Preliminary evaluation of a mindfulness intervention program in women with long COVID dysautonomia symptoms by Elizabeth Vandenbogaart, Matthew Figueroa, Diana Winston, Steve Cole, Julienne Bower, Jeffrey J. Hsu

“…Declines in CTRA gene expression did not vary significantly as a function of recent illness, COVID-19 hospitalization, demographic characteristics, or general medical history. …”
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Ultrasound-Mediated Non-Specific Splenic Immunopotentiation to Elicit Broad-Spectrum Anti-Neoplastic Effects by Dong W, Wang G, Li S, Wang Q, Li W, Liu H, Liang Y, Zhou Z, He X, Guo W, Yuan J, Chai Y, Geng J, Li Z

“…It fully demonstrated that FUS directly stimulated splenic immune cell proliferation and activation (especially NK and CD8 T cells) rather than CAP excitation to modulate splenic immune function. Particularly, NK cells are much more indispensable and important in responding to FUS stimulation for cancer suppression than CD8 T cells. …”
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A Proposed Diagnostic and Treatment Algorithm for the Management of Lumbar Discogenic Pain by Lorio MP, Beall DP, Myers TJ, Naidu RK, McRoberts WP, Davis TT, Gage EG, Calodney AK, Verrills P, De Palma MJ, Amirdelfan K, Block JE

“…Treatment options are stratified by DDD severity to include conservative management (grades 1 and 2), minimally-invasive intradiscal therapies (grades 3 to 7), and more invasive surgical procedures (grade 8). Recognizing that the management program for patients with lumbar discogenic pain can be highly personalized, the treatment options recommended by this algorithm should be considered general guidance.Conclusion: The proposed algorithm offers an easy-to-use clinical tool for identifying, evaluating and treating patients with lumbar discogenic pain. …”
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Anticipatory reaching motor behavior characterizes patients within the Alzheimer’s disease continuum in a virtual reality environment by Alessia de Nobile, Ilaria Borghi, Paolo De Pasquale, Denise Jennifer Berger, Antonella Maselli, Francesco Di Lorenzo, Elena Savastano, Martina Assogna, Andrea Casarotto, Daniele Bibbo, Silvia Conforto, Francesco Lacquaniti, Giacomo Koch, Andrea d’Avella, Marta Russo

“…Results Both AD and MCI patients showed more anticipatory responses than healthy controls (HC), inversely related to success rates and cognitive function. …”
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Using SVM Classifier and Micro-Doppler Signature for Automatic Recognition of Sonar Targets by Abbas Saffari, Seyed Hamid Zahiri, Navid Khozein Ghanad

“…The selected SVM classification is the most popular machine learning algorithm with three main kernel functions: RBF kernel, linear kernel, and polynomial kernel tested. …”
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Mental health and quality of life in patients with premenstrual exacerbation: a cross-sectional study in Japan by Mariko Ogawa, Yukiko Iioka, Kiyoshi Takamatsu

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Criminal liability for illegal destruction of forest plantations by Korneev Sergey, Avdeev Sergey, Kozhina Yulia, Kutukov Sergey

“…Russia’s forests, occupying one-fifth of the world’s forest area and being one of the renewable natural resources, meet multiple needs of the economy and society for forest resources, performing the most important environmental, protective and other useful functions. The problems of forest protection and utilization are becoming increasingly diverse and complex. …”
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The prevalence of post-abortion syndrome in patients presenting at Kalafong hospital's family medicine clinic after having a termination of pregnancy by M. van Rooyen, S. Smith

“…To fulfill the criteria of PAS, the symptoms should have been present for more than a month and must have affected the subject's daily functioning. …”
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Language Changes in Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease by Eda Can, Gülmira Kuruoğlu

“…Language disturbances appear early in AD and constitute an important element of the diagnosis, although they are usually overshadowed by impairment of memory and executive functions. It is known that language is impaired disproportionally in AD: the semantic and pragmatic language systems are more impaired than syntax. …”
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Bishop Jeremiah (Soloviev) as a compiler of akathists by Maria Sidneva

“…The akathist work of Bishop Jeremiah is a vivid example of the hymnography of the "Learned Monasticism", in which more and more often a place was given to akathist writing in the Modern Times. …”
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Attitude of patients and doctors of government health care system to the basic principles of medical ethics by E. P. Pukhova, O. Yu. Kutumova, D. O. Trufanov

“…The results indicate that there are statistically significant differences in the attitude of doctors and patients to some classic norms of medical ethics. In general, doctors often have an unambiguous opinion about the principles of bioethics; patients are more lenient about the principles of bioethics. …”
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Pragmatic Syncretism in the Use of Hedges (Based on Russian Thesis Reviews) by E. Yu. Viktorova

“…The article deals with pragmatic syncretism and syncretic aspects  of hedges – words and phrases  used to mitigate claims, that is make them vaguer, more tentative  and more uncertain. Hedges are looked upon as a type of discourse markers which are focused on the writer-reader interaction  and the writer’s self-presentation.Methodology and sources. …”
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PROTECTION OF VICTIMS OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – VICTIMOLOGY VIEW by Миодраг Н. Симовић, Азра Аџајлић-Дедовић

“…Moreover, the attitude of the relevant entities regarding crime victims in general, is that it is not only a problem of a single country, but a universal problem. …”
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TWO DESIGNS OF THE ELECTROMECHANICAL BRAKE EMBEDDED INTO AN ASYNCHRONOUS MOTOR by V. V. Solencov, V. V. Brel

“…One of the major shortcomings of the functioning of well-known design is the periodic wear of the friction linings and the need for frequent replacement of them. …”
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Relationship between the number of family members and stress by gender: Cross-sectional analysis of the fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. by Jin-Won Noh, Kyoung-Beom Kim, Jumin Park, Janghun Hong, Young Dae Kwon

“…As family problems are recently becoming a big issue, our study shows the importance of considering gender difference in studies on stress according to family roles and functions.…”
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mRNA Technologies Danger by Mikhail V. Supotnitskiy

“…The newer the agents that may influence human genome will be, the more dangerous they will become. The methods of their application will also be more sophisticated. …”
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Enhanced Conformer-Based Speech Recognition via Model Fusion and Adaptive Decoding with Dynamic Rescoring by Junhao Geng, Dongyao Jia, Zihao He, Nengkai Wu, Ziqi Li

“…The penalty function limits the weights of decoding strategies to prevent over-reliance on any single decoder, thus enhancing the model’s generalization. …”
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Local immunodefence and microbiocenosis at bowel diseases by V. T. Ivashkin, N. L. Denisov

“…The group of control consisted of 27 generally healthy people. Microbiocenosis of intestine was investigated at 37 generally healthy and at 177 patients with chronic bowel diseases (IBS – 36, IBDD – 36, MS – 35, CelD – 38 and UC – 32). …”
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Enhancing nucleotide sequence representations in genomic analysis with contrastive optimization by Mohammadsaleh Refahi, Bahrad A. Sokhansanj, Joshua C. Mell, James R. Brown, Hyunwoo Yoo, Gavin Hearne, Gail L. Rosen

“…A key strength of Scorpio is its ability to generalize to novel DNA sequences and taxa, addressing a significant limitation of alignment-based methods. …”
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First-principles calculations of solid-phase enthalpy of formation of energetic materials by Lixiang Zhong, Danyang Liu, Maoxin Hu, Xiaoning Yang, Ruibin Liu, Yugui Yao

“…Abstract The solid-phase enthalpy of formation (∆H f, solid ) of energetic materials was generally predicted from the gas-phase enthalpy of formation (∆H f, gas ) and sublimation enthalpy (∆H sub ). …”
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