Sound-Induced Flash Illusions Support Cortex Hyperexcitability in Fibromyalgia by Vincenzo Di Stefano, Salvatore Iacono, Andrea Gagliardo, Bruna Maggio, Giuliana Guggino, Massimo Gangitano, Roberto Monastero, Vito Renato Maggio, Nadia Bolognini, Filippo Brighina

“…A single flash (F) accompanied by 0 to 4 beeps (B) was presented to induce the fission illusion while multiple flash (i.e., 2 to 4) accompanied by 0 or 1 beep was presented to induce fusion illusion. …”
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Daily activity, mood, and quality of life in colorectal cancer patients with chemotherapy‐induced peripheral neuropathy: A mediation effect analysis by Ling‐Chun Lu, Shiow‐Luan Tsay, Sou‐Yi Chang, Chung‐Ming Chen, Chieh‐Yu Liu

“…Relationships among the variables were analyzed by bivariate correlation, hierarchical multiple linear regression, and Baron and Kenny's mediation testing. …”
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A review of approaches to the integration of humanitarian and development aid: the case of drought management in the Horn of Africa by Tahira Shariff Mohamed, Todd Andrew Crane, Samuel Derbyshire, Guyo Roba

“…In doing so, the paper argues that despite multiple policy shifts and the adoption of new frameworks (including, recently, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative - IDDRSI), when it comes to practical implementation, there has been little progress. …”
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Improving Critical Care Teamwork: Simulation-Based Interprofessional Training for Enhanced Communication and Safety by Sung TC, Hsu HC

“…Two high-fidelity clinical scenarios—multiple trauma and respiratory distress with shock—were designed to simulate real-world emergencies. …”
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Addressing Label Noise in Colorectal Cancer Classification Using Cross-Entropy Loss and pLOF Methods With Stacking-Ensemble Technique by Ishrat Zahan Tani, Kah Ong Michael Goh, Md Nazmul Islam, Md Tarek Aziz, S. M. Hasan Mahmud, Dip Nandi

“…Fifth, four base ML classifiers and a metamodel were selected to build our final stacking-ensemble model, which integrates the prediction probabilities of multiple models into a meta-feature set to ensure trustworthy predictions. …”
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Spontaneous blinking and brain health in aging: Large-scale evaluation of blink-related oscillations across the lifespan by Sujoy Ghosh Hajra, Jed A. Meltzer, Prerana Keerthi, Chloe Pappas, Allison B. Sekuler, Cam-CAN Group, Careesa Chang Liu

“…BRO responses have been demonstrated in healthy young adults across multiple task states and are modulated by both task and environmental factors, but little is known about this phenomenon in aging. …”
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Aflatoxin B1: Challenges and Strategies for the Intestinal Microbiota and Intestinal Health of Monogastric Animals by Hyunjun Choi, Yesid Garavito-Duarte, Alexa R. Gormley, Sung Woo Kim

“…Mycotoxin-detoxifying agents include mycotoxin-adsorbing agents, such as clay and yeast cell wall compounds, binding to AFB₁ and mycotoxin-biotransforming agents, such as specific strains of <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> and mycotoxin-degrading enzyme, degrading AFB₁ into non-toxic metabolites such as aflatoxin D1. Multiple mycotoxin-detoxifying agents are often combined and used together to improve the intestinal health and growth of chickens and pigs fed AFB₁-contaminated feeds. …”
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Nonlinear Structural Fusion for Multiplex Network by Nianwen Ning, Feiyu Long, Chunchun Wang, Youjie Zhang, Yilin Yang, Bin Wu

“…Many real-world complex systems have multiple types of relations between their components, and they are popularly modeled as multiplex networks with each type of relation as one layer. …”
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Altered spontaneous brain activity in children with deprivation amblyopia: a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study by Yadong Li, Guangying Zheng, Baohong Wen, Xiaopan Zhang

“…Conclusions Children with deprivation amblyopia presented alterations in spontaneous activity in multiple brain regions, and these alterations differed between monocular amblyopia and binocular amblyopia. …”
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Predictors of New Onset Dysglycemia Post COVID-19 by Jonita Fernandes, Alphonsa Mary, Aanchal Sebastian, Franciosalgeo George, Jyothi Idiculla

“…Multivariate logistic regression was employed to determine the adjusted effect of multiple variables on dysglycemia. Results: The overall mean age of the study group was 40 ± 13 years with 68 (52%) male patients. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators in Accessing HIV Prevention Services for Men Having Sex with Men (MSM): A Comprehensive Analysis by Felix Sanni, Roger Abang, Godwin Emmanuel, Abiye Kalaiwo, Olugbemi Motilewa, Paul Amechi, Paul Umoh, Bartholomew Boniface Ochonye

