Comparison of the effectiveness of diode laser, fluoride varnish, and their combination in treatment of dentin hypersensitivity: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials by Manijeh Mohammadian, Manijeh Mohammadian, Nima Jalouti, Mohsen Yazdanian, Elham Keykha, Samira Hajisadeghi

“…Background and aimDentin hypersensitivity (DH) has long been a challenging condition, with many treatment methods showing limited success. However, the emergence of laser therapy, particularly the significant potential of diode laser (DL) and sodium fluoride (NaF) varnish, has sparked new hope. …”
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Comparative assessment of venous congestion severity and hospitalization outcomes in patients with acute decompensated heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by E. A. Rogozhkina, T. Yu. Vedenikin, Yu. S. Timofeev, A. A. Ivanova, A. R. Afaunova, O. N. Dzhioeva, O. M. Drapkina

“…To characterize the potental of additional paraclinical research methods (ultrasound, determination of body composition) for assessing the congestion severity in patients with acute decompensated heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (ADHFpEF) in the intensive care unit.Material and methods. …”
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Dynamic Insights: Unraveling Public Demand Evolution in Health Emergencies Through Integrated Language Models and Spatial-Temporal Analysis by Zhang Y, Fu L, Guo X, Li M

“…From the visual analysis, geographic information on public demands can be quickly obtained and areas with serious problems can be located. …”
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Explainable handcrafted features for mitotic event detection and classification by Panason Manorost, Thomas Deckers, Veerle Bloemen, Jean Marie Aerts

“…Additionally, traditional cell imaging methods are based on single-cell segmentation resulting in lower performance for high cell densities. …”
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Re-Implementation of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) in the Community: Findings From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Melanie J Woodfield, Sarah Fortune, Tania Cargo, Sally Merry, Sarah E Hetrick

“…Method This pragmatic, parallel-arm, randomized, controlled pilot trial ran for a 6-month period and included PCIT-trained clinicians who were not delivering, or only rarely using PCIT in their work. …”
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Exploring Global Interest in Propolis, Nanosilver, and Biomaterials: Insights and Implications for Dentistry from Big Data Analytics by Magdalena Sycińska-Dziarnowska, Liliana Szyszka-Sommerfeld, Krzysztof Woźniak, Gianrico Spagnuolo

“…Stability, causality, and inter-period relationships were assessed using statistical analysis, with results visualized through time series plots and impulse response coefficients. …”
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Bactris guineensis, an underutilized Costa Rican palm fruit: juice processing and its nutritional profile by Carolina Cortés-Herrera, Ana M. Pérez, Fabrice Vaillant

“…Bactris guineensis is a crop that produces visually appealing fruits resembling purple-black grapes with round seeds. …”
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Chassis-based fiber-coupled optical probe design for reproducible quantitative diffuse optical spectroscopy measurements. by Giselle C Matlis, Qihuang Zhang, Emilie J Benson, M Katie Weeks, Kristen Andersen, Jharna Jahnavi, Alec Lafontant, Jake Breimann, Thomas Hallowell, Yuxi Lin, Daniel J Licht, Arjun G Yodh, Todd J Kilbaugh, Rodrigo M Forti, Brian R White, Wesley B Baker, Rui Xiao, Tiffany S Ko

“…Advanced optical neuromonitoring of cerebral hemodynamics with hybrid diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) methods holds promise for non-invasive characterization of brain health in critically ill patients. …”
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Innovative 3D-printed educational models for vital pulp treatments and local anesthesia training in pediatric dentistry by Nagehan Aktaş, Didem Atabek, Osman Tunç

“…Additionally, 81.8% strongly agreed, and 18.2% agreed that visualizing anesthetized nerves enhanced their understanding of how anesthesia spreads within the tissue. …”
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Impression Cytology of Bulbar Conjunctiva in Refractive Patients by A. V. Doga, S. A. Borzenok, I. A. Mushkova, A. N. Karimova, M. R. Obraztsova, M. Kh. Khubetsova, D. S. Ostrovskiy

“…Maintaining a healthy eye surface is very important both for performing high-quality visual work and for maintaining a socially active lifestyle. …”
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Prediction of Myopia Among Undergraduate Students Using Ensemble Machine Learning Techniques by Isteaq Kabir Sifat, Tajin Ahmed Jisa, Jyoti Shree Roy, Nourin Sultana, Farhana Hasan, Md Parvez Mosharaf, Md. Kaderi Kibria

