Increased variability in response to transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy older compared to young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Anna Elisabeth Fromm, Catalina Trujillo-Llano, Ulrike Grittner, Marcus Meinzer, Agnes Flöel, Daria Antonenko

“…Across 19 studies comprising 390 older adults (mean ± SD age: 67 ± 5 years) and 384 young adults (mean ± SD age: 24 ± 3 years) receiving transcranial direct current (tDCS), we quantified behavioral variability using the log-transformed coefficient of variation ratio (lnCVR). …”
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On the Growth Order and Growth Type of Entire Functions of Several Complex Matrices by M. Abul-Ez, H. Abd-Elmageed, M. Hidan, M. Abdalla

“…In this paper, we establish an explicit relation between the growth of the maximum modulus and the Taylor coefficients of entire functions in several complex matrix variables (FSCMVs) in hyperspherical regions. …”
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IgG1 versus IgG3: influence of antibody-specificity and allotypic variance on virus neutralization efficacy by Somanath Kallolimath, Lin Sun, Roman Palt, Esther Föderl-Höbenreich, Antonia Hermle, Leonie Voss, Marina Kleim, Falk Nimmerjahn, Falk Nimmerjahn, Johannes S. Gach, Lauren Hitchcock, Qiang Chen, Stanislav Melnik, Florian Eminger, Anja Lux, Anja Lux, Herta Steinkellner

“…Despite the unique advantages of IgG3 over other IgG subclasses, such as mediating enhanced effector functions and increased flexibility in antigen binding due to a long hinge region, the therapeutic potential of IgG3 remains largely unexplored. …”
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SYNTHESIS METHODS OF ALGEBRAIC NORMAL FORM OF MANY-VALUED LOGIC FUNCTIONS by A. V. Sokolov, O. N. Zhdanov, O. A. Ayvazian

“…We propose the hypothesis, which determines the rules of the synthesis of these matrices for the transformation from the truth table to the coefficients of the algebraic normal form and the inverse transform for any given number of variables of 3-functions or 5-functions. …”
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Can Emotional and Behavioral Dysregulation in Youth Be Decoded from Functional Neuroimaging? by Liana C L Portugal, Maria João Rosa, Anil Rao, Genna Bebko, Michele A Bertocci, Amanda K Hinze, Lisa Bonar, Jorge R C Almeida, Susan B Perlman, Amelia Versace, Claudiu Schirda, Michael Travis, Mary Kay Gill, Christine Demeter, Vaibhav A Diwadkar, Gary Ciuffetelli, Eric Rodriguez, Erika E Forbes, Jeffrey L Sunshine, Scott K Holland, Robert A Kowatch, Boris Birmaher, David Axelson, Sarah M Horwitz, Eugene L Arnold, Mary A Fristad, Eric A Youngstrom, Robert L Findling, Mirtes Pereira, Leticia Oliveira, Mary L Phillips, Janaina Mourao-Miranda

“…Medication was treated as a binary confounding variable. Decoded and actual clinical scores were compared using Pearson's correlation coefficient (r) and mean squared error (MSE) to evaluate the models. …”
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MScope: A Reliable Battery for Functional Status Assessment in Multiple Sclerosis by Daniel Lisardo, Susana López-Ortiz, Irati Jauregui-Fajardo, José Pinto-Fraga, Celia García-Chico, Alba Chavarría-Miranda, Nieves Téllez, Sergio Maroto-Izquierdo

“…Neuromuscular assessments showed strong reliability with minor day-to-day variability (ICC = 0.75–0.95, CV < 8%). The battery’s overall consistency supports its use as a reliable tool for assessing functional status in MS patients.…”
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Threshold and Asymmetric Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Inclusive Growth in Shanghai Cooperation Member Countries by marziyeh hosini, monireh Rafat

“…The study calculated and used the inclusive growth variable following the methodology of social welfare function which is also known as the social opportunity function. …”
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Long-term mean climate and seasonal variability drive spatial patterns of forage production fluctuation trends across California annual grasslands by Zheng Li, Leslie M Roche, Steven Ostoja, Yufang Jin

“…Forage production is integral to the ecological and economic functions of rangeland ecosystems worldwide and is characteristically highly variable. …”
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Differential Transform Algorithm for Functional Differential Equations with Time-Dependent Delays by Josef Rebenda, Zuzana Pátíková

