Carob Syrup: Prebiotic Potential of a Neglected Functional Beverage of Mediterranean Countries by Lorenzo Nissen, Davide Addazii, Flavia Casciano, Francesca Danesi, Maria Teresa Rodriguez-Estrada, Dario Mercatante, Siwar Ben Ayache, Achour Lotfi, Anagnostis Argiriou, Georgia Ayfantopoulou, Andrea Gianotti

“…Carob syrup, a traditional Mediterranean functional beverage obtained from <i>Ceratonia siliqua</i> (L.) pods, has been historically valued for its nutritional properties but is currently underutilized. …”
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Association between sociodemographic characteristics, stress level and resilience with family functioning of immigrants by Sonia Silva Marcon, Erika dos Santos Ratuchnei Dal Pizzol, Iven Giovanna Trindade Lino, Mariana Enumo Balestre, Aroldo Gavioli, Luciano Marques dos Santos, Rebeca Rosa de Souza, Mayckel da Silva Barreto

“…ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between sociodemographic characteristics, level of perceived stress and resilience with family functioning of immigrants in Brazil. Method: Cross-sectional study with 122 immigrants living in a municipality in southern Brazil. …”
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Postbiotic Potential of Lactic Acid Bacteria Strains in Functional Minimally Processed Oranges by Paola Foti, Flora Valeria Romeo, Gloria Sciuto, Maria Concetta Strano, Maria Allegra, Nunziatina Russo, Cinzia Caggia

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A lightweight prosthetic hand with 19-DOF dexterity and human-level functions by Hao Yang, Zhe Tao, Jian Yang, Wenpeng Ma, Haoyu Zhang, Min Xu, Ming Wu, Shuaishuai Sun, Hu Jin, Weihua Li, Liu Wang, Shiwu Zhang

“…In addition to 33 standard grasping modes, this prosthetic hand supports 6 advanced grasping modes designed for enhanced dexterity evaluation, expanding the range of achievable ADLs for amputees while facilitating standard prosthesis function tests and validation in real-world scenarios. …”
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Procoagulatory State in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Is Promoted by Impaired Intestinal Barrier Function by Luca Pastorelli, Elena Dozio, Laura Francesca Pisani, Massimo Boscolo-Anzoletti, Elena Vianello, Nadia Munizio, Luisa Spina, Gian Eugenio Tontini, Flora Peyvandi, Massimiliano Marco Corsi Romanelli, Maurizio Vecchi

“…It has been shown that IBD patients display defective intestinal barrier functions. Thus, pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) coming from the intestinal bacterial burden might reach systemic circulation and activate innate immunity receptors on endothelial cells and platelets, promoting a procoagulative state. …”
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IN VITRO EVALUATION OF THE RESISTANCE OF THREE DIFFERENT POST SYSTEMS AGAINST FUNCTIONAL FORCES by Mustafa Kocacıklı

“…Background: In order to ensure sufficient resistance against functional forces for dentin, which is severely weakened by excessive material loss in single-root single-canal teeth with previous root canal treatment, maximum retention and resistance must be the target. …”
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Linking statistical shape models and simulated function in the healthy adult human heart. by Cristobal Rodero, Marina Strocchi, Maciej Marciniak, Stefano Longobardi, John Whitaker, Mark D O'Neill, Karli Gillette, Christoph Augustin, Gernot Plank, Edward J Vigmond, Pablo Lamata, Steven A Niederer

“…Cardiac anatomy plays a crucial role in determining cardiac function. However, there is a poor understanding of how specific and localised anatomical changes affect different cardiac functional outputs. …”
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Characterization of structure and function of ZS-9, a K+ selective ion trap. by Fiona Stavros, Alex Yang, Alejandro Leon, Mark Nuttall, Henrik S Rasmussen

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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS OF THE THYROID GLAND IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF LARYNGEAL CANCER TREATMENT by I. N. Vorozhtsova, M. R. Mukhamedov, M. A. Cherkasova, V. N. Latypova

“…Also, hypothyroidism adversely affects the patients’ condition during the postoperative period.Despite the fact that the diagnosis of hypothyroidism is pretty simple, and replacement therapy with L-thyroxine is cheap and available, many doctors don’t monitorthyroid function in cancer patients at all or don’t make all necessary tests.Thus, timely detection of hypothyroidism is extremely important during and after the treatment of laryngeal cancer. …”
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Efficient estimation of stereo thresholds: What slope should be assumed for the psychometric function? by Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza, Kathleen Vancleef, William Herbert, Nicola Goodship, Maeve Woodhouse, Jenny C A Read

“…Simulations have revealed the importance of the parameters selected for the assumed subject's psychometric function in enabling thresholds to be estimated with small bias and high precision. …”
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Digital transformation as a function of rural tourism strategic development in the Republic of Croatia by Ivona Vrdoljak Raguž, Monika Hordov, Mladen Rajko

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Irregular sleep habits, regional grey matter volumes, and psychological functioning in adolescents. by Winok Lapidaire, Anna S Urrila, Eric Artiges, Ruben Miranda, Hélène Vulser, Pauline Bézivin-Frere, Hervé Lemaître, Jani Penttilä, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L W Bokde, Uli Bromberg, Christian Büchel, Patricia J Conrod, Sylvane Desrivières, Vincent Frouin, Jürgen Gallinat, Hugh Garavan, Penny Gowland, Andreas Heinz, Bernd Ittermann, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos, Tomáš Paus, Michael N Smolka, Gunter Schumann, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Jean-Luc Martinot, IMAGEN consortium

