Unraveling progressive verbal memory deficits in Huntington’s disease: insights from the LASSI-L by Luis A. Sierra, Japleen Kaur, Samuel A. Frank, Samuel A. Frank, Mark A. Halko, Mark A. Halko, Rosie E. Curiel Cid, David A. Loewenstein, Jody Corey-Bloom, Simon Laganiere, Simon Laganiere

“…HD participants were classified into three groups using a PIN score and TMS: >10 years from manifest HD, <10 years from manifest HD, and manifest HD. …”
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Quantifying Normal Diaphragmatic Motion and Shape and Their Developmental Changes via Dynamic MRITake-Home Points by You Hao, PhD, Jayaram K. Udupa, PhD, Yubing Tong, PhD, Caiyun Wu, PhD, Joseph M. McDonough, MS, Samantha Gogel, BA, Oscar H. Mayer, MD, Mostafa Alnoury, MD, Patrick J. Cahill, MD, Jason B. Anari, MD, Drew A. Torigian, MD

“…Results: This cohort consisted of 94 female patients (range, 6-20 years; mean ± SD, 12.09 ± 3.73 years) and 83 male patients (range, 6-20 years; mean ± SD, 11.88 ± 3.57 years). …”
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Understanding and simulating cropland and non-cropland burning in Europe using the BASE (Burnt Area Simulator for Europe) model by M. Forrest, J. Hetzer, M. Billing, M. Billing, S. P. K. Bowring, S. P. K. Bowring, E. Kosczor, L. Oberhagemann, L. Oberhagemann, O. Perkins, O. Perkins, D. Warren, D. Warren, F. Arrogante-Funes, K. Thonicke, T. Hickler, T. Hickler

“…We first examined fire occurrence across land cover types and found that all non-cropland vegetation (NCV) types (comprising 26 % of burnt area) burnt with similar spatial and temporal patterns, which were very distinct from those in croplands (74 % of burnt area). …”
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The attention of students during physical education class based on academic performance (La atención de los estudiantes durante la clase de educación física basada en el rendimien... by Jorge Manuel Folgado dos Santos, João Manuel Patricio Duarte Petrica, João Júlio Matos Serrano, Marco Alexandre da Silva Batista, Samuel Alexandre de Almeida Honório, Luis Alberto Coelho Rebelo Maia

“…The purpose of this research was to find patterns in the students' attention profiles, according to their academic achievement, during the physical education class and in different sports. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Types of Deprivation and Social Tolerance among Citizens of Tehran by Negar Firouzeh, Khadijeh Safiri

“…Furthermore, the institutionalization of unchanging values and norms from the dominant discourse, as well as traditional moral patterns—especially concerning clothing, behavior, and sexual relations—hindered a segment of society from embracing the transition to a modernized or postmodernized world. …”
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Spatio-temporal Coupling of Ecological Service Value and Human Activity Intensity in the Central Urban Area of Lhasa City by Jiarui ZHANG, Wangdwei MIGMAR, Li CHENG, Liyuan QIAN

“…The analysis of spatial patterns indicates that areas with high ESV values were predominantly concentrated around the Lhasa River Basin and the Lalu Wetland, while areas with low ESV values exhibit expansion in newly urbanized zones. …”
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Sociological Analysis of Transformations in the Family Structure in Iran over the Past Five Decades (1966-2016) and Prediction of Its Future Trends by Mohammad Taghi Sabzehei, Milad Bagi, Mohammad Mobaraki, Javad Afsharkohan

“…The research was structured around several key dimensions: family size, household composition, divorce rates, marriage patterns, and socioeconomic indicators, particularly focusing on women's roles.The quantitative data included census data and fertility and divorce rates. …”
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Sensor-triggered ecological momentary assessment in physical activity and sedentary behaviour research among Belgian community-dwelling elderly: lessons learnt from intensive longi... by Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Sofie Compernolle, Tomas Vetrovsky, Delfien Van Dyck, Julie Delobelle, Elien Lebuf, Richard Cimler, Jitka Kuhnova

“…Data from both studies were merged.Setting The studies were conducted among community-dwelling Belgian older adults.Participants The participants had a median age of 72 years, with 54.17% being females. The PA study included 88 participants (four dropped out), while the SB study included 76 participants (seven dropped out).Primary and secondary outcome measures Descriptive methods and generalised logistic mixed models were employed to analyse EMA adherence patterns. …”
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Occurrence of Toxic Cyanobacterial Blooms in Rio de la Plata Estuary, Argentina: Field Study and Data Analysis by L. Giannuzzi, G. Carvajal, M. G. Corradini, C. Araujo Andrade, R. Echenique, D. Andrinolo

“…Water samples were collected during 3 years (2004–2007) at three sampling sites in the Rio de la Plata estuary. …”
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Agonists of Receptors of the Innate Immunity and Defective Viral Particles as New Generation of Adjuvants by O. A. Svitich, V. F. Lavrov, P. I. Kukina, A. A. Iskandaryan, L. V. Gankovskaya, V. V. Zverev

“…Vaccines for many years act as one of the most effective and successfully used medicines. …”
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Morphological features of autoimmune gastritis by Ye. A. Losik, L. S. Selivanova, M. Yu. Konkov, T. L. Lapina, A. S. Tertychnyi, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Overall 15 patients (3 men and 12 women, 28 to 72 years old) have been included in original study. …”
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Airborne radiometric data for digital soil mapping of peat at broad and local scales by Dave O’Leary, Colin Brown, Jim Hodgson, John Connolly, Louis Gilet, Patrick Tuohy, Owen Fenton, Eve Daly

