Dental Fear and Dental Health and Attendance among Finnish Male Prisoners by Raija Vainionpää, Paula Pesonen, Marja-Liisa Laitala, Vesa Pohjola, Vuokko Anttonen

“…Objectives: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of dental fear and the associations between dental fear and dental health and dental attendance among Finnish prisoners. Material and Methods: Eighty-nine voluntary male prisoners from the Pelso Prison participated in this cross-sectional clinical study between September 2014 and February 2015. …”
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Correlation of Severity of Neuropathic Pain in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Patients with Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Including Depression and Quality of Life: A... by Arun Yadav, Mrinal Joshi, Shivangi Yadav

“…Objectives: To find out the correlation of severity of neuropathic pain (NP) following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) with sociodemographic, clinical parameters, severity of depression and quality of life (QOL). Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 77 SCI patients treated at our tertiary care hospital. …”
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Transformer enabled multi-modal medical diagnosis for tuberculosis classification by Sachin Kumar, Shivani Sharma, Kassahun Tadesse Megra

“…Another advantage of this approach is that it is faster to analyze heterogeneous multimodal medical data in comparison to existing methods used in the study, which is very important if we do not have powerful machines for computation.…”
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Reliability of a Filipino Dry Eye Screening Questionnaire by Frances Marie DC. Roa-Lingad, MD, Ruben Lim Bon Siong, MD

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Postgraduate’s Dermatology E-logbook – Perceptions of Faculty and Residents: A Survey by Shankar Bharathi Ashwini, Garehatty Rudrappa Kanthraj, Shastry Veeranna, Basavana Gowdappa Hatthur

“…Aims: A survey was performed to obtain the views/perceptions/suggestions of students and faculty for E-logbook in dermatology. Methods: We used a questionnaire for students and faculty of the dermatology department at a tertiary care hospital. …”
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Enhancing Educational Practices for Gifted Students in Undergraduate Interior Design Programs by Samah Alhazmi, Reem Alsabban

“…Educator surveys highlight creativity, problem-solving skills, and high motivation as critical indicators, while student surveys reveal deficiencies in existing evaluation methods. These shortcomings suggest that current practices may not adequately capture the true capabilities of gifted learners. …”
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Results of early panretinal laser coagulation in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus by Dmitriy Sergeevich Atarshchikov, Vladimir Yur'evich Evgrafov, Yury Evgen'evich Batmanov

“…To evaluate results of panretinal laser coagulation (PLC) for severe non-proliferative and early proliferetaive diabetic retinopathy (DR) in patientswith type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1). Materials and methods. 58 patients with DM1 were observed. All of them were treated by panretinal laser coagulation after subtenon administrationof triamcinolone (40 mg) under ultrasonic control. …”
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Analysis of the half-life ‘ageing-constant’ theory for galvanic anodes: Analysing the model’s predictive power for CPT anodes by Stone Christian, Carr Warren, Roberts Adrian

“…This is a radical change from the responsive behaviour model of corrosion management typically applied to galvanic anodes where the effect of the anodes was more typically tested using methods such as visual inspection, steel potentials and steel corrosion rates. …”
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Research trends in digital marketing and data-driven marketing: A bibliometric analysis by Tuğçe Acar Kara, Ferhat Orman

“…The fundamental principles of bibliometrics and scientometric management constitute the methodological framework of the paper. Among the research methods applied are statistical and scientometric analyses. …”
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Catastrophization is related to the patient and not to the severity of migraine by Eduardo Almeida Guimarães Nogueira, Flavia Rodrigues de Oliveira, Vitor Martinez de Carvalho, Carina Telarolli, Yara Dadalti Fragoso

“…Objective: To investigate the feature of catastrophization in migraine. Methods: An online survey of individuals suffering from migraine attacks at least twice a month, for at least one year was carried out. …”
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CO2 adsorption on microporous metal–organic frameworks unravelled by high-resolution X-ray computed tomography by Diponker Karmoker, Jorge Martinez-Garcia, Damian Gwerder, Benjamin Fumey, Andreas Borgschulte, Philipp Schuetz

