The Coaching for Cognition in Alzheimer's (COCOA) trial: Study design by Jared C. Roach, Junko Hara, Deborah Fridman, Jennifer C. Lovejoy, Kathleen Jade, Laura Heim, Rachel Romansik, Adrienne Swietlikowski, Sheree Phillips, Molly K. Rapozo, Maria A. Shay, Dan Fischer, Cory Funk, Lauren Dill, Michael Brant‐Zawadzki, Leroy Hood, William R. Shankle

“…Secondary outcome measures include the Functional Assessment Staging Test (FAST), a measure of function. …”
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Analyses of the redistribution of work following cardiac resynchronisation therapy in a patient specific model. by Steven Alexander Niederer, Pablo Lamata, Gernot Plank, Phani Chinchapatnam, Matt Ginks, Kawal Rhode, Christopher Aldo Rinaldi, Reza Razavi, Nicolas Peter Smith

“…Regulation of regional work is essential for efficient cardiac function. In patients with heart failure and electrical dysfunction such as left branch bundle block regional work is often depressed in the septum. …”
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The Arctan-X Family of Distributions: Properties, Simulation, and Applications to Actuarial Sciences by Ibrahim Alkhairy, M. Nagy, Abdisalam Hassan Muse, Eslam Hussam

“…The purpose of this paper is to investigate a new family of distributions based on an inverse trigonometric function known as the arctangent function. In the context of actuarial science, heavy-tailed probability distributions are immensely beneficial and play an important role in modelling data sets. …”
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Bridging the Gap: ChatGPT’s Role in Enhancing STEM Education by Lingfei Luan, Xi Lin, Yan Dai

“…The results demonstrate significant disparities between AI-generated (ChatGPT) and human input. Upon analyzing the grade fluctuations before and after receiving input, it was shown that students who received feedback from ChatGPT encountered a more significant decrease (median = –12) compared to those who received feedback from humans (median = –5). …”
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scRNA-Seq reveals age-dependent microglial evolution as a determinant of immune response following spinal cord injury by Lufei Shao, Yueliang Chang, Jinfang Liu, Leilei Lin, Long Chang, Jialin Zhang, Zhibin Lan, Honglai Zhang, Xiaolei Chen

“…Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a debilitating condition of the central nervous system (CNS) that leads to severe impairments in sensory and motor functions. Previous studies have pointed out that patient age is a critical factor influencing SCI prognosis. …”
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DNA extraction protocols for animal fecal material on blood spot cards. by Ann-Katrin Llarena, Thomas H A Haverkamp, Wenche Støldal Gulliksen, Kristin Herstad, Arne Holst-Jensen, Eystein Skjerve, Lisbeth Rannem, Sabrina Rodriguez-Campos, Øivind Øines

“…A sequencing depth of 20 million PE reads proved adequate for taxonomic estimations and identifying common functional pathways. Detecting rarer traits, however, requires more sequencing effort.…”
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About the Gibbs-Appel equations for multibody systems by Nguyen Van Khang

“…The form proposed in this paper seems to be more clear and suitable for automatic generation of dynamical equations of motion. …”
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Turning a polystyrene microsphere into a multimode light source by laser irradiation by Liu Shimei, Tie Shaolong, Chen Jingdong, Li Guangcan, Yang Jiaxin, Lan Sheng

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PA6 Stromal Cell Co-Culture Enhances SH-SY5Y and VSC4.1 Neuroblastoma Differentiation to Mature Phenotypes. by Ross Ferguson, Vasanta Subramanian

“…Since neuroblastoma cells proliferate and generally do not express markers of mature or functional neurons, we exploited a co-culture system with the stromal cell line PA6 to better induce differentiation to a more physiologically relevant status. …”
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Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in neurodegenerative diseases: Promises and challenges by Zhi Dong Zhou, Lingxiao Yi, Karolina Popławska-Domaszewicz, Kallol Ray Chaudhuri, Joseph Jankovic, Eng King Tan

