A case report of duodenal arteriovenous malformation: usefulness of intraoperative indocyanine green angiography for precise identification of the lesion by Yoshihiro Kurata, Koichi Hayano, Keisuke Matsusaka, Hisashi Mamiya, Masaya Uesato, Kentaro Murakami, Masayuki Kano, Takeshi Toyozumi, Yasunori Matsumoto, Hiroshi Suito, Tetsuro Isozaki, Gaku Ohira, Hideki Hayashi, Hisahiro Matsubara

“…Conclusions Intraoperative ICG angiography was a useful procedure for precise identification of the AVM of the GI tract.…”
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Oxygen-releasing microneedles enhance the therapeutic effect of corneal ectasia by increasing corneal oxygen content and riboflavin concentration during cross-linking by Xueqi Lin, Wei Hu, Jiayue Yuan, Shichu Liu, Zhenghong Ge, Shangpeng Liu, Jing Cong, Qianhong Feng, Hao Li, Chenli Feng, Min Sun, Zhen Fan, Jinhui Dai

“…The epithelium-off (epi-off) procedure, the gold standard for treating corneal ectasia, avoids corneal transplantation but can cause pain and delayed healing. …”
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Laparoscopic Resection of a Splenic Artery Aneurism with Spleen Preservation by Tiago Correia de Sá, Carlos Soares, Jacinta Queirós, Teresa Mónica Rocha, Manuel Oliveira

“…Not all SAA are amenable to endovascular treatment, and laparoscopic surgery has mostly replaced open procedures. Laparoscopic ligation and resection of the SAA with splenic preservation offers permanent treatment, with a low morbidity and short hospital stay. …”
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Facial metrics as predictors of occlusal vertical dimension: an anthropometric analysis by Syed Muhammad Yadain, Tufail Ahmed Soomro Soomro, Farooq Ahmed Abro, Mudaser Hussain Abbasi, Kamran Arzoo

“…Specific facial measurements from anatomical landmarks provide important correlations with the vertical dimension of occlusion for forensic experts and dental procedures. There is a gap in such a study in Sargodha, therefore the study was planned to evaluate the correlation & association of facial measurements with the vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) amongst the students of Rai Medical College, Sargodha. …”
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Self-assembly of phosphorylated dihydromyricetin as a carrier-free bone targeting nanomedicine with enhanced efficacy for osteoporosis treatment by Yanlong Zhong, Shaorong Huang, Peng Luo, Qi Lai, Fengbo Mo, Xinmin Yang, Xiaoyong Zhang, Bin Zhang, Yen Wei, Xiaowei Yang

“…Therefore, considered the facile synthesis procedure, enhanced OP treatment efficacy as well as negative toxicity of p-DMY, we trust this strategy described in this work should be an elegant tool for construction of natural compounds-based nanomedicines for OP and other metabolic disease treatment.…”
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Time-Lapse Electrical Resistivity Investigations for Imaging the Grouting Injection in Shallow Subsurface Cavities by Muhammad Farooq, Samgyu Park, Jung Ho Kim, Young Soo Song, Mohammad Amjad Sabir, Muhammad Umar, Mohammad Tariq, Said Muhammad

“…Furthermore, the borehole camera confirmed the presence of grouting material in the subsurface cavities, and hence this procedure increases the mechanical resistance of subsurface cavities below the highway.…”
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Nursing management of a rheumatoid arthritis patient treated by wax therapy with Chinese herbal medicine (中药蜡疗治疗类风湿关节炎1例护理体会) by LU Lin (芦琳), TANG Ling (唐玲), LI Ye (李野), LI Suqian (李苏茜)

“…Key issues of nursing included preparation of Chinese herbal medicine and wax, procedure and cautions of wax therapy, life care, dietary intervention, psychological intervention. …”
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Evaluating Arundo donax efficiency for pharmaceutical compounds removal from synthetic wastewater in horizontal flow constructed wetland by Zeba Ali Mumtaj, Saimah Khan, Nafees Ahmad, Abdul Rahman Khan, Meshel Qablan Alkahtani, Rachida El Morabet

“…Further research may concentrate on assessing alternative procedures in conjunction with CWs development.…”
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Pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment of tension-type headache by Julia Łabuda, Dawid Falkowski, Marta Frank, Magdalena Kozłowska, Gracjan Kozłowski, Urszula Rewaj-Nowicka, Jowita Szwedo

“…Psychological therapy is an additional procedure for reducing the pain. Conclusion: However there are many possibilities of treatment both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, it is still a wide area to investigate.  …”
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Chemical analysis using miniaturized and Portable 3D printed systems: Where are we now? by Miryam Perrucci, Imran Ali, Fotouh R. Mansour, Halil I. Ulusoy, Songül Ulusoy, Abuzar Kabir, Ornella Abollino, Agnese Giacomino, Paolo Inaudi, Marcello Locatelli, Erika Maria Ricci

“…With the growing emphasis on green chemistry (GC) and green analytical chemistry (GAC), significant efforts have been directed toward minimizing sample size and simplifying sample preparation procedures. Concurrently, ongoing research has enabled the miniaturization of instrumental configurations used for quantitative analysis, aligning with the principles of sustainability.One major challenge lies in the inherent complexity of liquid chromatography systems, which comprise multiple interconnected components. …”
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Snow Cover as a Medium for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Deposition and a Measure of Atmospheric Pollution in Carpathian Village–Study Case of Zawoja, Poland by Kinga Wencel, Witold Żukowski, Gabriela Berkowicz-Płatek, Igor Łabaj

