En bloc resection of the ligamentum flavum for bilateral decompression in unilateral biportal endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: a 2-year follow-up study by Chao Li, Beiyu Xu, Yao Zhao, Longtao Qi, Lei Yue, Ranlyu Zhu, Chunde Li, Zhengrong Yu

“…Assessed outcomes included surgery-related complications, operation time, estimated blood loss, postoperative stay, visual analogue scale (VAS) score, and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). …”
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Effect of a Modern Palaeolithic Diet in Combination with a Sprint Interval Training on Metabolic and Performance-Related Parameters in Male Athletes: A Pilot Trial by Denise Zdzieblik, Tobias Waldvogel, Anna Zierke, Albert Gollhofer, Daniel König

“…Background: Although a palaeolithic diet promotes healthier food choices that aid in weight management and reduce cardiovascular risks, its effectiveness in endurance sports is still debated due to its typically low carbohydrate content. Objective: This study examined the impact of a 6-week palaeolithic diet (PD-G) versus a mixed diet (MD-G), both paired with Sprint interval training (SIT), on various metabolic and performance-related parameters. …”
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Cognitive Decline in Patients With Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Resting‐State fMRI Study by Xueyun Deng, Lihua Liu, Jiafei Chen, Zhi Liu, Hua Feng

“…Afterward, we calculated the amplitude of low‐frequency fluctuations (ALFFs), regional homogeneity (ReHo), and degree centrality (DC). …”
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Prevalence and Causes of Blindness and Vision Impairment in the State of Qatar: Results of a Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Mohammed AlThani, Mariam Abdulmalik, Samya AlAbdulla, Kholoud AlMotawaa, Halla Algadi, Muhammad Rabiu, Ian McCormick, Shadi AlAshwal

“…Conclusion: Our findings show a low prevalence of VI compared with many countries that have published VI data. …”
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Unveiling the Prognostic Power of HRR in ICU-Admitted COPD Patients: A MIMIC-IV Database Study by Wang Y, Chen D, Zhang C, Yang H

“…A restricted cubic spline (RCS) model was employed to visualize the association between HRR and mortality. …”
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Selection of Optimal Diagnostic Positions for Early Nutrient Deficiency in Cucumber Leaves Based on Spatial Distribution of Raman Spectra by Zhaolong Hou, Yaxuan Wang, Feng Tan, Jiaxin Gao, Feng Jiao, Chunjie Su, Xin Zheng

“…Excluding low-similarity data significantly improved model performance for early (24 h) nutrient deficiency diagnosis, resulting in higher precision, recall, and F1 scores. …”
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Explainable handcrafted features for mitotic event detection and classification by Panason Manorost, Thomas Deckers, Veerle Bloemen, Jean Marie Aerts

“…These unwanted noise elements and artifacts can cause false positive detections and lead to low precision in detecting proliferation processes. …”
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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials for Electroacupuncture Treatment of Migraine by Song S, Chen H

“…Our study is supported by evidence of low to moderate quality. It is necessary to further confirm the efficacy of pure electroacupuncture for migraine with higher-quality clinical research.Keywords: electroacupuncture, migraine, meta-analysis, randomized controlled trials, systematic review…”
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Re-Implementation of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) in the Community: Findings From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Melanie J Woodfield, Sarah Fortune, Tania Cargo, Sally Merry, Sarah E Hetrick

“…Re-implementation strategies were systematically developed and theory-driven and included a mobile co-worker, a portable time-out space, audio-visual equipment, weekly consultation groups, and 2-day targeted PCIT refresher training. …”
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Effectiveness of Retail Promotions in the Green Industry by Age Group: A Case Study by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…Specifically, similarities and differences between younger and older consumers and their visual attention to point-of-sale (POS) information is explored.  …”
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A Ship’s Maritime Critical Target Identification Method Based on Lightweight and Triple Attention Mechanisms by Pu Wang, Shenhua Yang, Guoquan Chen, Weijun Wang, Zeyang Huang, Yuanliang Jiang

“…The ability to classify and recognize maritime targets based on visual images plays an important role in advancing ship intelligence and digitalization. …”
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Optical Bench Evaluation of a Novel, Hydrophobic, Acrylic, One-Piece, Polyfocal Intraocular Lens with a “Zig-Zag” L-Loop Haptic Design by Andreas F. Borkenstein, Eva-Maria Borkenstein, Pooria Omidi, Achim Langenbucher

“…Larger apertures lead to a significant increase in MTF at the far peak, indicating better visual acuity for distant objects under low-light conditions. …”
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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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Study on Boiling Performance of Multi-bubble Nucleation at Nanoscale by GAO Deyang, SUN Zhiyuan, LIU Zhanwei, BO Hanliang

“…In nuclear engineering, boiling phenomena are ubiquitous in several mainstream reactor types, including pressurized water reactors (PWR), boiling water reactors (BWR), and low-temperature heating reactors. Boiling not only enhances heat transfer performance but also impacts reactor coolant density through bubble nucleation and growth processes, potentially leading to reactivity fluctuations. …”

Epidemiology of ophthalmia neonatorum: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Randy Asiamah, Gideon Owusu, Pious Tawiah Amoako, Richmond Amponsah, Emmanuel Adator, Samuel Kyei

“…Conclusion ON is a common ocular morbidity in neonates, especially in those from low-income settings. It is important that all newborns receive adequate preventive care, regardless of their socioeconomic status, in order to reduce the risk of visual impairment and blindness.…”
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Improvement of SAM2 Algorithm Based on Kalman Filtering for Long-Term Video Object Segmentation by Jun Yin, Fei Wu, Hao Su, Peng Huang, Yuetong Qixuan

“…SAM2Plus further employs an optimized memory system that prunes outdated or low-confidence entries and retains temporally coherent context, ensuring constant computational resources even for infinitely long videos. …”
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Multiclass weed and crop detection using optimized YOLO models on edge devices by Arjun Upadhyay, Sunil G C, Samriddha Das, Joseph Mettler, Kirk Howatt, Xin Sun

“…Real-time accurate weed identification remains a considerable challenge due to dynamic environmental conditions and the high visual similarities between weeds and crops in terms of shape, color, and texture. …”
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MgCuSb as a suitable electrode for contacting pre-compacted pellets of MgAgSb thermoelectric material by Amandine Helt, Amandine Duparchy, Aidan Cowley, Eckhard Müller, Johannes de Boor

“…The obtained sample exhibits a strong mechanical contact without any crack at the interface, as well as a very low electrical contact resistance below 7 µΩ cm2, representing less than 5% of the total leg resistance. …”
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Determining Average Available Workdays for Roadway Construction Projects Using Long-Term Weather Data—A Case Study for Alabama by Esthefany Marien Mejia Reyes, Xing Fang, Michael A. Perez

“…Construction project durations specified on contracts are influenced by adverse weather conditions such as rainfall and low temperatures. This study aimed to develop an efficient method for determining monthly Average Available Workdays (AAWDs) for roadway construction projects using historical long-term (ten years or more) local weather data. …”
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Features of Primary Ocular Disability in the Krasnodar Region in 2016–2018 by A. S. Apostolova, A. V. Malyshev, A. A. Bashko, A. A. Sergienko, E. V. Kudryavceva

“…There is a progressive increase in the number of disabled people in group 2. A low proportion of persons of working age in the structure of primary ocular disability was noted. …”
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