Collagenase injection versus limited fasciectomy surgery to treat Dupuytren’s contracture in adult patients in the UK: DISC, a non-inferiority RCT and economic evaluation by Joseph Dias, Puvan Tharmanathan, Catherine Arundel, Charlie Welch, Qi Wu, Paul Leighton, Maria Armaou, Belen Corbacho, Nick Johnson, Sophie James, John Cooke, Christopher Bainbridge, Michael Craigen, David Warwick, Samantha Brady, Lydia Flett, Judy Jones, Catherine Knowlson, Michelle Watson, Ada Keding, Catherine Hewitt, David Torgerson

“…Recovery of hand function was quicker for participants who received the injection; however, they were more likely to need further treatment (i.e. further care and/or re-intervention). …”
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Detection of water surface targets based on improved Deformable DETR by Pengjiu WANG, Junbin Gong, Wei LUO, Xiao HUANG, Junjie GUO

“…During training, the model's loss function exhibited faster and more stable convergence. …”
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Right atrial strain in atrial fibrillation: the hidden side of the moon by Eleonora Ruscio, Francesca Augusta Gabrielli, Gaetano Pinnacchio, Francesco Raffaele Spera, Francesco Raffaele Spera, Federica Giordano, Federica Giordano, Roberto Scacciavillani, Maria Lucia Narducci, Maria Lucia Narducci, Gianluigi Bencardino, Francesco Perna, Filippo Crea, Filippo Crea, Gemma Pelargonio, Gemma Pelargonio

“…However, the CHA2DS2-VASc score remained the sole independent predictor of AF recurrence (HR 1.47, 95% CI 1.003–2.158, p = 0.048).ConclusionRA function, assessed through strain imaging, was progressively impaired in more severe AF subtypes, strongly correlating with bi-atrial mechanical and electroanatomical properties. …”
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Des vestiges d’un possible aqueduc à Lyon, à l’angle des rues Appian et des Fossés-de-Trion by Tony Silvino

“…Also, the placement and function of the earthworks, such as trench F112, tend to cast doubt on the hypothesis proposed above. …”
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Large Variations in Phenylalanine Concentrations Associate Adverse Cardiac Remodelling in Adult Patients With Phenylketonuria—A Long‐Term CMR Study by Radu Tanacli, Patrick Doeblin, Alessandro Faragli, Jan‐Hendrik Hassel, Christian Stehning, Ursula Plöckinger, Athanasia Ziagaki, Sebastian Kelle

“…Compared with controls, PKU patients maintain reduced systolic function with lower LV EF and impaired GCS and have more markedly negative early diastolic HD pressures. …”
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The Effect of Comorbidities on Asthma-Related Outcomes Over a Two-Year Period: A Prospective Analysis of Swiss Severe Asthma Registry (SSAR) by Jaun F, Kanagarasa M, Boesing M, Lüthi-Corridori G, Bridevaux PO, Charbonnier F, Clarenbach CF, Gianella P, Jochmann A, Kern L, Pavlov N, Rothe T, Latshang TD, Von Garnier C, Leuppi JD

“…Further research should explore these subgroups in more detail to guide personalized treatment approaches.Keywords: severe asthma, real world evidence, asthma control, asthma-related quality of life, observational study…”
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Three-dimensional geometric morphometric studies of modern human occipital variation. by Yameng Zhang, Lynne A Schepartz

“…Larger occipital bones were associated with a more curved occipital plane, a pronounced inion, a narrower biasterionic breadth, a more flexed clivus, and a lower and relatively smaller foramen magnum.…”
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Generalized Propensity Score Matching with Multilevel Treatment Options by Onur Baser

“… # Objectives This article reviews PSM and illustrates their use when there are more than two treatment choices, which is very common in health services research…”
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A Novel Approach to Autonomous Driving Using Double Deep Q-Network-Bsed Deep Reinforcement Learning by Ahmed Khlifi, Mohamed Othmani, Monji Kherallah

“…A key algorithm, Deep Q-Network (DQN), uses neural networks to approximate the Q-value function but suffers from overestimation bias, leading to suboptimal outcomes. …”
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Arterial hypertension in chronic kidney disease: current state of the problem by T. V. Zueva, T. V. Zhdanova

