Prevalence of Personality Disorders among Males and Females between the Ages of 15 and 65 in Yazd in 2017 by Nastaran Ahmadi, Parvaneh Rashidpour, Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Javad Aardeshirpay, Hosein Abouzari, Masoud Mirzaei, Amir Houshang Mehrparvar, Fatemeh Rismanian Yazdi, Mohammadhadi Farahzadi

“…Background: Personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in which a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning, and behaving may be seen. …”
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Long-Term Multimodal Exercise Intervention for Patients with Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcomes by Miyuki Nemoto, Kiyotaka Nemoto, Hiroyuki Sasai, Shinji Higashi, Miho Ota, Tetsuaki Arai

“…This pattern of activation suggests that the intervention may have stimulated neural activity in the frontal lobe, potentially enhancing cognitive and behavioral functions, including executive function and attention. …”
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Merging and Fractionation of Muscle Synergy Indicate the Recovery Process in Patients with Hemiplegia: The First Study of Patients after Subacute Stroke by Yu Hashiguchi, Koji Ohata, Ryosuke Kitatani, Natsuki Yamakami, Kaoru Sakuma, Sayuri Osako, Yumi Aga, Aki Watanabe, Shigehito Yamada

“…Our results suggest that the neural changes represented by NNMF were related to the longitudinal change of function and gait pattern and that the merging of synergy is an important marker in patients after subacute stroke.…”
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A Physics-Based Longitudinal Driver Model for Automated Vehicles by Mizanur Rahman, Md Rafiul Islam, Mashrur Chowdhury, Taufiquar Khan

“…Our analyses suggest that the PAVL-DM (i) is able to maintain safety between a subject AV and an immediate front vehicle using a newly defined safe gap function depending on the speed and reaction time of an AV; (ii) shows local stability and string stability; and (iii) provides riding comfort for a range of autonomous driving aggressiveness depending on passengers’ corresponding preferences on driving pattern. …”
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Sensitivity analysis of activity scheduling parameters with a parameter optimization framework by Matheus Moro Zamprogno, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss

“…The relevant parameters, activity chains, transport modes, optimization algorithms, and fitness functions, are identified and considered. For each parameter, an investigation is conducted to reveal its behavior throughout the runs. …”
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Identification of Mobile Phone Usage's Shifting Among Students by Deni Sutisna, Arif Widodo, Ashar Pajarungi Anar, Dyah Indraswati, Nursaptini Nursaptini

“…Survey results show that 92% of students use WhatsApp to communicate and 82% of students use mobile phones to access social media. This shows the pattern of mobile phone use has shifted among students although basically, it does not change the main function.…”
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Annual Variation Characteristics of Air Conditioning Operating Behavior and Its Impact on Model Application in Office Buildings by Xin Zhou

“…Based on a dynamic model framework constructed with a three-parameter Weibull function and a time superposition function, this study conducted modeling and analysis of dynamic AC operating behaviors in the same open-plan office across different years. …”
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The Kinematic Signature of the Warp and Waves in the Milky Way Disk by Weixiang Sun, Han Shen, Biwei Jiang, Xiaowei Liu

“…Using over 170,000 red clump (RC) stars selected from LAMOST and APOGEE, we conduct a detailed analysis of the stellar V _Z as a function of L _Z (or R _g ) across different ϕ bins for various disk populations. …”
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Finite bandwidth, long wavelength convection with boundary imperfectons: near-resonant wavelength excitation by D. N. Riahi

“…It is found that, under certain conditions on the form of the boundary imperfections, the preferred horizontal structure of the solutions is of the same spatial form as that of the total or some subset of the imperfection shape function. It is composed of a multi-modal pattern with spatial variations over the fast variables and with non-modal amplitudes, which vary over the slow variables. …”
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Community-level physiological profiling of carbon substrate metabolization by microbial communities associated to sediments and water in karstic caves from Romania by Diana Felicia PANAIT, Andrei Marian PANAIT, Adorján CRISTEA, Erika Andrea LEVEI, Oana Teodora MOLDOVAN, Horia Leonard BANCIU

“…Cave ecosystems comprise specialized microbial communities that play essential roles in biogeochemical cycles; yet their metabolic capabilities and ecological functions are not fully understood. As conventional cultivation techniques provide limited insights into the metabolic capabilities, methods based on direct functionality screening may improve our knowledge of cave microbial activity. …”
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Long-Term Performance Analysis of Direct Photovoltaic Thermal-Assisted Heat Pump Water Heater Using Computational Model by Demiss Alemu Amibe, Alemayehu Tenaw Eneyaw

