A prospective comparative randomized trial of the efficacy and safety of topical tenoxicam and diclofenac in knee osteoarthritis by N. G. Kashevarova, E. A. Taskina, E. A. Strebkova, E. P. Sharapova, N. M. Savushkina, T. A. Korotkova, L. I. Alekseeva, A. M. Lila

“…During therapy, we assessed pain using a visual analog scale, the WOMAC index, quality of life using the EQ-5D questionnaire, satisfaction with therapy, and time to effect.Results and discussion. …”
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A Fast and Efficient Denoising and Surface Reflectance Retrieval Method for ZY1-02D Hyperspectral Data by Qiongqiong Lan, Yaqing He, Qijin Han, Yongguang Zhao, Wan Li, Lu Xu, Dongping Ming

“…To address these issues, aiming at fast and efficient processing of Chinese domestic ZY1-02D hyperspectral level-1 data, this study proposes a comprehensive processing framework: (1) To address the low efficiency of traditional bad line detection by visual examination, an automatic bad line detection method based on the pixel grayscale gradient threshold algorithm is proposed; (2) A spectral correlation-based interpolation method is developed to overcome the poor performance of adjacent-column averaging in repairing wide bad lines; (3) A reliable validation method was established based on the spectral band adjustment factors method to compare hyperspectral SR with multispectral SR and in-situ ground measurements. …”
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Vision Transformer Embedded Feature Fusion Model with Pre-Trained Transformers for Keratoconus Disease Classification by Md Fatin Ishrak, Md Maruf Rahman, Md Imran Kabir Joy, Anna Tamuly, Salma Akter, Dewan M. Tanim, Shahajada Jawar, Nayeem Ahmed, Md Sadekur Rahman

“…Keratoconus is a progressive eye disorder that, if undetected, can lead to severe visual impairment or blindness, necessitating early and accurate diagnosis. …”
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Differences in uni-dimensional breathlessness measures and thresholds for clinical response in a randomised controlled trial in people with chronic breathlessness: an exploratory s... by David Currow, Magnus Ekström, Miriam Johnson, Sandra Louw, Philip McCloud, Katherine Clark, Diana Ferreira

“…The aim of this study was to consider the performance of uni-dimensional measures in chronic breathlessness limiting exertion.Methods We report five measures of breathlessness (intensity: worst, best and average in the previous 24 hours; breathlessness now; and an affective component unpleasantness now) and two clinical thresholds over baseline on their 0–100 mm visual analogue scale (8.9 mm absolute improvement; and 15% relative improvement) collected in a multi-site, randomised, double-blind, parallel-arm, placebo-controlled trial of regular, low-dose, sustained-release morphine for people with chronic breathlessness with optimally treated underlying causes.Results Participants (n=284) were mostly elderly men with severe, chronic breathlessness. …”
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MEFSR-GAN: A Multi-Exposure Feedback and Super-Resolution Multitask Network via Generative Adversarial Networks by Sibo Yu, Kun Wu, Guang Zhang, Wanhong Yan, Xiaodong Wang, Chen Tao

“…These results demonstrate that MEFSR-GAN outperforms existing methods in terms of both visual effects and objective evaluation metrics, thereby establishing itself as a state-of-the-art technology.…”
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Modular iodinated carboxybetaine copolymers as charge-sensitive contrast agents for the detection of cartilage degradation by Patrick Weber, Annalena Maier, David Fercher, Maryam Asadikorayem, Marcy Zenobi-Wong

“…Moreover, this polymer also showed a strong local specificity, visualizing local differences in GAG distribution with significantly increased accuracy compared to the controls. …”
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A novel hybrid convolutional and transformer network for lymphoma classification by Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar, Sankar Ganesh Sundaram, Muteb Nasser Almeshari, S. Sabarunisha Begum, E. Siva Sankari, Yousef A. Alduraywish, Waeal J. Obidallah, Fahad Mansour Alotaibi

“…The proposed HCTN-LC demonstrates strong potential for real-time and low-resource clinical deployment, offering a robust and interpretable AI tool for hematopathological diagnosis.…”
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TDFNet: twice decoding V-Mamba-CNN Fusion features for building extraction by Wenlong Wang, Peng Yu, Mengmeng Li, Xiaojing Zhong, Yuanrong He, Hua Su, Yunxuan Zhou

“…Therefore, methods integrating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and visual transformers (ViTs) are popular nowadays. However, current methods combining these two methods inadequately merge their features and only perform decoding once, leading to issues like unclear boundaries, internal voids, and susceptibility to non-building elements in complex scenarios with low inter-class and high intra-class variability. …”
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ASD-YOLO: a lightweight network for coffee fruit ripening detection in complex scenarios by Baofeng Ye, Baofeng Ye, Renzheng Xue, Renzheng Xue, Haiqiang Xu, Haiqiang Xu

“…At present, how to judge the maturity of coffee fruit mainly depends on the visual inspection of human eyes, which is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. …”
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Exploring the Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Correlation Factors of Wayfinding Performance on City-Scale Road Networks Based on Massive Trajectory Data by Jun Li, Yan Zhu, Zhenwei Li, Wenle Lu, Yang Ji, Xiao Sang

