Prevalence of vision impairment among patients with diabetes mellitus in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Altaseb Beyene Kassaw, Addis Alem Hadigu, Melese Shenkut Abebe, Amare Abera Tareke, Wondwossen Debebe, Gosa Mankelkl, Natnael Kebede, Alemu Gedefie

“…It can be concluded that diabetes mellitus patients should be managed properly to prevent visual impairment. Early detection of visual impairment through screening and regular follow-up is recommended to reduce as well as control the burden of visual impairment and its impact on the diabetic population.…”
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Efficacy of pillar implants to reduce snoring and daytime sleepiness by Laith Khasawneh, Haitham Odat, Basheer Y Khassawneh, Khalid A Kheirallah, Adi H Khassawneh, Ahmad Al Omari, Maisa Smadi, Firas Alzoubi, Safwan Alomari, Abdel-Hameed Al-Mistarehi

“…Objective: To measure the efficacy of pillar implants in reducing snoring. Materials and methods: A total of 30 adult patients who underwent pillar implants were assessed preoperatively and at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after the implantation. …”
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Biological Nanocarriers in Cancer Therapy: Cutting Edge Innovations in Precision Drug Delivery by Ramesh Ganpisetti, Sanjay Giridharan, G. S. Sainaga Jyothi Vaskuri, Nikesh Narang, Pratap Basim, Mehmet Remzi Dokmeci, Menekse Ermis, Satish Rojekar, Amol D. Gholap, Nagavendra Kommineni

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Exploiting antipredator behavior in white‐tailed deer for resource protection by Bradley F. Blackwell, Thomas W. Seamans, Laura A. Tyson, Jerrold L. Belant, Kurt C. VerCauteren

“…Visual barriers offset at most by 7.6 m from a food resource (e.g., crops), or located randomly within target areas frequented by deer can offer temporary and easily manipulated means of diminishing deer use of resources on unfenced General Aviation airports or depredation of agricultural crops, and ready integration with other management methods. …”
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Was health skepticism accounted for in communication about the COVID-19 vaccine? A content analysis of federally-sponsored public service announcements about the vaccine to protect... by Margaret E. Tait, Erika Franklin Fowler, Sarah E. Gollust

“…Objective: To examine the content of public service announcements (PSAs) sponsored by the United States federal government to promote the COVID-19 vaccine and reveal if PSAs included content that countered health skepticism. Methods: A content analysis of televised PSAs airing from December 15th, 2020 through June 30th, 2021 in the U.S. was performed. …”
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Exploring aptamers for targeted enrichment of X sperm in bovine: unraveling selective potential by Sumit Kumar Singh, Rohit Kumar, Manya Mathur, Himanshu Kamboj, Jai Kumar Kaushik, Ashok Kumar Mohanty, Sudarshan Kumar

“…Nucleic acid aptamers have been used in the past for the development of diagnostic methods against a number of targets such as bacteria, pesticides, cancer cells etc. …”
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Competitive Advantage in the World of Wine—An Analysis of Differentiation Strategies Developed by Sectoral Brands in the Global Market by Daniel Marian Micu, Georgiana Armenița Arghiroiu, Ștefan Micu, Silviu Beciu

“…A sectoral brand is defined as having a distinctive brand name accompanied by a visual identity, with or without a slogan. Through an analysis of thirty-three sectoral brands developed by wine-producing countries, seven clusters of differentiation strategies and three clusters of differentiation attributes were identified, using quantitative and qualitative methods. …”
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Assessment of depression in patients with open-angle glaucoma by Cvetković Aleksandra, Srećković Sunčica, Paunović Svetlana

“…The aim of the study was to determine the influence of glaucomatous damage on the frequency of occurrence of depression, as well as to determine the risk factors for the onset of depression in patients with open-angle glaucoma (OAG). Methods. The study was designed as a clinical, observational study (cross-sectional study). …”
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Multiscale fusion enhanced spiking neural network for invasive BCI neural signal decoding by Yu Song, Yu Song, Liyuan Han, Tielin Zhang, Bo Xu, Bo Xu

“…In two benchmark invasive BCI paradigms, including the single-hand grasp-and-touch and center-and-out reach tasks, the MFSNN surpasses traditional artificial neural network methods, such as MLP and GRU, in both accuracy and computational efficiency. …”
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Dual-Branch Seasonal Error Elimination Change Detection Framework Using Target Image Feature Fusion Generator by Hongming Zhu, Jipeng Zhang, Zeju Wang, Xinyu Liu, Qin Liu, Bowen Du

“…Many existing change detection methods do not specifically address the performance degradation caused by seasonal errors. …”
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Planning in Complex Dynamic Environments Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Jiandong Liu, Wei Luo, Guoqing Zhang, Ruihao Li