“…Strong policies and novel, cost-effective CO2 control methods have been developed to mitigate these issues over the last years. …”
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Counting the Cost of Diabetes in the Solomon Islands and Nauru. by Si Thu Win Tin, George Iro, Eva Gadabu, Ruth Colagiuri

“…<h4>Aim</h4>To determine the costs associated with diabetes to governments, people with diabetes and their carers, and its impact on quality of life in two Pacific Island countries--the Solomon Islands and Nauru.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>This cross-sectional cost of illness study was conducted on 330 people with type 2 diabetes (197 from the Solomon Islands and 133 from Nauru) using a structured cost of illness survey questionnaire adapted from the Australian DiabCo$t study. …”
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AgriFusionNet: A Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Multisource Plant Disease Diagnosis by Saleh Albahli

“…Extensive comparisons with both traditional machine learning and advanced deep learning methods underscore its robustness, generalization, and suitability for deployment on edge devices. …”
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Correlation between sulcus measurement for phakic posterior chamber implantable collamer lens by ultrasound biomicroscopy and white-to-white measurement by intraocular lens Master... by Sahar M.N. Abdelhakim, Rafek M.F. El Ghazzawy, Azza M. Ahmed, Ali M.A. Elsawy, Ahmed A.A. Ebeid

“…Objectives Assessment of the correlation between sulcus measurement for phakic posterior chamber ICL by ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) and WTW measurement by IOL Master and Caliper. Patients and methods This cross-sectional study included 30 patients with high myopia not eligible for Lasik and was prepared for ICL lens implantation at the Ophthalmology Department, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. …”
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Technogenic transformation of steppe soils of the European part of Russia under conditions of hydrocarbon pollution by S. A. Sidorenko

“…As well as the establishment of a set of factors and confirmation of their influence on the stability of landscapes in conditions of soil degradation and further formation of geochemical barriers formed by pollutants. The materials and methods of research are the literature of leading Russian specialists studying this issue, as well as regulatory and legal documentation: GOST standards, SanPiNs, Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. …”
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Neural networks for the analysis of traced particles in kinetic plasma simulations by G. Torralba Paz, A. Bohdan, J. Niemiec

“…Despite the noisy and imbalanced dataset, all methods demonstrate the capability to differentiate between thermal and accelerated electrons with remarkable accuracy. …”
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A Systematic Review of CNN Architectures, Databases, Performance Metrics, and Applications in Face Recognition by Andisani Nemavhola, Colin Chibaya, Serestina Viriri

“…The analysis highlights the growing importance of multi-task learning and ensemble methods, as seen in Multi-Task Cascaded Convolutional Networks (MTCNNs). …”
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Color Vision Deficiency Prevalence among NEET-UG Aspirants: A Medical Examination Analysis in Meerut by Kirti Singh, Priyanka Gussain, Ayesha Qamar, Alka Gupta

“…Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of color vision defects in NEET-UG medical aspirants at our medical college, Meerut, and to raise awareness about this condition. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional analysis was conducted from July 15 to August 15, 2023, on 2000 students (1124 males, 876 females). …”
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Exploring how Japanese pharmacists provide reasonable accommodations for persons with intellectual disabilities by Masaki Shoji, Rintaro Imafuku, Mei Mizomoto, Mitsuko Onda

“…This study aims to qualitatively investigate how pharmacists provide reasonable accommodations when communicating with people with ID. Methods Between October 2023 and March 2024, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 hospital or community pharmacists. …”
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TBRAFusion: Infrared and visible image fusion based on two-branch residual attention Transformer by Wangwei Zhang, Hao Sun, Bin Zhou

“…However, the existing methods continue to face challenges in managing the integration of global and local information, as well as enhancing the extraction of detailed image features, thus ultimately leading to constrained fusion outcomes. …”
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