Intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment in patients with radiation retinopathy following plaque radiotherapy for uveal melanoma by E.P. Sudakova, V.A. Yarovaya, E.O. Malakshinova

“…The use of vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors is proposed worldwide to improve visual acuity or stabilize one’s with the development of post-radiation retinopathy, even though today the use of such methods is «off label». …”
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Current approaches to the intraocular correction of postoperative aphakia after corneal refractive surgery (a review) by Yu. A. Gusev, E. I. Belikova, E. B. Tret’yak, L. V. Zhezheleva

“…Methods based on refractive history which consider refraction and K values before corneal refractive surgery and its refractive result before cataract development as well as methods based on corneal topography are the most accurate methods to neutralize keratometry errors. …”
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Chronic pain experiences of immigrant Indian women in Canada: A photovoice exploration by Nida Mustafa, Shreeyaa Ramana, Margaret MacNeill, Judy Watt-Watson, Gillian Einstein

“…Photovoice is one such method that utilizes individuals’ own photography to document their lived experiences.Aims The current study utilized an arts-based method to explore immigrant Indian women’s chronic pain experiences in Canada and aimed to enhance the understanding of those experiences by creating a visual opportunity for them to share their stories.Methods Twelve immigrant Indian women captured photographs and participated in one-on-one interviews exploring daily experiences of chronic pain.Results Women’s photographs, and description of these photographs, provided a visual entry into their lives and pain experiences. …”
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Empowering Medical Students: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Precision Point-of-Care Echocardiography Assessment of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Ziv Dadon, Amir Orlev, Adi Butnaru, David Rosenmann, Michael Glikson, Shmuel Gottlieb, Evan Avraham Alpert

“…The clips were assessed for LVEF by three methods: visually by the students, by students + the AI-based tool, and by the cardiologists. …”
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Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Image Encryption Techniques by K. Mahalakshmi, Sivakumar Nagarajan

“…This paper provides a comprehensive review of advanced image encryption techniques aimed at preserving the confidentiality and integrity of visual information. The analysis includes traditional cryptographic methods, such as AES, RSA, and Blowfish, as well as quantum encryption, chaos-based encryption, DNA encryption, frequency domain techniques, neural network-based methods, and compressive sensing. …”
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Novel Glasses-Free Distance Stereotest Using Eye Tracking: Evaluation of Sensitivity, Validity, Reliability, and Monocular Cue Masking by Cao LQ, Cui B, Li XL, Zhou BY, Qin LW, Li MG, Wang YQ, Wang FX

“…Li-Qun Cao,1,2,* Bei Cui,1,2,* Xue-Ling Li,3 Bi-Ye Zhou,4 Li-Wei Qin,1,2 Ming-Gao Li,5 Yuan-Qing Wang,6 Feng-Xiang Wang1,2 1Senior Department of Ophthalmology, The Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100089, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Ophthalmology, The Sixth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100048, People’s Republic of China; 3School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Emergency Medicine, The Sixth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100048, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Special Operations Medicine, The Sixth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100048, People’s Republic of China; 6School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Feng-Xiang Wang, Senior Department of Ophthalmology, The Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital; Department of Ophthalmology, The Sixth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 69 of Yongding Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100089, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 13810862297, Email fengxiangwangwdf@126.com Yuan-Qing Wang, School of Electronic Science and Engineering,Nanjing University, No. 163 of Xianlin Street, Qixia District, Nanjing, 210023, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 19951935195, Email yqwang@nju.edu.cnObjective: This study assessed the sensitivity, validity, reliability, and monocular cue masking of a novel glasses-free distance random-dot stereotest system (GFDRDSS) compared with the established Distance Randot stereotest in youth with normal vision.Methods: A total of 185 participants (17– 20 years) with normal uncorrected visual acuity and eye alignment were enrolled. …”
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Leveraging Multi-Modality and Enhanced Temporal Networks for Robust Violence Detection by Gwangho Na, Jaepil Ko, Kyungjoo Cheoi

“…Using the XD-Violence dataset, which includes audio data for violence detection, we conduct experiments to evaluate various feature fusion methods. The proposed model achieves an average precision (AP) of 83.9%, surpassing the performance of single-modality approaches (visual: 73.9%, audio: 67.1%, textual: 29.9%) and dual-modality approaches (visual + audio: 78.8%, visual + textual: 78.5%). …”
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On modeling random data to evaluate the performance of statistical tests in cryptography by U. Y. Palukha, M. A. Prokharchyk, Yu. S. Kharin

