Oro-Functional Conditions in a 6-to-14-Year-Old School Children Population in Rome: An Epidemiological Study by Giuseppina Laganà, Roberta Lione, Arianna Malara, Silvia Fanelli, Francesco Fabi, Paola Cozza

“…Background: The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to assess oral and functional conditions, the prevalence of malocclusions, and oral habits in a population of schoolchildren in Rome (Italy). Methods: The study sample included n. 1033 subjects, between 6 and 14 years of age, attending public schools in Rome. …”
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Robustness of analysis of covariance (ancova) under the distributions assumptions and variance homogeneity by Can Ateş, Özlem Kaymaz, Mustafa Agah Tekindal, Beyza Doğanay Erdoğan

“…However, unusual distributions in practice are more common than normal distribution. In this study, it is aimed to examine ANCOVA method or type 1 error rates under different distribution conditions and homogeneity of variances.…”
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Design, analysis, and reporting of pilot and feasibility trials in anesthesiology: a methodological study by Tariq Atkin-Jones, Mohamed Ali, Akudo C. J. Eze-Onuorah, Ezinne Ifeanacho, Azin Khosravirad, Kim Madden, Behnam Sadeghirad, Lawrence Mbuagbaw

“…Conclusions More recently published pilot RCTs were significantly associated with having a primary feasibility outcome and determining sample size based on feasibility, while pharmacological studies were significantly associated with less reporting of primary feasibility outcomes. …”
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Sortion of Cytokines and Immunoglobulins in vitro with a New Carbon Hemosorbent: a Poster Study by V. A. Likholobov, T. I. Dolgikh, V. V. Moroz, L. G. Pyanova, V. T. Dolgikh, B. A. Reis, L. S. Luzyanina, F. I. Razgonov, T. F. Sokolova, A. V. Glushchenko, A. V. Veselovskaya

“…Objective: to study the specific features of sorption of some protein molecules (cytokines, immunoglobulins) in vitro, by using the carbon hemosorbent designed at the Institute of Hydrocarbon Process Problems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.Materials and methods. 42 plasma samples from 14 patients with peritonitis were examined before and after hemosorption. …”
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The Effect of Underwriting Diversification on Investment Risk of Insurance Companies by Arash Goodarzi, Reza Tehrani, Ali Souri

“…The findings showed that consistent with coordinated risk management hypothesis, insurance companies that have a more diversified insurance portfolio take more asset risk than those with a less diversified insurance portfolio. …”
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Abstract 055: Reperfusion Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Cardiomyopathy Patients with Heart Failure: A NIS‐based Analysis by Serena Wong, Bridget Dolan, Fawaz Al‐Mutfi, Brittany Russo, Chaitanya Medicherla, Kevin Clare, Aiden Liu

“…CM‐HF patients were more likely to have a severe stroke (25.9% v. 19.6%, p < 0.001). …”
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A Map of the Outer Gas Disk of the Galaxy with Direct Distances from Young Stars by Peter Craig, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Alexander R. Pettitt, Robyn Sanderson, Erik Rosolowsky

“…We employ the distances of nearby young stars, which trace the gas from which they formed, in longitude–latitude–velocity space to map this gas without using kinematic distances. We denote this new method “pattern matching.” Analysis of simulated spiral galaxies indicates that our pattern matching distances are 24% more accurate than kinematic distances for gas within 15 kpc of the Sun. …”
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A New Perspective on Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Urinary Metabolomic Analysis and Efficient Risk Assessment of Urolithiasis: Morning Urine Organic Acid Profiles by Jiangtao Yang, Dongfang Zhang, Yan Lu, Haixing Mai, Song Wu, Qin Yang, Hanxiong Zheng, Ruqin Yu, Hongmin Luo, Panpan Jiang, Liping Wu, Caili Zhong, Chenqing Zheng, Yanling Yang, Jiaxiang Cui, Qifang Lei, Zhaohui He

“…Methods: Morning urine samples were collected from 117 healthy controls and 156 urolithiasis patients. …”
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Robustness evaluation of commercial liveness detection platform by Pengcheng WANG, Haibin ZHENG, Jianfei ZOU, Ling PANG, Hu LI, Jinyin CHEN

“…Liveness detection technology has become an important application in daily life, and it is used in scenarios including mobile phone face unlock, face payment, and remote authentication.However, if attackers use fake video generation technology to generate realistic face-swapping videos to attack the living body detection system in the above scenarios, it will pose a huge threat to the security of these scenarios.Aiming at this problem, four state-of-the-art Deepfake technologies were used to generate a large number of face-changing pictures and videos as test samples, and use these samples to test the online API interfaces of commercial live detection platforms such as Baidu and Tencent.The test results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images is generally very low by the major commercial live detection platforms currently used, and they are more sensitive to the quality of images, and the false detection rate of real images is also high.The main reason for the analysis may be that these platforms were mainly designed for traditional living detection attack methods such as printing photo attacks, screen remake attacks, and silicone mask attacks, and did not integrate advanced face-changing detection technology into their liveness detection.In the algorithm, these platforms cannot effectively deal with Deepfake attacks.Therefore, an integrated live detection method Integranet was proposed, which was obtained by integrating four detection algorithms for different image features.It could effectively detect traditional attack methods such as printed photos and screen remakes.It could also effectively detect against advanced Deepfake attacks.The detection effect of Integranet was verified on the test data set.The results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images by proposed Integranet detection method is at least 35% higher than that of major commercial live detection platforms.…”
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Hybrid deep learning for IoT-based health monitoring with physiological event extraction by Sivanagaraju Vallabhuni, Kumar Debasis

