Pilot Programme for Keratoconus Screening and Management in Adolescents with Down Syndrome by Barry Power, Kirk A. J. Stephenson, Diana Malata, Conor Murphy, Barry Quill, Fiona McGrane, Eleanor Molloy, William Power

“…We recorded demographics, medical history, risk factors, best-corrected distance visual acuity, clinical examination results and corneal tomography results. …”
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A randomized controlled trial to study the efficacy of 1% vs. 2% lignocaine in topical airway anesthesia in routine bronchoscopy procedures by Danny Prasad, Prince James, Richa Gupta

“…Conclusions One percent of lignocaine was found to be as effective as 2% lignocaine for topical anesthesia during routine flexible bronchoscopy procedures, and it was achieved at a significantly lower dose of lignocaine in the 1% arm. …”
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hERGAT: predicting hERG blockers using graph attention mechanism through atom- and molecule-level interaction analyses by Dohyeon Lee, Sunyong Yoo

“…However, previous methods have found it hard to achieve high performance and to interpret the predictive results. …”
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Suspected stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) envenomation on Reunion Island by Adrien Maillot, Adrien Marteau, Gaël Le Roux, Flore Weisse, Luc de Haro, Olivier Maillard, Férial Abi Nader

“…However, no significant relationship was found between the number of stings and pain intensity (p = 0.86). …”
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Automatic Feature Selection for Imbalanced Echocardiogram Data Using Event-Based Self-Similarity by Huang-Nan Huang, Hong-Min Chen, Wei-Wen Lin, Rita Wiryasaputra, Yung-Cheng Chen, Yu-Huei Wang, Chao-Tung Yang

“…Four essential features—age, aorta (AO), left ventricular (LV), and left atrium (LA)—were identified as critical for prognosis and were found in Random Forest (RF)-voting ensemble classifier. …”
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Randomised cross-over trial evaluating the short-term effects of non-invasive ventilation as an adjunct to airway clearance techniques in adults with cystic fibrosis by Gemma Stanford, Helen Parrott, Diana Bilton, Penny Agent, Winston Banya, Nicholas Simmonds

“…No other significant differences were found in post-treatment FEV1, EoC, WoB, oxygen saturations or subject preference.Conclusions There was no difference in treatment effect between NIV-supported ACT and ACT alone, although the study was underpowered. …”
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Neurofeedback for Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy: A Preliminary MRI Study by Donya Abolghasemkhah Salmasi, Alireza Fallahi, Narges Hoseini-Tabatabaei, Seyed-Sohrab Hashemi-Fesharaki, Reza Rostami, Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh

“…Post-treatment fMRI revealed no significant differences in functional connectivity between patients and control cases, despite significant differences in some brain networks observed in pre-treatment fMRI. We also found increased Fractional Anisotropy (FA) values between subcortical and auditory networks after SMR training. …”
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A comparison of kinesiophobia, pain-activity patterns and fear-avoidance beliefs in patients with chronic low back pain by Egemen Kızılay, Fatma Kızılay, Betül Ergün

“…Whereas a statistically significant difference was found between the duration of morning stiffness (p=0.001), pain duration (p=0.018), VAS resting (p=0.001), and VAS night (p=0.001) score. …”
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Optimization of Surgical Treatment for Nyhus Type II Indirect Inguinal Hernias – Short-term Results by A. G. Sonis, I. V. Makarov, V. G. Aliev, B. D. Grachev, I. V. Ishutov, V. V. Timoshchuk, E. P. Gladunova, E. S. Lopukhov

“…Inguinal hernias are one of the most common surgical diseases, often found in working age men. Despite a significant decrease in the number of relapses after tension-free hernioplasty, the severe pain syndrome, the high frequency of edematous and hemorrhagic syndromes in postoperative period are often founded. …”
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Brain activity dynamics after traumatic brain injury indicate increased state transition energy and preference of lower order states by Nate Roy, S. Parker Singleton, Keith Jamison, Pratik Mukherjee, Sudhin A. Shah, Amy Kuceyeski

