From mechanisms to future therapy: a synopsis of isolated REM sleep behavior disorder as early synuclein-related disease by Ambra Stefani, Elena Antelmi, Dario Arnaldi, Isabelle Arnulf, Emmanuel During, Birgit Högl, Michele M. T. Hu, Alex Iranzo, Russell Luke, John Peever, Ronald B. Postuma, Aleksandar Videnovic, Ziv Gan-Or

“…Genetically, there is only a partial overlap between RBD, PD and DLB, and individuals with iRBD may represent a specific subpopulation. …”
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Effect of burnt tire-ash (water-soluble fraction) on blood and histopathological markers in Clarias gariepinus by Adewale Adeolu, Roseline Nwose, Joshua Ekpenyong, Md. Simul Bhuyan, Elizabeth Tabi, Stanley Iheanacho, Johnny Ogunji

“…Following apparent histologic deformities that persisted in the tissues after recovery, healing from BTA exposure was only partial. C. gariepinus is an essential bioindicator of burnt tire ash’s ecotoxicological impact. …”
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Predicting the mechanical performance of industrial waste incorporated sustainable concrete using hybrid machine learning modeling and parametric analyses by Md. Alhaz Uddin, Md. Habibur Rahman Sobuz, Md. Kawsarul Islam Kabbo, Md. Kanan Chowdhury Tilak, Ratan Lal, Md. Selim Reza, Fahad Alsharari, Mohamed AbdelMongy, Masuk Abdullah

“…SHAP and PDP analyses identified coarse aggregate, superplasticizers, water and cement content have high influence on model’s output. …”
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MANUFACTURE OF MODIFIED ARBOLIT FROM LOCAL RAW MATERIALS: OPTIMIZATION OF COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF RAW MATERIAL COMPONENTS by A. K. Matyeva

“…As a retarder the setting of gypsum was added a partial salt 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid with triethanolamine and flame retardants. …”
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Estimating social contact rates for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google mobility and pre-pandemic contact surveys by Em Prestige, Pietro Coletti, Jantien Backer, Nicholas G. Davies, W. John Edmunds, Christopher I. Jarvis

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, aggregated mobility data was frequently used to estimate changing social contact rates. …”
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Did the COVID-19 pandemic impact paediatric health service utilisation in Switzerland? Interrupted time-series models of health insurance data by Michelle Dey, Thomas Volken, Szilvia Altwicker-Hámori, Michael von Rhein, Michelle Seiler, Ursula Laasner, Frank Wieber, Julia Dratva

“…Higher utilisation of telephone consultations during the pandemic may have partially compensated the underutilisation of face-to-face consultations/visits in young children. …”
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Construction and technical properties of vermiculite concrete and fibro vermiculite concrete with volcanic pumice under the influence of elevated temperatures by T. A. Khezhev, G. N. Khadzhishalapov, A. V. Zhurtov, F. M. Shogenova, A. V. Kalazhokov

“…To reduce the cost of vermiculite concrete, its partial replacement with volcanic pumice is proposed. …”
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A Magnetic Nanocarrier of Ciprofloxacin Used for Restraining the Growth of the Multidrug-Resistant <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> by Kleoniki Giannousi, Eleni Zouni, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Ioannis S. Vizirianakis, Ilias M. Oikonomou, Valeria Nicolosi, Catherine Dendrinou-Samara

“…The 25.1% CPL that loaded in the PEGylated MNPs led to a partial transformation of the nanoflowers into more aggregated forms. …”
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Tuberculosis healthcare service disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, India and South Africa: A model-based analysis of country-level data. by Abigail K de Villiers, Muhammad Osman, Claudio J Struchiner, Anete Trajman, Dheeraj Tumu, Vaibhav V Shah, Guilherme L Werneck, Layana C Alves, Megha Choudhary, Sunita Verma, Sanjay K Mattoo, Sue-Ann Meehan, Urvashi B Singh, Anneke C Hesseling, Florian M Marx

“…Our analysis suggests considerable disruptions of TB healthcare services occurred during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, India, and South Africa, with at least partial recovery in the following years. Sustained efforts to mitigate the detrimental impact of COVID-19 on TB healthcare services are needed.…”
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Interpretable machine learning approaches to assess the compressive strength of metakaolin blended sustainable cement mortar by Naseer Muhammad Khan, Liqiang Ma, Waleed Bin Inqiad, Muhammad Saud Khan, Imtiaz Iqbal, Muhammad Zaka Emad, Saad S. Alarifi

“…A comprehensive dataset compiled from published literature having five input parameters including water-to-binder ratio, mortar age, and maximum aggregate diameter etc. was used for this purpose. …”
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Soft-Computing Analysis and Prediction of the Mechanical Properties of High-Volume Fly-Ash Concrete Containing Plastic Waste and Graphene Nanoplatelets by Musa Adamu, Yasser E. Ibrahim, Mahmud M. Jibril

