Chronic cannabis use differentially modulates neural oscillations serving the manipulate versus maintain components of working memory processing by Peihan J. Huang, Jake J. Son, Yasra Arif, Jason A. John, Lucy K. Horne, Mikki Schantell, Seth D. Springer, Maggie P. Rempe, Hannah J. Okelberry, Abraham D. Killanin, Ryan Glesinger, Anna T. Coutant, Thomas W. Ward, Madelyn P. Willett, Hallie J. Johnson, Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham, Tony W. Wilson

“…Notably, we found that cannabis users exhibited significantly weaker alpha oscillations in superior parietal, occipital, and other regions during the encoding phase relative to nonusers. …”
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Development and validation of a questionnaire for collaborative problem solving in students by Hamed Nikbakht, Hadi Ghazizadeh

“…The form and content validity of the questionnaire was checked and confirmed by 5 experts in the field of psychology and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha method and confirmatory factor analysis. Data were analyzed using SPSS-26, LISREL and SmartPLS software.Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the questionnaire was calculated as 0.96. …”
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Dynamics of spatial phase coherence in a dissipative Bose–Hubbard atomic system by Vatré, Rémy, Bouganne, Raphaël, Bosch Aguilera, Manel, Ghermaoui, Alexis, Beugnon, Jérôme, Lopes, Raphael, Gerbier, Fabrice

“…The observed decay exponent $\alpha \approx 0.54(6) $ is in good agreement with the prediction $\alpha =1/2$ from a dissipative Bose–Hubbard model accounting for the fluorescence-induced decoherence. …”
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Functional and effective EEG connectivity patterns in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review by Elizabeth R. Paitel, Christian B. D. Otteman, Mary C. Polking, Henry J. Licht, Kristy A. Nielson, Kristy A. Nielson

“…The overall prevalence of alpha effects may indicate its potential to provide insight into nuanced changes associated with AD-related networks, with the caveat that most studies were during the resting state where alpha is the dominant frequency. …”
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Quality and Flavor Analysis of 14 Kinds of Commercially Available Hemp Pepper Chicken by Cong LIU, Xin LIU, Peng WANG, Xinglian XU, Yin WANG, Jianchao LI

“…Combined with orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA), it was found that 26 substances such as butanal, linalool, alpha-pinene, ethyl acrylate, alpha-terpineol, 2-heptanone, 1-octen-3-ol were the characteristic flavor substances of hemp pepper chicken products. …”
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Differences in EEG complexity of cognitive activities among subtypes of schizophrenia by Hang Qi, Jilin Zou, Zhenzhen Yao, Gaofeng Zhao, Jing Zhang, Chunlei Liu, Min Chen

“…Deficit patients demonstrated positive correlations with alpha band sample entropy (r = 0.370), whereas non-deficit patients exhibited negative correlations with both alpha and beta band sample entropy (r = -0.451, r = -0.362). …”
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Multiplex Bead Array Assay for Detection of 25 Soluble Cytokines in Blister Fluid of Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1

“…Blister fluid obtained from the involved extremities displayed increased amounts of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and TNF<mml:math alttext="$alpha $"> <mml:mi>&#x03B1;</mml:mi> </mml:math> compared with the noninvolved extremities. …”
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Adult Type Granulosa Cell Tumor: A Very Rare Case of Sex-Cord Tumor of the Testis with Review of the Literature by Dimosthenis Miliaras, Eleftherios Anagnostou, Ioannis Moysides

“…The immunoprofile of the tumor was CD99 (+), calretinin (+), inhibin (+), alpha smooth muscle actin (+), vimentin (+), ER (−), PR (−), keratin AE1/AE3 (−), alpha fetoprotein (−), CD117 (−), and placental alkaline phosphatase (−). …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Moore Index of Nutrition Self-Care in Arabic: A Study among Saudi Adolescents at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adel Bashatah, Khalid A. Alahmary

“…The validity and reliability were examined using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The construct validity was examined through principal component analysis. …”
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SACCHARIFICATION OF CORNCOB USING CELLULOLYTIC BACTERIA FOR BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION by TITI CANDRA SUNARTI, ANJA MERYANDINI, M. EDY SOFIYANTO, NUR RICHANA

