Assessing the direct and spillover protective effectiveness of Wolbachia-mediated introgression to combat dengueResearch in context by Jo Yi Chow, Somya Bansal, Borame S.L. Dickens, Pei Ma, Ary Hoffmann, Yoon Ling Cheong, Nazni Wasi Ahmad, Jue Tao Lim

“…This study estimates the spillover protective effectiveness (PE) of Wolbachia-mediated introgression on dengue. Methods: We used the synthetic control method (SCM) under assumption of partial interference to evaluate the direct and spillover PEs of Wolbachia-mediated introgression in a long-running operational trial of the intervention in Malaysia. …”
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Cinematographic expression in the manga “Crime and punishment” by Osamu Tezuka / Кинематографическая экспрессия в манге Осаму Тэдзуки «Преступление и наказание»... by Оlga Vanyushkina / Ольга Евгеньевна Ванюшкина

“…Dostoevsky’s novel "Crime and Punishment", the use of methods and techniques from the field of cinematography makes it possible to multiply the effect of scene perception, based solely on visualization tools. …”
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Development of algorithms for constructing two-dimensional optimal boundary-adaptive grids and their software implementation by A. E. Chistyakov, V. V. Sidoryakina, S. V. Protsenko

“…Visualization confirms the advantage of this meshing method, which separates the border and interior nodes.Discussion and Conclusions. …”
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VSS-SpatioNet: a multi-scale feature fusion network for multimodal image integrations by Zeyu Xiang

“…Existing CNN-based and Transformer-based methods face computational inefficiencies in modeling global dependencies. …”
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Investigating the Effect of ORA-AID Mucosal Adhesive on the Patient\'s Pain Level after Tooth Extraction by Mohsen Barzegar, Mojtaba Soltanianzadeh, Mohammad Amin Yektaie, Hossein Aghily

“…Patients reported their pain levels using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) at 5, 12, 24, and 48 hours following the extraction. …”
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Enhancing the performance of SSVEP-based BCIs by combining task-related component analysis and deep neural network by Qingguo Wei, Chang Li, Yijun Wang, Xiaorong Gao

“…Abstract Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP) signals can be decoded by either a traditional machine learning algorithm or a deep learning network. …”
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The aspects of classification and examination of cigarettes in the course of forensic commodity examination by N. V. Kryvoruchko, T. S. Kyrychenko

“…The article analyses modern methods of cigarette examination, including physical and chemical analysis of tobacco mixtures, aerosol testing, inspection of filter and cigarette paper properties, and assessment of labelling compliance with standards. …”
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Real-world outcomes and treatment patterns in Colombian patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema by Joshua Kock, José D. Miranda, Farley Johanna Gonzalez-Patino, Sebastián Rojas, Luz E. Pérez, Jhon Edwar Bolaños, Carlos J. Bello, Jose D. Manga, Mauricio A. Hernández, Laura Prieto-Pinto

“…Antivascular endothelial growth factor therapies, the primary treatment for both conditions, were evaluated for adherence and visual acuity (VA) outcomes in a real-world clinical setting. …”
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RETRACTED: Amplitude and Phase Computable Ocean Wave Real-Time Modeling with GPU Acceleration by Guigui Wang, Shihan Tan, Ge Song, Sheng Wang

“…In this paper, a hybrid Ocean Modeling Method based on wavelet transform is presented. This method introduces an accurate phase calculation and a wind-field model solution to compensate for the randomness of wave generation and the lack of physical mechanism in spectral methods. …”
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Interpretable multitask deep learning model for detecting and analyzing severity of rice bacterial leaf blight by Sudhesh K. M, Aarthi R., Sainamole Kurian. P, Sikha O.K

“…The proposed approach begins by generating multiclass segmentation masks using three candidate methods: MultiClass U-Net, DeepLabv3, and Detectron2 (used here for its instance segmentation capability). …”
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The effectiveness of Irifrin 2.5 % and Irifrin-BK 2.5 % drugs in the treatment of computer vision syndrome by E. L. Efimova, V. V. Brzhesky, I. E. Panova, A. S. Aleksandrova, M. A. Zercalova, Ya. M. Poroger

“…Purpose: to assess the results of treatment of patients with computer visual syndrome (CVS) accompanied by low and mild myopia. …”
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Comparison of the inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique without versus with an autologous blood clot for treating macular hole-associated retinal detachment by Ke Zhu, Yingchao Wang, Boya Lei, Ling Chen, Yanqiong Zhang, Qing Chang, Gezhi Xu, Yingqin Ni

