Altered interhemispheric connectivity in Huntington’s Disease by Ali Demir, H. Diana Rosas

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Pore Structure Characterization and Environmental Assessment of Ground Volcanic Pumice-Based Alkali-Activated Concrete by Mohammed Ibrahim, Ashraf A. Bahraq, Babatunde Abiodun Salami, Luai Mohammed Alhems, Syed Rizwanullah Hussaini, Muhammad Nasir, Adeshina Adewale Adewumi

“…Alkali-activated GVP with marginal quantities of nSi outperformed similar grade conventional OPC concrete when exposed to bulk diffusion in accordance with ASTM C1556. There was nearly 80–90% reduction in chloride diffusivity in 5.0% and 7.5% nSi mixes and 60% increase in compressive strength. …”
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A fast and fully automated system for segmenting retinal blood vessels in fundus images by Alqassab Ans Ibrahim Mahameed, Luque-Nieto Miguel-Ángel

“…The proposed model enhances image quality through a novel pre-processing pipeline that includes logarithmic contrast enhancement, noise reduction using an improved complex wavelet transform with shrinkage, and anisotropic diffusion filtering for edge enhancement. …”
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Fuzzy Galaxies or Cirrus? Decomposition of Galactic Cirrus in Deep Wide-field Images by Qing Liu, Roberto Abraham, Peter G. Martin, William P. Bowman, Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, Ekta Patel, Steven R. Janssens, Zili Shen, Seery Chen, Ananthan Karunakaran, Michael A. Keim, Deborah Lokhorst, Imad Pasha, Douglas L. Welch

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Unveiling the potential of far-UVC: Assessing irradiance and dose-response for microbial inactivation in UV systems by Sudhanshu Pandey, Aku Karvinen, Jani Hakala

“…These parameters include diffuse irradiance (UV lamp efficiency), UV transmittance (UVT), and Reynolds number. …”
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Dynamic prediction of whole CO2 flooding development process in low permeability reservoirs by WANG Yanwei, LIN Lifei, WANG Hengli

“…Meanwhile, the continuous iterative coupling of diffusion, dissolution, viscosity reduction, and drag reduction during the CO2 displacement process led to differences in the displacement front positions in throats of different radii at the same time. …”
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Study on the fabrication of active CaO from steel slag of the converter and its application in CO2 adsorption process by Cheng J., Mao R., Wang F., Yao H.-W., Yang Z.-B.

“…Kinetic studies showed that stirring shifted the ratecontrolling step of calcium leaching from external diffusion and surface chemical reactions to internal diffusion. …”
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Study on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Hydrogen-Blended Natural Gas Leakage and Flare-Up in the Typical Semi-Open Space by Xu Wang, Saitao Hu, Shengzhu Zhang, Yingquan Duo, Jinhuai Xu, Tong Zhao

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Thermal, solutal, and radiative oscillatory behavior in vibrating inclined chambers with Non-Darcy porous media by Z.Z. Rashed, Sameh E. Ahmed

“…Given this importance, this study investigates the roles of vibrational impacts on multi-diffusion convection in regular chambers contain non-Darcy porous elements. …”
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Deepfake Face Detection and Adversarial Attack Defense Method Based on Multi-Feature Decision Fusion by Shanzhong Lei, Junfang Song, Feiyang Feng, Zhuyang Yan, Aixin Wang

“…Firstly, an improved IMTCCN network was employed to precisely extract facial features, complemented by a diffusion model for noise reduction and artifact removal. …”
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Diffusion tensor imaging of the cervical spinal cord of patients with relapsing-remising multiple sclerosis: a study of 41 cases Imagens por tensor de difusão da medula cervical de... by L. Celso Hygino Cruz Jr., Romeu C. Domingues, Emerson L. Gasparetto

“…OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the fractional anisotropy (FA) values of the multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques and normal-appearing cervical spinal cord (NASC) by diffusion tensor MRI imaging (DTI). METHOD: Forty-one patients with relapsing-remising MS and 37 controls were evaluated. …”
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White matter and cortical gray matter microstructural alterations in migraine: a NODDI and DTI analysis by Zhilei Li, Yanliang Mei, Lei Wang, Tianhua Fan, Cheng Peng, Kaibo Zhang, Shouyi Wu, Tong Chen, Zhenchang Zhang, Binbin Sui, Yonggang Wang, Xueying Yu

