The Relationship Between Biological Noise and Its Application: Understanding System Failures and Suggesting a Method to Enhance Functionality Based on the Constrained Disorder Prin... by Yaron Ilan

“…According to the CDP, all systems require an optimal range of noise to function appropriately, and disease states can arise when these noise levels are disrupted. …”
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Behavioral and Functional Changes Due to Smartphone Overusage among Under-five Children in Rural Puducherry: A Community-based Cross-sectional Study by Sheeba Ravi, Kannan Krishnamoorthy, Rajini Senthil, Premnath Dhasaram, Monisha Venkatesan, R Iswarya, T. Manjubairavi

“…Interestingly, around half of the study participants’ parents 181 (53.2%) accepted that their children were exposed to smartphone for entertainment purposes, and around one-tenth 35 (10.3%) of the participants viewed screen for more than the recommended screen time for age. Increased smartphone exposure was statistically associated with behavioral and functional changes. …”
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Automatic approach-avoidance tendency toward physical activity, sedentary, and neutral stimuli as a function of age, explicit affective attitude, and intention to be active by Farajzadeh, Ata, Goubran, Miriam, Beehler, Alexa, Cherkaoui, Noura, Morrison, Paula, de Chanaleilles, Margaux, Maltagliati, Silvio, Cheval, Boris, Miller, Matthew W., Sheehy, Lisa, Bilodeau, Martin, Orsholits, Dan, Boisgontier, Matthieu P.

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Multiscale Contextual Mamba: Advancing Psychiatric Disorder Detection across Multisite Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Datasets via State Space Modeling by Shusheng Li, Yang Bo, Yuchu Chen, Jianfeng Cao, Bo Bi, Ting Ma, Chenfei Ye

“…Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are complex and heterogeneous neuropsychiatric disorders with overlapping symptoms, presenting remarkable challenges for accurate diagnosis. Leveraging functional neuroimaging data offers an opportunity to develop more robust, data-driven approach for psychiatric disorder detection. …”
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A Novel Locus Harbouring a Functional CD164 Nonsense Mutation Identified in a Large Danish Family with Nonsyndromic Hearing Impairment. by Mette Nyegaard, Nanna D Rendtorff, Morten S Nielsen, Thomas J Corydon, Ditte Demontis, Anna Starnawska, Anne Hedemand, Annalisa Buniello, Francesco Niola, Michael T Overgaard, Suzanne M Leal, Wasim Ahmad, Friedrik P Wikman, Kirsten B Petersen, Dorthe G Crüger, Jaap Oostrik, Hannie Kremer, Niels Tommerup, Morten Frödin, Karen P Steel, Lisbeth Tranebjærg, Anders D Børglum

“…Nonsyndromic hearing impairment (NSHI) is a highly heterogeneous condition with more than eighty known causative genes. However, in the clinical setting, a large number of NSHI families have unexplained etiology, suggesting that there are many more genes to be identified. …”
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Exploratory testing of functional blood oxygenation level dependent-MRI to image the renoprotective effect of Remote Ischaemic PreConditioning during partial nephrectomy by Frederick Heuzeroth, Christian Wetterauer, Daniel Boll, Timm H. Westhoff, Maeve Dreher, Helge Seifert, Cyrill Rentsch, Jan Ebbing

“…BOLD-MRI uses ∆R2* to express acute tubular damage induced by IRI. The more the ∆R2* values have decreased postoperatively, the more damage the renal tubuli have taken. …”
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Potential Functions and Transmission Dynamics of Fungi Associated with <i>Anoplophora glabripennis</i> Across Different Life Stages, Between Sexes, and Between Habitats by Qing Liu, Yuanting Jia, Yishuo Li, Shilong Geng, Yanqi Yu, Zhangyan Wang, Xinru Wang, Ningning Fu, Jianyong Zeng, Xiaoyu Su, Huiping Li, Hualing Wang

“…Overall, the fungi composition was stage specific, with adult gut communities being more diverse than those of larvae and eggs. Male fungal communities differed significantly, while frass and female communities were more similar to each other. …”
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Functional Yb-doped fiber with a bat-type refractive index distribution for beyond kilowatt all-fiber single-frequency laser amplification by Wei Li, Wei Liu, Yu Deng, Yisha Chen, Huan Yang, Qi Chen, Junjie Zheng, Hu Xiao, Zilun Chen, Zhiyong Pan, Pengfei Ma, Zefeng Wang, Lei Si, Shanhui Xu, Jinbao Chen

“…In this study, we demonstrate the design and manufacturing of an ultra-low numerical aperture (NA) functional Yb-doped fiber featuring a bat-type refractive index distribution, specifically engineered for single-frequency laser amplification. …”
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MicroRNA-126 Priming Enhances Functions of Endothelial Progenitor Cells under Physiological and Hypoxic Conditions and Their Therapeutic Efficacy in Cerebral Ischemic Damage by Qunwen Pan, Jieyi Zheng, Donghui Du, Xiaorong Liao, Chunlian Ma, Yi Yang, Yanyu Chen, Wangtao Zhong, Xiaotang Ma

“…Our data indicate that miR-126 overexpression enhanced the function of EPCs in vitro and in vivo.…”
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The combined effects of motor imagery and motor practice are influenced by differences in working memory function: Examination of brain, spinal cord, and muscle performance data by Yuki Fukumoto, Hiroki Bizen, Marina Todo, Naoki Yoshida, Toshiaki Suzuki