“…Financial networks with a rule of constrained equal awards for the distribution of the agent’s estate between its creditors are considered. …”
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The main approaches to assessing the quality and effectiveness of measures for assisting persons with disabilities by S. V. Pavlova, A. M. Salogub

“…Applied general scientific methods (content analysis, analytical, system-structured, comparative) and methodological methods of systematization, comparison, generalization, interpretation, as well as special methods — formal legal, comparative legal.Results. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of the Minimum Clinically Important Difference in the Brief Pain Inventory After Total Knee Arthroplasty by Wang S, Yao S, Xiao P, Shang L, Xu C, Ma J

“…The MCID was calculated using two primary approaches: the anchor-based method, considered the gold standard, and the distribution-based method. …”
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Exploring effective video-review strategies of patient encounters for medical students: precepted review versus peer discussion by Kye-Yeung Park, Ye Ji Kang, Hoon-Ki Park, Hwan-Sik Hwang

“…We aimed to implement videorecording-based remediation of standardized patient encounters among medical students, combined with preceptor one-on-one feedback or peer group discussion, and evaluate the effectiveness of the two remediation methods using objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).Methods Following standardized patient encounters, 107 final-year medical students were divided into two groups based on different remediation methods of video review: (1) precepted video review with preceptor feedback (N = 55) and (2) private video review and subsequent peer group discussion under supervision (N = 52). …”
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Identifying confounders and estimating the causal effect of antenatal care on age-specific childhood vaccination by Ashagrie Sharew Iyassu, Ashagrie Sharew Iyassu, Haile Mekonnen Fenta, Haile Mekonnen Fenta, Zelalem G. Dessie, Zelalem G. Dessie, Temesgen T. Zewotir

“…However, the significance testing method was better performed than the change in estimate method.ConclusionThe significance testing method with a p-value of less than or equal to 0.2 performed better than a change in estimate method at a 10% cut point of effect change for confounder identification. …”
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High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Versus Airflow® in Debriding Ti-Attached S. mutans Biofilms by Minh Dien Tran, Sheetal Maria Rajan, Hien Ngo, Amr Fawzy

“…Conclusion and clinical relevance: Our findings indicate that both novel HIFU and traditional Airflow® methods were equally effective in removing the S. mutans biofilms from titanium disc surfaces. …”
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Flatfish lesion detection based on part segmentation approach and lesion image generation by Seo‐Bin Hwang, Han‐Young Kim, Chae‐Yeon Heo, Hie‐Yong Jeong, Sung‐Ju Jung, Yeong‐Jun Cho

“…Traditionally, lesions were detected through visual inspection, but observing large numbers of fish is challenging. …”
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A comprehensive review of analytical solutions and advances in pressure transient analysis of conventional reservoirs by Mohammad Reza Arab Juneghani, Sajjad Moradi, Mohammad Reza Zavelaneh, Javad Siavashi, Mohammad Sharifi

“…This research offers a concise historical overview of PTA methods, tracing their evolution since the 1950s. …”
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Bibliometric Analysis of Global Pediatric Research on Cow‘s Milk Protein Allergy by Lin X, Chen Y, Lin W

“…Thus, there is a critical need to better understand CMPA and explore new treatment options.Methods: This study employed bibliometric methods to analyze global pediatric CMPA research and identify future directions for the first time. …”
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Task-Oriented Local Feature Rectification Network for Few-Shot Image Classification by Ping Li, Xiang Zhu

“…Recently, local feature-based few-shot learning methods have made significant progress. However, existing methods often treat all local descriptors equally, without considering the importance of each local descriptor in different tasks. …”
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Generalizable, fast, and accurate DeepQSPR with fastprop by Jackson W. Burns, William H. Green

“…This approach yields improvements in speed and interpretability over existing methods while statistically equaling or exceeding their performance across most of the tested benchmarks. fastprop is designed with Research Software Engineering best practices and is free and open source, hosted at github.com/jacksonburns/fastprop.…”
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Moral and ethical aspect of distance education by Nuriet Karpushevna Gubzhokova

“…Distance learning has been one of the integral trends in the development of the modern educational system, representing a set of new ways of transferring information, innovative methods of interaction between teachers and students. …”
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COMPARATIVE RESEARCH OF EMPATHY AMONG RUSSIAN AND CHINESE STUDENTS by J. V. Lebedeva

“…The aim of this work is the study of the universal and specific characteristics of empathy of students from Russia and China.Methods. The methods involve the analysis and generalization of literature on the concept and structure of empathy, the influence of cultural factors on this phenomenon. …”
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