Assessment of photoreceptor recovery and visual function utilizing adaptive optics and microperimetry in patients with surgically closed macular holes by Yuanyuan Liu, Xueli Yang, Wei Zhou, Jinguo Yu, Song Chen, Tiangeng He, Caiyun You, Xiangda Meng, Mengyu Liao, Yi Lei, Hua Yan

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Changes in the health status and functional outcomes in acute traumatic hand injury patients, during physical therapy treatment by Rebecca John, Chhaya V Verma

“…Results: At end of 6 months, among eight subscales of SF-36, there is improvement in mean scores of physical functioning (39.1%). The bodily pain, general health, vitality, social function, and mental health had more than 100% improvement. …”
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Influence of Acute and Chronic Load on Perceived Wellbeing, Neuromuscular Performance, and Immune Function in Male Professional Football Players by Alastair Harris, Tim J. Gabbett, Rachel King, Stephen P. Bird, Peter Terry

“…Higher chronic workload was associated with better perceived wellbeing, even when acute workload was >+1 standard deviation above the mean. Conclusion: In general, low chronic workloads and acute spikes in workload were associated with poorer neuromuscular and immune function. …”
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PO20 | Impact of endovascular treatment on functional outcome in ischemic stroke: a real-world retrospective study

“…Conclusions: Predictors of poor functional outcome in IS patients treated with MT include higher stroke severity, use of general anesthesia, need for stenting, and longer procedural times. …”
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Novel Flavin Mononucleotide-Functionalized Cerium Fluoride Nanoparticles for Selective Enhanced X-Ray-Induced Photodynamic Therapy by Anastasia I. Kornienko, Maria A. Teplonogova, Marina P. Shevelyova, Matvei A. Popkov, Anton L. Popov, Vladimir E. Ivanov, Nelli R. Popova

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Self-Supervised Learning with Trilateral Redundancy Reduction for Urban Functional Zone Identification Using Street-View Imagery by Kun Zhao, Juan Li, Shuai Xie, Lijian Zhou, Wenbin He, Xiaolin Chen

“…By compelling the embedding of positive samples to be highly correlated, it guides the pre-trained model to learn more essential representations without semantic labels. …”
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FEATURES OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION BY MEANS OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE (on the example of official-business, epistolary and conversational-functional styles) by Catherine S. Bondarchuk, Olha A. Chumachenko

“…The article analyzes the main types of oral and written communication on the material of different functional styles of the Ukrainian language. The research methodology consists of both the main methods of functional stylistics and its partial and concrete-practical methods, namely: functional, complex, semantic, comparative methods, multifaceted analysis and the method of direct observation. …”
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Development of a Measure of Family Functioning for Hispanic Sexual Minority Adolescents: A Study Protocol for Measure Development by Alyssa Lozano, Dalton Scott, Andrea Lopez, Kelly C. Barbosa, Jeremy T. Goldbach, Victoria Behar-Zusman, Guillermo Prado

“…These outcomes are more prominent for SMA and HSMA who have parents that are unaccepting of their youth’s sexual orientation. …”
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Optimization of fermentation conditions of exopolysaccharide production from Saccharomyces cerevisiae YY-02 and its functional properties analysis by WANG Changli, ZHANG Cheng, BIN Xiaoyun, ZHAO Yunhui, ZHANG Yunye, YE Guangbin

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Association of body composition and physical activity with pain and function in knee osteoarthritis patients: a cross-sectional study by Hongbo Chen, Dan li, Shaomei Shang, Wen Zeng, Mengqi Wang, Beibei Tong, Peiyuan Liu, Cui Wang

“…More skeletal muscle mass was associated with the improvement of objective function.…”
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Depot Versus Oral Antipsychotics in Patients with Schizophrenia: Which is Better on Side Effects, Functional Improvement, and Life Satisfaction by İlknur Kiraz Avcı, Mehmet Avcı, Buket Koparal

“…There is a need for multicenter prospective studies with longer follow-up of patients for side effects, life satisfaction, quality of life, and functional improvement to achieve more significant results.…”
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Pathogenic missense protein variants affect different functional pathways and proteomic features than healthy population variants. by Anna Laddach, Joseph Chi Fung Ng, Franca Fraternali

“…By examining the association of variant enrichment with available functional pathways and transcriptomic and proteomic (protein half-life, thermal stability, abundance) data, we have mined a rich set of molecular features which distinguish between pathogenic and population variants: Pathogenic variants mainly affect proteins involved in cell proliferation and nucleotide processing and are enriched in more abundant proteins. …”
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CARDIAC FUNCTION AND IRON CHELATION IN THALASSEMIA MAJOR AND INTERMEDIA: A REVIEW OF THE UNDERLYING PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND APPROACH TO CHELATION MANAGEMENT by Athanasios Aessopos, Vasilios Berdoukas

“…Endocrine abnormalities, infections, renal function and medications can also play a role in the overall cardiac function.  …”
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Applying metagenomics to structural and functional analyses of microbial communities from lagoon sediments in some provinces of central Vietnam by Tran Thi Hong, Ngo Van Anh, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Van Phuong

“…These sequences participated in various metabolic processes and belonged to more than 30 groups of biologically active compounds. …”
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Association between alcohol consumption and renal function in patients with diabetes mellitus and hypertension: insights from the Taiwan Biobank by Fa–Chen Lin, Shih–Kai Luo, Hung–Pin Tu, Hung–Yi Chuang, Chen–Cheng Yang, Chih–Hsing Hung

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HIV- and AIDS-associated neurocognitive functioning in Zambia – a perspective based on differences between the genders by Kabuba N, Menon JA, Franklin Jr DR, Heaton RK, Hestad KA

“…The norms corrected for effects of age, education, and gender in the general population, and the test battery measures domains of attention/working memory (learning and delayed recall), executive function, verbal fluency, processing speed, verbal and visual episodic memory, and fine motor skills. …”
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Comparing the functionality of ontology design software with an emphasis on Persian language: Designing an evidence-based medical ontology prototype by Adeleh asadi

“…Since Protege software is more compatible with the standards of ontology design, this software was selected for the design of evidence-based medical ontology and was designed through 7 steps. …”
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Neuronal Populations Involved in Motor Function Show Prominent Expression of Sbno1 During Postnatal Brain Development by Sunjidmaa Zolzaya, Dai Ihara, Munkhsoyol Erkhembaatar, Shinsuke Ochiai, Ayaka Isa, Mariko Nishibe, Jean-Pierre Bellier, Takahiro Shimizu, Satoshi Kikkawa, Ryo Nitta, Yu Katsuyama

“…They also indicate that while Sbno1 may play a general role across all neurons, it may also serve more specialized functions in certain neuronal types and/or for certain cellular activities related to particular neuronal pathways.…”
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Walking or breathing: comparing the 6-minute walking distance test to the pulmonary function test for lung resection candidates by Ali Mehri, Fariba Zabihi, Taha Sharafian, Mona Kabiri, Reza Rezaei

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Stability, convergence, and robustness of deterministic multivariable self-tuning control by ZHAO Li, ZHANG Wei-cun, CHU Tian-guang

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