Gastrointestinal Nematode Control in Lithuanian Sheep Farms: Insights from a Questionnaire Survey by Agnė Beleckė, Tomas Kupčinskas, Inga Stadalienė, Rasa Adomkienė, Saulius Petkevičius

“…These findings indicate reliance on non-strategic parasite control methods and limited use of diagnostics, highlighting the need for improved farmer education to promote sustainable parasite control and reduce AR risk in Lithuanian sheep farms.…”
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Modic Changes as Biomarkers for Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain by Jeffrey Zhang, Emily Bellow, Jennifer Bae, Derek Johnson, Sandi Bajrami, Andrew Torpey, William Caldwell

“…MCs have emerged as promising correlates with degenerative disc disease and CLBP. <b>Methods:</b> This is a non-systematic literature review. …”
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Effects of Dry Needling on Clinical Parameters of Migraine Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol by Neda Najafi, Amin Momenzadeh, Mandana Rezaei, Hakimeh Adigozali, Bahram Amirshakeri, Mohammad Yazdchi

“…Therefore, this trial aims to investigate the impact of upper trapezius (UT) muscle DN in addition to medication drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) on headache characteristics in patients with migraine headaches. Methods: A parallel randomized controlled trial with single-blinded outcome assessors was conducted. …”
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Microcomputed Tomography in the Adriamycin Rat Model of Malformations—Preliminary Results by Jan Scherberich, Leopold Bauer, Nana Huber-Liu, Gabriele Anja Krombach, Roman Metzger, Dietrich Kluth, Marco Ginzel

“…Here, we use this technique to show malformations in rat embryos after Adriamycin treatment in the form of an atlas. Methods: Pregnant rats received Adriamycin [1.75 mg/kg body weight] intraperitoneally once daily from day 7 to 9. …”
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Clinical Applicability and Cross-Dataset Validation of Machine Learning Models for Binary Glaucoma Detection by David Remyes, Daniel Nasef, Sarah Remyes, Joseph Tawfellos, Michael Sher, Demarcus Nasef, Milan Toma

“…Early and accurate detection is critical to prevent vision loss, yet traditional diagnostic methods such as optical coherence tomography and visual field tests face challenges in accessibility, cost, and consistency, especially in under-resourced areas. …”
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Improving Fire and Smoke Detection with You Only Look Once 11 and Multi-Scale Convolutional Attention by Yuxuan Li, Lisha Nie, Fangrong Zhou, Yun Liu, Haoyu Fu, Nan Chen, Qinling Dai, Leiguang Wang

“…Fires pose significant threats to human safety, health, and property. Traditional methods, with their inefficient use of features, struggle to meet the demands of fire detection. …”
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LARE: Latent augmentation using regional embedding with vision-language model by Kosuke Sakurai, Tatsuya Ishii, Ryotaro Shimizu, Linxin Song, Masayuki Goto

“…In recent years, considerable research has been conducted on vision-language models (VLMs) that handle both image and text data; these models are being applied to diverse downstream tasks, such as “image-related chat,” “image recognition by instruction,” and “answering visual questions.” Vision-language models, such as Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP), are also high-performance image classifiers, and are being developed into domain adaptation methods that can utilize language information to extend into unseen domains. …”
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Long-term Results of Topical Insulin Treatment for Persistent Corneal Epithelial Defects by Júlio Almeida, Tomás Costa, Maria Vivas, Catarina Monteiro, Fernando T. Vaz, Diana Silva, Cristina Vendrell, Isabel Prieto

“… Purpose: To evaluate the effects of topical insulin in patients with persistent corneal epithelial defects that are refractory to the standard treatment. Methods: A retrospective, hospital-based, clinical study was performed on 17 eyes of 16 patients with different types of refractory persistent epithelial defects who were treated with topical insulin. …”
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Assessment of liver graft hypoxia via 18F-FMISO PET‑CT imaging by I. I. Tileubergenov, A. A. Ivanova, A. L. Dolbov, O. A. Gerasimova, A. R. Sheraliev, V. N. Zhuykov, D. A. Granov

“…Objective: drawing on existing literature and the clinical use of radiopharmaceutical (RFP) 18F-FMISO in on- cology, this pilot study aims to assess the feasibility of using non-invasive PET-CT imaging to detect hypoxia in liver grafts resulting from ischemia-reperfusion injury.Materials and methods. 18F-FMISO uptake in tumors, as visualized by PET-CT, enables the generation of quantitative maps of tissue hypoxia, a technique that is increa- singly being explored to guide radiation therapy planning. …”
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Antifungal Efficacy of Ganoderma lucidum and Clotrimazole for Treatment of Denture Stomatitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Fahimeh Pakravan, Afsaneh Yegdaneh, Somayeh Taymouri, Shiva Rahimi, Negin Ghahremani

“… Objectives: This study aimed to compare the antifungal efficacy of Ganoderma lucidum (G. lucidum) and clotrimazole for treatment of denture stomatitis (DS). Materials and Methods: This double-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted on 50 patients with DS types I and II assigned to two groups (N=25). …”
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Pain intensity and depression level in chronic temporomandibular disorders patients by Raul Elton Araújo Borges, Luana da Rocha Alves Mendonça, Bruno César de Vasconcelos Gurgel, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patrícia dos Santos Calderon

