A tailored distractor-assisted percutaneous minimally invasive treatment for Sanders II and III calcaneus fractures: a consecutive cohort study with medium-term results by Xiong Liao, Jianliang Deng, Wei Liu, Di You

“…Radiographic measurements revealed significant differences between pre-operation and post-operation in calcaneal height and width, so as to Bohler's angle and Gissane angle (p < 0.05, respectively). …”
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Phenotypic diversity evaluation of medium indica rice germplasm resources based on principal component analysis and cluster analysis by Hailong YANG, Jiaheng YANG, Lei WANG, Jinyang CAI

“…ObjectiveTo systematically evaluate the genetic diversity of medium indica rice germplasm resources, and enhance the scientificity and efficiency of parental selection and utilization in medium indica rice breeding. …”
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Construction and Validation of Coronary CTA Health Education Program Based on Knowledge to Action Framework Combined with Teach-Back Method by Xu Y, Ma L, Jin L, Xu L, Gu Y, You J

“…The scheme shows significant differences in seven aspects such as CCTA knowledge self perception score.Conclusion: The CCTA health education program constructed in this study can improve patients’ self-awareness of CCTA knowledge and the success rate of one-time examination, increase satisfaction, ensure image quality, reduce patients’ anxiety and tension, stabilize heart rate and heart rate, shorten examination time, and improve work efficiency.Keywords: coronary artery, feedback method, health education, knowledge transformation theory, multi-slice spiral CT, nursing…”
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Effects of implementing mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation devices on out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest patients in Taiwan by Jie‐Ren Mi Le, Chien‐Chieh Hsieh, Fu‐Shan Jaw

“…Pooled t‐tests revealed statistically significant differences in 2017 and 2021 ROSC and discharge rates (p < 0.05) while not between ROSC and hospital discharge (p = 0.117). …”
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A T2 weighted imaging-based radiomics nomogram for the classification of hepatic blood-rich lesions: hepatocellular carcinoma and benign liver lesions by Chen Yang, Boburjon Turgunov, Fandong Zhu, Yang Xia, Jianfeng Zhou, Zhenhua Zhao

“…In the validation set, a statistical difference was observed between the fusion model and the radiomics model (P = 0.001). …”
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Yield of “Dual‐Priority” Water Rights in Carryover Systems at Catchment Scale by Peizhen Ren, Michael Stewardson, Murray Peel, Margot Turner, Andrew John

“…Abstract Future water availability is threatened by changes in both climate and water demand. Water rights with differing priorities are an important foundation of demand‐side tools (e.g., buyback, water pricing, and water market) to improve water use efficiency and reduce water scarcity, especially in highly regulated river systems. …”
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Treatment of petrochemical wastewater with low C/N by IFFAS-ESMBR integrated composite process by ZHAO Xuan, LIU Tao, YANG Meng, QIAO Sen

“…In addition, a large number of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria such as Nitrosomonadales and Burkholderiales were enriched on the surface of the carrier, which further confirmed high TN removal efficiency of the reactor. The results could provide reference for the enhanced biological treatment process of petrochemical wastewater with low C/N.…”
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Insertion/deletion polymorphisms in the ΔNp63 promoter are a risk factor for bladder exstrophy epispadias complex. by Simon Wilkins, Ke Wei Zhang, Istiak Mahfuz, Renaud Quantin, Nancy D'Cruz, John Hutson, Michael Ee, Darius Bagli, Karen Aitken, Fion Nga-Yin Fong, Patrick Kwok-Shing Ng, Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui, Wendy Yin-Wan Fung, Tahmina Banu, Atul Thakre, Kaid Johar, Enrique Jaureguizar, Long Li, Wei Cheng

“…Significantly the sites of indel polymorphisms differed between Caucasian and non-Caucasian populations. …”
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Using machine learning to identify key predictors of maternal success in sheep for improved lamb survival by Ebru Emsen, Bahadir Baran Odevci, Muzeyyen Kutluca Korkmaz

“…Breed-specific maternal differences were also observed, with crossbred prolific ewes exhibiting stronger maternal instincts. …”
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Deep Inspiratory Breath-Hold Technique for Patients with Left-Sided Breast Cancer: Dosimetric Analysis, Clinical Evaluation, and Prediction by Jing Shen MD, Kun Zhang MD, Xiangyin Meng PhD, Bo Yang PhD, Jiabin Ma MD, Ke Hu MD, Fuquan Zhang MD, Xiaorong Hou MD

