Prospective cohort study of voice outcomes following secondary tracheoesophageal puncture in gastric pull-up reconstruction after total laryngopharyngoesophagectomy by Emily C. Deane, Harman Parhar, Linda Rammage, Amanda Hu, Donald W. Anderson

“…Perceptual analysis was performed using voice recordings (“Rainbow Passage”) randomly presented in a blinded fashion to four clinicians using the validated GRBAS scale. …”
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Comparative efficacy of acupuncture therapies in premature ovarian failure: A systematic review and network meta-analysis by Yonghang Yi, Fengjun Ma, Yang Jiao, Rongqi Zhang, Yunhao Yi, Yuxia Ma

“…Key methodologic weaknesses included insufficient allocation concealment, lack of blinding, and small sample sizes. Conclusions: Acupuncture therapies may effectively improve POF. …”
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“Bildtapeten” and the conservation of medieval wall paintings at the turn of the twentieth century in Germany by Ursula Schädler-Saub

“…German examples with so called “Bildtapeten” (picture wallpapers) illustrate such a clever compromise: roller blinds with fully integrated versions of the scenes depicted in full size on paper, were mounted on the walls over the fragmentary wall paintings; they could be raised for the experts and lowered for the general public. …”
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Applying Randomness Effectively Based on Random Forests for Classification Task of Datasets of Insufficient Information by Hyontai Sug

“…But applying random forests blindly may not produce good results, and a dataset in the domain of rotogravure printing is one of such datasets. …”
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Angestellte zwischen Rechts- und Sozialgeschichte: Forschungsfragen zur Entstehung einer Arbeitnehmerkategorie by Thorsten Keiser

“…Overall, the history of the law of employees is still a blind spot in comparison to the already wellresearched history of the law of industrial workers. …”
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Total Variation Regularization Algorithms for Images Corrupted with Different Noise Models: A Review by Paul Rodríguez

“…Total Variation (TV) regularization has evolved from an image denoising method for images corrupted with Gaussian noise into a more general technique for inverse problems such as deblurring, blind deconvolution, and inpainting, which also encompasses the Impulse, Poisson, Speckle, and mixed noise models. …”
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Poorly Recognized and Uncommonly Acknowledged Limitations of Randomized Controlled Trials by Chittaranjan Andrade

“…Important among the less commonly acknowledged limitations are biases in RCTs of interventions to which patients cannot be blinded, weaknesses in the design of maintenance therapy RCTs, and, ubiquitously, post-randomization biases. …”
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MND for Helping People with Different Disabilities by Wael Hosny Fouad Aly

“…Three types of disabilities are studied in this paper: (1) blind, (2) deaf, and (3) on wheelchair. We experimented with a three-floor university building. …”
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Governance and Public Leadership: Bundles of Democratic societies? by BC, Basheka

“…Like an elephant being described by blind men differently depending on where each of them touches, governance and public leadership are concepts prone to different interpretations by different people. …”
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Kabale University Research Journal Authors Guidelines by Kabale University

“…The journal accepts manuscripts only in English language and is published quarterly: March, June, September and December and uses a double blind peer review process in assessing manuscripts submitted for consideration of publication. …”
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Extracorporeal shock wave therapy versus dexamethasone iontophoresis as a treatment for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis by Shimaa Taha Abu El Kasem, Sahar Ahmed Abdalbary, Mohamed I. Mabrouk, Engy Badreldin S. Moustafaa, Asmaa Abonour, Rania R. Mohamed

“…Methods Pre-post single-blind randomised experimental trial. The therapeutic program was performed twice per week for 4 weeks. …”
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Managing Scoliosis in a Young Child with Rett Syndrome: A Case Study by Meir Lotan, Joav Merrick, Eli Carmeli

“…The X-rays accompanying the article (evaluated by four experienced orthopedic surgeons blinded to the intervention process) suggested that the intervention was successful in reversing the progress of the scoliosis for the above-mentioned child. …”
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A Group Based Key Sharing and Management Algorithm for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by Zeeshan Shafi Khan, Mohammed Morsi Moharram, Abdullah Alaraj, Farzana Azam

“…Typically like ad hoc networks, broadcast approach is used for data dissemination. Blind broadcast to each and every node results in exchange of useless and irrelevant messages and hence creates an overhead. …”
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LUOJIA Explorer PMS: Panoramic Odometry and Mapping with Structural Information by Y. Xu, Y. Xu, Y. Xu, C. Chen, C. Chen, C. Chen, B. Yang, B. Yang, B. Yang, L. Li, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, S. Sun, S. Sun, S. Sun, Z. Yan, Z. Yan, Z. Yan, S. Wu, S. Wu, S. Wu

“…Existing methods face challenges like observing blind spots and the difficulty of edge feature extraction in point clouds with non-repetitive scanning LiDARs. …”
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Development of a System to Assist Automatic Translation of Hand-Drawn Maps into Tactile Graphics and Its Usability Evaluation by Jianjun Chen, Noboru Takagi

“…Tactile maps are used by blind and partially sighted people when navigating around an environment, and they are also used prior to a visit for orientation purposes. …”
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A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers by Ramiro Velázquez, Hermes Hernández, Enrique Preza

“…This paper introduces a novel concept on reading assistive technologies for the blind: the TactoBook, a system that is able to translate entire electronic books (eBooks) to Braille code and to reproduce them in portable electronic Braille terminals. …”
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Stratégies de subsistance et Perception des aliments des populations autochtones de Yakoutie arctique (Districts de Basse et de Moyenne Kolyma) by Christian Malet, Boris Chichlo, Joëlle Robert-Lamblin, Claude-Marcel Hladik, Patrick Pasquet

“…Responses recorded on analogue scales corresponding to 69 food items have been supplemented by blind tests concerning the perception of solutions of sucrose, sodium chloride, and PROP, to determine hedonic responses to salt and to sucrose (sweet likers vs. sweet dislikers) and the PROP status (tasters vs. non-tasters). …”
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Asymmetrical Blood Flow in the Temporal Lobe in the Charles Bonnet Syndrome: Serial Neuroimaging Study by N. Adachi, M. Nagayama, K. Anami, K. Arima, H. Matsuda

“…She had become completely blind bilaterally due to cataracts and glaucoma. …”
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Ocular Surface Development and Gene Expression by Shivalingappa K. Swamynathan

“…A thorough appreciation of the biological characteristics of the ocular surface in terms of its gene expression profiles and their regulation provides us with a valuable insight into the pathophysiology of various blinding disorders that disrupt the normal development, maturation, and/or maintenance of the ocular surface. …”
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La perception gustative de l’Homme peut-elle varier en fonction de l’état physiologique ? by André Marez, Bruno Simmen, Marie-Odile Monneuse, Louisette Razanamparany, Patrick Pasquet, Claude-Marcel Hladik

“…Such a variation between taste sensitivity and short-term energy balance was not confirmed by our blind tests with 6 substances including sugars and salt, as well as two bitter products and glycyrrhizin (purified liquorice) on fasting subjects, and on the same subjects after an energy-rich meal. …”
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