The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Disruptions to Preschool Children’s Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Executive Functioning Skills by Vi-Nhuan Le, Diana Schaack, Cristal Cisneros, Jolene Gregory

“…Developmental disadvantages were observed across all income levels, and there was suggestive evidence that the loss of preschool affected the social-emotional and executive functioning skills of children from lower- and higher-income groups differently, although these differences were not always statistically significant. …”
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Additively Manufactured RF Electronics With Structurally Integrated Physically Unclonable Functions for Wireless System Security by Aaron Pendino, Nghia Nguyen, Saif E. Nouma, Jing Wang, Attila A. Yavuz, Yasin Yilmaz, Gokhan Mumcu

“…Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are alternatives to secret keys stored in non-volatile memory. …”
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Race, diabetes, and cognitive function: a cross-sectional analysis of intersecting disparities in the NHANES cohort by Lingling Wang, Qin Zhou, Yushuang Yin, Wenqi Zhang, Chen Wang, Guanwen Lin, Duozhi Wu, Zhihua Wang

“…Notably, the interaction between race and diabetes did not significantly influence cognitive function across the cognitive tests.ConclusionThis study found significant differences in diabetes prevalence and cognitive performance by race, along with a robust negative correlation between diabetes status and cognitive function. …”
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Classification of schizophrenia spectrum disorder using machine learning and functional connectivity: reconsidering the clinical application by Chao Li, Ji Chen, Mengshi Dong, Hao Yan, Feng Chen, Ning Mao, Shuai Wang, Xiaozhu Liu, Yanqing Tang, Fei Wang, Jie Qin

“…Methods Data were collected from 502 SSD patients and 575 healthy controls (HCs) across four medical institutions. Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) features were used to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier on individuals with medicated chronic SSD and HCs from three sites. …”
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Advances in Imaging Techniques for Mammalian/Human Ciliated Cell’s Cilia: Insights into Structure, Function, and Dynamics by Jin Li, Shiqin Huang, Hao Chen

“…They are widely distributed across cell surfaces and play crucial roles in cell cycle regulation and tissue homeostasis. …”
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The research on vibration active control method based on nonlinear reduced-order functions and predictive control by Hongyu Zhou, Wenming Cheng, Run Du, Hetian Chen

“…This paper explores the application of predictive control methods for actively managing structural vibrations and proposes a model predictive controller based on low-dimensional nonlinear reduced-order functions. By training neural networks to identify and train reduced-order nonlinear functions, the feasibility of this approach in controlling complex structures has been verified. …”
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Increased heterogeneity and task-related reconfiguration of functional connectivity during a lexicosemantic task in autism by Apeksha Sridhar, R. Joanne Jao Keehn, Molly Wilkinson, Yangfeifei Gao, Michael Olson, Lisa E Mash, Kalekirstos Alemu, Ashley Manley, Ksenija Marinkovic, Ralph-Axel Müller, Annika Linke

“…Findings on intrinsic functional connectivity (FC) or task-induced FC in ASD have been inconsistent including both over- and underconnectivity and diverse regional patterns. …”
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Cardiometabolic state links neurovascular burden with brain structure and function: Evidence from EEG and MRI by Daniel Franco-O’Byrne, Ana M. Castro-Laguardia, Carolina Delgado, James M. Shine, David Huepe, Raul González-Gomez, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Cecilia Gonzalez-Campo, Agustín Ibañez, Vicente Medel

“…While local neurometabolic dysfunction in aging is well-documented, the influence of systemic cardiometabolic and vascular markers on brain structure and function remains less understood. We examine the link between cardiometabolic dysfunction (measured by an allostatic load index) and neurovascular burden (measured by white matter hyperintensities), and their associations with brain changes, including ventricular and hippocampal volume, as well as EEG activity, across the adult lifesplan. …”
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Meaningful to whom? Minimal clinically important differences and the priorities of individuals living with dementia for everyday function by Andrea Gilmore‐Bykovskyi, Kayla Dillon, Beth Fields, Clark Benson, Dorothy Farrar Edwards

