Development of Graves’ disease in a patient with lymphocytic hypophysitis following glucocorticoid treatment by Yuka Ono, Norio Wada, Shuhei Baba, Hajime Sugawara, Arina Miyoshi, Shinji Obara

“…Laboratory tests indicated low serum free thyroxine (T4), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), cortisol, luteinizing hormone, and follicle-stimulating hormone. …”
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Effects of search intent on eye-movement patterns in a change detection task by Sangil Lee, Minho Lee, Hyeonggyu Park, Mun-Seon Chang, Ho-Wan Kwak

“…In the “low-specific intent” condition, participants were informed that a change would occur. …”
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Questioning the effectiveness of composite Polishing systems by crosschecking profilometer and dental microscope outcomes by Bora Korkut, Elif Alkan, Ezgi Kızıl Öztürk, Cafer Türkmen, Dilek Tağtekin

“…High SRI scores for the mylar strip corresponded to the low Ra scores. Therefore, Ra measurements may be misleading without DOM confirmation. …”
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Optical reconstructive treatment of a patient with essential mesodermal dystrophy of the iris by N. P. Sobolev, S. A. Borzenok, M. A. Soboleva, Yu. V. Shkandina, E. P. Sudakova

“…Patient R., 48 yrs, was diagnosed with OU EMID, low hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. In order to prevent the development of secondary glaucoma and correct refractive anomalies, the patient was subjected to phacoemulsification with implantation of a multifocal toric IOL, synechiotomy, and iris plastic surgery. …”
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High-resolution esophageal manometry in patients with achalasia by A. A. Smirnov, M. M. Kiriltseva, M. E. Luybchenko, L. I. Davletbaeva, A. V. Kochetkov

“…There is no unified view of the cause of this phenomenon. We assumed that low pressure figures may be affected by incorrect installation of the manometric catheter.Methods and materials. …”
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Semantic SLAM using laser-vision data fusion: Enhancing autonomous navigation in unstructured environments by Ning Chen, Dong Wei, Dongsheng Lin, Linhan Lin

“…For the fusion of visual and laser information, NN-SLAM demonstrated a reduction in filter processing time by 0.2440 ms and 3.6497 ms on the KITTI 0011 and 0093 datasets, respectively, when compared to the Visual-Lidar Odometry and Mapping (ALOAM) algorithm. …”
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The prevalence and correlates of vision impairment and glasses ownership among ethnic minority and Han schoolchildren in rural China. by Huan Wang, Brandon Barket, Sharon Du, Dimitris Friesen, Ezra Kohrman, Esther Tok, Baixiang Xiao, Wenyong Huang, Ving Fai Chan, Graeme MacKenzie, Nathan Congdon

“…<h4>Purpose</h4>To determine the prevalence of visual impairment and glasses ownership among Han Chinese and Hui minority junior high school children in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.…”
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Supporting IOL’S in a Deficient Capsular Environment: The Tale of No “Tails” by Domenico Boccuzzi, Date Purva, Vincenzo Orfeo, Pasquale Napolitano, Alessandro Mularoni, Aurelio Imburgia, Matteo Forlini

“…All three surgical procedures can be considered adequate to correct aphakia in patients without capsular support with significant improvement in visual acuity and low complication.…”
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Evaluation of Refractive Results of LASIK and LASEK in Patients with Myopia and Myopic Astigmatism by Okan Taşkın, Zeynep Özbek

“…Objectives: To compare the mean visual acuity, spherical equivalent (SE), cylindrical refractive error, and central corneal thickness (CCT) results of LASIK and LASEK in patients with myopia and myopic astigmatism. …”
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VSRDiff: Learning Inter-Frame Temporal Coherence in Diffusion Model for Video Super-Resolution by Linlin Liu, Lele Niu, Jun Tang, Yong Ding

