Real-world outcomes of selective laser trabeculoplasty and medical treatment in primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension by Anthony Khawaja, Gerassimos Lascaratos, Livia Faes, Dun Jack Fu, Christopher Hammond, Gus Gazzard, Obeda Kailani, Ishta Sharma, Reem Farwana

“…Objective Report effectiveness of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) and topical medical therapy for treatment initiation and escalation.Design Multicentre, retrospective cohort study covering an observation period of 10 years.Participants Patients with ocular hypertension or primary open-angle glaucoma initiating intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering therapy, or escalating from a single topical agent.Main outcome measures Kaplan-Meier estimate for duration of treatment success, defined by the time between treatment event to treatment failure, defined as meeting one of the following: a <20% reduction in IOP in comparison to baseline at two consecutive clinic visits; IOP >21 mm Hg at 2 consecutive clinic visits; or subsequent intensification of glaucoma treatment (subsequent increase in medical drops, SLT (re-)treatment, incisional glaucoma therapy).Results A total of 4564 eyes (mean baseline IOP 21.8 SD 7.0 mm Hg) of 2708 patients were included. …”
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In Vitro Selection of Local Maize (Zea mays) on NaCl Stress and Its Genetic Characterization using RAPD by Triono Bagus Saputro, Fathin Finariyah, Siti Dianawati, Nur Fadlilatus Sholihah, Dini Ermavitalini

“…F., &amp; Ermavitalini, D. (2016). <em>In Vitro</em> Selection of Local Maize (<em>Zea mays</em>) on NaCl Stress and Its Genetic Characterization using RAPD. …”
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TREAT: systematic and inclusive selection process of genes for genomic newborn screening as part of the Screen4Care project by Christina Saier, Stefaan Sansen, Joanne Berghout, Kathrin Freyler, Moshe Einhorn, Yaron Einhorn, Leslie Matalonga, Sergi Beltran, Antonio Novelli, Rita Selvatici, Fernanda Fortunato, Silvia Montanari, Maria Martinez-Fresno, Gulcin Gumus, Emanuele Agolini, Nicolas Garnier, Alessandra Ferlini, Enrico Bertini, Janbernd Kirschner

“…The Screen4Care project seeks to develop a systematic approach for selecting treatable rare diseases (RDs) for inclusion in gNBS through the creation of the TREAT-panel. …”
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Criteria for well and layer selection for fracturing–flooding practice in offshore low-permeability reservoirs based on numerical simulation by Mingguang Tang, Feng Wei, Shuai Ma, Xuan Deng, Yuli Zhang, Jinwei Wang, Jinwei Wang, Tiange Xing, Tiange Xing, Runwei Qiao, Runwei Qiao

“…However, the lack of criteria for well and layer selection has hindered further implementation of fracture–flooding technologies. …”
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Enhancing credit card fraud detection: highly imbalanced data case by Dalia Breskuvienė, Gintautas Dzemyda

“…This paper emphasizes the main issues in fraud detection and suggests a novel feature selection method called FID-SOM (feature selection for imbalanced data using SOM). …”
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Smart packaging tools for selected Indian traditional buffalo milk products: a case for on-package freshness indicators by Narender Raju Panjagari, Ashish Kumar Singh, Sangita Ganguly, Rajan Sharma, Vivek Sharma

“…The smart ink components were selected based on the key volatile markers, and a suitable fabrication technique was adopted for developing the respective freshness indicators. …”
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Selective Enrichment of Fibrous Fragments Formed from Milled Carbon Fibers by Means of Gravitational Settling in a Liquid by Nicolas Rodriguez y Fischer, Kerstin Kämpf, Torben Peters, Nico Dziurowitz, Carmen Thim, Daniela Wenzlaff, Asmus Meyer-Plath, Daphne Bäger

“…The aim to reduce health risks of workers related to inhalative exposure to potentially toxic dusts requires the selection of appropriate measures depending on the hazard classification of the dust-composing materials. …”
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Effects of Plant-Origin Superoxide Dismutase Supplementation on Selected Parameters of Inflammation and White Blood Cell Count in Athletes by Olina Dudašova Petrovičova, Ivan Stanković, Brižita Đorđević, Neda Milinković, Violeta Dopsaj, Milivoj Dopsaj

“…., Brea, CA, USA) at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade. Selected cytokines IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10 were measured by hs ELISA kits (R&D Systems). …”
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A Framework for Efficient N-Way Interaction Testing in Case/Control Studies With Categorical Data by Aristos Aristodimou, Athos Antoniades, Efthimios Dardiotis, Eleni Loizidou, George Spyrou, Christina Votsi, Christodoulou Kyproula, Marios Pantzaris, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Georgios Hadjigeorgiou, Theodoros Kyriakides, Constantinos Pattichi

“…<italic>Results:</italic> The feature space was reduced to 7 SNPs and using the proposed binary encoding, more 2-SNP and 3-SNP interactions were identified compared to using the initial encoding. <italic>Conclusions:</italic> The framework selects informative features and with the proposed binary encoding it is able to identify more n-way interactions by increasing the power of the statistical analysis.…”
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Randomized community trial to assess nutritional, socioeconomic, and health outcomes of a food forest initiative in Santa Elena Province, Ecuador: a study protocol by Marco Faytong-Haro, Marco Faytong-Haro, Alonso Quijano-Ruiz, Daniel Sanchez, Daniel Sanchez, Patricio Alvarez-Munoz, Patricio Alvarez-Munoz, Stephanie Gallegos-Caamaño, Victor Yambay-Delgado, Karina Checa, María José Delgado-Rendón, Andrea Angulo-Prado