“…For the present study in Ireland, the supervised classification of gridded airborne radiometric data, acquired over multiple years, is performed using neural network pattern recognition to identify areas of peat and non-peat soils. …”
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Occurrence and Exposure Assessment of Rare Earth Elements in Zhejiang Province, China by Shufeng Ye, Ronghua Zhang, Pinggu Wu, Dong Zhao, Jiang Chen, Xiaodong Pan, Jikai Wang, Hexiang Zhang, Xiaojuan Qi, Qin Weng, Zijie Lu, Biao Zhou

“…This may be attributed to differences in moisture content, root absorption mechanisms, and processing methods. The concentration pattern of REEs in all samples occurred in the following order: cerium > lanthanum > yttrium > neodymium > neodymium > scandium > praseodymium > gadolinium > dysprosium. …”
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Polygenic prediction of human longevity on the supposition of pervasive pleiotropy by M. Reza Jabalameli, Jhih-Rong Lin, Quanwei Zhang, Zhen Wang, Joydeep Mitra, Nha Nguyen, Tina Gao, Mark Khusidman, Sanish Sathyan, Gil Atzmon, Sofiya Milman, Jan Vijg, Nir Barzilai, Zhengdong D. Zhang

“…We showed that coefficients derived from our ensemble model could potentially reveal an interesting pattern of genomic pleiotropy specific to lifespan. …”
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Waves of Bugis Migration to the Mahakam Delta: Livelihood Trajectories and Landscape Changes along the Rural Coastlines of East Kalimantan by Muh. Ilham Basmar, Nurhady Sirimorok, Karno B. Batiran, Fatwa Faturachmat, Andi Sadapotto, Muhammad Alif K. Sahide, Micah R. Fisher

“…We concentrate on the long history of migration of Bugis from South Sulawesi province to the Mahakam Delta on the east coast of Kalimantan, which has taken place over hundreds of years. To understand this migration pattern, we first delve into the dynamics of Bugis mobility across the Sulawesi Strait by examining the push and pull factors that reshape the Mahakam Delta. …”
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Comparative Efficacy of Cavotricuspid Isthmus Ablation in Sinus Rhythm Versus Typical Atrial Flutter by Lyuboslav Katov, Yannick Teumer, Alyssa Schlarb, Sonja Reiländer, Deniz Aktolga, Federica Diofano, Carlo Bothner, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Karolina Weinmann-Emhardt

“…Background: Cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI)-dependent atrial flutter (AFL) is the most common atrial macro-reentrant tachycardia, characterized by a typical ECG pattern (type I ECG). Often, tachycardia terminates before it can be confirmed by an electrophysiological study (EPS), necessitating CTI ablation in sinus rhythm (SR). …”
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Trajectory of changes in myelin basic protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid during ageing and its association with biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease by Man-Yu Xu, Xu Yi, Shan Huang, Qing-Hua Wang, Yu-Jie Lai, Zhen Wang, Dong-Yu Fan, Gui-Hua Zeng, Yu-Di Bai, Ying-Ying Shen, Fan Zeng, Qing-Xiang Mao, Zhi-Qiang Xu, Feng Mei, Yan-Jiang Wang, Jun Wang

“…We investigated the changes in myelin basic protein (MBP) levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in an ageing cohort comprising 116 cognitively normal and Aβ-negative controls aged 26 to 82 years, as well as in a clinical cohort. We found that CSF MBP levels was positively correlated with age in a nonlinear pattern over the lifetime of the ageing cohort and that CSF MBP continually increased until it began to decline around age of 51 years and rose again around age 62. …”
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Body Fat and Body-Mass Index among a Multiethnic Sample of College-Age Men and Women by Catherine L. Carpenter, Eric Yan, Steve Chen, Kurt Hong, Adam Arechiga, Woo S. Kim, Max Deng, Zhaoping Li, David Heber

“…The high PBF with low BMI pattern exhibited by Asian-American women suggests that they could escape detection for obesity-related disease if BMI is the sole measure that estimates body composition.…”
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Applications of machine learning-assisted extracellular vesicles analysis technology in tumor diagnosis by Liang Xu, Jing Li, Wei Gong

“…Extracellular vesicles (EVs), as a category of nanoparticles, carry a wealth of biological information and play a crucial role in tumor initiation and progression, thereby offering novel approaches for early tumor diagnosis. In recent years, machine learning (ML) technology in the medical field has gained momentum, which utilize various algorithms to analyze input data, identify potential patterns and trends, develop predictive models, and generate high-precision predictions of unknown data, demonstrating its clinical potential in disease diagnosis. …”
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Spatiotemporal expansion of dengue in Brazilian Amazon between 2001 and 2021 by Ravena dos Santos Hage, Bianca Conrad Bohm, Caio Perez Casagrande, Suellen Caroline M. Silva, Alessandra Talaska Soares, Jackeline Vieira Lima, Nádia Campos Pereira Bruhn, Fábio Raphael Pascoti Bruhn

“…The transmission of cases in the Amazonian states was not homogeneous, demonstrating variations and clusters over the years of extreme value for health authorities. Identifying and understanding the spatiotemporal patterns for the disease in the region helps assess the behavior of infections in areas with high susceptibility, promoting targeted interventions and resource allocation for dengue control programs. …”
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