Use of brief, simple anxiety assessment tools in palliative care – yes, we can: a cross-sectional observational study of anxiety visual analog scale and numeric rating scale by Adrien Evin, Jean-François Huon, Aurelie Le Thuaut, Patricia Jego, Pierre Nizet, Caroline Victorri-Vigneau, Marianne Bourdon, Palliative care team

“…Aim This study sought to investigate the correlation between anxiety VAS and NRS and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-State scale for assessing anxiety in palliative care patients. Methods A single-center cross-sectional observational study was conducted over 2 years. …”
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Effects and Safety of Press-Needle Therapy for Improving Visual Function and Eye Blood Circulation in Patients With Glaucoma With Controlled Intraocular Pressure: Study Protocol fo... by Hongji Liu, Yan Dai, Ming Yu, Jian Zeng, Chao Wang, Sa Tan, Ming Xiong, Ran Zhang, Xuemeng Yu, Mingsong Shi, Xing Yan, Fengming Lai

“…Primary outcomes will include the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), color Doppler flow imaging (CDFI), and visual field assessment results. …”
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Reading through the eyes of a university student: A double-masked randomised placebo-controlled cross-over protocol investigating coloured spectacle lens efficacy in adults with vi... by Darragh Liam Harkin, Julie-Anne Little, Sara J McCullough

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This is a double-masked randomised placebo-controlled superiority trial. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare programs in Zimbabwe: a mixed methods study by Nicholas Midzi, C. Haruzivishe, E. Gonese, S. Sembuche, M. J. Mutsaka-Makuvaza, R. Ayebare, T. Muwonge, S. Nakasendwa, C. Mateta, T. Madanhire, C. N. Chaibva, C. Gwatiringa, K. Mutsaka, I. Phiri, M. Abdulaziz, P. C. Kabwe, V. Dube-Mawerewere, R. Tajudeen, M. P. Fallah, M. Dobbie

“…The study determined the impact of Coronavirus disease(COVID-19) on healthcare programs in Zimbabwe. Methods A mixed-methods study compared healthcare service delivery trends from the Ministry of Health and Child Care before, during and post the pandemic. …”
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Dynamics of visual acuity, optical coherence tomography (OСT) and OСT angiography indicators of patients with dry form of age-related macular degeneration using double filtration p... by A. A. Volozhev, A. N. Kulikov, A. N. Belskih, D. S. Maltsev, S. E. Bednova

“…Purpose: to study the structural and functional changes in the macular zone in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD) according to optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT angiography (OCTA) and visometry after the use of cascade plasma filtration. Materials and methods. A total of 63 patients (94 eyes) with intermediate-stage sAMD were randomly divided into two groups. …”
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Correlations between Steady-State Pattern Electroretinogram and Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer Global Indices and Their Associations with Retinal Ganglion Cell Layer-Inner Plexifor... by Andrew Tirsi, Vasiliki Gliagias, Daniel Zhu, Benny Wong, Rohun Gupta, Sung Chul Park, Stephen Obstbaum, Celso Tello

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of steady state pattern electroretinogram (ss-PERG) in detecting retinal ganglion cell (RGC) dysfunction in glaucoma suspects (GS) who had normal 24-2 Humphrey Visual Fields (HFA). Materials and Methods. This was a prospective cohort study of GS patients who were identified based on optic disc appearance with normal HFAs. …”
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Anterograde versus Retrograde Effects of Damage to Identified Learning and Memory Systems during Acquisition, Retention, and Re-Acquisition of an Instrumental Visual Discrimination... by Robert J. McDonald, Joelle Kopp, Erin L. Zelinski, Robert J. Sutherland, Hugo Lehmann, Fraser Sparks, Nancy S. Hong

“…As there is no clear spatial/relational component to the task, the hippocampus should not be involved. Methods: Rats were trained on a two-choice visual discrimination task to criterion performance after which they received lesions to portions of the dorsal striatum (dorso-medial or dorso-lateral striatum) and medial temporal lobe (perirhinal cortex or hippocampus). …”
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Could a hand-held, visual electrophysiology device theoretically reduce diagnostic waiting times for complex eye conditions in the NHS? A Discrete Event Simulation (DES) modelling... by Steffen Bayer, Daniel Garillo, Marion Penn, Maria Chorozoglou, Sally Brailsford, Eloise Keeling, Fatima Shawkat, Perry Carter, Helena Lee, Jay E. Self

“…Abstract Background/objectives Visual Electro-Diagnostic Testing (EDTs) are a highly specialised service in the NHS. …”
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Visual outcomes and structural optical coherence tomography biomarkers after intravitreal dexamethasone implant for anti-vascular endothelial growth factor-resistant macular edema... by Mennatallah G.A. Saleh, Mahmoud Abdel-Radi, Omar M. Ali, Mohamed G.A. Saleh, Magdi M. Mostafa