“… The use of cellulose degrading enzyme (cellulases) for hydrolysis of lignocellulosic material is a part of bioethanol production process.  In this experiment,  delignified corncob,  its cellulose fraction and alpha cellulose were used as substrates to produce fermentable sugar by using three local isolates of celluloytic bacteria (C5-1, C4-4, C11-1 and Cmix ; mixed cultures of three isolates), and Saccharomyces cereviseae to produce ethanol. …”
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Millimeter-scale radioluminescent power for electronic sensors by Averal N. Kandala, Sinan Wang, Joseph E. Blecha, Yung-Hua Wang, Rahul K. Lall, Ali M. Niknejad, Youngho Seo, Michael J. Evans, Robert R. Flavell, Henry F. VanBrocklin, Mekhail Anwar

“…Different phosphorescent and scintillating materials were mixed with the alpha-emitter Th-227, and the conversion efficiency of europium-doped yttrium oxide was the highest at around 2%. …”
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Geometrical deformation of brane matter field within f(R, Q, P) gravity by Fernando M. Belchior, Roberto V. Maluf, Albert Yu. Petrov, Paulo J. Porfírio

“…In this work, we investigate a codimension-one thick brane within the framework of f(R, Q, P) gravity, where R represents the curvature scalar, while $$Q=R_{\mu \nu }R^{\mu \nu }$$ Q = R μ ν R μ ν and $$P=R_{\mu \nu \alpha \beta }R^{\mu \nu \alpha \beta }$$ P = R μ ν α β R μ ν α β are quadratic geometric invariants. …”
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Influence of Base Oil on Planar Double Enveloping Hourglass Worm Drive by Fayang He, Zhanshan Li

“…It is found that，when using polyethylene glycol synthetic oil，the transmission efficiency increases by 4.5% and the temperature rise is 15 ℃ lower than that of poly-alpha-olefins synthetic oil. When mineral oil is used，the transmission efficiency will be reduced by about 10%，and the temperature rise will increase by more than 58 ℃. …”
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A Rare Case of Erdheim-Chester Disease (Non-Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis) with Concurrent Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge by Hamza Hashmi, Drew Murray, John Greenwell, Marwan Shaikh, Soumit Basu, Maxwell Krem

“…For those without the mutation with symptomatic ECD, conventional or PEGylated interferon alpha is recommended. For patients who are either intolerant or nonresponsive to interferon alpha, systemic chemotherapy with or without corticosteroids can be used. …”
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Collisional and Radiative Energy Loss in QED and QCD Plasmas by Javad Sheibani, Abolfazl Mirjalili, Kurosh Javidan, Reza Gharaei, Shahin Atashbar Tehrani

“…The average energy loss depends on the particle characteristics, plasma parameters, and QED (QCD) coupling constant alpha (alpha s). All processes through which the energy of a particle changes can be categorized into two main mechanisms: elastic collisions and radiation through bremsstrahlung. …”
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Parallel one forms on special Finsler manifolds by Salah G. Elgendi

“…Consequently, we observed that certain $ (\alpha, \beta) $-metrics and generalized $ (\alpha, \beta) $-metrics did not admit parallel 1-forms.…”
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Improvement of Lumbar Bone Mass after Infliximab Therapy in Crohn’s Disease Patients by Marina Mauro, Vladimir Radovic, David Armstrong

“…Elevated proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα), have been implicated in the pathogenesis of bone resorption.…”
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A shadow Markov equation by Bonin, Nathan, Ovsienko, Valentin

“…We introduce an analogue of the classical Markov equation that involves dual numbers $a+\alpha \varepsilon $ with $\varepsilon ^2=0$. This equation characterizes the “shadow Markov numbers” recently considered by one of us. …”
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$$\rho $$ ρ meson transverse momentum-dependent parton distributions by Jin-Li Zhang, Jun Wu

“…The $$\langle k_{\perp }^n(x)\rangle _{\alpha }$$ ⟨ k ⊥ n ( x ) ⟩ α shows the typical transverse momenta of quark TMDs in our model. …”
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Sağlık Çalışanlarında Örgütsel Adalet Algısının Duygusal Emek Üzerine Etkisi: Konya İlinde Bir Uygulama by Serap Kılınç, Aydan Yüceler

“…Örgütsel Adalet Ölçeğinin bu çalışmada Cronbach’s Alpha katsayısı 0,96; alt ölçeklerinin Cronbach’s Alpha katsayısı ise Dağıtım Adaleti için 0,85, Prosedür Adaleti için 0,91 ve Etkileşim Adaleti içinse 0,95 olarak saptanmıştır. …”
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