Clinical and paraclinical differences between pediatric patients requiring surgical versus Non-Surgical treatment for intussusception: A retrospective study at a referral center in... by Zinat Soleimanpour, Sara Memarian, Mohammad Mehdi Rajabi, Zahra Zamani, Hosein Alimadadi, Behdad Gharib

“…Statistical analyses were performed using independent t-tests, chi-square tests, and Fisher’s exact tests, with significance set at P < 0.05. …”
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Utilization of partograph and associated factors among obstetric caregivers in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mulat Ayele, Eyob Shitie Lake, Gizachew Yilak, Getinet Kumie, Biruk Beletew Abate, Alemu Birara Zemariam, Befkad Derese Tilahun

“…IntroductionEffective use of the partograph is crucial in identifying abnormal labor (prolonged and obstructed labor) and taking appropriate actions. However, in Ethiopia, the prevalence of obstructed labor is much higher at 11.8% and contributes to 14.4% of the total maternal deaths due to underutilization of the partograph by obstetric caregivers. …”
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Photographic assessment of hyperdivergent class II patients by Liliane Rosas Gomes, Karla Horta, Luiz Gonzaga Gandini Júnior, Marcelo Gonçalves, João Roberto Gonçalves

“… Temporomandibular disorders, sleep disturbances by airway obstruction and craniocervical posture changes constitute some of the problems that have been related to hyperdivergent class II patients. …”
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Enhanced Mobility Aid for the Visually Impaired by Shahzor Memon, Mirza Muhammad Aamir, Sadiq Ur Rehman, Halar Mustafa, Muhammad Shakir Sheikh

“…Our technology can identify obstructions within around 2 meters of the user. …”
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Case Report: Clinical and histopathological findings of porcelain gallbladder in a dog by Tae-Young Kim, Tae-Young Kim, Ye-In Oh

“…However, chronic cholecystitis and factors such as biliary hyperplasia, mucin hypersecretion, and cystic duct obstruction can lead to fibrosis and calcification of the gallbladder wall, potentially resulting in PGB. …”
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Autonomous Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for Orchard Spraying Robots: A Sensor-Fusion Approach with ArduPilot, ROS, and EKF by Xinjie Zhu, Xiaoshun Zhao, Jingyan Liu, Weijun Feng, Xiaofei Fan

“…The system tackles orchard navigation hurdles, including global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal obstruction, light detection and ranging (LIDAR) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) error accumulation, and lighting-limited visual positioning. …”
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Assessment of non-tumor liver parenchyma damage in advanced gastric cancer treatment with transarterial infusion chemotherapy: a study using imaging and hepatic injury indicators by Yifan Jing, Jian Jing, Xiaokang Sun, Yong Jin, Xuming Bai

“…Statistical analysis included Wilcoxon rank-sum test and paired t-test for pre- and post-treatment comparisons.ResultsPatients received an average of 2.80 TAI cycles over 8.3 weeks. …”
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Analysis of Predictor Factors and Comorbidities About Lower-Extremity Repetitive Amputation in Diabetic Foot Ulcer and Infection: A Retrospective Study by Yeokgu Hwang MD, PhD

“…Re-amputation free survival of diabetic foot ulcer Kaplan-Meier curves for reamputation-free survival of diabetes patients with diabetic foot ulcers over 3 year, depending on enterococal infection (log-rank test p= 0.03).…”
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Effect of Nursing Interventions on Feeding Difficulties of Children with Cerebral Palsy by Areeg A. Wafeek, Sabah S. El-Sharkawy, Iman I. Abd El-Moniem, Madiha A. Morsy

“…Children with CP frequently have feeding problems, growth disorders, feeding complications, communication disorders, mental obstruction, seizure disorders, auditory problems, and visual deficiency, which may significantly impact their health. …”
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A comprehensive experimental study on the mechanisms of waterflood inefficiency in a Morrowan sandstone reservoir by A. Morgan, W. Ampomah, R. Grigg, R. Czarnota, S. Wang