“…Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between pain intensity and the level of depression in patients with chronic temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Materials and methods: Fifty-five volunteers diagnosed by the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC/TMD) were assessed for pain intensity and level of depression. …”
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Comparison of efficacy and pain perception using 0.5% Bupivacaine and 2% Lidocaine in periodontal Surgery – A split mouth randomized clinical trial by Shanmukha Srinivas Manikanta Tirumalasetty, Dwarakanath Chinniswami Doraisami, Santosh Venkata Ramesh Konathala, Subhadra Gautami Penmetsa, Naga Venkata Satya Sai Sruthima Gottumukkala

“…Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of bupivacaine and lidocaine local anesthesia on the intra surgical and post-surgical pain control in patients undergoing periodontal flap surgery Subjects and methods: A randomized, single-blind, split-mouth design was employed in patients who are scheduled for periodontal flap surgery for at least two similar sextants with similar anesthetic techniques. …”
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Conservative Approach in Patients with Pemphigus Gingival Vulgaris: A Pilot Study of Five Cases by Alessio Gambino, Mario Carbone, Paolo G. Arduino, Paola Carcieri, Lucio Carbone, Roberto Broccoletti

“…The aim of this pilot study was to describe the clinical efficacy of a conservative oral hygiene protocol in patients affected by gingival pemphigus vulgaris (PV) applied in a case series. Methods. Subjects suffering from PV with gingival localisation and slightly responsive to conventional treatment with systemic corticosteroids and immunosuppressive drugs were selected among individuals treated in the Unit of Oral Medicine Section of the University of Turin. …”
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Pain intensity and depression level in chronic temporomandibular disorders patients by Raul Elton Araújo Borges, Luana da Rocha Alves Mendonça, Bruno César de Vasconcelos Gurgel, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patrícia dos Santos Calderon

“…Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between pain intensity and the level of depression in patients with chronic temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Materials and methods: Fifty-five volunteers diagnosed by the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC/TMD) were assessed for pain intensity and level of depression. …”
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Advanced Fault Diagnosis in Milling Machines Using Acoustic Emission and Transfer Learning by Muhammad Umar, Zahoor Ahmad, Saif Ullah, Faisal Saleem, Muhammad Farooq Siddique, Jong-Myon Kim

“…However, their non-stationary characteristics present challenges for traditional analysis methods. This study proposes an innovative framework that combines time-frequency representation, transfer learning, and dimensionality reduction for effective fault diagnosis. …”
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Risk Factors for Endophthalmitis and Retinal Detachment with Retained Intraocular Foreign Bodies by D. Wilkin Parke, Avinash Pathengay, Harry W. Flynn, Thomas Albini, Stephen G. Schwartz

“…All patients treated at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute for traumatic IOFBs between 1999 and 2008. Methods. Analysis of visual outcome, mechanism of injury, management, and postoperative course. …”
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Medical Report Generation With Knowledge Distillation and Multi-Stage Hierarchical Attention in Vision Transformer Encoder and GPT-2 Decoder by Hilya Tsaniya, Chastine Fatichah, Nanik Suciati, Takashi Obi, Joong-Sun Lee

“…On the MIMIC-CXR dataset, our model achieved a BLEU score of 0.127 with precision 0.8832 for the abnormalities, demonstrating notable improvements over previous methods. Further analysis reveals that our approach enhances the generation of detailed and accurate medical reports, as validated by both quantitative metrics and qualitative assessments, reinforcing its effectiveness in capturing critical clinical information.…”
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The Role of Quantitative Assessment of Visceral Adipose Tissue of the Heart as a Predictor for Cardiovascular Events by V. Yu. Chernina, S. P. Morozov, L. A. Nizovtsova, I. A. Blokhin, D. I. Sitdikov, V. A. Gombolevskiy

“…Adipose tissue volume can be measured with high accuracy using CT (manual, semi-automatic, and automatic methods).A number of studies prove that MRI can be used for assigned tasks. …”
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Comparison of efficacy of mulligan's mobilization with movement with maitland mobilization along with conventional therapy in the patients with knee osteoarthritis: A randomized cl... by Aniqa Kiran, Muhammad Ijaz, Muhammad Qamar, Ayesha Basharat, Akhtar Rasul, Waqas Ahmed

“…Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the outcome and efficacy of Mulligan's mobilization with movement (MWM) with Maitland mobilization along with conventional therapy in the patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled trial study was performed at the Department of Physiotherapy, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan. …”
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Effect of smoking on patient-reported postoperative complications following minor oral surgical procedures by Alaa A. Sanari, Bushra A. Alsolami, Hala M. Abdel-Alim, Mohammed Y. Al-Ghamdi, Dalia E. Meisha

“…Objective: This study evaluated the effect of smoking on patient-reported postoperative complications after minor oral surgical procedures by comparing the post-extraction symptoms between smokers and nonsmokers. Materials and methods: Patients undergoing minor oral surgical procedures were recruited and followed up prospectively on the first, second, seventh, and twenty-first days after simple dental extractions. …”
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