The role of fMRI in the mind decoding process in adults: a systematic review by Sahal Alotaibi, Maher Mohammed Alotaibi, Faisal Saleh Alghamdi, Mishaal Abdullah Alshehri, Khaled Majed Bamusa, Ziyad Faiz Almalki, Sultan Alamri, Ahmad Joman Alghamdi, Mohammed Alhazmi, Hamid Osman, Mayeen U. Khandaker

“…Background Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revolutionized our understanding of brain activity by non-invasively detecting changes in blood oxygen levels. This review explores how fMRI is used to study mind-reading processes in adults. …”
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Trends and Variability in Precipitable Water Vapor throughout North China from 1979 to 2015 by Wang Peng, Xie Tongchuan, Dai Jiageng, Sun Jingmin, Wu Yanling, Song Qingli, Dai Xin, Yuan Hongliang, Song Dejun, Zhao Jinrong

“…A monotonically increasing PWV trend was detected throughout North China between 1979 and 1999, with the maximum trend occurring in summer and the minimum occurring in winter. …”
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Impact of Dried Stems on the Chemical Profile of Passito Wines: A Case Study of Four Veneto Varieties by Giovanni Luzzini, Loris Colognato, Leonardo Vanzo, Jessica Anahi Samaniego Solis, Naíssa Prévide Bernardo, Rosario Pascale, Beatrice Perina, Giacomo Cristanelli, Maurizio Ugliano, Davide Slaghenaufi

“…In terms of volatile compounds, no release of C₆ alcohols—compounds with undesirable herbaceous odors—was detected. Varietal-dependent release of 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP) was also observed; however in most cases, the content was below the odor threshold. …”
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Chemical Separation on Silver Nanorods Surface Monitored by TOF-SIMS by Ondrej Petruš, Andrej Oriňak, Renáta Oriňaková, Christian Muhmann, Ján Macko, Radim Hrdý, Jaromír Hubálek, Branislav Erdelyi, Heinrich F. Arlinghaus

“…This procedure can be easily integrated into the micro/nanofluidic systems or chips and different detection systems can be applied.…”
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Melt quality induced failure of electrical conductor (EC) grade aluminum wires by Khaliq A., Rafiq M.A., Ali H.T., Ahmed F., Mehmood S., Grandfielde J., Ranjha S.A.

“…The transition metal boride particles were not identified during SEM/EDX analyses these might be too fine to be detected with this microscope. The overall investigation suggested that the possible cause of this failure is second phase particles presence as inclusions in the aluminum matrix, and this was associated with the poor quality of melt. …”
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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of confirmed dengue patients. Cumanayagua, Cuba. 2019 by Lourdes Elena Duany Badell, Narciso Águila Rodríguez, Eneida Bravo Polanco, Midalys del Carmen Llanes Cartaya, Liosbel González León, Leticia Castro Morejón

“…Sociodemographic, clinical and epidemiological variables, detected Aedes aegypti foci and infestation indices were analyzed.…”
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Mountain Waves Analysis in the Vicinity of the Madrid-Barajas Airport Using the WRF Model by Javier Díaz-Fernández, Lara Quitián-Hernández, Pedro Bolgiani, Daniel Santos-Muñoz, Ángel García Gago, Sergio Fernández-González, Francisco Valero, Andrés Merino, Eduardo García‐Ortega, José Luis Sánchez, Mariano Sastre, María Luisa Martín

“…In addition, a case study is analysed to evidence the WRF ability to properly detect turbulence and icing associated with mountain waves, even when there is no visual evidence available.…”
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Reexamination In Vitro and In Situ of an Antibacterially Modified Experimental Dental Resin Composite with Molecular Methods: A Pilot Study by Birgit Henrich, Ilka Hermann, Mara Di Giulio, Karl Köhrer, René Deenen, Sugi Sivalingam, Ulrike Peters, Thomas Beikler, Ralf Janda, Stefan Rüttermann

“…To introduce additional methods to detect and to quantify single pathogens in the complex biofilm formation on an antibacterial dental material. …”
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Targeting eEF1A reprograms translation and uncovers broad-spectrum antivirals against cap or m6A protein synthesis routes by Elisa Molina Molina, Joan Josep Bech-Serra, Eloi Franco-Trepat, Ignasi Jarne, Daniel Perez-Zsolt, Roger Badia, Eva Riveira-Muñoz, Edurne Garcia-Vidal, Lluís Revilla, Sandra Franco, Ferran Tarrés-Freixas, Núria Roca, Gerardo Ceada, Karl Kochanowski, Dàlia Raïch-Regué, Itziar Erkizia, Rytis Boreika, Antoni E. Bordoy, Laia Soler, Sonia Guil, Jorge Carrillo, Julià Blanco, Miguel Ángel Martínez, Roger Paredes, Alejandro Losada, Pablo Aviles, Carmen Cuevas, Júlia Vergara-Alert, Joaquim Segalés, Bonaventura Clotet, Ester Ballana, Carolina de la Torre, Nuria Izquierdo-Useros

