Connectivity changes following transcranial alternating current stimulation at 5-Hz: an EEG study by Tien-Wen Lee, Gerald Tramontano

“…We collected electroencephalography (EEG) data from 24 participants with anxiety disorders before and after the tACS treatment during a single session. …”
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Suffering from Loneliness Indicates Significant Mortality Risk of Older People by Reijo S. Tilvis, Venla Laitala, Pirkko E. Routasalo, Kaisu H. Pitkälä

“…Suffering from loneliness was assessed with one question and participants were categorized as lonely or not lonely. …”
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Prioritizing factors affecting Iranian non-oil export using group decision making approach based on hierarchical analysis process by K. F. Mohammadbeigi, S. Daniali, Y. Mohammadbeiki

“…The most important issue in the development of nonoil exports is the liberalization of economic capacity through new investments.In this article all factors, affecting non-oil exports have been determined, based on studying literature. …”
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'Medical Minds and Machine Learning': Awareness and Opinions on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare among Undergraduate Medical Students of a Tertiary Care Institute of Kolkata,... by Pattanayak Shalini, Basu Mausumi, Sinha Debasish, Kerketta Prince

“…Method: Descriptive study was conducted using consecutive sampling among 288 undergraduate medical students using a pretested questionnaire, from August - October (2023). Participants with an 'overall awareness score on AI' equal to or above median were categorized as having 'high awareness'. …”
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Dialectality Measurement: A Research Model for Discussion by Vytautas Kardelis

“…The aim of this article is to propose a model for studying linguistic behavior and dialectality measurement for scientific discussion. …”
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Qualitative Characteristics of Depression in Parkinson’s Patients and Controls by Cleo Kritzinger, Eva-Juliane Vollstedt, Katja Hückelheim, Anne Lorwin, Julia Graf, Sinem Tunc, Christine Klein, Meike Kasten

“…After postal screening of 10,000 citizens of Lübeck, 642 participants were examined and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was sufficiently answered by 477 subjects. …”
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No Correlation Exists between Disease Activity and the Expression of Killer-Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Toshiaki Kogure, Takeshi Tatsumi, Atsushi Niizawa, Hiroshi Fujinaga, Tomoyuki Ito, Yutaka Shimada, Katsutoshi Terasawa

“…The genes for killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) have been cloned and their functions and expression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been partially clarified. However, the correlation between their expression and disease activity has not been analyzed in patients with RA. …”
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Genetic Variation in Taste Receptor Genes (SCNN1B, TRPV1) and Its Correlation with the Perception of Saltiness in Normotensive and Hypertensive Adults by Pradtana Tapanee, Diane K. Tidwell, M. Wes Schilling, Daniel G. Peterson, Terezie Tolar-Peterson

“…We conducted a cross-sectional case control study by design consisting of a normotensive and hypertensive group. Participants were 253 adults with age range of 20–82 residing in Mississippi, USA. …”
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Tourisme religieux en Amazonie brésilienne by Maria Adriana S. B. Teixeira, Lúcia Cláudia Barbosa Santos, Maria Jacqueline Ramos Iwata, Anny Gabrielly Peixoto de Oliveira

“…Les résultats ont montré que les principales caractéristiques des événements étudiés sont de maintenir les traditions religieuses transmises de génération en génération, de renforcer la dévotion au saint patron local et de promouvoir les diverses relations entre les personnes qui participent à ces fêtes. On espère que les résultats de cette étude contribueront à l'introduction de nouvelles recherches liées à ce thème et ainsi à sauver les importantes valeurs culturelles et spirituelles de ces lieux.…”
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Development of the Japanese Environmental Security Concept by V. I. Danilova

“…Key aspects of environmental conservation regulation, which take into account Japan's demands in this sphere and at the same time meet expectations of the international community, viewing Japan as a green power, are also discussed in the article. In conclusion the author examines the basic features of Japan's participation in major international conferences on the protection of the ozone layer, on the warming of the atmosphere, on preservation of the global environment, which had a great impact on the Japanese environmental legislation.…”
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From the guest editors by Urszula Ledzewicz, Eugene Kashdan, Heinz Schättler, Nir Sochen

