Phantom motor execution as a treatment for phantom limb pain: protocol of an international, double-blind, randomised controlled clinical trial by Brian E McGuire, Lina Bunketorp-Käll, Eva Lendaro, Liselotte Hermansson, Helena Burger, Corry K Van der Sluis, Monika Pilch, Katarzyna Kulbacka-Ortiz, Ingrid Rignér, Anita Stockselius, Lena Gudmundson, Cathrine Widehammar, Wendy Hill, Sybille Geers, Max Ortiz-Catalan

“…Preliminary investigations have shown that decoding motor volition using myoelectric pattern recognition, while providing real-time feedback via virtual and augmented reality (VR-AR), facilitates phantom motor execution (PME) and reduces PLP. …”
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Assessing effects of thinning on the stem form in larch during the stand initiation and stem exclusion stages using terrestrial laser scanning by Dandan Li, Dandan Li, Weiwei Jia, Weiwei Jia, Fengri Li, Fengri Li, Haotian Guo, Haotian Guo, Fan Wang, Fan Wang, Xiaoyong Zhang, Xiaoyong Zhang

“…The average DBH increased with increasing thinning intensity, while slenderness exhibited the opposite pattern. The responses of TH and form factor at breast height to thinning were not significant, but they were age dependent. …”
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A Novel Primary Cell Line Model of Localized Prostate Cancer and Radioresistance—A Role for Nicotinamide N-Methyltransferase by Jessica A. Wright, Stephanie D. White, Gavin Frame, Ana Bosiljkov, Shahbaz Khan, Roni Haas, Qian Yang, Minzhi Sheng, Xiaoyong Huang, Geoff S. Higgins, Ian Mills, Michelle R. Downes, Danny Vesprini, Hans T. Chung, Robert A. Screaton, Hon S. Leong, Paul C. Boutros, Thomas Kislinger, Stanley K. Liu

“…In addition, our findings present NNMT as a potential therapeutic target for sensitization of radioresistant disease.…”
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Glucocorticoid treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis is independently associated with increased PCSK9 levels: data from a randomised controlled trial by Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Merete Lund Hetland, Till Uhlig, Dan Nordström, Jos WR Twisk, Mikkel Østergaard, Michael T Nurmohamed, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Gerður Gröndal, Johan Frostegård, Kim Hørslev-Petersen, Anna Rudin, Jon Lampa, Kristina Lend, Tuulikki Sokka-Isler, Bas Dijkshoorn, Nupur Kumar

“…Changes in LDL cholesterol exhibited a pattern distinct from PCSK9, as it increased in all treatments.Conclusion Glucocorticoid treatment was associated with increased PCSK9 levels after 24 weeks. …”
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Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome Is Associated With a Unique Genetic Profile in a Highly Admixed Pediatric Population by Andreia Watanabe, Precil Diego Miranda de Menezes Neves, Kelly Nunes, Antonio Marcondes Lerario, Elieser Hitoshi Watanabe, Frederico Moraes Ferreira, Denise Maria Avancini Costa Malheiros, Amanda de Moraes Narcizo, Mara Sanches Guaragna, Stanley de Almeida Araujo, Thais Medeiros Cruz, Jussara Soares Fontes, Vera Maria Santoro Belangero, Maria Helena Vaisbich, Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Matthew Gordon Sampson, Luiz Fernando Onuchic

“…The global genetic ancestry was 65% European, 22% African, 10.5% Native American, and 2% East-Asian, while 96% of cases presented with the first 3 components. APOL1 high-risk genotypes were identified in 8% of families and causative Mendelian variants in 12%: NPHS1 = 3, NPHS2 = 3, PLCE1 = 2, WT1 = 2, COQ2 = 1, and CUBN = 1. …”
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Prognostic predictions in psychosis: exploring the complementary role of machine learning models by Metten Somers, Hugo G Schnack, Rene S Kahn, Diane F van Rappard, Frank L Gerritse, Edwin van Dellen, Violet van Dee, Seyed M Kia, Caterina Fregosi, Wilma E Swildens, Anne Alkema, Albert Batalla, Coen van den Berg, Danko Coric, Lotte G Dijkstra, Arthur van den Doel, Livia S Dominicus, John Enterman, Marte Z van der Horst, Fedor van Houwelingen, Charlotte S Koch, Lisanne E M Koomen, Marjan Kromkamp, Michelle Lancee, Brian E Mouthaan, Eline J Regeer, Raymond W J Salet, Jorgen Straalman, Marjolein H T de Vette, Judith Voogt, Inge Winter-van Rossum, Wiepke Cahn

