Vision-Related Quality of Life in Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma Patients with or without Visual Field Dysfunction by Pingping Ma, Yingru Liu, Yufang Su, Yajun Yang

“…No significant differences were found in gender, VFQ rating for “composite score” and “color vision” between the three groups. …”
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Retinal and choroidal morphological changes in Huntington's disease by S. N. Svetozarskiy, S. V. Kopishinskaya, I. G. Smetankin

“…CAG repeat expansion size (cytosine-adenine-guanine) in the huntingtin gene, the disease duration and Unified HD Rating Scale motor scores (UHDRS) were evaluated for HD patients. …”
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The Role of Genetic Variations in the FAAH rs324420 Polymorphism and its Interaction with CRHR1 rs110402 and CNR1 rs2180619 in Anxiety and- Trauma Related Symptoms After Military D... by Nadia Leen, Antoin de Weijer, Marco Boks, Johanna Baas, Eric Vermetten, Elbert Geuze

“…Anxiety was measured with the anxiety subscale of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) and trauma with the Self-Rating Inventory for PTSD (SRIP). Results Covariance Pattern Models demonstrated no significant relation of genetic variations in FAAH rs324420 on anxiety and PTSD symptoms from pre-deployment to 6 months after military deployment. …”
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Expert Ranking of Employees in Large Enterprises Using Tacit Reputation by Saba Mahmood, Anwar Ghani, Ali Daud, Riad Alharbey, Amal Bukhari, Bader Alshemaimri

“…The results reveal that the technique is independent of the rating pattern and density of data.…”
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Smoking, Cardiac Symptoms, and an Emergency Care Visit: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Cognitive and Emotional Reactions by Karyn A. Tappe, Edwin D. Boudreaux, Beth Bock, Erin O'Hea, Brigitte M. Baumann, Steven M. Hollenberg, Bruce Becker, Gretchen B. Chapman

“…Although the typical profile was characterized by a peak in perceived illness severity and negative emotions at the time the patient presented in the ED, considerable pattern variation occurred. Our results suggest that future studies of event-related perceptions and emotional reactions should consider using multi-item and multidimensional assessment methods rated serially over the event chronology.…”
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Establishing expert consensus on Chinese herbal medicine for rheumatoid arthritis management in Singapore by Ang Loh, Huijuan Li, Wai Ching Lam, Yan Yin Tjioe, Warren Fong, Linda L.D. Zhong

“…Consensus was defined as ≥75% of votes in dichotomized ratings on a five-point ordinal scale for recognition. …”
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Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model physiological markers of affective experience by Nicholas A. Coles, Bartosz Perz, Maciej Behnke, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Soo Hyung Kim, Tu N. Vu, Chirag Raman, Julian Tejada, Van-Thong Huynh, Guangyi Zhang, Tanming Cui, Sharanyak Podder, Rushi Chavda, Shubham Pandey, Arpit Upadhyay, Jorge I. Padilla-Buritica, Carlos J. Barrera Causil, Linying Ji, Felix Dollack, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Huakun Liu, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hideaki Uchiyama, Xin Wei, Houwei Cao, Ziqing Yang, Alessia Iancarelli, Kieran McVeigh, Yiyu Wang, Isabel M. Berwian, Jamie C. Chiu, Dan-Mircea Mirea, Erik C. Nook, Henna I. Vartiainen, Claire Whiting, Young Won Cho, Sy-Miin Chow, Zachary F. Fisher, Yanling Li, Xiaoyue Xiong, Yuqi Shen, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Leandro A. Bugnon, Raydonal Ospina, Nicolas M. Bruno, Tomas A. D'Amelio, Federico Zamberlan, Luis R. Mercado Diaz, Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas, Hugo F. Posada-Quintero, Maneesh Bilalpur, Saurabh Hinduja, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Shaun Canavan, Liza Jivnani, Stanisław Saganowski

“…In 46% of tests, teams also outperformed baseline models that relied on the simple average of ratings from training datasets. More notably, results uncovered a methodological challenge: multiplicative constraints on generalizability. …”
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Review of Major Hydraulic Modeling Results for Feilaixia Proje ct by XU Feng_jun, XIE Yu_feng, ZHOU Pei_ling