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Patient-Reported Outcomes by Baseline Body Surface Area Involvement Among Individuals Initiating Biologic Therapy: Results from the CorEvitas Psoriasis Registry by April W. Armstrong, Steven R. Feldman, Timothy Fitzgerald, Theodore Alkousakis, Adam Sima, Alvin Li, Hyung-Joo Kang, Sandra I. Main, Saakshi Khattri, Linda Stein Gold

“…Results Of 1640 patients who initiated biologics, 7.0% had low BSA, 46.9% had medium BSA, and 46.2% had high BSA involvement. …”
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Health professional and facility engagement in antimicrobial resistance prevention and containment strategic initiatives at public hospitals in Southern Ethiopia: facility-based cr... by Mende Mensa Sorato

“…This study assessed health professional and facility engagement in Southern Ethiopia’s AMR prevention and containment strategic initiatives and associated factors.Design A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 634 health professionals.Settings Five randomly selected public hospitals from three (Gofa, Gamo and South Omo) zones.Participants Health professionals working in the outpatient department in the randomly selected hospitals.Outcome measure Health professional and facility engagement in AMR prevention and containment strategies. …”
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Controlled TPCA-1 delivery engineers a pro-tenogenic niche to initiate tendon regeneration by targeting IKKβ/NF-κB signaling by Jialin Chen, Renwang Sheng, Qingyun Mo, Ludvig J. Backman, Zhiyuan Lu, Qiuzi Long, Zhixuan Chen, Zhicheng Cao, Yanan Zhang, Chuanquan Liu, Haotian Zheng, Yu Qi, Mumin Cao, Yunfeng Rui, Wei Zhang

“…Our study recognized the critical role of NF-κB signaling in activating inflammation and suppressing tenogenic differentiation of stem cells after acute tendon injury via multiomics analysis. TPCA-1, a selective inhibitor of IKKβ/NF-κB signaling, efficiently restored the impaired tenogenesis of stem cells in the inflammatory environment. …”
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Gaussian Mixture Models and Model Selection for [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography Classification in Alzheimer's Disease. by Rui Li, Robert Perneczky, Igor Yakushev, Stefan Förster, Alexander Kurz, Alexander Drzezga, Stefan Kramer, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

“…A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and model selection are combined to return a clustering of voxels that may serve for the definition of ROIs. …”
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Fatigue Crack Initiation and Growth Behaviors of Additively Manufactured Ti-6AI-4V Alloy After Hot Isostatic Pressing Post-Process by Tao Zang, Ying Gao, Yuan Zhao, Pengfei Yang, Shiju E, Yang Liu, Jun Liang, Ye Zhang, Jiazhen Zhang

“…In this study, the fatigue crack initiation and growth behaviors of an additively manufactured (AM) Ti-6AI-4V alloy were investigated, and its prospect for fatigue applications was evaluated. …”
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Preoperative chemotherapy plus immune checkpoint inhibitors as conversion therapy in pancreatic cancer patients with initially unresectable liver-limited metastases: a case report by Li Xiao, Haoqi Zhang, Chunlu Tan, Xubao Liu, Zhenjiang Zheng

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Understanding how primary care practitioners can be supported to recognise, screen and initially diagnose oropharyngeal dysphagia: protocol for a behavioural science realist review by Caroline Smith, Sion Scott, Debi Bhattacharya

“…Initial programme theories (IPTs) will be constructed after the preliminary literature search, informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework and with input from a stakeholder group. …”
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Use of pulse oximetry during initial assessments of children under five with pneumonia: a retrospective cross-sectional study from 14 hospitals in Ethiopia by Habtamu Seyoum Tolla, Mekitew Letebo, Yigeremu Abebe Asemere, Alemayehu Berhanu Belete, Tegegn Chote Tumbule, Zinabie Feleke Fekadu, Dinkineh Bikila Woyessa, Simret Ameha, Yibeltal Mekonen Feyisa, Felix Lam

“…Medical records of 443 children age 0-59 months with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia were randomly selected for review. The primary outcome was whether an arterial blood oxygen saturation (SpO~2~) measurement was recorded in the patient's medical record at the initial assessment…”
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Prevalence and predictors of HIV among Chinese tuberculosis patients by provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC): a multisite study in South Central of China. by Junjie Xu, Weiming Tang, Shiming Cheng, Tanmay Mahapatra, Lin Zhou, Yuji Lai, Yongjun Jiang, Feiying Liu, Xinan Zhen, Jinge He, Jing Zhang, Jinxin Lu, Sanchita Mahapatra, Hong Shang

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Predictors of early initiation of breastfeeding in women who give birth in Sri Lankan hospitals: A cross-sectional assessment of socio-demographic and clinical measures. by Laavanya Lokeesan, Elizabeth Martin, Yvette D Miller

“…<h4>Background</h4>Early initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth can be predicted by socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of women.The relative influence of many socio-demographic and clinical characteristics on early initiation of breastfeeding has not been established in Sri Lanka. …”
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