“…The majority of rural MSM (90.1%) had multiple sexual partners, unlike urban residents (70.1%). …”
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Co-design for stroke intervention development: Results of a scoping review. by Hardeep Singh, Natasha Benn, Agnes Fung, Kristina M Kokorelias, Julia Martyniuk, Michelle L A Nelson, Heather Colquhoun, Jill I Cameron, Sarah Munce, Marianne Saragosa, Kian Godhwani, Aleena Khan, Paul Yejong Yoo, Kerry Kuluski

“…Co-design was commonly conducted with multiple participants (82%; e.g., individuals with stroke, family members/caregivers and clinicians) and used various methods to engage end-users, including focus groups and workshops. …”
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The consensus rye microsatellite map with EST-SSRs transferred from wheat by D. O. Vidakovic, D. Perovic, T. V. Semilet, A. Börner, E. K. Khlestkina

“…With the exception of Xcfe159 and Xcfe224, all the Xcfe loci mapped were found in orthologous positions considering multiple evolutionary translocations in the rye genome relative to those of common wheat. …”
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Macular Microvasculature Density Changes in Anisometropic Amblyopic Eyes after Successful Treatment by Wuhe Chen, Frank Thorn, Ruzhi Deng, Xiaoman Li, Jiangtao Lou, Yingjie Wang, Xinping Yu

“…The posttreatment difference in SCP vessel density between amblyopic and fellow eyes was not significant. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that older age and greater foveal SCP vessel density were negatively correlated with BCVA improvement (P<0.018 and P<0.036, respectively). …”
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Maximum Mixture Correntropy Criterion-Based Variational Bayesian Adaptive Kalman Filter for INS/UWB/GNSS-RTK Integrated Positioning by Sen Wang, Peipei Dai, Tianhe Xu, Wenfeng Nie, Yangzi Cong, Jianping Xing, Fan Gao

“…Furthermore, sensor measurements are tightly integrated with the inertial measurement unit (IMU), facilitating precise positioning even in the presence of interference from multiple signal sources. A series of real-world and simulation experiments were carried out on a UGV to assess the proposed approach’s performance. …”
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Multi-Temporal Image Fusion-Based Shallow-Water Bathymetry Inversion Method Using Active and Passive Satellite Remote Sensing Data by Jie Li, Zhipeng Dong, Lubin Chen, Qiuhua Tang, Jiaoyu Hao, Yujie Zhang

“…First, a median filter is applied to separate land and water pixels, eliminating the influence of adjacent land and water pixels. Next, multiple images captured at different times are fused to remove noise caused by water surface fluctuations and surface vessels. …”
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Bidimensionally partitioned online sequential broad learning system for large-scale data stream modeling by Wei Guo, Jianjiang Yu, Caigen Zhou, Xiaofeng Yuan, Zhanxiu Wang

“…The core idea of BPOSBLS is to partition the high-dimensional broad feature matrix bidimensionally from the aspects of instance dimension and feature dimension, and consequently decompose a large least squares problem into multiple smaller ones, which can then be solved individually. …”
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Development and validation of a prediction model for chronic post-surgical pain risk: a single-center prospective study of video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery by Xiong-Fei Zhang, Chang-Guo Peng, Hua-Jing Guo, Zhi-Ming Zhang

“…Abstract Background Chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) is a common complication following video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) that significantly impacts the quality of life of patients. Although multiple risk factors have been identified, no systematically validated prediction model exists to guide clinical decision-making. …”
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Gendered Social Norms, Exceptions, and Sanctions: Implications for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition in Nigeria by Elizabeth Costenbader, Christina Memmott, Kate Litvin, Mackenzie Green, Nnenna Mba-Oduwusi, Izuchukwu Offiaeli, Nemat Hajeebhoy

“…This analysis revealed gender meta-norms, and related sanctions and exceptions that affect multiple MIYCN behaviors and offer potential entry points for community engagement, programming, and policy around these issues.…”
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How does news coverage of suicide affect suicidal behaviour at a high-frequency location? A 7-year time series analysis by Lisa Marzano, Ruth Spence, Ian Kruger, Ian Marsh, Arianna Barbin

“…This effect was strongest in 2018–2019 (which had the greatest volume of reporting and repeat coverage) but failed to reach significance in 2020–2023, when there were fewer reports, less repeat coverage and no headlines referring to multiple deaths at the site.Conclusions Findings underscore the importance of continued efforts to monitor and improve the quality of news and other media portrayals of suicide. …”
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