Investigating the causal pathways among psychopathological variables, cognitive impairment, and real-life functioning in people with schizophrenia by Luigi Giuliani, Francesco Sanmarchi, Armida Mucci, Paola Rucci, Edoardo Caporusso, Paola Bucci, Giulia M. Giordano, Mario Amore, Paola Rocca, Alessandro Rossi, Alessandro Bertolino, Silvana Galderisi, Mario Maj

“…Abstract The present study aimed to investigate the causal relationships among cognitive impairment, psychopathology, and real-life functioning in a large sample of people with schizophrenia, using a data-driven causal discovery procedure based on partial ancestral graphs (PAGs). …”
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Effect of Chinese Leek Extracts on the Quality of Sauce Stewed Pigeon Meat by Jie SUN, Yingying ZHANG, Zhuofan YANG, Mengdi WANG, Guoyou YIN, Peifang MA, Mingjun YANG, Yakun LI

“…Further analyses of the microstructure confirmed that Chinese leek extracts could improve the structure of muscle tissue in sauce stewed pigeon meat. …”
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Neural correlates of device-based sleep characteristics in adolescents by Qing Ma, Barbara J. Sahakian, Bei Zhang, Zeyu Li, Jin-Tai Yu, Fei Li, Jianfeng Feng, Wei Cheng

“…These biotypes also differ in cognitive performance and brain structure and function. Longitudinal analysis confirms these differences from ages 9 to 14, with biotype 3 showing consistent cognitive advantages. …”
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Experiences and perspectives by family caregivers on a palliative care journey: A case report from India by Soumya Liz Jacob, Malathi G. Nayak, Linu Sara George, Leah Macaden, Prathibha Lydia Braggs

“…The study utilizes a focused ethnographic approach, collecting data from the caregivers of an older gentleman who was diagnosed with terminal alveolar cancer and metastasis along with multimorbidity through three unstructured interviews at different periods of the illness trajectory, coupled with participant observation and field notes. …”
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Analysis of Visitor Perceptions of Malang City Thematic Parks using a Text Mining Approach by Nur Izza Vania, Aisyah Larasati, Yuh-Wen Chen, Nikmatus Sholikha

“…These methods effectively process large volumes of unstructured data to reveal meaningful insights. The analysis focused on three parks with the highest number of reviews: Alun-Alun Kota Malang (945 reviews), Taman Merjosari (552 reviews), and Alun-Alun Tugu (462 reviews). …”
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SURVIVING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN NIGERIA: COPING STRATEGIES OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDP) IN BENUE STATE, NORTHCENTRAL, NIGERIA by ISAAC OLAWALE ALBERT, JOEL ABAH

“…Collected data were qualitatively analysed, using descriptive statistics. …”
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Contextual factors influencing schistosomiasis treatment and identification of delivery platforms for arpraziquantel in hard-to-reach areas and populations in Homa Bay County, Keny... by Phyllis Munyiva Isaiah, Doris Osei Afriyie, Mary Maghanga, Donna Obare Ogeto, Mary Amuyunzu Nyamongo, Peter Steinmann

“…We conducted a generic qualitative study using two case study interviews with parents/caregivers living with disability caring for children ≤5 years,18 focus group discussions (FGDs) with parents/caregivers of children ≤5 years (each with 8-10 participants), 14 key informant interviews (KIIs) with various government agencies, and unstructured observations. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. …”
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Research on a Joint Extraction Method of Track Circuit Entities and Relations Integrating Global Pointer and Tensor Learning by Yanrui Chen, Guangwu Chen, Peng Li

“…To address the issue of efficiently reusing the massive amount of unstructured knowledge generated during the handling of track circuit equipment faults and to automate the construction of knowledge graphs in the railway maintenance domain, it is crucial to leverage knowledge extraction techniques to efficiently extract relational triplets from fault maintenance text data. …”
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Improved Multi-Size, Multi-Target and 3D Position Detection Network for Flowering Chinese Cabbage Based on YOLOv8 by Yuanqing Shui, Kai Yuan, Mengcheng Wu, Zuoxi Zhao

“…Accurately detecting the maturity and 3D position of flowering Chinese cabbage (<i>Brassica rapa</i> var. chinensis) in natural environments is vital for autonomous robot harvesting in unstructured farms. The challenge lies in dense planting, small flower buds, similar colors and occlusions. …”
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Driven by feelings or stimulated by context: how childhood nature experience shaped adulthood pro-environmental behavior? by Qi-song Yan, Yu-fang Cai, Wen-qiang Zeng

“…The study emphasizes that both unstructured nature contact and planned, educational outdoor activities during childhood are equally important. …”
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Collisional-Radiative modeling of unresolved transition array spectra near 200 Å from W17+-W25+ emissions for diagnostics of ITER edge plasma by R. Nishimura, T. Oishi, I. Murakami, D. Kato, H.A. Sakaue, S. Gupta, H. Ohashi, M. Goto, Y. Kawamoto, T. Kawate, H. Takahashi, K. Tobita

