Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning by Patrick K. Thomas, Marrit Jacob, Esteban Acevedo‐Trejos, Helmut Hillebrand, Maren Striebel

“…This intertwined relationship thus calls for more integrative approaches quantifying the relative importance of distinct biodiversity components and environmental context on ecosystem functioning.…”
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COVID-19 as Industry Forcing Function: Challenges for Entrepreneurship in the Post-Pandemic Future by Olga Belousova, Steven Walsh, Aard Groen

“…Can a crisis, and particularly the COVID-19 crisis, act as a more permanent change agent and create an environment that mimics the entrepreneurial opportunity that industry forcing functions create? …”
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Sophisticated perspective-takers are distinctive: Neural idiosyncrasy of functional connectivity in the mentalizing network by Yu Zhang, Chao Ma, Haiming Li, Leonardo Assumpção, Yi Liu

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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS OF THE THYROID GLAND IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF LARYNGEAL CANCER TREATMENT by I. N. Vorozhtsova, M. R. Mukhamedov, M. A. Cherkasova, V. N. Latypova

“…Despite the visual availability of this localization for diagnosis, more than 50% of cases stay timely unrecognized. …”
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Differences in the functional use of two migratory stopovers by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). by Raphael Mayaud, Joshua N Smith, David Peel, Craig Wilson, Wally Franklin, Tim Stevens, Susan Bengtson Nash

“…These findings suggest Moreton Bay serves a more utilitarian role as a stopover, functioning primarily as a resting site for mother-calf pairs, rather than the multifaceted use described in Hervey Bay. …”
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INDIVIDUAL PROFILE OF FUNCTIONAL HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE by M. A. Bykanova, A. J. Kovalchuk, N. V. Pizova, D. S. Druzhinin

“…In patients with right-sided IPFA right-sided debut of PD was more common (p < 0.05) and in patients with mixed IPFA — leftsided(p < 0.05) PD debut. …”
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Effectiveness of Robotics in Stroke Rehabilitation to Accelerate Upper Extremity Function: Systematic Review by Cora Carrillo, Devyn Tilley, Kaitlyn Horn, Michelle Gonzalez, Cassidy Coffman, Claudia Hilton, Karthik Mani

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Bridging the gap between presynaptic hair cell function and neural sound encoding by Lina María Jaime Tobón, Tobias Moser

“…A striking example of diverse structure and function is presented by the afferent synapses between inner hair cells (IHCs) and spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) in the cochlea. …”
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Three functional mobility tests for assessing fall risk in maintenance hemodialysis patients by ZHANG Yan-ni, XIA Meng-di, LI Bo-liang, LIN Chang-wei, XIE Xi-sheng

“…Objective To evaluate the validity of three functional mobility tests for predicting fall risk in maintenance hemodialysis(MHD) patients.Methods 84 patients come from the blood purification center of Nanchong central hospital from January 2013 to January 2014 were fitted in this study;F/M= 47/37,mean age(54.5 ± 15.9) years.84 patients were recruited and divided into two groups according to whether they had more than once fall in MHD:fall group and no-fall group.All patients were tested by chair rising test(CRT),time up and go test(TUG) and tandem gait test(TGT).The test results were recorded,and the correlation between three kinds of tool and fall was analyzed.Results In the CRT trials,25 patients can complete the action independent and the time less than 10 s,accounting for 29.76%;In TUG and TGT,the number of patients who can complete the action independent and the time less than 12 s or the steps more than 8 were 51(60.71%) and 52(61.90%),respectively.Among 84 patients,the fall group had 23 patients(27.38%),who has fell in the process of dialysis,and no-fall group had 61 patients(72.62%).Five female patients were fractured because of fall,accounting for 5.96%.There was significant difference in age,CRT time,TUG time and TGT step number(P<0.05),but there was no significant difference in body mass indox between two groups(P>0.05).The Spearman regression analysis revealed that the CRT,TUG and TGT were related to falling(P<0.01).Conclusions CRT,TUG and TGT as easily functional tests are useful for predicting falls in MHD patients.…”
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Task-switching and frontal cortex functioning across adulthood: An fNIRS study by Michael K. Yeung

