Psychic trauma and mental characteristics of patients with multiple sclerosis as predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder and targets for psychotherapy by M. T. Andreeva, T. A. Karavaeva, I. V. Kalinin

“…To assess the structure of personality and psyche, Ammon’s I-structural test was used (G. Ammon, 1976, adaptation by Yu. …”
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Polyphenolic Compounds Activate SERCA1a and Attenuate Methylglyoxal- and Palmitate-Induced Impairment in Pancreatic INS-1E Beta Cells by Vladimir Heger, Barbora Benesova, Magdalena Majekova, Petronela Rezbarikova, Attila Hunyadi, Lubica Horakova, Jana Viskupicova

“…To date, only a limited number of polyphenolic compounds or their derivatives have been described either to increase SERCA activity/expression directly or to affect Ca²⁺ signaling pathways. In this study, we tested polyphenols for their ability to activate SERCA1a in the absence or presence of methylglyoxal or palmitate and to impact insulin release in pancreatic beta cells. …”
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Fabrication of antibacterial chitosan/PVA nanofibers co-loaded with curcumin and cefadroxil for wound healing by Rashid Saman, Waqas Muhammad Khurram, Tahir Ayesha, Yasin Haya, Nasir Bushra, Khan Abida Kalsoom, Ijaz Munaza, Murtaza Ghulam

“…The characterizations confirmed the successful synthesis of stable CPCCNFs with good antibacterial potential against Gram-positive bacteria and a promising wound healing ability.…”
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Robust Fusion of Time Series and Image Data for Improved Multimodal Clinical Prediction by Ali Rasekh, Reza Heidari, Amir Hosein Haji Mohammad Rezaie, Parsa Sharifi Sedeh, Zahra Ahmadi, Prasenjit Mitra, Wolfgang Nejdl

“…Additionally, we include attention mechanisms to fuse different modalities, allowing the model to focus on what’s important for each task. We tested our approach using the comprehensive multimodal MIMIC dataset, combining MIMIC-IV and MIMIC-CXR datasets. …”
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Climate Change‐Driven Heatwaves Pose Lethal Risks to Newborn Forest Bats by Danilo Russo, Anne Mäenurm, Luca Cistrone, Adriano Martinoli, Greta Foiani, Valentina Giongo, Stefania Leopardi

“…In the context of climate change, roosts deemed suitable may act as ecological traps, making this a hypothesis worth testing.…”
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METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHATBOT DEVELOPMENT by Vitaliy Panok, Anatoliy Shevchenko, Maksym Nazar, Denys Starkov, Dmytro Meshcheriakov, Andriy Shevtsov

“…Educational and psychological chatbots are defined as those that provide conditions for psychological (self-)help and teach users more effective thinking and activity strategies, facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, and abilities. The main objectives of the study include the analysis of modern scientific sources to clarify methodological approaches to the development of educational and psychological chatbots, identifying their psychological and educational functions, and studying aspects of their implementation in various practical fields. …”
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Development of an animal model of hypothyroxinemia during pregnancy in Wistar rats by Wei Wei, Aihua Liu, Min Liu, Mingfeng Li, Xinghan Wu, Chuan Qin, Zhongyan Shan, Ling Zhang

“…We performed four behavioral experiments, including the marble burying test, open‐field test, three‐chamber sociability test, and Morris water maze, to explore the autistic‐like behavior of 40‐day‐old offspring rats. …”
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Central auditory system assessment in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis: electrophysiology and central auditory processing by Paula Maria Martins-Duarte, Gabriel Hessel, Antônio Fernando Ribeiro, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson, Maria Francisca Colella-Santos

“…Conclusion: Cystic fibrosis participants presented worse performance in the gaps-in-noise test compared to the control group in the evaluation of central auditory processing, which indicates impairment of temporal resolution auditory ability. …”
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Automated Quality Control of Cleaning Processes in Automotive Components Using Blob Analysis by Simone Mari, Giovanni Bucci, Fabrizio Ciancetta, Edoardo Fiorucci, Andrea Fioravanti

“…Among the tested methods, adaptive thresholding under 30° natural light produced the best results, with a statistically significant z-score of +2.05 in the pre-wash phase and reduced false detections in post-wash conditions. …”
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Functional tradeoffs underpin salinity-driven divergence in microbial community composition. by Chris L Dupont, John Larsson, Shibu Yooseph, Karolina Ininbergs, Johannes Goll, Johannes Asplund-Samuelsson, John P McCrow, Narin Celepli, Lisa Zeigler Allen, Martin Ekman, Andrew J Lucas, Åke Hagström, Mathangi Thiagarajan, Björn Brindefalk, Alexander R Richter, Anders F Andersson, Aaron Tenney, Daniel Lundin, Andrey Tovchigrechko, Johan A A Nylander, Daniel Brami, Jonathan H Badger, Andrew E Allen, Douglas B Rusch, Jeff Hoffman, Erling Norrby, Robert Friedman, Jarone Pinhassi, J Craig Venter, Birgitta Bergman

