Evidence for direct dopaminergic connections between substantia nigra pars compacta and thalamus in young healthy humans by Giovanni Cirillo, Giuseppina Caiazzo, Federica Franza, Mario Cirillo, Michele Papa, Fabrizio Esposito

“…The substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc), one of the main dopaminergic nuclei of the brain, exerts a regulatory function on the basal ganglia circuitry via the nigro-striatal pathway but its possible dopaminergic innervation of the thalamus has been only investigated in non-human primates. …”
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Postgraduate training in cardiology in Sudan during wartime: a story of perseverance and resilience by Nawal Elkurdufani, Salah Mohamed, Abdelbagi Ali, Mohamed Elmakki Ahmed

“…Decentralisation of training, imposed by the war, resulted in quality cardiology services reaching a wider population and more peripheral areas.…”
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Clinical significance for assessing adaptive hemostasis changes during multiple pregnancy after in vitro fertilization by F. Е. Yagubova, V. O. Bitsadze, N. V. Samburova, J. Kh. Khizroeva, A. D. Makatsariya

“…In the group with natural conception, fibrinogen increased by 22 % in the second trimester, reaching 4.5 g/L (95 % CI = 4,2–4,8) and by 6 % in the third trimester, reaching 4.8 g/L (95 % CI = 4,3–5,4), whereas in the IVF group – by 26 %, reaching 5.3 g/L (95 % CI = 4,7–5,6) and by 21 %, reaching (6.5 g/L; 95 % CI = 5,2–6,8) in relevant trimester of pregnancy, respectively. …”
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Energy demand of a mechanized unit for the implementation of common bean crops by Wilson de A. Orlando Junior, Haroldo C. Fernandes, Paulo R. Forastiere, Tiago M. Guazzelli, Guilherme de M. Araújo

“…The highest common bean grain yield was found for plants under soil water content of 36.4% and fertilizer placement depth of 0.11 m, reaching 4,186 kg ha-1.…”
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Foreign Object Detection on Insulators Based on Improved YOLO v3 by Huankun ZHANG, Junyi LI, Bin ZHANG

“…In addition, we amplify the training set to improve the training effect of the network and propose a wrong detection cost function to measure the risk of false detection. The experiment shows that the proposed algorithm has a detection precision rate reaching up to 94.54%. …”
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Pilgrims’ Cultural Contacts on Their Journey to the Hijaz from Bukhara in the 19th Century by Mustafa Tanrıverdi

“…The Istanbul stop along the difficult and troublesome journey took on the function of both being a rest and way to strengthen cultural and religious ties. …”
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Hazard Assessment of Typhoon on the Southeast Coast of China Using Grid Fixed-Point Method by Yuhuan Yin, Guirong Xiao

“…Moreover, we can see that wind speeds began to weaken rapidly near inland, reaching a plateau in inland. Furthermore, the island has a higher wind speed compared with other areas. …”
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Large Tunable Thermoelectric Effects in Superconducting Spin Valves with Commercially Available Materials by Pablo Tuero, Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen, Carlos Sanchez, César Gonzalez-Ruano, Yuan Lu, Jacob Linder, Farkhad G. Aliev

“…Theoretical modeling based on a self-consistent nonequilibrium Keldysh-Usadel Green’s function theory, combined with micromagnetic simulations, qualitatively reproduce the experimental findings. …”
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Fixed-Time Global Sliding Mode Control for Parallel Robot Mobile Platform with Prescribed Performance by Aojie Wang, Guoqin Gao, Xue Li

“…Meanwhile, by designing a performance function to constrain the system errors within the performance boundary further, the fixed-time global sliding mode control with prescribed performance is implemented to reduce overshoots of the system. …”
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Case report: Hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with Pyridoxamine 5-phosphate oxidase (PNPO) deficiency undergoing pyridoxal 5-phosphate (PLP) treatment by Jesse Zhen Cheng Lee, Chit Kwong Chow, Cheuk-Wing Fung, Stephen Tak Yau Lui, Suet-Na Sheila Wong

