The influence of UV-visible light, microwave radiation, argon laser, and heating and aging processes on silicone oil utilized as intravitreal implants: Experimental exposure with c... by Rami Al-Dwairi, Ahmad A Ahmad, Abdelwahab Aleshawi, Qais M Al-Bataineh, Areen Bani-Salameh, Ihsan A Aljarrah, Seren Al Beiruti, Abdulrawof Alhabachi

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Unused pharmaceutical ophthalmic SO samples and four explanted SO samples from previously vitrectomized patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment were analyzed. …”
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Prevalence of Blastocystis hominis in Patients with Type II Diabetes Mellitus in Kirkuk City, Iraq by Abeer Omer Ahmed, Abeer Abbas Ali, Hayder Jaleel Mardan

“…About residence, 16 were rural residences in the TIIDM group and 23 urban samples in the control group. About autoimmune, 14 samples of diabetic patients infected with another autoimmune disease and 20 samples were not infected in the control group. …”
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Botulinum Toxin Type A for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Comprehensive Literature Review by Yan Tereshko, Simone Dal Bello, Christian Lettieri, Enrico Belgrado, Gian Luigi Gigli, Giovanni Merlino, Mariarosaria Valente

“…Indeed, more studies with standardized methods and larger samples are needed for this purpose.…”
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Culture and molecular analysis of Enterococcus faecalis and antimicrobial susceptibility of clinical isolates from patients with failure endodontic treatment by Marcos Sergio Endo, Fernanda Graziela Corrêa Signoretti, Vivian Sayuri Kitayama, Ariane Cássia Salustiano Marinho, Frederico Canato Martinho, Brenda Paula Figueiredo de Almeida Gomes

“…Culture methods and 16s rDNA assay were used to identify the E faecails present in the samples. …”
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Genetic mutations associated with rifampicin and isoniazid resistance in tuberculosis patients in Bhubaneswar, India by Dr Sidhartha Giri, Mr Sunil Swick Rout, Mr Satyanarayan Singh, Mr Prakasha Kumar Nayak, Mr Sudarshan Biswal, Mrs Kumari Shweta, Dr Sanghamitra Pati

“…Discussion: Our study involving more than 400 M.tb positive samples found HrTB in 5.3% samples and MDR TB in 1.7% samples using LPA. …”
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Community and hospital-based healthcare professionals perceptions of digital advance care planning for palliative and end-of-life care: a latent class analysis by Jacqueline Birtwistle, Gabriella Williamson, Samuel D Relton, Andy Bradshaw, Katherine E Sleeman, Maureen Twiddy, Pablo Millares-Martin, Suzanne Richards, Matthew J Allsop

“…Objective This study addresses this gap aiming to examine community and hospital-based healthcare professionals’ perceptions of Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems on advance care planning and the delivery of palliative care. Design and methods A cross-sectional online survey. Setting and participants The target sample comprised health professionals from the main professional groups supporting patients with chronic progressive illnesses in West Yorkshire and London. …”
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Enhancing Evolution of Neural Network Assisted Compact Model Through Continual Learning by Shuhan Wang, Zheng Zhou, Guihai Yu, Zili Tang, Jinghan Xu, Xiaoyan Liu, Xing Zhang

“…Continuously generated samples expanded in range and dimension are used to estimate CL approaches, with more physical effects to accommodate. …”
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Poverty Dynamics and the Fundamental Root Causes in Iran by Zahra Azari, Parviz Mohamadzadeh, Davoud Behboudi

“…Since the purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting poverty in Iran from the point of view of experts on Iran's economic, social and political issues, the samples were selected and interviewed using theoretical sampling under the snowball method. …”
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Comparative evaluation of funduscopy, PCR and serology in the diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis at ECWA Eye Hospital, Kano by Biodun Bintu Adebakin, Mayor Orezime Atima, Ugbede Idakwo, Jamilu Abubakar Bala, Alhasan Sharif Abdullahi, Auwal Bello Muhammad, Jah Douglas Pam, Emeka John Dingwoke, Florence Olufunke Darda, Bilkisu Ahmed, Isah Abubakar Aliyu, Lawal Dahiru Rogo, Halliru Hassan Abdullahi, Abdulhadi Sale Kumurya

“…Additionally, PCR was used to confirm the presence of T. gondii DNA in blood samples. The results from these methods were compared with assess their sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic value.Results Funduscopy detected T. gondii in 25.4% (67/264) of the patients, while ELISA showed a higher detection rate of 36.7% (97/264). …”
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An Integrated Algorithm with Feature Selection, Data Augmentation, and XGBoost for Ovarian Cancer by Jingxun Cai, Zne-Jung Lee, Zhihxian Lin, Chih-Hung Hsu, Yun Lin

