Evaluation of Bleb Morphology and Reduction in IOP and Glaucoma Medication following Implantation of a Novel Gel Stent by Antonio Maria Fea, Roberta Spinetta, Paola Maria Loredana Cannizzo, Giulia Consolandi, Carlo Lavia, Vittoria Aragno, Francesco Germinetti, Teresa Rolle

“…To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the Xen Gel Stent and provide a macro- and microscopic analyses of bleb morphology. Methods. A prospective 12-month study on patients with primary open-angle glaucoma. …”
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Optimized Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control for Low-Speed Vehicle Pedal Pressing Automation Using Hybrid Spiral Sine Cosine Algorithm by Azrul Azim Abdullah Hashim, Nor Maniha Abdul Ghani, Salmiah Ahmad, Mohd Ruzaini Hashim, Noor Zirwatul Ahlam Naharuddin, Addie Irawan

“…The results presented in this paper prove the fact that the analyzed Type 2 FLC optimized by the SSCA method performs better than the traditional Type 1 FLC in terms of the key metrics, with improvements of 32.4242% in overshoot, 0.364 seconds in settling time, and a reduction of 0.002009 in steady-state error at 2 km/h reference speed. …”
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DIDACTIC POTENTIAL OF YOUTUBE CHANNELS FOR ENHANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN NON-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMS by Blynova Neliia, Medynska Svitlana, Voloboieva Anna

“…An analysis of existing literature on the research topic provided insights into the current state of mobile learning research, both domestically and internationally. A descriptive method enabled the researchers to synthesize the experiences gained during the exploratory phase. …”
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Avaliação da eficácia e tolerabilidade da vigabatrina na síndrome de West Efficacy and tolerability of vigabatrin in West syndrome by Maria Helena P. Moraes, Maria Augusta Montenegro, Renata C. Franzon, José O. Ávila, Marilisa M. Guerreiro

“…OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of vigabatrin (VGB) in the treatment of WS. METHOD: We evaluated every patient diagnosed with WS seen at the pediatric epilepsy clinic and exposed to VGB. …”
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SCONCERNING THE ISSUE OF GENERATIVE ART CLASSIFICATION: DEFINITION OF CONCEPTS / К ПРОБЛЕМЕ КЛАССИФИКАЦИИ GENERATIVE ART: РАЗРАБОТКА ПОНЯТИЙНОГО АППАРАТА... by LUKICHEV RUSLAN V. / ЛУКИЧЕВ Р.В.

“…These phenomena are considered based on the art object’s possessing the features of generative (G), interactive (I) or computer (C) vectors that underlie the classification method of Gen Art and adjacent contextual phenomena developed by the author and visually modeled by him in the Cartesian coordinate system. …”
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Efectos de un entrenamiento neuromuscular sobre el equilibrio postural dinámico y propiocepción en basquetbolistas juveniles con inestabilidad funcional de tobillo (Effects of neu... by Karina Vásquez-Orellana, Matías López-Vásquez, Guillermo Méndez-Rebolledo, Eduardo Guzman Muñoz

“…It is suggested that neuromuscular training could improve dynamic postural balance and proprioception in basketball players with functional ankle instability (FAI). Method: Randomized controlled clinical trial. The sample consisted of 27 female basketball players between the ages of 15 and 17, belonging to a Sports Club in the Maipú city (Santiago, Chile). 13 of them assigned to the control group and 14 to an experimental group. …”
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Undescended Testes and Laparoscopy: Experience from the Developing World by Shabir Ahmad Dar, Rajandeep Singh Bali, Yawar Zahoor, Arshad Rashid Kema, Rajni Bhardwaj

“…To evaluate and determine the therapeutic role, sensitivity, and specificity of laparoscopy in localizing nonpalpable testes and the mean operative time, the conversion rate (and reasons thereof), postoperative wound infection, postoperative stay, and time taken for return to daily activities following laparoscopic orchidopexy or orchidectomy. Materials and Methods. This was a prospective study carried out in the Postgraduate Department of Surgery, Government Medical College, Srinagar, J&K, India, from May 2008 to August 2011. …”
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Effectiveness of a virtual reality relaxation to correct symptoms of depression, anxiety, emotional and cognitive disorders in patients with heart failure by Yu. F. Osmolovskaya, A. A. Petrukhina, Yu. O. Aksenova, I. V. Zhirov, A. G. Beniashvili, M. A. Morozova, S. N. Tereshchenko

“…To study the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) relaxation to correct symptoms of depression, anxiety, emotional and cognitive disorders in patients with heart failure (HF).Material and methods. The study included 100 patients with HF aged 21 to 83 years. …”
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A Scalable Framework for Real-Time Network Security Traffic Analysis and Attack Detection Using Machine and Deep Learning by Zineb Maasaoui, Mheni Merzouki, Abdella Battou, Ahmed Lbath

“…Experiments on UNSW-NB15, TON-IoT, and Edge-IIoT datasets demonstrate our platform’s superiority over traditional methods in multi-class classification tasks, achieving near-perfect accuracy on the Edge-IIoT dataset. …”
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SkinSage XAI: An explainable deep learning solution for skin lesion diagnosis by Geetika Munjal, Paarth Bhardwaj, Vaibhav Bhargava, Shivendra Singh, Nimish Nagpal

