A functional imaging study of self-regulatory capacities in persons who stutter. by Jie Liu, Zhishun Wang, Yuankai Huo, Stephanie M Davidson, Kristin Klahr, Carl L Herder, Chamonix O Sikora, Bradley S Peterson

“…We investigated in this study the potential involvement of frontostriatal circuits in developmental stuttering. We collected functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 46 persons with stuttering and 52 fluent controls during performance of the Simon Spatial Incompatibility Task. …”
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Executive Functions and Special Educational Needs and Their Relationship with School-Age Learning Difficulties by Juan Manuel Núñez, Ana Soto-Rubio, Marián Pérez-Marín

“…Results: The results indicated that students with SEN exhibited significantly more affected executive function profiles compared to their peers without SEN in both family and school contexts, highlighting areas such as cognitive flexibility, initiative, working memory, planning and organisation, task supervision, and material organisation. …”
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Microbial Community and Functional Analysis of Regionally Produced Traditional Korean Grain Vinegar by Su Jeong Lee, Sun Hee Kim, Hee-Min Gwon, Jinju Park

“…This study investigated changes in microbial communities and functional components during the fermentation of traditional Korean grain vinegars collected from various regions as well as the correlations among these components. …”
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PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTING IN YOUNG SCHOOL-age CHILDREN – СHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES by Stoilka Mandadzhieva, Blagoi Marinov, Stefan Kostianev

“…Introduction: Pulmonary function testing is an essential clinical measurement in the assessment of children with respiratory diseases Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the main difficulties in the assessment of lung function parameters in young schoolchildren. …”
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The Structure, Function, and Adaptation of Lower-Limb Aponeuroses: Implications for Myo-Aponeurotic Injury by Scott Hulm, Ryan G. Timmins, Jack T. Hickey, Nirav Maniar, Yi-Chung Lin, Katherine R. Knaus, Bryan C. Heiderscheit, Silvia S. Blemker, David A. Opar

“…This has subsequent implications when interpreting data regarding the structure, function, and adaptation of the aponeuroses from these studies. …”
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Yield gap in cowpea plants as function of water déficits during reproductive stage by Paulo J. O. P. Souza, Vivian D. da S. Farias, João V. N. Pinto, Hildo G. G. C. Nunes, Everaldo B. de Souza, Clyde W. Fraisse

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Unraveling the Reshaping of Human Resource Management Function: the mediating role of artificial intelligence by Samuel Bangura, Anos Chitamba Chitamba, Lucia Zithobile Ngidi, Sizwe Mbona

“…The results indicate that AI supports HRM professionals in executing tasks more efficiently and facilitates data analysis and process optimization. …”
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A Broadband Graphene Based Multi-Functional mid-THz Polarization Converter by Vinit Singh Yadav, Amalendu Patnaik

“…The proposed multi–functional polarization converter can act as a promising candidate for THz indoor communication.…”
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Demographic characteristics and functional outcomes in patients with traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injuries by Milićević Saša, Bukumirić Zoran, Karadžov-Nikolić Aleksandra, Babović Rade, Janković Slobodan

“…The two populations were discharged with similar functional outcome. Conclusions. The NTSCI patients in our study were younger, more frequently female, with less complications before rehabilitation and less frequently treated operatively than the TSCI patients. …”
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Assessment of the barrier function of Chernozem and Luvisol under their experimental contamination by copper ions by A. D. Iovcheva, I. N. Semenkov

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A Quality Function Deployment model: Application design for sauce bottle washer by Berty Dwi Rahmawati, Igh Bayogi Putra Pradana, Buna Rizal Rachman

“…To address this issue, the study adopts the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method to translate customer needs into technical specifications for product development. …”
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Effective Seed Scheduling for Directed Fuzzing with Function Call Sequence Complexity Estimation by Xi Peng, Peng Jia, Ximing Fan, Cheng Huang, Jiayong Liu

“…To mitigate this problem, we analyzed the properties of the instrumented function’s call graph after selective instrumentation, and the complexity of reaching the target function sequence was estimated. …”
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Modern Methods for the Diagnosis of Morphological and Functional Features of the Retina in Dysbinocular and Anisometropic Amblyopia by R. R. Khubieva, E. P. Tarutta

“…The term amblyopia is understood to mean a decrease in the maximum corrected visual acuity that occurred at an early age, which is caused by disorders of the functions of the visual analyzer, without changes in the fundus and organic lesions of the visual pathways and centers. …”
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Tele-Assessment of Executive Functions in Young Adults with ADHD: A Pilot Study by Agnese Capodieci, Valeria Olla, Chiara Tonasso, Marianna Campana, Annalisa Morsiani, Agnese Zambelli, Giulia Guidetti

“…The use of this tool to assess executive functioning in individuals with ADHD in this age group would enable clinicians to plan more individualized interventions.…”
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Investigating neural correlates of attention in relation to the development of executive functions in early childhood by Abigaël Thinakaran, Tess Fulcher, Haerin Chung, Amanda Woodward, Marc Colomer

“…Abstract Most previous studies investigating early neural predictors of Executive Function (EF) abilities focused on resting-state brain activity in infancy, with mixed findings. …”
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Mental Fatigue Has Great Impact on the Fractal Dimension of Brain Functional Network by Gang Li, Yanting Xu, Yonghua Jiang, Weidong Jiao, Wanxiu Xu, Jianhua Zhang

“…The results indicate that brain functional networks still maintain fractal structures even when the brain is at fatigue state; fractal dimension presented an increasing trend along with the deepening of mental fatigue fractal dimension of the weighted network was more sensitive to mental fatigue than that of binary network. …”
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Intelligent system construction as consequent transformation of the model range of its functional prototypes by A. V. Gulay, V. M. Zaitsev

“…Sequential step-by-step choice of all the more complex prototypes with simultaneous enrichment of the composition of applied tools and performed system functions forms the expanded model range of the system. …”
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The proteome of circulating extracellular vesicles and their functional effect on platelets vary with the isolation method by Eva M. Fernández-Sáez, Susana B. Bravo, Carmen Pena, Ángel García

“…The latter suggests that EVs obtained by SEC seem more suitable for platelet-related functional studies compared to those obtained by UC. …”
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On the Convergence of Normal and Curvature Calculations with the Height Function Method for Two-Phase Flow by Antonio Cervone, Sandro Manservisi, Jieyun Pan, Ruben Scardovelli, Stéphane Zaleski

“…The volume-of-fluid (VOF) method is widely used for multiphase flow simulations, where the VOF function implicitly represents the interface through the volume fraction field. …”
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Exploring the evolution of novel enzyme functions within structurally defined protein superfamilies. by Nicholas Furnham, Ian Sillitoe, Gemma L Holliday, Alison L Cuff, Roman A Laskowski, Christine A Orengo, Janet M Thornton

“…This has been used to generate a matrix of observed exchanges from one enzyme function to another, revealing the scale and nature of enzyme evolution and that some types of exchanges between and within E.C. classes are more prevalent than others. …”
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