Autologous Bone Marrow-Derived Chondrocytes for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Mir Sadat-Ali, Abdallah S. AlOmran, Sulaiman A. AlMousa, Hasan N. AlSayed, Khalid W. AlTabash, Mohammed Q. Azam, Tarek M. Hegazi, Sadananda Acharya

“…Patients and Methods. A prospective, randomized study was undertaken in patients with OAK grades II and III of Kellgren–Lawrence grading (KLG) in two groups. …”
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Parameter Estimation for p-Order Random Coefficient Autoregressive (RCA) Models Based on Kalman Filter by Mohammed Benmoumen, Jelloul Allal, Imane Salhi

“…In this paper we elaborate an algorithm to estimate p-order Random Coefficient Autoregressive Model (RCA(p)) parameters. …”
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Laparoscopy Combined with Enhanced Recovery Pathway in Ileocecal Resection for Crohn’s Disease: A Randomized Study by Yibin Zhu, Jianjian Xiang, Wei Liu, Qian Cao, Wei Zhou

“…However, there are no randomized trials that have focused on patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) treated by laparoscopy and enhanced recovery pathway. …”
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Smartphone-Based Telemonitoring for Better Oral Health With Toothbrushes: 6-Month Randomized Controlled Trial by Jaeyeon Kim, Yiseul Choi, Yoolbin Song, Wonse Park

“…ObjectiveThis 6-month prospective randomized controlled trial aimed to compare the clinical effectiveness, defined as improved oral hygiene measured by plaque reduction and halitosis control, of an interactive telemonitoring toothbrush (ITT), an oscillating-rotating power toothbrush (ORT), and a manual toothbrush (MT). …”
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Meso-Analysis of Recycled Coarse Aggregate Self-Compacting Concrete on the Basis of Random Aggregate Model by Songpu Gao, Qing Liu, Fengxia Han, Zhongyan Guo, Jianping Yang, Jianwei Ren

“…The purpose of this paper is to explore the numerical simulation of damage process and results of a new environmentally friendly material, recycled coarse aggregate self-compacting concrete (RCASCC). Random aggregate model of mesoscopic viewpoint was used for the experimental simulation of RCASCC. …”
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Mutual causal effects between immune cells and hepatocellular carcinoma: a Mendelian randomization study by Zheng Wang, Mengshu Pan, Jie Zhu, Changhong Liu

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The effect of Snoezelen intervention on problem behaviors in children with cerebral palsy: A randomized controlled trial by Mina Kim, Sook-Hee Yi, Jee-Sun Lee, Ji-Young Lee, Yun-Tae Hwang, Jeong-Soo Kim

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Dairy intake and cognitive function in older adults in three cohorts: a mendelian randomization study by Natalia Ortega, Nick J. Mueller, Abbas Dehghan, Tosca O. E. de Crom, Armin von Gunten, Martin Preisig, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Marco Vinceti, Trudy Voortman, Nicolas Rodondi, Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya

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Random resistive memory-based deep extreme point learning machine for unified visual processing by Shaocong Wang, Yizhao Gao, Yi Li, Woyu Zhang, Yifei Yu, Bo Wang, Ning Lin, Hegan Chen, Yue Zhang, Yang Jiang, Dingchen Wang, Jia Chen, Peng Dai, Hao Jiang, Peng Lin, Xumeng Zhang, Xiaojuan Qi, Xiaoxin Xu, Hayden So, Zhongrui Wang, Dashan Shang, Qi Liu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Ming Liu

“…We propose a hardware-software co-designed random resistive memory-based deep extreme point learning machine. …”
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Pioglitazone versus Rosiglitazone: Effects on Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Apolipoproteins in Head-to-Head Randomized Clinical Studies by Mark A. Deeg, Meng H. Tan

