Microstructural and functional abnormalities of the locus coeruleus in freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease by Huimin Sun, Caiting Gan, Xingyue Cao, Yongsheng Yuan, Heng Zhang, Chenhui Wan, Jiaxin Shi, Xufeng Wang, Youyong Kong, Tao Feng, Kezhong Zhang

“…Correlation between LC FW metrics and clinical scales were assessed. Functional connectivity analysis with LC as the region of interest was performed across groups during medication withdrawal. …”
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Peculiarities of the current structural and functional organization of the commercial ichthyocenosis of Kamianske Reservoir by V. Hurbyk, M. Maksymenko, O. Nazarov, I. Burjak

“…A comprehensive analysis of the current structural and functional organization of the dominant complex of the commercial ichthyocenosis of Kamianske Reservoir was conducted and original data were obtained on parameters that characterize the processes of formation and exploitation of the fishery base within the framework of scientific support for the stable state of aquatic bioresources of national importance. …”
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Evaluation value of ultrasound on gastrointestinal function in patients with acute heart failure by Ruyi Hao, Ye Zheng, Qing Zhao, Jie Chen, Ruiqi Fan, Peng Chen, Na Yin, Huai Qin

“…ObjectiveTo study the changes in gastrointestinal wall thickness, blood flow, motility, and symptoms in patients with acute heart failure, and to assess gastrointestinal function by ultrasound.MethodsIn this study, patients diagnosed with acute heart failure were selected as the study group, and healthy individuals were selected as the control group. …”
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Cognitive functions among Saudi patients with methamphetamine and cannabis use disorder by Shrief Y. Afifi, Shrief Y. Afifi, Abdulkhaliq S. S. Alghamdi, Ahmed Sallam, Mohammed S. A. Almuqahwi, Ibrahim A. Al-sayegh, Farah M. O. Alzahrani, Amerah N. Al-Zain Al–Dain, Afrah N. Al-Zain Al-Deen, Abeer A. ALabdulhadi, Moatazbellah I. Ali, Moatazbellah I. Ali

“…On the other hand, there was statistical significance in most of the features among patients with either methamphetamine or cannabis use disorder using the same scales.ConclusionCognitive functions were affected in the studied group of Saudi patients who suffer from cannabis and methamphetamine use disorder compared to the control group, with those who were diagnosed with methamphetamine use disorder having greater effects on cognitive functions than those who were diagnosed with cannabis use disorder.…”
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Identification and functional analysis of Wall-Associated Kinase genes in Nicotiana tabacum by Ling Li, Linggai Cao, Jintao Li, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jie Liu, Zhongying Ren, Jie Zhang, Rengang Wang, Yangfan Miao, Shizhou Yu, Wei Li, Wei Li

“…DiscussionThis study represents the first genome-wide analysis of the WAK gene family in N. tabacum, laying the groundwork for future functional investigations. …”
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The association of dementia risk symptoms and functional activity in adults with Down syndrome by Selena E. Washington, Amy E. Bodde, Brian C. Helsel, Rebecca M. Bollinger, Nora Smith, Lauren T. Ptomey, Beau Ances, Susan L. Stark

“…Abstract INTRODUCTION Adults with Down syndrome (DS) have an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia, often showing neuropathological indicators by age 40. Physical function and activities of daily living (ADLs) are understudied areas of function that may inform dementia risk. …”
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Consonant Error Patterns in Children with Functional Dysarthria and Dysarthria with Language Retardation by Zhenping LIN, Zhuoming CHEN, Yuchang LI, Na LI, Zhimei LIU, Xian XIE, Dan LI

“…The highest error rate of the consonants in functional dysarthria children was blade-palatal consonant (87.50%), the highest error rate of the consonants in dysarthria with language retardation children was blade-alveolar consonant (80.00%), and the lowest error rate of consonants of children in the two groups were labial consonant, which were 21.87%and 25.01%of consonant errors. …”
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Assessment of the Functional Status of Patients after Ischemic Stroke Treated with Thrombolytic Therapy by Danuta Sternal, Ewelina Bąk, Agnieszka Lenart, Bogusława Ryś, Sylwia Krzemińska

“…The aim of this study was to assess the functional status of patients with ischemic stroke treated with thrombolytic therapy. …”
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Functional Outcomes of Screw Fixation of the Fracture Head of the Femur: A Descriptive Study by Pratyush Kumar, P.M.V.G Shyam, Manali Sarkar, Kumar Abhishek, Vishnu B. Unnithan, Suresh Kondi

“…This study aimed to evaluate the functional outcomes of patients treated by open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) using the screw fixation technique for the fracture head of the femur. …”
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THE EFFICACY OF SILDENAFIL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY HYPERTENSION OF DIFFERENT ETIOLOGY: INFLUENCE ON THE CLINICAL, FUNCTIONAL, HEMODYNAMIC STATUS, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION... by T. V. Martynyuk, Z. H. Dadacheva, V. M. Paramonov, M. A. Saidova, S. N. Nakonechnikov, I. Ye. Chazova

