Age- and sex-dependent changes in sympathetic activity of the left ventricular apex assessed by 18F-DOPA PET imaging. by Irene A Burger, Christine Lohmann, Michael Messerli, Susan Bengs, Anton Becker, Monika Maredziak, Valerie Treyer, Achi Haider, Moritz Schwyzer, Dominik C Benz, Ken Kudura, Michael Fiechter, Andreas A Giannopoulos, Tobias A Fuchs, Christoph Gräni, Aju P Pazhenkottil, Oliver Gaemperli, Ronny R Buechel, Philipp A Kaufmann, Catherine Gebhard

“…Previous studies suggest that there are sex- and age-dependent differences in peripheral autonomic control, however, data on cardiac-specific sympathetic activation in aged women and men are lacking.…”
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AdipoRon ameliorates the progression of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction via mitigating lipid accumulation and fibrosis by Wuping Tan, Yijun Wang, Siyi Cheng, Zhihao Liu, Mengjie Xie, Lingpeng Song, Qinfang Qiu, Xiaofei Wang, Zeyan Li, Tianyuan Liu, Fuding Guo, Jun Wang, Xiaoya Zhou

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Impact of cognitive impairment on heart failure prognosis: insights into central nervous system mechanism by Zhiyong Shi, Mingkai Yun, Binbin Nie, Enjun Zhu, Wei Fu, Baoci Shan, Sijin Li, Xiaoli Zhang, Xiang Li

“…Significant correlations were observed between cognitive function, QTc interval, and metabolism in ANS-related brain regions (all p < 0.05). Cox regression model analysis showed that the predictive value of cognitive function is not independent of the QTc interval and there is a significant interaction. …”
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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Shifting to a peer-support model would alleviate these constraints on providers, who could then focus on other aspects of patient care. …”
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Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study by Barbara Hanratty, Rachel Stocker, David Sinclair, Katie Brittain, Karen Spilsbury, Daniel Stow, Louise Robinson, Fiona E Matthews

“…Interviews explored perceptions of the different models of general practice care, positive and negative consequences of different ways of working, how different models of care influence staff experiences, job satisfaction and resident and family experiences, and the underlying structures, processes and values that perpetuate these models. …”
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Early bacterial co-infections and ventilator-associated lower respiratory tract infections among intubated patients during the first and second COVID-19 waves: a European comparati... by Anahita Rouze, Pedro Povoa, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Ouriel Saura, Julien Maizel, Olivier Pouly, Demosthenes Makris, Damien Du Cheyron, Fabienne Tamion, Marie Labruyere, Laurent Argaud, Fabien Lambiotte, Elie Azoulay, Martine Nyunga, Matthieu Turpin, Mehdi Imouloudene, Nicolas Weiss, Arnaud W. Thille, Bruno Megarbane, Eleni Magira, Iliana Ioannidou, Gaëtan Plantefeve, Flavia Galli, Emili Diaz, Armand Mekontso Dessap, Pierre Asfar, Alexandre Boyer, Alexandra Beurton, Ariane Gavaud, Charlotte Larrat, Jean Reignier, Alexandre Pierre, Christophe Vinsonneau, Pierre-Edouard Floch, Adrian Ceccato, Antonio Artigas, Alexandre Iellatchitch, Julien Labreuche, Saad Nseir, the coVAPid study group

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Blood pressure elevation response to grapefruit essential oil inhalation is a nasal-mediated mechanism affected by the essential oil concentration by Eriko Kawai, Akihiro Sasaki, Kyosuke Watanabe, Miho Iwasaki, Shin-Ya Ueda, Hidehiro Nakahara, Yasuyoshi Watanabe, Tadayoshi Miyamoto

“…Furthermore, in Study 2, time-series analysis using a state-space model of blood pressure showed a decrease in blood pressure after inhalation of grapefruit essential oil during oral breathing. …”
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Acute and Persistent Cardiovascular Effects of Menthol E‐Cigarettes in Mice by Anand R. Ramalingam, Cory Kucera, Shweta Srivastava, Romith Paily, Dawson Stephens, Pawel Lorkiewicz, Daniel W. Wilkey, Michael Merchant, Aruni Bhatnagar, Alex P. Carll

“…We therefore investigated the acute and persistent cardiovascular effects of menthol e‐cigarettes in a mouse model. Methods and Results Adult C57BL/6J mice with ECG and blood pressure radiotransmitters were exposed to e‐cigarette aerosols (180–270 puffs/day; n=4–8/group). …”
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Use of ICT to Confront COVID-19 by Yousry Saber El Gamal