“…The sampling set was invented, and the extraction procedure and analysis parameters were optimized. A spatial distribution map of PAHs was created. …”
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Semi-analytical implicit direct time integration method for 1-D gas dynamic problem by Igor Orynyak, Iryna Kostyushko, Roman Mazuryk

“…Its peculiarity consists in development of additional procedure of linearization of dependence between the pressure and density. …”
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Intranasal Otological T-Tube Application to the Lacrimal Sac in Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy by Kadri Cemil Apaydın, Bülent Veli Ağırdır, Hatice Deniz İlhan, Serkan Yağcı, Koray Ahat, Çağrı Açıkgöz

“…Conclusion: Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy combined with otological silicon T-tube stent application can be used as an alternative procedure for especially distal part obstructions in the nasolacrimal system; the advantages are no canalicular trauma and less granulation risk. …”
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First Molecular Characterization of <i>Trueperella pyogenes</i> Isolated from a Rabbit Periodontal Abscess by Magdalena Kizerwetter-Świda, Ewelina Kwiecień, Ilona Stefańska, Dorota Chrobak-Chmiel, Magdalena Rzewuska, Wojciech Bielecki

“…This study showed the need for standardization of the laboratory methods used for extended microbial culture for the clinical samples obtained from periodontal abscesses in rabbits. These procedures should also include the isolation of fastidious pathogens like <i>T. pyogenes</i>.…”
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Evaluating the performance of three packing methods for long-distance transport of sterile adult Aedes albopictus males by Wadaka Mamai, Arianna Puggioli, Thomas Wallner, Fabrizio Balestrino, Teresa Brandolini, Mario Marinozzi, Giulia Celli, Thabo Mashatola, Simran Singh Kotla, Maylen Gomez, Hanano Yamada, Romeo Bellini, Chantel Janet de Beer

“…Although Ae. albopictus prove to be more sensitive to packaging and shipping procedures compared to Aedes aegypti, this study provides valuable insights for developing and improving handling packing and shipping guidelines.…”
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Synthesizing, Structuring, and Characterizing Bioactivities of .Cr(III), La(III), and Ce(III) .Complexes with Nitrogen, Oxygen .and Sulpher donor bidentate Schiff base ligands by Anaam M. Rasheed, Sinan M. M. Al-Bayati, Dr.Rehab A.M. Al-Hasani, Muna Ali Shakir

“…Standard physico-chemical procedures including metal analysis M%, element microanalysis (C.H.N.S) , magnetic susceptibility, conductometric measurements, FT-IR and UV-visible Spectra were used to identify Metal (III) complexes and  Schiff bases (LS) and (LA). …”
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Distributionally robust microgrid formation for service restoration in distribution systems against extended extreme events by Ran Zhu, Hongzhe Liu, Wenwu Yu, Wei Gu, Jin Zhao

“…Furthermore, to enhance the computational efficiency, a parallel solving strategy is developed, based on the column-and-constraint generation algorithm, the alternating optimization procedure, and the progressive hedging algorithm. Finally, the case studies are given to demonstrate that the proposed strategy has a good performance on enhancing system resilience by improving the WLSR index during extended extreme events with subsequent uncertainties and facilitating time-sensitive decision-making for SR.…”
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Automated Road Extraction from Satellite Imagery Integrating Dense Depthwise Dilated Separable Spatial Pyramid Pooling with DeepLabV3+ by Arpan Mahara, Md Rezaul Karim Khan, Liangdong Deng, Naphtali Rishe, Wenjia Wang, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi

“…Road extraction is a sub-domain of remote sensing applications; it is a subject of extensive and ongoing research. The procedure of automatically extracting roads from satellite imagery encounters significant challenges due to the multi-scale and diverse structures of roads; improvement in this field is needed. …”
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The Number of Microbubbles Generated During Cardiopulmonary Bypass Can Be Estimated Using Machine Learning From Suction Flow Rate, Venous Reservoir Level, Perfusion Flow Rate, Hema... by Satoshi Miyamoto, Zu Soh, Shigeyuki Okahara, Akira Furui, Taiichi Takasaki, Keijiro Katayama, Shinya Takahashi, Toshio Tsuji

“…In clinical practice, although the inclusion of clinical procedures slightly decreased the estimation accuracy, a high coefficient of determination for 30 clinical cases (<italic>R²</italic> &#x003D; 0.8576) was achieved between measured and estimated MB count rates. …”
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Structural investigation and physical properties of RO-ZnO-Li2B4O7-K2B4O7 (RO= SrO and BaO) glasses by Sarap Krishnaprasad, Mohammed Shareefuddin, Siddey Laxmi Srinivasa Rao, Ramadevudu Gokarakonda

“…Glass samples 10RO-30ZnO-xLi2B4O7-(60-x) K2B4O7 (RO=SrO and BaO) with alkali tetra borates varying from 0 to 60 mol% were produced by traditional quenching procedure. Peak free broad X-ray diffraction patterns established the amorphous feature of glass samples. …”
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