Benefits of cardiac coherence combined with medical hypnosis on preoperative anxiety before cancer surgery: the COHEC II study trial protocol by Marta Jarlier, Régis Fuzier, Gilles Leclerc, Catherine Fiess, Jibba Amraoui, Lauriane Bordenave, Geneviève Salvignol, Laurent Philibert, Célia Touraine

“…The aim of the COHErence Cardiaque (COHEC) II Study is to evaluate the combination of medical hypnosis (MH) and cardiac coherence (CC) training to manage preoperative anxiety in patients with cancer.Methods and analysis COHEC II is an ongoing multicentre randomised clinical trial carried out in three French comprehensive cancer centres. …”
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SUMMIT: A SAR foundation model with multiple auxiliary tasks enhanced intrinsic characteristics by Yuntao Du, Yushi Chen, Lingbo Huang, Yahu Yang, Pedram Ghamisi, Qian Du

“…Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a crucial tool in remote sensing, yet existing deep learning methods are primarily limited in visual representation, neglecting the intrinsic characteristics of SAR and the need for strong generalization across multiple tasks. …”
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Developing a Model for Occupational Safety and Health Rrisk Assessment During the Construction Phase of a Metro Tunnel Using Internet of Things (IoT) Technology by Mojtaba Zokaei, Milad Abbasi, Mohsen Vahidnia, Mohamad Zarie, Fardin Zndsalimi, Mohsen Falahati

“…Next, sensors with optical, auditory, gas detection, and visual capabilities connected to the network were examined, and computer programming and comparing sensor information with the specified standards were carried out. …”
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Adequacy of recommendations for adverse event management in national and international treatment guidelines for rifampicin-susceptible tuberculosis: a systematic reviewResearch in... by William Burman, Jayne Ellis, Gila Hale, Katherine Hill

“…We did a systematic review of treatment guidelines for rifampicin-susceptible tuberculosis to evaluate the adequacy of recommendations for adverse event management. Methods: We searched websites, guideline registries, PubMed, and mobile health Apps to identify treatment guidelines published from October 2004 to October 2024. …”
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Three-dimensional cellular construct with impregnated silicon nanowires for intracellular optoelectronic biointerface by Nadi Hathot, Tania Assaf, Layan Habib, Noa M. Cohen, Dana Nir, Alexander Borodetsky, Shiri Karni-Ashkenazi, Menahem Y. Rotenberg

“…Therefore, tissue engineering methods have the potential to revolutionize biomedical research by allowing researchers to shift away from animal models while improving model relevance. …”
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Community case study: Our Wave, an online platform to facilitate survivor disclosure of sexual assault and trauma recovery by Laura Sinko, Laura Sinko, Olga V. Naidenko, Brendan Michaelsen, Cassandra Marzke, Madeline Hart, Brooke Tweedie, Brooke Tweedie, Kyle Linton

“…Designed to empower survivors, the platform allows users to post anonymous stories or visual media, ask questions, and send messages of hope, all while prioritizing privacy and security. …”
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Criteria for determining breeding‐pair status of male mallards captured in decoy traps by Michael G. Brasher, J. Brian Davis, Matthew R. Kaminski, Robert B. Emery, Richard M. Kaminski, Guy A. Baldassarre

“…ABSTRACT Methods for accurately determining pair status of male ducks during the breeding season are necessary for further understanding the roles of paired and unpaired males in waterfowl breeding populations. …”
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Gastrointestinal Nematode Control in Lithuanian Sheep Farms: Insights from a Questionnaire Survey by Agnė Beleckė, Tomas Kupčinskas, Inga Stadalienė, Rasa Adomkienė, Saulius Petkevičius

“…Most farmers (45.1%) relied on the visual appraisal of sheep weight for dosing, while 35.2% dosed according to the weight of a medium-sized animal. …”
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Modic Changes as Biomarkers for Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain by Jeffrey Zhang, Emily Bellow, Jennifer Bae, Derek Johnson, Sandi Bajrami, Andrew Torpey, William Caldwell

“…MCs have emerged as promising correlates with degenerative disc disease and CLBP. <b>Methods:</b> This is a non-systematic literature review. …”
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Effects of Dry Needling on Clinical Parameters of Migraine Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol by Neda Najafi, Amin Momenzadeh, Mandana Rezaei, Hakimeh Adigozali, Bahram Amirshakeri, Mohammad Yazdchi

“…Therefore, this trial aims to investigate the impact of upper trapezius (UT) muscle DN in addition to medication drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) on headache characteristics in patients with migraine headaches. Methods: A parallel randomized controlled trial with single-blinded outcome assessors was conducted. …”
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Microcomputed Tomography in the Adriamycin Rat Model of Malformations—Preliminary Results by Jan Scherberich, Leopold Bauer, Nana Huber-Liu, Gabriele Anja Krombach, Roman Metzger, Dietrich Kluth, Marco Ginzel

