Pre-operative therapeutic eyelid hygiene in the prevention of complications following excimer laser vision correction by V. V. Kurenkov, A. V. Zhemchugova, E. G. Polunina, S. I. Abramov, A. A. Kozhuchov

“…In both groups, Natural tears and Systane Ultra (Alcon) were used as tear replacement therapy.Results: Complex treatment, including therapeutic eyelid hygiene in study group, significantly improved tear film and ocular sur- face health as well as meibomian glands functions. …”
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GhostConv+CA-YOLOv8n: a lightweight network for rice pest detection based on the aggregation of low-level features in real-world complex backgrounds by Fei Li, Yang Lu, Qiang Ma, Shuxin Yin, Rui Zhao

“…Deep learning models for rice pest detection often face performance degradation in real-world field environments due to complex backgrounds and limited computational resources. …”
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IMPACT CKD: Holistic Disease Model Projecting 10-Year Population Burdens by Stephen Brown, Juan J. Garcia Sanchez, Hannah Guiang, Stacey Priest, David C. Wheeler, Ana F. Moura, Charlotte Johnston-Webber, Jieling Chen

“…The model projects clinical, health care resource use, economic, patient, societal, and environmental burdens from 2022 to 2032. During development, face, technical, and external validity were evaluated, with calibration conducted to population data. …”
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Islet cell transplantation by CAMILLO RICORDI

“…Restoration of physiologic metabolism by replacement of the biologic function (insulin producing cells) that was partially of completely impaired as a result of the disease process. ? …”
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Research on Mine-Personnel Helmet Detection Based on Multi-Strategy-Improved YOLOv11 by Lei Zhang, Zhipeng Sun, Hongjing Tao, Meng Wang, Weixun Yi

“…In the complex environment of fully mechanized mining faces, the current object detection algorithms face significant challenges in achieving optimal accuracy and real-time detection of mine personnel and safety helmets. …”
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Scleral melting following scleral sutured intraocular lens using a polytetrafluoroethylene (Gore-Tex®) suture by Hatem Kalantan, Abdulrahman Albuainain, Wael Otaif, Abdullah M. Alfawaz, Mohammed M. Abusayf, Abdulrahman F. AlBloushi

“…He had undergone pars plana vitrectomy, and SFIOL using silk sutures one-year earlier; however, the intraocular lens (IOL) was unstable and was replaced with a Gore-Tex® suture. On presentation, his best-corrected visual acuity was counting fingers near the face in the left eye. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management: A PRISMA-based Systematic Review by Adil Benabou, Fatima Touhami

“…Despite the growing adoption of AI-driven tools, organizations face numerous challenges, including resistance from HR professionals, ethical concerns and data privacy issues. …”
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Detecting Planting Holes Using Improved YOLO-PH Algorithm with UAV Images by Kaiyuan Long, Shibo Li, Jiangping Long, Hui Lin, Yang Yin

“…However, existing target detection algorithms face difficulties in identifying planting holes based on their edge features, particularly in complex environments. …”
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Progress and Key Technology Prospects in the Renovation and Upgrading of Old Wind Farms by Yang XU, Anmin CAI, Liying ZHANG, Rong JIA

“…However, large-scale renovation and upgrading still face significant problems such as prominent new energy consumption issues, difficulty in capacity expansion and renovation, increased uncertainty in electricity prices, and incomplete asset recovery paths. …”
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Dual-Branch Multi-Dimensional Attention Mechanism for Joint Facial Expression Detection and Classification by Cheng Peng, Bohao Li, Kun Zou, Bowen Zhang, Genan Dai, Ah Chung Tsoi

“…Competitive results are obtained on two non-aligned face expression recognition datasets, RAF-DB and SFEW, when compared with other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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b-move: faster lossless approximate pattern matching in a run-length compressed index by Lore Depuydt, Luca Renders, Simon Van de Vyver, Lennart Veys, Travis Gagie, Jan Fostier

“…Traditional bioinformatics tools using the FM-index face memory limitations with such large genome collections. …”
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422 Preclinical drug screen leads to clinical trial for treatment of hypoglycemia unawareness in type 1 diabetes mellitus by Micah Devore, Ashley N. Iles, Lily A. Schoeder, Megan B. Music, Bansi V. Patel, Ashlee R. Marksbury, Mason M. Wooten, Andrea M. Woodcox, Zachary Beckner, Erica L. Macon, Simon J. Fisher

