Ophthalmic Drug Dosage Forms: Characterisation and Research Methods by Przemysław Baranowski, Bożena Karolewicz, Maciej Gajda, Janusz Pluta

“…The rest of the paper describes recommended in vitro and in vivo studies to be performed for various ophthalmic drugs forms in order to assess whether the form is acceptable from the perspective of desired properties and patient’s compliance.…”
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Quantitative somatosensory assessments in patients with persistent pain following groin hernia repair: A systematic review with a meta-analytical approach. by Akhmedkhan Dubayev, Elisabeth Kjær Jensen, Kenneth Geving Andersen, Martin F Bjurström, Mads U Werner

“…<h4>Results</h4>Twenty-five studies were included (5 randomized controlled trials, 20 non-randomized controlled trials). …”
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Implications of Concepts of Consciousness for Understanding Pain Behaviour and the Definitiion of Pain by Kenneth D Craig

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of proactive home visits compared with site-based community health worker care on antenatal care outcomes in Mali: a cluster-randomised trial by Osondu Ogbuoji, Caroline Whidden, Emily Treleaven, Youssouf Keita, Kassoum Kayentao, Ari Johnson, Jenny X Liu, Minahil Shahid, Mohamed Berthé, Armand Zimmerman, David Charles Boettiger, Coumba Traoré, Mahamadou Sogoba, Saibou Doumbia, Amadou Beydi Cissé

“…We estimated programme costs, incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) and probabilities of the intervention being more cost-effective than the control at different willingness-to-pay (WTP) thresholds.Results Proactive home visits were cost-saving from the CHW programme’s perspective (ICERs: −$21.39 to −$79.20 per ANC utilisation outcome) and from the Full ANC programme perspective (ICERs: −$1.70 to −$6.30 per ANC utilisation outcome) compared with the fixed-site CHW care. …”
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Primary Technology-Enhanced Care for Hypertension Scaling Program: Trial-Based Economic Evaluation Examining Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness Using Real-World Data in Singapore by Yi Wang, Shilpa Tyagi, David Wei Liang Ng, Valerie Hui Ying Teo, David Kok, Dennis Foo, Gerald Choon-Huat Koh

“…The health care system’s perspective was adopted. Regression analysis and exact matching were used to control for the differences between the PTEC-HT group and the usual care group. …”
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Occurrence characteristics and utilization potential of scarce coking coal resources in Huaibei coalfield by Run ZHAN, Wenyong ZHANG, Feng HAN, Fengtang SUI, Jiayi GU, Guijian LIU, Tian ZHAO

“…The Huaibei Coalfield in Anhui Province, as one of the first key mining areas of scarce coking coal set up by the state, has rich resources and excellent coal quality, and is the most promising coking coal resource source in East China.In order to systematically understand the occurrence characteristics and exploitation and utilization potential of scarce coking coal in the study area, this paper reveals the spatio-temporal difference characteristics, formation control factors and resource potential of scarce coking coal in the study area through coal rock analysis, industrial coal quality index test, comprehensive mapping and resource evaluation, using previous drilling data and underground supplementary sampling tests.The results show that the scarce coking coal in Huaibei coalfield is well developed, and the floating coal after washing shows the characteristics of ultra−low water, ultra−low ash, ultra−low sulfur, ultra−low fixed carbon, medium and high volatile, and has the process properties of medium−strong bonding and coking, low potassium and sodium content, and good mechanical strength and thermal strength.The scarce coking coal is controlled by the regional structure and the sedimentary distribution of coal seams, and the coal seams of Xiashihezi Formation 7 and 8 are the most developed. …”
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Agreement between 2D Visual- and 3D Motion Capture-based Assessment of Foot Strike Pattern by Haruhiko Goto, Toshinao Kamikubo, Ryota Yamamoto, Toshiharu Tsutsui, Suguru Torii

“…The authors hypothesized that using two description types (NRFS and RFS) would have high inter-method reliability; however, using three description types (FFS, MFS and RFS) would have lower inter-method reliability because of the difficulty in distinguishing between FFS and MFS. # Study design Controlled Laboratory Study # Methods Overall, 162 foot strikes from four healthy runners with various foot strike patterns were analyzed. …”
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Functional Role of Internal and External Visual Imagery: Preliminary Evidences from Pilates by Simone Montuori, Giuseppe Curcio, Pierpaolo Sorrentino, Lidia Belloni, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Francesca Foti, Laura Mandolesi

“…The present study investigates whether a functional difference between the visualization of a sequence of movements in the perspective of the first- (internal VMI-I) or third- (external VMI-E) person exists, which might be relevant to promote learning. …”
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Mechanobiology of Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells in Orthodontic Tooth Movement by Huaming Huang, Ruili Yang, Yan-heng Zhou

“…They play a crucial role in maintaining periodontal homeostasis and also participated in orthodontic tooth movement (OTM). Various studies have applied controlled mechanical stimulation to PDLSCs and investigated the effects of orthodontic force on PDLSCs. …”
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A Marxist Approach to Communication Freedom by Slavko Splichal