“…This report presents the first case report of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a patient with PNPO deficiency receiving PLP Pyridoxamine 5-phosphate oxidase (PNPO), identified before reaching teenager. This case underscores the importance of regular liver function monitoring for patients on long-term PLP therapy, suggesting a potential association between PLP treatment and the development of HCC, which has significant implications for clinical management strategies.…”
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STRATEGIC VISION: FORMATION OF THE NEW STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PARADIGM by V. N. Kryuchkov

“…The understanding of visual mechanisms will allow to design in a new way process of strategic vision, having turned it from occasionally updated static picture into process which components function with a different frequency and speed.…”
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Dynamically Triggered Damage Around Rock Tunnels: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation by Wanlu Wang, Ming Tao, Wenjun Ding, Rui Zhao

“…In addition, the complex function method based on conformal mapping was used to theoretically calculate the transient dynamic stress distributions around the arched holes. …”
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Target pursuit for multi-AUV system: zero-sum stochastic game with WoLF-PHC assisted by Le Hong, Weicheng Cui

“…Then, to reflect the pursuit goals of capturing the invading vehicle as soon as possible and avoid it from reaching its point of attack, two corresponding pursuit factors are considered in the designed reward function. …”
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Which Foot is at Risk? Understanding the Evolution of the Pediatric Flatfoot by Ratna S Maheshwari, Ashok N Johari

“…Thus, FFF has been described as physiologic because it is usually flexible and painless and has been thought to be of no functional consequence. However, there is a mounting body of literature that persistent flat feet may not be as benign in terms of long-term function as was once thought to be. …”
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Efficient Fluoride Removal Using a CeO₂/Attapulgite (ATP) Composite by Jianguo Zhu, Yeting Chen, Xin Xiao

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A Robust and Versatile Numerical Framework for Modeling Complex Fractional Phenomena: Applications to Riccati and Lorenz Systems by Waleed Mohammed Abdelfattah, Ola Ragb, Mohamed Salah, Mokhtar Mohamed

“…Our numerical results, obtained using MATLAB, demonstrate the exceptional accuracy and efficiency of this approach, with convergence rates reaching 10⁻⁸. Comparative analysis with existing methods highlights the superior performance of the DSC shape function in terms of accuracy, convergence speed, and reliability. …”
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A Method Adjusting Consistency and Consensus for Group Decision-Making Problems with Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Preference Relations Based on Discrete Fuzzy Numbers by Meng Zhao, Ting Liu, Jia Su, Meng-Ying Liu

“…First, some main concepts related to discrete fuzzy numbers and an aggregation function of individual subjective linguistic preference relations are introduced. …”
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Role of Diet and Supplementation with Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids for Managing Chronic Fatigue in Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis by Nicholas Shepherd, Emiliya Ovcharova, Maya Danovska, Diana Marinova, Diana Pendicheva, Pencho Tonchev

“…Dietary metabolites have far-reaching and systemic effects. It has been suggested that diet can play an essential role in helping to modify immune system function to promote regulation as opposed to inflammation. …”
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A hydrothermal coupling model for permafrost subgrade considering temperature gradient and its application by Jianqing Jia, Zeqing He, Victor O. Tenorio

“…In this study, the dynamic variation of soil permeability coefficient with temperature is considered, the permeability coefficient is defined as a piecewise function with temperature as independent variable, and the hydrothermal coupling equation is established. …”
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A Cluster-Based Consensus Algorithm in a Wireless Sensor Network by Yanwei Li, Zhenyu Zhou, Takuro Sato

“…We analyze the effects of the initial value, the network topology (regular and irregular), and the number of clusters on the algorithm convergence rate as well as the accuracy of the value when reaching consensus. A utility function is developed based on two parameters, iteration and relative error, to help the network designers make an optimal decision based on their requirements. …”
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