“…In terms of working memory, especially in aspects of the phonological loop, those with higher function may execute motor imagery more distinctly.…”
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Multi-Layer Modeling and Visualization of Functional Network Connectivity Shows High Performance for the Classification of Schizophrenia and Cognitive Performance via Resting fMRI by Duc My Vo, Anees Abrol, Zening Fu, Vince D. Calhoun

“…<b>Background:</b> In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional network connectivity (FNC) captures temporal coupling among intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs). …”
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Effects of functional training on skill performance and movement quality among skilled youth male tennis players: A cluster randomized control trial by Wensheng Xiao, Te Bu, Feida Zhao, Junlong Zhang, Xiaorong Bai, Soh Kim Geok

“…Conclusion These results indicate that the functional training model seems to be more effective than the traditional resistance training model in terms of increasing athletic skill performance and movement quality. …”
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Technology Entreprenurship in the Changing Business Environment – A Triple Helix Performance Model by Maja Levi Jaksić, Milica Jovanović, Jasna Petković

“…The general model – TMD-TH (Technology Management and Development – Triple Helix) represents the framework for further more specific research into the relations of the observed dimensions. …”
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A Refined Fuzzy MARCOS Approach with Quasi-D-Overlap Functions for Intuitive, Consistent, and Flexible Sensor Selection in IoT-Based Healthcare Systems by Mahmut Baydaş, Safiye Turgay, Mert Kadem Ömeroğlu, Abdulkadir Aydin, Gıyasettin Baydaş, Željko Stević, Enes Emre Başar, Murat İnci, Mehmet Selçuk

“…Quasi-D-Overlap functions represent a generalized extension of classical overlap operators, capable of capturing partial overlaps and interdependencies among criteria while preserving essential mathematical properties such as associativity and boundedness. …”
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Alterations in tidal volume over recording time during pulmonary function testing by barometric whole-body plethysmography in client-owned cats: a multicenter retrospective investi... by Wei-Tao Chang, Laín García-Guasch, Hannah Gareis, Bianka Schulz, Yoshiki Yamaya, Pei-Ying Lo, Chin-Hao Chang, Hui-Wen Chen, Chung-Hui Lin

“…Abstract Background Pulmonary function assessment in small animal clinical patients typically relies on tidal breathing analysis, such as placing cats in a barometric whole-body plethysmography (BWBP) chamber. …”
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GLIMPSE: An Ultrafaint ≃105 M⊙ Pop III Galaxy Candidate and First Constraints on the Pop III UV Luminosity Function at z ≃ 6–7 by Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu, John Chisholm, Hakim Atek, Ryan Endsley, Vasily Kokorev, Lukas J. Furtak, Richard Pan, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm, Alessandra Venditti, Eli Visbal, Richard Sarmento, Andrea Weibel, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, Daniel Schaerer, Angela Adamo, Danielle A. Berg, Rachel Bezanson, Rychard Bouwens, Iryna Chemerynska, Adélaïde Claeyssens, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Anna Frebel, Damien Korber, Ivo Labbe, Rui Marques-Chaves, Jorryt Matthee, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Julian B. Muñoz, Priyamvada Natarajan, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Katherine A. Suess, Marta Volonteri, Adi Zitrin

“…This study demonstrates the power of our novel NIRCam method to finally reveal distant galaxies even more pristine than the Milky Way’s most metal-poor satellites, thereby promising to bring us closer to the first generation of stars than we have ever been before.…”
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Efficacy and safety of obinutuzumab in primary membranous nephropathy: a real-world retrospective study by Xi Cheng, Zhen-feng Zheng, Yan Qi, Xin Cao, Xi-qian Gao, Ying-xin Fang, Li Wei, Wen-ya Shang, Tie-kun Yan, Jun-ya Jia, Peng-cheng Xu, Qiu-hua Gu

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Impact of Organ Donor Pretreatment With Anti-Thymocyte Globulin in a Murine Model of Allogenic Kidney Transplantation by An He, An He, Yiren Yang, Katja Kotsch, Arne Sattler

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Reliability Analysis of ZZ Distribution Under Zero Failure Data by LEI Lu, ZHANG Guozhi, WANG Ping

“…In order tostudy the reliability of the ZZ distribution under the condition of no failure data, and the reliability function is transformed, and the concavity and convexity is used to obtain a more precise relationship between the reliability of the products at each detection time Further, under the prior distribution is the uniform distribution or more general distribution, Bayesian Estimation of the reliability at each moment is given Meanwhile, according to the optimal confidence lower limit formula of known function with confidence level of 1－α in the case of no failure data, the optimal confidence lower limit expression of the reliability function is given, and the simplified form that is convenient to use is obtained in several special cases.…”
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Analysis of Factors of High-tech Industries Growth: A Case Study of the Late USSR by D. V. Didenko, N. V. Grineva

“…The econometric analysis of the data is based on an exogenous growth model in the form of the Cobb- Douglas production function, augmented with human capital in Mankiw, Romer, Weil (1992), modified in Didenko, Grineva (2020) by introducing variables that proxy for institutional and general technological dynamics. …”
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