A Clinical Study on Glucosamine Sulfate versus Combination of Glucosamine Sulfate and NSAIDs in Mild to Moderate Knee Osteoarthritis by Tamil Selvan, Kingston Rajiah, M. Sundara-Moorthi Nainar, Elizabeth M. Mathew

“…The objective of this study was glucosamine sulfate versus combination of glucosamine sulfate and Non-Steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) in mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis. Methods. Subjects were randomly recruited from Rheumatology outpatient department after a diagnosis of mild or moderate Osteoarthritis. …”
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Role of the Epipapillary Membrane in Maculopathy Associated with Cavitary Optic Disc Anomalies: Morphology, Surgical Outcomes, and Histopathology by Atsushi Tanaka, Wataru Saito, Satoru Kase, Kan Ishijima, Kousuke Noda, Susumu Ishida

“…To evaluate the surgical outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with epipapillary membrane removal in patients with maculopathy associated with cavitary optic disc anomalies. Methods. Eight patients (8 eyes) with cavitary optic disc anomaly-associated maculopathy who underwent PPV with epipapillary membrane removal were retrospectively reviewed. …”
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Few-shot learning for novel object detection in autonomous driving by Yifan Zhuang, Pei Liu, Hao Yang, Kai Zhang, Yinhai Wang, Ziyuan Pu

“…While deep learning-based vision methods have shown promising accuracy, they struggle with rare object detection. …”
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Clinical manifestation, course and treatment results of Coats disease in children by L. V. Kogoleva, M. S. Ivanova, E. N. Demchenko, T. V. Sudovskaya, Ju. A. Bobrovskaya, N. Sh. Kokoeva, A. A. Makarova

“…Purpose: to analyze the clinical manifestations, course, and results of treatment of Coats disease in children. Materials and methods. We performed a retrospective analysis of medical records of 59 patients with Coats retinitis (83 % were boys) who had been comprehensively examined and treated between 2018 and 2021. …”
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ARGContextProfiler: extracting and scoring the genomic contexts of antibiotic resistance genes using assembly graphs by Nazifa Ahmed Moumi, Shafayat Ahmed, Connor Brown, Amy Pruden, Liqing Zhang

“…Testing on real, synthetic, and semi-synthetic data, including long-read sequencing data from environmental samples, demonstrated that ARGContextProfiler offers superior accuracy, precision, and sensitivity compared to conventional assembly-based methods. ARGContextProfiler thus provides a powerful tool for uncovering the genomic context of ARGs in metagenomic sequencing data, which can be of value to both fundamental and applied research aimed at understanding and stemming the spread of AR. …”
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Informativeness of bone intraoperative culture for diagnose osteomyelitis in diabetic foot patients. by Vitaly O. Tsvetkov, Olga V. Kolovanova, Oxana E. Frolova, Tatiana A. Gusarova, Ludmila G. Ezhova

“…AIMS: To determine the diagnostic value of bone culture for osteomyelitis in diabetic foot patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 177 patients underwent surgery due to different forms of diabetic foot. …”
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RLUNet: Overexposure-Content-Recovery-Based Single HDR Image Reconstruction with the Imaging Pipeline Principle by Yiru Zheng, Wei Wang, Xiao Wang, Xin Yuan

“…The experiments demonstrate that the proposed RLUNet model outperforms various state-of-the-art methods on different testsets.…”
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Two types of vidian neurectomy show efficacy in treating allergic rhinitis and vasomotor rhinitis by ShuJuan Sun, AiPing Chen, Li Shi, YuZhu Wan

“…The efficacy evaluation methods were visual analog scale (VAS), rhinoconjunctivitis quality of life questionnaire (RQLQ), and medication score. …”
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Lived Experience of Patients Living with Glaucoma: A Qualitative Study by Anjani Kumar Singh, Krishna Kumar Thakur, Sumit Kumar Mishra, Binita Pandit, Rajiv Karn

“…The aim of the study was to explore the lived experiences of patients living with glaucoma. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted involving eight patients from January 2024 to June 2024 at glaucoma department of an eye hospital after approval from the institutional review committee (Reference number: BEH-IRC/093/024), using in-depth interview. …”
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Surface Defect Detection Algorithm for Wind Turbine Blades Based on HSCA-YOLOv7 by Bing LI, Yunshan BAI, Kuan ZHAO, Congbin GUO, Yongjie ZHAI

“…Firstly, based on the images of wind turbine blades collected by drones, a dataset of blades is created, and Mosaic and MixUp methods are used for data amplification. Then, deep separable convolutions with different expansion rates are introduced into the improved spatial pyramid pooling (ISPP) module to reduce the loss of details caused by pooling operations. …”
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Efficacy of K-wire combined with pull-out wire fixation in the treatment of acute bony mallet finger: a retrospective study by Tianhao Guo, Ruijiao Gao, Aru Zhang, Chenfei Li, Sijia Chen, Jiangbo Bai

