Non-pharmacological interventions for temporomandibular disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Qiu-yi CHEN, Quan MIAO, Fei-yu FU, Ying LIN, Chen-xi ZENG, Pei-yue PENG, Yi-xin ZHANG, Lu LIU, Bin LI

“…Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions for TMDs, focusing on their impact on pain relief, jaw mobility, and functional improvement. Specifically, we aimed to compare the effectiveness of four non-pharmacological interventions, including acupuncture, exercise, occlusal splinting, and laser therapy, for treating TMDs. …”
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The transcription factor PbeNAC83 positively regulates the Valsa canker resistance in apple and pear by DOU Zhiqi, CAI Minrui, DU Chenglong, HU Huanhuan, ZUO Cunwu

“…PbeNAC83 was transfected into the DuliG03 suspension cells, and three wellgrown overexpression cell lines were obtained. Functional analysis demonstrated that PbeNAC83-OE cells were more resistant to Vp and VpM compared to the control. …”
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Examining the cultuling of Iranians’ concerns for others: From apathy to metapathy by Reza Pishghadam, Shima Ebrahimi

“…When seeing other people’s problems and issues, individuals use various verbal and functional approaches in accordance with their own perception and understanding of the situation, as well as the mental and emotional state of others. …”
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Cannabidiol as a treatment for patients who are clinically at high risk of developing psychosis: learnings from the CANTOP-RCT by Sagnik Bhattacharyya, Cathy Davies, Ben Carter, Philip McGuire, Michael Brammer, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Matthew Broome, Stuart Watson, Jesus Perez, Alison Yung

“…In a subsample of participants (total N = 100; n = 50 per treatment arm), we proposed to use magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure hippocampal glutamate levels, functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure brain activation (while patients performed verbal memory and emotional processing tasks), and arterial spin labelling to measure blood flow to investigate the neurochemical and neurophysiological basis of the effects of cannabidiol (mechanism substudy). …”
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The 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting by Alexandre Antonelli, Jordan K. Teisher, Rhian J. Smith, A. Martyn Ainsworth, Giuliana Furci, Ester Gaya, Susana C. Gonçalves, David L. Hawksworth, Isabel Larridon, Emily B. Sessa, Ana Rita G. Simões, Laura M. Suz, Carmen Acedo, Dilzara N. Aghayeva, Alessandro A. Agorini, Laila S. Al Harthy, Karen L. Bacon, María G. Chávez‐Hernández, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Joette Crosier, Alexandra H. Davey, Kiran Dhanjal‐Adams, Paul Y. Eguia, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Félix Forest, Rachael V. Gallagher, Guillaume Gigot, Janaína Gomes‐da‐Silva, Rafaël H. A. Govaerts, Olwen M. Grace, Zigmantas Gudžinskas, Tilahun G. Hailemikael, Sayyara J. Ibadullayeva, Rodrigue Idohou, José I. Márquez‐Corro, Sandro P. Müller, Raquel Negrão, Ian Ondo, Alan J. Paton, Marco O. O. Pellegrini, Darin S. Penneys, Samuel Pironon, Daniel V. Rafidimanana, Ramone Ramnath‐Budhram, Fitiavana Rasaminirina, Julie A. Reiske, Rowan F. Sage, Alexandre Salino, Daniele Silvestro, Monique S. J. Simmonds, Marybel Soto Gomez, Juliana L. Souza, Laurynas Taura, Amanda Taylor, Aida M. Vasco‐Palacios, Diego T. Vasques, Patrick Weigelt, Jakub D. Wieczorkowski, China Williams

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AI-powered literature search: some observations and concerns by Farooq Azam Rathore, Fareeha Farooq

“…A brief overview of some tools that perform these functions is mentioned in Table I. However, in our role as physicians, faculty and researchers who have been using these tools for more than a year for various tasks including AI-powered literature search we have some concerns that need to be highlighted Recommending articles from the predatory journals We have noticed that some of the articles that these tools recommend are from predatory journals. …”
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Evaluating the Integration of Technology by Teachers in E-Education in Elementary Schools Based on the International Standards for Technology in Education (ISTE) by Maryam Pourjamshidi

