NIRS as an alternative method for table grapes Seedlessness sorting by Chaorai Kanchanomai, Parichat Theanjumpol, Phonkrit Maniwara, Sila Kittiwachana, Sujitra Funsueb, Shintaroh Ohashi, Daruni Naphrom

“…Good predictive results from SSOM were obtained, as it gave a percentage correctly classified of 97.14 and 94.64% for training and test sample sets, respectively.…”
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Impact of left atrial appendage thrombus location on diagnostic accuracy of cardiac CT: a single-centre case-control study by Ye Tian, Jing Tan, Haiyan Ma, Jing Huang, Zhi Jiang, Chuxian Guo, Qifang Liu, Longhai Tian, Qiaoqiao Ou, Long Yang, Jionghong He, Yuquan Wang

“…Our study aims to evaluate the accuracy of CCT for detecting LAA thrombus in patients undergoing catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, using trans-oesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as the reference standard.Design Case-control study.Setting Patient data were collected from a tertiary hospital in China between 2017 and 2022.Participants The study enrolled 726 patients (male: 60.2%, age: 61±11 years) who had both TEE and CCT before catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.Measures The CCT protocol consisted of one angiographic phase and one delayed scan 30 s later. …”
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Quantification of Lactobacillus spp. and Bifidobacterium spp. in hospitalized children with Pierre Robin Sequence by Narciso Almeida Vieira, Gisele da Silva Dalben, Beatriz Pereira Cestari, Silvia Toledo Talarico, Carla R. Taddei

“…Socioeconomic and clinical data on the children were also collected. Main outcome measures: The number of copies of bacterial species was calculated for each fecal sample. …”
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Bias in Discontinuous Elevational Transects for Tracking Species Range Shifts by Shixuan Li, Jiannan Yao, Yang Lin, Siyu Wu, Zhongjie Yang, Chao Jin, Yuhan Zhang, Zhen Wang, Jinliang Liu, Guochun Shen, Mingjian Yu

“…The results were striking: the widely used settings for discontinuous transects failed to detect 7.2% of species, inaccurately estimated shift distances for 78% of species, and produced an overall error rate of 86%. …”
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Using by-products for rehabilitating mine sites or degraded lands: systematic review and meta-analysis on phosphogypsum, phosphate sludge and sewage sludge by Yao Kohou Donatien Guéablé, N’Dri Yves Bohoussou, Mohamed El Gharous, Khalil El Mejahed, Mohamed Hafidi, Mohamed Hafidi

“…Based on the acquired data, PG, PS, and SS need to be regularly monitored and regulated. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of lithium versus quetiapine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression in adults: LQD a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Jess Kerr-Gaffney, Zohra Zenasni, Kimberley Goldsmith, Nahel Yaziji, Huajie Jin, Alessandro Colasanti, John Geddes, David Kessler, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Allan H Young, Alvaro Barrera, Lindsey Marwood, Rachael W Taylor, Helena Tee, Anthony J Cleare

“…Further, there was substantial missing data for some of the secondary outcome measures. …”
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MIRI-LRS Spectrum of a Cold Exoplanet around a White Dwarf: Water, Ammonia, and Methane Measurements by Maël Voyer, Quentin Changeat, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Pascal Tremblin, Rens Waters, Manuel Güdel, Thomas Henning, Olivier Absil, David Barrado, Anthony Boccaletti, Jeroen Bouwman, Alain Coulais, Leen Decin, Adrian M. Glauser, John Pye, Alistair Glasse, René Gastaud, Sarah Kendrew, Polychronis Patapis, Daniel Rouan, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Göran Östlin, Tom P. Ray, Gillian Wright

“…We observed WD 0806-661 b using JWST’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument Low-Resolution Spectrometer, covering the wavelength range from 5 to 12 μ m, and the Imager, providing us with 12.8, 15, 18, and 21 μ m photometric measurements. We carried the data reduction of those data sets, tackling second-order effects to ensure a reliable retrieval analysis. …”
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Paracetamol preceding very preterm birth: Is it safe? by Aliisa Laitala, Timo Saarela, Marja Vääräsmäki, Mikko Hallman, Outi Aikio

“…However, the influence of paracetamol on the perinatal adaptation of high‐risk infants has not been studied. These data are important for safety, since another inhibitor of prostaglandin synthesis is harmful to infants born very preterm and increases serious morbidity. …”
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Reevaluating Backup Monitor Chamber Tolerances for Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Treatments using Volumetric-modulated Arc Therapy by Yong Sang, Jun Dang, Jianan Wu, Enzhuo Quan

“…Results: At the 1.5% tolerance setting, all five SBRT plans experienced at least one delivery error, with MU2 exceeding MU1 by more than 10 MUs. …”
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Fused YOLO and Traditional Features for Emotion Recognition From Facial Images of Tamil and Russian Speaking Children: A Cross-Cultural Study by A. Mary Mekala, M. Varalakshmi, C. P. Achyutha Gowda, Leti Manish Kumar, Elena E. Lyakso, Olga Frolova, Ruban Nersisson

“…While facial landmarks and GLCM provide useful information about the facial expressions and texture of the image, YOLO V5 being a single-stage object detector makes the hybrid model super-fast and achieve high accuracy in detecting small objects and in low-light settings. …”
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Regularized regression outperforms trees for predicting cognitive function in the Health and Retirement Study by Kyle Masato Ishikawa, Deborah Taira, Joseph Keaweʻaimoku Kaholokula, Matthew Uechi, James Davis, Eunjung Lim