“…Abstract Objectives To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of a novel surgical technique combining K-wire fixation with pull-out wire fixation for treating acute bony mallet finger. Methods This retrospective study included 23 patients with acute bony mallet finger treated between January 2023 and December 2024. …”
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Field enhancement effect in reactive ion etching – a novel mechanism for plasma processing and plasma diagnostics by Bingdong Chang, Gwendoline A.E. Anand, Xiyuan Liu, Henri Jansen, Lucia Romano, Anpan Han

“…We correlated the dimensions of the hotspot profiles to the field enhancement factor (FEF). Finite element methods investigated the dependence of tip aspect ratio, the FEF, and the dimensions of hotspot profiles for hemisphere-on-cone and elliptic geometries. …”
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A real-world data analysis of montelukast in FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database by Hesen Huang, Kaiqin Chen, Yu Du, Jing Gao, Yixian Ye, Wei Lin

“…Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database. Methods We assessed the disproportionality of MTK-associated AEs by calculating metrics such as the ratio of reported ratios (ROR), proportional reporting ratios (PRR), Bayesian Belief Propagation Neural Networks (BCPNN), and Gamma-Poisson Shrinkers (GPS). …”
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An Interactive Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Skeleton-Based Posture Recognition in Model Education by Jing Shen, Ling Chen, Xiaotong He, Chuanlin Zuo, Xiangjun Li, Lin Dong

“…This semi-automated feedback loop enhances teaching interactivity and efficiency. Among all evaluated methods, the Transformer model achieved the best accuracy of 92.7% on the dataset, demonstrating the effectiveness of our closed-loop framework in supporting pose classification and model training. …”
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Complex Common and Internal Iliac or Aortoiliac Aneurysms and Current Approach: Individualised Open-Endovascular or Combined Procedures by Thomas Kotsis, Louizos Alexander Louizos, Evangelos Pappas, Kassiani Theodoraki

“…Material and Methods. A retrospective, observational study of twelve clinical cases of patients with aortoiliac disease are described. …”
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From Intimidation to Innovation: Cross-Continental Multiple Case Studies on How to Harness AI to Elevate Engagement, Comprehension, and Retention by Sue Haywood, Loredana Padurean, Renée Ralph, Jutta Tobias Mortlock

“…Drawing on data from four international university classrooms—in the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia—this mixed-methods study examines students’ experiences as they collaboratively created comic books using generative AI. …”
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A lightweight multi scale fusion network for IGBT ultrasonic tomography image segmentation by Meng Song, Zhaoba Wang, Youxing Chen, Ya Li, Yong Jin, Bei Jia

“…Experimental results demonstrate that LMFNet performs exceptionally well on the IUT dataset, significantly outperforming existing methods in terms of segmentation accuracy and model lightweighting performance.…”
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Hybrid vision GNNs based early detection and protection against pest diseases in coffee plants by Suresh Maruthai, Raveena Selvanarayanan, Tamilvizhi Thanarajan, Surendran Rajendran

“…Controlling and safeguarding coffee farms from harmful pests, including the Coffee Berry Borer, Mealybugs, Scales, and Leaf Miners, which may drastically affect crop productivity and quality. Standard methods for detecting pest diseases sometimes need specialized knowledge or thorough analysis, leading to a substantial commitment of time and effort. …”
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Pegaptanib Sodium versus Pegaptanib Sodium Combined with Macular Laser Photocoagulation or Laser Alone for Diabetic Macular Edema by G. Querques, A. V. Bux, A. R. Fusco, C. Iaculli, N. Delle Noci

“…To report the outcomes after primary intravitreal pegaptanib sodium in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). Methods. We conduced a retrospective analysis of eyes with DME treated with primary intravitreal pegaptanib sodium (Macugen) (intravitreal pegaptanib group). …”
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Orbital Solitary Fibrous Tumor: Four Case Reports—Clinical and Histopathological Features by Carmen Navarro-Perea, Cristina Calleja-García, Álvaro Bengoa-González, María-C. Garrido, Enrique Mencía-Gutiérrez, Silvia Pérez-Trigo

“…In one patient, we present an ultrasonic aspirator system for tumor removal. Methods. Four patients with orbital SFT were selected: one patient with orbital SFT, another patient with frontal and ethmoidal SFT and orbital affectation with high rates of recurrence, the third patient with frontal lobe SFT and orbital invasion with multiple recurrences, and the fourth case with a history of craniopharyngioma surgery and SFT located on the orbital apex. …”
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