“…The performance of the hybrid PV/T-heat pump system was analyzed using the computational model for two Ethiopian cities, namely, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, which represent the highland and lowland regions, respectively. The simulation was conducted by inputting climatic data, daily hot water demand, and hourly hot water consumption patterns. …”
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Unilateral chewing of foods. Analysis of energy balance and peak power of the mandibular elevator muscles by Przemysław Stróżyk, Jacek Bałchanowski

“…Since the act of chewing is a very complex issue in the biomechanics of the masticatory system, the research and analysis of the obtained results were therefore limited to the first cycle.Methods: Determination of the peak energy and power of the muscles required: (1) preparation of food patterns, in the form of the function F = f(Δh) (force (F) vs displacement (Δh)), based on experimental studies and (2) conducting numerical simulations using a 3D kinematic-dynamic model of the human masticatory system. …”
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Spatiotemporal comparison of fatty acid profiles of four gastropod species in aquatic fields in Korea by Dongwoo Yang, Sangkyu Park

“…Thus, the fatty acid composition of consumers reflects that of their diets. To determine the patterns of fatty acid accumulation in gastropods in coexisting aquatic habitats, we conducted a spatiotemporal study on the fatty acid composition of four freshwater gastropods associated to humans collected from reservoirs, rivers, and rice paddy fields in Korea. …”
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Elasmobranch Species Composition in Otter Trawl Fisheries (Eastern Aegean Sea) by İlker Aydin, Alexandros Theocharis, Sercan Yapici, Dimitris Klaoudatos

“…This study presents a fishery-independent assessment of species composition, catch characteristics, and spatial patterns in bottom trawl fisheries between Lesvos Island and Ayvalik. …”
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Numerical-based theoretical investigation on the thermal efficiency of viscoplastic fluid suspended with ternary nanoparticles using the finite element approach by M. Nawaz, Abdelatif Salmi, Sayer Obaid Alharbi, A.S. Shflot

“…To capture intricate flow and thermal patterns across a range of boundary conditions, FEM is used to iteratively solve the governing equations for momentum, and energy. …”
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Diffusion–tensor MRI study of the relationship between glymphatic system asymmetry and onset lateralization in Parkinson’s disease by Zihan Li, Xinxin Miao, Qiumei Zhang, Jun Shen, Yongfeng Jia, Shaoyun Ge, Peixian Ji, Jianwei Wang, Kezhong Zhang, Min Wang

“…This study demonstrated that PD patients with lateralized motor symptom onset exhibit different patterns of glymphatic system function. The glymphatic system asymmetry may provide new insights into the mechanism underlying the lateralized onset of PD.…”
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Association between primary care physicians' practice models and referral rates to specialists: A sex-based cross-sectional study. by Bahram Rahman, David Kirkwood, Glenda Babe, Lauren E Griffith, David Price, Rebecca H Correia, Darly Dash, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Andrew P Costa

“…We conducted a cross-sectional study in Ontario analyzing PCPs' referral patterns to specialists from January 1 to December 31, 2019. …”
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Animal-derived foods, physical activities, and mild cognitive impairment among Chinese older adults: findings from CLHLS (2008–2018) by Boyu Si, Keqing Zhang

“…Abstract Background/Objectives This study investigates the relationship between dairy-egg-meat (DEM) consumption, physical exercise, and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) among Chinese older adults, focusing on gender-specific patterns and potential moderating effects. Methods Using data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), we conducted a longitudinal analysis of 14,640 participants aged 55 and above, followed from 2008 to 2018. …”
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Altered EEG Power Spectrum and Coherence in Students With Borderline Personality Disorder by Sajjad Rezaei, Ameneh Azarmi, Kambiz Rohampour

“…Objectives: The present study utilizes comprehensive EEG analysis to identify distinct neural patterns in BPD, providing insights and potential biomarkers for diagnosing and understanding BPD.  …”
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CFTR expression decreases with age in several airway cell types by Timothy E. Corcoran, Matthew J. Broerman, Corrine R. Kliment, Cecilia Lo

“…Abstract The mucociliary clearance (MC) system is a vital host defense against infection in the lung. MC system function is dependent on ciliary density, structure, and function and airway surface liquid (ASL) composition and hydration. …”
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