“…This paper summarizes a series of tests and inve stigations on general layout,const ruction diversion,flood disposal,navigation,river closure,form of gate opening s ection,pattern of energy dissipation and scouring under sluice carried out for F eilaixia Proj ect by the Scientific Research Institute of PRWRC during the period from 1983 to 1998 and presents their major results.…”
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What can COVID‐19 teach us about patient satisfaction in the emergency department? A mixed‐methods approach by Maureen O. Grissom, Morgan Farra, Eric S. Cruzen, Erin Barlow, Sanjey Gupta

“…Methods A mixed‐methods design, integrating qualitative and quantitative data analyses, was employed to explore a total of 289 patient satisfaction survey ratings and 421 comments based on care that took place in the ED during the initial phase of the COVID‐19 epidemic. …”
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A distributed brain response predicting the facial expression of acute nociceptive pain by Marie-Eve Picard, Miriam Kunz, Jen-I Chen, Michel-Pierre Coll, Etienne Vachon-Presseau, Tor D Wager, Pierre Rainville

“…We then applied a multivariate pattern analysis to the fMRI data to predict the facial expression of pain. …”
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Psychosocial effects of a behavioural augmentation of existing public physical activity programs for middle-aged and older adults in Ireland. by Enrique García Bengoechea, Ciaran Doyle, Chloe Forte, Andrew O'Regan, Amanda M Clifford, Stephen Gallagher, Alan Donnelly, Liam Glynn, Andrew W Murphy, Ali Sheikhi, Catherine B Woods

“…Significant advantages were found in the MFL group relative to UP in ratings of self-efficacy to overcome barriers to physical activity participation, subjective norms for and attitudes towards participation in physical activity (ps < .05). …”
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Distalization with Clear Aligners: Accuracy, Impact of Mini-Screws, and Clinical Outcomes by Teresa Pinho, Diana Melo, Sofia Ferreira, Maria Gonçalves

“…Occlusal improvements were assessed using the <i>Peer Assessment Rating (PAR) index</i>. <b>Results:</b> The results revealed significant discrepancies between the programmed and achieved distalization, with mean deviations greater than 1 mm in both arches. …”
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Factors associated with chronotype in individuals with bipolar disorder in remission by Ravneet Singh, Raman Deep, Vaibhav Patil, Rachna Bhargava, Ashwani Kumar Mishra

“…Participants were assessed using the validated Hindi version of Composite Scale of Morningness-Eveningness (CSM), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-Life Chart Method, IGLSI (International Group for Study of Lithium) Scale for typical/atypical features, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Cognitive complaints in BD Rating Assessment, Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire, Bipolar Eating Disorder Scale, Internet Disorder Scale, and Functioning Assessment Short Test. …”
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Fine-tuning a local LLaMA-3 large language model for automated privacy-preserving physician letter generation in radiation oncology by Yihao Hou, Yihao Hou, Christoph Bert, Christoph Bert, Christoph Bert, Ahmed Gomaa, Ahmed Gomaa, Ahmed Gomaa, Godehard Lahmer, Godehard Lahmer, Godehard Lahmer, Daniel Höfler, Daniel Höfler, Daniel Höfler, Thomas Weissmann, Thomas Weissmann, Thomas Weissmann, Raphaela Voigt, Raphaela Voigt, Raphaela Voigt, Philipp Schubert, Philipp Schubert, Philipp Schubert, Charlotte Schmitter, Charlotte Schmitter, Charlotte Schmitter, Alina Depardon, Alina Depardon, Alina Depardon, Sabine Semrau, Sabine Semrau, Sabine Semrau, Andreas Maier, Rainer Fietkau, Rainer Fietkau, Rainer Fietkau, Yixing Huang, Yixing Huang, Florian Putz, Florian Putz, Florian Putz

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Medial intracranial carotid artery calcifications and hematoma expansion in deep intracerebral hemorrhage by Federico Mazzacane, Stefan Moraru, Beatrice Del Bello, Federica Ferrari, Erica Ferro, Alessandra Persico, Jawed Nawabi, Alessandro Padovani, Anna Cavallini, Andrea Morotti

