Neurodegeneration: 2024 update by John F. Crary

“…As with previous reviews in this series, the focus is, to the best of my ability, to highlight human tissue-based experimentation most relevant to experimental and clinical neuropathologists. …”
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Time-varying MVAR algorithms for directed connectivity analysis: Critical comparison in simulations and benchmark EEG data. by Mattia F Pagnotta, Gijs Plomp

“…We also compared two ways of exploiting repeated observations: single-trial modeling followed by averaging, and multi-trial modeling where one tvMVAR model is fitted across all trials. …”
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Characterization of C9orf72 haplotypes to evaluate the effects of normal and pathological variations on its expression and splicing. by Israel Ben-Dor, Crystal Pacut, Yuval Nevo, Eva L Feldman, Benjamin E Reubinoff

“…Expansion of the hexanucleotide repeat (HR) in the first intron of the C9orf72 gene is the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in Caucasians. …”
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Bayesian Approach for Confidence Intervals of Variance on the Normal Distribution by Autcha Araveeporn

“…The R program generates the simulated data repeated 10,000 times in each situation. The results showed that the maximum likelihood method employed on the small sample sizes. …”
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Integrated Application of Innovative Technologies for Oil Spill Remediation in Gran Tarajal Harbor: A Scientific Approach by Jesús Cisneros-Aguirre, María Afonso-Correa

“…The most important finding of this research is the demonstrated efficacy of integrated approach in not only reducing hydrocarbon contamination but also in promoting ecological recovery. …”
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Sustainable Innovations in Food Microbiology: Fermentation, Biocontrol, and Functional Foods by Amanda Priscila Silva Nascimento, Ana Novo Barros

“…This paper presents a critical and up-to-date review of the most relevant advances at the interface between microbiology, sustainability, and food innovation. …”
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Causes for Withdrawal in an Urban Peritoneal Dialysis Program by Biruh Workeneh, Danielle Guffey, Charles G. Minard, William E. Mitch

“…Of the patients who did not expire and were not transplanted, most transferred to in-center hemodialysis and 8% transitioned to home-hemodialysis. …”
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Dispersal rate of Potamophylax cingulatus and Micropterna sequax (Trichoptera) in Iceland by Gísli Már Gíslason, Erling Ólafsson, Matthías S. Alfredsson

“…Searching collections of unidentified Trichoptera, a single specimen was found in east Iceland on 30 July 1959. The survey was repeated in 2004–2006 and the species had colonised most streams and rivers in Iceland and A. zonella had disappeared from many of them. …”
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Episodic positive selection in the evolution of avian toll-like receptor innate immunity genes. by Catherine E Grueber, Graham P Wallis, Ian G Jamieson

“…Our results provide evidence that episodic positive selection has played an important role in the evolution of most avian TLRs, consistent with the role of these loci in pathogen recognition and a mechanism of host-pathogen coevolution.…”
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The effect of eight weeks of Yoga exercise on sustained attention and memory performance in people with Schizophrenia by Forozan Ivandar, farzad Mohammadi

“…Background: Cognitive impairment is one of the most important symptoms of schizophrenia. Although drug therapy is beneficial for the improvement of schizophrenia symptoms, about 30% of patients are resistant to treatment. …”
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Fantasticism in the Novel‘Feathers’ by (Salim Barakat) by Ali Abdulrahman Fattah

“…So, the Kurdish individual became desperate, languishing in his psychological shell created by these circumstances, which became a theme for most of Barakat’s novels, so he presents them in his works through fantastic texts that dizzy the readers’ lost heads between the alleys of its mysterious lines, the world of its events that lack rational logical connection, and intertwined narrative times. …”
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Hidden challenges to happiness: A cross-sectional study of Western Maharashtra, India by Alka Dilip Gore, Randhir V. Dhobale, Vivek B. Waghachavare, Girish B. Dhumale

“…Background and Objectives: Individual happiness and well-being are the most essential components of quality of life. For the last few years, the United Nations General Assembly has annually published the World Happiness Report, and the ranking of India has repeatedly fallen to an alarming level where the country’s position remains below 100 nations in these surveys. …”
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WHAT DETERMINES THE DISMOUNT SIDE ON PARALLEL BARS? by Yeray Rodriguez-Redondo, Jorge Martin-Blazquez, Kiko Leon

“…Data were recorded in Microsoft Excel, and duplicate gymnasts were excluded to avoid repeating data. Chi-square tests were performed and Cramer's V was calculated with the Jamovi program. …”
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The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 drove broadly increased seroprevalence in a public university setting. by Ching-Wen Hou, Stacy Williams, Guillermo Trivino-Soto, Veronica Boyle, David Rainford, Selina Vicino, Mitch Magee, Yunro Chung, Joshua LaBaer, Vel Murugan

“…Omicron is the comparatively most transmissible and contagious variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). …”
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Sport’s Function Analysis in Iran's Development by Zahra Sohrabi, Nima Hasanzadeh, Amir Rahimi

“…The credibility of the findings was achieved with knowledgeable individuals and written sources, the transferability of the research results, the maximum and non-repeated extraction of data. An open and selective coding was used to analyze the data.Results: The results indicate that the most important extracted codes include sport and democracy, sports and social justice, sports and fitness, sports and development, sports and rationality, sports, civilizational phenomenon (social, cultural and political elements of sport), different dimensions of sport , Various functions of the sport were psychological, and vitality and happiness.Conclusion: Generally this role has played a role through cultural development with the approach of social pluralism, political development, with the establishment of religious democracy in society and the increase in the share of sport in GDP, and ultimately lead to an increase in the vitality of Iranian.…”
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Arterial stiffness in rheumatoid arthritis: Current knowledge and future perspectivess by Panagiota Anyfanti, Eleni Bekiari, Elena Angeloudi, Eleni Pagkopoulou, George D Kitas, Theodoros Dimitroulas

“…Although not all studies concur, increased Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) has been repeatedly reported in patients with RA. However, results need to be interpreted with caution as most studies enrolled patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors and/or established cardiovascular disease, or with uncontrolled RA with high levels of systemic inflammation. …”
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Properties and use of the Dermatology Life Quality Index in Patients with Psoriasis by D. A. Andreev, N. N. Kamynina

“…Works not mainly related to the DLQI usage as well as similar publications describing repeated properties and characteristics of the DLQI were excluded.Results. …”
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TouchView: Mid-Air Touch on Zoomable 2D View for Distant Freehand Selection on a Virtual Reality User Interface by Woojoo Kim, Shuping Xiong

“…Raycasting, one of the most common object selection techniques, is known to have difficulties in selecting small or distant objects. …”
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RESULTS OF PALLIATIVE SURGICAL CORRECTION FOR PATIENTS WITH RESPIRATORY FAILURE DEPENDING ON THE VARIANT OF EMPHYSEMATOUS LESION by S. D. Gorbunkov, V. V. Varlamov, S. M. Cherny, O. V. Lukina, A. L. Akopov

“…After the  palliative  surgical  correction of RF  through  RB or LVRS, the  most  favorable survival criterion is the presence of parenchyma in the operated lung, which is practically not affected with emphysema.…”
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Maintenance Therapy in Crohn's Disease by Hillary Steinhart

“…The available evidence suggests that most of these drugs are not as useful in maintaining remission as they are in inducing it. …”
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