Social Networks and Memory over 15 Years of Followup in a Cohort of Older Australians: Results from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing by Lynne C. Giles, Kaarin J. Anstey, Ruth B. Walker, Mary A. Luszcz

“…The results suggested a gradient of effect; participants in the upper tertile of friends or overall social networks had better memory scores than those in the mid tertile, who in turn had better memory scores than participants in the lower tertile. There was evidence of a linear, but not quadratic, effect of time on memory, and an interaction between friends’ social networks and time was apparent. …”
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Lubricating Performance of Lanzhou Lily Crude Extract as Natural Additive by Min Xie, Chenghua Lai, Juanjuan Chen, Feng Cao, Ying Ma

“….%, and further increasing the content of the additive did not bring about obvious improvements, even worsening the product in some cases. Thirdly, the lower friction coefficient and wear rate achieved through the addition of LLCE may be due to the higher viscosity facilitating a thicker lubricating film and the higher polarity providing better chemical affinity with the metallic surface. …”
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Investigation of the Influence of Atmospheric Scattering on Photolysis Rates Using the Cloud-J Module by Anastasia Imanova, Eugene Rozanov, Sergei Smyshlyaev, Vladimir Zubov, Tatiana Egorova

“…This study analyses the wide-band algorithm, Cloud-J v.8.0, from the point of view of the validity of the choice of wide spectral intervals to accelerate the calculations of photolysis rates in the lower and middle atmosphere, considering the features of solar radiation propagation, and to assess the influence of the processes of reflection and scattering on molecules, aerosols, and clouds. …”
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Toxicity of insecticide quinalphos-based Kinalux 25EC on fingerling climbing perch (Anabas testudineus): Brain cholinesterase and growth inhibitions by Nguyen Van Cong, Tran Hoang Kha, Bui Thi Bich Hang, Duong Tri Dung, Tran Sy Nam

“…The study indicated that quinalphos is highly toxic for the climbing perch leading to potential health risk for this species living in rice fields of the Lower Mekong Delta. Monitoring and controlling quinalphos levels in aquatic environments are important acts to mitigating its adverse impacts on aquatic organisms. …”
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Co-targeting of glial activation and inflammation by tsRNA-Gln-i-0095 for treating retinal ischemic pathologies by Ying Zhang, Yan Ma, Yu-Ke Ji, Yi-Fei Jiang, Duo Li, Wan Mu, Mu-Di Yao, Jin Yao, Biao Yan

“…Reducing the levels of tsRNA-Gln-i-0095 suppressed reactive gliosis, lowered inflammatory cytokine levels, and protected retinal ganglion cells from I/R injury. …”
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USP14 is crucial for proteostasis regulation and α-synuclein degradation in human SH-SY5Y dopaminergic cells by Vignesh Srinivasan, Rabah Soliymani, Larisa Ivanova, Ove Eriksson, Nina Peitsaro, Maciej Lalowski, Mati Karelson, Dan Lindholm

“…Re-expression of wild-type and phospho-mimetic S143D-USP14 mutant lowered ROS and α-syn levels in USP14 lacking cells. …”
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Genetic improvement of cooking time in common bean: the role of dominance by Rita Carolina de Melo, Jefferson Luís Meirelles Coimbra, Luan Tiago dos Santos Carbonari, Paulo Henrique Cerutti, Altamir Frederico Guidolin

“…Additionally, this resulted in a lower broad-sense heritability coefficient, indicating a greater influence of non-genetic causes. …”
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Double-Expressor Appendiceal Burkitt’s Lymphoma: A Case Report and Literature Review by Osama N. Dukmak, Hamzeh M. I. Abugharbieh, Mohammad Farid Emar, Iman Khamayseh, Salem M. Tos, Rafiq Salhab

“…Burkitt’s lymphoma presenting as an acute appendicitis is a rare entity with around 21% of the cases presenting as a lower iliac fossa mass. Case Presentation. A 23-year-old male was admitted to the surgical ward as a case of acute appendicitis with localized tenderness in the right iliac fossa, positive rebound tenderness, a positive Rovsing’s sign, and ultrasound findings of suspected complicated appendicitis. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Concrete Alkalinity on Tensile Properties of Preheated Structural GFRP Rebar by Hwasung Roh, Cheolwoo Park, Do Young Moon

“…For all alkali immersion days considered in the test, the preheated specimens provide slightly lower elastic modulus than the unpreheated specimens, showing only 8% maximum difference. …”
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Mechanical response of glass/kevlar hybrid composite jackets for steel containers carrying hazardous materials to enhance safety by Andrew Kenney, Chao Zhang, Lekhnath Bhandari, Ruifeng Liang, Hota GangaRao

“…Testing revealed that Kevlar fibers increased energy absorption by increasing strain to failure. Epoxy resin lowered maximum tensile strength by 22% compared to vinyl ester and increased the total energy absorption by 8%. …”

Channel estimation method of massive MIMO-OFDM system based on adaptive compressed sensing by Yiyang HU, Lina QI

