Une reconstruction progressiste du passé : Renaissance et Risorgimento dans « Old Pictures in Florence » de Robert Browning by François Crampe

“…At the centre of the poem ‘Old Pictures in Florence’ stands the figure of Giotto’s Campanile, whose design was left unfinished after the fall of the Florentine Republic, as the symbol of this reflection. From an aesthetic as from a political viewpoint, the fact that it remained unfinished is precisely what gives the work of art its main strength, inasmuch as it leaves open the necessary space for a taking up, a progress rooted in the ambitions of the past, and the promise of a political evolution which uses the past, against all reactionary fantasies, as the model for a progressive momentum. …”
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Graded transcendental functions: an application to four-point amplitudes with one off-shell leg by Thomas Gehrmann, Johannes Henn, Petr Jakubčík, Jungwon Lim, Cesare Carlo Mella, Nikolaos Syrrakos, Lorenzo Tancredi, William J. Torres Bobadilla

“…Starting with formal solutions for all master integral topologies, we organise the appearing functions by properties such as their symbol alphabet or letter adjacency. We rotate the basis such that functions with spurious features appear in the least possible number of basis elements. …”
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Differential equations and recursive solutions for cosmological amplitudes by Song He, Xuhang Jiang, Jiahao Liu, Qinglin Yang, Yao-Qi Zhang

“…Finally, we show how the differential equations truncate for the de Sitter (dS) case (in a way similar to differential equations for Feynman integrals truncate for integer dimensions), which immediately yields the complete symbol for the dS amplitude with interesting structures e.g. for n-site chains and n-gon cases.…”
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Relationship Between Bi-Caudate Ratio and White Matter Atrophy in Brain MRI of Multiple Sclerosis by Hussein Soleimantabar, Shno Hosseini

“…BCR is determined by dividing the shortest distance between two caudate nuclei by the length of the brain at the imaging. The symbol digit modalities test (SDMT) was used to check the cognitive function of patients, and the relationship between BCR and MS-related parameters was evaluated. …”
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Character in Young Adult fiction: The example of Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (1995-2000) and The Book of Dust (2017- ) by Virginie DOUGLAS

“…This metaphor is one of the devices in the trilogy, along with the alethiometer—a compass-like symbol-reader—, through which the character of Lyra is revealed to the reader.The fact that Pullman’s work belongs to the genre of young adult fiction is also essential. …”
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A comparative study of cognitive impairment in sporadic and familial cases of multiple sclerosis by Vida Niakosari, Ali Namjoo-Moghadam, Ahmad Ali Abin, Maryam Poursadeghfard, Sana Hashemi

“…Both familial and sporadic MS patients showed poorer cognitive performance in the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) (Familial: 46.96 ± 12.59, Sporadic: 45.88 ± 14.13, Normal: 56.48 ± 11.89), California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) (Familial: 66.90 ± 14.01, Sporadic: 68.19 ± 16.49, Normal: 75.18 ± 13.02), and the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R) (Familial: 24 (12), Sporadic: 24 (12), Normal: 35 (4)) compared to healthy controls. …”
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Individual and combined effects of dietary vitamin intake on cognitive function in elderly adults: the potential mediating role of serum neurofilament light chain levels by Zhikui Zhou, Baiyun Fan, Qiang Chen, Xuezhong Li, Xianjin Ke

“…Cognitive performance was assessed according to a composite Z-score of the Animal Fluency Test (AFT), Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD), and Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST). Serum NfL levels were measured using a highly sensitive immunoassay. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Downlink Multiple Users NOMA-Enable UAV-Aided Communication Systems Over Nakagami-<italic>m</italic> Fading Environments by Thu-Thuy Thi Dao, Sang Quang Nguyen, Hong Nhung-Nguyen, Phu Xuan Nguyen, Yong-Hwa Kim

“…Over Nakagami-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$m$ </tex-math></inline-formula> fading model, the performance of the system was investigated based on the analysis of outage probabilities (OPs) of the NOMA users, the ergodic rate, and symbol error rate of the system under two scenarios, i.e., perfect successive interference cancellation (pSIC) and imperfect successive interference cancellation (ipSIC). …”
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A Comparative study of Daiva's Sin and its Evolution in the Stories of Ancient Iran and Ta'ziehs of Daiva's Tying Thumb Based on Six Poetic Verses by Mahdi mohamadi, Adel Meghdadian, Abolfazl Tajik

“…This study examines the issue of similarity of Iranian mythical demons, and it determines the degree of similarity and distinction between mythical demons and demons of religious literature, by examining the types of demons in mythological literature and its similarity with the vicious traits in Islam and how the demon repents after being punished for its work.   4.Conclusion The symbol of the "demon" as a symbol of evil in ancient times continued to live in the Islamic era with changes. …”
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Relationship Between Corpus Callusom Index and Clinical Subtypes, Severity of Cognitive Disorders, and Disability in Multiple Sclerosis by Hussein Soleimantabar, Mehran Ghaffari, Shno Hosseini, Moosa Seifzade

