Comparison of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss with Tinnitus and Short-Term Tinnitus by Fang Qi, Liang Chaoqun, Yan Lin, Yang Jianming

“…The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), visual analog scale with respect to tinnitus loudness (VAS), and RI in each group were evaluated. …”
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Shade match, marginal adaptation and patient satisfaction: polymer infiltrated ceramic versus lithium disilicate glass ceramic anterior laminate veneers (Randomized Clinical Trial) by Nancy Sayed Abdel Aziz Abdel All Khalil, Hesham Alansary, Eman Ezzat Youssef

“… Objective: To evaluate the shade match, marginal adaptation and patient satisfaction of VITA ENAMIC multiColor anterior laminate veneers and compare it to that of IPS e.max CAD. Material and Methods: A total of twenty-two laminate veneers were fabricated from IPS e.max CAD and VITA ENAMIC multiColor in the anterior zone, eleven veneers for each group. …”
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SAMU-Net: A dual-stage polyp segmentation network with a custom attention-based U-Net and segment anything model for enhanced mask prediction by Radiful Islam, Rashik Shahriar Akash, Md Awlad Hossen Rony, Md Zahid Hasan

“…Our process produced a dice coefficient score of 0.94, which is very impressive and has a considerable improvement over the existing state-of-the-art polyp segmentation methods. Moreover, the qualitative results also visualize that the SAMU-Net is capable of accurately segmenting polyps of wide ranges, thus, it is a relevant tool for computer-aided detection as well as the diagnosis of colorectal cancer.…”
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Carbon Ion Beam Radiotherapy for Sinonasal Malignant Tumors Invading Skull Base by Nobuo Ohta, Yusuke Suzuki, Azusa Hasegawa, Masaru Aoyagi, Seiji Kakehata

“…A retrospective clinical study at the Yamagata University School of Medicine. Subjects and Methods. Three patients with sinonasal malignant tumors invading skull base were presented in present study. …”
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Acupuncture plus night splint for quality of life and disability in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized controlled trial by Nihal Tezel, Ebru Umay, Volkan Yılmaz, Aytul Cakci

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effects of acupuncture plus night splinting on quality of life, function and pain in patients with CTS. Methods: This research is a prospective randomized, single-center trial. …”
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Assessment of the Health Status of Oak Trees in the Zouagha Forest (North-East of Algeria) by Chouiter Norhane, Rached-Kanouni Malika, Boucif Ouarda El Wahida

“…The objective of this study is to assess the health status of the Zouagha forest in Algeria, which is composed of oak trees (Quercus suber, Q. canariensis, and Q. afares), and to estimate its biodiversity potential through field observations using the ARCHI, DEPEFEU, and IBP methods on individuals of each species. The adopted methodology relies on a visual evaluation of the tree crowns of the main species in this forest. …”
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Cross-sectional differences of physical and psychosocial measures in low back pain according to pain chronification risk groups by Elisabeth Fehrmann, Linda Fischer-Grote, Julian Dietl, Patrick Mair, Gerold Ebenbichler, Thomas Kienbacher

“…Objective: To investigate whether low-back-pain patients classified based on the risk of pain chronification (low, medium, high) differ in psychosocial and physical function measures, and whether these subgroup differences are moderated by age, gender, and body mass index. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 595 Austrian patients with chronic low back pain (68% female; mean age: 53 ± 6.7 years) completed the STarT Back screening tool, visual analogue scale, Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire, Pain Disability Index, 5-level European Quality of Life Questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and Avoidance–Endurance fast screen. …”
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Mapping the landscape of machine learning in chronic disease management: A comprehensive bibliometric study by Shiying Shen, Wenhao Qi, Sixie Li, Jianwen Zeng, Xin Liu, Xiaohong Zhu, Chaoqun Dong, Bin Wang, Qian Xu, Shihua Cao

“…Visual analyses of publication volume, research institutions, and countries were conducted using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, RStudio, and other software. …”
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BACH: A Tool for Analyzing Blockchain Transactions Using Address Clustering Heuristics by Michele Caringella, Francesco Violante, Francesco De Lucci, Stefano Galantucci, Matteo Costantini

“…BACH introduces the innovative feature of visualizing the internal structure of clusters in a graphical format. …”
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Enhanced RT-DETR with Dynamic Cropping and Legendre Polynomial Decomposition Rockfall Detection on the Moon and Mars by Panpan Zang, Jinxin He, Yongbin Yang, Yu Li, Hanya Zhang