“…Recently, we examined early tracheal development in healthy rat embryos using microcomputed tomography, which is useful for visualizing the morphology during embryonic development. …”
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Clinical Applicability and Cross-Dataset Validation of Machine Learning Models for Binary Glaucoma Detection by David Remyes, Daniel Nasef, Sarah Remyes, Joseph Tawfellos, Michael Sher, Demarcus Nasef, Milan Toma

“…Early and accurate detection is critical to prevent vision loss, yet traditional diagnostic methods such as optical coherence tomography and visual field tests face challenges in accessibility, cost, and consistency, especially in under-resourced areas. …”
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Improving Fire and Smoke Detection with You Only Look Once 11 and Multi-Scale Convolutional Attention by Yuxuan Li, Lisha Nie, Fangrong Zhou, Yun Liu, Haoyu Fu, Nan Chen, Qinling Dai, Leiguang Wang

“…Fires pose significant threats to human safety, health, and property. Traditional methods, with their inefficient use of features, struggle to meet the demands of fire detection. …”
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Sensing Techniques for Structural Health Monitoring: A State-of-the-Art Review on Performance Criteria and New-Generation Technologies by Ali Mardanshahi, Abhilash Sreekumar, Xin Yang, Swarup Kumar Barman, Dimitrios Chronopoulos

“…While many existing reviews focus on individual methods, comprehensive cross-method comparisons have been limited due to the highly tailored nature of each technology. …”
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A multi-source image fusion algorithm for typical electrical equipment with dual-branch network structure by NIE Qixin, XIAO Zhiyun, BAO Tengfei, JIN Xu, GAO Wenqiang, GUO Hao

“…After comparing with various methods, the method in the paper verifies the advancement of the algorithm in terms of subjective visual evaluation and objective image fusion evaluation indices, in which the objective evaluation indices QMI, SSIM and FMIpixel are 0.567 26, 0.593 47 and 0.887 60, respectively, reaching the highest value, which proves that the quality of fused images is improved and applicable to multi-source electrical equipment image fusion.…”
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Improving Moving Insect Detection with Difference of Features Maps in YOLO Architecture by Angel Gomez-Canales, Javier Gomez-Avila, Jesus Hernandez-Barragan, Carlos Lopez-Franco, Carlos Villaseñor, Nancy Arana-Daniel

“…Insect detection under real-field conditions remains a challenging task due to factors such as lighting variations and the small size of insects that often lack sufficient visual features for reliable identification by deep learning models. …”
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Ceramic soft tissue trimming bur: A new tool for gingival depigmentation by Rohini Negi, Rajan Gupta, Parveen Dahiya, Mukesh Kumar, Vrishti Bansal, Japnit Kaur Samlok

“…Several techniques have been employed such as scalpel surgery, electrosurgery, cryosurgery, chemical agents, abrasion and LASER method for the removal of melanin hyper-pigmentation. …”
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THE USE OF PTFE MEMBRANES WITH AHMED GLAUCOMA VALVE FOR TREATMENT REFRACTIVE GLAUCOMA by S. A. Zhavoronkov, N. V. Gureva, A. G. Yugai, V. Y. Makhmutov, S. A. Yugai

“…Puspose: to develop a method for the prevention of scarring of filter pads in patients with glaucoma using Ahmed Glaucoma Valve. patients and methods: We developed modification of the techniques Ahmed drainage implantation using a PTFE membrane. …”
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LARE: Latent augmentation using regional embedding with vision-language model by Kosuke Sakurai, Tatsuya Ishii, Ryotaro Shimizu, Linxin Song, Masayuki Goto

“…In recent years, considerable research has been conducted on vision-language models (VLMs) that handle both image and text data; these models are being applied to diverse downstream tasks, such as “image-related chat,” “image recognition by instruction,” and “answering visual questions.” Vision-language models, such as Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP), are also high-performance image classifiers, and are being developed into domain adaptation methods that can utilize language information to extend into unseen domains. …”
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Long-term Results of Topical Insulin Treatment for Persistent Corneal Epithelial Defects by Júlio Almeida, Tomás Costa, Maria Vivas, Catarina Monteiro, Fernando T. Vaz, Diana Silva, Cristina Vendrell, Isabel Prieto

“… Purpose: To evaluate the effects of topical insulin in patients with persistent corneal epithelial defects that are refractory to the standard treatment. Methods: A retrospective, hospital-based, clinical study was performed on 17 eyes of 16 patients with different types of refractory persistent epithelial defects who were treated with topical insulin. …”
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