“…Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a solution for efficiently providing connection services for a variety of machine equipment in the Internet of things (IoT), and efficient connection services require accurate channel estimation.Aimed at the problems of high pilot overhead and poor performance of normalized mean square error (NMSE) estimation in downlink channel estimation of massive MIMO systems, based on the compressed sensing (CS) theory, the common sparsity of the channel space domain was combined while using the feature of lower sparsity of adjacent time slot differential channel impulse response (CIR), which leaded to a significant reduction in pilot overhead.In the reconstruction algorithm, a two-stage differential estimation algorithm, which divided the channel estimation in consecutive time slots with time correlation into two stages, was proposed and the idea of adaptive compressed sensing was combined to achieve fast and accurate CIR estimate.The simulation results show that the proposed two-stage differential channel estimation algorithm not only has a significant improvement in the estimated NMSE performance and data transmission rate compared to the existing CS-based multiple measurement vector (MMV) algorithm, but also show a certain reduction in runtime complexity.…”
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The effects of the pastörization temperature on quality of the white cheese production by Mustafa Nizamlıoğlu, Abdullah Keleş, Mustafa Atasever, Semra Kayaardı, Ümit Gürbüz

“…It was found that the samples produced from high heat treated milk (T 111) were lower in salt contents. No coliforms found at the 60th and 90th days of ripening period. …”
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The Influence of Pile-Beam-Arch Construction on the Stratum and Station Support Structure by Nan Liu, Xiao Tong, Longfei Chang, Yong Lv

“…Based on this, the best sequence of pilot tunnel excavation and arch buckle of the two-story two-span station is obtained, and the optimal pilot tunnel excavation scheme of first the middle and then the side, first the upper and then the lower, and the best arch buckle scheme of the synchronous arch buckle on both sides is determined. …”
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Effect of temperature and adhesive defect on repaired structure using composite patch by Mohammed Abdulla, Meftah Hrairi, Abdul Aabid, Nur Azam Abdullah

“…Boron/epoxy patches are most effective under mechanical loading, yielding the lowest SIF, while graphite/epoxy patches excel under thermo-mechanical loading due to their lower Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE). Patch thickness influences SIF differently based on loading conditions; thicker patches decrease SIF under mechanical loading but increase it under thermo-mechanical loading. …”
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The Development and Initial Validation of the REST Questionnaire: A Multidimensional Tool for Assessing Fatigue in Individuals with and Without a History of Cancer by Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Carlo Buonerba, Raffaele Baio, Eleonora Monteleone, Francesco Passaro, Antonio Tufano, Vittorino Montanaro, Vittorio Riccio, Ilaria Gallo, Francesca Cappuccio, Federica Fortino, Anna Buonocore, Federica Monaco, Antonio Verde, Anna Rita Amato, Oriana Strianese, Ferdinando Costabile, Luca Scafuri

“…Higher fatigue scores were associated with lower well-being, female gender, and the presence of certain chronic conditions (cancer, kidney stones, gastric ulcers). …”
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Uncovering Gender and Age Neutrality in CT Values for E and RdRp Gene Amplification in SARS-CoV-2 by Ibrahim A. Naqid, Masood Ahmed Hameed, Nawfal R. Hussein, Shivan Hassan Yousif

“…Notably, all males and females tested positive for the E gene, achieving a 100% detection rate, whereas the RdRp gene exhibited a slightly lower positive rate of 93.4% in males and 89.6% in females. …”
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Targeting gut microbiota in osteoporosis: impact of the microbial-based functional food ingredients by Pauline Duffuler, Khushwant S. Bhullar, Jianping Wu

“…Osteoporotic patients or individuals with a lower bone mineral density exhibit an alteration of the gut microbiota at several taxonomic levels. …”
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Multichannel Filtered-X Error Coded Affine Projection-Like Algorithm with Evolving Order by J. G. Avalos, A. Rodriguez, H. M. Martinez, J. C. Sanchez, H. M. Perez

“…The proposed algorithm is implemented using the conventional filtered-x scheme, which incurs a lower computational cost than the modified filtered-x structure, especially for multichannel systems. …”
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Surface-hydrogenated CrMnO x coupled with GaN nanowires for light-driven bioethanol dehydration to ethylene by Zhouzhou Wang, Haotian Ye, Yixin Li, Bowen Sheng, Ping Wang, Pengfei Ou, Xiao-Yan Li, Tianqi Yu, Zijian Huang, Jinglin Li, Ying Yu, Xinqiang Wang, Zhen Huang, Baowen Zhou

“…Moreover, the surface-hydrogenated GaN@CMO-H can significantly lower the reaction energy barrier of the C2H5OH-to-C2H4 conversion by switching the rate-determining reaction step compared to both GaN and GaN@CMO. …”
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Behaviour of Clinical, Anthropometric and Laboratory Variables in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome by Madelaine Hernández Tamayo, Pedro Enrique Miguel Soca, Mildre María Marrero Hidalgo, Luz María Pérez López, Idania Peña Pérez, Mayelín Rivas Estévez

“…Their HDL levels were lower. A significant association between metabolic syndrome and CRP, microalbuminuria, alterations in blood sugar levels and hypertension was proved. …”
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