“…ICAC pattern was determined by Kockelkoren's rating scale on admission CT; medial ICAC were defined with a >6 points cutoff. …”
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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Kazunori Akiyama, Juan Carlos Algaba, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Richard Anantua, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Anne-Kathrin Baczko, David Ball, Mislav Baloković, John Barrett, Bradford A. Benson, Dan Bintley, Lindy Blackburn, Raymond Blundell, Wilfred Boland, Katherine L. Bouman, Geoffrey C. Bower, Hope Boyce, Michael Bremer, Christiaan D. Brinkerink, Roger Brissenden, Silke Britzen, Avery E. Broderick, Dominique Broguiere, Thomas Bronzwaer, Do-Young Byun, John E. Carlstrom, Andrew Chael, Chi-kwan Chan, Shami Chatterjee, Koushik Chatterjee, Ming-Tang Chen, Yongjun Chen, Paul M. Chesler, Ilje Cho, Pierre Christian, John E. Conway, James M. Cordes, Thomas M. Crawford, Geoffrey B. Crew, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Yuzhu Cui, Jordy Davelaar, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Roger Deane, Jessica Dempsey, Gregory Desvignes, Jason Dexter, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Ralph P. Eatough, Heino Falcke, Joseph Farah, Vincent L. Fish, Ed Fomalont, H. Alyson Ford, Raquel Fraga-Encinas, Per Friberg, Christian M. Fromm, Antonio Fuentes, Peter Galison, Charles F. Gammie, Roberto García, Zachary Gelles, Olivier Gentaz, Boris Georgiev, Ciriaco Goddi, Roman Gold, José L. Gómez, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, Minfeng Gu, Mark Gurwell, Kazuhiro Hada, Daryl Haggard, Michael H. Hecht, Ronald Hesper, Elizabeth Himwich, Luis C. Ho, Paul Ho, Mareki Honma, Chih-Wei L. Huang, Lei Huang, David H. Hughes, Shiro Ikeda, Makoto Inoue, Sara Issaoun, David J. James, Buell T. Jannuzi, Michael Janssen, Britton Jeter, Wu Jiang, Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales, Michael D. Johnson, Svetlana Jorstad, Taehyun Jung, Mansour Karami, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Tomohisa Kawashima, Garrett K. Keating, Mark Kettenis, Dong-Jin Kim, Jae-Young Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Junhan Kim, Motoki Kino, Jun Yi Koay, Yutaro Kofuji, Patrick M. Koch, Shoko Koyama, Michael Kramer, Carsten Kramer, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Tod R. Lauer, Sang-Sung Lee, Aviad Levis, Yan-Rong Li, Zhiyuan Li, Michael Lindqvist, Rocco Lico, Greg Lindahl, Jun Liu, Kuo Liu, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Wen-Ping Lo, Andrei P. Lobanov, Laurent Loinard, Colin Lonsdale, Ru-Sen Lu, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Jirong Mao, Nicola Marchili, Sera Markoff, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Martí-Vidal, Satoki Matsushita, Lynn D. Matthews, Lia Medeiros, Karl M. Menten, Izumi Mizuno, Yosuke Mizuno, James M. Moran, Kotaro Moriyama, Monika Moscibrodzka, Cornelia Müller, Gibwa Musoke, Alejandro Mus Mejías, Daniel Michalik, Andrew Nadolski, Hiroshi Nagai, Neil M. Nagar, Masanori Nakamura, Ramesh Narayan, Gopal Narayanan, Iniyan Natarajan, Antonios Nathanail, Joey Neilsen, Roberto Neri, Chunchong Ni, Aristeidis Noutsos, Michael A. Nowak, Hiroki Okino, Héctor Olivares, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, Tomoaki Oyama, Feryal Özel, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Jongho Park, Nimesh Patel, Ue-Li Pen, Dominic W. Pesce, Vincent Piétu, Richard Plambeck, Aleksandar PopStefanija, Oliver Porth, Felix M. Pötzl, Ben Prather, Jorge A. Preciado-López, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hung-Yi Pu, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Alexander W. Raymond, Luciano Rezzolla, Angelo Ricarte, Bart Ripperda, Freek Roelofs, Alan Rogers, Eduardo Ros, Mel Rose, Arash Roshanineshat, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Chet Ruszczyk, Kazi L. J. Rygl, Salvador Sánchez, David Sánchez-Arguelles, Mahito Sasada, Tuomas Savolainen, F. Peter Schloerb, Karl-Friedrich Schuster, Lijing Shao, Zhiqiang Shen, Des Small, Bong Won Sohn, Jason SooHoo, He Sun, Fumie Tazaki, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Paul Tiede, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Tyler Trent, Efthalia Traianou, Sascha Trippe, Ilse van Bemmel, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Daniel R. van Rossum, Jan Wagner, Derek Ward-Thompson, John Wardle, Jonathan Weintroub, Norbert Wex, Robert Wharton, Maciek Wielgus, George N. Wong, Qingwen Wu, Doosoo Yoon, André Young, Ken Young, Ziri Younsi, Feng Yuan, Ye-Fei Yuan, J. Anton Zensus, Guang-Yao Zhao, Shan-Shan Zhao, The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

