Harnessing the application of halophytic flora biomass in the management of healthcare of local people in the Salt Range of Punjab by Moona Nazish, Asif Kamal, Muhammad Zafar, Muhammad Azhar Khan, Khursheed Ur Rahman, Mushtaq Ahmad, Sadeed Arif, Dunia A Al Farraj, Mohamed S Elshikh, Maximilian Lackner

“…Ethnomedicinal data were collected and documented by interrogating 138 local people and 13 traditional health practitioners using a visual appraisal approach, semi-structured interviews, rapid rural appraisal methods, and open-ended questionnaires, separately for each species and interviewee, in different localities of the Salt Range. …”
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Role of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Value and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Ratio as Prognostic Factors for Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness by Arvids Buss, Maija Radzina, Mara Liepa, Edgars Birkenfelds, Laura Saule, Karlis Miculis, Madara Mikelsone, Egils Vjaters

“…The dominant lesion best visualized on MRI was analyzed. The ADC values of the index lesion and reference tissue were compared to tumor aggressivity according to the Gleason grade groups based on radical prostatectomy results. …”
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Metformin for low back pain: Study protocol for a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial by Yuan Z. Lim, Donna M. Urquhart, Yuanyuan Wang, Mahnuma Mahfuz Estee, Anita E. Wluka, Stephane Heritier, Flavia M. Cicuttini

“…The primary outcome will be change in pain intensity assessed using a 100 ​mm visual analogue scale at 4 months and the secondary outcomes will be change in low back disability, physical activity and narcotic use. …”
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Research trends and hotspots in the mental health of widowed older adults: a bibliometric analysis by Doudou Lin, Jiaojiao Wu, Weibing Chen, Xiangying Shen, Zhongxiang Cai, Nian Wang, Dou Fu, Yinglin Li, Xiaojie Ma

“…CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and the R package “Bibliometrix” were utilized to visualize publication trends, country and author collaborations, keyword co-occurrences, theme analysis, and emerging research topics.ResultsA total of 891 articles were analyzed. …”
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Comparison of the effects of ultrasound-guided steroid injection and anatomic landmark-guided injection on pain and disability in greater trochanteric pain syndrome by Mahir Topaloglu, Cemil Cihad Gedik, Deniz Sarikaya, Selin Kolsuz, Zeynep Turan, Lercan Aslan, Alessandro de Sire

“…Pain scores (Visual Analog Scale, VAS) and functional outcomes (modified Harris Hip Score, HHS) were assessed at baseline, 1 month, and 1 year postinjection. …”
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Topographic factors associated with anterior chamber angle narrowing in patients with keratoconus by Hamed Soltan-Dehghan, Abdollah Farzaneh, Hassan Hashemi, Payam Nabovati, Mehdi Khabazkhoob

“…AIM: To identify topographic determinants of the anterior chamber angle (ACA) in patients with keratoconus (KCN). METHODS: Four hundred and ten eyes of 294 patients with KCN were recruited for this study. …”
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Mapping the Carrier Phase of a Propagating Wave by Wireless Two-Way Interferometry Scanned by a Mobile Robot by Takaaki Nara, Yoshito Okada, Shotaro Kojima, Ranulfo Bezerra, Kazunori Ohno, Suguru Kameda, Nobuyasu Shiga, Satoshi Yasuda, Kenichi Takizawa, Satoshi Tadokoro

“…This technology contributes to applications including wireless communication optimization and environmental sensing, especially in visualizing multipath, diffraction, and interference effects.…”
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Influence of preoperative variables on the 3-month functional outcomes of the Vivity extended depth-of-focus intraocular lens: a prospective case series by Giacomo Savini, Alice Galzignato, Catarina P. Coutinho, Jinhai Huang, Yue Wu, Piero Barboni, João Mendanha Dias, Filomena J. Ribeiro, Domenico Schiano-Lomoriello

“…Visual disturbances and spectacle independence were assessed with McAlinden and IOLSAT questionnaires, respectively. …”
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The correlation between uveal melanoma and iris nevus by Yuhang Yang, Jingting Luo, Zhaoxun Feng, Yang Li, Wenbin Wei, Yueming Liu

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Comparison of retinal vascular abnormalities in the fellow eyes of children with Coats’ disease and normal subjects using ultra-widefield fundus fluorescein angiography by Shenshen Yan, Haixia Ji, Yuzhu Liu, Haicheng She, Haiying Zhou

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Incidence and Clinical Practice of Myopic Macular Neovascularization: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study by Masahiro Akada, MD, Masahiro Miyake, PhD, MPH, Masayuki Hata, MD, PhD, Ai Kido, MD, PhD, Wakako Okayama, MD, Ai Nakata, MD, Shinya Nakao, MD, Kazuya Morino, MD, Shota Yasukura, MD, Yuki Mori, MD, PhD, Hiroshi Tamura, PhD, ScM, Akitaka Tsujikawa, MD, PhD

