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“…SAM2Plus further employs an optimized memory system that prunes outdated or low-confidence entries and retains temporally coherent context, ensuring constant computational resources even for infinitely long videos.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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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials on Supine vs. Nonsupine Endotracheal Intubation by Chriselyn F. Palma, Radwan Mashina, Claire Chen, Tareq Arar, Marwan Mashina, Yussef Al Ghoul, Banreet Dhindsa, Rajany Dy

“…Bias was evaluated qualitatively, by visual analysis, and quantitatively through the Egger test. …”
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Cognitive functions and their effect on disability in learning process and knowledge application in patients with arterial hypertension by S. Ya. Yanovska

“…Moreover, a number of the following factors have contributed to the above-mentioned condition: emotional instability, nonconformity, desire to present themselves in a "favorable light", anxiety, depressive and paranoid tendencies, sensitive, egocentric, anosognotic response to the disease, exacerbation of accentuation of an excitable nature and low work efficiency, acute accentuation of personality traits, impairment of short- and long-term speech, auditory, imaginative, visual and informative memory, control of expression of understanding and emotions, interpersonal and internal personal emotional intelligence and logical thinking. …”
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Dual-stage segmentation and classification framework for skin lesion analysis using deep neural network by Khadija Manzoor, Nauman U Gilal, Marco Agus, Jens Schneider

“…This study aims to develop a dual-stage deep learning framework for the segmentation and classification of skin lesions, addressing challenges such as imbalanced data, lesion variability, and low contrast. Methods We propose a two-phase framework: (i) Precise instance segmentation using U-Net with a Visual Geometry Group (VGG16 encoder) to isolate skin lesions and (ii) classification using EfficientFormer and SwiftFormer networks to evaluate performance on both balanced and imbalanced datasets. …”
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Impact of Active Fluidics System on RNFL and GCL in Phacoemulsification by Di Maria A, Ferraro V, Barone G, Vitali M, Tredici C, Gaeta A, Vinciguerra P, Confalonieri F

“…Macular GCL and peripapillary RNFL evaluations were conducted using the Heidelberg Spectralis® OCT. Visual field (VF) tests were performed with Zeiss Humphrey Field Analyzer 3. …”
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A MEMS seismometer respiratory monitor for work of breathing assessment and adventitious lung sounds detection via deep learning by Brian Sang, Haoran Wen, Greg Junek, Wendy Neveu, Lorenzo Di Francesco, Justin Romberg, Farrokh Ayazi

“…Since these assessment methods are subjective, a low-profile device used for an accurate and quantitative monitoring approach could provide valuable preemptive insights into respiratory health, proving to be clinically beneficial. …”
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Developing soil quality indices to investigate degradation impacts of different land use types in Northern Ethiopia by Araya Kahsay, Mitiku Haile, Girmay Gebresamuel, Muktar Mohammed

“…In all cases, CL soils scored significantly lower SQI values than those of GL and SL. Moderate (III) and low (IV) quality grade soils have the largest spatial share in the area. …”
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Is South Africa ready for point-of-care, non-sputum tests for TB diagnosis? An assessment of end-user perceptions on a novel urine test and tongue swab for TB testing by Nasiphi Mqedlana-Ntombela, Vanessa Fargnoli, Salome Charalambous, Kavindhran Velen, Sonjelle Shilton, Violet Chihota

“…Innovative interventions are needed to expand point-of-care TB diagnosis particularly in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs). Novel non-sputum sample types currently under development can increase TB testing, however there is limited knowledge on end-user perceptions on these tests. …”
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KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS AND METABOLIC SYNDROME: NEW APPROACHES TO THERAPY by L. I. Alekseeva, E. A. Taskina, N. G. Kashevarova, E. P. Sharapova, S. G. Anikin, E. A. Strebkova, T. А. Korotkova, T. A. Raskina, E. V. Zonova, E. N. Otteva

“…The body mass index and levels of low-density lipoproteins, triglycerides, glucose, and uric acid significantly decreased during treatment. …”
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Improving animal welfare in wildlife shooting: The importance of projectile energy by Jordan O. Hampton, Peter J. Adams, David M. Forsyth, Brendan D. Cowled, Ivor G. Stuart, Tim H. Hyndman, Teresa Collins

“…We collected postmortem data via visual inspection from 482 rabbits that were killed. …”
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First Experience in Small Incision Lenticule Extraction with the Femto LDV Z8 and Lenticule Evaluation Using Scanning Electron Microscopy by Mengmeng Wang, Fengju Zhang, Christine Carole Copruz, Longhui Han

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A meta‐analysis of lesser prairie‐chicken nesting and brood‐rearing habitats: Implications for habitat management by Christian A. Hagen, Blake A. Grisham, Clint W. Boal, David A. Haukos

“…There was a general effect for habitat selection as evidenced by low levels of variation in effect sizes across studies and regions. …”
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