Understanding parents’ experiences of disease course and influencing factors: a 3-year follow-up qualitative study among parents of children with functional abdominal pain by Mette Brekke, Anne Brodwall

“…Objective Functional abdominal pain is a common symptom in children and adolescents. …”
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Bank data protection and fraud identification based on improved adaptive federated learning and WGAN by Yunjiao Zheng

“…Then, a fraud recognition model is designed based on generative adversarial networks. The experiment outcomes show that the adaptive data protection architecture designed in this study notably raises the convergence performance of the loss function after introducing adaptive gradient pruning and noise differentiation strategies, with a minimum loss value of 0.09 and excellent learning ability. …”
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Enhancing Microwave Disinfection: Impact of Sodium Chloride on Microbial Inactivation by Saleh A. Alfawaz, Ibrahim N. Alquaydheb, Amirreza Ghadimi Avval, Sara Ghayouraneh, Samir M. El-Ghazaly, Jianhong Zhou, Yuchun Du

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Modeling eye gaze velocity trajectories using GANs with spectral loss for enhanced fidelity by Shailendra Bhandari, Pedro Lencastre, Rujeena Mathema, Alexander Szorkovszky, Anis Yazidi, Pedro G. Lind

“…This study introduces a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework employing Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) generators and discriminators to generate high-fidelity synthetic eye gaze velocity trajectories. …”
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A Study on the Neurological Mechanisms of the Impact of Different Dialysis Methods on Brain Structure and Functional Network Dynamic Reorganization in Patients With End‐Stage Renal... by Hui Han, Huijuan Chen, Ying Zhang, Jiali Wei

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Life after Adolescent and Adult Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Self-Reported Executive, Emotional, and Behavioural Function 2–5 Years after Injury by Torun Gangaune Finnanger, Alexander Olsen, Toril Skandsen, Stian Lydersen, Anne Vik, Kari Anne I. Evensen, Cathy Catroppa, Asta K. Håberg, Stein Andersson, Marit S. Indredavik

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Analysis of the Role of Institutions and Technologies in Economic Growth of the Late USSR in a Cross-Country Comparison by D. V. Didenko, N. V. Grineva

“…We propose a modification of the production function, similar to the exogenous growth model by Mankiw, Romer, Weil (1992) with physical and human capital, by augmenting it with variables for institutional and general technological components. …”
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A new Maxwell-Log logistic distribution and its applications for mortality rate data by Uthumporn Panitanarak, Aliyu Ismail Ishaq, Alfred Adewole Abiodun, Hanita Daud, Ahmad Abubakar Suleiman

“…We discussed some essential properties of the Max-LL distribution, including moments, moment generating function, probability weighted moments, stress-strength, and order statistics. …”
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Effects and Persistence of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BL-99 and Fructooligosaccharides on Older Adults with Functional Constipation: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo... by Meina Li, Qi Zhang, Wen Zhao, Juan Chen, Yinghua Liu, Limian Zhou, Yihui Liu, Langrun Wang, Yiran Guan, Jian He, Qiuyue Jiang, Zhaozhong Zeng, Xinmei Guo, Can Liu, Liwei Zhang, Yong Zhang, Jie Luo, Wei-Lian Hung, Jingjing He, Ran Wang

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Determination of the Stage of Periodontitis with 20 ng/mL Cut-Off aMMP-8 Mouth Rinse Test and Polynomial Functions in a Mobile Application by Miika Penttala, Timo Sorsa, Julie Toby Thomas, Andreas Grigoriadis, Dimitra Sakellari, Vaibhav Sahni, Shipra Gupta, Pirjo Pärnänen, Tommi Pätilä, Ismo T. Räisänen

“…Third, one more function was created that divided stage II and III patients from each other. …”
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Increased Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Women Due to Long-Term Passive Smoking by Liu Z, Jiao M, Lv J, Han Q

“…Zhenkun Liu,* Mingzhi Jiao,* Jiling Lv, Qizheng Han Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Second Provincial General Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, 250000, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Jiling Lv, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Second Provincial General Hospital, No. 4 Duanxing West Road, Jinan, Shandong, 250000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +8615508603200, Email lvjiling1980@163.com Qizheng Han, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shandong Second Provincial General Hospital, No. 4 Duanxing West Road, Jinan, Shandong, 250000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +8615168863190, Email hanqizheng@163.comObjective: To investigate the impact of long-term passive smoking on the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in women.Methods: We conducted a community-based cross-sectional study involving 2,360 women aged ≥ 40 years in Jinan, China (October 1, 2022-April 30, 2023). …”
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Reconstructing higher-resolution four-dimensional time-varying volumetric data by Ji Ma, Jinjin Chen

“…Our method can be applied in the context of in-situ visualisation to aid domain scientists in analysing more time-varying volumetric data more efficiently. …”
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An earned presence: studying the effect of multi-task improvisation systems on cognitive and learning capacity by Pil Hansen, Robert J. Oxoby

“…Our team set out to test the following hypothesis: Active participation in performance generating systems has a positive effect on advanced student performers’ working memory capacity, executive functions, and learning. …”
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Continuous theta-burst stimulation demonstrates language-network-specific causal effects on syntactic processing by Chenyang Gao, Junjie Wu, Yao Cheng, Yuming Ke, Xingfang Qu, Mingchuan Yang, Gesa Hartwigsen, Luyao Chen

“…These results shed light on the uniqueness and the specific causal role of the language network for the human language faculty, further supporting the causally separable view of the functional dissociation between the language network and the domain-general/multiple-demand network.…”
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Protein secondary structure determined from independent and integrated infra-red absorbance and circular dichroism data using the algorithm SELCON by Søren Vrønning Hoffmann, Nykola C. Jones, Alison Rodger

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Cognitive Change Associated with Anesthesia and Surgery: An Introduction to POCD for Neuroscientists by Yang Li, Qiaoyi Peng, Jian Lu, Li Hu, Hongmei Zhou

“…We aim to enhance understanding of the occurrence of POCD and to provide a more comprehensive perspective on the prevention and treatment of POCD.…”
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FINANCIAL SECURITY OF SOCIAL COOPERATIVES IN THE CATERING INDUSTRY: FINDINGS FROM THE FINANCIAL ANALYSIS VS. THE MANAGEMENT’S VIEWS by Patrycja Tomczyk, Dorota Czerwińska-Kayzer, Joanna Florek

“…Managing these areas better can help ensure financial security and enable a more efficient functioning of cooperatives when faced with new economic hurdles.…”
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Exploring the metabolic signature of intermittent explosive disorder: Preliminary evidence and potential mechanisms for altered bilirubin metabolism by Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, Murray B. Stein, Emil F. Coccaro, Alejandro D. Meruelo

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Breaking Seed Dormancy in Wild Lentil Species Using an Abscisic Acid Antagonist to Explore and Utilize Wild Relatives as Genetic Resources by L. Y. Gorim, O. R. Enesi, S. R. Abrams, S. Banniza

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Deep Proteome Coverage of Microglia Using a Streamlined Data-Independent Acquisition-Based Proteomic Workflow: Method Consideration for a Phenotypically Diverse Cell Type by Jessica Wohlfahrt, Jennifer Guergues, Stanley M. Stevens

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