“…For the first standard, concerning technology concepts and functions, six items were used; for the second, related to designing experiences and learning environments, seven items; the third standard, concerning measurement and evaluation, also included seven items; for the fourth, teaching planning according to effective and multiple learning environments, six items were used; nine items addressed professional performance and productivity in the fifth standard; and five items addressed dealing with legal, ethical, social, and human issues of technology in the sixth items. …”
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Effects of Conditioning Temperature on Pellet Quality, Nutrients Digestibility, and Metabolizable Energy of Broilers Diet by Seyedeh Vajiheh Shakhese Emampour, Abolghasem Golian, Heydar Zarghi, Ali Reza Hesabi Nameghi

“…Pellet quality was determined as a function of pellet durability index (PDI), fine percentage and pellet hardness. …”
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HR 4049: A Spectroscopic Analysis of a Post-AGB Object by Shakhida T. Nurmakhametova, Nadezhda L. Vaidman, Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko, Azamat A. Khokhlov, Aldiyar T. Agishev, Berik S. Yermekbayev, Stephen Danford, Alicia N. Aarnio

“…Analysis of the mass function and most probable orbital inclinations (60°–75°) leads to current masses of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>∼</mo><mn>0.75</mn><mspace width="3.33333pt"></mspace><msub><mi>M</mi><mo>⊙</mo></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> for the primary and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>0.70</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>–<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>0.82</mn><mspace width="3.33333pt"></mspace><msub><mi>M</mi><mo>⊙</mo></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> for the secondary component. …”
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Citizen Science to Raise Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness in the Community: The MicroMundo Project in Spain and Portugal by Jessica Gil‐Serna, Patricia Antunes, Susana Campoy, Ángeles Cid, Antonio Cobo‐Molinos, Paulo Durão, Carmen Fajardo, Belén Fouz, Ana R. Freitas, Filipa Grosso, Piet W. J. deGroot, Trinidad deMiguel, Bruno González Zorn, Belén Hinojosa, Maria João Leão, Montserrat Llagostera, Rosa deLlanos, Ainhoa Lucía, Sergi Maicas, Irma Marín, Magdalena Martínez‐Cañamero, Carla Miranda, José Manuel Molina‐Guijarro, Diego A. Moreno, María de losLlanos Palop, María José Pérez‐Álvarez, Pedro M. Pereira, María Teresa Pérez‐Gracia, Sandra Quinteira, Carmen Rioboo, Beatriz Robredo, José María Rodríguez‐Calleja, Rafael R. de laHaba, Sandra Sánchez, Manuel Sánchez Angulo, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, Félix J. Sangari, Beatriz Santos, Eduarda Silveira, Begonya Vicedo, Víctor J. Cid, all members of MicroMundo Teams in Spain and Portugal

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Evolutionary biology and life histories by C. R. Brown, D. L. Thomson

“…In sheep, the cost of reproduction was a quadratic function of a mother’s age, being greatest for the youngest and oldest females, but this cost applied only during severe environmental conditions (cold and wet winters) that coincided with high population density (Tavecchia et al., 2005). …”
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The Effect of Working Capital on Investment: Evidence from the Tehran Stock Exchange by Ali Ebrahimnejad, Ali Zakizade, Fardin Razmjooei

“…Discussion & ConclusionThis study establishes the critical function of working capital as a financial buffer that mitigates financing constraints for Iranian firms, enabling them to maintain fixed investment levels despite limited access to external capital. …”
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Short-term effects of dapagliflozin on biomarkers of bone and mineral metabolism in patients with diabetic kidney disease: A prospective observational study by Tugba Islek, Safak Mirioglu, Meltem Gursu, Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Metin Demirel, Sahabettin Selek, Omer Celal Elcioglu

“…Taking into account the renal functions at the commencement of the study, the eGFR values for the study group and the control group were 51.2 ± 15.6 and 44.6 ± 16.9 ml/min/1.73m2, respectively (p = 0.01). …”
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GRAPHIC NOVEL TRANSLATION: SEMIOTIC AND MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE by Anna V. Khodorenko.