“…However,diagnosing the ion density, temperature, and spatial distribution of tungsten ions in intermediate charge states, such as W8+-W27+, is difficult because of the lack of spectral line data. In this study, we observed a tungsten Unresolved Transition Array (UTA) spectrum, which has a pseudo-continuum structure, around W20+ in the Extreme Ultraviolet wavelength region in the Large Helical Device (LHD). …”
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High-Performance Multilevel and Ambipolar Nonvolatile Organic Transistor Memory Using Small-Molecule SFDBAO and PS as Charge Trapping Elements by Lingzhi Jin, Wenjuan Xu, Yangzhou Qian, Tao Ji, Kefan Wu, Liang Huang, Feng Chen, Nanchang Huang, Shu Xing, Zhen Shao, Wen Li, Yuyu Liu, Linghai Xie

“…From the characterization of the 10% SFDBAO/PS based on ONVM, a sterically hindered small-molecule SFDBAO with rigid orthogonal configuration and a donor–acceptor (D-A) structure as a molecular-scale charge storage element demonstrated significantly higher charge trapping ability than other small-molecule materials such as C₆₀ and Alq₃. …”
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Pathophysiology and blood pressure measurements of hypertension in the elderly by Fan-Yu Chen, Chun-Wei Lee, Yu-Jen Chen, Yen-Hung Lin, Chih-Fan Yeh, Chih-Ching Lin, Hao-Min Cheng

“…Accurate blood pressure measurements are important to determine the prognosis and treatment in the elderly; however, obtaining reliable measurement data in this population is not always easy, as changes in cardiovascular structure and hemodynamics with aging may lead to increased blood pressure variability. …”
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Effects of Ultrasound Treatment on Emulsifying Properties of Pea Protein Isolates Obtained from Four Different Pea Flour Varieties by Fatma Dadi, Ahmed Taha, Lucas Sales Queiroz, Naaman Francisco Nogueira Silva, Ipek Altay, Yuri Kominami, Rodolphe Marie, Aberham Hailu Feyissa, Jens J. Sloth, Heidi Olander Petersen, Mauro Grandi, Giorgia Spigno, Federico Casanova

“…FTIR analysis detected differences in the protein secondary structure of the various cultivars and between the native and US-PPIs. …”
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PI3K/AKT signaling mediates stress-inducible amyloid formation through c-Myc by Emma Lacroix, Evgenia A. Momchilova, Sahil Chandhok, Mythili Padavu, Richard Zapf, Timothy E. Audas

“…As a recently identified structure, the modulators of A-body biogenesis remain uncharacterized, with the seeding noncoding RNA being the only known regulatory factor. …”
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MSCPUnet: A multi-task neural network for plot-level crop classification in complex agricultural areas by Kedi Fang, Shengwei Zhang, Yongting Han, Lin Yang, Meng Luo, Lu Liu, Qian Zhang, Bo Wang

“…Leveraging this capability, a crop classification framework is proposed, which first extracts crop attributes from Sentinel-2 (S2) time series data. The plot information obtained from the MSCPUnet model is then combined with the area dominance method to assign crop attributes to vector plots, facilitating crop structure identification at the plot scale. …”
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First Molecular Identification of <i>Cotylophoron cotylophorum</i> in Ecuador and Its Phylogenetic Relationship with <i>Fasciola hepatica</i> by Geanella Barragán-López, Fausto Bedoya-Páez, María Lugo-Almarza, Carolina Fonseca-Restrepo, Francisco Angulo-Cubillán, Edison J. Romero, Jacobus H. de Waard, Armando Reyna-Bello

“…Distinct single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ITS2 chromatograms suggest a diploid genome structure in both trematode species. This is the first report of <i>C. cotylophorum</i> in Ecuador, and its presence may be linked to the late 19th-century introduction of Zebu cattle (<i>Bos taurus indicus</i>) from India.…”
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Conjunctival melanoma in children: a systematic review by Maria Partyka, Julia Plewniok, Maksymilian Janeczek, Karolina Kinga Kantor, Wiktoria Maria Szymańska, Julia Wójcik, Kacper Wojciech Pamuła, Marcin Cholewa, Maciej Kuca, Karolina Jaglarz

“…Clinically, it presents as a pigmented lesion with heterogeneous shape and structure. Its development may be associated with UV radiation and genetic mutations. …”
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Towards climate-resilient conservation: Integrating genetics and environmental factors in determining adaptive units of a xeric shrub by Yong-Zhi Yang, Pei-Wei Sun, Chong-Yi Ke, Min-Xin Luo, Jui-Tse Chang, Chien-Ti Chao, Run-Hong Gao, Pei-Chun Liao

“…ENM identified the central-east and west-north regions as optimal habitats, while GF analysis revealed seed and breeding zones based on 1637 climate-adaptive SNPs, indicating significant genetic differentiation linked to temperature and precipitation. Population structure analysis revealed both congruences and discrepancies between genetic and climatic clustering, particularly in peripheral regions, suggesting that adaptive genes may not follow isolation-by-distance rules like neutral genes. …”
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Whole exome sequencing identifies ABHD14A and MRNIP as novel candidate genes for developmental language disorder by Amal Bouzid, Malek Belcadhi, Amal Souissi, Meryam Chelly, Fakher Frikha, Hela Gargouri, Crystel Bonnet, Fida Jebali, Salma Loukil, Christine Petit, Saber Masmoudi, Rifat Hamoudi, Mariem Ben Said

“…Analyses of segregation patterns with stringent filtering of the exome data identified disease-causing compound heterozygous variants. …”
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