A Novel Association of Polymorphism in the ITGA4 Gene Encoding the VLA-4 α4 Subunit with Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease by Vladimira Durmanova, Zuzana Parnicka, Juraj Javor, Gabriel Minarik, Lubomir Vrazda, Barbora Vaseckova, Karin Gmitterova, Maria Kralova, Jan Pecenak, Peter Filipcik, Ivana Shawkatova

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Follicular Helper CD4+ T Cells, Follicular Regulatory CD4+ T Cells, and Inducible Costimulator and Their Roles in Multiple Sclerosis and Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis by Xue Zhang, Ruli Ge, Hongliang Chen, Maxwell Ahiafor, Bin Liu, Jinbo Chen, Xueli Fan

“…TFH cells mainly promote germinal center (GC) formation, provide help to B cells for immunoglobulin affinity maturation and class-switch recombination of B cells, and facilitate production of long-lived plasma cells and memory B cells. TFH cells express the nuclear transcriptional repressor B cell lymphoma 6 (Bcl-6), the chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 5 (CXCR5), the CD28 family members programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) and inducible costimulator (ICOS) and are also responsible for the secretion of interleukin-21 (IL-21) and IL-4. …”
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Electroacupuncture regulates ferroptosis to improve postoperative cognitive dysfunction in mice through mediating GRX1/GSK-3β/Nrf2 axis by Xiaqing Zhang, Afen Zhang, Rui Li, Mingna Jiao, Rou Wen, Rongzhi Zheng

“…Results: Our findings revealed that partial hepatectomy surgery impaired learning and memory ability of mice, promoted ferroptosis. inhibited GRX1 and inactivated GSK-3β/Nrf2 pathway. …”
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Oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus and its complications: From pathophysiology to therapeutic strategies by Xingyu Chen, Na Xie, Lixiang Feng, Yujing Huang, Yuyao Wu, Huili Zhu, Jing Tang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Ting Gao

“…Oxidative stress plays a significant role in the onset of diabetes and its associated complications by impairing insulin production, increasing insulin resistance, maintaining hyperglycemic memory, and inducing systemic inflammation. A more profound comprehension of the molecular processes that link oxidative stress to diabetes is crucial to new preventive and therapeutic strategies. …”
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Anemia and Associated Factors among Public Elementary School Children in Asella Town, Southeast Ethiopia: A Facility-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Ararso Hordofa Guye, Kasim Hansa, Kasahun Ketema, Meseret Moroda, Dame Banti Shambi

“…Children show poor attentiveness, behavior, and memory and reduced school performance. There is limited evidence of the magnitude of anemia and associated factors in school-age children in Ethiopia, including the study area. …”
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Social and psychological features of the mental component of the modern hybrid war against Ukraine by N. V. Bobro

“…The author’s definition of the concept of “mental war” is formulated as a complex psychological influence by the aggressor country on the consciousness of the population of the country that was attacked, using changes in its national outlook, historical memory, values, national-historical identity in the interests of the aggressor country. …”
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Structural properties and recrystallization effects in ion beam modified B20-type FeGe films by Jiangteng Liu, Ryan Schoell, Xiyue S. Zhang, Hongbin Yang, M. B. Venuti, Hanjong Paik, David A. Muller, Tzu-Ming Lu, Khalid Hattar, Serena Eley

“…Disordered iron germanium (FeGe) has recently garnered interest as a testbed for a variety of magnetic phenomena as well as for use in magnetic memory and logic applications. This is partially owing to its ability to host skyrmions and antiskyrmions—nanoscale whirlpools of magnetic moments that could serve as information carriers in spintronic devices. …”
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DTI and MR Volumetry of Hippocampus-PC/PCC Circuit: In Search of Early Micro- and Macrostructural Signs of Alzheimers's Disease by F. Palesi, P. Vitali, P. Chiarati, G. Castellazzi, E. Caverzasi, A. Pichiecchio, E. Colli-Tibaldi, F. D'Amore, I. D'Errico, E. Sinforiani, S. Bastianello

“…The same results with lower significance (𝑃<.05) were found in MCI versus CTRL. Verbal memory correlated (𝑃<.05) in AD with left hippocampal and hipp-PC/PCC tract MD, and in MCI with FA of total WM. …”
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Three-Dimensional Inversion of Borehole-Surface Resistivity Method Based on the Unstructured Finite Element by Zhi Wang, Sinan Fang

“…The quasi-Newton method with limited memory (L_BFGS) is used to optimize the objective function in the inversion calculation, and a double-loop recursive method is used to solve the normal equation obtained at each iteration in order to avoid computing and storing the sensitivity matrix explicitly and reduce the amount of calculation. …”
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Numerical Weather Data-Driven Sensor Data Generation for PV Digital Twins: A Hybrid Model Approach by Jooseung Lee, Jimyung Kang, Sangwoo Son, Hui-Myoung Oh