“…Through core-flood experiments, fluid–fluid surface charge tests, and rock-fluid surface chemistry analysis, the causative mechanisms are unraveled. …”
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A green and reusable floatable bead-like core-shell photocatalyst with spinel ferrite core and shell consisting of graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet, enhanced by non-noble metal c... by Asma Jami-al-Ahmadi, Mahmood Hajiani, Mohammad Hossein Sayadi

“…Stability and reusability tests conducted over five cycles showed a slight decrease in efficiency, from 97.41 % to 80.32 %. …”
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Entrepreneurial values and circular economy adoption: A cross-lagged SEM-based machine learning study by Tahseen Anwer Arshi, Joseph Wallis

“…However, an adequate investigation is yet to occur on self-advancing values that can obstruct CE adoption and practice in an entrepreneurial context. …”
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Long-term follow-up of pulmonary function in Fabry disease: A bi-center observational study. by Daniel P Franzen, Albina Nowak, Sarah R Haile, Dominique Mottet, Marco Bonani, Olivier Dormond, Malcolm Kohler, Pierre A Krayenbuehl, Frederic Barbey

“…The overall prevalence of bronchial obstruction (BO, (FEV1/FVC < 70%)) was 46%, with male sex, age and smoking as significant predictors. …”
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Successful treatment of adult cecorectal intussusception caused by cecum cancer with mobile cecum: a case report by Hayato Shimoyama, Kimihiko Ueno, Masahiro Samizo

“…Physical examination, laboratory tests, and imaging inspections showed strangulated bowel obstruction induced by intussusception associated with the intra-rectal mass. …”
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Tuberculosis of the urinary tract and male genitalia — a diagnostic challenge for the family practitioner by Amir D. Zarrabi, Chris F. Heyns

“…Patients should be followed up closely with monthly imaging because upper tract obstruction may develop due to fibrosis while on therapy. …”
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Retrosternal Goiter with Acromegaly – An Airway Challenge by Mukti Deshpande, Pallavi Waghalkar, Jhanvi Furia, RD Patel, Alhad Mulkalwar, Vikram Kate

“…A pre-extubation check scope was done, and it showed mobile bilateral vocal cords. A cuff leak test was performed, and the result was negative. …”
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A Fish-Counting Method Using Fusion of Spatial Sensing and Temporal Information by Zhaozhi Wu, Xinze Zheng, Yi Zhu, Longhao Wu, Congcong Li, Qiang Tu, Fei Yuan

“…Subsequently, temporal information is extracted from echo signals using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network model, preventing missed detections caused by obstructions in single fish echoes during echo sessions. …”
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Somatostatinoma Presented as Double-Duct Sign by Ali Zakaria, Nour Hammad, Cynthia Vakhariya, Michael Raphael

“…Herein, we present a 43-year old male patient who was referred by his primary care physician to our gastroenterology clinic due to elevated liver function test and double-duct sign on CT scan. We performed an ERCP, which revealed 2 cm ampullary lesion with upstream obstruction. …”
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Endoscopy- and Monitored Anesthesia Care-Assisted High-Resolution Impedance Manometry Improves Clinical Management by Kaci E. Christian, John D. Morris, Guofeng Xie

“…High-resolution impedance manometry (HRiM) is the test of choice to diagnose esophageal motility disorders and is particularly useful for identifying achalasia subtypes, which often guide therapy. …”
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DSC-Net: Enhancing Blind Road Semantic Segmentation with Visual Sensor Using a Dual-Branch Swin-CNN Architecture by Ying Yuan, Yu Du, Yan Ma, Hejun Lv

“…The hybrid attention module (HAM), embedded within the Inverted Residual Module (IRM), sharpens the detection of blind road boundaries, while the IRM improves the speed of network processing. In tests on a specialized dataset designed for blind road semantic segmentation in real-world scenarios, our method achieved an impressive mIoU of 97.72%. …”
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