Clinical validity of fluorescence-based devices versus visual-tactile method in detection of secondary caries around resin composite restorations: diagnostic accuracy study by Aya Mohamed Adly, Shereen Hafez Ibrahim, Amira Farid El-Zoghbi

“…Clinical Relevance Fluorescence-based devices could be used as a valuable aid to supplement or as a second opinion after the visual-tactile method. …”
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Actinomycete-Derived Pigments: A Path Toward Sustainable Industrial Colorants by Blanca Hey Díez, Cristiana A. V. Torres, Susana P. Gaudêncio

“…Scale-up of production and yield optimization challenges have been circumvented with the aid of biotechnology advancements, including genetic engineering and innovative fermentation and extraction methods, which have enhanced these bio-pigments’ viability and cost-competitiveness. …”
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TepiSense: A Social Computing-Based Real-Time Epidemic Surveillance System Using Artificial Intelligence by Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Amir Mehmood

“…To test the performance of our system, we build a dataset of Twitter Epidemic Surveillance Corpus (TESC) containing 23.9K English and 13K labelled Urdu tweets related to six diseases: COVID19, hepatitis, malaria, flu, dengue, and HIV/AIDS. Our results show that mBERT LLM achieves the highest F-measure values of 0.96 and 0.83 for topic and indication tweets classification, respectively. …”
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Exploring Topic Coherence With PCC-LDA and BERT for Contextual Word Generation by Sandeep Kumar Rachamadugu, T. P. Pushphavathi, Surbhi Bhatia Khan, Mohammad Alojail

“…Extracting key phrases is an essential task that aids document summarization, information retrieval, and topic classification. …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of molecular testing for cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules by Navjit Dharampal, Kristine Smith, Adrian Harvey, Ralf Paschke, Luke Rudmik, Shamir Chandarana

“…Although fine needle aspirate (FNA) cytology is the gold standard for diagnosis, 15–30% of results are indeterminate. Molecular testing may aid in the diagnosis of nodules and potentially reduce unnecessary surgery. …”
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The Prevalence of Weak Handgrip Strength in Ambulatory Oncology Patients and its Relationship with Quality of Life by Niamh O'Callaghan, Aoibheann O Sullivan, Catherine McHugh, Laura Keaver

“…If routine screening of muscle strength was conducted in oncology patients, it could aid timely referral to nutrition support and combat the negative impacts on their future.…”
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On Using a Mobile Application to Support Teledermatology: A Case Study in an Underprivileged Area in Colombia by Juan Pablo Sáenz, Mónica Paola Novoa, Darío Correal, Bell Raj Eapen

“…A specific case is ONTODerm: an ontology to aid dermatological diagnosis. However, there is little information on the combined use of mobile applications and ontologies as support solutions in dermatology. …”
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Effects of Gamma Irradiation on the Properties of Hydroxyapatite-Collagen-Chitosan-Mg-ZnO Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering by Tusher -Al-Arafat, Shawon Ahmed, Polash Chandra Karmakar, Umme Salma Zohora, Naznin Akhtar, S. M. Asaduzzaman

“…These results demonstrate that sterilization of HA-COL-CS-Mg-ZnO scaffolds with gamma-irradiation substantially improves the physicochemical and morphological features which aid bone tissue regeneration and could be supportive for new bone formation.…”
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Simulating the Tone River eastward diversion project in Japan carried out 4 centuries ago by J. Trošelj, J. Trošelj, N. Hanasaki

“…Next, using the reconstructed historical maps, we quantified low flows (20th percentile) in the 17th century and confirmed that the Tone River diversion aided navigation because it connected areas that increased low flows. …”
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British Policy and Strategy in the Middle East in 1941: Three Wars ‘East of Suez’ by A. M. Fomin

“…The growing German influence in the region, as well as the need to establish a new route for Lend-Lease aid to the USSR, fostered mutual understanding. …”
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Migraine diagnosis in patients with sinus headache symptoms: a cross-sectional study at Khartoum ENT Hospital by Mohamed Salah Mohamed Abdelgafour, Abdelgadir Ahmed Eltayeb, Mohammed El-Awad

