Alterations in Peripheral Refraction are Most Significant Just Before the Onset of Myopia: Evidence from Multispectral Refraction Topography by Feijia Xie, Xukai Mao, Mingming Jiang, Jun Li, Jing Zhang

“…Importantly, hyperopic shift of RDVs was most pronounced between the emmetropia and low myopia group, and also when AL was approximately 23 mm. …”
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Graceful Aging: A Cross-Sectional Study on The Frequency, Risk Factors, And Predictors of Falls Using The Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and Timed Up and Go (TUG) Test by Aysha Jalil, Fatima Jehangir Jehangir, Najia Ashraf, Tariq Adnan

“…Of those who fell, 50 (22.4%) subjects belonged to a low socioeconomic class. The urban dwellers had a fall prevalence of 21.3% (76). …”
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Enabling discovery of the social determinants of health: using a specialized lens to see beyond the surface by Cynthia Sheffield, Gisela Butera, Dera Tompkins, Vence Bonham, Deborah Duran, Kimberly Middleton, Corina Galindo

“…VOSviewer and a Python term counting program were used to visualize the diffusion of terminology. NVivo textual analysis revealed SDoH concepts within meaningful phrases within the literature. …”
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Downscaling Satellite Night-Time Light Imagery While Addressing the Blooming Effect by Nikolaos Tziokas, Ce Zhang, Alexandros Tziokas, Qunming Wang, Peter M. Atkinson

“…When NTL images are compared with optical images, they exhibit a greater quantity of dark (low value) pixels, higher levels of background noise, and a more obvious blooming effect. …”
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Assessment of the impact of irrigating with treated wastewater on soil and crop trace metal accumulation by Lubna A. Ibrahim, Doaa M. Hammad

“…Waste “Minimization Prioritization Tool categorized” trace element levels as of low concern. Daily Intake of Trace Metals and Health Risk Index highlighted the need for health risk assessment, especially for elevated Ni in mandarins and guavas. …”
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Baseline characteristics associated with the first year treatment interval of intravitreal faricimab in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) by Sobha Sivaprasad, Philippe Margaron, Aachal Kotecha, Thibaud Mathis, Parth Shah, Neala Rafijah, Yannan Tang

“…Baseline characteristics (central subfield thickness (CST), best-corrected visual acuity, presence of subretinal fluid in centre 1 mm, presence of retinal fluid in centre 1 mm, macular neovascularisation (MNV) location and MNV type) were inputted into an R package ‘rpart’ to create a classification tree model. …”
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Resilience Enhancement Strategies for Energy Systems in the Face of Natural Calamities and Cyber Threats: A Comprehensive Review by Mostafa Shabanian-Poodeh, Rahmat-Allah Hooshmand, Miadreza Shafie-Khah, Pierluigi Siano

“…Energy systems and their related technologies are susceptible to natural extreme events, categorized as high-impact low-probability (HILP) events, posing a significant threat to their reliable functioning. …”
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A Feasibility Study on UV Nanosecond Laser Ablation for Removing Polyamide Insulation from Platinum Micro-Wires by Danial Rahnama, Graziano Chila, Sivakumar Narayanswamy

“…Additionally, the exposed platinum surface must exhibit low surface roughness to enable effective soldering and be free of thermal damage or residual debris to pass strict visual inspections. …”
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A comprehensive review on powder mixed electrical discharge machining: advances in dielectric enhancement and machining efficiency by Dharmendra Kumar, Vimal Kumar Pathak, Ramanpreet Singh, Mithilesh K. Dikshit

“…In conventional EDM, common issues include a low material removal rate (MRR), poor surface finish, excessive tool wear rate (TWR), and defects such as micropores, micromoles, and thick recast layers. …”
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A Comparison of Quantitative Pupillometry and VOMS in Division 1 Female Soccer Players by John Duane Heick

“…A post hoc Dunn test showed significant differences in constriction percentage and minimum pupil size between low NPi and high NPi groups (<i>p</i> < 0.05). One athlete sustained a concussion. …”
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Spatial modeling of human potential in the Republic of Bashkortostan by I. A. Lakman, A. V. Gorshechnikova, N. K. Shamsutdinova, V. B. Prudnikov

