Evaluation of the privacy concept in traditional houses through the interaction of street and facade using isovist areas: The case of Tokat houses by Murat Şahin

“…In the study, isovist analysis, a method that enables analysis based on the field of view, was employed. …”
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A mysterious case of bilateral stromal keratitis by Michelle D. Lingao, MD, Ruben Lim Bon Siong, MD, Mario J. Valenton, MD

“…Penetrating keratoplasty markedly improved the patient’s visual acuity. Histopathology of the left corneal button revealed toxocara keratitis. …”
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Photorefractive keratectomy for correction of myopia: Our one-year experience by Resan Mirko, Vukosavljević Miroslav, Milivojević Milorad

“…Methods. A prospective study with a follow-up period of 6 months included 55 patients of which 100 myopic eyes were treated by PRK method (one eye was included in 10 patients). …”
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Analysis of the Causal Model of the Effective Criteria on the Development of Creative Tourism in Iran by Ahmad hajarian

“…The current research is applied according to its purpose, and based on the descriptive-causal method. The statistical sample of the research was made up of 30 experts and specialists related to tourism using the snowball sampling method. …”
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Challenges in Removing the Essure® Device by Daniëlle M. van Gastel, Liselotte W. Maassen, Carolien A. M. Koks, Sebastiaan Veersema, Marlies Y. Bongers

“…Fluoroscopy during surgery is a good method to visualize the lost fragments. With fluoroscopy, a hysterectomy is not needed for complete removal. …”
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Purkinje Fibers in Canine False Tendons: New Anatomical and Electrophysiological Findings by Ming Liang, Zulu Wang, Yi Li, Yanchun Liang, Yuji Zhang, Jingjing Rong, Yang Lv, Qi Zhang, Guitang Yang, Mingyu Sun, Junqi Wang, Sainan Li, Xunzhang Wang, Yaling Han

“…This study investigated the associations of anatomical and electrophysiological characteristics between Purkinje fibers and FTs. Methods and Results. We optimized the protocol of Lugol’s iodine solution staining of Purkinje fibers to study the anatomical structure and originated a novel electrophysiological mapping method, named the direct visual mapping (DVM) method, to study the electrophysiological characteristics. …”
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Establishing Sitafloxacin Epidemiological Cut-off Values (ECOFFs) for Clinical Bacterial Isolates by Zhang J, Li X, Jia X, Li Y, Zheng B, Yu Y, Hu F, Sun Z, Chen Z, Zhang G, Kang W, Wang T, Li J, Gao H, Yi Q, Yu W, Chu X, Xu Y, Yang Q

“…Zone diameter ECOFFs were determined via the visual estimation method. Whole-genome sequencing was performed on E. coli strains exhibiting overlapping MICs between wild-type (WT) and non-wild-type (NWT) groups to analyze resistance mechanisms.Results: Sitafloxacin MICs ranged from 0.002 to 64 mg/L, while inhibition zone diameters ranged from 6 to 45 mm across the nine species. …”
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Assessment of resection margins during breast-conserving surgery using multimodal optical coherence tomography by D. A. Vorontsov, E. V. Gubarkova, M. A. Sirotkina, A. A. Sovetskiy, S. N. Aleksakhina, T. T. Tabagua, E. A. Busko, E. N. Imyanitov, S. S. Kuznetsov, A. Yu. Vorontsov, E. V. Zagaynova, S. V. Gamayunov, V. Yu. Zaytsev, P. V. Krivorotko, N. D. Gladkova

“…Among the 132 studied resection margins in 6 cases, the positive resection margin was determined by the OCE method, which was subsequently confirmed histologically. …”
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Diagnostic potential of non-invasive mapping in the treatment of ventricular tachycardia in a patient with postinfarction scar: a case report by E. V. Dedukh, M. V. Yashkov, E. A. Artyukhina, A. Sh. Revishvili

“…Non-invasive mapping can be used as a method for visualizing the early activation and slow conduction zones in hemodynamically instable VT, when effective endocardial mapping is not possible.…”
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Demographic Linkages between Rural and Urban Areas and Its Impact on Creating Social Capital (Case study: Damavand, Firouzkoh, Shemiranat) by Nasrin Kazemi, Mohammad Salmani, Seyed Ali Badri, Sharif Motavaf

“…The samples of this study were selected radomly from 7 districts and 26 villages located in Damavand, Firuzkoh, and Shemiranat. The main methods to analyze the collected data were network analysis and cross- impact analysis; the results of these methods led to the determination of impacts demographic linkages on creation of social capital. …”
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VAD-CLVA: Integrating CLIP with LLaVA for Voice Activity Detection by Andrea Appiani, Cigdem Beyan

