Prevalence of dental caries among children of SOS children's village in Croatia by Ivanišević Zrinka, Matijević Marko, Užarević Zvonimir, Petrović Đorđe, Jurlina Davor, Jerolimov Vjekoslav

“…The teeth were clinically examined with standard dental instruments using the visual-tactile method under standard light. The clinical indexes of decayed, missed, and filled (dmft and DMFT, for primary and permantnt teeth, respectively) and decayed, missed, and filled surfaces (DMFS), as well as the significant caries index (SiC) were recorded. …”
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Driving Sustainable Cultural Heritage Tourism in China through Heritage Building Information Modeling by Zhiwei Zhou, Zhen Liu, Genqiao Wang

“…In order to explore the application of BIM in the protection and inheritance of Chinese cultural heritage, as well as its potential in promoting the sustainable development of cultural heritage tourism, this paper adopts the quantitative research method of bibliometrics to explore the research hotspots, development background, and evolution trends of BIM-driven sustainable development in Chinese cultural heritage tourism. …”
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A comparison of the open reduction-internal fixation and resection arthroplasty techniques in treatment of Mason Type 3 radial head fractures by Yunus Emre Akman, Erhan Sukur, Esra Circi, Osman Nuri Ozyalvac, Fatih Ozyer, Yusuf Ozturkmen

“…Objective: The aim of this study was to retrospectively compare a series of patients surgically treated with ORIF or early resection arthroplasty due to isolated comminuted radial head fractures. Methods: Between the years 2009 and 2013, 34 patients with isolated comminuted fractures of the radial head (Mason Type 3) had been operated (ORIF in 19 patients, resection arthroplasty in 15 patients). …”
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Results of Automated Retinal Image Analysis for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from the Nakuru Study, Kenya. by Morten B Hansen, Michael D Abràmoff, James C Folk, Wanjiku Mathenge, Andrew Bastawrous, Tunde Peto

“…<h4>Objective</h4>Digital retinal imaging is an established method of screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR). …”
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Enhancing Wearable Fall Detection System via Synthetic Data by Minakshi Debnath, Sana Alamgeer, Md Shahriar Kabir, Anne H. Ngu

“…To address this, we explore methods for generating realistic synthetic multivariate fall data to supplement limited real-world samples collected from three fall-related datasets: SmartFallMM, UniMib, and K-Fall. …”
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Laporoscopic Surgery as the Gold Standard Surgery for Inguinal Hernia in Children by Elena Yu. Dyakonova, Alexey A. Gusev, Aleksandr S. Bekin, Ekaterina A. Romanova

“…Laparoscopic techniques omitting the disadvantages of an open repair method make it possible to remove a restrained organ from the abdominal sac, to assess its viability, to visualize the neck of the hernial sac avoiding mobilization of the elements of the spermatic cord, and to perform hernioplasty. …”
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Transforming traffic accident investigations: a virtual-real-fusion framework for intelligent 3D traffic accident reconstruction by Yanzhan Chen, Qian Zhang, Fan Yu

“…Subsequently, a deep learning-based reconstruction method, i.e., 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS), is utilized to construct 3D digitized traffic accident scenes from UAV-based image datasets collected in the traffic simulation environment. …”
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Difficult case of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided choledochogastrostomy salvaged using a stiff guidewire by Takio Narikawa, Ken Kamata, Takamitsu Komaki, Mamoru Takenaka, Masatoshi Kudo

“…The use of a stiff 0.035-inch guidewire allowed blunt dilation up to 9-Fr with a dilator, while simultaneously maintaining the distance between the gastric wall and the scope. Using this method, a 10-mm-diameter, 12-cm-long, partially covered metal stent was deployed successfully between the common bile duct and the posterior wall of the gastric antrum. …”
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Smart glasses in the chicken barn: Enhancing animal welfare through mixed reality by Dorian Baltzer, Shannon Douglas, Jan-Henrik Haunert, Youness Dehbi, Inga Tiemann

