Ocular bacterial flora and antibiotic sensitivity among Filipino patients undergoing routine cataract surgery by Terrence L. Cham, MD, Mario J. Valenton, MD, Ruben Lim Bon Siong, MD

“…Objective: This study determined the most common normal lid-margin and conjunctival bacterial flora, antibiotic sensitivity, and resistance patterns in eyes of Filipinos scheduled for routine cataract surgery at a tertiary government hospital. Methods: Lid-margin and conjunctival swab specimens were collected from patients scheduled to undergo routine cataract-extraction surgery at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of the University of the Philippines– Philippine General Hospital. …”
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Prognostic Factors for Successful Surgical Outcomes in Trochlear Nerve Palsy: A Retrospective Study and Literature Review by Srimanan W

“…Collected data included demographics, visual acuity, stereopsis, etiology, preoperative angles, surgical methods, and postoperative outcomes. …”
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-Plot for Testing Spherical Symmetry for High-Dimensional Data with a Small Sample Size by Jiajuan Liang

“…The new graphical method associated with the local acceptance regions can provide a quick visual perception on the assumption of spherical symmetry. …”
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A Novel Unilateral Bi/Multi‐Portal Endoscopic Transforaminal Interbody Fusion Utilizing Uniaxial Spinal Endoscope Instead of Arthroscope: Technical Note and Preliminary Clinical Re... by Liyu Yang, Long Zhou, Min Qiu, Feng Liang, Liqing Yang, Qin Fu, Gen Ba

“…Based on the previous findings, we utilized uniaxial spinal endoscopy as the primary operating method, with the assistance of multi‐portal endoscopic techniques (UME‐TLIF), to perform transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. …”
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ECG‐based epileptic seizure prediction: Challenges of current data‐driven models by Sotirios Kalousios, Jens Müller, Hongliu Yang, Matthias Eberlein, Ortrud Uckermann, Gabriele Schackert, Witold H. Polanski, Georg Leonhardt

“…Abstract Objective Up to a third of patients with epilepsy fail to achieve satisfactory seizure control. A reliable method of predicting seizures would alleviate psychological and physical impact. …”
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A Fluorescence-Based Genetic Screen to Study Retinal Degeneration in Drosophila. by Yu Huang, Jun Xie, Tao Wang

“…The Drosophila visual system has been proved to be a powerful genetic model to study eye disease such as retinal degeneration. …”
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The Contribution of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance to Melanoma Research by Quentin Godechal, Bernard Gallez

“…However, some aspects of the tumor initiation and development are still unclear, and the current method of diagnosis, based on the visual aspect of the tumor, shows limitations. …”
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Hemodynamics of the eye during combined treatment of severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy by V. V. Neroev, N. V. Neroeva, T. D. Okhotsimskaya, T. N. Kiseleva, N. E. Tarasevich

“…Panretinal laser photocoagulation is a method of choice of DR treatment; antiangiogenic therapy applies if necessary. …”
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Study on the influence mechanism and correlation model of rockfall parameters on indentation morphology by LI Hao, WANG Dong-po, YAN Shuai-xing, LI Wei, CHEN Hui, HE Si-ming

“…This validates the practicality of the proposed method and paves the way for its wider application.…”
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The state of the biogeometric profile of the posture of young athletes specializing in hand-to-hand combat as a prerequisite for the development of corrective and preventive measur... by Vitalii Kashuba, Аndrii Radchenko, Yuri Radchenko, Ilia Vako, Vitaly Usychenko

“…The problems identified during the study were solved using generally accepted methods: theoretical analysis of scientific literature on the chosen research topic; the Torso program was used to determine the types of posture, visual screening of the state of the biogeometric profile of the posture of young athletes specializing in hand-to-hand combat included a focus on the tribal system and the use of a method for comparing individual posture on a photogram and methods of mathematical statistics. …”
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Euphemism patterns in karo language at traditional marriage ceremonies by Bukit Bethesda, Erikson Saragih, Esra Perangin-angin