“…Initially, the capability to discern obstacles from visual data is achieved through the application of the Yolov8-StrongSort technique. …”
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Indirect intrusions about World War Two in survivor offspring: a qualitative thematic content analysis by Patricia Dashorst, Trudy Mooren, Wencke Donath, Anne Blonk, Rolf Kleber, Peter de Jong, Rafaele Huntjens

“…Therefore, this study used a qualitative approach to examine the core themes of indirect intrusions reported by survivor offspring.Methods: Participants (N = 41) were post-war-born offspring of WWII survivors. …”
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Blindfolded Balance Training in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Sensory-Motor Strategy to Improve the Gait by M. Tramontano, S. Bonnì, A. Martino Cinnera, F. Marchetti, C. Caltagirone, G. Koch, A. Peppe

“…We aimed to investigate the efficacy of a blindfolded balance training (BBT) in the improvement of stride phase percentage reliable gait parameters in patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) compared to patients treated with standard physical therapy (PT). Methods. Thirty PD patients were randomized in two groups of 15 patients, one group treated with BBT during two weeks and another group treated with standard PT during eight weeks. …”
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Heart sound classification based on convolutional neural network with convolutional block attention module by Ximing Huai, Lei Jiang, Lei Jiang, Chao Wang, Peng Chen, Hanchi Li

“…The optimal model, with CBAM applied after Conv Blocks 1-1, 1-2, and 2-1, achieved an accuracy of 98.66%, outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods. Additional validation using an independent test set from the PhysioNet 2022 database confirmed the model’s generalization capability, achieving an accuracy of 95.6% and an AUC of 96.29%. …”
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Bayesian network modeling applied to food risks: Data from General Administration of Customs of China as an example by Xuanyu Ying, Anni Lu, Qiang Cai, Jun Lu

“…The BN model also is able to systematically elaborate uncertainty and obtain information through probabilistic inference, which might be useful for giving additional new insights potentially not captured by classical methods. Finally, we discuss the potential and evolution of BN, such as dynamic BN.…”
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Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients with intracranial hemorrhage: a systematic review of considerations for neurosurgical management by Michael Del Sesto, Diana Feier, Brian Kent, Connor Rupp, Luca Bertola, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“… Background: Patients with intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), whether traumatic brain injury (TBI)-induced or spontaneous, present a significant challenge for neurosurgeons, who must carefully balance the risks of both venous thromboembolism (VTE) and hemorrhagic progression. Methods: To summarize considerations of ICH and VTE prophylaxis in a neurosurgical setting, a systematic search of original research was run in PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science. …”
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The Relationship between Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Erectile Dysfunction by Harun Çakmak, Tolga Kocatürk, Sema Oruç Dündar, Mehmet Dündar, Müjdat Karabulut

“…To evaluate association between erectile dysfunction (ED) and neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods. 195 men enrolled in this cross-sectional study. 90 of them had neovascular AMD and 105 of them were healthy volunteers. …”
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Bone marrow MRI after autologous transplantation and the effect of residual tumor on progression-free survival of multiple myeloma patients by M. V. Solovev, L. P. Mendeleeva, G. A. Yatsyk, N. S. Lutsik, M. V. Firsova, E. G. Gemdzhian, V. G. Savchenko

“…The study of influence of residual tumor mass, determined by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), on the progression-free survival (PFS) remains an actual problem. Since the visual assessment of tumor bone marrow lesion can be one of the criteria for the subsequent personalized treatment choice in multiple myeloma patients.The objective of study was to determine the effect of bone marrow lesions detected by MRI after autologous hematopoietic stem cells transplantation (auto-HSCT) on PFS in multiple myeloma patients.Materials and methods . …”
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Possibilities for computer-based assessment the quality indicators of Kashkaval cheese using image processing by Balabanov Alexandar, Andreeva Hristina, Danev Angel, Bosakova-Ardenska Atanaska, Ivanov Galin, Balabanova Tatyana

“…Specific structural elements with color, which is very similar to the color of the main cheese matter are effectively detected using different methods for edge detection in Scilab, and using analysis of luminance in ImageJ. …”
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Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in an ALL Child during Maintenance Therapy Treated Successfully with Intravenous Ganciclovir by Hande Celiker, Ayse Karaaslan, Eda Kepenekli Kadayifci, Serkan Atici, Ahmet Soysal, Haluk Kazokoglu, Ahmet Koc

“…In here we described cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMVR) in 12-year-old male patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who was on maintenance phase therapy. Methods. He was referred to our clinic for seeing of spots with the right eye for 3 days. …”
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