“…Patients with CKD are more likely to have high-risk hypertension: latent, resistant and nocturnal hypertension. …”
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Innovative diagnostic framework for shoulder instability: a narrative review on machine learning-enhanced scapular dyskinesis assessment in sports injuries by Yahui Fu, Shuai Ma, Benxu Ma, Meng Han, Dongxue Zhao, Ziteng Li

“…This paper rigorously examines the correlation between SI and scapular kinetic irregularities, as well as the functional alterations of periscapular muscle groups, offering a thorough theoretical foundation and practical guidance for clinicians to enhance their understanding of the disease mechanism and develop a more holistic and effective treatment for patients with SI. …”
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Dietary fiber, starch, and sugars in bananas at different stages of ripeness in the retail market. by Katherine M Phillips, Ryan C McGinty, Garret Couture, Pamela R Pehrsson, Kyle McKillop, Naomi K Fukagawa

“…The goal of this work was to evaluate changes in dietary fiber measured by the traditional enzymatic-gravimetric method (AOAC 991.43) and the more recently accepted modified enzymatic-gravimetric method (AOAC 2011.25), mono- and disaccharides, and starch as a function of assessed ripeness in a controlled study of a single lot of bananas and in bananas at the same assessed stages of ripeness from bananas purchased in retail stores, from different suppliers. …”
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Selective transfer learning with adversarial training for stock movement prediction by Yang Li, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng

“…Our STLAT method advances existing solutions in two major aspects: (i) tailoring the pre-trained and fine-tuned method for stock movement prediction and (ii) introducing the data selector module to select the more relevant training samples. More specifically, we pre-train the shared base model using three different tasks. …”
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Relationships Between Internal Voltage and Power Imbalance Illustrating Characteristics and Roles in System Dynamics of Inertia-Controlled DFIG-Based Wind Turbines by Minhui Wan, Xiaoming Yuan, Jiabing Hu

“…Frequency and voltage dynamics, as the focus of power systems, depend more and more on the frequency and amplitude response characteristics of renewable energy devices subjected to power imbalance. …”
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Could Some Geriatric Characteristics Hinder the Prescription of Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly? by Paule Denoël, Jacques Vanderstraeten, Pierre Mols, Thierry Pepersack

“…In the group with anticoagulation therapy, the following characteristics were observed more often than in the group without such therapy: a recent (≤6 months) hospitalization and medical treatment including digoxin or based on >3 different drugs. …”
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A New Approach for Free Vibration Analysis of Thin-Walled Box Girder Considering Shear Lag Effect by Zuolong Luo, Haoyun Yuan, Xirong Niu

“…Secondly, a 3-order polynomial which is consistent with the experiment results was adopted as the axial-displacement interpolation function of the roof subunit, whose nodal displacements parameters were also taken as the basic. …”
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Optimal Bidding Strategies for the Participation of Aggregators in Energy Flexibility Markets by Gian Giuseppe Soma, Giuseppe Marco Tina, Stefania Conti

“…It is evident that quantitatively more significant results can be obtained when larger aggregations (more participants) are considered.…”
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Non-convex optimization with using positive-negative moment estimation and its application for skin cancer recognition with a neural network by P.A. Lyakhov, U.A. Lyakhova, R.I. Abdulkadirov

“…These approaches allow the loss function to more accurately converge in the neighborhood of the global minimum in a smaller number of iterations. …”
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Aging and Osteoarthritis: An Inevitable Encounter? by Thomas Hügle, Jeroen Geurts, Corina Nüesch, Magdalena Müller-Gerbl, Victor Valderrabano

“…Inflammation in form of cellular infiltration of synovial tissue or subchondral bone and expression of inflammatory cytokines is more and more recognized as trigger of OA. It has been demonstrated that joint movement can exhibit anti-inflammatory mechanisms. …”
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Single-cell transcriptomic construction of fibroblast score for analysis of immune infiltration in primary and metastatic ovarian cancer by Qian Guo, Hongmei Ding, Qinlin Zheng

“…The aim of this study was to explore the immune infiltration between primary and metastatic ovarian cancer and the function of fibroblast differential marker in ovarian cancer immunomodulation.MethodsObtained single-cell transcriptome datasets of primary ovarian cancer and metastatic ovarian cancer, performed cell communication analysis and enrichment analysis. …”
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