“…SHapley Additive exPlanations analysis identified key risk factors, including visual impairment, family history of myopia, excessive screen time, and insufficient outdoor activities. …”
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Effects of Levonorgestrel Combined with GnRH-a Drug-Assisted Focused Ultrasound Ablation on PI3K/PTEN Signaling Pathway in Adenomyosis by Haiya Fang, Cuihua Hong, Xiaoqin Gong

“…Results: After 12 months intervention, it was corroborated significant difference between focused ultrasound ablation group and the focused ultrasound ablation + GnRH-a + levonorgestrel group in uterine volume, visual analogue scale (VAS) score, pictorial blood loss assessment chart (PBAC) score, and serum cancer antigen 125 (CA125) levels. …”
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Cognitive functions and their effect on disability in learning process and knowledge application in patients with arterial hypertension by S. Ya. Yanovska

“…The aim of the investigation is to determine the influence of cognitive functions on disability in learning process and knowledge application in patients with hypertension. Materials and methods. 139 patients with essential AH of II and III st. …”
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Longitudinal Monitoring of Electric Vehicle Travel Trends Using Connected Vehicle Data by Jairaj Desai, Jijo K. Mathew, Nathaniel J. Sturdevant, Darcy M. Bullock

“…Historically, practitioners and researchers have used selected count station data and survey-based methods along with demand modeling to forecast vehicle miles traveled (VMT). …”
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THE COMPUTER-AIDED CONTROLLING OF TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL PLANTS IN THE WAVELET MEDIUM by Fedosenkov D.B., Tokarev S.V., Simikova A.A., Iskhakov R.R., Fedosenkov B.A.

“…The subject research field includes digital methods for controlling a technological plant based on the so-called quadratic feedbacks. …”
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Generation of Synthetic Non-Homogeneous Fog by Discretized Radiative Transfer Equation by Marcell Beregi-Kovacs, Balazs Harangi, Andras Hajdu, Gyorgy Gat

“…The synthesis of realistic fog in images is critical for applications such as autonomous navigation, augmented reality, and visual effects. Traditional methods based on Koschmieder’s law or GAN-based image translation typically assume homogeneous fog distributions and rely on oversimplified scattering models, limiting their physical realism. …”
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Using a deep learning neural network to predict flight path by Oleksandr Bezsonov, Serhii Liashenko, Oleg Rudenko, Sofiia Rutska, Kateryna Vashchenko

“…The training process involved several stages, starting with pre-training on general visual features and then fine-tuning to UAV-specific motion patterns. …”
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Cross-modal unsupervised domain adaptation for 3D semantic segmentation via multi-scale fusion-then-distillation by Maomao Sun, Ting Rui, Jianqing Liu, Dong Wang, Chengsong Yang, Nan Zheng

“…Abstract Cross-modal unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) method demonstrates remarkable domain adaptation capabilities when dealing with new domain samples lacking annotations. …”
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Clinical, diagnostic features and treatment of orgasmic dysfunctions in anxiety-depressive spectrum disorders by M. I. Yagubov, I. Yu. Kan, I. R. Ayriyants

“…The main research methods were clinical-psychopathological and clinical-sexological using as additional tools: the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Weitel Scale, which allows to determine hypochondriacal traits, the Asthenic State Scale – SHAS and Visual Analogue Scale to measure the subjective perception of orgasmic intensity – The оrgasmometer – male and female versions. …”
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Corneal Topographic Changes Due to Pediatric Epiblepharon Surgery by Shindo J, Matsumura N, Nakamura J, Asano M, Ohno T, Mizuki N

“…Jun Shindo,1,2 Nozomi Matsumura,1 Jutaro Nakamura,2 Mizuki Asano,1 Tomoko Ohno,1 Nobuhisa Mizuki2 1Department of Ophthalmology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 232-8555, Japan; 2Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0004, JapanCorrespondence: Jun Shindo, Department of Ophthalmology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Mutsukawa, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 232-8555, Japan, Tel +81 45 711 2351, Fax +81 45 721 3324, Email junjunon.nike.6228@gmail.comPurpose: This study aimed to investigate changes in corneal morphology following pediatric lower-lid epiblepharon surgery using a topographic modeling system 5 (TMS-5®).Patients and Methods: A randomized controlled trial compared two surgical interventions for pediatric epiblepharon: incisional (modified Hotz procedure with lid margin splitting) and nonincisional. …”
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