The Functional Impact of Amblyopia on Visual Skills In Children by Chinmay Deshpande, Dipti Amod Gogate, Aditi Deshpande

“…Purpose:- To assess the efficiency of visual functions and visual skills in strabismic & anisometropic amblyopes and to assess visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in anisometropic amblyopes with spectacles & contact lenses. …”
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Lung Aging and Lung Function Assessment in Elderly by Made Agustya Darma Putra Wesnawa, I Made Subagiarta, Evelyn Nathania

“…The body plethysmograph, oscillometer, spirometry, and carbon monoxide (CO) diffusing lung capacity are techniques used to assess lung function in the elderly. For elderly people, lung function testing might be challenging due to frailty and cognitive decline. …”
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Flavor dependence of charged pion fragmentation functions by H. Bhatt, P. Bosted, S. Jia, W. Armstrong, D. Dutta, R. Ent, D. Gaskell, E. Kinney, H. Mkrtchyan, S. Ali, R. Ambrose, D. Androić, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, A. Bandari, V. Berdnikov, D. Bhetuwal, D. Biswas, M. Boer, E. Brash, A. Camsonne, M. Cardona, J.P. Chen, J. Chen, M. Chen, E.M. Christy, S. Danagoulian, M. Diefenthaler, S. Covrig, B. Duran, M. Elaasar, C. Elliot, H. Fenker, E. Fuchey, J.O. Hansen, F. Hauenstein, T. Horn, G.M. Huber, M.K. Jones, M.L. Kabir, A. Karki, B. Karki, S.J.D. Kay, C. Keppel, V. Kumar, N. Lashley-Colthirst, W.B. Li, D. Mack, S. Malace, P. Markowitz, M. McCaughan, E. McClellan, D. Meekins, R. Michaels, A. Mkrtchyan, G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu, B. Pandey, S. Park, E. Pooser, B. Sawatzky, G.R. Smith, H. Szumila-Vance, A.S. Tadepalli, V. Tadevosyan, R. Trotta, H. Voskanyan, S.A. Wood, Z. Ye, C. Yero, X. Zheng

“…We have measured the flavor dependence of multiplicities for π+ and π− production in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) on proton and deuteron to explore a possible charge symmetry violation in fragmentation functions. The experiment used an electron beam with energies of 10.2 and 10.6 GeV at Jefferson Lab and the Hall-C spectrometers. …”
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Competitions for Young Journalists: Functional and Typological Characteristics by V.V. Smejukha

“…The purpose of this paper is to identify the role, importance, characteristics, typological diversity of media competitions targeted at the school audience, definition of their tasks under the conditions of declining interest of the mass audience to media, as well as the need to improve the quality of public and career guidance with young people. Using the typological method, the author analyzes the functional purpose, as well as a variety of competitions for young journalists. …”
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COVID-19 impacts the sexual function of women by N. V. Artymuk, M. N. Surina, A. V. Atalyan, M. Al-Jefout, E. V. Nekrasova

“…A Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) questionnaire was used to assess the clinical manifestations of sexual dysfunctions. …”
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The Impact of Multimorbidity on the Functional Skills in Elderly People by Małgorzata Dziechciaż, Piotr Kudyba

“…Together with an increase in the number of diseases, a deterioration was observed in the patients’ functional, cognitive, and emotional skills. (JNNN 2024;13(1):17–22)…”
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Phytochemicals and Functional Properties of Pitaya Juice Powders by Mayra Denise Herrera, Jorge A. Zegbe, Luis Roberto Reveles-Torres

“…., are climate warming-resilient crops used as food and for by-products elaboration in arid and semi-arid agroecosystems. …”
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EVOLUTION OF JOURNALISM: FUNCTIONAL AND STYLISTIC FEATURES OF BLOGGING by Volodymyr Hnot, Paraskoviya Dvorianyn

“…The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze the functional and stylistic transformations that have occurred in journalism as a result of the development and spread of blogging as a new form of media communication. …”
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Mitochondrial respiratory function induces endogenous hypoxia. by Sara Prior, Ara Kim, Toshitada Yoshihara, Seiji Tobita, Toshiyuki Takeuchi, Masahiro Higuchi

“…Hypoxia influences many key biological functions. In cancer, it is generally believed that hypoxic condition is generated deep inside the tumor because of the lack of oxygen supply. …”
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Temporal dynamics of neutrophil functions in multiple sclerosis by Shishi Shen, Shilin Wu, Yuge Wang, Li Xiao, Xiaobo Sun, Wenxuan Sun, Yipeng Zhao, Rui Li, Jiaqi Zhang, Zhanhang Wang, Shaoli Zhou, Shixiong Huang, Yanyu Chang, Yaqing Shu, Chen Chen, Zhengqi Lu, Wei Cai, Wei Qiu

