Study Protocol of Expanded Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study of Active Surveillance on Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma (MAeSTro-EXP) by Jae Hoon Moon, Eun Kyung Lee, Wonjae Cha, Young Jun Chai, Sun Wook Cho, June Young Choi, Sung Yong Choi, A Jung Chu, Eun-Jae Chung, Yul Hwangbo, Woo-Jin Jeong, Yuh-Seog Jung, Kyungsik Kim, Min Joo Kim, Su-jin Kim, Woochul Kim, Yoo Hyung Kim, Chang Yoon Lee, Ji Ye Lee, Kyu Eun Lee, Young Ki Lee, Hunjong Lim, Do Joon Park, Sue K. Park, Chang Hwan Ryu, Junsun Ryu, Jungirl Seok, Young Shin Song, Ka Hee Yi, Hyeong Won Yu, Eleanor White, Katerina Mastrocostas, Roderick J. Clifton-Bligh, Anthony Glover, Matti L. Gild, Ji-hoon Kim, Young Joo Park

“…The second phase of MAeSTro (MAeSTro-EXP) expands AS to low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) tumors larger than 1 cm, driven by the hypothesis that overall risk assessment outweighs absolute tumor size in surgical decision-making. Methods This protocol aims to address whether limiting AS to tumors smaller than 1 cm may result in unnecessary surgeries for low-risk PTCs detected during their rapid initial growth phase. …”
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Nail disease in psoriatic arthritis. Data from the Russian Psoriatic Arthritis Registry by E. E. Gubar, Y. L. Korsakova, E. Yu. Loginova, T. V. Korotaeva, E. A. Vasilenko, A. A. Vasilenko, N. A. Kuznetsova, I. M. Patkikeeva, E. L. Nasonov

“…Enthesitis was measured using LEI (Leeds Enthesitis Index) index. Dactylitis was detected, the number of digits with acute dactylitis was defined. …”
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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EFFICIENCY OF THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: THE ROLE OF COMORBID MENTAL AND SOMATIC DISEASES by A. A. Abramkin, T. A. Lisitsyna, D. Yu. Veltishchev, O. F. Seravina, O. B. Kovalevskaya, S. I. Glukhova, E. L. Nasonov

“…At baseline, 75.1% of patients received DMARDs; 7.8% – BAs. ADS disorders were detected in 123 (96.1%) patients. Psychopharmacotherapy was offered to all the patients with MDs; 52 patients agreed to treatment and 71 refused. …”
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Evaluating the Pattern of Forest Cover Changes Using Fuzzy Object-Oriented Techniques (Case Study: Kaleybar County) by Majid Pishnamaz Ahmadi, keyvan Mohammadzadeh, seyed Asadolah Hejazi

“…Satellite data is the fastest and cheapest method for researchers to provide land cover mapping. …”
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Expert consensus on the evaluation and management of high-risk indeterminate pulmonary nodules by Yang Dawei, Stephan Lam, Kai Wang, Zhou Jian, Zhang Xiaoju, Wang Qi, Zhou Chengzhi, Zhang Lichuan, Bai Li, Wang Yuehong, Li Ming, Sun Jiayuan, Li Yang, Fengming Kong, Haiquan Chen, Ming Fan, Xuan Jianwei, Fred R. Hirsch, Charles A. Powell, Bai Chunxue

“…Background: The most effective method for improving the prognosis of lung cancer is the application of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for pulmonary nodule screening in populations at high risk. …”
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Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for analysis of free radicals in zebrafish. by Mitra Sabetghadam Moghadam, Eli Wiens, Sébastien Gauvrit, Ramaswami Sammynaiken, Michelle M Collins

“…Spin trapping with nitrone compounds like 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO) is a method commonly employed for detecting free radicals. …”
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Re-use of Building Products in the Netherlands by Loriane Icibaci

“…It is a tool that facilitates future assessments on how to improve the recovery of products for reuse (illustrated by the case of wooden products); how to support decision making by practitioners and policymakers; how to detect the connectedness among different aspects of building product reuse. …”
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Volatilomics Profiling of Counterfeit Perfume by Gas Chromatography Hyphenated to Mass Spectrometry and Fourier-Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy by Siti Nurul Hidayah, Artania Adnin Tri Suma, Endang Lukitaningsih

“…In the presence of water, our optimized HS-GC-MS method shows linalool's consistent signal intensity, providing an alternative analytical method for water-based perfume formulation. …”
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A novel optical granulometry algorithm for ore particles by Junhao Y., Xiubin Z., Jie Q.

