A high-saturated, long-chain fatty acid ketogenic diet negatively impacts visual and motor-sensory function in a pre-clinical model of multiple sclerosis by Erin N. Capper, Erin N. Capper, Jeffrey J. Anders, Jeffrey J. Anders, Jeffrey J. Anders, Benjamin W. Elwood, Benjamin W. Elwood, Randy H. Kardon, Randy H. Kardon, Oliver W. Gramlich, Oliver W. Gramlich, Oliver W. Gramlich, Oliver W. Gramlich

“…Motor-sensory scores, visual acuity, OCT, electrophysiology, and histopathology were performed.ResultsIn general, our results show that a KD with long-chain, saturated fatty acids did not significantly improve visual outcomes, and that early implementation of the diet modestly exacerbated motor-sensory and visual acuity deficits despite not impacting optic nerve axonal damage, retinal ganglion cell loss, or psychomotor measurements of visual system function.DiscussionWe propose that the anti-inflammatory neuroprotective benefits of a KD are limited when saturated, long-chain fatty acids are used, and that chain length and fat saturation should be taken into account when utilizing KD as a treatment.…”
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Measuring Brain Haemodynamic Activity and Afferent Visual Function: A Preliminary Study on the Relationship Between fNIRS, the King–Devick Test and Suspected Sport-Related Concussi... by Mark Hecimovich, Terence Moriarty, Doug King, Tricia Majewski-Schrage, Kate Hermsen

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Visual Acuity Outcomes and Influencing Factors in a Cohort of UK Real-World Diabetic Macular Oedema Patients During the First Two Years of Anti-VEGF Treatment by Qing Wen, Helene Karcher, David M. Wright, Samriddhi Buxy Sinha, Usha Chakravarthy, Catarina Santos, Franklin Igwe, Recivall Salongcay, Katie Curran, Tunde Peto

“…Methods: Using Medisoft electronic medical records (UK), this retrospective cohort study analysed VA outcomes, changes, and determinants in DMO patients at year 1 and year 2 after initial anti-VEGF injection. …”
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Association of visual acuity with sleep quality and sleep duration in patients with type 2 diabetes: evidence from a cross-sectional analysis of the Fushun Diabetic Retinopathy Stu... by Yu Wang, Shisong Rong, Zixi Zhou, Yuanbo Liang, Zhong Lin, Fenghua Wang, Qitong Wang, Kemi Feng, Xiaoxia Ding, Dongxiao Zang, Dong Li, Bo Zang

“…ObjectiveTo examine the association between visual acuity (VA), sleep quality, and sleep duration among Chinese adults.Subjects/MethodsData were derived from the Fushun Diabetic Retinopathy Cohort Study (FS-DIRECT), a cross-sectional, community-based study conducted in Fushun, China, from July 2012 to May 2013. …”
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Visual Acuity, Full-field Stimulus Thresholds, and Electroretinography for 4 Years in The Rate of Progression of USH2A-related Retinal Degeneration (RUSH2A) Study by David G. Birch, PhD, Peiyao Cheng, PhD, Maureen G. Maguire, PhD, Jacque L. Duncan, MD, Allison R. Ayala, MS, Janet K. Cheetham, PharmD, Nicole R. Doucet, MPH, Todd A. Durham, PhD, Abigail T. Fahim, MD, PhD, Frederick L. Ferris, III, MD, Rachel M. Huckfeldt, MD, PhD, Michele Melia, ScM, Michel Michaelides, MD (Res), Mark E. Pennesi, MD, PhD, José-Alain Sahel, MD, Katarina Stingl, MD, Ajoy Vincent, MBBS, MS, Christina Y. Weng, MD, MBA

“…Conclusions: Best-corrected visual acuity was not a sensitive measure of progression over 4 years. …”
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Methods for Accuracy Increasing of Solid Brittle Materials Fracture Toughness Determining by V. A. Lapitskaya, T. A. Kuznetsova, S. A. Chizhik, B. Warcholinski

“…Instead of classical optical and scanning electron microscopy an alternative high-resolution method of atomic force microscopy was proposed as an imaging method.Three methods of visualization were compared. …”
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GIS methods for inventory of pacific salmons spawning grounds in the Amur River by V. V. Sviridov, S. F. Zolotukhin

“…A set of the most up-to-date, relevant and effective methods based upon geographic information system (GIS) is substantiated, designed, developed and scheduled to implementation for inventory of the spawning grounds in the Amur basin. …”
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Analysis of methods for removing the fragments of instruments from the root canal system by A. V. Mitronin, K. A. Archakov, D. A. Ostanina, Yu. A. Mitronin