“…We focus on retarded equations with delays which in general are functions of the independent variable. The delayed differential equation is turned into an ordinary differential equation using the method of steps. …”
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A Versatile Distribution Based on the Incomplete Gamma Function: Characterization and Applications by Jimmy Reyes, Carolina Marchant, Karol I. Santoro, Yuri A. Iriarte

“…We analyze the probability density function and explore fundamental properties, including moments, skewness, and kurtosis coefficients. …”
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Disrupted topological organization of brain connectome in patients with chronic low back related leg pain and clinical correlations by Yuqi Ji, Xiao Liang, Yixiu Pei, Xiaoying Zuo, Yanyan Zhu, Jie Xu, Qinmei Kuang, Ziwei Yang, Fuqing Zhou, Yong Zhang

“…This study demonstrates that cLBLP patients exbibit a decreased local efficiency of functional connectivity network and increased compensatory global efficiency of structural connectivity network. …”
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Probability calculation of building structures considering asymmetry of random values and functions distribution by Yu. V. Krasnoshchekov

“…A method is proposed for approximating the reliability of fairly complex compositions of random variables using statistical parameters (expectation, standard deviation, and skewness coefficient) of two-element functions approximated by a lognormal three-parameter distribution.Conclusions. …”
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Numerical investigation of fractional order SEIR models with newborn immunization using Vieta–Fibonacci wavelets by Naied A. Nayied, Firdous A. Shah, Mukhtar A. Khanday, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar

“…Variations in the fractional parameter α and transmission factor β reveal the influence of these variables on the disease outbreak, with higher values of β leading to rapid transmission. …”
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Correlation between neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and early renal function level in elderly diabetic patients by SUN Ming-yu, GAO Po, ZHANG Shi-yang, HAN Yong-sheng

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the effect of each confounding factor on eGFR using eGFR as an objective variable. Pearson’s correlation coefficients were used to test the associations between various variables and eGFR. …”
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A Copula-based Method for River Ecological Flow Quantification and Algal Bloom Risk Assessment in the Hanjiang River by NONG Xi-zhi, LAI Cheng, JING Zheng, YE Ye

“…The results from Copula functions were compared with those from the Tennant method and Hydrological Inflection-Point (HIP) analysis for validation. …”
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The stability of the SARS-COV-2 structure in the presence of variable external heat flux in the vicinity of the water/silver nanofluid: A molecular dynamics simulation by Dongfang Wu, Ali B.M. Ali, Abrar A. Mohammed, As'ad Alizadeh, Soheil Salahshour, M. Hashemian, MengXia Wang

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ESTIMATING AND ANALYSING OF DEMAND FUNCTION FOR POULTRY IN IRAQ ROR THE PERIOD (1990 - 2009) by Salim Al-Youzbaki, Suha Mohammad Ahmad Al_Hmdany

“…It was found that the variables (the average per capita income and the size of the population and the prices of poultry meat, red meat, and time) has been deleted variable V average prices of fish meat from the equation for not Manueth. …”
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The Effect of value added in the Air Transport Industry on the employment of that sector by mahdi niknejad, Kambiz Hojabr Kiani, Ahmad Sarlak, Maryam Khoshnevis

“…Result of the long term model estimation shows that the estimated coefficients for the variables (value added, wage and capital price) are statistically meaningful and their values are 0.16, 0.62 and -0.23, respectively.…”
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Clinical and functional significance of determining biological age in women during the reproductive period by E. V. Kudryavtseva, D. A. Berezina, V. V. Bazarny, L. G. Polushina, M. А. Kopenkin, A. N. Troitskaya, V. V. Kovalev

“…The inclusion of antioxidant protection parameters, functional state indicators, and reproductive history makes the method versatile and applicable not only in reproductive medicine but also in general medical practice, obstetrics, gynecology, and other fields.…”
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Numerical approximation of time-fractional nonlinear partial integro-differential equation using fractional Euler and cubic trigonometric B-Spline methods by Mehwish Saleem, Arshed Ali, Fazal-i-Haq, Hassan Khan

“…This method has the ability to handle any kind of nonlinearity without using iterative processes. Efficiency and reliability of the current method is analyzed for the fractional-order via three highly nonlinear test problems with variable coefficients. …”
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