“…The proposed model utilizes a hybrid data-driven model structure combining supervised learning-based long short-term memory (LSTM) and unsupervised learning-based generative adversarial network (GAN) to enhance both average and variance accuracy. …”
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Wearable Regionally Trained AI-Enabled Bruxism-Detection System by Anusha Ishtiaq, Jahanzeb Gul, Zia Mohy Ud Din, Azhar Imran, Khalil El Hindi

“…The other eight classifiers have provided accuracies in descending order such as Convolutional Neural Network, Long Short-Term Memory, k-Nearest Neighbors, and Decision Tree 0.98; Logistic Regression 0.96; Support Vector Machine 0.97, and Na&#x00EF;ve Bayes 0.89, respectively. …”
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Effect of Prenatal Protein Malnutrition on Long-Term Potentiation and BDNF Protein Expression in the Rat Entorhinal Cortex after Neocortical and Hippocampal Tetanization by Alejandro Hernández, Héctor Burgos, Mauricio Mondaca, Rafael Barra, Héctor Núñez, Hernán Pérez, Rubén Soto-Moyano, Walter Sierralta, Victor Fernández, Ricardo Olivares, Luis Valladares

“…Reduction of the protein content from 25 to 8% casein in the diet of pregnant rats results in impaired neocortical long-term potentiation (LTP) of the offspring together with lower visuospatial memory performance. The present study was aimed to investigate whether this type of maternal malnutrition could result in modification of plastic capabilities of the entorhinal cortex (EC) in the adult progeny. …”
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Using Deep Learning to Identify High-Risk Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction by Zhibo Wang, Xin Chen, Xi Tan, Lingfeng Yang, Kartik Kannapur, Justin L. Vincent, Garin N. Kessler, Boshu Ru, Mei Yang

“…A sequential model architecture based on bi-directional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) layers was utilized. For DL models to predict HF hospitalizations and worsening HF events, we utilized two study designs: with and without a buffer window. …”
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Adrenergic System Activation Mediates Changes in Cardiovascular and Psychomotoric Reactions in Young Individuals after Red Bull© Energy Drink Consumption by Ana Cavka, Marko Stupin, Ana Panduric, Ana Plazibat, Anita Cosic, Lidija Rasic, Zeljko Debeljak, Goran Martinovic, Ines Drenjancevic

“…Intake of Red Bull© significantly improved reaction time, performance in immediate memory test, verbal fluency, and subject’s attention as well as performance in mental stress test. …”
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The Lost Gambit: The Third War between Israel and Egypt, its Causes and Lessons by Alek D. Epstein

“…Whatever views and powers he had in different years of his extremely intensive and multifaceted activity, the Middle East lacks very much statesmen of such magnitude and with such depth of understanding of geopolitical and regional processes which distinguished Yevgeny Maximovich, to the memory of whom the current essay is devoted. The June War of 1967 year, which is called in Western and Israeli historiography the Six-Day War, has radically changed the Middle East. …”
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Tangential Human Posture Recognition with Sequential Images Based on MIMO Radar by Chuanwei DING, Zhilin LIU, Li ZHANG, Heng ZHAO, Qing ZHOU, Hong HONG, Xiaohua ZHU

“…Finally, a Spatio-Temporal-Convolution Long Short Term Memory (ST-ConvLSTM) network is designed to process the sequential images. …”
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A data-driven approach to study temporal characteristics of COVID-19 infection and death Time Series for twelve countries across six continents by Sabyasachi Guharay

“…These changes can be attributed to the underlying dynamics of state transitions, especially from a random state to either mean-reversion or long-range memory/persistence states. Conclusions We conduct systematic studies covering a widely diverse time series datasets of the daily infections and deaths during the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Deep-TEMNet: A Hybrid U-Net–2D LSTM Network for Efficient and Accurate 2.5D Transient Electromagnetic Forward Modeling by Zhijie Qu, Yuan Gao, Kang Xing, Xiaojuan Zhang

“…Deep-TEMNet integrates the U-Net architecture with a tailored two-dimensional long short-term memory (2D LSTM) module, allowing it to effectively capture complex spatial-temporal relationships in TEM data. …”
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Mood Detection from Physical and Neurophysical Data Using Deep Learning Models by Zeynep Hilal Kilimci, Aykut Güven, Mitat Uysal, Selim Akyokus

“…For this purpose, Feedforward Neural Network (FFNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network are employed as deep learning methodologies. …”
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Development of a psychological frailty index: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study by Jinlong Zhao, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Justina Yat Wa Liu, Daniel Fernández, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Stefanos Tyrovolas

“…The study assessed the applicability of the PFI to adverse health outcomes as a secondary aim.ResultsFactor analysis of the 15-item PFI extracted four factors of psychological frailty (psychological distress, cognitive decline, physical vulnerability, and memory decline). The PFI demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.764) and criterion validity (rho = 0.806). …”
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