi, Daniele Tognetto

“…A systemic workup was suggested to rule out any vascular diseases, and any abnormality was found. He was thus diagnosed with ePVAC. A stability of the clinical picture was demonstrated after 3 months of follow up. …”
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Acute Vitreous and Intraretinal Hemorrhage with Multifocal Subretinal Fluid in Juvenile X-Linked Retinoschisis by Sidra Ibad, Carl S. Wilkins, Alexander Pinhas, Vincent Sun, Matthew S. Wieder, Avnish Deobhakta

“…On examination, the patient was found to have a new vitreous hemorrhage with diffuse intraretinal hemorrhages in his right eye, without new retinal tears or detachment. …”
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Effect of Soil Treatment with Silver and Gold Nanoparticles on the Accumulation of Ag, Au, and Other Elements in Earthworm Eisenia fetida and Their Vitality by Andrzej Skwiercz, Wojciech Hyk, Magdalena Muszyńska, Natalia Skubij, Stanislaw Kaniszewski

“…Significantly higher contents of K, Na, P, Mg, and Si were also found in earthworms exposed to Ag and Au compared to the control group. …”
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Role of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Value and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Ratio as Prognostic Factors for Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness by Arvids Buss, Maija Radzina, Mara Liepa, Edgars Birkenfelds, Laura Saule, Karlis Miculis, Madara Mikelsone, Egils Vjaters

“…The dominant lesion best visualized on MRI was analyzed. The ADC values of the index lesion and reference tissue were compared to tumor aggressivity according to the Gleason grade groups based on radical prostatectomy results. …”
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DIFFERENTIATED APPROACH TO NON-BACTERIAL OSTEOMYELITIS TREATMENT IN CHILDREN: THE RETROSPECTIVE STUDY RESULTS by Mikhail M. Kostik, Olga L. Kopchak, Irina A. Chikova, Eugenia A. Isupova, Vera V. Masalova, Margarita F. Dubko, Ludmila S. Snegireva, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Alexandr Y. Mushkin, Vyacheslav G. Chasnyk

“…The efficacy of different regimens has been shown. It was found that pamidronic acid drug and TNF  inhibitors were the most effective in treating children with non-bacterial osteomyelitis.…”
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Comparison of the effects of ultrasound-guided steroid injection and anatomic landmark-guided injection on pain and disability in greater trochanteric pain syndrome by Mahir Topaloglu, Cemil Cihad Gedik, Deniz Sarikaya, Selin Kolsuz, Zeynep Turan, Lercan Aslan, Alessandro de Sire

“…The USG-guided injections showed more pronounced initial benefits, especially for patients with higher initial pain levels and lower functional scores. USG was found to be more cost-effective in terms of HHS, but not VAS measures. …”
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Dynamics of the development of live weight in cows of the Kholmogory breed according to the polymorphism of the leptin gene by Natalуa A. Khudyakova, Irina S. Kozhevnikova, Alexsandra O. Stupina, Inga A. Klassen, Andrej S. Kashin

“…However, significant differences in live weight were found at the first insemination between groups with AV and VV genotypes (+16.94 kg), as well as between animals with AA and VV genotypes (+15.49 kg). …”
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Advanced Imaging Methodology in Bacterial Biofilms with a Fluorescent Enzymatic Sensor for pepN Activity by Javier Valverde-Pozo, Jose M. Paredes, María Eugenia García-Rubiño, María Dolores Girón, Rafael Salto, Jose M. Alvarez-Pez, Eva M. Talavera

“…We found that the overexpression of pepN increases the ability of <i>E. coli</i> to form biofilm. …”
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Comparison of the Main Staging Systems for Assessing the Severity of Lung Injury in Patients with COVID-19 and Evaluation of Their Predictive Value by Y. S. Kudryavtsev, M. M. Beregov, A. B. Berdalin, V. G. Lelyuk

“…The time course of changes in the severity of lung parenchymal lesions, by using both scales, was found to be similar: the maximum magnitude of lung tissue changes was recorded on day 5 of the disease. …”
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Validity Evidence of the TRIACOG-Online Administered In-Person to Adults Post Stroke by Luana Comito Muner, Guilherme Domingos Martins, Ana Beatriz Santos Honda, Natália Becker, Jaqueline de Carvalho Rodrigues

“…Statistically significant differences were found between groups in episodic memory, attention, executive functions, and numerical processing, with healthy individuals outperforming post-stroke participants. …”
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UBIAD1 mutation alters a mitochondrial prenyltransferase to cause Schnyder corneal dystrophy. by Michael L Nickerson, Brittany N Kostiha, Wolfgang Brandt, William Fredericks, Ke-Ping Xu, Fu-Shin Yu, Bert Gold, James Chodosh, Marc Goldberg, Da Wen Lu, Masakazu Yamada, Timo M Tervo, Richard Grutzmacher, Chris Croasdale, Maria Hoeltzenbein, John Sutphin, S Bruce Malkowicz, Ludger Wessjohann, Howard S Kruth, Michael Dean, Jayne S Weiss

“…<h4>Background</h4>Mutations in a novel gene, UBIAD1, were recently found to cause the autosomal dominant eye disease Schnyder corneal dystrophy (SCD). …”
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Unveiling the role of NAD glycohydrolase CD38 in aging and age-related diseases: insights from bibliometric analysis and comprehensive review by Xianghui Zhao, Peiying Lv, Zixing Cai, Jun Dong, Wenxiang Chen, Liang Sun, Ruiyue Yang

“…BackgroundCD38, a glycoprotein with a single transmembrane structure, is extensively found in erythrocytes, immune cells, and endothelial cells. …”
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Manual versus femtosecond laser-assisted relaxing incisions for correction of low astigmatism in implantable collamer lens surgery by Ling Zhou, Qizhi Zhou, Andrea Llovet-Rausell

“…Uncorrected and corrected distance visual acuities (UDVA, CDVA), refraction, and astigmatism parameters were evaluated at 1 month and 1 year postoperatively. …”
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Hemodynamic sclerotherapy in comprehensive management of varicose disease of lower-limb veins in patients with morbid obesity by A. G. Khitaryan, E. Ya. Kirtanasova, A. A. Orekhov, D. A. Gusarev, V. N. Kislyakov, K. S. Veliev, I. P. Chumburidze, D. V. Shatov

“…In the main group only 12.5% of patients were found to have phlebitis (p = 0.029), the Visual Analog Score (p = 0.036) and local temperature (p = 0.049) were also significantly lower. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Lamellar Macular Hole Subtypes: Degenerative and Tractional by Joseph Kim, Joon Ki Min, Se Young Kim, Myung Hun Yoon, Hee Seung Chin

“…During the follow-up period, 4 eyes (22.2%) of the degenerative LMH and 11 eyes (33.3%) of the tractional LMH underwent surgery. Conclusions. We found that greater SFCT at baseline was correlated to anatomical progression of tractional LMH. …”
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Blackberry Growth Monitoring and Feature Quantification with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Remote Sensing by Akwasi Tagoe, Alexander Silva, Cengiz Koparan, Aurelie Poncet, Dongyi Wang, Donald Johnson, Margaret Worthington

“…A moderately strong positive correlation (r = 0.71) was found between flower-to-vegetation ratio (FVR) and visually estimated flower area, validating UAV-derived flower coverage as a reliable method for estimating flower density in blackberries. …”
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