Applying metagenomics to structural and functional analyses of microbial communities from lagoon sediments in some provinces of central Vietnam by Tran Thi Hong, Ngo Van Anh, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Van Phuong

“…Therefore, this study aimed to decipher the structural and functional diversity of microbial communities, including un-culturable species in lagoon sediments collected from Tam Giang, Nai, and Thi Nai lagoons, which were located in the central coast of Vietnam using metagenomics approach. …”
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Association between alcohol consumption and renal function in patients with diabetes mellitus and hypertension: insights from the Taiwan Biobank by Fa–Chen Lin, Shih–Kai Luo, Hung–Pin Tu, Hung–Yi Chuang, Chen–Cheng Yang, Chih–Hsing Hung

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HIV- and AIDS-associated neurocognitive functioning in Zambia – a perspective based on differences between the genders by Kabuba N, Menon JA, Franklin Jr DR, Heaton RK, Hestad KA

“…The norms corrected for effects of age, education, and gender in the general population, and the test battery measures domains of attention/working memory (learning and delayed recall), executive function, verbal fluency, processing speed, verbal and visual episodic memory, and fine motor skills. …”
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Comparing the functionality of ontology design software with an emphasis on Persian language: Designing an evidence-based medical ontology prototype by Adeleh asadi

“…Therefore, the main goal of this research is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the ontology designing software and their functionality in Persian language by using the prototype design of ontology in the field of evidence-based medicine. …”
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Neuronal Populations Involved in Motor Function Show Prominent Expression of Sbno1 During Postnatal Brain Development by Sunjidmaa Zolzaya, Dai Ihara, Munkhsoyol Erkhembaatar, Shinsuke Ochiai, Ayaka Isa, Mariko Nishibe, Jean-Pierre Bellier, Takahiro Shimizu, Satoshi Kikkawa, Ryo Nitta, Yu Katsuyama

“…They also indicate that while Sbno1 may play a general role across all neurons, it may also serve more specialized functions in certain neuronal types and/or for certain cellular activities related to particular neuronal pathways.…”
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Walking or breathing: comparing the 6-minute walking distance test to the pulmonary function test for lung resection candidates by Ali Mehri, Fariba Zabihi, Taha Sharafian, Mona Kabiri, Reza Rezaei

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Complex interplay between gene deletions and the environment uncovers cellular roles for genes of unknown function in Escherichia coli by Kaat Sondervorst, Kristina Nesporova, Matthew Herdman, Bart Steemans, Joëlle Rosseels, Sander K. Govers

“…In this study, we exploited the previously observed nutrient dependency of cell biological phenotypic features captured by a cross-condition image-based profiling assay of Escherichia coli deletion strains to examine this in more detail. We identified several general principles, including the existence of a spectrum of deviating phenotypes across nutrient conditions (i.e., from nutrient- or feature-specific to pleiotropic phenotypic deviations), limited conservation of phenotypic deviations across nutrient conditions (i.e., limited phenotypic robustness), and a subset of nutrient-independent phenotypic deviations (indicative of consistent genetic determinants of specific phenotypic features). …”
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Hip disarticulation for non-salvageable primary malignant sarcoma of femur: What were the oncological & functional outcomes? by Vikas Warikoo, Jebin Aron, Abhijeet Ashok Salunke, Nandlal Bharwani, Dhruv Patel, Anish Chowdhury, Arunsrinivas Muralidharan, Ajinkya Pawar, Vivek Bande, Shashank Pandya

“…The purpose of this retrospective study is to evaluate the demographic distribution, clinical behaviour, and oncological outcomes and functional outcomes following hip disarticulation in patients with lower extremity sarcoma. …”
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Assessment of the Abnormalities in Chest Computed Tomography and Pulmonary Function Test in Convalescents Six Months After COVID-19 by Katarzyna Guziejko, Anna Moniuszko-Malinowska, Robert Flisiak, Piotr Czupryna, Sebastian Sołomacha, Paweł Sowa, Marlena Dubatówka, Magda Łapińska, Łukasz Kiszkiel, Łukasz Szczerbiński, Piotr Paweł Laskowski, Maciej Alimowski, Gabriela Trojan, Karol Adam Kamiński

“…<i>Conclusions</i>: The majority of chest CT abnormalities resolved within six months of recovery, regardless of SARS-CoV-2 variant or initial disease severity. Pulmonary function tests should be prioritized in post-COVID-19 follow-up, as PFT results in convalescents were comparable to those observed in the general population.…”
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Functional recovery following hospitalisation of patients diagnosed with COVID-19: a protocol for a longitudinal cohort study by Julie C Reid, Maureen Markle-Reid, Ameen Patel, Andrew P Costa, Maura Marcucci, MyLinh Duong, Connie Schumacher, Aaron Jones, Mats Junek, Marla K Beauchamp, Parminder Raina, Lauren E Griffith, Sophie Corriveau, Shariq Haider, Terence Ho, Rebecca Kruisselbrink, Hope Morrison, Natya Raghavan, Leslie Martin, Carla Girolametto

