Responses of steppe birds to habitat fragmentation: Insights from niche specialization and functional traits by Zheng Han, Xi Yang, Lishi Zhang, Piotr Tryjanowski, Frédéric Jiguet, Haitao Wang

“…Habitat fragmentation poses a significant threat to bird communities, especially those in open and semi-open ecosystems such as steppes. …”
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Dynamic prediction of surface subsidence at any point based on Boltzmann time function model by Liangji XU, Zhihao SUN, Xiaopeng LIU, Kun ZHANG, Zongyou CAO

“…The underground extraction of coal resources can induce surface subsidence, posing a potential threat to both the ecological environment and the structural stability of buildings. …”
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THE PHENOMENOSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF THE INTRAVISIBLE by Giorgio Derossi

“…The phenomenoscopic analysis of the intravisible, therefore, highlights the fact that the discovery of the essence of phenomenal reality requires not the separation but, on the contrary, the mutual integration of the scientific point of view and the philosophical one, both necessary, while maintaining their respective functions distinct. …”
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Effects of dual task on functional mobility in individuals with Down syndrome: a case–control study by Regiane Luz Carvalho, Vanessa Fonseca Vilas Boas, Laura Ferreira de Rezende Franco

“…., talking or typing on a mobile phone), require complex motor-sensory integration and can pose additional challenges to mobility. For individuals with DS, performing simultaneous tasks may exacerbate difficulties in functional mobility. …”
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Correlation of neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio with lung function in American adults: a population study by Xiaolin Zhang, Fan Bai, Haibin Ni, Shiyuan Chen, Dan Fu, Haiyan Ren, Bin Hu

“…Abstract Background Chronic respiratory diseases pose a significant threat to global health, underscoring the urgent need for effective preventative and therapeutic interventions. …”
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Clinical and functional outcomes of masquelet technique for treating Fracture-related Infections(FRIs) in shoulder girdle by Jingshu Fu, Jie Shen, Shulin Wang, Dong Sun, Xiaohua Wang, Shengpeng Yu, Zhao Xie, Hongri Wu

“…Abstract Structural and functional integrity pose a challenge for the treatment of fracture-related infections (FRI) in the shoulder girdle. …”
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Molecular typing of gliomas on the basis of integrin family genes and a functional study of ITGA7 by Hongxi Han, Peng Feng, Guoqiang Yuan

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Innovation as a new organizational function: evidence and characterization from large industrial companies in Brazil by Raoni Barros Bagno, Mario Sergio Salerno, Ana Valeria Carneiro Dias

“…In this context, the central question posed in this study arises: what are the characteristics of such a function? …”
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Association between Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Function in Persons with Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review. by Sofia M Danna, Eva Graham, Rachel J Burns, Sonya S Deschênes, Norbert Schmitz

“…Diabetes patients with lower cognitive function are more likely to suffer poorer health outcomes. …”
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Structural Optimization of Disk Diffusers Based on Radial Basis Functions and Multi-Island Genetic Algorithms by Mengchao Liu, Jianing Fan

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Advancing forest functional process understanding through hyper-spatiotemporal LiDAR observation streams by Y. Wang, M. Campos, H. Sorokina, R. Echriti, T. Korpelainen, J. Hyyppä, E. Puttonen

“…Understanding forest functional processes like carbon sequestration, water regulation, and habitat provision is crucial for evaluating ecosystem services and sustainable management. …”
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The Relationship between Pain Catastrophizing and Cognitive Function in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Scoping Review by Cory Alcon, Elizabeth Bergman, John Humphrey, Rupal M. Patel, Sharon Wang-Price

“…Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) poses a considerable threat to physical, mental, and financial health worldwide. …”
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Integrating Drone Truthing and Functional Classification of Remote Sensing Time Series for Supervised Vegetation Mapping by Giacomo Quattrini, Simone Pesaresi, Nicole Hofmann, Adriano Mancini, Simona Casavecchia

“…This study proposes an approach to enhance the efficiency of supervised vegetation mapping in complex landscapes, integrating Multivariate Functional Principal Component Analysis (MFPCA) applied to the Sentinel-2 time series with drone-based ground truthing. …”
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Functional roles of folic acid in alleviating dexamethasone‐induced fatty liver syndrome in laying hens by Xi Sun, Junjie Ma, Chaohui Wang, Zhouzheng Ren, Xin Yang, Xiaojun Yang, Yanli Liu