“…Following dimensionality reduction, AC-GAN enriches the data, producing more realistic genetic samples to enhance the model’s generalization capacity. …”
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Zircon luminescence dating revisited by C. Schmidt, T. Halter, P. R. Hanson, A. Ulianov, B. Putlitz, G. E. King, S. Kreutzer

“…The essential advantage of zircons over other minerals is the time-invariant and high internal dose rate due to high radionuclide contents, dominating over the external contribution, which is more challenging to assess. Reported drawbacks are low zircon abundance, laborious sample preparation, signal instabilities, unknown optical signal resetting rates, and low signal intensities. …”
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Identification of potential biomarkers and mechanisms for keloid disorder based on comprehensive bioinformatics analysis and machine learning algorithms by Bowen Zheng, Jianxiong Qiao, Xiaoping Yu, Hanghang Zhou, Anqi Wang, Xuanfen Zhang

“…This study sought to identify biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets for KD through an integrative bioinformatics approach and machine learning analysis of RNA sequencing data. Methods RNA sequencing was performed on skin tissue samples from 13 patients with KD and 14 healthy controls. …”
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Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality Teamwork Training on Safety Behaviors During Surgical Cases: Nonrandomized Intervention Versus Controlled Pilot Study by Lukasz Mazur, Logan Butler, Cody Mitchell, Shaian Lashani, Shawna Buchanan, Christi Fenison, Karthik Adapa, Xianming Tan, Selina An, Jin Ra

“…Further research with larger, more diverse sample sizes is needed to confirm the generalizability of these findings.…”
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Perception of Interventional Radiology among Jazan Medical Students: Assessment of Knowledge and Career Intentions by Salha Al Bahkali, Ali Al Harbi, Fatimah Kamili, Ibrahim Al Rashidi

“…Statistical Analysis We calculated the size of the sample using the Raosoft Sample Size Calculator Web site. …”
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Overdiagnosis of dental caries in South Korea: a pseudo-patient study by Ji-Young Son, Yuyi Park, Ji-Yeon Park, Min-Ji Kim, Dong-Hun Han

“…Dentists diagnosed five or more dental caries in 20.9% (41/196) of the sample. 196 dental clinics diagnosed a total of 503 dental caries. …”
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Cartridge-based nucleic amplification (CBNAAT)/GeneXpert test as a diagnostic modality for the detection of genital tuberculosis in women with infertility by Shaozae, Chavini K., Rai, Yogita, Jaiswal, Nishtha, Jais, Manoj B.

“…GeneXpert, being much faster and more feasible than conventional methods such as culture, could be incorporated into the standard evaluation of GTB.…”
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Use of Resting Metabolic Rate Ratio as a Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports Indicator in Female Athletes by Jessica L Garay, Julia Galindo Sebe, Jenna Strickland, Lindsey Graves, Margaret A Voss

“…Low RMR ratio appeared to be a more sensitive indicator of REDs risk than low EA.…”
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Prevalence of carotid artery calcification in the 25-64-year population in a large city of the Siberian Federal District by V. S. Kaveshnikov, I. A. Trubacheva, M. A. Kuzmichkina, A. V. Kaveshnikov

“…To study the detection rate of carotid calcified plaques in the general population of a large city of the Siberian Federal District.Material and methods. The data of 1412 people from a representative population sample aged 25-64 years in Tomsk (n=1600) were studied, who underwent an examination according to the ESSE-RF study protocol and an assessment of plaque structure by ultrasound. …”
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Comparing the root canal filling removal efficiency of XP-endo retreatment system with hand Files, R-endo, reciproc and protaper universal retreatment systems in curved root canals... by Eren Orhan, Kaan Orhan, Mert Ocak, Betul Gunes

“…PTUR, XPER, and HF removed the root canal filling more efficiently than Rec25, and RE. It was concluded that the XP-Endo group was the fastest retreatment system among the tested groups.…”
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Strategies of coping with anger as a state and a trait among female students by B. M. Bany Yassien, M. A. Melhem, M. M. T. Albadarneh, M. A. Rababah

“…This study aims to examine coping strategies with anger as a state and trait in light of “Social status” and “Achievement level” variables.Methodology and research methods. A quantitative method was employed to analyse the data. …”
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