“…An MHD threshold of less than 2 Gy is associated with a reduced risk of subclinical cardiac injury, potentially obviating the need for DIBH, which optimizes clinical efficiency and economic viability.…”
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Could vitamin supplementation unlock the hidden potential of the indigenous Gerze chicken? by E Cilavdaroglu, US Yamak

“…The proportion of edible giblets also did not significantly differ between the two groups, contributing approximately 5%–6% of the carcass. …”
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Sedation and Non-Invasive Mask Ventilation in Patients with Delirium and Acute Respiratory Failure by D. I. Levikov, Yu. V. Marchenkov, N. A. Strizhkov, M. Ya. Zasimova, V. L. Shaibakova, E. P. Rodionov

“…When estimating sedation in patients of both groups according to the RASS scale the scores did not differ significantly and were equal on the average to 1.7±0.3 (eye contact to voice). …”
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Improved YOLO-Based Pulmonary Nodule Detection with Spatial-SE Attention and an Aspect Ratio Penalty by Xinhang Song, Haoran Xie, Tianding Gao, Nuo Cheng, Jianping Gou

“…In this study, we introduce an improved YOLOV11 framework that addresses these limitations through two primary components: a spatial squeeze-and-excitation (SSE) module that concurrently models channel-wise and spatial attention to enhance the discriminative features pertinent to nodules and explicit aspect ratio penalty IoU (EAPIoU) loss that imposes a direct penalty on the squared differences in aspect ratios to refine the bounding box regression process. …”
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Correlation between the response of maize lines to CMS and their origin by G. Ya. Krivosheev, A. S. Ignatiev

“…The results obtained will improve the efficiency of work on transferring maize hybrids to a sterile basis.…”
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Intravascular administration of mannitol for acute kidney injury prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Bo Yang, Jing Xu, Fengying Xu, Zui Zou, Chaoyang Ye, Changlin Mei, Zhiguo Mao

“…Further research evaluating the efficiency of mannitol infusions in the recipients of renal allograft should be undertaken.…”
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GENERICS STATINS: ARE ALL SO EASY WITH EVIDENCE OF CLINICAL EQUIVALENCE? by S. Yu. Martsevich, N. P. Kutishenko, V. P. Voronina, M. L. Ginzburg, A. Yu. Suvorov

“…Among 4 generics of simvastatin studies only 2 performed full conformity to the lipid-lowering effect with the original drug, the rest – revealed differences in the impact on the atherogenic index. …”
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A metasurface assisted pin loaded antenna for high gain millimeter wave systems by Saba Tariq, Waleed Tariq Sethi, Arbab Abdur Rahim, Farooq Faisal, Tarek Djerafi

“…Furthermore, the final optimized bandwidth achieved is 26.62–29.79 GHz with peak radiation efficiency up to 94%, respectively. The findings provide satisfactory agreement when comparing simulation results with experimental data. …”
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Application and Validation of Semiautomatic Quantification of Immunohistochemically Stained Sections for Low Cellular Tissue Such as Intervertebral Disc Using QuPath by Andrea Nüesch, Maria Paola Ferri, Christine L. Le Maitre

“…Methods and Results The methodology was validated by demonstrating no significant differences between the manual counting and the semi‐automatic quantification (p = 0.783, p = 0.386) while showing a strong correlation between methods for both collagen type II staining (r = 0.9602, p < 0.0001) and N‐cadherin staining (r = 0.9044, p = 0.0001). …”
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Indicators of a Cardiovascular System at 14–15 Years Old Boys at Short-term Biofeedback Training for Controlling of General Heart Rate Variability After Speed and Power Training: E... by Liliya V. Poskotinova, Olga V. Krivonogova, Oleg S. Zaborsky

“…Cardiovascular system recovery after physical activity with explosive exercises is essential for cardiovascular pathology prevention. The efficiency of short-term biofeedback training (BFB training) in such conditions in adolescents have not been studied earlier. …”
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Investigating the effect of BT direction on W source-to-core pathways during the SAS-VW campaign on DIII-D by J.D. Mateja, S.A. Zamperini, T. Odstrcil, J.H. Nichols, T.E. Ray, A. Cacheris, T. Abrams, A.G. McLean, G. Sinclair, S.H. Messer, R. Maurizio, D.M. Thomas, D.C. Donovan

“…While having differing absolute parameters, similar core impurity density gradients suggest comparable core impurity transport. …”
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