The impact of different optical treatment strategies on the dynamics of refraction after minimally invasive sclero-strengthening treatment of progressive myopia in children by G. A. Markosyan, E. P. Tarutta, E. N. Iomdina, V. N. Papyan, N. A. Tarasova, S. V. Milash, T. Yu. Larina, K. A. Ramazanova

“…Comparative analysis of YPG in groups with different optical correction showed different decrease of this parameter in the postoperative period: in group 1 — 4.7 times; in group 2 — 4 times; in group 3 — 2.3 times; in group 4 — 5 times. Conclusion. The most effective treatment is a combination of MIS and optical correction with accommodation support and/or impact on peripheral retinal defocus. …”
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Electroneuromyography for early diagnosis of diabetic distal polyneuropathy by Elena S. Mazurenko, Lyudmila A. Ruyatkina, Igor A. Pakhomov, Elena V. Chesheva, Larisa O. Gavrilova

“…The medial and lateral plantar nerves were the most commonly affected (p = 0.018 and p = 0.002, respectively). …”
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Global research priorities for intrauterine suction and sponge tools for postpartum haemorrhage management in low-income and middle-income countries: a modified Delphi approach by Dilys Walker, Ribka Amsalu, Jill Durocher, Elizabeth Butrick, Anthony Wanyoro, Nicole Santos, Suellen Miller, Linda Shin

“…A coordinated research agenda is necessary to confirm safety and efficacy and to determine which tools are most appropriate for specific LMIC settings.…”
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Two Decades of Bengali Handwritten Digit Recognition: A Survey by A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman, Md. Bakhtiar Hasan, Sabbir Ahmed, Tasnim Ahmed, Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee, Mohammad Ridwan Kabir, Md. Hasanul Kabir

“…Handwritten Digit Recognition (HDR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the domain of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). …”
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Direct medical cost of first-ever acute ischemic stroke in malaysia: a retrospective cohort study by Mustapha Mohammed, Hadzliana Zainal, Siew Chin Ong, Balamurugan Tangiisuran, Fatimatuzzahra Abdul Aziz, Abubakar Sha’aban, Usman Abubakar, Norsima Nazifah Sidek, Irene Looi, Zariah A. Aziz

“…The mean ± standard deviation (SD) for the patients’ age was 61.0 ± 10.9 years, the length of stay (LOS) was 4.5 ± 3.5 days, and the modified Rankin scale (mRS) score was 3.0 ± 1.1. Most patients experienced functional disability (poor functional status, mRS ≥ 3) and incurred an average (SD) treatment cost of MYR 1,970.7 ± 1,385.8, primarily attributed to hospital admissions and radiology expenses. …”
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Improvement of classification accuracy of functional near-infrared spectroscopy signals for hand motion and motor imagery using a common spatial pattern algorithm by Omid Asadi, Mahsan Hajihosseini, Sima Shirzadi, Zahra Einalou, Mehrdad Dadgostar

“…Results: Mean and slope were found to be the most discriminative features. Without CSP, SVM and LDA classifiers achieved average accuracies of 59.81 % ± 0.97 % and 69 % ± 11.42 %, respectively. …”
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Adaptive optimization decision system for plate-fin heat Exchangers: An integrated approach to enhancing efficiency and performance by Na Sun, Shuai Zhang, Nan Li, Zijian Li, Meng He, Zhengchun Shen, Ke Wang, Xiaoyong Guo, Wen-Quan Tao

“…Multi-objective optimization showed a 10–40 % decrease in TAC and a 0–5 % increase in effectiveness for the most economic-efficient scheme. This user-friendly framework provides a reliable design process, reducing uncertainties for inexperienced users and offering potential for expansion.…”
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Influence of CBCT parameters on image quality and the diagnosis of vertical root fractures in teeth with metallic posts: an ex vivo study by Larissa Pereira Lagos de Melo, Polyane Mazucatto Queiroz, Larissa Moreira-Souza, Mariana Rocha Nadaes, Gustavo Machado Santaella, Matheus Lima Oliveira, Deborah Queiroz Freitas

“…According to the subjective classification, the 99 kVp protocol with MAR demonstrated the least expression of artifacts, while the 70 kVp protocol without MAR led to the most artifacts.ConclusionsProtocols with higher kVp combined with MAR improved the image quality of CBCT examinations. …”
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If this is true, what does it imply? How end-user antibody validation facilitates insights into biology and disease by Karen S. Sfanos, Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, William G. Nelson, Tamara L. Lotan, Ibrahim Kulac, Jessica L. Hicks, Qizhi Zheng, Charles J. Bieberich, Michael C. Haffner, Angelo M. De Marzo

“…Antibodies are employed ubiquitously in biomedical sciences, including for diagnostics and therapeutics. One of the most important uses is for immunohistochemical (IHC) staining, a process that has been improving and evolving over decades. …”
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Decidual stromal cells-derived exosomes incured insufficient migration and invasion of trophoblast because of abnormal ubiquitination and degradation of Snail mediated by miR-92b-3... by Miao Xiong, Ziqiu He, Liping Wen, Aimin Zhao

