The evidence for Shiatsu: a systematic review of Shiatsu and acupressure by Liao Xing, Lorenc Ava, Robinson Nicola

“…Final inclusions were 9 Shiatsu and 71 acupressure studies. A quarter were graded A (highest quality). Shiatsu studies comprised 1 RCT, three controlled non-randomised, one within-subjects, one observational and 3 uncontrolled studies investigating mental and physical health issues. …”
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Risk Assessment of Water and Sand Inrush in Mining under Thick Loose Layer Based on Comprehensive Weight-Cloud Model by Wenquan Zhang, Xintao Wu, Xunan Wu, Yu Lei, Jianli Shao, Zaiyong Wang

“…The assessment index system is established, and the index is divided into three grades. A comprehensive weighting method, which combines analytic hierarchy process (AHP), entropy weight method (EWM), and minimum entropy principle, is used to reasonably assign the weight of index. …”
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Digital development trajectory as a tool for improving the quality of education by Kupriyanov Roman, Semenov Alexei, Kondratiev Vladimir, Nikulina Polina

“…The present study examines several scenarios of using a digital development trajectory in education including students’ progress in an academic performance trajectory based on their grades, a trajectory in terms of time spent on solving problems to determine their complexity, and a heatmap for determining problematic areas and weak spots in each teacher’s educational course. …”
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Integrated Oak Timber Protection from Ambrosia Bark Beetles: Economic and Ecological Importance in Harvesting Operations by Tomislav Poršinsky, Andreja Đuka, Milivoj Franjević

“…It was also concluded that without additional protection with polymer nets, it is not possible to protect oak timber in compliance with strict FprEN 1316-1: 2012 E standards for oak roundwood classes, which do not allow any timber infestation in the highest quality grades (A and B quality class). Semiochemicals used as repellents during the research were ineffective. …”
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The effects of adjunctive use of a desiccant agent in the treatment of stage III periodontitis (Randomized controlled clinical trial) by Belal Khalil, Ali Abou Sulaiman, Batoul Al Hajjar

“…Materials and Methods: The study sample comprised 25 patients with periodontitis stage Ш (grades A and B). Each maxillary quadrant was randomly allocated to two groups: SRPX group, including 25 quadrants treated with SRP plus HYBENX, and SRP group, including 25 quadrants treated with SRP alone. …”
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Study of organizational structure & empowerment profile of construction companies in Singapore by Nguyen Khac, Ngoc Duy.

“…Motivated by the relationship of Organization Structure and Empowerment, this dual-Final Year Project aims to investigate organizational behaviors of contractors of various financial grades (A1 to B2) through survey questionnaires and statistical analysis. …”
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Crowd-sourced assessment of technical skills: A novel method to evaluate surgical performance by Chen, C, White, L, Kowalewski, T, Aggarwal, R, Lintott, C, Comstock, B, Kuksenok, K, Aragon, C, Holst, D, Lendvay, T

“…Materials and methods Institutional Review Board approval was granted to test the accuracy of Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk and Facebook crowdworkers compared with experienced surgical faculty grading a recorded dry-laboratory robotic surgical suturing performance using three performance domains from a validated assessment tool. …”

Comparison of ART Outcomes between Two COH Protocols: Gonal-F versus Gonal-F Plus HMG by Farnaz Sohrabvand, Banafsheh Golestan, Homa Kashani, Mandana Saberi, Fedyeh Haghollahi, Masoumeh Maasomi, Maryam Bagheri

“…Although the number of high quality embryos (grades A and B) were significantly better in group B the number of pregnancies and live birth rates were similar in both groups. …”
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Comparison of In Vitro Fertilization/Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Cycle Outcome in Patients with and without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Modified Poisson Regression Model by Amir Almasi-Hashiani, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Mahdi Sepidarkish, Samira Vesali, Azadeh Ghaheri, Arezoo Esmailzadeh, Reza Omani-Samani

“…Significant predictors of the ART outcome included the treatment protocol type, numbers of embryos transferred (grades A and AB), numbers of injected ampules, and age. …”
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Evaluation of Tumor Grade and Proliferation Indices before and after Short-Course Anti-Inflammatory Prednisone Therapy in Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumors: A Pilot Study by Shawna Klahn, Nikolaos Dervisis, Kevin Lahmers, Marian Benitez

“…There were no clinically significant alterations between pre-treatment and post-treatment in the assignment of tumor grades. A short course of anti-inflammatory prednisone does not appear to alter the histological parameters that affect grade determination or significantly alter the proliferation indices in canine MCTs.…”
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Automatic Acne Object Detection and Acne Severity Grading Using Smartphone Images and Artificial Intelligence by Quan Thanh Huynh, Phuc Hoang Nguyen, Hieu Xuan Le, Lua Thi Ngo, Nhu-Thuy Trinh, Mai Thi-Thanh Tran, Hoan Tam Nguyen, Nga Thi Vu, Anh Tam Nguyen, Kazuma Suda, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Tsuyoshi Ishii, Trung Xuan Ngo, Hoan Thanh Ngo