“…The pre- and postoperative best-corrected visual acuities (BCVAs) and BCVA improvement were compared between the two groups. …”
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Electrophysiological markers of preclinical diagnosis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy by M. O. Kirillova, M. V. Zueva, I. V. Tsapenko, A. N. Zhuravleva

“…Purpose: to evaluate the changes in electrophysiological indicators reflecting various aspects of the function of retinal ganglion cells (RGC) and their axons in the early diagnosis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON).Material and methods. Two clinical groups, (1) 35 patients (60 eyes) aged 49 to 70 with suspected glaucoma and (2) 16 patients (30 eyes) aged 43–68 with initial primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), and a comparison group of 38 relatively healthy subjects (45 eyes) aged 42–70 were tested for pattern-reversed visual evoked potentials (PVEP), transient and stationary pattern-ERGs (PERG) according to ISCEV, and photopic negative response (PhNR).Results. …”
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Enhanced Grounding DINO: Efficient Cross-Modality Block for Open-Set Object Detection in Remote Sensing by Zibo Hu, Kun Gao, Jingyi Wang, Zhijia Yang, Zefeng Zhang, Haobo Cheng, Wei Li

“…The IPFR further reduces the computational complexity involved in refining multiscale visual features. The method achieves a 49.7% reduction in GFLOPs, improves performance on visual grounding datasets DIOR-RSVG and RSVG-HR, and delivers competitive results on the candidate category dataset DOTA.…”
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Evaluation of Stress Hormone Levels, Preoperative Anxiety, and Information Needs before and after Hysteroscopy under Local Anesthesia in Relation to Transvaginal Procedures under G... by Karolina Chmaj-Wierzchowska, Katarzyna Wszołek, Adrian Nowak, Natalia Ignaszak-Kaus, Magdalena Muszyńska, Maciej Wilczak

“…An original survey questionnaire, the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were used as research tools. …”
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Is Intra-articular Platelet-rich Plasma Injection Safe and Effective in Osteoarthritis Knee? A Prospective Study: A Case Series by R Sahaya Jose, N Kattu Bava, M Syed Moosa

“…Suppression of mediators, such as interleukin-1 interaction with nociceptors, brings inflammatory and analgesic effects. Subjects and methods: This prospective study was conducted in our institution's outpatient orthopedics department from March 2022 to May 2023. …”
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Co-designing and pilot-testing an infographic to support the consent process in an adaptive platform trial for adults in ICU with community-acquired pneumonia or COVID-19: a mixed... by Heather K. O’Grady, Kathy Smith, Sandra Dalziel, Barbara Dolanjski, Gyan Sandhu, Marlene Santos, Jackie Bosch, Lyn S. Turkstra, Srinivas Murthy, John C. Marshall, Michelle E. Kho, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group

“…However, given their length and complexity, consent documents can be challenging to understand, particularly in high-stress environments such as the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and for complex study designs such as platform trials. Methods This is an exploratory sequential mixed methods study-within-a-trial (SWAT) of REMAP-CAP (Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial, Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia). …”
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Modern trends in diagnostics and prediction of results of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy of pigment epithelial detachment in neovascular agerelated macular degener... by E. V. Kozina, S. N. Sakhnov, V. V. Myasnikova, E. V. Bykova, L. E. Aksenova

“…Dynamic registration of such biomarkers expands the ability of clinicians to predict morphological changes in pigment epithelial detachment during anti-VEGF therapy, as well as to optimize treatment regimens to prevent complications in the form of pigment epithelium tear leading to a decrease in visual acuity.Modern methods of deep machine learning and the use of neural networks allow achieving higher accuracy in diff erentiating the types of retinal fluids and automating the quantitative determination of fl uid under the pigment epithelium. …”
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Development of a Copro-RPA-CRISPR/Cas12a assay to detect Echinococcus granulosus nucleic acids isolated from canine feces using NaOH-based DNA extraction method. by Guoqing Shao, Xiaowei Zhu, Ruiqi Hua, Yanxin Chen, Guangyou Yang

“…This assay targeted the E. granulosus mitochondrial nad2 gene and utilized a lateral flow strip for visual readout. To improve field applicability, we integrated a simple and cost-effective NaOH-Based DNA extraction method. …”
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Medical Image Retrieval Based on Ensemble Learning using Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Transformers by Ahmed Yahya, Dalya Khaled, Waleed Al-Azzawi, Tawfeeq Alghazali, H. Sabah Jabr, R. Madhat Abdulla, M. Kadhim Abbas Al-Maeeni, N. Hussin Alwan, S. Saad Najeeb, Kh. T. Falih

“…The rapid increase in the number of medical image repositories nowadays has led to problems in managing and retrieving medical visual data. This has proved the necessity of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) with the aim of facilitating the investigation of such medical imagery. …”
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