Comparing the effects of positional versus myofascial release of gluteus medius to manage patellofemoral pain syndrome: single blinded randomized clinical trial by Priyanka Ratan Kumar, Rabail Rani Soomro

“…Conclusion: Treating myofascial trigger points of gluteus medius muscle, using either positional release technique or myofascial release technique together with exercise therapy was found to be equally beneficial. ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04667091 Key Words: Anterior knee pain, Exercise therapy, Trigger points, Manual therapy. …”
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Impact of epiretinal membrane peeling on steroid dependency in uveitic eyes: a retrospective analysis by Verena Schöneberger, Julia Schirrwagen, Claudia Brockmann, Thomas A. Fuchsluger, Friederike Schaub

“…Postoperative CME was found in 31.3% in first postoperative SD-OCT and was newly observed in 6.0%, while 62.7% showed no CME. …”
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EVALUATION OF OUTCOMES OF PRIMARY PSEUDOPHAKIC RETINAL DETACHMENT SURGERY by Zeynep Yılmazabdurrahmanoğlu, Kemal Turgay Özbilen, Mehmet Selim Kocabora, Osman Çekiç

“…PPV combined with CSB were performed in 23 patients. AS was found to be 86.5% (32/37), FS was 49.9% (17/37). …”
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Ensemble Transformer–Based Detection of Fake and AI–Generated News by Md. Ishraquzzaman, Mohammed Ashraful Islam Chowdhury, Shahreen Rahman, Riasat Khan

“…The employed dataset, including AI–generated news articles and implementation scripts, can be found at the following website: https://github.com/ishraqisheree99/Combined-News-Dataset.git.…”
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Influence of age, corneal astigmatism and some characteristics of intraocular lens on glare in pseudophakic persons by Avramović Siniša, Vukosavljević Miroslav

“…Although an extraordinary visual acuity is achieved following the extracapsular cataract extraction with the implantation of intraocular lens, all the problems of vision are not solved in so doing and many of them should be considered. …”
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Identification and Evaluation of Colour Change in Rosemary and Biluochun Tea Infusions by Yuan Yuan, Caochuang Fang, Chaohan Li, Jiaqi You, Kun Ma

“…Background: The colour of tea beverages during processing and storage significantly influences their visual quality. However, natural pink tea products are rare. …”
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Does Dynamic Taping Affect Pain, Endurance, Disability, Mobility, and Kinesiophobia in Individuals with Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain? A Randomized Controlled Trial by Kanagaraj Rengaramanujam

“…No significant immediate and short-term differences were found between DT and KT in pain, disability, mobility, and kinesiophobia. …”
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Assessment of Wavefront Aberrations in Children with Myopia Against the Background of Ocular Surface Disorders in Combination with Computer Vision Syndrome Digital and Eye Strain by I. L. Plisov, E. M. Naumova, A. I. Smoleva

“…All patients underwent wavefront aberrometry in a darkened room without cycloplegia.Results. It was found that in the group of patients with the presence of subjective phenomena of disturbance of the state of the ocular surface, identified using the online questionnaire “State of the ocular surface”, rotor aberrations were statistically significantly higher than in the comparison group. …”
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The Effect of AI Gamification on Students’ Engagement and Academic Achievement in Malaysia: SEM Analysis Perspectives by Nisar Ahmed Dahri, Noraffandy Yahaya, Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi, Latifah Almuqren, Abeer S. Almgren, Abdulrahman Alshimai, Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan

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Conversion Painful Ankle Arthrodesis to Total Ankle Arthroplasty: Case Series and Literature Reviews by Jen-Hung Chen MD

“…The mean follow-up duration was 42.6 months (range, 8 to 65). Results: The mean visual analog scale pain score improved from 75 preoperatively to 10 at the latest follow up. …”
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The Impact of Digital Tourism Marketing Dimensions on Attracting Domestic Tourism in Saudi Arabia

