Positron Emission Tomography in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A Scoping Review by Marialuisa Zedde, Fabrizio Piazza, Rosario Pascarella

“…Conclusions: Amyloid PET reliably detects increased global and region-specific amyloid deposition in CAA patients, with a characteristic occipital-predominant pattern. Continued advancements in tracer development and imaging methodologies are needed to increase specificity.…”
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The United States in a World of Great Power Competition by J. Mankoff

“…Rather, the U.S. is likely to continue the reversion toward its pre-Cold War pattern of seeking to insulate itself from the dangers of the world, and increasingly pass the burden of resisting the expansion of Chinese and Russian influence to others.…”
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FOCAL EPILEPTIC MYOCLONUS IN KOZHEVNIKOV–RASMUSSEN SYNDROME by N. E. Kvaskova, K. Yu. Mukhin

“…As the disease progressed, the FEM became more pronounced in frequency and intensity, seized more muscle groups, localizing mainly in the muscles of the trunk and limbs. The typical EEG pattern of FEM patients with KRS was regional epileptiform activity that occurs in the structure of the continued regional slowing localizing maximum of the fronto-central-temporal region. …”
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Mimosa diplotricha (Fabaceae) Recruits Native Pollinators, But Does it Matter? by I.N. Egbon, O.P. Nzie, J. Rotimi

“… Here an invasive alien weed Mimosa diplotricha, which attracts native pollinators to its flowers, was studied to establish the composition, diversity and the pattern of visitation of native flower-visiting species found on the weed as it expands its range unabatedly in Nigeria. …”
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Antithesis as a structuraland semantic organization principle of a Kabardian-Circassian proverb by Dina M. Kumykova, Elina T. Kumykova (Cuchapsheva)

“…The principle of contrastive pattern on the structural and semantic levels in the proverbial text arrangement, according to leading paremiologists, constitutes one of the most striking paremic markers. …”
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Multipopulation Whale Optimization-Based Feature Selection Algorithm and Its Application in Human Fall Detection Using Inertial Measurement Unit Sensors by Haolin Cao, Bingshuo Yan, Lin Dong, Xianfeng Yuan

“…Feature selection (FS) is a key process in many pattern-recognition tasks, which reduces dimensionality by eliminating redundant or irrelevant features. …”
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Incorporating Attention Mechanism Into CNN-BiGRU Classifier for HAR by Ohoud Nafea, Wadood Abdul, Ghulam Muhammad

“…The HAR system is primarily intended to assist healthcare providers and elderly care facilities using other technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Standard pattern recognition techniques have developed significantly, but they continue to depend on heuristic and manual feature extraction, which undermines the generalization performance. …”
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Urban–Rural Differences in Cropland Loss and Fragmentation Caused by Construction Land Expansion in Developed Coastal Regions: Evidence from Jiangsu Province, China by Jiahao Zhai, Lijie Pu

“…The expansion of construction land has led to the continuous fragmentation of cropland, which is more severe in urban areas than in rural areas, while construction land is becoming increasingly agglomerated. …”
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A kind mind: effects of compassion-based meditation on prosocial intergroup outcomes in a South African pilot sample by Adala M. Prevost, Michal George, Melike M. Fourie

“…Three decades into democracy, the corollaries of apartheid continue to pattern South African society, with complicated race feelings and resistance to reparative government policies still driving separation. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Glioblastoma—Transforming Diagnosis and Treatment by Alen Rončević, Nenad Koruga, Anamarija Soldo Koruga, Robert Rončević

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology in healthcare, offering outstanding capabilities in data analysis, pattern recognition, and helping in decision-making. …”
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Lipid‐Hybrid Multicompartment Membrane Systems for Controlled, Compartmentalized Encapsulant Release by Tsuyoshi Inaba, Richard J Archer, David A Gregory, Shin‐ichiro M Nomura

“…Notably, internal micro‐compartments maintain content separation, enabling stable spatial patterning leading to controlled temporal release when directionally exposed to solubilizing agents. …”
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Rituximab induced sympathetic crashing acute pulmonary oedema in a patient with interstitial lung disease: a rare and lifethreatening complication by K. Maduranga, S. N. H. Nimesha, A. Srirangan, E. perara

