Right Thumb Mycetoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Saud A. Alkabbaa, MD, Hala M. Alassaf, MBBs, Khalid Alosaimi, MBBs, Sameh E. Abdelrazek, MSc, Mona A. Alkhotani, MBBs, Afaf Alsolami, MBBs

“…Mycetoma, or maduromycosis, is a chronic granulomatous infection involving the skin, subcutaneous tissues, and bones, most commonly affecting the lower extremities. Hand involvement is rare and often leads to diagnostic delays due to its atypical presentation. …”
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Does Valve-Sparing Repair Improve Outcomes in Tetralogy of Fallot? A Systematic Review by Jabez David John, Tirath Patel, Monica Kharat, Jeet HansalKumar Patel, Jubran Al Hooti, Zoya Riyaz Syeda, Rohit Anil Khare, Sonya Bhatia, Amin Ibrahim, Arjun Bellamkonda, Nikhilesh Anand, Bharathi S. Gadad

“…Additionally, most studies reported that valve-sparing surgeries significantly improved proper ventricular function, but mixed results regarding reintervention have been reported. …”
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STUDY OF FROST RESISTANCE OF CULTIVARS AND LINES OF SOFT WINTER WHEAT by M. M. Ivanisov, E. V. Ionova

“…Preservation of varieties and lines after freezing in the boxes changed in dependence of the temperature. …”
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The Impact of Agricultural Land Use Patterns on Natural Vegetation, Plant, and Livestock Diversity in the European Union by Zsuzsanna Bacsi, Péter Szálteleki, Gabriella Bánhegyi

“…The present research is focused on assessing the trends of natural landscape changes, such as forests, meadows, and pastures, and the preservation of locally kept traditional livestock, and plant varieties as indicators of biodiversity, in the countries of the European Union between 2012 and 2021, using secondary data. …”
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Optimizing Pharmaceutical Inventory and Investment Strategies During Pandemics: A Dynamic Approach Integrating Environmental Emission Rates and Advanced Optimization Algorithms by Vinita Dwivedi, Mamta Keswani, Uttam Kumar Khedlekar, Lalji Kumar

“…This study presents a strategy for managing pharmaceutical inventory during pandemics, focusing on optimizing investment in COVID-19 medicines while ensuring product preservation. …”
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Semantic Segmentation of Archaeological Features on Public Lands: Case Study of Historical Cotton Terraces within the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, USA by Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Grant Snitker, Jayde N. Hirniak, Katherine Peck, Alex Fetterhoff

“…For this project, we fine-tuned pretrained U-Net models to teach them to recognize agricultural terraces in imagery, identified the parameter settings that led to the highest recall for detecting terraces, and used those settings to train models on incremental dataset sizes, which allowed us to identify the minimum training size necessary to obtain satisfying models. Results present effective models that can detect most terraces even when trained on small datasets. …”
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Surgical Outcomes in Cerebellopontine Angle Tumors: A Retrospective Analysis of 30 Cases by Aravind Verma, Kalpesh Shah, Jaimin Modh, Dharmik Velani, Krushi Soladhara, Renish Padshala, MD Nazar Imam

“…Results: Vestibular schwannomas constituted the majority (73.3%) of tumors, with most cases presenting in the third to sixth decades of life. …”
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Laparoscopic retropubic extraurethral adenomectomy by S. N. Eremenko, A. N. Eremenko, V. Yu. Mykhaylichenko, V. P. Dolgopolov, V. S. Chernega, A. S.-A. Khalilova

“…At present, it is possible to use the operation technique and perform laparoscopic urethral-sparing adenomectomy.Objective. …”
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Case report of the perinatal form of Nieman-Pick disease type С against the backdrop of pathogenetic off-label therapy by Nailya R. Mingacheva, Aelita A. Kamalova, Nargis A. Artykova, Razilya F. Rakhmaeva, Gulnara I. Sageeva

“…The leading syndromes in the clinical presentation of the disease were cholestasis, cytolysis, hepatosplenomegaly, as well as psychomotor retardation. …”
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Idiopathic hyperplasia of the sublingual gland in a partially edentulous individual; A case report by Muneera Abdulaziz AlHassan, Ahmed Fathi AlOmar, Rana Saud AlShagroud