“…Our analyses suggest individuals with mild TBI initially have brain activity dynamics similar to controls but then shift in the subacute and chronic stages of the injury (1 month and 12 months post-injury) to favor lower-order visual-dominant states compared to higher-order default mode dominant states. …”
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Tracking Changes in Corticospinal Excitability During Visuomotor Paired Associative Stimulation to Predict Motor Resonance Rewriting by Giacomo Guidali, Nadia Bolognini

“…</b> m-PAS transiently reshaped both typical and PAS-induced motor resonance. Importantly, we found a gradual increase in CSE during m-PAS, which predicted the loss of typical motor resonance but not the emergence of atypical responses after the protocol’s administration. …”
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INTRAARTICULAR INJECTION OF HYALURONIC ACID AFTER ARTHROSCOPIC LAVAGE OF THE KNEE: LONG-TERM RESULTS by Lidia Vladimirovna Luchikhina, O A Mendel, D A Antonov

“…Thus, after therapy, no substantial difference was found in both groups, but 3 months later this difference was as many as 0.8 scores and a year later Group 2 had many points in its favor (1.2 scores). …”
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Problems of treatment adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and comorbidity by N. M. Nikitina, E. V. Egorova, I. F. Melehina, S. N. Grigoryeva, A. P. Rebrov

“…Pain severity was evaluated using visual analog scale (VAS). Patients’ social status was assessed. …”
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The Perceived Concerns of Nurse Educators' Use of GenAI in Nursing Education: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Denise R. Gehring, Sharon K. Titus, Ragi George

“…A preliminary search of seven databases found no scoping reviews specifically that addressed nurse educators' concerns about using GenAI. …”
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Relationship between Cardiovascular Diseases and Periodontal Disease – A Systematic Review by Hashmat Gul, Abdullah Imtiaz, Sehrish Sharif, Ali Abdullah, Saba Rehman, Atiqa Bashir

“…Finally, a Qualitative assessment of included studies was done to minimize the risk of bias. Of the 97 studies found, only 10 (10.31%) met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Analysis of indications for selectively missing results in comparative registry-based studies in medicine: a meta-research study by Paula Starke, Zhentian Zhang, Hannah Papmeier, Dawid Pieper, Tim Mathes

“…The p-value of the caliper test with a 10% caliper was 0.011 (k = 2, N = 13). Conclusions We found that the results of registry-based studies might be selectively missing. …”
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Reducing process time of PV module lamination by using double-side heating system by Sraisth, Mansour Djamel Eddine, Öz Aksel Kaan, Gebhardt Paul, Klaus Daniel, Wellens Christine

“…It was found that temperatures above 165 °C can be used for a stable lamination process using EVA encapsulant and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) based polymer backsheet. …”
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Understanding Perspectives and Practices of "Learning through Play" in East African Refugee and Host-Country Schools by Abraha Asfaw, Silvia Diazgranados, Betty Akullu Ezati, Jonathan Kwok, Christina Raphael, Anne Smiley, Peter Ssenkusu

“…Our findings draw from the research team's observations, visually stimulated interviews, and focus group discussions with 205 teachers, parents, and headteachers, and 160 students. …”
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The Role of Stress in Venipuncture Pain in Adolescents: Secondary Analysis of a Prospective Observational Study by Joel Brown, Zoe Ademuyiwa, Elizabeth Wu-Chen, Hadas Nahman-Averbuch

“…However, this was not found for pain levels. In addition, stress at baseline did not impact pain levels at 1-year follow-up. …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram prediction model for surgical site infection after instrumentation for degenerative lumbar spinal diseases by Yongjun Liu, Xiaodong Wei, Xiaoyan Chen, Yan Ding

“…Conclusions This study found a moderate 3.5% SSI rate following instrumentation for degenerative lumbar spinal diseases and identified several risk factors. …”
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