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BMSCs-targeting piezoelectric stimulation and immunomodulatory dual-functional hydrogel for promoting diabetic bone regeneration by Jintao Dong, Wengang Dong, Huijie Ran, Dongxu Wu, Xinli Wang, Hongli Chen, Jiahao Cao, Xu Wang, Xinsen Lin, Wei Lei, Tianji Wang, Yafei Feng

“…This resulted in a dual-functional B-TNs@CMS composite hydrogel designed to combine targeted BMSC stimulation with immunomodulatory properties. …”
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Development of a diagnostic checklist to identify functional cognitive disorder versus other neurocognitive disorders by Jon Stone, Suvankar Pal, Francesco Di Lorenzo, Tiago Teodoro, Tim Wilkinson, Jan Coebergh, Laura McWhirter, Alan Carson, Bruno Dubois, Mark Edwards, Jane Alty, Isabel Santana, Martin Rossor, Miguel Tábuas-Pereira, Stoyan Popkirov, Rui Araújo, Robert Howard, Selma Aybek, Jonathan Huntley, Rohan Bhome, Thomas Harbo, Catherine M Pennington, Flavio Nobili, Ricardo Taipa, Gaston Baslet, Michele Tinazzi, Martin Zeidler, Harriet A Ball, Lisbeth Frostholm, Emer R McGrath, Andrew Larner, Jonathan Schott, Elizabeth Mallam, Verónica Cabreira, João Massano, Mirella Russo, James Main, Dane Rayment, David Perez, Sonja Antic, Sasa R Filipovic, Kristian Steen Frederiksen, Bradleigh Hayhow, Jeremy Darryl Isaacs, Curt LaFrance, Camillo Marra, Isabel Portela Moreira, Emmi P Scott, Svetlana Tomic, Sofia Toniolo, Caroline Winther Tørring

“…Background Functional cognitive disorder (FCD) poses a diagnostic challenge due to its resemblance to other neurocognitive disorders and limited biomarker accuracy. …”
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Well-Posedness of the Mild Solutions for Incommensurate Systems of Delay Fractional Differential Equations by Babak Shiri

“…It is shown that the mild solutions are well-posed in Hadamard sense on the space of continuous functions. …”
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Revised Control Barrier Function with Sensing of Threats from Relative Velocity Between Humans and Mobile Robots by Zihan Zeng, Silu Chen, Xiangjie Kong, Xiaojuan Li, Chi Zhang, Guilin Yang

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Robust multi-task feature selection with counterfactual explanation for schizophrenia identification using functional brain networks by Xinyan Yuan, Shaolong Wei, Ying Sun, Lingling Gu, Yanyan He, Tiantian Chen, Hongcheng Yao, Haonan Rao

“…However, the high dimensionality of these networks and small sample sizes pose significant challenges for effective classification and model generalization.MethodsWe propose a robust multi-task feature selection method combined with counterfactual explanations to improve the accuracy and interpretability of SZ identification. rs-fMRI data are preprocessed to construct a functional connectivity matrix, and features are extracted by sorting the upper triangular elements. …”
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Endophytic Bacterial Community, Core Taxa, and Functional Variations Within the Fruiting Bodies of <i>Laccaria</i> by Kaixuan Zhang, Xin Chen, Xiaofei Shi, Zhenyan Yang, Lian Yang, Dong Liu, Fuqiang Yu

“…By analyzing bacterial diversity, community structure, and function through 16S rRNA sequencing, we observed the following: (1) In total, 4,840,291 high-quality bacterial sequences obtained from the fruiting bodies were grouped into 16,577 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), and all samples comprised 23 shared bacterial ASVs. (2) The <i>Allorhizobium</i>-<i>Neorhizobium</i>-<i>Pararhizobium</i>-<i>Rhizobium</i> complex was found to be the most abundant and presumably coexisting bacterium. (3) A network analysis revealed that endophytic bacteria formed functional groups, which were dominated by the genera <i>Allorhizobium</i>-<i>Neorhizobium</i>-<i>Pararhizobium</i>-<i>Rhizobium</i>, <i>Novosphingobium</i>, and <i>Variovorax</i>. (4) The diversity, community structure, and dominance of ecological functions (chemoheterotrophy and nitrogen cycling) among endophytic bacteria were significantly shaped by geographic location, habitat, and fungal genotype, rather than fruiting body type. (5) A large number of the endophytic bacteria within <i>Laccaria</i> are bacteria that promote plant growth; however, some pathogenic bacteria that pose a threat to human health might also be present. …”
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