“…This method is used to visualize the euphemism patterns of the Karo language in indigenous ceremonies. …”
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An Improved Kernelized Correlation Filter for Extracting Traffic Flow in Satellite Videos by Dudu Guo, Hongbo Shuai, Jie Zhang, Yang Wang, Miao Sun

“…The experimental results showed that compared with the real traffic flow data obtained by visual method, the accuracy of satellite video traffic flow extraction by virtual detection line was 98.48% under noncongestion condition and 90.18% under congestion condition.…”
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Analytical Treatments for a Coupled (2+1)-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations in Nonlinear Physics by Wubshet Ibrahim, Teresa Negesa

“…The exact solution, presented as a convergent series, is visually depicted through graphs. To address the nonlinear part of the equations, a successive iterative method was applied. …”
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Analysis and Prioritization of Indicators of Urban Development Strategy In the neighborhoods of the eight district of Shiraz by Issa Ebrahimzadeh, Mostafa Istgaldi, Fazel Hajizadeh

“…In addition to these, the complexity of urban systems and the inefficiencies of traditional methods that provide case solutions and inability of these methods to meet the existing multidimensional needs and problems has caused many developing cities, Without a proper and comprehensive program, it is in a state of fragility and faced an excessive spread of poverty and an uncertain future. …”
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Intention Reasoning for User Action Sequences via Fusion of Object Task and Object Action Affordances Based on Dempster–Shafer Theory by Yaxin Liu, Can Wang, Yan Liu, Wenlong Tong, Ming Zhong

“…This method combines the advantages of probabilistic reasoning and visual affordance detection to establish an affordance model for objects and potential tasks or actions based on users’ habits and object attributes. …”
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Numerical Optimization of Non-destructive Ultrasonic Testing in Identifying Defects in Composite Structure of Pine Tree Trunk by Mohammadreza Sheakholeslami, Mahdi Bayat Kazazi, Abbas Amoochi, Siamak Mazdak, Mohammad Reza Ghaderi, Mehdi Zeighami Salimabad

“…Since the ultrasonic test is a non-destructive method, this method is an appropriate alternative to find defects in the pine tree trunks. …”
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Green first derivative synchronous spectrofluorimetric determination of lacidipine and its acid degradation product in plasma and mixtures by Khalid A.M. Attia, Mohamed A. Hasan, Abdalla M. El-Shanawany

“…Peak amplitude of the first derivative synchronous was measured at 409 nm by using constant wavelength difference (Δλ = λem - λex = costant) which equal 160 nm. The regression plot of the proposed first derivative synchronous spectrofluorimetric method was found to be linear over the range of 50–300 ng/mL with a determination coefficient equals 0.9997, limit of detection (LOD) was 14.51 ng/mL but limit of quantification (LOQ) was 43.97 ng/mL.…”
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Research on the Assessment of Architectural Colors in Cultural Heritage Blocks Based on Computer Vision: A Case Study of Tianjin by Xiaoli Cao, Yingxia Yun, Lijian Ren

“…Based on the “point-line-surface” protection strategy, a multi-scale architectural color identification and evaluation method spanning “buildings-streets-districts” was established. …”
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Border Feature Enhancement in Ultrasound Image Segmentation by Xianghao Cui, Qingjing Fei, Ruixuan Li, Wen Xiong, Fang Hou, Zhi Chen, Qi He

“…Semantic segmentation of ultrasonic images is a crucial and challenging task in computer vision in AI-assisted medicine. In prevailing methods, each pixel in the image is treated equally while ignoring the fact that border pixels contain more critical information. …”
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Assessing the usability of Accessercise to increase physical activity in adults with physical disabilities: A qualitative think-aloud study. by James A Haley, Daniel J A Rhind, David W Maidment

“…<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the usability of a novel mHealth app, Accessercise, that aims to increase physical activity in people with physical disabilities.<h4>Methods</h4>Twelve adults with different physical disabilities participated in a face-to-face think-aloud interview. …”
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