“…Experimental studies have shown that GRA have protective effects to modulate neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial and autophagic functions, and protein misfolding. Hence the compounds have generated enormous interest as novel therapeutic agents against NDs. …”
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Asymptotic Theory in Model Diagnostic for General Multivariate Spatial Regression by Wayan Somayasa, Gusti N. Adhi Wibawa, La Hamimu, La Ode Ngkoimani

“…In this work, we assume that the components of the observation, whose mean is generated by a certain basis, are correlated. By this reason we need more effort in deriving the results. …”
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Structure of loop space at finite N by Robert de Mello Koch, Antal Jevicki

“…Using the Molien-Weyl formula, we compute partition functions for various multi-matrix models at different N and interpret them through trace relations. …”
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G-TS-HRNN: Gaussian Takagi–Sugeno Hopfield Recurrent Neural Network by Omar Bahou, Mohammed Roudani, Karim El Moutaouakil

“…For each neuron, the G-TS-HRNN associates an input fuzzy variable of <i>d</i> values, described by an appropriate Gaussian membership function that covers the universe of discourse. To build an instance of G-TS-HRNN(s) of size <i>s</i>, we generate <i>s</i> n-uplets of fuzzy values that present the premise of the Takagi–Sugeno system. …”
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Surface-Related Multiple Suppression Based on Field-Parameter-Guided Semi-Supervised Learning for Marine Data by Jiao Qi, Siyuan Cao, Zhiyong Wang, Yankai Xu, Qiqi Zhang

“…The USNM is essentially an optimization operator that refines the underlying nonlinear mapping relationship between primaries and full wavefield data using the local wavefield feature loss function, thereby obtaining more accurate prediction results with respect to primaries. …”
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hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments by Samantha N Fischer, Erin R Claussen, Savvas Kourtis, Sara Sdelci, Sandra Orchard, Henning Hermjakob, Georg Kustatscher, Kevin Drew

“…We globally characterize our complexes using mass spectrometry based protein covariation data (ProteomeHD.2) and identify covarying complexes suggesting common functional associations. hu.MAP3.0 generates testable functional hypotheses for 472 uncharacterized proteins which we support using AlphaFold modeling. …”
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Can machine-learning algorithms improve upon classical palaeoenvironmental reconstruction models? by P. Sun, P. B. Holden, H. J. B. Birks, H. J. B. Birks

“…We found that the classical approaches are generally more robust, although they could also generate reconstructions which have modest statistical significance and therefore may be unreliable. …”
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Can open-defecation free (ODF) communities be sustained? A cross-sectional study in rural Ghana. by Caroline Delaire, Joyce Kisiangani, Kara Stuart, Prince Antwi-Agyei, Ranjiv Khush, Rachel Peletz

“…Multivariate regression analysis indicated that communities had higher toilet coverage when they were located further from major roads, were not located on rocky soil, reported having a system of fines to punish open defecation, and when less time had elapsed since ODF status achievement. Households were more likely to own a functional toilet if they were larger, wealthier, had a male household head who had not completed primary education, had no children under the age of five, and benefitted from the national Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program. …”
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Unknown issues of digitalizing the tax domain by Dimitrijević Marina

“…The application of digital technologies in the tax domain represents a confirmation of modernization and the turning point in the development of the state's tax function. Digitalization establishes a new paradigm of managing the tax system and significantly changes the tax-political reality. …”
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MUC1 as a target for CAR‐T therapy in head and neck squamous cell carinoma by Zi Mei, Kai Zhang, Alfred King‐Yin Lam, Junwen Huang, Feng Qiu, Bin Qiao, Yi Zhang

“…Next, we constructed a second‐generation CAR and validated the cytotoxic function in vitro. …”
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AI-powered literature search: some observations and concerns by Farooq Azam Rathore, Fareeha Farooq

“…A brief overview of some tools that perform these functions is mentioned in Table I. However, in our role as physicians, faculty and researchers who have been using these tools for more than a year for various tasks including AI-powered literature search we have some concerns that need to be highlighted Recommending articles from the predatory journals We have noticed that some of the articles that these tools recommend are from predatory journals. …”
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