“…In this review, we will focus on the randomized clinical trials that directly compared the lipid effects of the thiazolidinedione class of PPAR𝛾 agonists, pioglitazone and rosiglitazone, head-to-head either as monotherapy or in combination with other lipid-altering or glucose-lowering agents…”
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Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial: Integrating the 'Time-limited Trial' in the emergency department. by Tadayuki Hashimoto, Rachel K Putman, Anthony F Massaro, Youkie Shiozawa, Katherine McGough, Kerry K McCabe, Judith A Linden, Wei Wang, Shan W Liu, Maura Kennedy, Thanh H Neville, Jacqueline M Kruser, Rebecca L Sudore, Mara A Schonberg, James A Tulsky, Kei Ouchi

“…<h4>Trial identifier and registry name</h4>ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06378151 https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06378151; Pre-results; a randomized controlled trial: Time-limited Trials in the Emergency Department.…”
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Short-Interval Self-Learning to Improve Retention of Resuscitation Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…We evaluated the difference in CPR skills one year after a 45-minute chest compression-only CPR training among participants receiving short self-learning refresher training at 3-month intervals, those receiving this training at 6-month intervals, and those without the refresher training. Participants were randomly assigned to the 3-month group, 6-month group, or control group. …”
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Genetic parameters for milk production traits of Simmental cows with random regression test-day model by A. Otwinowska-Mindur, E. Ptak, W. Jagusiak, A. Zarnecki

“…Genetic parameters were estimated for a multitrait multilactation random regression test-day model for milk in Simmental cattle in Poland. …”
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Mathematical model for the parametric study of ammonia propulsion system in microsatellite platform by random search method by V. N. Blinov, A. I. Lukyanchik, V. V. Shalay

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Telephone-Based Reeducation of Drug Administration for Helicobacterpylori Eradication: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Study by Yan Zhao, Mudan Ren, Xin Wang, Guifang Lu, Xinlan Lu, Dan Zhang, Shuixiang He

“…In total, 162 patients were randomly assigned (1 : 1) to either the intervention group (patients received telephone-based reeducation on the 4th, 7th, and 10th days of the course) or the control group (patients received instructions only at the time of getting the prescriptions). …”
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Improving birth preparation with the hypnosis online course “The Peaceful Birth”: a randomized controlled study by Luisa Motz, Rosa Marie Brückner, Barbara Schmidt

“…In this study, we evaluate the German online hypnosis program “The Peaceful Birth” (“Die Friedliche Geburt”) to find out if it reduces stress, anxiety, and pain during pregnancy. We randomized pregnant women into a hypnosis and a control group and surveyed them via online questionnaires during their pregnancy and after their birth using standardized questionnaires.MethodsWe included 221 pregnant women and assigned 110 women to a hypnosis and 111 women to a control group. …”
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Stochastic Finite-Time H∞ Performance Analysis of Continuous-Time Systems with Random Abrupt Changes by Bing Wang

“…The problem of H∞ control performance analysis of continuous-time systems with random abrupt changes is concerned in this paper. …”
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Effectiveness of an HIV peer support precision matching platform: a randomized controlled trial protocol by Xin Xie, Shuyu Han, Yangfeng Wu, Tao Huang, Junyi Duan, Dongmei Li, Shuyu Chen, Bo Zhou, Jiangping Zhang, Lili Zhang

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Pretreatment with Low-Dose Esketamine for Reduction of Propofol Injection Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Danyun Fu, Dingding Wang, Wenxian Li, Yuan Han, Jie Jia

“…In this double-blind, randomized, controlled trial, patients scheduled for elective ear surgery under general anesthesia received either normal saline (NS), or 40 mg lidocaine, or 0.15 mg/kg esketamine 30 seconds before manual injection of propofol. …”
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A Novel Antifragility Measure Based on Satisfaction and Its Application to Random and Biological Boolean Networks by Omar K. Pineda, Hyobin Kim, Carlos Gershenson

“…Here we propose a simply calculable measure of antifragility, based on the change of “satisfaction” before and after adding perturbations, and apply it to random Boolean networks (RBNs). Using the measure, we found that ordered RBNs are the most antifragile. …”
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