Cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms: effects on functional disability, falls, hospitalization, and polypharmacy in a longitudinal follow-up by Milla Bitencourt Cabral, Nathalia de Oliveira Andrade, Allan Gustavo Bregola, Marcelo Kwiatkoski, Tatiana Carvalho Reis Martins, Bruna Moretti Luchesi

“…Objective: Analyse the effects of cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms on the risk of functional disability, falls, hospitalisation, and polypharmacy in a two-year follow-up. …”
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Sparsity covariance: a source of uncertainty when estimating correlation functions with a discrete sample of observations in the sky by Pierre Fleury

“…Cosmological observables rely heavily on summary statistics such as two-point correlation functions. In many practical cases (e.g. the weak-lensing cosmic shear), those correlation functions are estimated from a finite, discrete sample of measurements that are randomly distributed in the sky. …”
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Vps34-orchestrated lipid signaling processes regulate the transitional heterogeneity and functional adaptation of effector regulatory T cells. by Erienne G Norton, Nicole M Chapman, Hao Shi, Xiaoxi Meng, Hongling Huang, Anil Kc, Sherri Rankin, Jordy Saravia, Sujing Yuan, Haoran Hu, Peter Vogel, Hongbo Chi

“…Regulatory T cell (Treg) heterogeneity exists in lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues, but we have limited understanding of context-dependent functions and spatiotemporal regulators of heterogenous Treg states, especially during perinatal life when immune tolerance is established. …”
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Vascular function assessed by flow-mediated vasodilation and nitroglycerine-induced vasodilation in subjects with first-degree atrioventricular block by Aya Mizobuchi, Tatsuya Maruhashi, Yusuke Saito, Takayuki Yamaji, Takahiro Harada, Farina Mohamad Yusoff, Shinji Kishimoto, Masato Kajikawa, Ayumu Nakashima, Yukihito Higashi

“…After adjustments of confounding factors for vascular function, first-degree AVB is associated with impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilatation but not with impaired endothelium-independent vasodilatation. …”
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APEX-based proximity labeling in Plasmodium identifies a membrane protein with dual functions during mosquito infection. by Jessica Kehrer, Emma Pietsch, Dominik Ricken, Léanne Strauss, Julia M Heinze, Tim Gilberger, Friedrich Frischknecht

“…Functional analysis of a first candidate uncovered a dual role for this membrane protein in male gametogenesis and ookinete midgut traversal. …”
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Sex-Specific Changes in Cardiac Function and Electrophysiology During Progression of Adenine-Induced Chronic Kidney Disease in Mice by Valentina Dargam, Anet Sanchez, Aashiya Kolengaden, Yency Perez, Rebekah Arias, Ana M. Valentin Cabrera, Daniel Chaparro, Christopher Tarafa, Alexandra Coba, Nathan Yapaolo, Perony da Silva Nogueira, Emily A. Todd, Monique M. Williams, Lina A. Shehadeh, Joshua D. Hutcheson

“…We identified a new ECG marker, S_peak-J duration, which increased with disease progression and appeared earlier in adenine-treated males than in females. We identified sex-dependent differences in cardiac structure, function, and electrophysiology in a CKD-induced CVD mouse model, with adenine-treated males displaying markers of LV hypertrophy, dysfunction, and electrophysiological changes. …”
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Prognostic factors of functional results of surgery for idiopathic (primary) epimacular membranes: the duration of epimacular proliferation. Part 1 by S. G. Toropygin, S. V. Nazarova, H. Dawarah, A. N. Maslov

“…Part 1 of the review presents types of epimacular membranes (EMM), their epidemiology and management standard, topography of normal fovea seen on the optical coherence tomography, as well as dependence of functional results of surgery on disease duration.…”
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MODELING OF THE FUNCTIONING UNITS OF FUEL SYSTEM OF GAS TURBINE ENGINE AIRCRAFT IN VIEW OF AVIATION FUEL QUALITY CHANGES by I. I. Zavyalik, V. S. Oleshko, V. M. Samoylenko, E. V. Fetisov

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Linear and nonlinear multidimensional functional connectivity methods reveal similar networks for semantic processing in EEG/MEG data by Setareh Rahimi, Rebecca L. Jackson, Rebecca L. Jackson, Olaf Hauk

“…However, TL-MDPC remains linear and may therefore miss nonlinear interactions among brain areas.MethodsThus, we introduce Nonlinear TL-MDPC (nTL-MDPC), a novel bivariate functional connectivity method for event-related EEG/MEG applications, and compare its performance to the original linear TL-MDPC. nTL-MDPC describes how well patterns in ROI X at a time point tx can predict patterns of ROI Y at a time point ty using artificial neural networks.ResultsApplying this method and its linear counterpart to simulated data demonstrates that both can identify nonlinear dependencies, with nTL-MDPC achieving up to ~0.75 explained variance under optimal conditions (e.g., high SNR), compared to ~0.65 with TL-MDPC. …”
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Developing Machine Learning-based Control Charts for Monitoring Different GLM-type Profiles With Different Link Functions by Patrik Hric, Hamed Sabahno

