Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? by Anna K. Nakamura, Anna K. Nakamura, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Sachiko Takagi, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okada, Chiaki Ishiguro, Chiaki Ishiguro, Akihiro Tanaka

“…IntroductionIndividuals from Western cultures rely on facial expressions during the audiovisual emotional processing of faces and voices. …”
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Joint Optimization of Regular Charging Electric Bus Transit Network Schedule and Stationary Charger Deployment considering Partial Charging Policy and Time-of-Use Electricity Price... by Xinghua Li, Tianzuo Wang, Lingjie Li, Feiyu Feng, Wei Wang, Cheng Cheng

“…A solving procedure based on the improved adaptive genetic algorithm (AGA) is further designed and a transit network at inner Anting Town, Shanghai, with 8 individual bus routes and 867 daily service trips is adopted for the model validation. …”
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Microbiota from young mice counteracts susceptibility to age-related gout through modulating butyric acid levels in aged mice by Ning Song, Hang Gao, Jianhao Li, Yi Liu, Mingze Wang, Zhiming Ma, Naisheng Zhang, Wenlong Zhang

“…Recent research has provided evidence of distinct differences in the gut microbiota of patients with gout and hyperuricemia compared to healthy individuals. However, the link between gut microbiota and age-related gout remained underexplored. …”
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Nitride thin films grown by thermal laser epitaxy by Dong Yeong Kim, Varun Harbola, Seungwon Jung, Jinjoo Lee, Sukanya Roy, Felix V. E. Hensling, Lena N. Majer, Hongguang Wang, Peter A. van Aken, Joao Marcelo J. Lopes, Neha Aggarwal, Jochen Mannhart, Wolfgang Braun

“…The controlled fabrication of different phases of individual nitride compounds is explored, revealing that subnitride phases can be grown at lower NH3 pressures. …”
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EMSPAN: Efficient Multi-Scale Pyramid Attention Network for Object Counting Under Size Heterogeneity and Dense Scenarios by Phu Nguyen Phan Hai, Bao Bui Quoc, Trang Hoang

“…Experiments on the shrimp larvae and crowd datasets, characterized by significant size diversity of individual objects, have demonstrated the superior performance of the proposed method in handling object counting tasks in dense and size-heterogeneous environments.…”
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Effect of Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Infection on Lipid Profile in Iraqi Patients by Amnah Raad Ibrahim, Athraa Zaidan Hassan, Raghad Hassan Hussein, Redhwan Abdul Kareem Alameer

“…The current study analyzed 90 participants; 50 of whom were patients with chronic HBV infection, and the remaining 40 were healthy individuals serving as the control group. Each participant took part in interviews and contributed blood samples for the analysis of their lipid profiles. …”
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An image dataset for surveillance of personal protective equipment adherence in healthcare by Wanzhao Yang, Mary S. Kim, Genevieve J. Sippel, Aaron H. Mun, Kathleen H. McCarthy, Beomseok Park, Aleksandra Sarcevic, Marius George Linguraru, Ivan Marsic, Randall S. Burd

“…We introduce the Resuscitation Room Personal Protective Equipment (R2PPE) dataset that bridges this gap by providing a realistic portrayal of diverse PPE use by multiple interacting individuals in a healthcare setting. This dataset contains 26 videos, 10,034 images and 123,751 bounding box annotations for 17 classes of PPE adherence and nonadherence for eyewear, masks, gowns, and gloves, and one additional head class. …”
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Association between Levels of IgA Antibodies to Tissue Transglutaminase and Gliadin-Related Nonapeptides in Dermatitis Herpetiformis by Justyna Gornowicz-Porowska, Monika Bowszyc-Dmochowska, Agnieszka Seraszek-Jaros, Elżbieta Kaczmarek, Marian Dmochowski

“…Altogether, sera from 80 Slavic individuals were examined. There were negligible differences between cutoff points obtained by the ELISAs manufacturer and those in this study. …”
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Applying equity principles leads to higher carbon removal obligations in Canada by Kasra Motlaghzadeh, Neil Craik, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Vanessa Schweizer, Jay Fuhrman, Keith W. Hipel

“…Socio-economic and technological sensitivity analysis highlights that, despite variations in the role of individual CDR technologies, CDR remains essential for Canada’s post-net-zero commitments.…”
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Clinical and CT Features, Clinical Management, and Decision on Sport Eligibility of Professional Athletes with Congenital Coronary Anomalies: A Case Series Study by Gianluca Guarnieri, Edoardo Conte, Davide Marchetti, Matteo Schillaci, Eleonora Melotti, Andrea Provera, Marco Doldi, Maria Rosaria Squeo, Antonio Pelliccia, Viviana Maestrini, Daniele Andreini

“…Conclusions: CAAs require individualized care based on risk stratification through advanced imaging techniques and functional assessment. …”
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HER2-Positive Metaplastic Spindle Cell Carcinoma Associated with Synchronous Bilateral Apocrine Carcinoma of the Breast by Katsumi Kito, Toshiharu Maeda, Keiko Ninomiya, Atsuro Sugita, Teiri Sagawa, Kinya Matsuoka, Kousei Kinoshita, Naoki Hyodo, Nagisa Morita, Keizo Furuya

