Clinical Efficacy of a Position-Responding Mandibular Advancement Device in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Sung-Woon On, Dong-Kyu Kim, Min Hyuk Lee, Ji Hae Lee, Kyung Chul Lee, Soo-Hwan Byun, Seok Jin Hong

“…Methods. Fourteen patients diagnosed with OSA participated in this study. …”
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Comparative study of the efficacy and safety of Chondroguard® during its combined (intra-articular and intramuscular) and intramuscular injection in patients with knee osteoarthrit... by L. I. Alekseeva, E. P. Sharapova, N. G. Kashevarova, E. A. Taskina, A. M. Lila, A. N. Bogdanov, S. A. Bozhkova, A. A. Bagretsova, S. M. Noskov, E. A. Grunina

“…All the patients were prescribed nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as meloxicam 15 mg. To determine the efficiency of treatment, the investigators estimated the following parameters: pain intensity on a visual analogue scale (VAS), the total WOMAC index and its components (pain, stiffness, and functional insufficiency), sensory and affective-emotional pain characteristics (for the target joint) according to McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) scores. …”
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Comparative assessment of primary and paraneoplastic gout in lung cancer by O. V. Syniachenko, Yu. V. Dumanskyi, Ye. D. Yehudina, O. Ye. Chernyshova, P. A. Stepko, D. M. Fedorov

“…The objective of the study: to compare the clinical and laboratory course of primary gout and disease in the LC patients compared with the tumor process clinical course in the other signs of PNPS presence and to identify risk factors. Materials and methods. 113 patients with gout (97 men and 16 women aged 33 to 79 years) were observed. …”
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Fracture identification and 3D reconstruction of coal-rock combinations based on VRA-UNet network by Dengke WANG, Longhang WANG, Yaguang QIN, Le WEI, Tanggen CAO, Wenrui LI, Lu LI, Xu CHEN, Yuling XIA

“…In the 3D reconstruction of coal-rock combinations fractures, in response to the problem that traditional threshold segmentation methods cannot accurately determine the threshold size between coal and rock, resulting in poor fracture segmentation performance, a new VRA-UNet coal-rock combinations fracture identification model based on deep learning theory is proposed, providing an optimized solution for accurate identification of coal-rock combinations fractures. …”
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Ecological adaptability of rice cultivars with different types under the low temperature and weak sunshine condition by LI Min, LUO Deqiang, JIANG Xuehai, ZHOU Weijia, GI Guangmei, WANG Xuehong, LI Shuxing

“…The root bleeding intensity of ecology-adaptive cultivars achieved 20.2 kg/(h·667m²) at the heading stage and 4.55 kg/(h·667 m²) at the maturity stage, which were 8.8% and 21.6% lower than that in the ecology-adaptive cultivars, respectively.According to the results, a strategy to increase the grain yield of the ecology-adaptive cultivars is suggested: keeping a higher filled grain ratio and a higher 1 000-grain mass, which are able to be accomplished by increasing nitrogen accumulation during the growth period from heading to maturity. Moreover, these methods such as cultivating strong roots and improving root activity are helpful to increase the amount of nitrogen absorption.…”
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Is the Hip Keeping the Ankle Out of Work after Total Ankle Arthroplasty? by Frank DiLiberto PT, PhD, Maxine Olson MS, Finola Summerville, Stacey Meardon PhD, PT, Anand Vora MD

“…Methods: Ten people after TAA (69.6±8.6 years, 5 female, 45.4±9.2 months post TAA) and five healthy control participants (66.8±8.3 years, 2 female) have completed this ongoing case-control study. …”
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Modelos matemáticos para a secagem intermitente de arroz em casca Mathematical models for intermittent drying of rice by Volnei L. Meneghetti, Elvio Aosani, Jeferson C. da Rocha, Maurício de Oliveira, Moacir C. Elias, Ricardo S. Pohndorf

“…For the adjustments of the mathematical models, a non linear regression analysis through the Simplex and Quasi-Newton methods was carried out. The values of the parameters of the models being estimated in function of the temperature of the drying air. …”
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Reproductive impacts and disease burden of metritis and placental retention in dairy cows: A longitudinal monitoring study in Southern Vietnam (2022–2024) by Thuong Thi Nguyen, Lien Thi Bich Nguyen, Khang Nguyen Duong, Thuan Khanh Nguyen

“…Materials and Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted on a dairy herd monitored through skin conductance responses activity sensors and DataFlow™ II software (Allflex Livestock Intelligence, MSD Animal Health Intelligence, USA). …”
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Population-Level Dissemination of a Smoking Cessation Smartphone App: Quasi-Experimental Comparison of Values-Based Messages in Social Media Advertisements by Jonathan B Bricker, Margarita Santiago-Torres, Kristin E Mull, Brianna M Sullivan, Ravi Mehrotra

