Assessing the impact of the Mediterranean-style diet in preventing non-communicable diseases by Fabrizio Ferretti, Giulio Malorgio, Roberto Capone

“…By utilizing an aggregate health production function approach, we investigate whether adopting the Mediterranean-style diet has a measurable country-level protective effect. …”
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Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes by Anneloes Hoff

“…Corporate narrative and performative practices were not only crucial to attracting and sustaining investor interest, but also served an important internal function in shaping the professional identity of exploration geologists and corporate identity more broadly. …”
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Design of high frequency LLC resonant circuit based on double loop control by Liu Aohui, Wang Shaoning, Xu Tinghao

“…Simultaneously, a double loop voltage-current control technique was developed that could function at constant voltage throughout the load and voltage change range. …”
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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A VERSATILE CONTROL SYSTEM IN AN ADAPTABLE MULTI-LEGGED ROBOT USING A MODIFIED PEAUCELLIER-LIPKIN MECHANISM by Papatla Rajesh

“…The primary aim is to demonstrate a robot capable of adjusting its form and function for diverse operational challenges, enhancing robotic mobility. …”
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Longitudinal assessment of pragmatic and cognitive decay in healthy aging, and interplay with subjective cognitive decline and cognitive reserve by Ilaria Gabbatore, Riccardo Conterio, Giorgia Vegna, Francesca M. Bosco

“…Pragmatic comprehension and production were assessed across different expressive means. Correlations between decay in pragmatic ability and SCD and CR were tested. …”
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Optimization of Low-Loss, High-Birefringence, Single-Layer, Annular, Hollow, Anti-Resonant Fiber Using a Surrogate Model-Assisted Gradient Descent Method by Lihong Zhai, Sijie Zhang, Jiyang Luo, Gang Huang, Zihan Liu

“…This paper proposes a novel optimization method for hollow-core, anti-resonant fiber based on a gradient descent algorithm assisted via a radial basis-function surrogate model. This approach significantly reduces the number of optimization iterations, achieving a stable improvement in birefringence performance by an order of magnitude across the operating wavelength band. …”
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A Critical Review of Trunk and Hip Exercise Prescription: Applying Evidence for a Modern Approach by Steven Short, Gretchen Short, Greg Lehman, Jack Friesen, Brandon Johnson

“…Historical underpinnings of core exercise focus on providing stability to the spine, thus improving the function of the spine and extremities, while instability has been postulated to result in pathology and impaired performance. …”
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Alternative promoter usage during organ development. by Jiang Tan, Yidan Sun

“…In this study, we utilized RNA-seq data from 313 mouse samples across various developmental stages in seven major organs to identify active promoters. …”
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Increased dopaminergic neurotransmission results in ethanol dependent sedative behaviors in Caenorhabditis elegans. by Pratima Pandey, Anuradha Singh, Harjot Kaur, Anindya Ghosh-Roy, Kavita Babu

“…We further demonstrate that in dop-2 mutants, ethanol exposure increases dopamine secretion and functions in a DVA interneuron dependent manner. DVA releases the neuropeptide NLP-12 that is known to function through cholinergic motor neurons and affect movement. …”
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Irreversibility and Energy Transfer at Non-MHD Scales in a Magnetospheric Current Disruption Event by Giuseppe Consolini, Paola De Michelis

“…Recent advances have significantly improved the characterization of irreversibility and energy transfer across scales in turbulent fluid-like media, using high-order correlation functions and testing the validity of certain fluctuation relations. …”
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Managing the Risk via the Chi-Squared Distribution in VaR and CVaR with the Use in Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model by Fazlollah Soleymani, Qiang Ma, Tao Liu

“…We evaluate the proposed framework across multiple time windows to assess its stability and sensitivity to market regimes. …”
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Store-Operated Ca Entry in Fibrosis and Tissue Remodeling by Ahmed Emam Abdelnaby, Mohamed Trebak

“…Fibrosis is a pathological condition characterized by excessive tissue deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) components, leading to scarring and impaired function across multiple organ systems. This complex process is mediated by a dynamic interplay between cell types, including myofibroblasts, fibroblasts, immune cells, epithelial cells, and endothelial cells, each contributing distinctively through various signaling pathways. …”
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Heterogeneity as a feature: unraveling chromatin’s role in nuclear mechanics by Wessel S. Rodenburg, Amy R. Strom, Jorine M. Eeftens

“…By doing so, the field will be better positioned to link nuclear mechanics to functional biological outcomes.…”
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Improving the interfacial and mechanical properties of short glass fiber/epoxy composites by coating the glass fibers with cellulose nanocrystals by A. Asadi, M. Miller, R. J. Moon, K. Kalaitzidou

“…In this study, the interfacial and mechanical properties of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) coated glass fiber/epoxy composites were investigated as a function of the CNC content on the surface of glass fibers (GF). …”
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Characterization and estimation of heterogeneous spatial autocorrelation in spatial autoregressive models. by Jing Zhao, Yue Pu

“…By introducing a single-index varying coefficient function, this model allows the spatial correlation strength to dynamically change with the characteristics of spatial units, thereby more accurately capturing spatial dependence relationships. …”
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Bridging Social Capital Potential and Alzheimer’s Disease Mortality Rates by Adam R. Roth, Ashley F. Railey, Siyun Peng

“…Geographic disparities in Alzheimer’s disease are often attributed to sociodemographic differences across communities or unequal access to opportunity structures whose use serves as protective mechanisms. …”
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Études critiques du cerveau sexué by Cynthia Kraus

“…They suggest that we work and talk across disciplines as if neuroscientists were from Mars and social scientists from Venus, assigning the latter to the traditional feminine role of assuaging conflict. …”
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A Huge Intramuscular Leiomyosarcoma at Right Proximal Thigh in a 24-year-old Female: A Case Report and Literature Review by Yi-Ying Tsai, Guo-Shou Wang, Pao-Shu Wu, Te-Yang Huang

“…Clinically, the case has a swelling mass that has been enlarging across the right proximal thigh for the past 3 months. …”
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Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Robots: Efficient Object Manipulation in Constrained Environments by David Azimi, Reza Hoseinnezhad

“…This design minimizes the computational demands while maintaining adaptability and robust functionality. Simulated trials conducted in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, utilizing ANYbotics quadrupedal robots, demonstrated a high manipulation accuracy, with a mean positioning error of 11 cm across object–target distances of up to 10 m. …”
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The role of conformity in mask-wearing during COVID-19. by Anna Woodcock, P Wesley Schultz

“…We focused on mask-wearing behavior during fall 2020, and coded livestream public webcam footage of 1,200 individuals across seven cities. Results showed that only 50% of participants were correctly wearing a mask in public, and that this percentage varied as a function of the mask-wearing behavior of close and distant others in the immediate physical vicinity. …”
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