“…However, the present-day models have failed to effectively encompass spatial-temporal data samples. Methods This paper presents a novel hybrid machine-learning model by amalgamating Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Long Short-Term Memory models (LSTMs) to boost prediction accuracy. …”
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Domain-Invariant Few-Shot Contrastive Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Wenchen Chen, Yanmei Zhang, Jianping Chu, Xingbo Wang

“…In Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification, acquiring large quantities of high-quality labeled samples is typically costly and impractical. Traditional deep learning methods are limited in such scenarios due to their dependence on sample quantities. …”
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Immunocorrective and Antiviral Activity of Polysaccharide from Marine Bacteria Against Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus by N. V. Krylova, T. P. Smolina, M. V. Berlizova, G. N. Leonova

“…It was found that EPS is non-toxic, inhibits the TBEV replication in PK cells and mononuclear cells, significantly reduces the number of virus-infected cells and levels of viral RNA, exhibits pronounced virucidal effects (selectivity index of polysaccharide is more than 40). EPS treatment of TBEV-infected whole blood samples restored the virus-induced decline of CD69, HLA-DR and CD107a expression levels on the surface of monocytes, NK and CD8+T-cells and the pro-inflammatory cytokine production (IL-1/3, IFN-a, TNF- a, IFN-y, IL-6) by immunocompetent cells. …”
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Analyzing the efficacy of conservative versus surgical treatment of chronic mixed blepharitis via laser Doppler flowmetry and interferometry by Tatyana N. Safonova, Natalya P. Kintyukhina

“…Objective — To analyze and compare the efficacy of conservative vs. surgical treatment of chronic mixed blepharitis via laser Doppler flowmetry and interferometry. Materials and methods — We enrolled 42 patients (the sample of 84 eyes) with chronic mixed blepharitis in the study. …”
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Statistical Estimation of Blast Fragmentation by Applying 3D Laser Scanning to Muck Pile by Qiang Liu, Fuqiang Shi, Xuguang Wang, Mingsheng Zhao

“…Monte Carlo simulation was utilized as the statistical estimation method for the BFMP. In the lab experiment, results from 2D image processing technique and from 3D laser scanning technique combined with statistical estimate were compared with the physical measurements utilizing a water tank, which show that results with 3D laser scanning are more similar to the physical measurement. …”
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Robust Semisupervised Nonnegative Local Coordinate Factorization for Data Representation by Wei Jiang, Qian Lv, Chenggang Yan, Kewei Tang, Jie Zhang

“…Several experiments conducted in this study on face and gene datasets clearly indicate that the proposed method is more effective and robust compared to the state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Influence of Coarse Material on the Yield Strength and Viscosity of Debris Flows by Nate Soule, Paul Santi

“…The purpose of this study is to develop a practical and consistent method of determining the influence that coarse particles, up to 25.4 mm, have on the viscosity and yield strength of debris flows, using more accessible testing methods. …”
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Comparison efficacy and safety of acupuncture and moxibustion therapies in breast cancer-related lymphedema: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. by Yawen Xu, Jiangxuan Yu, Rui Shen, Xueqi Shan, Wenlu Zhou, Junjie Wang

“…It may reduce arm circumference, lower swelling levels, and improve clinical effectiveness. Nevertheless, more multi-center, high-quality, and large sample RCTs will be needed in the future.…”
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Prediction of Temperature Distribution on an Aircraft Hot-Air Anti-Icing Surface by ROM and Neural Networks by Ziying Chu, Ji Geng, Qian Yang, Xian Yi, Wei Dong

“…Furthermore, the proposed model demonstrates a prediction time of no more than 5.5 ms for individual temperature samples. …”
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Digital nationalism: analyzing the role of sports in Thai identity through social media by Sid Terason, Boonyada Pahasing

“…Employing qualitative methods, including thematic analysis, we examined over 500 social media posts, comments and interactions purposively sampled from Facebook, X and Instagram during major sports events such as the Olympics, Asian Games and Southeast Asian Games. …”
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Effect of chemical treatment of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on the specific capacitance of supercapacitors by Valeriy V. Golovakhin, Ekaterina Yu. Kim, Oksana N. Novgorodtseva, Alexander G. Bannov

“…To date, the research on carbon nanomaterials has progressed rapidly. More than 400 papers were written in 2021 on the application of carbon nanomaterials in various fields. …”
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