“…The output of the Faster R-CNN model, i.e., the counts of each acne type, were used as input for the LightGBM model for acne severity grading. A dataset consisting of 1572 labeled facial images captured by both iOS and Android smartphones was used for training. …”
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Non-invasive arterial blood pressure measurement and SpO2 estimation using PPG signal: a deep learning framework by Yan Chu, Kaichen Tang, Yu-Chun Hsu, Tongtong Huang, Dulin Wang, Wentao Li, Sean I. Savitz, Xiaoqian Jiang, Shayan Shams

“…The mean absolute error is 2.52 ± 2.43 mmHg for systolic blood pressure, 1.37 ± 1.89 mmHg for diastolic blood pressure, and 0.58 ± 0.79% for oxygen saturation, which satisfies the requirements of the Association of Advancement of Medical Instrumentation standard and achieve grades A for the British Hypertension Society standard. …”
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Thermomechanical and thermodynamic behavior of deformed austenite in four different steel grades by Clodualdo Aranas, Fulvio Siciliano, Samuel Filgueiras Rodrigues, Jubert Pasco, Edson J.P. Miranda, John Joseph Jonas

“…Two of the microalloyed steels are pipeline grades: a modified X-70 grade, and a typical X-80 steel. …”
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Image-based modeling of vascular organization to evaluate anti-angiogenic therapy by David Ascheid, Magdalena Baumann, Caroline Funke, Julia Volz, Jürgen Pinnecker, Mike Friedrich, Marie Höhn, Rajender Nandigama, Süleyman Ergün, Bernhard Nieswandt, Katrin G. Heinze, Erik Henke

“…These parameters proofed effective in scoring the degree of disorganization in different tumor entities, and more importantly in grading a potential reversal under treatment with therapeutic agents. …”
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The Day after Mass COVID-19 Vaccination: Higher Hypermetabolic Lymphadenopathy Detection on PET/CT and Impact on Oncologic Patients Management by Cristina Ferrari, Anna Giulia Nappi, Giulia Santo, Paolo Mammucci, Dino Rubini, Marco Tucci, Antonio Rosario Pisani

“…HLNs were recorded and categorized according to risk classes and SUVmax grades. A statistical analysis was performed to assess the correlation between HLN detection and different clinical/vaccine data. …”
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Assessment of Tissue Oxygenation and Radiation Dermatitis Pre-, During, and Post-Radiation Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients by Edwin A. Robledo, Juan Murillo, Raquel Veiga Martin, Kevin Leiva, Corina Beiner, Maria Amelia Rodrigues, Marcio Fagundes, Joseph Panoff, Michael Chuong, Wensong Wu, Anuradha Godavarty

“…Our objective is to determine sub-clinical tissue oxygenation (oxygen saturation) changes in response to RT in breast cancer patients using near-infrared spectroscopic imaging and correlate these changes to RD grading. A 4-8 week longitudinal pilot imaging study was carried out on 10 RT-treated breast cancer patients. …”
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Secondary Sarcopenia and Spinal Cord Injury: Clinical Associations and Health Outcomes by Anamaria Gherle, Carmen Delia Nistor-Cseppento, Diana-Carina Iovanovici, Iulia Ruxandra Cevei, Mariana Lidia Cevei, Danche Vasileva, Stefania Deac, Dorina Stoicanescu

“…The mean age was 35.8 years in the sarcopenic patients and 41.5 in the non-sarcopenia group. Over 55% of AIS Grades A and B cases, 69.7% of MAS level 0 cases and 51.6% of the patients with osteoporosis had sarcopenia. …”
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A thermo-mechanically loaded rotating FGM cylindrical pressure vessels under parabolic changing properties: An analytical and numerical analysis by P. Das, A. Benslimane, M.A. Islam, D. Mondal, M.S. Nazim

“…This study reveals that for the thermal loading, the maximum temperature, displacement, and tangential stress decrease for the parabolic grading. A similar but lower value of temperature, displacement, and tangential stress is also observed in the case of thermomechanical loading. …”
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Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial by Angrist, Joshua, Lang, Daniel, Oreopoulos, Philip

“…Another (“incentives”) was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third treatment group combined both interventions, while a control group received neither services nor incentives. …”
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Harnessing the Strengths of the Mentored Student Project to Compile a Handbook of Case Scenarios for Undergraduate Medical Student by Maya Roche, Shashikiran Umakanth, Ronald A Roche, Farizal Bin Rizal, Jaslyn Yeap Wen Xin, Nuwani Pradeepika Serasinha Pathirana, Dan Chiu Ping, Kruthika Jaisankar

“…MCQ test designed by the faculty was used to as certain learning of the participants of the MSP (n=5) and performance was graded. A questionnaire on a Likert’s scale was used to analyse the students’ engagement with the MSP. …”
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