“…We report a case of a 77- year-old Sri Lankan man with Interstitial lung disease (ILD), radiologically consistent with a usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern, likely associated with rheumatoid arthritis. …”
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Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in males: A review of pathophysiology by Suhani Maharajh, Ehab H. Abdel Goad, Serela Ramklass, Marius Conradie

“…LUTS have been noted to have a recognisable progression pattern that worsens with age. This is of particular concern in African countries that continue to evolve in terms of the population dynamics. …”
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Arqueologia da agressividade humana: a violência sob uma perspectiva paleoepidemiológica The archeology of human aggressiveness: violence from a paleo-epidemiological perspective by Andrea Lessa

“…The latter, which seems to underlie human nature itself, has been recorded as far back as the remote time of man's ancestral hominids and in any type of social organization. By studying the pattern and distribution of blow marks and other signs of physical aggression, we contribute to our understanding not only of the emergence, use, motives, and impact of violence down through time but also of its continuance today.…”
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Equilibrium Line Altitude on Bellingshausen Ice Dome, Antarctic by B. R. Mavlyudov

“…From 2014 to present time, the third period has been continuing. At the apogee of each period, the ELA was higher than the Bellingshausen Ice Dome height, which indicates that in these years the ice dome completely lost accumulation area. …”
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Reappraisal of the Dilution and Amplification Effect Framework: A Case Study in Lyme Disease by Shirley Chen, S. Eryn McFarlane

“…The literature has focused on the strength, generality, nature, and context dependencies that could explain contradictory evidence. We suggest that a continued focus on this approach to resolving the biodiversity–disease debate detracts from a more foundational problem with testing these dilution and amplification hypotheses, in that these hypotheses are not falsifiable as proposed. …”
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Gradual Failure of a Rainfall-Induced Creep-Type Landslide and an Application of Improved Integrated Monitoring System: A Case Study by Jun Guo, Fanxing Meng, Jingwei Guo

“…A detailed geological survey of the landslide was conducted, and the deformation development pattern and mechanism of the landslide were analyzed in conjunction with climatic characteristics. …”
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Another new karst-dwelling rock gecko in the Cnemaspis siamensis group (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) from Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand by Attapol Rujirawan, Akrachai Aksornneam, Siriporn Yodthong, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Bryan L. Stuart, Anchalee Aowphol

“…., is distinguished from other species in the C. siamensis group by having the combination of SVL 42.2 mm in adult male (n = 1), 43.7 mm in adult female (n = 1); eight supralabials; seven or eight infralabials; ventral scales smooth; nine continuous precloacal pores in male; 17 or 18 paravertebral tubercles linearly arranged; tubercles on lower flanks present; lateral caudal furrows present; no caudal tubercles in the lateral furrows; ventrolateral caudal tubercles present on original portion of tail; caudal tubercles not encircling tail; subcaudals smooth; no enlarged median subcaudal row; two postcloacal tubercles on each side of tail; no shield-like subtibial scales; subtibial scales smooth; no enlarged submetatarsal scales; 26–28 subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; sexually dimorphic for dorsal and ventral colour pattern; prescapular marking absent; gular marking absent; and yellow colouration in life on all ventral surfaces of head, body and tail in adult male. …”
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Challenges in developing reliable phosphorus predictive models: Unpredictable release under soil redox changes by Filippo Saiano, Riccardo Scalenghe

“…When an environmental or anthropogenic transformation induces anoxia, the P released does not follow a predictable pattern.…”
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Challenges of sustainable food security in Iran by Sharareh Asadi, Azadeh Noorollah Noorivandi, Ahmad Reza Ommani, Mohammad Sadegh Sabouri

“…The key results of this study by GT identified 34 initial codes and seven main challenges were categorized and prioritized using AHP technique were: low efficiency and weakness in developing appropriate consumption methods, lack of facility support and empowerment for the development of agricultural products, failure to monitor production diversity and proper cultivation pattern, little attention to the criteria of sustainable agricultural development in production, lack of attention to the development of transformation and complementary industries and the production of healthy products with a knowledge-based approach, unfavorable economic conditions for access and continued consumption of healthy food and lack of necessary export platforms and lack of monitoring of illegal imports. …”
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