“…An increase in radial diffusivity (RD) was found in the CM group compared to the EM group. …”
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Becker muscular dystrophy mice showed site-specific decay of type IIa fibers with capillary change in skeletal muscle by Daigo Miyazaki, Mitsuto Sato, Naoko Shiba, Takahiro Yoshizawa, Akinori Nakamura

“…BMD mice showed site-specific muscle changes, unlike mdx mice, which showed diffuse muscle changes, and we demonstrated selective type IIa fiber reduction in BMD mice. …”
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In Vitro Coating Hydroxyapatite with 2-Heptylcyclopropane-1-Carboxylic Acid Prevents <i>P. gingivalis</i> Biofilm by Emily C. Montgomery, Madelyn C. Wicker, Tibirni Yusuf, Elizabeth Matlock-Buchanan, Tomoko Fujiwara, Joel D. Bumgardner, J. Amber Jennings

“…Many current solutions for oral hygiene have side effects and affect the natural oral microbiome. 2-heptylcyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (2CP) is a medium-chain fatty acid and synthetic diffusible signaling factor that can prevent and disperse biofilm. …”
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Thermal features prediction in asphalt pavements using ANFIS-based regression by Mohammad Ali Khasawneh, Hiren Mewada, Ahmad Ali Khasawneh, Ansam Adnan Sawalha

“…R2 scores for thermal diffusivity and specific heat improved from 0.55 and 0.72 to 0.866 and 0.91, respectively, after addressing multicollinearity and outliers. …”
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Cell therapy with placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis patients in a phase 1 clinical trial by Ameneh Shokati, Mohsen Nikbakht, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Roghayyeh Saeedi, Elnaz Asadollahzadeh, Nasim Rezaeimanesh, Bahram Chahardouli, Zeinab Gharaylou, Seyed Asadollah Mousavi, Jafar Ai, Abdorreza Naser Moghadasi

“…Results demonstrated sustained improvements in clinical outcomes, as indicated by significant reductions in EDSS scores (P < 0.0001), cognitive and psychological assessments, and radial diffusivity (RD) indices (P = 0.0186) in DTI metrics over six months. …”
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Impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on intracortical myelination and deep white matter in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Lisa A. Kilpatrick, Jeffry R. Alger, Joseph O'Neill, Shantanu H. Joshi, Katherine L. Narr, Jennifer G. Levitt, Mary J. O'Connor

“…Considering the two ADHD groups jointly (via non-parametric combination) revealed common reductions in intracortical myelination, but no common deep white matter abnormalities. …”
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Mesenchymal stem cells reduce the genotoxic effect of lead acetate in the testis of male rats and induce testicular cellular proliferation indicated by 16S rRNA sequence, increase... by Mohamed Allam, Yahia A. Amin, Samer S. Fouad, Rana A. Ali, Mariam A. Fawy, Maha Abd-El Baki Ahmed, Rana Toghan, Lobna A. Ali

“…Histological evaluation indicated the presence of severe diffuse degeneration and necrosis in the spermatocytes in the LA group compared to the control one, while co-treatment by MSCs induced significant reduction in these degenerative changes. …”
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Neurofeedback for Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy: A Preliminary MRI Study by Donya Abolghasemkhah Salmasi, Alireza Fallahi, Narges Hoseini-Tabatabaei, Seyed-Sohrab Hashemi-Fesharaki, Reza Rostami, Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh

“…Results: All four patients showed a reduction of a minimum of 35% in seizure frequency after SMR NF training, with two patients experiencing a reduction within the first week of treatment. …”
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Accelerate Mass Transport of Proton and Carbon Sources by Super‐Hygroscopic and Porous Nanosheets for Continuous CO2‐To‐Ethylene Upgrade by Silong Dong, Guobin Wen, Xinyu Yang, Xiaowen Zhang, Shuxuan Liu, Haoyang Xiong, Yinyi Liu, Kai Zong, Hao Li, Yifan Li, Yi Cui, Bohua Ren, Xin Wang, Mingliang Jin, Zhongwei Chen

“…Abstract Gas‐water/catalyst triple‐phase interface and the microenvironment play critical roles in the reaction kinetics and production rate of electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reactions (CO2RR), which steer concerted proton‐electron transfer steps. …”
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