“…To address this issue, we propose a novel method to evaluate housing conditions by focusing on the visual and temperature preferences of domestic chickens, considering these factors within a broader environmental context. …”
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OCT-Angiography for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Best’s Disease by L. A. Katargina, E. V. Denisova, N. N. Arestova, T. B. Kruglova, N. A. Osipova, O. V. Novikova

“…In recent years, a new promising method of examination — OCT — angiography (OCTA) — has been actively introduced into clinical practice. …”
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Morphological-Priors-Guided Network With Semantic Booster and Scalable Bins Module for Height Estimation From Single-View Remote Sensing Images by Tao Zhang, Furong Shi, Yuanping Zhu

“…Furthermore, extensive ablation studies demonstrate the contribution of each designed component in the proposed method.…”
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A Substrate Integrated Waveguide Slotted Antenna by V. G. Koshkid’ko, Ya. O. Galtsov, D. A. Portnykh

“…The energy method was used to determine the coordinates of longitudinal slots on the wide wall of the SIW waveguide. …”
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Evaluation of the effects of phacoemulsification surgery in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration using optical coherence tomography angiography by Eyup Erkan, Seray Aslan Bayhan, Hasan Ali Bayhan

“…Design Prospective study. Method The study included eyes from 44 patients diagnosed with AMD who underwent phacoemulsification surgery and 44 eyes from 44 patients without an indication for cataract surgery. …”
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A Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis for Long-Term Trends of Hydrometeorological Variables in Maritsa River Basin by Mehmet Seren Korkmaz, Kevser Merkür Başkesen, Ertuğrul Sunan

“…Trend increases were visualized using the graphical method ITA. Significant increasing trends in both monthly and annual precipitation and evapotranspiration reveal changes in the hydrological cycle of the basin. …”
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High-Efficiency Graph Measures for Discriminating Schizophrenia Patients from Healthy Controls Using Structural and Functional Connectivity by Mahya Naghipoor-Alamdari, Jafar Zamani, Farzaneh Keyvanfard, Abbas Nasiraei-Moghadam

“…Our results suggest that analyzing whole brain may not be the most effective method for studying brain peculiarities of SZ patients. …”
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Effectiveness of deep electroacupuncture with strong deqi and shallow electroacupuncture with no deqi for lumbar disk herniation: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Ziling Huang, Jianxin Zhao, Xinghong Pei, Bobo Wang

“…Low back pain intensity and leg pain intensity (in patients with radicular pain) measured using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) will be assessed as the primary outcomes. …”
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Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles exploration for semantic indoor reconstruction using 3D Gaussian splatting by Hao Xuan Zhang, Yilin Yang, Zhengbo Zou

“…The reconstruction algorithm is further evaluated on ScanNet, and results show that our method outperforms previous methods by a large margin on 3D reconstruction quality.…”
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Comparison of Early Treatment Outcomes for Large Macular Hole Using Various Surgical Techniques by D. V. Petrachkov, L. Alkharki, A. G. Matyushchenko, V. M. Filippov, F. K. Dudieva

“…The data obtained demonstrate the peculiarities of using the inverted ILM flap and ACP methods in comparison with the traditional method of MH closure with a gas-air mixture.…”
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Sound Diversity as Representation to the Behavior of Spiny Lobster <I>Panulirus homarus</I> (Linnaeus, 1758) by Hartoyo Hartoyo, Amron Amron, Aristi Dian Purnama Fitri, YS Darmanto

“…Highlight Research • The sound of d spiny  lobster (Panulirus homarus) was identified, named rasp; slow rattle; and popping sound • The sound characteristics of  spiny  lobster (Panulirus homarus) represent its behavior • Passive acoustic and visual record method combination was implemented to analyze the relation between sounds and behavior of  spiny  lobster (Panulirus homarus)   Abstract Spiny lobster Panulirus homarus is one of many important economic fishery resources in Indonesia. …”
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Research of thermoelectric null-thermostat by O. V. Evdulov, D. A. Magomedov, R. M. Magomedov, K. A. Shikhabidov

“…To study heat transfer processes, visual observation of the movement of the ice-water interface in the null-thermostat chamber was carried out. …”
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