“…Abstract Plitidepsin is an antitumoral compound safe for treating COVID-19 that targets the translation elongation factor eEF1A. Here we detect that plitidepsin decreases de novo cap-dependent translation of SARS-CoV-2 and non-viral RNAs but affects less than 13% of the host proteome, thus preserving cellular viability. …”
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Integrated metabolomics and transcriptomics reveal the role of calcium sugar alcohol in the regulation of phenolic acid biosynthesis in Torreya grandis nuts by Qiandan Xie, Zhengchu Jiang, Chenliang Yu, Qi Wang, Wensheng Dai, Jiasheng Wu, Weiwu Yu

“…Results Transcriptome sequencing detected 47,064 transcripts, and several phenolic acid biosynthesis pathway-related genes were identified. …”
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A user-friendly software to accurately count and measure cysts from the parasitic nematode Heterodera glycines by Joffrey Mejias, Djampa K. L. Kozlowski, Jackson Goshon, Thomas R. Maier, Thomas J. Baum

“…To address these challenges, we have created Nemacounter, an intuitive software designed to detect, count, and measure the size of cysts autonomously. …”
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A meta-analysis of the effect of protein synthesis inhibitors on rodent fear conditioning by Carneiro, Clarissa F. D., Amorim, Felippe E., Amaral, Olavo B.

“…Heterogeneity was further investigated by multilevel meta-regression models aggregating various sites, with article or research group as additional levels. We detected robust effects of protein synthesis inhibitors on training and reconsolidation, but not on extinction, possibly due to the lower number of studies on the latter. …”
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Incidence and morphological study of lice infested chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Nineveh governorate, Iraq by Nadia H. mohammed, Rawaa G. Mohammed, Waad K. Khalaf

“…The current study was conducted to detect lice infestation in 130 backyard chickens in some areas in Nineveh Governorate. …”
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Genomic Copy Number Variation Affecting Genes Involved in the Cell Cycle Pathway: Implications for Somatic Mosaicism by Ivan Y. Iourov, Svetlana G. Vorsanova, Maria A. Zelenova, Sergei A. Korostelev, Yuri B. Yurov

“…Benign CNVs affecting 20 genes of the cell cycle pathway were detected in 161 out of 255 patients (71.6%). Among them, 62 individuals exhibited >2 CNVs affecting the cell cycle pathway. …”
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Fatty Liver as a Potential Surrogate for Waist Circumference in the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome: A Population-Based Study among Chinese Adults by Boren Jiang, Ting Gu, Kun Zhou, Yanjun Zheng, Yuyu Guo, Yingli Lu

“…A considerable number of NAFLD cases, although had severe metabolic disorder, would not be detected by the current MetS definition. NAFLD could be used as a potential surrogate marker for the diagnosis of MetS in normal WC population.…”
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In-Situ Investigation of Copepod Predators of <i>Ichthyophthirius multifiliis</i> Theronts from Fish-Farming Pond by Lijun Wang, Bingwen Xi, Kai Chen, Jun Xie, Liangkun Pan

“…The natural predator of <i>I. multifiliis</i> theronts in fish-farming ponds were identified using fluorescent dye-labelled live theronts and quantitative PCR; meanwhile, the zooplankton community composition in the positive ponds of <i>I. multifiliis</i> detected by quantitative PCR were analyzed by eDNA metabarcoding assay. …”
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Two Cases of Lacaziosis in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Japan by Keiichi Ueda, Ayako Sano, Jyoji Yamate, Eiko Itano Nakagawa, Mitsuru Kuwamura, Takeshi Izawa, Miyuu Tanaka, Yuko Hasegawa, Hiroji Chibana, Yasuharu Izumisawa, Hirokazu Miyahara, Senzo Uchida

“…We diagnosed 2 cases of lacaziosis in bottlenose dolphins captured simultaneously at the same coast within Japanese territory on the basis of clinical characteristics, cytology, histopathology, immunological tests, and detection of partial sequences of a 43 kDa glycoprotein coding gene (gp43) with a nested-PCR system. …”
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Adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during a persistent infection for 521 days in an immunocompromised patient by Hanno Schmidt, Lea Schick, Jürgen Podlech, Angélique Renzaho, Bettina Lieb, Stefan Diederich, Thomas Hankeln, Bodo Plachter, Oliver Kriege

“…Virus samples from five time points were submitted to whole genome sequencing. Between the first detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection and its clearance, the patient’s virus population acquired 34 amino acid substitutions and 8 deletions in coding regions. …”
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Effects of Splenectomy on Spontaneously Chronic Pancreatitis in aly/aly Mice by Heng-Xiao Wang, Shuang-Qin Yi, Jun Li, Hayato Terayama, Munekazu Naito, Shuichi Hirai, Ning Qu, Nozomi Yi, Masahiro Itoh

“…Furthermore, an apparent decrease in the expressions of CD4+ T, CD8+ T, and B cells was detected in the pancreatic tissues compared with sham aly/aly mice, however, no significant difference in macrophage expression between mice with and without a splenectomy. …”
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Prospects on Time-Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography Based on Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting for Small Animal Imaging by Yves Bérubé-Lauzière, Matteo Crotti, Simon Boucher, Seyedrohollah Ettehadi, Julien Pichette, Ivan Rech

“…Current high temporal resolution TD-DOT scanners simply do not integrate sufficient detection channels. Based on our past experience in developing TD-DOT instrumentation, we review and discuss promising technologies to overcome this difficulty. …”
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