“…The article, which was among the earliest on its topic, starts with the discussion of Marx’s approach to the freedom of the press in his “Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly”, from the perspective of his later economic critique of capitalism, to show the inherent connection between human communication and work. …”
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Developments in nanotechnology approaches for the treatment of solid tumors by Jacopo Venturini, Abhijit Chakraborty, Mehmet A. Baysal, Apostolia M. Tsimberidou

“…This review analyzes the clinical impact of nanotechnology, spanning from early-phase trials to pivotal phase 3 studies that have obtained regulatory approval, while also offering a critical perspective on the preclinical domain and its translational potential for future human applications. …”
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Food science and COVID-19 by Klaus W. Lange

“…Theories proposing a role of specific dietary components or food supplements in the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 have received extensive social media coverage.A multitude of scientific publications have also pointed to the importance of food and nutrition in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The present perspective critically addresses the question of what food science can actually contribute in this context.Animal studies suggest that micronutrients, food bioactives or functional foods may carry the potential to augment viral defense. …”
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Economic evaluation of acupuncture as an adjunctive treatment with usual care for mild-to-moderate knee osteoarthritis: A Markov model-based analysis by Eunhye Hyun, Byung-Cheul Shin, NamKwen Kim, Byungmook Lim

“…Estimates of costs, utilities, and transition probabilities were obtained from official statistics and previous studies. The effectiveness of CC was synthesized from randomized controlled trials. …”
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The Relationship Between PM2.5 and Eight Common Lung Diseases: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis by Yuhang Jiang, Jingwen Si, Yuhang Wang, Han Zhang, Fang Zhou, Xike Lu, Xin Li, Daqiang Sun, Zheng Wang

“…This study provides a systematic exploration of the relationship between PM2.5 and eight pulmonary diseases from a new perspective, deepening our understanding of the impact of air pollution on health and laying the foundation for future efforts to mitigate these effects.…”
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Renal denervation for hypertension: cross-country cost-effectiveness insights from mainland China, Japan, and Thailand by Dai Lian, Yue Suo, Ruoyan Gai, Ning li, Yunfeng Ren, Dunming Xiao, Jiaxin Zhao, Mingdong Zhang, Shimeng Liu, Yingyao Chen

“…Abstract Background Renal denervation (RDN) has been introduced as a novel non-pharmacological intervention for patients with hypertension that is poorly controlled by pharmacological means. Our study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Netrod RDN treatment plus antihypertensives compared with antihypertensives alone for hypertension in Mainland China, Japan and Thailand. …”
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Is telehealthcare for heart failure patients cost-effective? An economic evaluation alongside the Danish TeleCare North heart failure trial by Anne Sig Vestergaard, Louise Hansen, Sabrina Storgaard Sørensen, Morten Berg Jensen, Lars Holger Ehlers

“…Objective This study aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of telehealthcare in heart failure patients as add-on to usual care.Design A cost-utility analysis was conducted from a public payer perspective alongside the randomised controlled TeleCare North trial.Setting The North Denmark Region, Denmark.Participants The study included 274 heart failure patients with self-reported New York Heart Association class II-IV.Interventions Patients in the intervention group were provided with a Telekit consisting of a tablet, a digital blood pressure monitor, and a scale and were instructed to perform measurements one to two times a week. …”
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Improving the Extraction Ability of Thermospheric Mass Density Variations From Observational Data by Deep Learning by Wenbo Li, Libo Liu, Yiding Chen, Zhuowei Xiao, Huijun Le, Ruilong Zhang

“…Deep learning (DL) can learn complex representations directly from raw data, which makes it a compelling feature extraction and modeling tool for providing a novel perspective for TMD modeling. The Residual Network is used in this study to build a DL model with deep network architecture. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness and Budget Impact of Emerging Minimally Invasive Surgical Treatments for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia by Bilal Chughtai, Sirikan Rojanasarot, Kurt Neeser, Dmitry Gultyaev, Stacey L. Amorosi, Neal D. Shore

“…Clinical inputs were extracted from the LIFT and Rezum II randomized controlled trials at 4 years. Utility values were assigned using IPSS and BPH severity levels. …”
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Home modification to reduce falls at a health district level: Modeling health gain, health inequalities and health costs. by Nick Wilson, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Frank Pega, Nisha Nair, Tony Blakely

“…This district was Counties Manukau District Health Board, which hosts 42,000 people aged 65+ years. A health system perspective was taken and a discount rate of 3% was used for both health gain and costs. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of occupational therapy for older adults: a protocol for an updated systematic review by Takao Kaneko, Hirofumi Nagayama, Kohei Ikeda, Takuto Nakamura, Ayaka Niimi, Natsuki Inoue, Taisei Takeda, Junya Uchida

“…This systematic review aims to evaluate the recent evidence on the cost-effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions for older adults from a pragmatic perspective.Methods and analysis This systematic review will cover full economic evaluations, including cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost–benefit analyses, by reviewing randomised and cluster randomised controlled trials. …”
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