“…We propose that the large differences in central metabolism required at high and low salinities dictate the striking divide between freshwater and marine microbiomes, and that the ability to inhabit different salinity regimes evolved early during bacterial phylogenetic differentiation. …”
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Exploring the immune-boosting and hepatoprotective potential of Allium jesdianum against cyclophosphamide-induced toxicity in mice: A promising approach for immunomodulation by Alireza Rezaei, Bahareh Sadat Yousefsani, Ameneh Omidi, Kobra Shirani

“…The effects of the extract on body and relative organ weight, white blood cell (WBC) count, liver biochemical test, serum antibody titer hemagglutination (HA), delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction (DTHR), lymphocyte proliferation, cytokine production, and spleen and liver histopathological features were assessed.Results: AJE effectively restored various parameters in immunosuppressed mice, including body and organ weight, WBC counts, liver biochemical markers, HA, DTHR, lymphocyte proliferation ability, and cytokine production. …”
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Factors associated with worry and fear during COVID-19 in preprofessional health practitioners by Oscar Javier Mamani-Benito, Rosa Farfán-Solis, Madona Tito-Betancur, Daniella Vinelli-Arzubiaga, José Armada, Christian R. Mejía

“…Methods: Cross-sectional study with analytical methods, with the participation of 285 students from different health careers in southern Peru, to whom 2 locally validated tests were applied and crossed with different socio-educational variables. …”
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Deep learning detects entire multiple-size lunar craters driven by elevation data and topographic knowledge by Liyang Xiong, Yanxiang Wang, Haoyu Cao, Yingchao Ren, Sijin Li, Yang Chen, Guoan Tang

“…This CDA combines DEM data and topographic knowledge (Slope of Slope) through additional input channels to enhance the recognition ability for craters of different sizes, especially for small craters. …”
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Enhancing Dongba Pictograph Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation Techniques by Shihui Li, Lan Thi Nguyen, Wirapong Chansanam, Natthakan Iam-On, Tossapon Boongoen

“…The recognition of Dongba pictographs presents significant challenges due to the pitfalls in traditional feature extraction methods, classification algorithms’ high complexity, and generalization ability. This study proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image classification method to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of Dongba pictograph recognition. …”
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Improved YOLOv10n model for enhanced cotton recognition in complex environments by Yutao Gong, Wenwen Ding, Nenghui Huang, Tao Li, Juntao Zhou

“…To address this, this study improves the YOLOv10n model and proposes an enhanced YOLOv10n - based cotton recognition model.Firstly, the SimAM attention mechanism is integrated into the backbone network to strengthen the model's ability to focus on key features of multi - category cotton. …”
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Preservice biology teachers using chart-based instruction to improve students’ achievement by Joy Abiola Onipede, Blessing Aderibigbe Ariba, Abayomi Taiwo Ogunleye, Kabir Adekunle Adelakun, Johnson Oluwasaanumi Olabode

“…The ability to analyse and interpret data or diagrams is an important part of science process skills. …”
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Glycated albumin in pregnancy correlates negatively with body mass index and contributes to the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus by Toril Ø. Osestad, Kristin Lilleholt, Øyvind Skadberg, Linda R. Sagedal, Ingvild Vistad, Thomas Hundhausen

“…ROC curves were created to assess the ability of GA, fasting glucose and BMI separately to detect GDM, and logistic regression analysis was used to estimate risk of developing GDM given the level of the same markers. …”
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The lesions of the velogenic newcastle disease virus infection in the lymphoid organs suppress antibody response to infectious bronchitis vaccination in La Sota vaccinated and unva... by Didacus Chukwuemeka Eze, Jacinta Ngozi Omeke, Amarachukwu Olejieme Igwe, Halima Idrisa Gambo, John Osita Arinze Okoye

“…Aim: This project studied the ability of these lesions to suppress antibody response to infectious bronchitis (IB) vaccination in both chickens vaccinated and unvaccinated with the La Sota vaccine. …”
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Diversifying Kidney Transplant Education: Assessing the Artificial Intelligence-Powered Capability of ChatGPT by Badi Rawashdeh, Joohyun Kim, Ty Dunn, Haneen Al-Abdallat, Ahmad Qasem, Rootvij Bhatt, Raj Prasad, Matthew Cooper

“…This study evaluates ChatGPT’s ability to assist with pre- and post-kidney transplantation (KT) patient education. …”
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Turbulent Suppression of Alfvénic Wave Resonances in Coronal Loops by Edris Tajfirouze, Richard Morton, Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi

“…To test this idea, we model the coronal velocity fluctuations using a previously developed 3D reduced magnetohydrodynamic model. …”
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