Comparing Clinical Efficacy between Minimally Invasive Osteotomy and Weil Osteotomy for Treatment of Metatarsalgia by Zixing Bai, Xuhan Cao, Yanjun Yang, Chengyi Sun, Si Chen, Haiwei Hu, Jianmin Wen, Xinxiao Lin, Weidong Sun

“…The minimally invasive osteotomy is easy to handle and has the advantages such as less complication, low cost, and a low requirement on equipment, which can be suggested to be widely used in the basic level hospital.…”
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The effects of perceived mating opportunities on patterns of reproductive investment by male guppies. by Luke T Barrett, Jonathan P Evans, Clelia Gasparini

“…In this study we tested this prediction by determining whether male reproductive investment varies with expected future mating opportunities, which were experimentally manipulated by visually exposing male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) to high or low numbers of females in the absence of competing males. …”
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Evolving Techniques and Indications of Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty by Özlem Evren Kemer, Emine Esra Karaca, Silke Oellerich, Gerrit Melles

“…It offers faster, more predictable, stable visual recovery and low rejection rates while the surgery itself is less invasive. …”
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Signal Amplification of FISH for Automated Detection Using Image Cytometry by Khuong Truong, Jack Boenders, Zofia Maciorowski, Philippe Vielh, Bernard Dutrillaux, Bernard Malfoy, Claire A. Bourgeois

“…Accuracy of the automated scoring, however, remained low (58% of nuclei containing two spots) compared to the visual scoring because of the high intranuclear variation between FISH spots.…”
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Hybrid Huff-n-Puff Process for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Integration of Surfactant Flooding with CO₂ Oil Swelling by Abhishek Ratanpara, Joshua Donjuan, Camron Smith, Marcellin Procak, Ibrahima Aboubakar, Philippe Mandin, Riyadh I. Al-Raoush, Rosalinda Inguanta, Myeongsub Kim

“…The results showed the visual phenomenon of oil imbibition during the surfactant flooding process. …”
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Benign essential blepharospasm: epidemiology, clinical manifestations, pathophysiology, botulinum toxin therapy by Z. A. Zalyalova

“…The advantage of Xeomin® that does not contain complexing proteins, is characterized by a low probability of antibody production, is the ability to vary between-injection intervals. …”
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CAPABILITIES OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TO DIAGNOSE INFILTRATING PELVIC ENDOMETRIOSIS by E. N. Puchkova, E. A. Mershina, V. E. Sinitsyn

“…Just the same, a radiodiagnostician should not forget that MRI is of low informative value in identifying bowel endometriosis. …”
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Multimodal communication in a noisy environment: a case study of the Bornean rock frog Staurois parvus. by T Ulmar Grafe, Doris Preininger, Marc Sztatecsny, Rosli Kasah, J Maximilian Dehling, Sebastian Proksch, Walter Hödl

“…We conclude that S. parvus has solved the problem of continuous broadband low-frequency noise by both modifying its advertisement call in multiple ways and by using numerous visual signals. …”
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Multifocal ERG Guiding Therapy in a Case of Hydroxychloroquine Premaculopathy by José Antonio Sáez-Moreno, Concepción Domínguez-Hidalgo, José Manuel Rodríguez-Ferrer

“…We report the case of a 28-year-old female treated for systemic lupus erythematosus with hydroxychloroquine (200 mg/day) for 11 years. She was visually asymptomatic, with normal fundus appearance, normal colour vision testing findings, 20/20 visual acuity in both eyes, and only mild central bilateral defects on 10-2 perimetry. …”
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Effects of Short-Term Memory and Content Representation Type on Mobile Language Learning by Nian-Shing Chen, Sheng-Wen Hsieh, Kinshuk

“…Our findings also suggest that providing just the basic learning materials is more helpful to learners with low verbal and visual abilities.…”
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Development of collection and data acquisition system from germanium semiconductor detector for EDELWEISS experiment by R. B. Podviyanuk, Pia Loaiza, V. N. Kovalenko