“…Neutrophils are forerunners to neural lesions in MS, yet the temporal alterations of their functions in MS remains unclear. This study demonstrated a positive correlation between circulatory neutrophil counts and disease activity and severity in treatment-naïve MS patients. …”
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An Analytical Approximation of the Stress Function for Conical Flywheels by Miguel Garcia, Onofre Orozco-López, Jesús Uribe-Chavira, Andrés Blanco-Ortega

“…Starting from a stress function, the model was simplified under the assumption of a small-thickness gradient, allowing the derivation of a closed-form solution. …”
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Regulation and function of alternative polyadenylation in development and differentiation by Lorenzo Gallicchio, Gonzalo H. Olivares, Cameron W. Berry, Margaret T. Fuller

“…Although APA has been widely reported, both the function of APA in development and the mechanisms that regulate the choice of 3’end cut sites in normal and pathogenic conditions are still poorly understood. …”
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Comprehensive characterization of platelet function in dogs with hyperadrenocorticism by Sanggu Kim, Dohee Lee, Preeti Kumari Chaudhary, Hakhyun Kim, Byeong-Teck Kang, Soochong Kim

“…Platelets play a major role in thrombosis and hemostasis, but no study has investigated platelet function in dogs with HAC. Thus, we aimed to characterize the platelet function and its molecular mechanism in dogs with HAC by using platelets isolated from normal dogs and dogs with HAC. …”
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Binder Jetting for Functional Testing of Ceramic Sanitaryware by Cristina Fabuel, María Pilar Gómez-Tena, Arnaldo Moreno, Fernando González-Juárez, Verónica Rico-Pérez, Jordi Balcells

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Chronic loneliness and longitudinal changes in cognitive functioning by Jee eun Kang, Lynn M. Martire, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, David E. Almeida, Martin J. Sliwinski

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A molecular function map of Ewing's sarcoma. by Maximilian Kauer, Jozef Ban, Reinhard Kofler, Bob Walker, Sean Davis, Paul Meltzer, Heinrich Kovar

“…Out of 80 normal tissues tested, mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPC) were found to fit the hypothesis that EWS-FLI1 is the driving transcriptional force in ESFT best and were therefore used as the reference tissue for the construction of the molecular function map. …”
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Dextromethorphan Inhibits Activations and Functions in Dendritic Cells by Der-Yuan Chen, Pei-Shan Song, Jau-Shyong Hong, Ching-Liang Chu, I-Horng Pan, Yi-Ming Chen, Ching-Hsiung Lin, Sheng-Hao Lin, Chi-Chen Lin

“…In this study, we examined the effect of dextromethorphan (DXM), a common cough suppressant with a high safety profile, on the activation and function of DCs. In the presence of DXM, the LPS-induced expression of the costimulatory molecules in murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) was significantly suppressed. …”
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Functional Dyspepsia: Current Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment by Svintsitskyi A.

“…During the study the content analysis, method of system and comparative analysis, bibliosemantic method of study of the actual scientific research were used. Results. According to the recommendations of the conciliation meeting of the International Working Group on the improvement of the diagnostic criteria of the functional diseases of the gastrointestinal tract diseases (Roman criteria III), the diagnosis of FD may be posed if, for at least three last months (not necessarily in succession), there is one of the following symptoms for the last six months: a feeling of gravity after eating; feeling of early saturation; epileurial pain; heartburn in epigastrium, as well as the absence of organic diseases (including those based on the results of esophagogastroduodenal fibroscopy that would explain these symptoms. …”
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Endothelial function can be modulated by acute hyperglycemia by Hassanain Qambari, Paula K. Yu, Chandrakumar Balaratnasingam, Jayden Dickson, Dao-Yi Yu

“…These findings suggest that whilst endothelial function can recover after short term hyperglycemia, prolonged exposure (≥ 4 weeks) results in incomplete restoration, indicating a potential transition towards irreversible dysfunction.…”
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Social functioning of elderly persons with malignant diseases by Berat Svetlana, Nešković-Konstantinović Zora, Nedović Goran, Rapaić Dragan, Marinković Dragan

“…The aim of this research was to determine how elderly patients with malignant diseases function in their social environment. Methods. Sociodemographic questionnaire and interview were used to investigate a group of 49 elderly persons undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy treatment against early carcinomas (P1), and a group of 51 elderly persons with advanced stages of cancer undergoing systemic chemotherapy (P2). …”
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