Recent Developments to the ANSWERS® Monte Carlo Codes MONK® and MCBEND® by Fildes Jessica, Richards Simon, Bird Adam, Cox Andrew, Fry Timothy, Hanlon David, Jones Brian, Long David, Tantillo Francesco, Wright George, Hiles Richard

“…As MONK and MCBEND share a significant amount of source code, some of these new developments are in common between the two codes and some are specific to each. …”
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The Long Head of Biceps Tendon Tenotomy in Idiopathic Glenohumeral Adhesive Capsulitis Surgery Improves Early Rehabilitation Outcomes by Jia‐Long Luo, Ye‐Bin Huang, Xing‐Hao Deng, Jing‐Song Wang, Yu‐Heng Li, Wei‐Ping Li, Chuan Jiang, Zheng‐Zheng Zhang, Zhong Chen

“…Due to overlapping symptoms and shared anatomical involvement, it is hard to distinguish the source of shoulder pain between concurrent long head of the biceps tendon (LHBT) inflammation and IFS. …”
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Oligosaccharide production using β-galactosidase from Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Kluyveromyces lactis in sweetened reconstituted nonfat dry milk by Giselle K.P. Guron, Arland T. Hotchkiss, Jr., Brittany H. Bodnar, Andrew Harron, John A. Renye, Jr., Michael J. McAnulty

“…High-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection was used to visualize the presence of oligosaccharides with degrees of polymerization of 3 to 7. …”
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Stomata as the Main Pathway for the Penetration of Atmospheric Particulate Matter Pb into Wheat Leaves by Ke Zhang, Yujing Liang, Chuang Ma, Haopeng Guo, Fuyong Liu, Aihua Gao, Nan Liu, Hongzhong Zhang

“…The absorption of atmospheric particulate matter lead (APM-Pb) by wheat leaves is the primary source of Pb in wheat grains, yet the mechanisms of how wheat leaves absorb Pb remain unclear. …”
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Radiomics in the differential diagnosis of glioblastoma under the primary neurooncoimaging conditions by Nikita E. Maslov, Daria A. Valenkova, Alexander M. Sinitсa, Gennadiy E. Trufanov, Vladimir M. Moiseenko, Alexander Yu. Efimtsev, Vera V. Chernobrivtseva

“…We plan to assess the reproducibility of the study results using similar medical imaging data from open sources and to develop a color mapping technique for the ROIs to facilitate visual interpretation of quantitative radiomic data.…”
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Generative modeling of the Circle of Willis using 3D-StyleGAN by Orhun Utku Aydin, Adam Hilbert, Alexander Koch, Felix Lohrke, Jana Rieger, Satoru Tanioka, Dietmar Frey

“…Qualitative analysis was performed via a visual Turing test. We demonstrated the utility of generated data in a downstream task of multiclass semantic segmentation of CoW arteries. …”
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Assessment of choroidal vessels in healthy eyes using 3-dimensional vascular maps and a semi-automated deep learning approach by Nicola Valsecchi, Elham Sadeghi, Elli Davis, Mohammed Nasar Ibrahim, Nasiq Hasan, Sandeep Chandra Bollepalli, Sumit Randhir Singh, Luigi Fontana, Jose Alain Sahel, Kiran Kumar Vupparaboina, Jay Chhablani

“…In this cross-sectional retrospective study, swept-source OCT 6 × 6 mm scans on Plex Elite 9000 device were obtained. …”
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Relationships between distance from the fovea to the disc and macular retinal layer thickness differ between normal and glaucomatous eyes by Tomomi Higashide, Sachiko Udagawa, Makoto Araie, Hitomi Saito, Daisuke Takemoto, Kazuhisa Sugiyama, Goji Tomita, Atsuya Miki, Tsutomu Kikawa, Aiko Iwase, Toru Nakazawa, Makoto Aihara, Kyoko Ohno-Matsui, Tae-Woo Kim, Christopher Kai Shun Leung, Linda M. Zangwill, Robert N. Weinreb

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Formation and mitigation of heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in high temperature processed meat products: a review by Samuel Ayofemi Olalekan Adeyeye, Thiyagarajan Sivapriya, Palaniyandi Sankarganesh

“…While mitigation of carcinogenic PAHs during grilling could be done by removing visual charring, reducing dripping from the meat into the source of heat to minimize fat pyrolysis, however, it has also been discovered that using acidic marinades, lean meat, and skinless chicken meat can all effectively lower the production of carcinogenic PAHs in high-temperature cooked meat. …”
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THE IMPACT OF HYGIENIC AND ERGONOMIC ASPECTS OF WORK ON THE HEALTH OF A DENTIST by V.S. Melnyk, K.V. Zombor, S.V. Melnyk