“…The correlation of the corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) to the CMT, the ratio of the vertical diameter of the largest cyst to the maximum macular thickness (VDLC/MMT), the subfoveal choroidal thickness, and the extent of interruption of ellipsoid zone were evaluated 3 months following the DEX implant injection. …”
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Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders: variations in eosinophilic counts among investigators and staining methods by Mina Ikeda, Satoshi Arakawa, Takashi Kobayashi, Ken-ichi Inada, Yuka Kiriyama, Takahiko Sakuma, Takuma Ishihara, Akiko Yagami, Kayoko Suzuki, Kyoko Futamura, Senju Hashimoto, Hironao Miyoshi, Satoshi Yamamoto, Haruhiko Tachino, Yoshihiro Imaeda, Hiroyuki Kato, Yukio Asano, Yoshiaki Katano, Akihiko Horiguchi

“…Conclusions: DFS staining offered the most selective visualization of eosinophils. ECs may vary depending on both the skill of the examiner and the staining method.…”
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Clinical and statistical stump characteristics for identifying contraindications to prosthesis by Aleksandr V. Pepeliaev, Aleksei A. Skoblin

Clinical features of acute drug-induced hepatites by A. I. Khazanov, S. V. Plyusnin, A. P. Vasiliev, O. N. Rumyantsev, A. S. Ivlev, A. I. Pavlov, O. V. Parinov

“…Investigation was carried out by the standard clinical, laboratory and instrumental methods. In particular, visualization of liver by radionuclide scintigraphy in 1966–1979 was done for 43 (41,7%) patients, and in 1984–2005 – with the help of US and CT – for 193 (91,4%).Results. …”
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Research on strategies for enhancing drug knowledge dissemination on Chinese social media WeChat public accounts based on text mining technology by Xihui Yu, Xiaotong Chen, Xia Yan, Xuejun Wu, Yizhi Zhang, Xiajiong Luo, Weihao Ma, Hongbo Fu, Yaofeng Zhang

“…It provides references for science popularization workers, so that science popularization can play a better role in improving the public’s knowledge of medication safety.MethodsTaking the well-known pharmaceutical science popularization WeChat account “PSM Medicine Shield Public Welfare” as an example, we combined the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) algorithm and VOSviewer visualization analysis technology to construct a hot topic analysis model for pharmaceutical science popularization articles, and analyzed the common rules and characteristics of successful hot articles. …”
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Enhancing Detection of Multi-Frequency-Modulated SSVEP Using Phase Difference Constrained Canonical Correlation Analysis by Chi Man Wong, Ze Wang, Boyu Wang, Agostinho Rosa, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Feng Wan

“…Main results: We evaluate the performance of the proposed pdCCA-based method on three representative multi-frequency-modulated visual stimulation paradigms (i.e., based on the multi-frequency sequential coding, the dual-frequency, and the amplitude modulation). …”
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Modern Methods for the Diagnosis of Morphological and Functional Features of the Retina in Dysbinocular and Anisometropic Amblyopia by R. R. Khubieva, E. P. Tarutta

“…The microperimeter also makes it possible to carry out visual rehabilitation, in particular in pediatric patients, and isolated results have been published on the use of this method in patients with amblyopia. …”
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An Advanced Histologic Method for Evaluation of Intestinal Adenomas in Mice Using Digital Slides. by Jennifer S Davis, Vineet Gupta, Mihai Gagea, Xiangwei Wu

“…We evaluated inter-observer variability in a mouse model of CRC using visual examination, and directly compared the visual, gross examination with a histologic analytic method using digital slides of hematoxylin and eosin stained tissue sections.…”
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Reliability of ultrasonographic measurement of muscle and tendon morphology using overlapping images method by Akane Yoshimura, Masaaki Honda, Shinshiro Mineta, Kenichiro Murata, Norikazu Hirose

“…This study identified the division points for the overlapping images method using the following two procedures: (1) visual-only identification and (2) a combination of visual and custom-built software-based identification. …”
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Complex Method of Treatment of Macular Interface Pathology in a Patient with Retinitis Pigmentosa by S. A. Kochergin, A. A. Ovsyanko, M. V. Gusakov

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Assessing and improving reliability of neighbor embedding methods: a map-continuity perspective by Zhexuan Liu, Rong Ma, Yiqiao Zhong

“…Neighbor embedding methods, such as t-SNE and UMAP, are widely used but can introduce misleading visual artifacts. …”
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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Methods for Snake-like Robots Based on Gait Adjustment by Chaoquan Tang, Zhipeng Zhang, Meng Sun, Menggang Li, Hongwei Tang, Deen Bai

“…Thirdly, a visual–inertial tightly coupled SLAM method for the snake robot’s serpentine gait and Arc-Rolling gait was proposed, and the method was verified to enhance the robustness of the visual SLAM algorithm and improve the positioning and mapping accuracy of the snake robot. …”
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