“…In contrast, tree-based models, such as random forest or boosted trees, are often preferred in machine learning (ML) and commercial settings due to their strong predictive performance. …”
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Clinical and Instrumental Diagnostics in Patients With Acute Dizziness by E. V. Shevchenko, G. R. Ramazanov, S. S. Petrikov

“…Horizontal nystagmus, changing direction depending on the gaze setting, was detected in 5 patients with ACVA (31%) and was not observed in patients with other diseases. …”
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Injection Molded Autoclavable, Scalable, Conformable (iMASC) system for aerosol-based protection: a prospective single-arm feasibility study by Giovanni Traverso, James D Byrne, Adam J Wentworth, Peter R Chai, Hen-Wei Huang, Sahab Babaee, Canchen Li, Sarah L Becker, Caitlynn Tov, Seokkee Min

“…User experience with the iMASC system, as evaluated using a Likert scale with a score of 1 indicating excellent and a score of 5 indicating very poor, demonstrated an average fit score of 1.75, breathability of 1.6, and ease of replacing the filter on the mask was scored on average as 2.05.Conclusions The iMASC system was shown to successfully fit multiple different face sizes and shapes using an OSHA-approved testing method. These data support further certification testing needed for use in the healthcare setting.…”
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In vitro measurement of proton RBE: A multi-centric comparison using a harmonized setup by Olga Sokol, Anders Tobias Frederiksen, Mateusz Sitarz, Brita Singers Sørensen, Elham Santina, Christopher Smith, John-William Warmenhoven, Marie Davídková, Anna Jelínek Michaelidesová, Irina Danilová, Oldřich Zahradníček, Amélia Maia Leite, Ludovic de Marzi, Frederic Pouzoulet, Paweł Olko, Justyna Miszczyk, Barbara Orzechowska, Eleftherios Papalanis, Mehran Hariri, Diana Spiegelberg, Bo Stenerlöw, Alexandru Dasu, Elisabeth Bodenstein, Elke Beyreuther, Jörg Pawelke, Dorothee Pfitzmann, Karen Kirkby, Nicholas Henthorn, Marco Durante

“…Conclusion: The results of the study highlight the minimal biological variation one could expect performing proton RBE measurements in well-aligned experimental conditions and challenges in conducting large-scale, multi-center radiobiological experiments and inter-comparisons between literature data sets.…”
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Molecular epidemiology of Ascaris lumbricoides following multiple rounds of community-wide treatment by Toby Landeryou, Rosie Maddren, Jack Hearn, Mahlet Belachew, Santiago Rayment Gomez, Ewnetu Firdawek Liyew, Kathryn Forbes, Birhan Mengistu, Scott P. Lawton, Jude Eze, Geremew Tasew, Ufaysa Angulo, Roy Anderson

“…Here, we utilise genomic data to understand parasite transmission within and between households in a community and the genomic impact of repeated MDA. …”
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Assessing ResNeXt and RegNet Models for Diabetic Retinopathy Classification: A Comprehensive Comparative Study by Samara Acosta-Jiménez, Valeria Maeda-Gutiérrez, Carlos E. Galván-Tejada, Miguel M. Mendoza-Mendoza, Luis C. Reveles-Gómez, José M. Celaya-Padilla, Jorge I. Galván-Tejada, Antonio García-Domínguez

“…<b>Methods:</b> The models were trained and tested in both binary and multi-class settings. The experimental design involved partitioning the data into training (70%), validation (20%), and testing (10%) sets. …”
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Understanding neighbourhood retail food environmental mechanisms influencing BMI in the Caribbean: a multilevel analysis from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey: a cross-secti... by Colette Andrea Cunningham-Myrie, Novie O Younger, Rainford Wilks, Lisa-Gaye Greene, Parris Lyew-Ayee, Katherine P Theall

“…Objective To derive estimates of the associations between measures of the retail food environments and mean body mass index (BMI) in Jamaica, a middle-income country with increasing prevalence of obesity.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Data from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2008 (JHLS II), a nationally representative population-based survey that recruited persons at their homes over a 4-month period from all 14 parishes and 113 neighbourhoods defined as enumeration districts.Participants A subsample of 2529 participants aged 18–74 years from the JHLS II who completed interviewer-administered surveys, provided anthropometric measurements and whose addresses were geocoded.Primary outcome measure Mean BMI, calculated as weight divided by height squared (kg/m2).Results There was significant clustering across neighbourhoods for mean BMI (intraclass correlation coefficients=4.16%). …”
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Unmasking the Hidden Morbidity of Ocular Diseases in Primary Care Through a Collaboration with Specialists in Remote Areas: A Cross-Sectional Study from Rural Crete, Greece by Konstantinos Chliveros, Manolis Linardakis, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Miltiadis Tsilimbaris, Ioannis Pallikaris, Christos Lionis

“…<b>Materials and Methods</b>: A community-based, cross-sectional study based on data collected through a comprehensive clinical investigation conducted by a mobile ophthalmological unit. …”
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Perceptions of nurse-physician interactions: insights from medical students’ clinical internships by Anna Bovo, Mayra Veronese, Renzo Zanotti, Matteo Danielis

“…To identify patterns in nurse-physician interactions, data were analysed using Bales’ Interaction Process Analysis categories through a deductive content analysis approach. …”
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Safety assessment of laronidase: real-world adverse event analysis based on the FDA adverse event reporting system (FAERS) by Zhuomiao Lin, Junling Xue, Meiqing Yang, Xihui Yu, Jiahong Zhong

“…However, its adverse events (AEs) have not been investigated in real - world settings. The aim of this study was to investigate AEs associated with laronidase using the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS).MethodsData for laronidase were acquired from the FAERS database covering Q1 2004 through Q4 2024. …”
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