“…Input directly from individuals living with AD/ADRD on measures of function are lacking in MCID discussions, including what it means to live with AD/ADRD and what type and degree of improvements are most meaningful across the disease continuum. …”
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Detection of differential item functioning with latent class analysis: PISA 2018 mathematical literacy test by Tuncay Öğretmen, Selim Daşçıoğlu

“…The purpose of this research is to determine whether PISA 2018 mathematical literacy test items show a differential item functioning across countries. For this purpose, only the items in booklet number three were examined using the MIMIC method with Latent Class Analysis (LCA) approach. …”
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Multitarget Effects of Nrf2 Signalling in the Brain: Common and Specific Functions in Different Cell Types by Elisa Navarro, Noemí Esteras

“…This review explores these multifaceted functions of Nrf2 within the central nervous system, focusing on its activity across various brain cell types, including neurons, astrocytes, microglia, and oligodendrocytes. …”
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Secondary Myelitis in Dermal Sinus Causing Paraplegia in a Child with Previously Normal Neurological Function by Sakina Rashid, Grace Kinabo, Marissa Kellogg, William P. Howlett, Marieke C. J. Dekker

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Improved Diabetes Control and Pancreatic Function in a Type 2 Diabetic after Omeprazole Administration by I. N. Mefford, J. T. Mefford, C. A. Burris

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Free vibration analysis of functionally graded shell panels with various geometric shapes in thermal environment by Duong Thanh Huan, Tran Huu Quoc, Tran Minh Tu

“…Material properties are assumed to be temperature-dependent and graded in the thickness direction according to a power law function. A formulation of eight-nodded middle surface shell elements based on Reissner-Mindlin assumptions is developed for modeling FGM shell panels under the effect of temperature, which changes nonlinearly across the thickness. …”
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Recent Advances in the Development of Functional Nucleic Acid Biosensors Based on Aptamer-Rolling Circle Amplification by Ce Liu, Wanchong He

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Intraspecific diversity loss in a predator species alters prey community structure and ecosystem functions. by Allan Raffard, Julien Cucherousset, José M Montoya, Murielle Richard, Samson Acoca-Pidolle, Camille Poésy, Alexandre Garreau, Frédéric Santoul, Simon Blanchet

“…Loss in genotypic richness reduced benthic invertebrate diversity consistently across functional richness treatments, whereas it reduced zooplankton diversity only when functional richness was high. …”
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Assessment of Future Flood Loss in the Daqing River Basin Based on Flood Loss Rate Function by SHI Rongqing, HUANG Lingmei, LI Jia, SHEN Ao

“…By using this function, flood loss under five shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) from 2030 to 2050 was estimated. …”
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Hubs, influencers, and communities of executive functions: a task-based fMRI graph analysis by Alexandra T. Davis

“…Our results suggest a decentralized brain organization with critical hub regions pertinent to conditions such as stroke and traumatic brain injury.DiscussionThe precuneus and medial prefrontal cortex stand out as consistent, domain-general nodes in our findings, which show both unique and shared neural hubs across executive function subdomains. The presence of distinct hubs in cognitive inhibition and mental shifting tasks suggests flexible, task-specific network configurations. …”
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Design of an EWMA control chart by adaptation of smoothing constant based on a function of estimated shift by Hadeel AlQadi, Walid Abdelfattah, Tahir Abbas, Abdullah Ali H. Ahmadini, Amani Idris Ahmed Sayed, Bakhtiyar Ahmad

“…The proposed methodology dynamically adjusts the smoothing constant based on a proposed continuous function of the estimated mean shift derived from the EWMA statistic. …”
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Strong-Motion-Duration-Dependent Power Spectral Density Functions Compatible with Design Response Spectra by Luis A. Montejo

“…Additionally, the NRC recommends verifying the motions’ power spectral densities (PSDs) against a target function to ensure sufficient energy across all frequencies. …”
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