“…It can accurately compute and visualize the magnitude and spatial distribution differences of drivers’ wayfinding performance levels, which is not achieved by conventional methods based on small samples. …”
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Adaptive sequential estimator for InSAR time series phase estimation by Guanya Wang, Zhiwei Li, Han Gao, Jun Hu, Mi Jiang, Peng Ren, Jie Zhang

“…In such environments, the distributions of coherent and low-coherence signals are often unpredictable. To address such limitations, this paper proposes an Adaptive Sequential Estimator (ASE) method. …”
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MnO2 doping induced structural tuning drives superior piezoelectric response in CaBi4Ti4O15-based ceramics by Qilai Wen, Huan-Huan Guo, Zong-Yang Shen, Zhumei Wang, Tao Zeng, Wenqin Luo, Fusheng Song

“…Furthermore, the CBTWC–0.1Mn ceramics exhibited better ferroelectric properties, a high Curie temperature (TC = 754.7 °C), low dielectric loss (tanδ = 6.7% at 500 °C), and excellent thermal stability, and their d33 (26.3 pC/N) maintained over 95% of its initial value after annealing at 500 °C. …”
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Health-care distribution of patients with genitourinary birth defects in Colombia: a spatial analysis of registered cases by Jessica Santander, Andrés Gutiérrez, Marcela Pérez-Sosa, María P. Donoso, Nicolas Fernandez

“…Cluster detection was performed using a Poisson model with SaTScan v9.6. To visualize the results, the clusters were projected in a Google Earth map. …”
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Hardware-Centric Exploration of the Discrete Design Space in Transformer–LSTM Models for Wind Speed Prediction on Memory-Constrained Devices by Laeeq Aslam, Runmin Zou, Ebrahim Shahzad Awan, Sayyed Shahid Hussain, Kashish Ara Shakil, Mudasir Ahmad Wani, Muhammad Asim

“…This approach enables model deployment on low-power devices, avoiding the challenges of cloud-based deployment. …”
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Tackling Dual Gaps in Remote Sensing Segmentation: Task-Oriented Super-Resolution for Domain Adaptation by Eungi Hong, Jamyoung Koo, Seongmin Pyo, Haechul Choi, Eunkyung Kim, Haneol Jang

“…Our approach aims to adapt a segmentation model trained on high-resolution images from a source domain to perform accurately on low-resolution images from a target domain. We introduce a super-resolution network that learns to enhance the spatial resolution of the target domain images while simultaneously optimizing the segmentation performance of a pre-trained and fixed segmentation model. …”
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Effectiveness and safety of acupotomy for lumbar disc herniation: a study protocol for a randomized, assessor-blinded, controlled pilot trial by Eunseok Kim, So Yun Kim, Hye Su Kim, Jeong Kyo Jeong, So-Young Jung, Chang-Hyun Han, Young-Il Kim

“…This trial is designed to determine if acupotomy is more effective than manual acupuncture in improving low back pain and/or leg pain, disability, lumbar mobility, and quality of life in patients with herniated lumbar disc. …”
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DIFFERENTIATED APPROACH TO NON-BACTERIAL OSTEOMYELITIS TREATMENT IN CHILDREN: THE RETROSPECTIVE STUDY RESULTS by Mikhail M. Kostik, Olga L. Kopchak, Irina A. Chikova, Eugenia A. Isupova, Vera V. Masalova, Margarita F. Dubko, Ludmila S. Snegireva, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Alexandr Y. Mushkin, Vyacheslav G. Chasnyk

“…Differentiated Approach to Non-Bacterial Osteomyelitis Treatment in Children: the Retrospective Study Results Background. Low efficacy of the therapy of children with non-bacterial osteomyelitis remains a topical problem of modern pediatrics and rheumatology. …”
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A Hybrid Efficient U-Net Framework for Detection of Anterior Belly of the Digastric Muscle on Ultrasonography by Sule Erdem, Suheda Erdem, Muammer Turkoglu, Abdulkadir Sengur, Nebras M. Sobahi

“…The MultiResUNet-Fusion model provides high accuracy in low-contrast ultrasound images, making it suitable for clinical applications. …”
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Gravitational lensing and shadows of dilatonic black holes in dilaton-massive gravity by Shahid Chaudhary, Talha Anwar, Farruh Atamurotov, Ali M. Mubaraki, M.M. Alam

“…This paper presents optical and astrophysical aspects of charged dilatonic black holes within the framework of dilaton-massive gravity, a promising extension of General Relativity motivated by low-energy string theory. By incorporating a nonminimally coupled scalar dilaton field and massive graviton terms into the Einstein-Maxwell action, we study static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions characterized by the parameters c1, c2, and m0, which control the strength of scalar-gravity and massive gravity couplings. …”
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Research on the Characteristic Identification and Multidimensional Dynamic Evolution of Urban–Rural Fringe in Harbin, China by Jing Ning, Haozhi Ma, Yu Sun, Ning Wang, Mengqiu Wang

“…The research reveals that Harbin’s urban–rural fringe exhibits a distinct circling pattern, with spatial morphology changes characterized as “low-speed spreading—jumping expansion—internal dissimilarity”, allowing for improved identification of its three types: stable, expanding, and degrading. …”
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