“…We use the models to infer a mass accretion rate onto the black hole in M87 of (3–20) × 10 ^−4 M _⊙ yr ^−1 .…”
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Breakage-reunion domain of Streptococcus pneumoniae topoisomerase IV: crystal structure of a gram-positive quinolone target. by Ivan Laponogov, Dennis A Veselkov, Maninder K Sohi, Xiao-Su Pan, Aniruddha Achari, Cheng Yang, Joseph D Ferrara, L Mark Fisher, Mark R Sanderson

“…The 2.7 A crystal structure of the 55-kDa N-terminal breakage-reunion domain of topoisomerase (topo) IV subunit A (ParC) from Streptococcus pneumoniae, the first for the quinolone targets from a gram-positive bacterium, has been solved and reveals a 'closed' dimer similar in fold to Escherichia coli DNA gyrase subunit A (GyrA), but distinct from the 'open' gate structure of Escherichia coli ParC. Unlike GyrA whose DNA binding groove is largely positively charged, the DNA binding site of ParC exhibits a distinct pattern of alternating positively and negatively charged regions coincident with the predicted positions of the grooves and phosphate backbone of DNA. …”
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Pentacene-Based Thin Film Transistor with Inkjet-Printed Nanocomposite High-K Dielectrics by Chao-Te Liu, Wen-Hsi Lee, Jui-Feng Su

“…The nanocomposite gate insulating film of a pentacene-based thin film transistor was deposited by inkjet printing. …”
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A Very Low–Carbohydrate Program in Adults With Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Phospholipase Domain–Containing Protein 3 Risk Genotype: Pre-Post Interv... by Laura R Saslow, Jamie Krinock, Alison O'Brien, Kaitlyn Raymond, Hovig Bayandorian, Judith T Moskowitz, Jennifer Daubenmier, Antonino Oliveri, Deanna J Marriott, Dina H Griauzde, Elizabeth K Speliotes

“…Among the 9 participants who provided 4-month self-report information, intervention satisfaction was high (mean 6.22, 95% CI 5.58-6.85), with 5 (56%) participants rating the intervention the top score, and 4 (44%) participants reporting they did not plan to stop following the VLC diet. …”
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A very early clinical response to treatment with the Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: the dynamics of pain and central sensitization... by A. E. Karateev, E. S. Filatova, E. Yu. Pogozheva, V. N. Amirdzhanova, E. L. Nasonov, A. M. Lila, V. I. Mazurov, A. Yu. De, A. A. Baranov, N. A. Lapkina, G. V. Lukina, N. A. Kiryukhina, S. Yu. Davidyan, T. S. Salnikova, R. R. Samigullina, D. S. Chakieva, I. M. Marusenko, O. V. Semagina, M. Yu. Semchenkova, A. F. Davydova, E. V. Kalinina

“…The patients initially experienced moderate or severe pain (the mean scores of 5.33±2.51 on the numerical rating scale (NRS) included in BPI); 53.8% had signs of CS (CSI scores of ≥40); 17.9% had signs of a NPC (PainDETECT scores of &gt;18). …”
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