“…The study population included a selected media market of individuals living in 7 metro cities of India – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune – who were exposed to one of 6 social media advertisements from January 16 to May 5, 2024. MethodsThe advertisement campaign design for each of the identified values, based on previous smoking cessation trial data, followed a collaborative iterative process. …”
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Recruiting Medical, Dental, and Biomedical Students as First Responders in the Immediate Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospective Follow-Up Study by Nicolas Schnetzler, Victor Taramarcaz, Tara Herren, Eric Golay, Simon Regard, François Mach, Amanta Nasution, Robert Larribau, Melanie Suppan, Eduardo Schiffer, Laurent Suppan

“…MethodsThis was a prospective follow-up study, conducted between November 2021 and March 2022 at the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland. …”
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Effects of forage feeding to calves on performance, rumen fermentation, and nutrient digestibility: A meta-analysis by Jianxin Xiao, Jia Tian, Yingqi Peng, Rui Hu, Quanhui Peng, Lizhi Wang, Bai Xue, Zhisheng Wang

“…Moderator analyses were performed to evaluate the effects of different forage sources, forage provision methods, starter forms, milk levels, and forage levels on the heterogeneity of growth performance, rumen fermentation, and nutrient digestibility outcomes in studies feeding forage to calves. …”
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Sensorless real-time solar irradiance prediction in grid-connected PV systems using PSO-MPPT and IoT-enabled monitoring by Ali Zaki Mohammed Nafa, Adel A. Obed, Ahmed J. Abid, Salam J. Yaqoob, Mohit Bajaj, Mohammad Shabaz

“…Abstract Accurate prediction of solar irradiance is vital for optimizing the energy output and operational efficiency of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems, especially under fluctuating environmental conditions. …”
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Automated synthesis of technological fixture constructions by D P. Kunkevich, I. I. Polozkov, A. A. Baryshev

“…Automated synthesis of fixtures is considered in this article. A method for determining the design situation is proposed. …”
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Unsupervised clustering of temporal patterns in high-dimensional neuronal ensembles using a novel dissimilarity measure. by Lukas Grossberger, Francesco P Battaglia, Martin Vinck

“…SPOTDisClust does not require binning and can detect complex patterns (beyond sequential activation) even when high levels of out-of-pattern "noise" spiking are present. Our method handles efficiently the additional information from increasingly large neuronal ensembles and can detect a number of patterns that far exceeds the number of recorded neurons. …”
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A Cooperative Trajectory Optimization Algorithm for Connected Vehicles in Merging Zones by Hao Li, Yun Pu, Lingjuan Chen, Yu Wang

“…Numerical experiments validate that the proposed method guarantees safe driving and provides relatively smooth trajectories to the vehicles. …”
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ML Based Social Media Data Emotion Analyzer and Sentiment Classifier with Enriched Preprocessor by Jayamalini Kothandan, Ponnavaikko Murugesan

“…Sentiment Analysis or opinion mining is NLP's method to computationally identify and categorize user opinions expressed in textual data.  …”
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Detection of proximate, phytochemical compositions, phycocyanin and antioxidant activity of Arthrospira platensis (Spirulina) by Marzieh Babashpour-Asl, Ghasem Eghlima

“…In order to investigate extraction efficiencies, we performed a comparative quantitative study on three different extraction methods (maceration, Soxhlet and ultrasonic) and two types of extracts (polar and non-polar subfractions) for determining of the phytochemicals (total flavonoids, anthocyanins and ascorbic acid): the results showed that the highest total flavonoids content (23.493 mg CAE 100 g‒1), the highest anthocyanin content (0.47 µg C-3-GE 100 g‒1) and the highest ascorbic acid content (1.080 µg 100 g‒1) were recorded in polar subfraction of methanolic extract with maceration extraction method. …”
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Unskilled and unaware? Differences in metacognitive awareness between high and low-ability students in STEM by Jason W. Morphew, Jason W. Morphew

“…In addition, these students were less able to efficiently adjust their metacognitive predictions after taking an exam.DiscussionThe results of the study provide evidence for the Dunning-Kruger effect being a psychological phenomenon. …”
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Harnessing Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Tracking in Geofencing Systems by Alireza Famili, Shihua Sun, Tolga Atalay, Angelos Stavrou

“…Our proposed meta-RL method addresses the NP-hard problem of determining an optimal placement of 5G Points to minimize spatial geometry-induced errors. …”
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Targeting the tumor mutanome for personalized vaccination in a TMB low non-small cell lung cancer by Chuan Wang, Kaïdre Bendjama, Stephen Schoenberger, Oliver Wood, Gareth Thomas, Pandurangan Vijayanand, Tilman Sanchez-Elsner, Nathalie Silvestre, Natalia Savelyeva, Christian Ottensmeier, Katy McCann, Adrian von Witzleben, Jaya Thomas, Divya Singh, Konstantinos Boukas, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Jason Greenbaum, Bjoern Peters

“…Following vaccination of HHD mice, de novo T-cell responses were generated to 4/18 (22%) mutated gene variants; T cells reactive against two variants were also evident in the autologous setting. Subsequently, we determined the major histocompatibility complex restriction of the T-cell responses and used in silico prediction tools to determine the likely neoepitopes.Conclusions Our study demonstrates the feasibility of efficiently identifying tumor-specific neoantigens that can be targeted by vaccination in tumors with a low mutational burden, promising successful clinical exploitation, with trials currently underway.…”
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