“…Case description: A 61 years old male patient presented with a complaint of a swelling at the floor of the mouth. …”
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Quantitative assessment and Kirschner-wire fixation of an isolated sustentaculum tali fracture in a 7-year-old girl—a case report by Fengyong Mao, Lei Ni, Li Ju

“…Precise anatomical reduction remains paramount for the preservation of hindfoot biomechanics in skeletally immature patients. …”
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The State of Immunity of the Population of the Russian Federation to Rubella during the Elimination of Infection by L. A. Barkinkhoeva, N. V. Turaeva, O. V. Tsvirkun, A. G. Gerasimova

“…The conducted study confirmed a sufficient, stable level of immunity to the rubella virus in most age groups and regions of the country, which indicates the effectiveness of vaccination and the preservation (stabilization) of the infection elimination process. …”
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Potential risk of dipterocarps in the marginal Asian rainforests: low population size and high genomic erosion by Xian-Liang Zhu, Wen-Ji Luo, Sheng-Feng Chai, Jian-Min Tang, Xiao Wei, Alison K. S. Wee, Ming Kang

“…Abstract Background Vatica guangxiensis, one of the northernmost dipterocarp tree species in Asian tropical rainforests and among the most critically endangered members of the Dipterocarpaceae, faces severe genetic risks due to its extremely small population size. …”
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Applications of beta-carotene in food technology by E. V. Lisovaya, T. I. Ugryumova, T. A. Shakhrai, E. P. Viktorova, A. A. Skhalyakhov

“…It has been shown that the most promising system for delivering beta-carotene to food systems is the encapsulation system in the form of micro emulsions, which allows increasing its stability and bioavailability, ensuring the preservation of the high bioactive potential of beta-carotene.…”
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Comparative Performance of YOLOv8, YOLOv9, YOLOv10, and YOLOv11 for Layout Analysis of Historical Documents Images by Eder Silva dos Santos Júnior, Thuanne Paixão, Ana Beatriz Alvarez

“…In this context, this paper presents an evaluation of the most recent YOLO methods for the analysis of historical document layouts. …”
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A modified droplet vitrification method for cryopreservation of shoot tips from <i>in vitro</i> potato plants by T. A. Gavrilenko, N. A. Shvachko, N. N. Volkova, Yu. V. Ukhatova

“…The solution of the problem of safe long-term preservation of common potato accessions is to create doublet in vitro and cryo-collections. …”
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Wnt5a augments intracellular free cholesterol levels and promotes castration resistance in prostate cancer by Yuqi Guo, Zhiyuan Zhang, Lintao Dong, Xinyi Shi, Xiaohan Li, Mingxiu Luo, Yajuan Fu, Yujing Gao

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Edge-aware multisensor brain image fusion via guided filtering in Laplacian domain by Shweta Sharma, Shalli Rani, Ayush Dogra, Mohammed Wasim Bhatt

“…However, deformities like noise, spatial distortion and the loss of feature fine details during fusion remain, necessitating robust approaches. This work presents a new edge-aware multi-sensor brain image fusion technique using Laplacian energy maps for edge preservation, guided filtering for image decomposition, and adaptive fusion algorithms for integration of base and detail layers. …”
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Aortic regurgitation: epidemiologic, etiologic, and pathophysiologic characteristics by G. A. Ignatenko, N. T. Vatutin, G. G. Taradin, A. N. Shevelok, I. V. Rakitskaya

“…The presented review concerns aortic regurgitation which occupies a significant place in the structure of valvular heart disease. …”
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Multidisciplinary, whole-process management of a patient with recurrent serous borderline ovarian tumor from embryo cryopreservation before re-fertility-sparing surgery to successf... by Qin Xu, Limei Tao, Li Wang, Bo Li, Zouying Tang, Na Lin, Jing Ge, Li Zhuan

“…Abstract Background For patients with recurrent serous borderline ovarian tumors (BOT) who have undergone unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, there is a risk of reduced or even lost ovarian reserve after the second surgery; therefore, fertility preservation (FP) prior to re-operation in patients of childbearing age is challenging, and has attracted increasing attention. …”
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