“…After analyzing the literature review an idea was obtained about the methods and indications for therapeutic and surgical methods of removing broken files from the root canal system. …”
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Vision Deficit Is a New Marker of Cognitive Impairment by N. M. Agarkov, A. E. Kopylov, R. E. Osmanov, N. V. Popova, M. A. Neudakhin, A. A. Titov

“…Visual deficit was assessed by visual acuity without correction. …”
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mindLAMPVis as a Co-Designed Clinician-Facing Data Visualization Portal to Integrate Clinical Observations From Digital Phenotyping in Schizophrenia: User-Centered Design Process a... by Karthik Sama, Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair, Soumya Choudhary, Srilakshmi Nagendra, Preethi V Reddy, Asher Cohen, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, John Torous

“…MethodsThe mindLAMP app, already used in many countries today, is adapted to offer a new clinician-facing data visualization portal, mindLAMPVis. …”
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The Use of Arts‐Based Methods to Enhance Patient Engagement in Health Research by Emily K. Phillips, Anna M. Chudyk, Caroline Monnin, Annette S. H. Schultz, Rakesh C. Arora, Todd A. Duhamel, Sheila O'Keefe‐McCarthy

“…ABSTRACT Introduction Patient and care partner engagement in research (PER) is important in generating knowledge to improve healthcare. Arts‐based methods (ABM) use art in the research process to share aesthetic knowledge, which is knowledge that may be too complex to share only verbally. …”
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Application features of the cone-beam computerized tomography method in endodontic practice

“…The analysis of scientific data and clinical supervision revealed advantages of a cone-beam computerized tomography in comparison with traditional methods of visualization. Recommendations for improvement of quality of radiodiagnosis when planning treatment of root canals of teeth are made…”
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Machine learning methods for spectrally-resolved imaging analysis in neuro-oncology by T. A. Savelieva, I. D. Romanishkin, A. Ospanov, K. G. Linkov, S. A. Goryajnov, G. V. Pavlova, I. N. Pronin, V. B. Loschenov

“…No less mandatory are the methods of using spectrally resolved visualization based on mapping characteristics obtained from Raman spectra, but due to the smaller cross-section of the process, these methods are used ex vivo, as a rule, for urgent analysis of fresh tissue samples. …”
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An Integrated DEM–FEM Simulation Framework for Preferential Flow Path Evaluation in Waste Landfill Composed of Non-Spherical Particles by Hiroyuki Ishimori, Kazuto Endo, Masato Yamada

“…A numerical experimental method combining the discrete element method (DEM) and the finite element method (FEM) is proposed to analyze water channel flow in heterogeneous porous media such as landfill layers. …”
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TeaNet8: A real time Android application-based Tea Leaf Disease detection using fine-tuned transfer learning and Gradient-Weighted Class Activation Mapping visualization by Ismotara Dipty, Md Assaduzzaman, Nafiz Fahad, Md. Jakir Hossen, Md. Farhatul Haider, Fiaj Rahman

“…Advanced deep learning methods are simplifying the identification and categorization of specific illnesses in tea plants. …”
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Nucleus pulposus clamping procedures based on optimized material point method for surgical simulation systems by Jianlong Ni, Jingrong Li, Zhiyuan Xie, Qinghui Wang, Chunhai Li, Haoyu Wu, Yang Zhang

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Evaluation of Subway Emergency Evacuation Based on Combined Theoretical and Simulation Methods by Yang Hui, Shujie Su, Hui Peng

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Architectural design methods based on image recognition technology and virtual VR by Feng Li

“…In practical analysis of architectural design, the average accuracy and intersection over union of the improved YOLOv4 model confirmed the good detection performance of this method. The application of virtual reality technology in building information models has significantly improved the visualization delay rate, and the subjective evaluation of users was relatively high. …”
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Electrochemical Method for the Design of New Possible Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents by Claudia Carbone, Aaron Stoeckle, Manuel Minardi, Fulvio Uggeri, Luciano Lattuada, Alessandro Minguzzi, Alberto Vertova

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Research on Open-Set Recognition Methods for Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Jia Xu, Yan Wang, Renyi Xu, Hailin Wang, Xinzhi Zhou

“…Finally, validation is performed on the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) dataset, the Xi’an Jiaotong University rolling bearing accelerated life test dataset (XJTU-SY), and the Paderborn University bearing dataset (PU), Germany, and the framework is comprehensively evaluated in terms of several evaluation metrics, such as normalization accuracy and feature visualization. The experimental results show that SMCPL-ECA-DPC outperforms the comparative methods of SMCPL, CPL, ANEDL, CNN, and OpenMax and has high diagnostic performance in the identification of unknown faults.…”
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