“…MicroRNA sequencing revealed that miR-92b-3p were the most significantly upregulated microRNA in trophoblasts treated with URSA-DSC-exos. …”
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Developing a Urinary Catheter with Anti-Biofilm Coated Surface Using Phyto-Assisted Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles by Goda RM, Maghrabi IA, El-Badawy MF, Kabel AM, Omar AA, El-Morsi RM, Ramadan HA, Shohayeb MM

“…Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) are considered one of the most important biofilm inhibitors.Methods: The current study aimed to characterize the influence of the bioreductive green synthesis of ZnO-NPs using pomegranate peel extract on bacterial colonization to protect against urinary catheter infections. …”
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Enhancing Heart Disease Diagnosis Using ECG Signal Reconstruction and Deep Transfer Learning Classification with Optional SVM Integration by Mostafa Ahmad, Ali Ahmed, Hasan Hashim, Mohammed Farsi, Nader Mahmoud

“…The proposed ECG segmentation algorithm introduces a distinct and original approach compared to prior research by integrating adaptive preprocessing, histogram-based lead separation, and robust point-tracking techniques into a unified framework. While most earlier studies have addressed ECG image processing using basic filtering, fixed-region cropping, or template matching, our method uniquely focuses on automated and precise reconstruction of individual ECG leads from noisy and overlapping multi-lead images—a challenge often overlooked in previous work. …”
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Suppression of the surface roughness by adjusting the temperature distribution in the top-seeded solution growth of SiC crystal by Mengyu Li, Yuhui Liu, Xiaofang Qi, Wencheng Ma, Yongkuan Xu, Zhanggui Hu, Yicheng Wu

“…Accordingly, a lower temperature gradient, a larger solution velocity, a higher carbon concentration, and a smaller carbon supersaturation near the growth surface can be obtained when the relative position between the crucible and the induction coil is 70 mm, which is demonstrated to be the most favorable for the elimination of spontaneous nucleation of small SiC particles and suppressing surface roughening with the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 37.5 arcsec of 4HSiC crystals.…”
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PATIENT-ORIENTED INNOVATIONS OF DENTAL MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY IN DENTAL TREATMENT WITH REMOVABLE AND NON-REMOVABLE CONSTRUCTIONS by I. V. Yanishen

“…As you know, each dental material is characterized by its own compliance to the requirements of ISO and under specific qualimetric indices determining the general qualimetric index of the construction. Accordingly, the most compliant dental materials are those that in the “related” selection at the stages of manufacturing prosthetic restoration define (provide) the highest rates of order (compliance) of the “material-construction” system. …”
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On the method, genre and style of Vaižgantas' "Pragiedruliai" by Algimantas Radzevičius

“…The article concludes that Vaižgantas' "Pragiedruliai" is one of the most prominent examples of the synthetic artistic method in the classical Lithuanian prose. …”
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Primary health care performance measurement at the service delivery level in Indonesia: a scoping review by Dewi Amila Solikha, Danielle C. Butler, Ery Setiawan, Rosemary J. Korda, Matthew Kelly

“…These indicators are broadly categorised in the WHO/UNICEF framework based on their feasibility and relevance for measuring PHC performance as either Tier 1 − measurable in most contexts, or Tier 1 global − important for global monitoring, or Tier 2 − difficult to measure or requiring further assessment. …”
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Genome‐wide screening of abberant methylated drivers combined with relative risk loci in bladder cancer by Chuanjie Zhang, Kangjie Shen, Yuxiao Zheng, Feng Qi, Jun Luo

“…Results revealed that most conspicuous pathways were transcriptional mis‐regulation pathways in cancer and EMT. …”
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Targeted Metabolomic Serum Analysis of Patients with High and Low Risk of Endometrial Cancer Recurrence and Positive and Negative Lymph Node Status by Dagmara Pietkiewicz, Mikołaj Piotr Zaborowski, Szymon Plewa, Michał Potograbski, Cezary Miedziarek, Tomasz Kluz, Ewa Nowak-Markwitz, Jan Matysiak

“…Background: Endometrial cancer is among the most prevalent gynecological malignancies, with increasing mortality primarily due to initially advanced disease with lymph node metastasis or tumor recurrence. …”
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Features of Microbiocenoses of Various Biotopes in Women as Potential Miscarriage Risk Factor by A. E. Goncharov, S. V. Rischuk, B. I. Aslanov, E. A. Lebedeva, D. V. Azarov, A. S. Mokhov, Yu. A. Artemova, M. V. Tabolkina, A. A. Meltser, T. V. Osmirko, A. V. Tushina

“…Miscarriage is one of the most common obstetric pathologies that determine the spontaneous death of the fetus. …”
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Effect of Soil-Applied Metabolic Modulators on the Accumulation of Specialized Metabolites in <i>Chelidonium majus</i> L. by Maria Stasińska-Jakubas, Sławomir Dresler, Maciej Strzemski, Magdalena Wójciak, Katarzyna Rubinowska, Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak

“…Various metabolic modulators have been widely used in recent years to increase the accumulation of desired secondary metabolites in medicinal plants, although most studies to date have focused on in vitro systems. …”
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