“…Sildenafil therapy resulted in the marked improvement of functional and hemodynamic status, cardiac remodeling parameters in both groups. …”
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Associations Among Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Thyroid Function and Morphology Changes by Xie Y, Zhang H, Cao Z, Zhou Y, Lu C, Yin L, Zhu S, Su Y, Niu X, Ma L, Yuan Y, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Liu H, Ren X, Shi Y

“…In addition, we first reveal that RT3 is associated with the diameter of the left inferior thyroid artery (L-ITA) (r=0.394, p < 0.05) and lowest transcutaneous oxygen saturation at night (lowest SpO2) (r=− 0.269, p < 0.05). The severe OSA group showed larger thyroid volume and isthmus length, as well as the thicker ITA diameter and lower left thyroid lobe resistance index (RI) (all p < 0.05).Conclusion: Our study demonstrates a significant association between thyroid function/morphology and OSA, with distinct sex- and age-related differences. …”
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Kidney Function Trajectories with Tolvaptan in ADPKD Patients with CKD-G5 by Akinari Sekine, Junichi Hoshino, Toshio Mochizuki, Shinya Nakatani, Saori Nishio, Tatsuya Suwabe, Hiroki Hayashi, Hirayasu Kai, Koichi Seta, Fumihiko Hattanda, Sumi Hidaka, Kazushige Hanaoka, Mahiro Kurashige, Hiroshi Kataoka, Kiyotaka Uchiyama, Keiji Shimazu, Eiji Ishikawa, Yosuke Shimada, Haruna Kawano, Ken Tsuchiya, Shigeo Horie, Ichiei Narita, Yoshitaka Isaka, Satoru Muto

“…Participants were categorized into 3 groups: the tolvaptan continued group (received tolvaptan before CKD-G5 and reduced the dose to ≤ 15 mg at CKD-G5, N = 14), the tolvaptan discontinued group (received tolvaptan before CKD-G5 but discontinued at CKD-G5, N = 13), and the non-tolvaptan group (never received tolvaptan, N = 83). …”
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Function of the Speech acts in an allegory from Mathnavi-e Ma’navi by Hamid Kamali Moqadam, Jalil Moshayedi, Hassan Haidary

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Aberrant functional connectome gradient and its neurotransmitter basis in Parkinson's disease by Tao Guo, Cheng Zhou, Jiaqi Wen, Jingjing Wu, Yaping Yan, Jianmei Qin, Min Xuan, Haoting Wu, Chenqing Wu, Jingwen Chen, Sijia Tan, Xiaojie Duanmu, Baorong Zhang, Xiaojun Xu, Minming Zhang, Xiaojun Guan

“…However, whether these gradients are altered in PD patients and how these alterations associate with neurotransmitter profiles remain unknown. By constructing functional network and calculating its gradient in 134 PD patients and 172 normal controls, we compared functional connectivity gradients between groups and performed spearman correlation to explore the association between neurotransmitter expression and functional network gradient-based alternations in PD. …”
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Responses in growth performance, antioxidant capacity, hepatopancreas morphology, and non-specific immune function after functional protein peptide replace fishmeal in the Pacific... by Baoyang Chen, Anqi Chen, Jian Zhong, Aihua Dong, Xunyin Chen, Mengdie Chen, Rong Yao, Yongkang Chen, Wei Zhao, Jin Niu

“…The Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), an economically significant species in aquaculture, has garnered considerable attention in current research regarding the substitution of fishmeal (FM) in its feed. Functional protein peptides (FPP) comprised primarily of enzymolysis chicken chondropeptide and wall-breaking yeast were utilized in an eight-week experiment to investigate the impact of replacing FM with FPP on growth performance, antioxidant capability, non-specific immunity, and hepatopancreas morphology in L. vannamei. …”
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Automatic Recognition of Authors Identity in Persian based on Systemic Functional Grammar by Fatemeh Soltanzadeh, Azadeh Mirzaei, Mohammad Bahrani, Shahram Modarres Khiabani

“…In this study, the effectiveness of systemic functional grammar (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014) features in Persian authorship attribution was compared with that of function words. …”
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METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RATIONAL NUMBER OF UAV FLOTILLA TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE RELIABILITY OF THE AIRCRAFT by Igor Ruban, Valentyn Lebediev

Subjects: “…UAV flotilla control; UAV grouping; rational number; emergencies; reliability of functioning…”
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Correlations between major depressive disorder, splenic morphology, and immune function by Zouqing Lin, Xiaoyan Xu, Kai Zhang, Tenglong Wang, Leiming Cao, Zhiqiang Wang, Guoqiang Wang

“…(S)-ketamine may ameliorate inflammation and enhance splenic function, thereby relieving MDD symptoms.  …”
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Corneal Epithelial Damage and Impaired Tear Functions in Patients with Inflamed Pinguecula by Erkut Küçük, Uğur Yılmaz, Kürsad Ramazan Zor

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Reconstitution of human DNA licensing and the structural and functional analysis of key intermediates by Jennifer N. Wells, Lucy V. Edwardes, Vera Leber, Shenaz Allyjaun, Matthew Peach, Joshua Tomkins, Antonia Kefala-Stavridi, Sarah V. Faull, Ricardo Aramayo, Carolina M. Pestana, Lepakshi Ranjha, Christian Speck

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