The Value of Ozone in CT-Guided Drainage of Multiloculated Pyogenic Liver Abscesses: A Randomized Controlled Study by Bing Li, Chuan Liu, Lang Wang, Yang Li, Yong Du, Chuan Zhang, Xiao-xue Xu, Han Feng Yang

“…The prospective study included 60 patients diagnosed with multiloculated PLA. All patients were randomly divided into two groups: catheter drainage alone (group I) and catheter drainage combined with ozone (group II). …”
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Evaluation of efficacy and safety of coenzyme Q10 in pediatric hemodialysis patients: a randomized controlled trial by Salma A. Rahman Sharaf, Sarah Farid Fahmy, Heba M. Adel Abou Zaghla, Ahmed Hussein Hassan, Sara Mahmoud Zaki

“…This was a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. …”
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Costoclavicular block as a diaphragm-sparing nerve block for shoulder surgery: a randomized controlled trial by Youngin Lee, Seunguk Bang, Jihyun Chung, Min Suk Chae, Jungwon Shin

“…Methods Seventy patients who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair were randomly allocated to receive either ultrasound-guided CCB (n = 35) or ISB (n = 35). …”
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Causal association between non-thyroidal autoimmune diseases and Graves' ophthalmopathy: A mendelian randomization study by Lan Ma, Xue Jiang, Zhijia Hou, Dongmei Li

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Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Brief Psychotherapy versus Usual Treatment for Common Mental Disorders in Adults by Marco A. Luengo-Castro, Javier Fernández-Méndez, José M. García-Montes, Pedro J. Caunedo-Riesco, Juan M. García-Haro, Begoña Braña-Menéndez, Dolores González-Díaz, Andrés Cabero-Álvarez, Marcelino Cuesta-Izquierdo

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Competing Risks in Accelerated Life Testing: A Study on Step-Stress Models with Tampered Random Variables by Hanan Haj Ahmad, Ehab M. Almetwally, Dina A. Ramadan

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CLINTERVENTIONAL protocol: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate clinical consultations and audiovisual tools for interventional radiology by Pedro Blas García Jurado, Juan José Espejo Herrero, María Sagrario Lombardo Galera, María Eugenia Pérez Montilla, Sara Barranco Acosta, José García-Revillo, Pilar Font Ugalde, Marina Álvarez Benito

“…Relevance statement This randomized controlled trial will assess the impact of clinical consultations and explanatory audiovisual tools on patient understanding, satisfaction, and anxiety in interventional radiology. …”
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Prediction of the RFID Identification Rate Based on the Neighborhood Rough Set and Random Forest for Robot Application Scenarios by Hong-Gang Wang, Shan-Shan Wang, Ruo-Yu Pan, Sheng-Li Pang, Xiao-Song Liu, Zhi-Yong Luo, Sheng-Pei Zhou

“…In this paper, a neighborhood rough set and random forest (NRS-RF) combination model is proposed to predict the identification rate of an RFID system. …”
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Enhanced Grey Wolf Optimization (EGWO) and random forest based mechanism for intrusion detection in IoT networks by Saad Said Alqahtany, Asadullah Shaikh, Ali Alqazzaz

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The Effect of Vitamin D3 on the Alignment of Mandibular Anterior Teeth: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial by Ali Al-Attar, Mushriq Abid

“…Multicentre, double blinded randomized clinical trial. Subjects and Methods. Adult patients aged 18–30 years, with moderate mandibular incisor crowding [Little’s Irregularity index (LII) 3–6 mm], needing nonextraction treatment with fixed orthodontic appliance, were randomly allocated into two groups with 1 : 1 allocation ratio. …”
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Asthma in Adolescents: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of an Asthma Program for Adolescents and Young Adults with Severe Asthma by Robert L Cowie, Margot F Underwood, Cinde B Little, Ian Mitchell, Sheldon Spier, Gordon T Ford

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Traditional Chinese Mind and Body Exercises for Neck Pain: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Yu-Hua Xie, Man-Xia Liao, Mao-Yuan Wang, W. C. Hewith A. Fernando, Yue-Ming Gu, Xue-Qiang Wang, Lin-Rong Liao

“…The PubMed, MEDLINE, PEDro, and Embase databases were systematically searched for relevant studies. Randomized controlled trials reporting the effects of TCMBE on pain intensity, functional mobility, and QOL in individuals with neck pain were included. …”
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Worth the effort? A practical examination of random effects in hidden Markov models for animal telemetry data by Brett T. McClintock

“…These ‘mixed HMMs’ come at significant cost in terms of implementation and computation, and discrete random effects have been advocated as a practical alternative to more computationally intensive continuous random effects. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Financial Statement Fraud of Listed Companies Based on Logistic Regression and Random Forest Algorithm by Xinchun Liu

“…Through the empirical analysis of logistic regression, gradient lifting decision tree, and random forest model, the preliminary results are obtained, and then the random forest model is used for secondary judgment. …”
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Study on the Coarsening Behavior of Interphase Precipitates and Random Precipitates in Steel Under the High-Temperature Environment of Fire by Jinghua Cong, Yongzhe Yang, Haibin Zhu, Xueliang Shang, Hongyu Wu, Zhendong Song, Xuemin Wang, Xiangyu Xu

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Construction and validation of a prognostic model for NK/T-cell lymphoma based on random survival forest algorithm by HUANG Zhen, HUANG Zhen, WU Yazhou

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Effectiveness of a Foam Roller Warm-Up in Professional Basketball Players: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Daniel Casado, Ivan Nacher, Juan Pardo, Javier Reina

“… # Study design Randomized controlled trial. # Methods Twenty-two healthy male subjects were randomly assigned to two groups: the control group, which only carried out a general warm-up over a period of four months, and the foam roller group, which followed a specific warm-up routine using a foam roller for a period of three months plus one month of follow-up in which no foam rolling was performed. …”
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Investigation of Randomly Populated Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubical Arrays for Application in Space, Aerial, and Underwater Collaborative Beamforming by Kristopher R. Buchanan, Roanne Manzano-Roth, Annie Lin, Gabriella Loaiza, Meghan Sills, Jin Li, Sara R. Wheeland, Sounak Chakrabarti, Angelica R. Rodriguez, Gregory H. Huff, Mark Patefield, Anthony Jones

“…It investigates the use of a three-dimensional, randomly populated, and uniformly-distributed array in three configurations: spherical, cylindrical, and cubical. …”
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The Effectiveness of Fluorescent Light Energy as Adjunct Therapy in Canine Deep Pyoderma: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Andrea Marchegiani, Alessandro Fruganti, Andrea Spaterna, Matteo Cerquetella, Adolfo M. Tambella, Susan Paterson

“…A single centre, single-blinded, prospective, randomized, controlled clinical study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of twice weekly fluorescent light energy therapy (Phovia™) as adjunct to systemic antibiotics in the management of deep pyoderma in dogs. …”
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Stability Analysis of Networked Control Systems with Random Time Delays and Packet Dropouts Modeled by Markov Chains by Li Qiu, Fengqi Yao, Xiaopin Zhong

“…This paper investigates the stability analysis problem for a class of discrete-time networked control systems (NCSs) with random time delays and packet dropouts based on unified Markov jump model. …”
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