“…The presence of good response among those who used antimigraine medications may aid the diagnosis of migraine.…”
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Changes in the policy of the MIA of the USR SSR regarding the Ukrainian national liberation movement in march-june 1953 by V. A. Grechenko

“…As a result of the armed confrontation with the OUN in the western regions of Ukraine in the period from 1944 to 1953, 153,259 people were killed, 103,003 people were arrested, 65,895 families, a total of 203,737 people, were evicted from the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR as “bandit aids”. P. Meshik managed to stay in the position of Minister of Internal Affairs for only three months, and many of his plans, which were, to a certain extent, reformist in nature, were not destined to be implemented.…”
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Methods for Developing Evidence Reviews in Short Periods of Time: A Scoping Review. by Ahmed M Abou-Setta, Maya Jeyaraman, Abdelhamid Attia, Hesham G Al-Inany, Mauricio Ferri, Mohammed T Ansari, Chantelle M Garritty, Kenneth Bond, Susan L Norris

“…Further research and decision aids are needed to help decision makers and reviewers balance the benefits of providing timely evidence with the potential for biased findings.…”
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Biocompatibility of new cement based capping material prepared from eggshell and biopolymer (chitosan). by Hemn M. Sarmamy, Dara H. Saeed

“…The animals were divided into 3 groups, five rabbits for each group, for three time intervals (7, 14, and 21 days).Four specimens (4 mm long and 1 mm inner diameter) were inserted for each animal according to the following groups; Group 1: Empty pockets (control), Group 2: The Experimental material with a powder/liquid ratio of1 scoop: 8 drops by using glass slab with aid of cement metal spatula, Group 3: Mineral trioxide aggregate MTA which was mixed according to manufacturing instructions and Group 4: Biodentine which was mixed according to manufacturing instructions. …”
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Translation of oral health research priorities into research topics in an equity-based priority setting exercise by Sumanth Nagraj Kumbargere, Cath Quinn, Lynne Callaghan, Martha Paisi, Mona Nasser

“…Future research priority-setting endeavours should document their translation processes, thus aiding researchers in understanding and tackling the intricacies of this task.…”
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Data Clustering Improves Siamese Neural Networks Classification of Parkinson’s Disease by Mohamed Shalaby, Nahla A. Belal, Yasser Omar

“…The significance of this study is in the enhanced performance achieved due to the clustering of data, which shows a promising framework to enhance the diagnostic capability of computer-aided disease diagnostic tools.…”
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Evaluation and comparison of methods for neuronal parameter optimization using the Neuroptimus software framework. by Máté Mohácsi, Márk Patrik Török, Sára Sáray, Luca Tar, Gábor Farkas, Szabolcs Káli

“…The tools and analysis we provide should aid members of the neuroscience community to apply parameter search methods more effectively in their research.…”
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Skin Cancer Segmentation and Classification Using Vision Transformer for Automatic Analysis in Dermatoscopy-Based Noninvasive Digital System by Galib Muhammad Shahriar Himel, Md. Masudul Islam, Kh. Abdullah Al-Aff, Shams Ibne Karim, Md. Kabir Uddin Sikder

“…Upon experimenting on six different models, ViT-Google, ViT-MAE, ViT-ResNet50, ViT-VAN, ViT-BEiT, and ViT-DiT, we found out that the ML approach achieves 96.15% accuracy using Google’s ViT patch-32 model with a low false negative ratio on the test dataset, showcasing its potential as an effective tool for aiding dermatologists in the diagnosis of skin cancer.…”
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Exploring the Effects of Sub-Dissociative Doses of Ketamine on Sedation Quality in Bronchoscopy: A Double-Blind Clinical Study by Hamidreza Shetabi, Samira Rostami

“… Background: Sedation is recommended during flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FFB) to aid in airway evaluation, minimize patient mobility, and enhance patient safety. …”
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Machine learning-based prediction of hemodynamic parameters in left coronary artery bifurcation: A CFD approach by Sara Malek, Arshia Eskandari, Mahkame Sharbatdar

“…The ability to efficiently predict hemodynamic parameters could significantly aid medical practitioners in time-sensitive clinical settings, offering valuable insights for coronary artery disease management. …”
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