“…Notably, our approach outperforms several audio-visual methods despite its simplicity and without requiring pretraining on extensive audio-visual datasets.…”
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IMCP: A Python package for imbalanced and multiclass data classifier performance comparison by Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz, Marcin Michalak, Łukasz Wróbel

“…The Multiclass Classification Performance (MCP) curve is an innovative method to visualize the performance of a classifier for multiclass datasets. …”
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Comparative effectiveness of a multimodal intervention package on surface cleaning and disinfection in Brazilian neonatal intensive care units by Maria Heloisa do Nascimento Silva, Caroline Lopes Ciofi-Silva, Verusca Soares de Souza, Daniel de Macêdo Rocha, Alvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Alvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Adriana M. S. Felix, Aires Garcia dos Santos Júnior

“…However, the public institution had higher work performance scores than the private one.ConclusionThe study highlights that the rigorous implementation of intervention packages for cleaning in NICUs, even though they are different, still showed similar results in terms of effectiveness for all the methods used, except visual inspection. This study showed that even though the employees had various levels of work performance, there was still a similar effect on the outcome of the intervention package.…”
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Influence of Orthokeratology Lenses on the Structure of the Eye by I. A. Bubnova, G. M. Musaeva

“…Thus, the use of orthokeratology lenses is a safe and effective method for correcting and “controlling” myopia.…”
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Triplane generator-based NeRF-GAN framework for single-view ship reconstruction by Tao Liu, Shiqi Geng, Yucheng Fu, Zhengling Lei, Yuchi Huo, Xiaocai Zhang, Fang Wang, Bing Han, Mei Sha, Zhongdai Wu

“…Acquiring sufficient visual information for the three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of ships in navigation is particularly challenging. …”
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Identification of Typical Time-Series House Consumption Profiles Based on Unsupervised Learning Techniques by Marcelo Forte, Cindy P. Guzman, Lucas Pereira, Hugo Morais

“…With the recent widespread adoption of smart meters, there is a pressing need to develop robust methodologies for obtaining, characterizing, and visualizing these profiles. This paper presents a comparative analysis of various clustering methods for deriving consumer electricity profiles, aiming to identify the most suitable techniques for big time-series data and to evaluate how the granularity of the data influences the final profiles. …”
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Clinical application research on the quantitative measurement of supraspinatus muscle fatty degeneration based on PACS system to improve preoperative assessment by Sitong Zhang, Yan Huang, Jian Hu, Shiao Li, Beijie Qi, Wu Wang, Menghong Cao, Qian Wang

“…ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical efficacy of a novel quantitative method using the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) for multiplane assessment of supraspinatus muscle fatty infiltration (FI) and compare its reliability and accuracy with traditional single-plane visual evaluations (Under Direct Vision-FF) in preoperative planning for rotator cuff tear (RCT) patients.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted on patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR) between January and June 2023. …”
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Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly by Angela K. Fuller, Ben C. Augustine, Eric H. Clifton, Ann E. Hajek, Arden Blumenthal, Josh Beese, Aimee Hurt, Carrie J. Brown‐Lima

“…Our study suggests that detection dogs are more effective than human visual searches as an early detection method for SLF in forested areas, and utilizing detector dogs could strengthen SLF early detection efforts. …”
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Magnetic resonance imaging in terms of observation of patients after transanal resections of rectal tumors by S. A. Myalina, T. P. Berezovskaya, A. A. Nevolskikh, V. A. Avdeenko, S. A. Ivanov, A. D. Kaprin

“…The method of MRI can be recommended as the method of choice for assessing the pelvic region after transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM), which allows for high accuracy to exclude continued tumor growth; to assess the pelvic region for the presence of distant metastases; to determine the defect of the walls in the excision zone of tumors. …”
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Early Clinical and Functional Results of Mixed Astigmatism Correction Depending on the Degree with the High-frequency Excimer Laser Schwind Amaris 1050RS by O. A. Klokova, R. O. Damashauskas, A. I. Kacharov, A. V. Piskunov, M. S. Geydenrikh, E. I. Diakonova

“…All patients underwent laser correction with the Femto-LASIK method. Results. Three months after Femto-LASIK, the average uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) in patients of the first study group was comparable with the preoperative value of best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) — 0.93 ± 0.11 and 0.91 ± 0.13, respectively (p = 0.5). …”
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