“…The presence of intraductal components in bilateral carcinomas and the absence of lymph node metastasis suggested that they were more likely to be individual primary lesions rather than metastatic disease. …”
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NONAN GaitPrint: An IMU gait database of healthy older adults by Tyler M. Wiles, Seung Kyeom Kim, Madhur Mangalam, Joel H. Sommerfeld, Kolby J. Brink, Alli Grunkemeyer, Marilena Kalaitzi Manifrenti, Anaelle E. Charles, Narges Shakerian, Mehrnoush Haghighatnejad, Spyridon Mastorakis, Nick Stergiou, Aaron D. Likens

“…Abstract The continued effort to study gait kinematics and the increased interest in identifying individuals based on their gait patterns could be strengthened by the inclusion of data from older groups. …”
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Methods of Control of the Leishmania infantum Dog Reservoir: State of the Art by Michele Podaliri Vulpiani, Luigi Iannetti, Daniela Paganico, Filomena Iannino, Nicola Ferri

“…Vaccination has been proven to be a very effective control tool, but the absence of a commonly recognized diagnostic method able to distinguish vaccinate from seropositive individuals is still an important limit. Concerning indirect control methods, a number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of topical insecticides treatment (collars, spot-on, and sprays) in reducing incidence and prevalence of L. infantum. …”
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Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Proinflammatory Cytokines: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Tábata Cristina do Carmo Almeida, Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo, Valter Cordeiro Barbosa Filho, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca, Fernando Adami

“…When grouped by chronic disease, by postoperative settings, or by individual studies in the case of IL-6, it was observed that the significant reduction of cytokines related to the use of TENS was maintained. …”
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Effectiveness and adverse effects of immersive technologies used for rehabilitation of patients with non-specific neck pain: a systematic review by Joanna S. Kostka, Agnieszka Zawadzka-Fabijan, Dariusz Działa, Bogumiła Bruc, Magdalena Pruszyńska, Gabriela Figas, Rory J. O'Connor, Antti Malmivaara, Jolanta E. Kujawa

“…Subjects/Patients: Individuals with non-specific neck pain. Methods: A systematic literature search of randomized controlled trials was conducted using Medline (PubMed), Embase (Ovid), Scopus, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, WHO, Pedro, and ClinicalTrials.gov. …”
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Evaluation of Plasma E-Selectin Concentration as a Risk Marker for Atherosclerotic Vascular Damage in Patients with Early CAD by Monika Rac, Michal Rac, Andrzej Krzystolik, Krzysztof Safranow, Dariusz Chlubek, Violetta Dziedziejko

“…Conclusion: Plasma E-selectin levels are not a reliable marker for detecting atherosclerotic plaques or related problems in individuals with stable, well-managed CAD. While E-selectin levels can be measured in clinical labs using immunoassays, they cannot replace standard cardiological and vascular imaging tests for diagnosing cardiac or vascular conditions.…”
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A Real-Time Intelligent System Based on Machine-Learning Methods for Improving Communication in Sign Language by Victor Leiva, Muhammad Zia Ur Rahman, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Cecilia Castro, Mauricio Huerta, Muhammad Tanveer Riaz

“…In this article, we introduce a cost-effective and real-time intelligent system tailored to Pakistan sign language (PSL) recognition, aimed at facilitating communication for hearing-impaired individuals. The system utilizes a specialized glove equipped with flex sensors and an MPU-6050 device to capture finger movements and hand orientation in a three-dimensional space. …”
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An Unintended Effect of Financing the University Education of the Most Brilliant and Poorest Colombian Students: The Case of the Intervention of the Ser Pilo Paga Program by Pablo Medina, Natalia Ariza, Pablo Navas, Fernando Rojas, Gina Parody, Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Roberto Zarama, Juan Felipe Penagos

“…It was designed as an intervention in the Colombian Higher Education System (CHES) by awarding, in the steady state, individual funding to about 40,000 students. Every year, 10,000 new students were chosen from the best applicants in the top decile of the population in the entrance exam to higher education in Colombia that also came from families that live under the level of poverty according to a national survey. …”
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Histopathological Characterization and Whole Exome Sequencing of Ectopic Thyroid: Fetal Architecture in a Functional Ectopic Gland from Adult Patient by Rosalinda Yasato Camargo, Cristina Takami Kanamura, Celso Ubirajara Friguglietti, Célia Regina Nogueira, Sonia Iorcansky, Alfio José Tincani, Ana Karina Bezerra, Ester Brust, Fernanda Christtanini Koyama, Anamaria Aranha Camargo, Fernanda Orpinelli R. Rego, Pedro Alexandre Favoretto Galante, Geraldo Medeiros-Neto, Ileana Gabriela Sanchez Rubio

“…But it has also been detected in asymptomatic individuals. This study aimed to investigate the histopathological, functional, and genetic features of human ectopic thyroids. …”
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Feature Extraction in Densely Sensed Environments: Extensions to Multiple Broadcast Domains by Maryam Vahabi, Vikram Gupta, Michele Albano, Raghuraman Rangarajan, Eduardo Tovar

“…However, collecting all the measured data from individual devices on such a scale may be impractical and time-consuming. …”
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