Functioning and associated factors in older adult users of primary health care by Chris Evert Moura Tabosa de Figueiredo, Shamyr Sulyvan de Castro, Marcelo José Monteiro Ferreira

“…A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) to measure functioning. Mann-Whitney and Kruskall-Wallis tests were employed for bivariate analyses, along with negative binomial regression for multivariate analysis. …”
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The impact of energy consumption on economic growth: application of CES function for Romania by Dorina Niță, Nadia Stoicuța

“… This paper analyses the contribution of the renewable and non-renewable primary energy consumption per capita and the gross fixed capital formation per capita to sustainable economic growth using two models approximated by CES-type functions. Estimates are made by applying the TRANSLOG method. …”
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Wearable fNIRS platform for dense sampling and precision functional neuroimaging by Ali Rahimpour Jounghani, Anupam Kumar, Laura Moreno Carbonell, Ester Patrize Lopez Aguilar, Tulla Bee Picardi, Seth Crawford, Audrey K. Bowden, S. M. Hadi Hosseini

“…Results demonstrated high test-retest reliability and within-participant consistency in functional connectivity and activation patterns. …”
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Calcium nanoparticles target and activate T cells to enhance anti-tumor function by Wei Yang, Zhizi Feng, Xinning Lai, Jianwen Li, Zhengwei Cao, Fangchao Jiang, Fanghui Chen, Shuyue Zhan, Feng Kong, Li Yang, Yong Teng, Wendy T. Watford, Gang Zhou, Jin Xie

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Hexokinase2-engineered T cells display increased anti-tumor function by Raphaëlle Toledano Zur, Shiran Didi Zurinam, Maria Radman, Elia Funaro Balouka, Tatiana Borodianskiy-Shteinberg, Dieter Saur, Cyrille J. Cohen

“…This metabolic competition supports tumor growth while impairing T-cell anti-tumor responses, partly by reducing glycolytic function. Hexokinase 2 (HK2), a key enzyme in glycolysis, plays a pivotal role in maintaining T-cell functionality.MethodsTo enhance T-cell function, primary human T cells were genetically engineered to overexpress HK2 alongside a tumor-specific receptor. …”
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Metabolism and Ovarian Function in PCOS Women: A Therapeutic Approach with Inositols by Antonio Simone Laganà, Paola Rossetti, Massimo Buscema, Sandro La Vignera, Rosita Angela Condorelli, Giuseppe Gullo, Roberta Granese, Onofrio Triolo

“…In form of phosphoinositides, they play an important role as second messengers in several cellular biological functions. Considering the key role played by insulin-resistance and androgen excess in PCOS patients, the insulin-sensitizing effects of both MI and DCI were tested in order to ameliorate symptoms and signs of this syndrome, including the possibility to restore patients’ fertility. …”
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Functional systems of students’ organism depending on physical fitness to physical load by S.L. Popel’, G.A. Pyatnychuk, D.V. Pyatnichuk, V.V. Maystruv, V.P. Verboviy, N.A. Zemskaya, A.F. Kryzhanivskaya, R.Ya. Chovgan

“…Conclusions: between changes of vegetative blood circulation’s regulation and students’ fitness to maximal physical load there are multidirectional vectors of organism’s functional state. They manifest as natural changes of forms of periphery blood erythrocytes.…”
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Prevalence of decreased olfactory function in adults in a Brazilian population sample by Wilker Antunes Lira, Gilmar Felisberto Junior, Marco Aurélio Fornazieri, Wilma Terezinha Anselmo Lima, Ingrid Werner Picinini, Vanessa Ramos Pires Dinarte

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Enhancing the Understanding of the Concept of Function through Integrated Visual and Experiential Approaches by Ismet Temaj, Senad Orhani, Esma Canhasi-Kasemi

“…This paper aims to explore the impact of integrated visual and experiential approaches in improving the understanding of the concept of function among lower and upper secondary school students. …”
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The Link Between Physical Function, β-Amyloid, and Cognitive Aging in Women by Raquel Pedrero-Chamizo, Cassandra Szoeke