“…The analysis of rockfall events provides critical insights for deciphering planetary geological processes and reconstructing environmental evolutionary timelines. Conventional visual interpretation methods that rely on orbiter imagery can be inefficient due to their massive datasets and subtle morphological signatures. …”
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Anti-methanogenic effect of phytogenic extract of Moringa oleifera on methane mitigation through inhibition of methyl-coenzyme M reductase receptor: In silico study by Muhammad Sulaiman Daulai, Indah Wijayanti, Yuli Retnani, Suzuki Toshisada

“…Objectives: This study aimed to assess the anti-methanogenic potential of Moringa oleifera L. phytogenic extracts through in silico inhibition of the methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) receptor. Materials and Methods: Phytochemicals from M. oleifera were screened and compared with anti-methanogenic compounds such as 3-nitrooxypropanol and native MCR enzyme ligands (coenzyme M and coenzyme B). …”
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Profiling Cognitive and Social Functioning in a Small Cohort with Malan Syndrome by Niccolò Butti, Cosimo Urgesi, Paolo Alfieri, Manuela Priolo, Rosario Montirosso

“…Nonetheless, memory for faces, visual attention and contextual (non-verbal) theory of mind emerged as relative strengths of the profile, both at group and individual levels. …”
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Description and critical reflection of Simone Roach’s caring theory by Luís Condeço, Margarida Vieira, Madalena Cunha

“…The critical analysis of the theory allowed us to recognize limitations related to multicultural applicability and the absence of a structured visual representation. Conclusion: This model can provide a valuable contribution to clinical practice, education and research in nursing. …”
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PR-CLIP: Cross-Modal Positional Reconstruction for Remote Sensing Image–Text Retrieval by Jihong Guan, Yulou Shu, Wengen Li, Zihan Song, Yichao Zhang

“…However, most existing methods rely on global visual and textual features to compute similarity, ignoring the positional correspondence between image regions and textual descriptions. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with sarcopenia in elderly people referred by Primary Healthcare to a specialized service in an area of the Federal District of Brazil, 2015-2017 by Hudson Azevedo Pinheiro, Vera Regina Cerceau, Luana de Azevedo Pinheiro, Valéria Pagotto, Ruth Losada de Menezes

“…Heart disease and osteoporosis were also identified as risk factors for women and, for men, visual impairment, and occurrence of falls in the last six months were the risk factors identified before the anamnesis. …”
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An Insight into Testicular Macrocalcification—A Retrospective Study of 42 Cases on a Rare Sonographic Finding by Malene Roland Vils Pedersen, Ditte Marie Toft, Jan Lindebjerg, Søren Rafael Rafaelsen, Søren Kissow Lildal

“…This multicenter study aimed to investigate the symptoms and prevalence of testicular cancer in patients with macrocalcification. Methods: Testicular ultrasound examination reports from four hospitals’ PACS database, covering the period 2014–2023, were screened for diagnoses of macrocalcification. …”
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Novel Tissue Engineering Scaffolds in the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury—A Bibliometric Study by Yan Zhao, Abudunaibi Aili, Zhiwei Jia, Tianlin Wen, Aikeremujiang Muheremu

“…The data were analyzed and visualized using the VOSviewer network analysis software. …”
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Multi-feature fusion and multi-attention deep network for enhancing road extraction in remote sensing images by Haitao Xu, Lin Zhou, Bo Huang, Shiwan Chen

“…However, accurate road extraction remains a challenging task due to the presence of textual-similar objects that can be visually confused with roads, and shadows that can obscure road features. …”
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Jingui Shenqi Wan alleviates bone loss induced by primary osteoporosis by inhibiting osteoblast pyroptosis by Yuwangxuan Qian, Yihe Yu, Fan Yang, Qixing Liang, Dan Xu, Jiaxiang Chen, Xueqin Hu

“…Through a systematic investigation, we sought to identify the specific molecular pathways through which JGSQW modulates the progression of PMOP, thereby providing a scientific basis for its clinical application. Methods We established an ovariectomized (OVX) mouse model to simulate estrogen deficiency-induced PMOP. …”
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A Novel Dataset for Polyp Segmentation and Detection Using a Vision-Language Model by Mahdiyeh Alilou, Javad Mozaffari, Abdollah Amirkhani, Shahriar B. Shokouhi, Alireza Khafaf

“…Colonoscopy is one of the most effective methods for the detection of polyps, and deep learning algorithms can be utilized for colonoscopy image processing. …”
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