A Randomized Trial Comparing Suprachoroidal and Intravitreal Injection of Triamcinolone Acetonide in Refractory Diabetic Macular Edema due to Epiretinal Membrane by Ahmed Abdelshafy Tabl, Tarek Tawfik Soliman, Mohamed Anany Elsayed, Marwa Abdelshafy Tabl

“…Changes in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) (primary outcome), central foveal thickness (CFT) by optical coherence tomography (OCT), and intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement (secondary). …”
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Association between inferior posterior staphyloma on choroidal vessels running patterns in healthy eyes by Hiroto Terasaki, Ryoh Funatsu, Koki Okamura, Naohisa Mihara, Hideki Shiihara, Takehiro Yamashita, Shozo Sonoda, Taiji Sakamoto

“…There was a significant difference in vascular running patterns between the two groups (P < 0.001). …”
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Topographic, pachymetric and epithelial thickness distribution patterns in clinically unaffected fellow eyes of patients with asymmetric keratoconus by Rajneesh Dhiman, Barkha Gupta, Arun Kumar Jain, Amit Gup, Jagat Ram, Chintan Malhotra

“…Pachymetric and epithelial thicknesses in the central 2 mm and 8 octants in the 2–5 mm and 5–7 mm zones were compared using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SDOCT). Scheimpflug derived topography was also compared. …”
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Experimental Rationale for Using an Eximer Laser for Preparation of Ultrathin Graft for Posterior Lamellar Keratoplasty by A. N. Pashtaev, N. P. Pashtaev, N. A. Pozdeyeva, I. V. Mukhina, S. B. Izmailova, S. A. Korotchenko, K. I. Katmakov, S. S. Alieva, K. N. Kuzmichev, B. E. Malyugin

“…No statistically reliable difference of EC death was revealed in the 2 groups (p &gt; 0.05). …”
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Are you drunk? No, I am CybAR sick! – interacting with the real world via pass-through augmented reality is a sobering discovery by Attila Bekkvik Szentirmai, Ole Andreas Alsos, Anne Britt Torkildsby, Yavuz Inal

“…PT-AR, from a technological standpoint is Virtual Reality (VR) and significantly differs from AR technologies that used in devices like Google Glass, Magic Leap, or HoloLens, which utilize Optical-See-Through AR. …”
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How has intraoperative OCT improved outcomes in epiretinal membrane surgery? by Zeynep Akgun, Filiz Afrashi, Cumali Degirmenci

“…Purpose: To compare the functional and anatomical outcomes of patients who underwent intraoperative optical coherence tomography (iOCT)-guided or conventional epiretinal membrane (ERM) surgery and to assess the role of iOCT in ERM surgery. …”
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Assessment of interocular symmetry of choroidal vascularity index and thickness in patients with systemic sclerosis: a prospective study by Anna Raciborska, Barbara Pieklarz, Ewa Gińdzieńska-Sieśkiewicz, Agnieszka Zonenberg, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka, Joanna Konopińska, Diana A. Dmuchowska

“…It has provided the insight into the disease symmetry and assessed the representativeness of examining one eye.MethodsThis prospective single-center cross-sectional study included 33 patients with SSc and 40 healthy controls. …”
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Elastic and inelastic scattering of 15N ions by 10B at energy 81 MeV. Isotopic effects in scattering of 15N + 10В, 15N + 11В, 14N + 10В nuclei by А. Т. Rudchik, A. A. Rudchik, V. V. Khejlo, К. Rusek, K. W. Kemper, E. Piasecki, A. Stolarz, A. Trzcińska, Val. М. Pirnak, О. А. Ponkratenko, E. І. Koshchy, O. E. Kutsyk, S. Yu. Mezhevych, А. P. Ilyin, Yu. M. Stepanenko, V. V. Uleshchenko, Yu. O. Shyrma

“…The experimental data were analyzed within the coupled-reaction channels method (CRC). The Woods - Saxon optical potentials were used for nuclei interactions in the calculations. …”
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A Parallel Reconstruction Scheme in Fluorescence Tomography Based on Contrast of Independent Inversed Absorption Properties by Xiaolei Song, Ji Yi, Jing Bai

“…In this study the absorption property is estimated from the independent diffusion equations by a gradient-based optimization method with finite element method (FEM) solving the forward model. …”
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CGA-Net: A CNN-GAT Aggregation Network Based on Metric for Change Detection in Remote Sensing by Huilan Lin, Chunlei Zhao, Rong He, Ming Zhu, Xin Jiang, Yi Qin, Wen Gao

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The biomechanical parameters of the eye in various stages of infantile glaucoma by Yu. A. Khamroeva, L. S. Khamraeva