“…This study aimed to examine associations between functional capacity (FC), brain β-amyloid (Aβ) burden, and longitudinal cognitive performance. …”
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Unbiased functional clustering of gene variants with a phenotypic-linkage network. by Frantisek Honti, Stephen Meader, Caleb Webber

“…Groupwise functional analysis of gene variants is becoming standard in next-generation sequencing studies. …”
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Sigmoid-Function-Based Adaptive Pelican Optimization Algorithm for Global Optimization by A. F. S. Yussif, S. Adjei, B. E. Wilson

“…This adaptive approach ensures an efficient transition between searching for new solution areas and refining existing ones, thereby enhancing the overall optimization process. The algorithm was tested using a set of widely recognized standard benchmark functions to assess its performance. …”
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The Impact of High-Tech Exports on Income: Findings on the Translog Production Function by Devran Şanlı, Aziz Konukman

“…This study aims to present new findings to the literature by analyzing the impact of high-tech(HT) exports on revenue using panel data methods in 49 countries and under both Cobb-Douglas and Translog production functions for the period 1988- 2017. No other study has been found in the literature investigating the HT-Income relationship in the Translog production function. …”
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Selective functionalization of mesoporous UV photonic crystals for the detection of organic vapors by Josefina Morrone, Paula C. Angelomé, Andrés Zelcer, M. Cecilia Fuertes, M. Cecilia Fuertes

“…Once obtained, the functionalized PC were tested for vapors detection using water and non-polar organic solvents. …”
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Fitting Methods for Probability Distribution Functions in Turbulent Star-forming Clouds by Avery Kiihne, Sabrina M. Appel, Blakesley Burkhart, Vadim A. Semenov, Christoph Federrath

“…We use a suite of 3D simulations of star-forming molecular clouds, with and without stellar feedback and magnetic fields, to investigate the effectiveness of different fitting methods for volume and column density probability distribution functions (PDFs). The first method fits a piecewise lognormal and power-law (PL) function to recover PDF parameters such as the PL slope and transition density. …”
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Stability and functionality of bovine lactoferrin powder after 9 years of storage by Yin Hu, Shubo Luo, Yuhong Jiang, Jie Lin, Baoguo Xu, Zhi-Hong Zhang, Benu Adhikari, Tiantian Xu, Bo Wang

“…After the long-term storage, their functional properties, including antibacterial ability, antioxidant ability and iron-binding ability, were determined and compared with those of eight commercial LF powders. …”
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The effects of an individual music intervention on executive functions in adults with intellectual disabilities by Gerianne J.J. Smeets, Maaike M. Van Rest, Karin M. Volkers, Xavier M.H. Moonen, Erik J.A. Scherder

“…Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) often demonstrate impairments in executive functioning (EF). In other clinical populations, music interventions have demonstrated positive effects on EF. …”
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Exposure of Monocytes to Lipoarabinomannan Promotes Their Differentiation into Functionally and Phenotypically Immature Macrophages by Leslie Chávez-Galán, Ranferi Ocaña-Guzmán, Luis Torre-Bouscoulet, Carolina García-de-Alba, Isabel Sada-Ovalle

“…We speculated that exposing monocytes to LAM could produce phenotypically and functionally immature macrophages. To test our hypothesis, human monocytes were stimulated with LAM (24–120 hours) and various readouts were measured. …”
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Double-spiral as a bio-inspired functional element in engineering design by Mohsen Jafarpour, Mohammad Aryayi, Stanislav N. Gorb, Hamed Rajabi

“…Through practical experimentation, we test the functionality of the developed structures and showcase the potential of double-spirals for being used in various technical applications. …”
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Function of formyl peptide receptor 2 in adriamycin resistance of breast cancer by Landi Su, Jingjing Li, Li Qin, Yang Feng, Dingwen Xu

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