“…Corpus callosum index (CCI), symbol digit modalities test (SDMT), and expanded disability status scale (EDSS) were assessed in patients. …”
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Evidence from NHANES 2011–2014: a correlation between the weight-adjusted-waist index and cognitive abilities in the United States by Chan Zhao, Xintian Xu, Chunyan Hao

“…Three cognitive assessments were administered: the Animal Fluency Test (AFT), the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST), and the Word Learning and Recall Module from the Coalition to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD). …”
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Investigating the Relationship of Inflammatory Cytokines and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor with Cognitive Functions in Multiple Sclerosis Patients by Narges َArab-Moghaddam, Karim Asgari Mobarakeh, Gholamreza Daryabor, Maryam Poursadeghfard

“…California Verbal Learning Tests (CVLT-11), Brief Spatial Memory-Revised (BVMT-R), Symbol Digit Substitution (SDMT), Verbal Fluency (COWAT), and Executive Functions (D-KEFS) were implemented to assess cognitive functions. …”
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Kinematics, Kinetics and Muscle Activity Analysis during Single-leg Drop-jump Landing Followed by an Unanticipated Task: Focusing on Differences in Neurocognitive Function by Satoshi Shibata, Masahiro Takemura, Shumpei Miyakawa

“… # Study Design Cross-sectional study # Methods Fifteen collegiate female athletes were recruited (20.1 ± 1.3 years, 166.6 ± 7.3 cm, 60.6 ± 6.9 kg) and were divided into two groups (the high-performance (HP) group and the lower-performance (LP) group) using the median Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) score. Three-dimensional motion analysis was employed for the analysis during the experimental task of a single-leg drop-jump followed by an unanticipated landing task from a 30-cm high box. …”
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TARREAN: A Novel Transformer with a Gate Recurrent Unit for Stylized Music Generation by Yumei Zhang, Yulin Zhou, Xiaojiao Lv, Jinshan Li, Heng Lu, Yuping Su, Honghong Yang

“…The music sequences are encoded using a compound word method, converting them into discrete symbol-event combinations for input into the TARREAN model. …”
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Association of serum neurofilament light chain with cognitive impairment: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by Tianjiao Meng, Qinwen Fei, Tian Lv, Shiqin Chen

“…The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression was applied for identifying key cognitive impairment factors, which was then included in the establishment of a risk prediction nomogram model, with the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve being built to evaluate its discriminatory power for cognitive impairment.ResultsIt was found that there is a strong positive correlation between serum NfL levels and both low total cognitive function (total-CF) OR: 1.028 (95%CI = 1.015–1.041 p &lt; 0.001) and low Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) OR: 1.026 (95%CI = 1.003–1.050, p = 0.027). …”
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Association between ethylene oxide exposure and cognitive function in older adults from NHANES data by Meng Sun, Meng Cai, Sisi Sun, Huan Liu, Guo Chen

“…Firstly, analysis of variable characteristics across the different log10-transformed HbEO groups revealed that HbEO was higher in males, non-Hispanic whites, and smokers and that Z scores for Delayed Recall Test (DRT), Animal Fluency Test (AFT), and Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) decreased as HbEO increased (p < 0.05). …”
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A CASE REPORT: A SCROTAL FLAP FOR PENILE PARAFFINOMA RECONSTRUCTION by Rr. Theodora Ratih Labdagati Iswara, Muhammad Aulia Ul Hakim, Jahnavi Malineni, Katrina Ysabelle Hidalgo

“…Abstract: Introduction: A large penile size is a source of pride and a symbol of masculinity for many men. One commonly used alternative for penile enlargement is the injection of high-viscosity liquids, such as paraffin, silicone, vaseline, and other substances, into the penis. …”
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The Specifics of Religious Identity of Armenian Youth in Russia and Armenia by A.S. Berberyan, H.S. Berberyan, O.R. Tuhina

“…Since the church plays an important role in the history and life of the Armenian people, for Armenians it is a symbol of national identity and a link between the Armenian diaspora and the title ethnos. …”
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Давньоіранське зображення хронотопу в передачі вторинного джерела by Юрій Писаренко

“…The points of the equinoxes and solstices, marked, respectively, with male and female signs, as well as a number of symbols accompanying them, including symmetrical images of day and night «duck-horses» around the symbol of the sun, the skin of a sacrificial eight-legged horse, symbols of spinning and weaving – a weaving shuttle and a reel for the spun thread. …”
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A prospective study on association between comprehensive lifestyle scores and cognitive function changes in community-dwelling older adults in Tianjin city by Muya ZHANG, Xian CAI, Liping ZU, Huichao ZHAO, Tianyu WANG, Chenyu LI, Jing YUAN, Fei MA

“…Generalized estimating equation analysis showed that, compared with a healthy lifestyle, an unhealthy lifestyle was statistically associated with lower scores in full-scale intelligence quotient (β = – 2.839), verbal intelligence quotient (β = – 2.438), performance intelligence quotient (β = – 2.987), comprehension (β = – 1.260), digit symbol (β = – 2.372), block design (β = – 1.592), and object assembly (β = – 1.974) (all P < 0.05). …”
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