“…Objectives/Goals: People with insulin-treated diabetes face hypoglycemia risk due to imperfect insulin replacement and impaired counterregulation. …”
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Implementation of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) for the therapies for long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals (TLC) project by Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Christel McMullan, Sarah E. Hughes, Grace M. Turner, Shamil Haroon, Richard Hotham, Kirsty Brown, Yvonne Alder, Lisa Agyen, Lewis Buckland, Jennifer Camaradou, Amy Chong, Felicity Jeyes, Karen L. Matthews, Patricia Moore, Jane Ormerod, Gary Price, Michael Saint-Cricq, David Stanton, Anita Walker, Melanie J. Calvert

“…Although we were unable to hold face-to-face meetings due to the social restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, we offered patients the choice of using virtual platforms like Zoom, telephone calls, and emails for communication. …”
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Differential responses of the intestine and liver transcriptome to high levels of plant proteins in diets for large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) by Qiaozhen Ke, Qiaozhen Ke, Yin Li, Huasong Weng, Baohua Chen, Jiaying Wang, Ji Zhao, Ji Zhao, Pengxin Jiang, Peng Xu, Tao Zhou

“…Current fish meal - based feeds face issues like high cost and resource depletion, while plant protein sources have potential but also controversies. …”
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Improving long short-term memory (LSTM) networks for arbitrage spread forecasting: integrating cuckoo and zebra algorithms in chaotic mapping space for enhanced accuracy by Mingfu Zhu, Yaxing Liu, Panke Qin, Yongjie Ding, Zhongqi Cai, Zhenlun Gao, Bo Ye, Haoran Qi, Shenjie Cheng, Zeliang Zeng

“…Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, widely used for financial time series forecasting, face challenges in arbitrage spread prediction, especially in hyperparameter tuning for large datasets. …”
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Alcohol consumption, life history and extinction risk among Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal by Inez Derkx, Gina Menn, Sudarshan Subedi, Nagendra Upadhyaya, Prajwal Rajbhandari, Anita Gyawali, Ruth Mace, Jaume Bertranpetit, Lucio Vinicius, Andrea Bamberg Migliano

“…Hunter–gatherer populations underwent a mass extinction in the Neolithic, and in present times face challenges such as explicit sedentarisation policies. …”
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Is maple syrup the next sweetener substitute? Comparing the potential opportunities and challenges of maple syrup to other common sweeteners by Ihsan Shawki Akili, Corina Miko, Patrick J. Shafer, Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield, Derek C. Warren, Jana Kraft, Janet C. Tou, Mark L. Isselhardt, R. Chris Skinner

“…Unique challenges also face maple syrup, including higher production and sale costs, potential climate change impacts on syrup production, and more. …”
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A Novel Energy Model for Optimizing Energy Efficiency and Prolonging Network Lifetime in MANET by Abdulsalam Tonin, Malek Nasser Ali Algabri, Mansoor N. Ali, Mossa Ghurab, Abdualmajed Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Khulaidi, Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah

“…Mobile ad-hoc networks are functional for usage, which require inter-node contact, including disaster relief, protection, and combat spotting. These networks face critical challenges, including rapid energy consumption in battery-limited devices and random topological changes resulting from node mobility, which lead to communication instability and packet loss. …”
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Dimethyl Isosorbide: An Innovative Bio-Renewable Solvent for Sustainable Chromatographic Applications by Aleksandra Damjanoska, Kristina Mitreska, Matilda Petrova, Jelena Acevska, Katerina Brezovska, Natalija Nakov

“…Dimethyl isosorbide (DMI), a bio-renewable solvent, has shown potential as a replacement for short-chain glycol ethers, although its use as solvent in liquid chromatography (LC) is underexplored. …”
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Nondestructive Discrimination of Plant-Based Patty Containing Traditional Medicinal Roots Using Visible–Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning Techniques by Gwanggeun Song, Hwanjo Chung, Reza Adhitama Putra Hernanda, Junghyun Lee, Hoonsoo Lee

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