“…Germanium crystals cooled up to ultra low temperature are used in the experiment. Simultaneous registration of ionizing and thermal signals allows to distinguish events from recoil nucleus, which can appear as a result of interaction of WIMP particles with matter, from gamma and beta background. …”
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Effect of Danggui Buxue decoction on hypoxia-induced injury of retinal Müller cells <i>in vitro</i> by Xilin Ge, Caoxin Huang, Wenting Chen, Chen Yang, Wenfang Huang, Jia Li, Shuyu Yang

“… Retinopathy is a common complication of diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of visual impairment. Danggui Buxue decoction (RRP) has been used as a traditional drug for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy for many years. …”
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Lesion assessment in multiple sclerosis: a comparison between synthetic and conventional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery imaging by Roald Ruwen Essel, Britta Krieger, Barbara Bellenberg, Dajana Müller, Theodoros Ladopoulos, Ralf Gold, Ruth Schneider, Carsten Lukas, Carsten Lukas

“…Bland–Altman plot analysis showed minimal TLV differences between synthetic and conventional FLAIR in patients with low overall lesion loads. The intraclass coefficient (ICC) indicated excellent agreement between both measurements, with values of 0.88 for TLV and 0.89 for TLN. …”
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Characteristics of specific surface area N2 adsorption and desorption method in the characterization of cow dung particles and their efficient combustion products by Meng ZHAO, Buying HOU, Yuanchao LIANG, Xiaoying LIU, Linjie WU, Xiaolong JIAO, Xingbo LAN

“…Under the background of green and low-carbon development of energy, the clean and efficient utilization technology of biomass energy has become a hot spot of current research, which provides technical support for the gradual replacement of coal resources by biomass energy. …”
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The Impact of Optical Undersampling on the Ca2+ Signal Resolution in Ca2+ Imaging of Spontaneous Neuronal Activity by Katarina D. Milicevic, Violetta O. Ivanova, Tina N. Brazil, Cesar A. Varillas, Yan M.D. Zhu, Pavle R. Andjus, Srdjan D. Antic

“…Background: In neuroscience, Ca2+ imaging is a prevalent technique used to infer neuronal electrical activity, often relying on optical signals recorded at low sampling rates (3 to 30 Hz) across multiple neurons simultaneously. …”
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The association between myopia and mental health among Chinese children in primary and secondary school: a cross-sectional study by Shijie Yu, Hongpo Yin, Wei Sun, Ruosong Yang, Ronghua Lai, Yushan Yu, Hongsheng Bi, Hongsheng Bi, Jianfeng Wu, Jianfeng Wu, Jianfeng Wu

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Quiet Stance Postural Control in Women Who Have a History of Brain Injury from Intimate Partner Violence: A Preliminary Study by Bradi R. Lorenz, Shambhu P. Adhikari, Jonathan D. Smirl, Colin Wallace, Quinn Malone, Brian H. Dalton, Paul van Donkelaar

“…When participants were stratified into those with a low (0–2) and high (6–8) BISA score, participants in the high BISA (6–8) group exhibited greater COP area, ML COP amplitude and variability than those in the low BISA group (0–2; p < 0.05). …”
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Efficacy of virtual reality balance training on rehabilitation outcomes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Chao Du, Nei-Meng Gu, Tian-Ci Guo, Ai-Feng Liu

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Since many of the included results are based on low-or very-low-quality evidence, although the results show a certain trend, the conclusion has great uncertainty. …”
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Comparative study of the learning curves for percutaneous endoscopic interlaminar lumbar discectomy and unilateral biportal endoscopy techniques by Weidong Guo, Shikong Guo, Xiaoping Zhang, Weiliang Zhang, Guifeng Xia, Bo Liao

“…Complication rates were low, and patient satisfaction was high in both groups. …”
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Blind Recognition Algorithm of Multi-Carrier Composite Modulation Signal Based on Multi-Dimensional Time-Frequency Superimposed Spectrum by Shoubin Wang, Huan Li, Xiaolong Zhang, Hao Jiang, Lei Shen

“…The proposed algorithm first converts the complex features of multi-carrier composite modulation signals into visually interpretable image features (including the quantity and concentration of bright spots and lines) through the MD-TFSS, achieving intuitive representation of multiple modulation characteristics. …”
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