Comparative Analysis of Utility and Efficacy of Ozone Therapy versus Laser Therapy in Periarthritis Shoulder by Sunil Kumar, Harish Kumar, Prashant Pratap Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Vyutpanna Mishra, Ishan Ahmad

“…Materials and Methods: All patients who presented with shoulder pain and stiffness at the orthopedics outpatient department of tertiary care center of rural North India, on the basis of clinical history and examination, those who were diagnosed with adhesive capsulitis and fulfilling the inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria were included in the study, after obtaining proper informed and written consent, cases were randomized into two groups for laser and ozone therapy. …”
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Determinants of infertility among married women who attend gynecologic unit at health facilities of Gamo Zone and South Omo Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a case control study by Firehiwot Haile, Selamawit Gebeyehu, Hanan Abdulkadir, Yordanos Gizachew, Mesrach Hailu

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What integrated care means from an older person’s perspective? A scoping review protocol by Amy Marshall, Manasi Murthy Mittinty, Gillian Harvey

“…This review expects to find information relating to facilitators and barriers of integrated care from an older person’s perspective. …”
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Medical Student Mentors for Young Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: Impact on Mentors by Adrienne S. Viola, Mariah Jacqueline Scott, Hanin Rashid, Richard Drachtman, Amanda Kaveney, Ashwin Sridharan, Beth Savage, Cristine Delnevo, Jerlym S. Porter, Katie A. Devine

“…We developed an intervention where medical students serve as similar-aged “peer” mentors to offer informational and developmentally appropriate support to AYA patients during the period of transition. …”
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A Retrospective Claims-Based Study Evaluating Clinical and Economic Burden Among Patients With Moderate to Severe Osteoarthritis Pain in the United States by Patricia B. Schepman, Sheena Thakkar, Rebecca L. Robinson, Craig G. Beck, Deepa Malhotra, Birol Emir, Ryan N. Hansen

“…Assessing such longitudinal changes may be useful to patients and healthcare providers for tracking disease progression, informing treatment options, and employing strategies to optimize patient outcomes. …”
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Lower serum magnesium level is an important risk factor for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents hypo-responsiveness in hemodialysis patients by Hayam Hebah, Shaimaa Abdelmegied, Dina Osman, Lina Khedr

“…Abstract Purpose There is an established inverse association between serum magnesium levels and anemia in the general population. However, limited information is available about this association in patients on hemodialysis. …”
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Exact controllability for systems describing plate vibrations. A perturbation approach by Bournissou, Megane, Ervedoza, Sylvain, Tucsnak, Marius

“…Our first main result is abstract and can be informally stated as follows: if the system described by the corresponding unperturbed abstract wave equation, with the same control operator, is exactly controllable (in some time), then the considered perturbed plate system is exactly controllable in arbitrarily small time. …”
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Unlocking Potential Score Insights of Sentimental Analysis with a Deep Learning Revolutionizes by Ibrahim R. Alzahrani

“…To achieve this, the LSTM component of the BiLSTM model is designed to capture long-term dependencies by utilizing information from earlier parts of the text. The proposed SM-CJ framework further aligns the input sequence lengths fetched from the input layer, enabling the model to focus on specific segments of the input sequence that are most relevant for hate speech detection. …”
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Evolution of Multiple Launch Rocket Systems from Early Rockets to HIMARS and Beyond by Mykola Bondarenko, Volodymyr Habrinets, Mykhailo Vorobei

“…The study is based on open-source data, which may limit the scope of analysis and exclude classified information that could provide a more comprehensive view. …”
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Correlations Between Preseason Functional Test Scores and Game Performance in Female Collegiate Volleyball Players by Jason Brumitt, Christopher Patterson, Robert Dudley, Eric Sorenson, Tyler Cuddeford, Heidi Cooke, Linda Froemming

“…Functional tests which can provide accurate or predictive information regarding athletic ability would be advantageous to coaching staffs or medical professionals…”
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Dynamics of perceived threat and media exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic by Talia Morstead, Nancy L. Sin, Anita DeLongis

“…The COVID-19 pandemic media landscape was characterized by an unrelenting stream of disease-related information that varied in tone, factual accuracy, and degree of ascribed certainty. …”
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Kinesiology Tape: A Descriptive Survey of Healthcare Professionals in the United States by Scott W Cheatham, Russell T Baker, Thomas E Abdenour

“…Professionals were also informed through a recruitment post in different private healthcare Facebook groups…”
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Opening the black box of health systems performance management using the behaviour change techniques taxonomy: implications for health research and practice by Jenna M. Evans, Sarah M. Wheeler

“…We reviewed 64 documents, observed 15 meetings and conducted 4 semi-structured interviews with key informants to map the PM interventions on to the taxonomy. …”
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Decoding of periodontal screening and recording index by Dler Ali Kursheed, Faraedon Mohidden Zardawi, Hadi Mohammad Ismail, Aras Maruf Rauf, Sarhang Sarwat Gul

“…Conclusions: Decoding the PSR index by exposing the masked variables and adding few new variables will develop more informative and inclusive system of examination and diagnosis along with keeping the simplicity of the other indices of periodontal screening such as PSR index. …”
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Expectation-Maximization Aided Modified Weighted Sequential Energy Detector for Distributed Cooperative Spectrum Sensing by Mohammed Rashid, Jeffrey A. Nanzer

“…In this paper, we propose a modified WSED (mWSED) that uses the primary user states information over the window to aggregate only the highly correlated ED samples in its test statistic. …”
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Distinguishing glioblastoma from brain metastasis; a systematic review and meta-analysis on the performance of machine learning by Mohammad Amin Habibi, Reza Omid, Shafaq Asgarzade, Sadaf Derakhshandeh, Ali Soltani Farsani, Zohreh Tajabadi

“…The positive likelihood ratio was 6.2, and the negative likelihood ratio was 0.20, providing helpful information on how test results modified pretest probability. …”
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Acuerdos de monitoreo de calidad del agua en Estados Unidos de Norte América: Estado del Arte by Francisco Rivas R., Xiomara Maldonado Q.

“…Los artículos revisados se han clasificado según el tema objeto de estudio, que en este caso son los siguientes: acuerdos coherentes y defendibles científicamente acerca de los métodos y estrategias para mejorar el control de calidad del agua; evaluación y presentación de informes; estudios de aplicación en áreas concretas; así como marcos y programas que permitan involucrar a la gente en el monitoreo de las aguas. …”
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The Impact of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratios in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by Samet Kirat, Utku Akgor

“…CONCLUSION: The evaluation of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio is important in obtaining prognostic information before surgery. However, no significant association between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio or platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio with survival was identified. …”
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Obesity mediates the association between psoriasis and diabetes incidence: a population-based study by Zuojiao Xu, Kaihua Ma, Yinuo Zhai, Jing Wang, Yan Li

“…The analysis included body mass index (BMI), as well as information about psoriasis and diabetes obtained from questionnaires. …”
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Exploration of the optimal deep learning model for english-Japanese machine translation of medical device adverse event terminology by Ayako Yagahara, Masahito Uesugi, Hideto Yokoi

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