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Volume contracted state, mortality and functional outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion by Risheng Xu, Max Wintermark, Gregory W Albers, Jeremy J Heit, Adam A Dmytriw, Adrien Guenego, Yasmin Aziz, Kambiz Nael, Benjamin Pulli, Victor Urrutia, Dhairya A Lakhani, Tobias D Faizy, Argye Hillis, Vivek Yedavalli, Dylan Wolman, Licia P Luna, Elisabeth B Marsh, Hamza Adel Salim, Janet Mei, Vaibhav Vagal, Aakanksha Sriwastwa, Raf Llinas, Hanzhang Lu, Mona N Bahouth

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A Grey CES Production Function Model and Its Application in Calculating the Contribution Rate of Economic Growth Factors by Maolin Cheng

“…In analyses of economic growth factors, people generally use the CES (Constant Elasticity of Substitution) production function model to calculate the contribution rates of the factors that influence economic growth. …”
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Pupil size as a biomarker of cognitive (dys)functions: Toward a physiologically informed screening of mental states by Serena Castellotti, Elisa Castaldi, Elvio Blini, Roberto Arrighi

“…We finally conclude by arguing that measuring pupil size has the potential to complement more traditional, but coarse assessment methods, to return a more graded, objective, and physiologically informed picture of cognitive functioning.…”
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Positive Properties of Green’s Function for Fractional Dirichlet Boundary Value Problem with a Perturbation Term and Its Applications by Yongqing Wang

“…The existence of positive solutions is determined under a more general condition, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">F</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>ξ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">x</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>≥</mo><mo>−</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">b</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>ξ</mi><mo>)</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">x</mi><mo>−</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">e</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>ξ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">b</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>ξ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>,</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">e</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>ξ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>∈</mo><msup><mi>L</mi><mn>1</mn></msup><mrow><mo>[</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>]</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> are non-negative functions. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning and Pedotransfer Functions Under Varying Data Availability in Two Greek Regions by Panagiotis Tziachris, Panagiota Louka, Eirini Metaxa, Miltiadis Iatrou, Konstantinos Tsiouplakis

“…The current study evaluates the performance of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) and machine learning (ML) algorithms in predicting the soil bulk density (BD) across two distinct regions in Greece—Kozani and Veroia—using both limited and extended sets of soil parameters. …”
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On the study of double dispersive equation in the Murnaghan’s rod: Dynamics of diversity wave structures by Jan Muhammad, Usman Younas, Aziz Khan, Thabet Abdeljawad, D.K. Almutairi

“…Two recently developed analytical techniques known as the improved generalized Riccati equation mapping method and the multivariate generalized exponential rational integral function method have been applied to the proposed equation for the first time. …”
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Bicomplex <i>k</i>-Mittag-Leffler Functions with Two Parameters: Theory and Applications to Fractional Kinetic Equations by Ahmed Bakhet, Shahid Hussain, Mohra Zayed, Mohamed Fathi

“…This generalization offers more flexibility and broader applicability in modeling complex fractional systems. …”
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Association between the proportionality of functional mitral regurgitation and survival after mitral valve operationCentral MessagePerspective by Makoto Mori, MD, PhD, Christina Waldron, BS, Sigurdur Ragnarsson, MD, Soh Hosoba, MD, PhD, Mina Zaky, MD, Dustin Lieu, MD, Markus Krane, MD, Arnar Geirsson, MD

“…Conclusions: The clinical relevance of the proportionality of functional mitral regurgitation proposed in the transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral repair population may not generalize to surgical patient populations.…”
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Equipment Maintenance Support Effectiveness Evaluation Based on Improved Generative Adversarial Network and Radial Basis Function Network by Zhen Li, Jianping Hao, Cuijuan Gao

“…Due to the lack of maintenance support samples, maintenance support effectiveness evaluation based on the deep neural network often faces the problem of small sample overfitting and low generalization ability. In this paper, a neural network evaluation model based on an improved generative adversarial network (GAN) and radial basis function (RBF) network is proposed to amplify maintenance support samples. …”
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Stable gullies provide a suitable habitat for functional insects and reduce the threat of pests on crops in farmland of Northeast China by Haijun Zhang, Shaoliang Zhang, Chengbo Zhang, Ziliang Xiao, Pengke Yan, Muhammad Aurangzeib

“…Generally, the richness and abundance of functional insects in farmland were mainly influenced by gullies, especially influenced by the gully middle position. …”
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