“…In addition, we investigated the relationships between sleep habits, assessed with self-reports, and regional grey matter volumes, and psychological functioning, assessed with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and tests on working memory and impulsivity. …”
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Task-switching and frontal cortex functioning across adulthood: An fNIRS study by Michael K. Yeung

“…In this study, these age differences were investigated using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). A sample of 132 adults aged 18–79 undertook a variant of the Trail Making Test and a task-switching paradigm. …”
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Do knee orthoses affect the functional status of stroke patients? Review of the literature by Józef Opara, Bożena Kłysz, Iwona Sarzyńska-Długosz

“…These guidelines regard methods of evaluating the results of post-stroke rehabilitation for clinical use - Outcome Measures for Clinical Use, in which, among others, the Berg scale and the timed “Up & Go” test are recommended for the lower limb, the Barthel scale and the Functional Independence Measure for ADL, and the Stroke Impact Scale for the “participation” column in all 3 ICF domains.Summary: Mechanical and (sometimes) ankle orthoses are called KAFOs (Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis). …”
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Kriging-Based Variable Screening Method for Aircraft Optimization Problems with Expensive Functions by Yadong Wang, Xinyao Duan, Jiang Wang, Jin Guo, Minglei Han

“…A genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to achieve the global optimum of the log-likelihood function. Subsequently, the airfoil optimization is conducted using the identified active design variables. …”
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Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Point-Spread Function Modeling by T. Schutt, M. Jarvis, A. Roodman, A. Amon, M. R. Becker, R. A. Gruendl, M. Yamamoto, K. Bechtol, G. M. Bernstein, M. Gatti, E. S. Rykoff, E. Sheldon, M. A. Troxel, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, A. Alarcon, F. Andrade-Oliveira, D. Brooks, A. Carnero Rosell, J. Carretero, C. Chang, A. Choi, M. Crocce, L. N. da Costa, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, S. Dodelson, P. Doel, C. Doux, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. Ferté, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, G. Giannini, D. Gruen, G. Gutierrez, W.G. Hartley, K. Herner, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. Huterer, E. Krause, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, S. Lee, M. Lima, J. L. Marshall, J. Mena-Fernández, R. Miquel, J. J. Mohr, J. Muir, J. Myles, R. L. C. Ogando, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. Porredon, M. Raveri, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, S. Samuroff, E. Sanchez, D. Sanchez Cid, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, V. Vikram, A. R. Walker, N. Weaverdyck, Y. Zhang, The DES Collaboration

“…We present the point-spread function (PSF) modeling for weak lensing shear measurement using the full six years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) data. …”
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Efficacy of robotic training gloves in improving hand function and movement in stroke patients by Abd Elhady Samy Abd Elhady, Gehan M. Ahmed, Amr Hassan, Saied Mohamed Ibrahim, Shaima Mohamed Abdelmageed

“…When comparing between both groups, the results indicate that the patients in group A that underwent the combined therapy had a statistically significant improvement in grip strength when tested by the Jamar dynamometer (MD= 1.87 [0.39, 3.35], P=0.015) and in motor function when evaluated by the Fugl-Meyer scale than the group who had only conventional physical therapy (Group B) (MD= 16.67 [3.9, 29.4], p=0.012). …”
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Insulin resistance, cognition, and functional brain network topology in older adults with obesity by Clayton C. McIntyre, Robert G. Lyday, Yixin Su, Barbara Nicklas, Sean L. Simpson, Gagan Deep, Shannon L. Macauley, Christina E. Hugenschmidt

“…NISAs were quantified according to an established neuron-derived small-extracellular-vesicle-based metric, R. An executive function composite score, summed scores to the Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) trials 1–5, and functional brain networks generated from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data were outcomes in analyses. …”
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Association of physical function with masticatory ability and masticatory habits: a cohort study by Moeno Takeshita, Mariko Naito, Rumi Nishimura, Haruka Fukutani, Minami Kondo, Yuko Kurawaki, Sachiko Yamada, Noriyasu Uchibori

“…Abstract Background Few studies have evaluated masticatory ability and habits in relation to physical function. This study aimed to investigate the association of physical function with both masticatory ability and masticatory habits. …”
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Changes in cerebrovascular reactivity within functional networks in older adults with long-COVID by Jessica M. Pommy, Alexander Cohen, Amarpreet Mahil, Laura Glass Umfleet, Sara J. Swanson, Malgorzata Franczak, Shawn Obarski, Kelly Ristow, Yang Wang, Yang Wang, Yang Wang

“…Follow up analyses were conducted to examine how CVR was associated with both subjective cognitive symptoms and neuropsychological (NP) test performance. A subject-specific approach, Distribution-Corrected Z-scores (DisCo-Z), was used.ResultsAnalyses revealed the long-COVID group demonstrated significantly greater incidence of extreme CVR clusters within the brain (&gt;100 voxels) and within functional networks thought to drive attention and executive function. …”
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