“…Video Super-Resolution (VSR) aims to reconstruct high-quality high-resolution (HR) videos from low-resolution (LR) inputs. Recent studies have explored diffusion models (DMs) for VSR by exploiting their generative priors to produce realistic details. …”
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Relationship between Learning Styles and Academic Performance in Medical Students at Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-sectional Study by Mai Mohamed Elhassan Mustafa, Sami Alhazmi, Raum Abdu Hasan Ayoub, Sarah Jaber Mobarki, Reham Mousa Aljudayba, Imtenan Ali Oberi, Sarah Hassan Moafa, Yara Ajeebi, Lamyaa Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan, Salaheldin Elamin Abdalla Terair

“…Visual learning methods were significantly associated with age and academic class with preference to use diagrams and demonstrations in 202 (46.9%) of the participants. …”
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Computed tomographic attributes in asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap by Azza Farag Said, Arwa Mohamed Rady, Hosny Sayed Abdel Ghani, Rasha A. Abdelfattah, Yosra M. Mousa, Bahaa Ibrahim Mohamed

“…CT scans of the whole inspiration and expiration phases were examined visually for signs of emphysema, air trapping, and bronchial wall thickening. …”
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Advancing remote sensing of biocrusts with drone imagery and machine learning by Jana Stewart, Roxane J. Francis, David J. Eldridge, Richard T. Kingsford, Nathali Machado de Lima

“…We developed a simple and accurate field method for large scale surveys of biocrust, using drone imagery and machine learning, guided by visual ground survey data. We compared the accuracy of three different camera sensors- RGB, multispectral, and thermal. …”
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Comparative Study on the Use of Conjunctival Autograft With or Without Mitomycin-C in Pterygium Surgery by Archimedes L.D. Agahan, MD, Pamela P. Astudillo, MD, Romeo C. Dela Cruz, OD, MD

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Oxide semiconductor based deep‐subthreshold operated read‐out electronics for all‐printed smart sensor patches by Jyoti Ranjan Pradhan, Sushree Sangita Priyadarsini, Sanjana R. Nibgoor, Manvendra Singh, Subho Dasgupta

“…Notably, the entire smart sensor patch is demonstrated to operate at a low supply voltage of ≤2 V, thereby ensuring that it can be an on‐chip energy source compatible and standalone detection unit.…”
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The interplay between local biodiversity floral odours and reproductive success varies across different population sizes of Cypripedium calceolus by Melissa Haouzi, Olivia Rusconi, Rahel Boss, Christophe J. Praz, Gregory Röder, Théo Steiner, Sergio Rasmann

“…We hypothesized that small orchid populations inhabit low-biodiversity areas with fewer pollinators, potentially leading to extinction. …”
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An Analysis of the Movement Trajectories of the Endangered <i>Acipenser gueldenstaedtii</i> in Ammonia-Supplemented Environments Using Image Processing Methods by Beytullah Ahmet Balci, Güray Tonguç, Muhammed Nurullah Arslan, İlker Zeki Kurtoğlu, Tuba Sari

“…At low concentrations, it was observed that the fish made circular movements, while at high concentrations, their movements were restricted and concentrated in areas close to the water’s surface. …”
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Neural representation of geoinformation in the human brain: affected by abstraction levels and spatial scales by Tianyu Yang, Bo Zhao, Song Gao, Weihua Dong

“…We found that the increase in the geoinformation abstraction level decreases the activity of working memory processing, and 3D image induces users to organize geoinformation using egocentric spatial references. Extremely high or low levels of abstraction can hinder effective visual attention allocation. …”
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Identification method of security in patrol inspection for distribution network equipment based on rapid discrimination of drone video image by WU Xueqiong, YU Haiping, FAN Yanhe

“…In view of the high-efficiency and low-cost security inspection requirements of distribution network equipment, the visual positioning algorithm of drone is designed from the principle of coordinate transformation, camera imaging model, vision based pose estimation principle and AprilTag pose estimation principle. …”
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La participación de varones y mujeres jóvenes en la toma de decisiones sobre salud sexual y reproductiva en Argentina: género y asimetrías socioeconómicas. by Virginia Beatriz Bolatti, Pablo Sebastián Gómez

“…We examined bivariate association measures by socio-economic status indices (High SES and Low SES). We construct the socioeconomic index using polychoric principal component analysis (ACPP). …”
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