“…Purpose: to study the interrelation between the biomechanical and the biometric parameters of the eye in different stages of infantile glaucoma. Material and methods. …”
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Time-resolved p-mode Oscillations for Subgiant HD 142091 with NEID at WIYN by Jacob K. Luhn, Paul Robertson, Samuel Halverson, Arvind F. Gupta, Jared C. Siegel, Jason T. Wright, Eric B. Ford, Suvrath Mahadevan, Timothy R. Bedding, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Chad F. Bender, Jiayin Dong, Fred Hearty, Sarah E. Logsdon, Andrew Monson, Michael W. McElwain, Joe P. Ninan, Jayadev Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gudmundur Stefansson, Daniel J. Stevens, Ryan C. Terrien, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Jinglin Zhao

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Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Materials and Organic Semiconductors in Photovoltaic Devices by A. Kosarev, I. Cosme, S. Mansurova, D. Andronikov, A. Abramov, I. Shakhray, Eu. Terukov

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The Effect of Sapphire Substrates on Omni-Directional Reflector Design for Flip-Chip Near-Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes by Yonghui Zhang, Ji Zhang, Yuxin Zheng, Ce Sun, Kangkai Tian, Chunshang Chu, Zi-Hui Zhang, Jay Guoxu Liu, Wengang Bi

“…In this paper, we investigate the effect of omni-directional reflectors (ODRs) on the light extraction efficiency (LEE) for flip-chip near-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on patterned (PSS) and flat sapphire substrate (FSS) using three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method. Different design principles of ODR for the flip-chip LEDs on PSS and FSS are proposed to attain optimum LEE. …”
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Multi-walled carbon nanotubes as reusable boosters of pyocyanin production for anticancer research by Joanna Honselmann genannt Humme, Kamila Dubrowska, Magdalena Perużyńska, Marek Droździk, Radosław Birger, Martyna Jurkiewicz, Tomasz Kędzierski, Ewa Mijowska, Tomasz Idzik, Jacek G. Sośnicki, Elżbieta Filipek, Mateusz Piz, Rafał Rakoczy, Adrian Augustyniak

“…It was also revealed that the optical density and viability of the bacterial culture were elevated, while the pyoverdine production was decreased. …”
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“…Since the mirror on the phase shifting device is shared between two interferometers, the measured optical path difference is automatically applied in the main interferometer and thus the errors in shifting are substantially reduced.…”
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Corrosion behavior of 316L stainless steel reinforced by dispersed yttria stabilized zirconia fabricated by spark plasma sintering by Lucas de Figueiredo Soares, Francisco Maciel Brito Neto, Lucas Moura Montenegro Reis, Guilherme dos Santos Vacchi, Sergio Neves Monteiro, Carlos Alberto Della Rovere, Vera Lúcia Arantes

“…Densification was measured using the Archimedes method, while surface and microstructural characteristics were analyzed using optical and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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An in vitro model for cardiac organoid production: The combined role of geometrical confinement and substrate stiffness by R. Santoro, L. Piacentini, C. Vavassori, P. Benzoni, G.I. Colombo, C. Banfi, A. Barbuti, G. Pompilio

“…In particular, culturing organoids onto substrates of low stiffness, in the range of that characterizing the embryonal surrounding, enriched the gene sets related to cardiac maturity and cardiomyocyte ultrastructure. Functionally, different cardiac-specific ionic currents and consistent spontaneous action potentials were recorded upon patch-clamp of cardiomyocytes dissociated from COs. …”
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Evolution of microstructure and properties of cold-drawn 07Cr17Ni7Al ultrafine wire by HE Qinsheng, WANG Jianqiao, ZHAO Zhen, LI Fang, ZHANG Shiqing, WANG Hong, ZOU Xingzheng, TANG Yuanshou, HUANG Min, LI Jing

“…The influence of cold drawing on the strength， elastic limit， elastic after-effect， and microstructure of 07Cr17Ni7Al ultrafine wire with a diameter of 0.3 mm for valve springs is investigated using room temperature tensile tests， single arm bending method， optical microscope（OM）， X-ray diffraction（XRD） and scanning electron microscope（SEM）. …”
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THE DISTINQUISHING FEATURES OF THE FAULTS IN THE PLATFORM COVER: RESULTS OF THE APPLICATION OF TECTONOPHYSICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE TAMBEY HYDROCARBON DEPOSIT (YAMAL PENINS... by K. Zh. Seminsky, Yu. P. Burzunova, A. I. Miroshnichenko, S. A. Bornyakov, A. A. Nezhdanov, A. V. Ershov, A. S. Smirnov, I. V. Buddo, A. K. Seminsky, A. S. Cheremnykh, I. V. Kachinskas

“…A style of the zone-block structure and the types of dynamic environments of its formation might be specific in different regions. The application of tectonophysical approach to the analysis of the geological-geophysical information, obtained for certain deposits, will make it possible to identify the structural conditions for hydrocarbon accumulation and migration in the sedimentary cover which is essential to choose an effective method of deposit exploitation.…”
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