“…Personalised offers that reflect the preferences and interests of individual users were found to enhance the appeal of local tourism experiences. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Lactation Assessment and Comprehensive Intervention Tool (LAT) by Julie Grady, Anna Blair, Kajsa Brimdyr, Karin Cadwell

“…Results: Acceptable internal consistency of the LAT tool was found, with Cronbach’s alpha measuring 0.799, 0.740, 0.756 and 0.735 for each video, respectively. …”
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Altered spontaneous brain activity in children with deprivation amblyopia: a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study by Yadong Li, Guangying Zheng, Baohong Wen, Xiaopan Zhang

“…No significant correlations were found between the fALFF values of identified regions and the BCVA of amblyopic eyes for either type of amblyopia. …”
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Cochlear Implantation: Small Cochlear Diameter May Indicate Degree of Abnormality by Fahad N. Altamimi, Fatemah AlTheyab, Mariam Al-Amro, Ali Al Montasheri, Sara Al Otaibi, Fida Al Muhawas

“…RESULTS: The A-value was found to vary between 7.3 mm and 10.4 mm among the studied patients. …”
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The added effect of preoperative nepafenac on pain and discomfort following alcohol-assisted photorefractive keratectomy by Eliya Levinger, Nir Gomel, Ami Hirsh, Maya Tenne, Asaf Achiron, Nadav Levinger, Shmuel Levinger, Nadav Shemesh, Adi Abulafia, Michael Mimouni, Nir Sorkin

“…No additional independent factors were found to be associated with pain except age. Conclusion: Adding preoperative nepafenac significantly reduced pain and photophobia with complete epithelial healing. …”
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The Space of an Image Existence. What do the Internet the Ancient City and the Medieval Temple Have in Common? by M. A. Vasilyeva

“…Most of the actual space`s features which today are called new are found in other spaces and other times. Polyphony, the visual component, one-to-many and many-to-many message addressing, active use of “ready-made” markers and symbolic “blanks”, the iconic character of the signs used – these features of modern communication in the Internet space seem to be new only in comparison with communication within the framework of the New European text. …”
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Arthroscopic additional biceps augmentation and biceps superior capsular reconstruction yield similar clinical and radiological outcomes for patients with medium to large rotator c... by Meng Huan Tsai, Poyu Chen, Alexandre Lädermann, Cheng-Pang Yang, You-Hung Cheng, Chen-Heng Hsu, Joe Chih-Hao Chiu

“…No significant differences were found between the two groups regarding the postoperative clinical and radiological results. …”
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Gastric Precancerous Lesions: From Progenitor Cell and Microsatellite Instability to Clinical Interpretation of Gastric Cancer Risk by A. V. Kononov, V. A. Rubtsov, M. N. Parygina, A. G. Shimanskaya, S. I. Mozgovoi, E. G. Pomorgailo, M. V. Markelova, Yu. A. Fedotova

“…VOSviewer (1.6.20) was used to visualize the bibliometric analysis.   Results. MMR-deficient cases were found in low (2.8 %) and high-grade (2.8 %) dysplasia with the immunohistochemical evaluation of MMR-system proteins in gastric mucosa specimens. …”
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Association of systemic cellullar immunity with the development of cataract by R. E. Osmanov, O. L. Fabrikantov

“…Among the causes of visual impairment, cataract occupies a significant proportion, which indicates a need for studying the causes of its development. …”
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Evolution of “Production–Living–Ecological” Spaces Conflicts and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Service Values in the Farming–Pastoral Ecotone in Inner Mongolia During Rapid Urbanizati... by Ziqi Yu, Xi Meng, Gongjue Yu

“…Specifically, low-value–high-conflict zones were predominantly found in other ecological spaces, high-value–low-conflict zones was concentrated in forest ecological spaces, and high-value–high-conflict zones were predominantly concentrated in aquatic ecological spaces. …”
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