“…In this study, PW was used as a partial substitute for coarse aggregate, and graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) were used as additives to high-volume fly-ash concrete (HVFAC). …”
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Neuropathological correlations of 18F-florzolotau PET in a case with Pick’s disease by Hisaomi Suzuki, Manabu Kubota, Shin Kurose, Kenji Tagai, Hironobu Endo, Mitsumoto Onaya, Yasuharu Yamamoto, Naruhiko Sahara, Masahiro Ohgidani, Chie Haga, Hiroya Hara, Haruhiko Akiyama, Keisuke Takahata, Makoto Higuchi

“…Abstract Background Pick’s disease (PiD) is classified as frontotemporal lobar degeneration with pathological tau aggregates. Positron emission tomography (PET) with 18F-florzolotau provides high-contrast imaging of diverse tau fibrils. …”
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Zn2SnO4 ternary metal oxide for ultraviolet radiation filter application: a comparative study with TiO2 and ZnO by Kadhim Al-Attafi, Amar Al-Keisy, Muhammad A. Alsherbiny, Jung Ho Kim

“…Interestingly, in addition to their promising UVB and partial UVA blocking properties, ZTO CANP and ZTO NP were found to be relativity photocatalytically inactive materials, which means they produce less free radical species as in the case of TiO2 NP, and they cannot be considered as toxic materials as in the case of ZnO NP. …”
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Microstructure Evolution of Dilute Mo-Re Alloy Tubes under Biaxial Stress by JIANG Wei, WANG Weijun, ZHANG Guodong, LEI Huazhen, YANG Wen, GAO Jin

“…Most grains have a large number of dislocation cells inside, while a small portion of the grains aggregate rhenium rich and molybdenum poor materials, and with fewer dislocations. …”
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APPROACHES TO ASSESSING FACTORS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR by I. P. Lapteva, L. N. Trusova, E. N. Grishina

“…The analysis of the dynamics of aggregate and partial indexes is based on the secondary analysis of Rosstat (Russian Federal State Statistics Service) and Levada Center data. …”
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Soil Resistance and Its Influencing Factors Under Different Land Use Types in the Black Soil Region of Northeast China by ZHANG Ning, ZHANG Guanghui, XING Shukun

“…The dominant factors influencing soil resistance were determined by correlation analysis and partial least square regression. [Results] (1) The estimated Kr varied from 0.003 to 0.372 s/m among different land use types. …”
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Neuronal expression of S100B triggered by oligomeric Aβ peptide contributes to protection against cytoskeletal damage and synaptic loss by Joana Saavedra, Joana Saavedra, Joana Saavedra, Mariana Nascimento, Mariana Nascimento, Mariana Nascimento, António J. Figueira, António J. Figueira, Marina I. Oliveira da Silva, Marina I. Oliveira da Silva, Tiago Gião, Tiago Gião, Tiago Gião, João Oliveira, João Oliveira, João Oliveira, Márcia A. Liz, Márcia A. Liz, Márcia A. Liz, Márcia A. Liz, Márcia A. Liz, Cláudio M. Gomes, Cláudio M. Gomes, Isabel Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso

“…Using primary cultures of rat hippocampal neurons, we showed that S100B partially reverts Aβ-induced cofilin-actin rods (synapse disruptors), and rescues the decrease in active synapses and post-synaptic marker (PSD-95), imposed by Aβ peptide. …”
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Effects of the Duration of Wheat and Maize Straw Returning on Rill Erosion Resistance in Brown Soil in the Earth-rocky Mountainous Area of Northern China by ZHANG Hanyu, LI Jiaqian, ZHAO Yajie, LI Jingjiang, LIU Zhihua, FANG Nufang, LIU Qianjin

“…Among all the main controlling factors of τc, τc was positively correlated with FA, dry-sieved aggregates >0.25 mm, and BD, and negatively correlated with soil moisture content and SWC. …”
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A graph convolutional network approach for hyperspectral image analysis of blueberries physiological traits under drought stress by Md. Hasibur Rahman, Savannah Busby, Sajid Hanif, Md Mesbahul Maruf, Faraz Ahmad, Sushan Ru, Alvaro Sanz-Saez, Jingyi Zheng, Tanzeel U. Rehman

“…The performance of the proposed Plant-GCN model was compared with multilayer perceptron (MLP), partial least squares regression (PLSR), support vector regression (SVR), and random forest (RF), and it consistently outperformed all these models as well as data published in other reports. …”
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Characterizing the microstructural transition at the gray matter-white matter interface: Implementation and demonstration of age-associated differences by Joan Y Song, Roman Fleysher, Kenny Ye, Mimi Kim, Molly E Zimmerman, Richard B Lipton, Michael L Lipton

“…While diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a reliable and well-established technique to characterize brain microstructure, the GWI is difficult to assess with dMRI due to partial volume effects and is normally excluded from such studies. …”
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