“…Scientists are also using AI to help identifying existing drugs that can be beneficial in treating the COVID-19. For Virus modeling and analysis, Machine Learning happens to be one of the most effective tools. …”
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Development of an eHealth Intervention Including Self-Management for Reducing Sedentary Time in the Transition to Retirement: Participatory Design Study by Lisa Hultman, Caroline Eklund, Petra von Heideken Wågert, Anne Söderlund, Maria Lindén, Magnus L Elfström

“…Its active components for reducing sedentary time can be explained using the integrated behavior change model. Further research is needed to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of the eHealth intervention.…”
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"Preparation and curing kinetics of “bottlebrush-like structure” green bio-based ultra-low-temperature polyfarnesene nanocomposites" by WU Ming-li, LI Yong-xu, CAO Lan?鄢

“…Based on the Sestak-Berggren model of thermal analysis kinetics, the curing kinetic parameters were solved, including the reaction orders, pre-exponential factor and activation energy, and the curing kinetic equation of the composite, dα/dt=3.667×107exp(-7.514×104/RT)α1.211(1－α)1.164, where α was curing degree, t was curing time, R was molar gas constant and T was curing temperature, was established." …”
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Cultural heritage reuse applying fuzzy expert knowledge and machine learning: Venice’s fortresses case study by Nicola Camatti, Giacomo di Tollo, Francesco Gastaldi, Federico Camerin

“…This paper presents a comparative analysis of two quantitative models for evaluating the reuse of cultural heritage, using fortified sites in a monofunctional city dedicated to cultural tourism, such as Venice, as a case study. …”
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Active learning for advanced biodegradable film design by Yi Gao, Chengcheng Liu, Yang Zhao, Peng Zhao, Feihui Chen, Qinghai Li, Yanguo Zhang, Bin Yang, Hui Zhou

“…Through six iterations with 186 data points for three-target optimization and seven iterations with 166 data points for two-target modeling, a data-driven platform was established to accurately predict CMC film properties based on composition and autonomously identify optimal formulations for specific performance targets. …”
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Emotion Recognition in the Eye Region Using Textural Features, IBP and HOG by Laura Jalili, Josue Espejel, Jair Cervantes, Farid Lamont

“…This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of emotion recognition achieved through the examination of various facial regions. …”
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m6A-related genes of peripheral white blood cell in spinal cord injury as potential targets for prognosis and treatment by Mingran Luo, Qian Wang, Jian Chen, Guoyong Yin

“…We explored the prognostic value of m6A-related genes as potential biomarkers in SCI to establish a set of accurate diagnostic and prognostic prediction models.MethodsDifferentially expressed analysis and weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was used to explore m6a related modules and hub genes. …”
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Risks and Prospects of Creativity Tokenization by R. A. Budnik

“…Also, scientific novelty consists in the analysis of prospects of tokenization of such results of intellectual activity as gaming artifacts, works of traditional and digital visual arts, patents and scientific achievements. …”
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The Ethical Significance of Brain-Computer Interfaces as Enablers of Communication by Toma Gruica

“…Communicative capacity depends on sustained technical support, ongoing software updates, and user training, demands that challenge existing models of medical device regulation and healthcare infrastructure. …”
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Enhancing Industrial Wireless Communication Security Using Deep Learning Architecture-Based Channel Frequency Response by Lamia Alhoraibi, Daniyal Alghazzawi, Reemah Alhebshi, Liqaa F. Nawaf, Fiona Carroll

“…This article proposes novel deep learning (DL) models designed to enhance physical layer authentication by autonomously learning from the frequency domain without relying on expert features. …”
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Studying LF and HF Time Series to Characterize Cardiac Physiological Responses to Mental Fatigue by Alexis Boffet, Veronique Deschodt Arsac, Eric Grivel

“…Among the approaches used for assessing cardiac autonomic control from HRV analysis, biomarkers such as the power in low and high frequencies (LF-HF) are often extracted from short-term recordings lasting 2 to 5 min. …”
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Home-based exercise for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: a feasibility study by Chieko Miyata, Hirokazu Furuta, Kohei Mizuno, Yoshiyuki Nagayama, Yosuke Hosaka

“…Descriptive statistics were used to summarize adherence rates. For the analysis of continuous variables, missing data were assumed to be missing at random and were handled using multiple imputation (MI), followed by generalized linear models (GLM). …”
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