“…On the one hand, extralinguistic objects engraved in pictures of the graphic novel may present the reason for the translation technique of addition, and on the other hand the absence of some details in the pictures may justify the translation technique of omission. Evaluating functional types of multimodal phenomena also may lead one to adequate selection of synonyms or a phrase to choose in a process of translation having as a “guide” visual image supporting language level of a graphic novel. …”
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Real-world experience with the diagnosis of bile acid malabsorption (BAM) using serum 7-alpha-C4 and 48-hour stool bile acids by G. Mendoza-Domínguez, Z.M. Garrido-Santos, C. Lau, R. Balbuena, A.D. Santana-Vargas, M. Schmulson-Wasserman

“…Introduction and aims: Bile acid malabsorption (BAM) is responsible for 30% of cases of diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) or functional diarrhea and 63.5% of cases of diarrhea following cholecystectomy. 75SeHCAT is the gold standard diagnostic method but is unavailable in Mexico. …”
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LGBT Actors, Ritual and Martial Arts Groups, and State-Building in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste by Lili Chen, Laura Sjoberg

“…Our beginnings of this rethinking suggest that looking more broadly at these groups’ gender dynamics and (therefore) at their scope and function provides the ability to see them not only as more than violent, but as actors that do community-building and state-building work. …”
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APG mergence and topological potential optimization based heuristic user association strategy by Zhirui HU, Meihua BI, Fangmin XU, Meilin HE, Changliang ZHENG

“…In terms of AP exiting APG, the relationship between network coupling degree and user rate was established by topological potential function,which was used as the performance index of AP exiting APG. …”
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Experimental Study on the Characteristics of Volumetric Strain Generation in Saturated Coral Sand: Effect of Fines Content and Density by Zhengtao YANG, Luyang WANG, Qi WU, Zhenglong ZHOU, Guoxing CHEN

“…It is observed that there is a power-function growth trend in <inline-formula><tex-math id="M5-1">$ \varepsilon_{\text{vd},\text{ir}}^{\mathrm{s}} $</tex-math><alternatives><graphic specific-use="online" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300057_M5-1.jpg"/><graphic specific-use="print" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300057_M5-1.png"/></alternatives></inline-formula>with the increase in <inline-formula><tex-math id="M6-1">$e_{{\text{sk}}}^*$</tex-math><alternatives><graphic specific-use="online" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300057_M6-1.jpg"/><graphic specific-use="print" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300057_M6-1.png"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, while <italic>E</italic>_d,1 and <italic>E</italic>_d,s decrease linearly with the increase in <inline-formula><tex-math id="M7-1">$e_{{\text{sk}}}^*$</tex-math><alternatives><graphic specific-use="online" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300057_M7-1.jpg"/><graphic specific-use="print" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300057_M7-1.png"/></alternatives></inline-formula>. …”
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Genetic diversity and GWAS analysis of flesh hardness trait in Xinjiang melon germplasm resources by ZHU Wanting, LI Jiangfeng, ZHAN Qianru, SHUA Zhenyang, ZHU Yingchun, GUO Yanxia, LUO Xiang

“…This region contained 11 significant associated SNPs, which explained 9.04% of the phenotypic variation. Functional annotation revealed that this region harbored candidate genes related to cell wall biosynthesis and remodeling, like inositol monophosphatase (MELO3C007440.2) and nucleotide-sugar transporter (MELO3C007449.2). …”
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<i>Epichloë</i> Endophyte Alters Bacterial Nitrogen-Cycling Gene Abundance in the Rhizosphere Soil of Perennial Ryegrass by Munire Maimaitiyiming, Yanxiang Huang, Letian Jia, Mofan Wu, Zhenjiang Chen

“…The present study emphasized abundance and diversity variation in the AOB-<i data-eusoft-scrollable-element="1">amoA</i>, <i data-eusoft-scrollable-element="1">nirK</i> and <i data-eusoft-scrollable-element="1">nosZ</i> functional genes in the rhizosphere soil of the endophyte–ryegrass symbiosis following litter addition. …”
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