“…This optical granulometry algorithm is particularly suitable for blast furnace process control, so its result can be used directly as a reliable basis for control system dynamics optimization. The paper explains the algorithm and its concept, as well as its method, which consists of five steps to detect ore granularity and distribution. …”
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Fault Diagnosis and Data Reconstruction of Temperature Sensors for Wind Turbine Stator Winding by Ling Zhou, Qiancheng Zhao, Jinhui Zeng, Anfeng Zhu, Xiafei Long, Ling He

“…The method combines supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) with an improved firefly sparrow search algorithm (FISSA)–optimized deep belief network (DBN). …”
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Proactive Frequency Stability Scheme Based on Bayesian Filters and Spectral Clustering by Gian Paramo, Mario D. Baquedano-Aguilar, Arturo Bretas, Sean Meyn

“…The proactive design of the method combined with its multiple layers of optimization deliver results that outperform state-of-the-art solutions. …”
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CLASSIFICATION OF DEFECTS PHARMACOTHERAPY AS THE BASIS OF QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DRUG THERAPY IN HEALTHCARE by R. Kh. Khafisianova, I. M. Burykin, G. N. Aleeva

“…Using aprocess-based approach, we have developed a method for detecting defects in pharmacotherapy. We have analyzed the prospects of using this approach to research the quality of pharmacotherapy in health care and the formation of national programs to improve the quality of care.…”
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Preclinical gout is common in the patient with stage 3–5 chronic kidney disease. Relevance of musculoskeletal ultrasound by Enrique Calvo-Aranda, Laura Barrio Nogal, Boris Anthony Blanco Caceres, Diana Peiteado, Marta Novella-Navarro, Eugenio De Miguel, Jaime Arroyo Palomo, Roberto Alcázar Arroyo, Juan Antonio Martín Navarro, Milagros Fernandez Lucas, Martha Elizabeth Diaz Dominguez, Marco Antonio Vaca Gallardo, Elda Besada Estevez, Leticia Lojo Oliveira

“…Methods: Multicenter cross-sectional study, recruiting patients aged ≥18 years with AH and stages 3–5 CKD in 4 hospitals. …”
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Research on Dynamic Path Planning of Wheeled Robot Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning on the Slope Ground by Peng Wang, Xiaoqiang Li, Chunxiao Song, Shipeng Zhai

“…The algorithm discards detected incomplete and over-detected paths by optimizing the tree structure, and combines the DDQN method with the tree structure method. …”
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Bearing Early Fault Diagnosis Based on an Improved Multiscale Permutation Entropy and SVM by Qunyan Jiang, Juying Dai, Faming Shao, Shengli Song, Fanjie Meng

“…Experimental results show that the new method of early weak fault identification based on IMPE-SVM was effective in detecting rolling bearing faults with different severity.…”
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Adaptive data embedding for curved spaces by Anoop Praturu, Tatyana O. Sharpee

“…Application of the method to COVID sequences revealed that viral evolution leaves the dimensionality of the space unchanged but produces a logarithmic increase in curvature, indicating a constant rate of information acquisition optimized under selective pressures. …”
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Soil eDNA-based droplet digital PCR assay as a new monitoring tool for terrestrial mammals by Marko Đokić, Vida Jojić, Pavle Lukić, Lucija Markulin, Vanja Bugarski-Stanojević

“…This study demonstrates the effectiveness of droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) for identifying vertebrate taxa from soil-derived environmental DNA (eDNA) a methodological combination not previously documented in literature. The protocol is optimized for detecting cryptic species of the lesser blind mole rat (BMR). …”
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Integration of Artificial Neural Network in a IEEE 5 BUS System by T. L. Makosso, A. Almaktoof, K. Abo-Al-Ez

“…In the context of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm is an extensively utilized optimization method. It is generally used to train feedforward neural networks, especially when those networks have several layers and complicated optimization problems. …”
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A Cross-Calibration Approach for Coastline Extraction With Time Series Satellite Images by Hua Yang, Jintao Xia, Jiang Zhang

“…This study proposes a coastline optimization approach that utilizes isobath extracted from high-tide image to optimize the coastline extracted from low-tide image, thereby addressing the problem of weak spectral separability. …”
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Electrostatic MEMS Two-Dimensional Scanning Micromirrors Integrated with Piezoresistive Sensors by Yameng Shan, Lei Qian, Kaixuan He, Bo Chen, Kewei Wang, Wenchao Li, Wenjiang Shen

“…This paper proposes a method for integrating piezoresistive sensors on the torsion axis of electrostatic MEMS micromirrors to detect the deflection angle. …”
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