“… The work of a dentist is associated with significant occupational risks caused by exposure to a number of unfavorable health-related production factors, including: forced working posture, visual and emotional stress, risk of infection transmission, contact with allergens and toxic substances, noise, vibration, work intensity, and others. …”
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Ocular graft host disease after allogeneic stem cell transplant: unique risk factors and outcomes by Maaly A.M Abdel Fattah, Ghada ElGohary, Shahrukh K Hashmi

“…Peripheral blood was the source of stem cells in 61 patients. The ophthalmological examination included visual acuity (VA) testing, refraction, tear break-up time, Schirmer’s test, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, and dilated ophthalmoscopy. …”
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Mapping global urban inequality under climate change and its interaction with sustainable development by Yinshuai Li, Nan Jia, Zhan Zhang, Jie Cheng, Wen Song, Lingbo Liu, Shuming Bao, Lilin Zheng, Ruishan Chen

“…To understand the impacts and challenges of climate change on urban inequality and enable long-term dynamic monitoring, we established an open-source, replicable, and visually-based bibliometric analysis workflow on the KNIME platform. …”
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Research on the predictive performance of using ROC curve to evaluate axial length for myopia in children and adolescents by Cui Mingming, Zhu Zhongxin, Gao Yuting, Zong Xinnan, Li Shaoli, Liu Junting, Chen Fangfang, Yang Zhou, Yin Tao, Lyu Yanyu, Zhang Hao

“…The study aims to explore the relationship between AL and myopia, and to predict the risk thresholds of AL in children of different age and sex groups. Method Visual acuity examination, refractive screening and ocular axis examination of 2388 children aged 7–18 (4776 eyes) from 8 schools in a certain area of Beijing were used as the data source, we evaluated the predictive ability of AL for myopia in children using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, and constructed Logistic Regression to analyze the reference value of AL threshold for children of different age and sex groups. …”
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Rabbit carcasses as important vectors of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecalis, but not E. faecium: prevalence and molecular characterization from a study in Poland by Przemysław Knysz, Krzysztof Szkucik, Michał Gondek

“…Using ADSRRS fingerprinting analysis, four main clusters were visualized, with almost every branch containing multi-drug resistant isolates from rabbits bred on farms in different locations. …”
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Research on ecological quality and restoration of fragile mining areas in the Yellow River Basin—The case of Xiegou coal mine by Xin Sui, Yiming Sun, Xuan Wang, Jin Yuan

“…This study proposes a hierarchical restoration framework by integrating spatiotemporal ecological quality analysis with an ecological network model (constructed through ’ecological source-resistance surface-corridor’ principles): ’one core, two subzones, three belts, and four nodes.’ …”
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ChatEarthNet: a global-scale image–text dataset empowering vision–language geo-foundation models by Z. Yuan, Z. Xiong, L. Mou, X. X. Zhu, X. X. Zhu

“…Additionally, when paired with visual data, natural language can be utilized to train large vision–language foundation models, significantly improving performance in various tasks. …”
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Surgeon reported measures of stress and anxiety prior to and after elective gynecological surgery by Aaron K. Budden, Sophia Song, Amanda Henry, Claire E. Wakefield, Jason A. Abbott

“…Abstract Introduction Performing surgical procedures is a recognized source of stress for surgeons. Vocational stress is an important contributor to performance, patient care, and burnout with dispositional and environmental factors contributing. …”
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Diagnosing pathologic myopia by identifying morphologic patterns using ultra widefield images with deep learning by Yang Liu, Keming Zhao, Lihui Luo, Ziheng Zhang, Zhenghang Qian, Cenk Jiang, Zhicheng Du, Simin Deng, Chengming Yang, Duanpo Wu, Shuai Wang, Xingru Huang, Chenggang Yan, Yingting Zhu, Yehong Zhuo, Chunsheng Qu, Jiaqi Chen, Zhenqiang Huang, Chenying Lu, Minjiang Chen, Dongmei Yu, Jiantao Wang, Peiwu Qin, Jiansong Ji

“…Abstract Pathologic myopia is a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness. While deep learning-based approaches aid in recognizing pathologic myopia using color fundus photography, they often rely on implicit patterns that lack clinical interpretability. …”
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Transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells via injectable microfluidic-templated microgels for retinal regeneration by Ying Wei, Cong Ma, Chuanfeng An, Yujie Zhang, Haoyue Zhang, Qiyou Li, Li Kong, Huanan Wang, Xiang Ma

“…Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells are specialized neural cells crucial for vision, while human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial (hESC-RPE) cells hold great potential as a viable cell source for treating retinal degenerative diseases like retinitis pigmentosa (RP). …”
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Identification of maize leaf diseases using red, green, blue-based images with convolutional neural network (CNN) and residual network (ResNet50) models by Basani Lammy Nkuna, Khaled Abutaleb, Johannes George Chirima, Solomon W. Newete, Adriaan Johannes van der Walt, Adolph Nyamugama

“…Maize (Zea mays) is a crucial global staple crop that serves as a primary source of food and income, especially for smallholder farmers. …”
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