“…The result shows that the selection of ML control charts is contingent on the response distribution and link function, and depends on the shift sizes in the process and the utilized training method. …”
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Some Probability Characteristics Functions of the Solution of a Stochastic Non-Linear Fredholm Integral Equation of the Second Kind by Baghdad Science Journal

“…In this research, some probability characteristics functions (probability density, characteristic, correlation and spectral density) are derived depending upon the smallest variance of the exact solution of supposing stochastic non-linear Fredholm integral equation of the second kind found by Adomian decomposition method (A.D.M)…”
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Some Aspects of the Accommodative Function Condition and Binocular Vision in Adult Patients with Hypermetropia, with Complex Hypermetropic and Mixed Astigmatism by O. A. Klokova, S. N. Sakhnov, O. A. Shelikhova, M. S. Geydenrikh

“…Foreign and Russian scientists mainly pay attention to the study of these functions in childhood, adolescence or presbyopic age. …”
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Prestimulus functional connectivity reflects attention orientation in a prospective memory task: A magnetoencephalographic (MEG) study. by Stefano Vicentin, Giorgia Cona, Marco Marino, Patrizia Bisiacchi, Dante Mantini, Giorgio Arcara

“…In this study, we investigate the neural bases of PM from a network perspective, using functional connectivity (FC) analysis to identify the networks involved in the attentional and memory mechanisms underlying PM. …”
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Chimeric antigen receptor NK-92 cell function is modulated by HLA class I expression of target cells by Nicolai Stransky, Ranran Ji, Lukas Prause, Katrin Ganser, Winfried S. Wels, Peter Ruth, Stephan M. Huber, Franziska Eckert

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Molecular cause and functional impact of altered synaptic lipid signaling due to a prg‐1 gene SNP by Johannes Vogt, Jenq‐Wei Yang, Arian Mobascher, Jin Cheng, Yunbo Li, Xingfeng Liu, Jan Baumgart, Carine Thalman, Sergei Kirischuk, Petr Unichenko, Guilherme Horta, Konstantin Radyushkin, Albrecht Stroh, Sebastian Richers, Nassim Sahragard, Ute Distler, Stefan Tenzer, Lianyong Qiao, Klaus Lieb, Oliver Tüscher, Harald Binder, Nerea Ferreiros, Irmgard Tegeder, Andrew J Morris, Sergiu Gropa, Peter Nürnberg, Mohammad R Toliat, Georg Winterer, Heiko J Luhmann, Jisen Huai, Robert Nitsch

“…Our studies show that this mutation leads to a loss‐of‐PRG‐1 function at the synapse due to its inability to control lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) levels via a cellular uptake mechanism which appears to depend on proper glycosylation altered by this SNP. …”
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New LMI-Based Conditions on Neural Networks of Neutral Type with Discrete Interval Delays and General Activation Functions by Guoquan Liu, Shumin Zhou, He Huang

“…The stability analysis of global asymptotic stability of neural networks of neutral type with both discrete interval delays and general activation functions is discussed. New delay-dependent conditions are obtained by using more general Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals. …”
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Generalized Formalization Related Signs of Functioning Ergo Technical Information Electronic Systems on the Basis of Their Structural and Logical Models by A. N. Potapov

“…The possibility of implementation of the RES functions selection, allocation and reallocation of resources depend on its inherent mechanisms of control. …”
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CARDIAC FUNCTION AND IRON CHELATION IN THALASSEMIA MAJOR AND INTERMEDIA: A REVIEW OF THE UNDERLYING PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND APPROACH TO CHELATION MANAGEMENT by Athanasios Aessopos, Vasilios Berdoukas

“…Endocrine abnormalities, infections, renal function and medications can also play a role in the overall cardiac function.  …”
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Role of Toll-Like Receptors in Actuating Stem/Progenitor Cell Repair Mechanisms: Different Functions in Different Cells by Fabio Sallustio, Claudia Curci, Alessandra Stasi, Giuseppe De Palma, Chiara Divella, Roberto Gramignoli, Giuseppe Castellano, Anna Gallone, Loreto Gesualdo

“…In this review, we analyze the many different functions that the TLRs assume in SCs, pointing out that they can have different effects, depending on the background and on the kind of ligands that they recognize. …”
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Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Simulation of the Tuberculosis Epidemic as a Function of Population Coverage with Screening by A. A. Starshinova, I. F. Dovgalyuk, N. N. Osipov, D. A. Kudlay

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