“…However, psychiatrists struggled to recognise when to rely on the model’s output, and we were unable to determine a clear pattern in these cases based on their characteristics.Conclusions MLMs may have the potential to support psychiatric decision-making, particularly in difficult-to-predict cases, but at present, their effectiveness remains limited due to constraints in predictive accuracy and the ability to identify when to rely on the model’s output. …”
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Towards interpretable drug interaction prediction via dual-stage attention and Bayesian calibration with active learning by Rongpei Li, Yufang Zhang, Heqi Sun, Shenggeng Lin, Guihua Jia, Yitian Fang, Chen Zhang, Xiaotong Song, Jianwei Zhao, Lyubin Hu, Yajing Yuan, Xueying Mao, Jiayi Li, Aman Kaushik, Dandan An, Dongqing Wei

“…Ablation studies demonstrated each component’s significance, with active learning maintaining performance while reducing training data requirements. Conclusion We present DABI-DDI, an integrated feature extraction framework that successfully addresses key challenges in DDIs prediction through three major innovations: Temporal pattern recognition, reducing false positives, and biological interpretability. …”
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RBD- specific Th1 responses are associated with vaccine-induced protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with hematological malignancies by Camille Bigenwald, Yacine Haddad, Cassandra Thelemaque, Agathe Carrier, Roxanne Birebent, Pierre Ly, Caroline Flament, Imran Lahmar, Eric de Sousa, Markus Maeurer, Makoto Miyara, Tarek Assi, Cristina Castilla-Llorente, Christophe Willekens, Céline Fayemi, Julien Lazarovici, Aurélien Marabelle, Lisa Derosa, Vincent Ribrag, Laurence Zitvogel

“…This vaccine elicited a S1-RBD-specific Th1 immune response in about 20% patients, mostly in MM and Hodgkin lymphoma, while exacerbating Th2 responses in the 10% cases that presented this recognition pattern at baseline (mostly rituximab-treated patients). …”
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Interspecific Hybridization Enhanced Tolerance to Salinity and Cadmium Stress Through Modifying Biochemical, Physiological, and Resistance Gene Levels, Especially in Polyploid Rice... by Lixia Sun, Fozia Ghouri, Jiacheng Jin, Minghui Zhong, Weicong Huang, Zijun Lu, Jinwen Wu, Xiangdong Liu, Muhammad Qasim Shahid

“…These findings provide a basis for understanding polyploid rice’s gene expression pattern, environmental tolerance, and heterosis.…”
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Comparison of Fuzzy-AHP and ANP Decision Making Methods to Assess the Ecological Capability of Ecotourism Application (Case study: Dehloran National Natural Monuments) by Mohsen Tavakoli

“…Tourism with the ecotourism approach is considered as a pattern of tourism in nature. This spatial pattern involves the approach of tourists to the natural environment, with different motivations that the tourist is considered in traveling to the natural environment or nature. …”
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FIRST RESULTS ON THE DIRECTION STATISTICS OF PAIRS OF EPICENTERS OF NEIGHBOR EARTHQUAKES ON KAMCHATKA by A. A. Gusev, A. A. Palueva

“…Such pulses are accompanied by small earthquakes; in this way, a pattern of oriented epicenter pairs arises, akin to the notion of migration of epicenters. …”
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THE IMPORTANCE OF HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF RITUXIMAB IN PATIENTS WITH INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE IN SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS by O. A. Koneva, O. V. Desinova, L. P. Ananyeva, N. V. Kovaleva

“…The magnitude of changes following the pattern seen in frosted glass, honeycomb, and reticular alterations was estimated using a 4-point (0–3 points) scale at each level. …”
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Intervertebral Lumbar Spine Kinematics in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients Measured Using Biplane Radiography by William Anderst, C. James Kim, Kevin M. Bell, Tom Gale, Cate Gray, Carol M. Greco, Clarissa LeVasseur, Gina McKernan, Sabreen Megherhi, Charity G. Patterson, Sara R. Piva, Caroline Pellegrini, Michael J. Schneider, Joseph Shoemaker, Patrick Smith, Nam V. Vo, Gwendolyn A. Sowa