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A bibliometric analysis of oncolytic virotherapy combined with immunotherapy by Ting Zhang, Shitao Jiang, Lei Zhang, Yaoge Liu, Han Zheng, Haitao Zhao, Shunda Du, Yiyao Xu, Xin Lu

“…Research fronts in the future may focus on the methods of virus delivery and tumor microenvironment modulation. …”
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Pre-clinical safety studies of intranasal virus-like particles based vaccine for prevention of COVID-19 by Yana Y. Chernoryzh, Valeria M. Kondratieva, Аnastasia P. Malkova, Tatyana E. Savochkina, Olesya V. Eliseeva, Oleg E. Latyshev, Dmitriy Y. Yakunin, Olga N. Zaykova, Ekaterina S. Sludnyakova, Tatyana V. Grebennikova

“…No local irritant effect was detected at the injection site during visual assessment, cytological and histological analysis. …”
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Retrospective study of the effectiveness of scleral buckling under direct vision with operating lamp illumination in 17 cases of retinal detachment associated with retinal dialysis by Shanyu Li, Dong Han, Xiaoxuan Wang, Li Li, Zhixia Dou, Xiujun Liu, Jie Zhang

“…In this technique, the operation is visually aided by magnified images that are the real, erect image of the retina, which makes the procedure relatively easy to perform. …”
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Trabecular-bone mimicking osteoconductive collagen scaffolds: an optimized 3D printing approach using freeform reversible embedding of suspended hydrogels by Michael G. Kontakis, Marie Moulin, Brittmarie Andersson, Norein Norein, Ayan Samanta, Christina Stelzl, Adam Engberg, Anna Diez-Escudero, Johan Kreuger, Nils P. Hailer

“…However, the Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) method may allow for precise 3D printing of porous collagen scaffolds that carry the potential for repairing critical size bone defects. …”
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Outcomes of Posterior Oblique Medial Epicondylectomy for the Treatment of Cubital Tunnel Syndrome by Shinsuke Morisaki, MD, PhD, Kengo Yoshii, PhD, Shinji Tsuchida, MD, PhD, Ryo Oda, MD, PhD, Kenji Takahashi, MD, PhD

“…Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand scores improved from 27 to 9.1, and visual analog scale scores decreased from 30 to 10 (P < .001). …”
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Knee osteotomy combined with meniscal allograft transplantation versus knee osteotomy alone in patients with unicompartmental knee osteoarthritis: a prospective double-blind random... by Stefano Zaffagnini, Giuseppe Filardo, Marco Miceli, Angelo Boffa, Alessandro Di Martino, Gina Lisignoli, Lorenzo Zanasi, Luca De Marziani, Claudio Belvedere

“…The secondary outcomes are the IKDC subjective score at 1, 3 and 6 months, the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index score, the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, the Visual Analogue Scale, the EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale, the Tegner Activity Level Scale, objective parameters (transpatellar circumference, suprapatellar circumference and range of motion), patient expectation on treatment efficacy and patient satisfaction at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months. …”
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The ability to assess the state of the fundus in patients with lens opacities of varying intensity, including patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using quantitative analysis of... by L. A. Mineeva, L. I. Balashevich, A. A. Kozhukhov, L. B. Shubin, A. V. Kabanov, C. Passaglia, D. Richards, B. Madow

“…To evaluate a quantitative method for grading the "blurriness" of ocular fundus images in patients with varying degrees of cataract including diabetes mellitus type II in order to improve the quality of fundus examination when it is affected by opacification of the crystalline lens, and to develop an objective method for measuring severity of cataract. …”
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Social orienting in prematurely born preschoolers: a case control study showing altered neural tuning towards voices, not faces by Rowena Van den Broeck, Lisa Gistelinck, Sofie Vettori, Ward Deferm, Silke Vos, Bieke Bollen, Gunnar Naulaers, Els Ortibus, Bart Boets

“…A particular aspect of this phenotype is atypical social orienting, characterized by reduced attention towards socially relevant information, similar to what has been reported for autism spectrum disorder. Methods We monitored a cohort of prematurely born children from birth. …”
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An assessment of the vision-related quality of life among adult patients with diabetes mellitus in Accra, Ghana by Yaw Akye Essuman, Benjamin Abaidoo, Vera Adobea Essuman, Kwesi Nyan Amissah-Arthur

“…Participants with diabetic retinopathy had a worse mean overall total VRQoL score (19.4) than those without (79.9) in all domains; general visual functioning, 41.3 vs. 78.7, p = 0.002; general functioning, 15.1 vs. 80.2, p = 0.001; psychosocial, 35.7 vs. 79.3, p = 0.001; and visual symptoms, 24.4 vs. 80.4, p = 0.001. …”
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