“…A number of municipalities form, however, a cluster of territories with a low level of human development. These areas are mainly located in the Northeast of the Republic. …”
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Water quality assessment in Réghaïa (North of Algeria) lake basin by using traditional approach and water quality indices by Farouk Bouhezila, Hocine Hacene, Mohamed Aichouni

“…Surface Water Quality Evaluation System (SW-QES) was used to visualize the temporal evolution of available data from 1978 to 2017. …”
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Does incidental durotomy affect clinical outcome in patients with lumbar degenerative diseases after posterior open lumbar interbody fusion? a multicenter observational study by Zhendong Huan, Linkai Lei

“…Primary outcome measure was the length of hospital stay (LOS), while secondary outcome measures were 30-day readmission rate; hospital costs; postoperative visual analog scale (VAS) scores for low back pain (LBP) and leg pain (LP) at 1 day, 3, 7, and 15 days, 1 month, 3, 6, and 12 months; and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) at 1 month, 3, 6, and 12 months. …”
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Advances in the recombinase polymerase amplification platform for urogenital schistosomiasis diagnosis (ShDraI-RPA) towards implementation at the point-of-care by Silvia G. Mesquita, Owain Donnelly, John Archer, Elena B. Lugli, Bonnie Webster

“…Sample preparations were explored to develop a simple, rapid and low resource methodology that would complement the ShDraI-RPA platform when used in remote settings. …”
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Preservative free travoprost and timolol fixed combination in the initial treatment of primary glaucoma: an assessment of hypotensive efficiency and safety by S. Yu. Petrov, L. V. Yakubova, L. V. Vasilenkova, O. M. Filippova, A. N. Zhuravleva, V. I. Kotelin

“…Travapress Duo is characterized by a low level of local side effects and can be recommended for both for the initial and long-term therapy of primary glaucoma of developed and advanced stages.…”
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Estimation of Pressure Pain in the Lower Limbs Using Electrodermal Activity, Tissue Oxygen Saturation, and Heart Rate Variability by Youngho Kim, Seonggeon Pyo, Seunghee Lee, Changeon Park, Sunghyuk Song

“…Multiple linear regression models were used to predict VAS and pressure, and five machine learning models (SVM, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, MLP, KNN) were applied to classify pain levels (no pain: VAS 0, low: VAS 1–3, moderate: VAS 4–6, high: VAS 7–10) and pressure intensity. …”
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Swallowed Topical Tacrolimus Induces Clinical and Histological Remission in a Subset of Patients with Severe Lymphocytic Esophagitis by Alain Schoepfer, Sofia Asikainen, Luc Biedermann, Andrea Kreienbuehl, Anne Godat, Corina Dommann, Alex Straumann, Thomas Greuter

“… Introduction: Lymphocytic esophagitis (LyE) represents a chronic inflammatory disease of the esophagus with low response rates to topical steroids. Thus, novel treatment options such as swallowed topical tacrolimus, particularly for refractory cases, are urgently needed. …”
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A heuristic mixed real-time task allocation of virtual utilization in multi-core processor by Hongbiao Liu, Mengfei Yang, Tingyu Wang, Chenghao Song, Shenghui Zhu, Xi Chen

“…In addition, we also develop a visual multi-core mixed task scheduling simulator RT-MCSS (open source) to facilitate the design and verification of multi-core scheduling for users. …”
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Systematic review on barriers and enablers for access to diabetic retinopathy screening services in different income settings. by Mapa Mudiyanselage Prabhath Nishantha Piyasena, Gudlavalleti Venkata S Murthy, Jennifer L Y Yip, Clare Gilbert, Maria Zuurmond, Tunde Peto, Iris Gordon, Suwin Hewage, Sureshkumar Kamalakannan, Sureshkumar Kamalakannan

“…<h4>Background</h4>Diabetic retinopathy (DR) can lead to visual impairment and blindness if not detected and treated in time. …”
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A Custom Deep Learning Architecture with Image Augmentation for Intelligent Gastrointestinal Tract Tissue Classification by Wieczorek Michał, Wojtas Natalia, Wituła Roman, Krawczyk Aleksandra, Rycerz Karol

“…Because of this, an automatic system able to perform such classification in a fraction of a second and with high accuracy can be helpful in such cases, especially considering the low cost of adding that solution to the current workflow. …”
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