“…ABSTRACT Background Chronic low back pain (cLBP) presents as a heterogeneous condition, making diagnosis and treatment challenging. …”
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Possible Synergism between Ampicillin and Some Pain-reducing Drugs against <italic>Escherichia coli</italic> by Thoraa Abdul Amir Drees, Falah Hasan Obayes AL-Khikani, Haider Hussein Yas Khudair, Haider Abdul Hussein Nuri, Ali Amer Hussein

“…Detection antibiotic sensitivity pattern of isolates was determined by agar well diffusion method. …”
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Mechanism of p27 upregulation induced by downregulation of cathepsin B and uPAR in glioma by Sreelatha Gopinath, Kiranmai Alapati, Rama Rao Malla, Christopher S. Gondi, Sanjeeva Mohanam, Dzung H. Dinh, Jasti S. Rao

“…Further, c‐Myc–Max interaction inhibitor studies showed an inverse pattern of c‐Myc and p27 expression. Also, cathepsin B and uPAR downregulation reduced tumor growth and increased p27 nuclear expression in vivo. …”
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Altered auditory brainstem responses are post-acute sequela of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) by Christopher Niemczak, Erika Skoe, Samantha Leigh, Linda Zhang, Megan Dotzenrod, Annalise Kieley, Simon Stone, Jeffrey Parsonnet, Christina Martin, Christin Ealer, Odile Clavier, Jiang Gui, Angela Waszkiewicz, Robert Roth, Jay Buckey

“…Abstract The Post-acute Sequela of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) syndrome, also known as Long-COVID, often presents with subjective symptoms such as brain fog and cognitive fatigue. …”
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Predicting the suitable habitat of the invasive alien plant Lactuca serriola using Biomod2 model with ArcGIS by Dong-Mei Kou, Yan Sun, Li-Guo Long, Jia-Guo Wang, Jia-Wei Wu, Ting Long, Wei-Jie Li

“…Estimating the suitable habitat distribution of L. serriola and identifying the main environmental variables influencing its spread through modeling can provide essential baseline data for preventing its potential impacts. In the present study, based on the distribution occurrence data of L. serriola in China and related environmental variables, the Biomod2 ensemble model with ArcGIS was first employed to predict the suitable habitat pattern of L. serriola in China under the current and future climate scenarios integrated with variations covered six climatic factors, two soil factors and one topographic factor. …”
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Corrigendum to “Multidrug resistance from a one health perspective in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of literatures (2015–2020)” [One Health 14(2022) 1–12/100390]... by Mebrahtu Teweldemedhin, Saravanan Muthupandian, Tsega Kahsay Gebremeskel, Kibriti Mehari, Getahun Kahsay Abay, Teklay Gebrecherkos Teklu, Ranjithkumar Dhandapani, Ragul Paramasivam, Tsehaye Asmelash

“…There is a paucity of scientific studies presenting the multidrug resistance pattern from one health perspective in Ethiopia. …”
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Spatiotemporal Distribution of Wine Grape Under Climate Change in Northwestern China by Yanyan Liu, Xuejia Shi, Hongjuan Du, Mengjiao Jiang, Fang Li, Jing Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang

“…However, climate change threatens to alter the optimal grape‐growing regions, presenting considerable challenges to the local wine making industry. …”
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Consciousness in deep hypothermic circulatory arrest: a feasibility study by Joshua Ross, Thomas Jan, Deane Smith, Anelly Gonzales, Aubrey Galloway, Natalia Leontovich, Tara Keshavarz, Analise Dickinson, David Friedman, Emmeline Koopman, Elise Huppert, Ian Jaffe, Christopher Burke, John Kern, Paul Stelzer, Ashraf Sabe, Rebecca Spiegel, Andrew Klein, Arvind Rajagopal, Gage Parr, Charles Deakin, Sam Parnia

“…All others showed isoelectric pattern. 35/36 (97%) agreed to follow up interviews. …”
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