“…In this study, these age differences were investigated using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). A sample of 132 adults aged 18–79 undertook a variant of the Trail Making Test and a task-switching paradigm. …”
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AI Functionalities in Cobot-Based Manufacturing for Performance Improvement in Quality Control Application by Madis Moor, Martinš Sarkans, Tavo Kangru, Tauno Otto, Jüri Riives

“…In the long run, AI and ML can add a layer (functionality) to make IoT devices more interactive and user-friendly. …”
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Comparing Family Functioning and Maternal Anxiety in Children with Attention and Hyperactivity Disorder and Controls by Gonca OZYURT, Aynur AKAY PEKCANLAR, Yusuf OZTURK

“…Conclusion: ADHD generally continues into adolescence and adulthood and multiple functional impairments can be occured due to ADHD. If the relationship between maternal anxiety, family functioning and ADHD is understood well, treatment of ADHD will be provided more effectively. …”
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EDUCATIONAL INTENTION IN ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS PR TEXTS: FUNCTIONAL LOAD AND GENRE REALIZATION by A. A. Goryachev

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A dilemma for women: having many children risks deterioration of diastolic functions by Mehmet Ozgeyik, Ozge Turgay Yildirim, Mevlut Serdar Kuyumcu, Mehmet Ali Astarcioglu

“…Background: Echocardiography is the most widely used diagnostic tool for detecting changes in cardiac function. Pregnancy is a dynamic process that affects the cardiovascular system and recent studies have shown that increased parity may cause irreversible changes in the cardiovascular system. …”
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Rhetorical function of sentence moods in Garshaspnamehpoem and the story of Bijan and Manizheh from Shahnameh by Yahya Talebian, Gholamreza Mastali Parsa, Hamid Amini Asalemi

“…In western linguistics, modern critics and linguists such as Michael Halliday and Roger Fowler have also introduced the mood of the sentence more extensively than traditional rhetoric, examining it as the most important element in the interactive function of language. …”
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Improvement of the computational method for determining the cryoscopic temperature of functional ice cream mixtures by I. A. Korolev, A. A. Tvorogova, P. B. Sitnikova

“…Nowadays the functional ice cream production keeps developing. Due to that the traditional composition of the ice cream is amended. …”
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Exploring the effect of natural deep eutectic solvents on zein: Structural and functional properties by Adieh Anvar, Mohammad Hossein Azizi, Hassan Ahmadi Gavlighi

“…This resulted in enhanced solubility, surface hydrophobicity, and free amine content in zein, indicating a more significant change in protein structure. In contrast, water and acetic acid solvents maintained more stable disulfide bonds within zein, which correlates with lower solubility and less unfolding. …”
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Functional Characterization of Germline Mutations in PDGFB and PDGFRB in Primary Familial Brain Calcification. by Michael Vanlandewijck, Thibaud Lebouvier, Maarja Andaloussi Mäe, Khayrun Nahar, Simone Hornemann, David Kenkel, Sara I Cunha, Johan Lennartsson, Andreas Boss, Carl-Henrik Heldin, Annika Keller, Christer Betsholtz

“…All six analyzed PDGFB mutations led to complete loss of PDGF-B function either through abolished protein synthesis or through defective binding and/or stimulation of PDGF-Rβ. …”
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A critical investigation of various subclasses of functions whose real part is bounded by S. K. Bajpai

“…In this paper we investigate various subclasses of univalent analytic functions. We find that many of the subclasses introduced in the recent years are no more new and infact coincide with the class due to Jakubowski. …”
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Some Simpson’s Riemann–Liouville Fractional Integral Inequalities with Applications to Special Functions by Jamshed Nasir, Shahid Qaisar, Saad Ihsan Butt, Khuram Ali Khan, Rostin Matendo Mabela

“…Applications to beta, q-digamma, and Bessel functions are also provided.…”
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