Very Late Onset Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder followed by Parkinson Disease: A Case Report by Boaventura Rodrigo Constantino Rodrigues de Ornelas Afonso, Paulo Alexandre Sousa Martins

“…Remarkably, within a relatively short period, she began manifesting Parkinson-like motor symptoms, ultimately leading to a diagnosis of PD. …”
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Multi-objective optimization of water resources allocation in rift valley lakes basin (Ethiopia): tradeoffs between efficiency and equity by Mulugeta Mohammed, Belete Birhanu, Fentaw Abegaz

“…Current water allocation practices often prioritize short-term economic gains, leading to over-extraction and inefficient water use, exacerbating social inequities and environmental degradation. …”
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Cost Savings and Reduced Health Care Utilization Associated with Participation in a Digital Diabetes Prevention Program in an Adult Workforce Population by Cynthia Castro Sweet, Carolyn Bradner Jasik, Amy Diebold, Ashley DuPuis, Bryan Jendretzke

“…**Conclusions:** These results demonstrated significant short-term health care cost savings at 1 year associated with digital DPP program delivery.…”
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Dimensions of superiority: How deep reinforcement learning excels in urban drainage system real-time control by Zhenyu Huang, Yiming Wang, Xin Dong

“…Traditional real-time control (RTC) methods often fall short in efficiency and performance, which prompts the exploration of innovative approaches. …”
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MAAT: a new nonparametric Bayesian framework for incorporating multiple functional annotations in transcriptome-wide association studies by Han Wang, Xiang Li, Teng Li, Zhe Li, Pak Chung Sham, Yan Dora Zhang

“…When including more annotations, the assumption of a positive correlation between annotation scores and SNPs’ effect sizes, as adopted by current methods, often falls short. Here, we propose MAAT expanding the horizons of existing TWAS studies, generating a new model incorporating multiple annotations into TWAS and a new metric indicating the most important annotation.…”
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Data Augmentation For Sorani Kurdish News Headline Classification Using Back-Translation And Deep Learning Model by Soran Badawi

“…To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel data augmentation approach for improving the performance of Kurdish news headline classification using back-translation and a proposed deep learning Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) model. The approach involves generating synthetic training data by translating Kurdish headlines into a target language in this context English language and back-translating them to the Kurdish language, resulting in an augmented dataset. …”
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Theoretical understanding of water splitting by analyzing nanocatalyst photoabsorption spectra by Gollapalli Prince, Caspary Toroker Maytal

“…However, the mechanism of catalysis using nanocatalysts under photo-illumination is not fully understood because of the complexity involved in three major steps during the oxygen evolution reaction: photoabsorption on nanocatalyst, hole transport to the surface, and the reaction kinetic barriers at the surface. …”
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LLM-based collaborative programming: impact on students’ computational thinking and self-efficacy by Yi-Miao Yan, Chuang-Qi Chen, Yang-Bang Hu, Xin-Dong Ye

“…Abstract At present, collaborative programming is a prevalent approach in programming education, yet its effectiveness often falls short due to the varying levels of coding skills among team members. …”
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NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD AND FOURTH REPUBLICS by Towoju Adedoyin John, Mohammed Idris Danjuma, Ibrahim O Salawu

“…The major findings were that each reform measure was necessitated by the short-comings inherent in the preceding system; some of the reforms were far reaching and had positive impacts, while others were cosmetic in nature and mainly for political expediency. …”
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The influence of the local government on Serbia's economic development and its debt reduction by Aničić Jugoslav, Aničić Dušan, Jelić Miloje A., Gligorijević Jasmina

“…The models of the economic growth and development have been based upon sector priorities and policies, mainly short-term and medium-term objectives, without a clear long-term development strategy. …”
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Demographic Trends and Evolving Housing Needs in Latvia: Implications for Social Housing Policy by Sanchaniya Rashmi Jaymin, Černeckienė Jurgita, Patel Shruti Jitendrakumar, Kundziņa Antra

“…Based on these findings, the article proposes policy recommendations to address Latvia’s evolving housing needs. These include short-term adjustments to current policies, long-term strategic planning for housing development, and innovative financing mechanisms for social housing. …”
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MKER: multi-modal knowledge extraction and reasoning for future event prediction by Chenghang Lai, Shoumeng Qiu

“…Abstract Humans can predict what will happen shortly, which is essential for survival, but machines cannot. …”
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Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming by Eui-Seok Chung, Seong-Joong Kim, Keith B. Rodgers, Sang-Yoon Jun, Joo-Hong Kim, Sun-Seon Lee, Kyung-Sook Yun

“…However, the relatively short high-quality instrumental record hampers robustly determining the response of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature to greenhouse gas increases. …”
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Effect of Accountability on Health Service Delivery in Rukiga District: A Case Study of Mparo Health Centre IV. by Ainembabazi, Bleander

“…The researcher had to convince the respondents that the information was for academic purposes. In short, accountability affects the development of Mparo Health Centre IV.…”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Aerosol Optical Properties over Dibrugarh City in the North-Eastern Indian Region during 2018–2021 by Akshansha Chauhan, Shukla Acharjee, Ramesh P. Singh, Brent Holben

“…The change in the aerosol properties may cause short and long-term impacts, the knowledge of such changes is useful in the estimation of the pollution sources of any region. …”
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Role of nutritional factors at the irritable bowel syndrome by Yu. O. Shulpekova, A. V. Sedova

“…Most likely, negative action of food substances is realized partly due to fermentation with excessive production of short-chain fatty acids and intestinal gas, partly — because of effect on the microbiota spectrum and enteroendocrine cells, partly - due to elevation of biogenic amine content. …”
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Effect of a home-based physical rehabilitation program via virtual reality on the functional outcomes of frail older adults: a quasi-experimental study by Doaa Mohamed Zein El-AbdeenMohamed, Heba Noshy Abd EL-Aziz Mohamed, Soad Hassan Abd Elhameed

“…In 3 urbans affiliated to Dakahlia governorate, tools of data collection; Mini-Cog, Structured Interview Schedule, Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe of the Frailty Indicator (FI), Short Physical Performance Battery, and Falls Efficacy Scale. …”
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Preparatory Switches of Auditory Spatial and Non-Spatial Attention Among Simultaneous Voices by Aureliu Lavric, Elisa Schmied

“…Picture cues resulted in better performance than word cues, especially when the interval between the cue and the stimulus was short, suggesting that (presumably phonological) processes involved in the recognition of the word cue interfered with the (near) concurrent encoding of the target voice’s speech.…”
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Pulp Screen Plugging Characteristics by Parsa Aryanpour, Robert W. Gooding, James A. Olson

“…Their low porosity limited flow through the slot soon after creation. Short-fiber (hardwood) plugs formed more slowly, and they were more porous and weaker.…”
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The Debate on the Aesthetics of Business Brand Innovation Among the Millennial Generation for the Issuance of Halal Certification by Haryati Haryati, Heri Junaidi, Sheikh Mohammed Rateb

“…Millennials are becoming aware that brands with elements seen as forbidden can face public scrutiny, impacting their products. This often leads to short-lived success, with businesses fading away and ultimately financial loss.…”
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