“…While deep learning algorithms have greatly enhanced the categorization of skin lesions, the black‐box nature of many models limits interpretability, posing challenges for dermatologists. Methods To address these limitations, SkinSage XAI utilizes advanced explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques for skin lesion categorization. …”
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Psychometric Assessment of Clinical Factors in Burning Mouth Syndrome Progression by Ana Garcia-Martinez, Asta Tvarijonaviciute, Pia López-Jornet

“…Objective: This study employed psychometric tools to assess the impact of factors such as age, symptom location, and duration on the improvement in burning mouth syndrome (BMS). Materials and Methods: A total of 86 women with BMS were divided into 4 groups: laser plus clonazepam (n = 24), sham laser placebo (n = 20), laser only (n = 22), and clonazepam only (n = 20). …”
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Outcome Determinants of Stroke in a Brazilian Primary Stroke Center by Gustavo W. Kuster, Lívia A. Dutra, Israel P. Brasil, Evelyn P. Pacheco, Márcio A. C. Arruda, Cristiane Volcov, Renan B. Domingues

“…In this study we evaluate outcome determinants of stroke in a primary stroke center in São Paulo, Brazil. Methods. We evaluated demographic, clinical, and outcome data of patients with ischemic stroke (IS), transient ischemic attack (TIA), and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) admitted at “Hospital Paulistano,” São Paulo, Brazil. …”
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Disrupted microsaccade responses in late-life depression by Yao-Tung Lee, Ying-Hsuan Tai, Yi-Hsuan Chang, Cesar Barquero, Shu-Ping Chao, Chin-An Wang

“…Thus, it is imperative to develop objective and cost-effective methods for detecting LLD. Individuals with depression often exhibit disrupted levels of arousal, and microsaccades, as a type of fixational eye movement that can be measured non-invasively, are known to be modulated by arousal. …”
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Children with Congenital Hypothyroidism Have Similar Neuroradiological Abnormal Findings as Healthy Ones by Marianna Rachmiel, Susanne Blaser, Elysa Widjaja, Joanne Rovet

“…To assess the neuroradiological findings of children with congenital hypothyroidism (CHT) compared to healthy controls (HC). Patients and Methods. Thirty children with CHT, mean age 12.5 ± 1.6 years, 14 (44.8%) males, were compared with 38 HC mean age 11.7 ± 1.7 years, 16 (45.7%) males. …”
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Clinical results of scarf osteotomy by Gluščević Boris, Stanojković Aleksandar, Bukumirić Dragica, Jeremić Danilo

“…The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the efficacy of SO in hallux valgus (HV) deformity correction, as well as the degree of recurrence and its possible causes. Methods. The study included 48 patients (52 feet) who underwent SO. …”
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pytom-match-pick: A tophat-transform constraint for automated classification in template matching by Marten L. Chaillet, Sander Roet, Remco C. Veltkamp, Friedrich Förster

“…We also assess previously introduced background normalization methods for classification performance. This indicates that phase randomization is more effective than spectrum whitening in reducing false positives. …”
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Promising reagents for the extraction of strategic metals from difficult-to-enrich mineral raw materials by Tamara N. Matveeva, Nadezhda K. Gromova, Lyudmila B. Lantsova

“…The use of modern research methods (scanning electron and laser microscopy, UV spectrophotometry, XRF and chemical analysis) made it possible to visualize the adsorption layer of new reagents-collectors of a number of dithiocarbamates with different structures of a hydrocarbon radical and an organic modifier on the surface of gold-containing sulfides. …”
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Prefrontal Blood Flow Activity During Drawing Intervention in School-Age Children with Autism: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study by Guanghui Li, Daren Wei, Ze Lyu, Yalong Xing, Yan Li, Wu Song

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Art-based interventions have been shown to enhance communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet their impact on prefrontal hemodynamics remains unclear. <b>Methods:</b> This study employed functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine hemoglobin oxygenation (HbO) changes in the prefrontal cortex of school-age children with ASD, providing empirical support for its therapeutic efficacy. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of Cushing’s Disease with or without Hyperprolactinemia by Cheng Huan, Chao Lu, Guang-ming Xu, Xin Qu, Yuan-ming Qu

“…We compared the characteristics of patients with Cushing’s disease alone with those of patients with Cushing’s disease and hyperprolactinemia. Methods. Eighty-four patients were enrolled between 2002 and 2011, in a hospital in China. …”
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Pectoral nerves block as a component of multimodal analgesia in breast cancer surgery by A. S. Buyanov, V. V. Stadler, D. V. Zabolotskiy, V. A. Koryachkin, M. O. Vozdvizhenskiy, A. P. Borisov, M. V. Tkachev

“…Objective: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adding pectoral nerve block to anesthesia regimen in radical mastectomy.Subjects and methods. 65 female patients underwent unilateral radical mastectomy under general anesthesia. …”
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