“…The workshop, initially planned as a small meeting,was an overwhelming success with 170 participants from Israel, theUS, Canada and Europe. It included about 100 presentations: invitedtalks, special sessions dedicated to application of mathematicaltools to various areas in biology and poster sessions which gavegraduate students and young scientists a stage to present theirresearch. …”
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Learning Evolutionary Stages with Hidden Semi-Markov Model for Predicting Social Unrest Events by Fengcai Qiao, Xin Zhang, Jinsheng Deng

“…Our previous work built a hidden Markov model- (HMM-) based framework to predict indicators associated with country instability, leaving two shortcomings which can be optimized: omitting event participants’ interaction and implicitly learning the state residence time. …”
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Mengoptimalkan pengetahuan tim pemberdayaan kesejahteraan keluarga (PKK) dalam produksi kue tradisional di era modern: studi kasus di Malang by Gumoyo Mumpuni Ningsih, Harun Rasyid

“…Processing raw materials into semi-finished or partially finished goods produces products with high market value. …”
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Muscarinic Receptors Types 1 and 2 in the Preoptic-Anterior Hypothalamic Areas Regulate Ovulation Unequally in the Rat Oestrous Cycle by Yadira L. López-Ramírez, Kayro López-Ramírez, Isabel Arrieta-Cruz, Angélica Flores, Luciano Mendoza-Garcés, Raúl A. Librado-Osorio, Roger Gutiérrez-Juárez, Roberto Domínguez, María Esther Cruz

“…These results suggest that m1AChR or m2AChR in the POA-AHA could participate in the regulation of spontaneous ovulation in rats.…”
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Effects of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use on migraine – a critical review by Viktoria Tischler-Strasser, Irma Burdiladze, Goncalo Cabral, Esme Ekizoglu, Olga Grodzka, Keshet Pardo, Patryk Sochan, Laura Zaunandra, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink, Christian Lampl, on behalf of the European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies (EHF-SAS)

“…Moreover, PPI use is only partially without side effects, even if these may not occur immediately. …”
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A Narrative Approach to Exploring Life Changes Among Middle-Aged Women: A Qualitative Study by Nasrin Rezaee, Mahnaz Ghaljeh

“…Materials and Methods: This study was conducted using qualitative content analysis from September to December 2022 in Zahedan. The participants included 10 middle-aged women selected via purposive sampling. …”
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M1 and M2 Functional Imprinting of Primary Microglia: Role of P2X7 Activation and miR-125b by Chiara Parisi, Giulia Napoli, Pablo Pelegrin, Cinzia Volonté

“…At present, the mechanisms by which microglia actively participate to both toxic and neuroprotective actions in ALS constitute an important matter of research. …”
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A Lingual Agnostic Information Retrieval System by Umar Bn Abdullahi, Godspower Osaretin Ekuobase

“…This paper is aimed at the cyber-inclusion of monolingual natives. Since cyber participation is basically through human interaction with cyber-applications in a human language, encapsulating these applications for interaction in any human language will help evade the hurt of language inequities. …”
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Selenium improves the flavor-promoting substances of summer tea (Camellia sinensis) by altering the expression of flavonoid and amino acids metabolic genes by Ruiming Zhang, Huishan Tang, Xinlong Hu, Yuqiong Chen, Dejiang Ni, Mingle Wang

“…In conclusion, the addition of Se enhances the flavor profile of summer tea by modulating genes participating in flavonoid and amino acid metabolism, underpinning its potential for improving summer tea quality.…”
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Poética de los Valores y sus metáforas by Francisco das Chagas Amorim de Carvalho

“…Through a comprehensive language and its metaphorical processes, it is possible to learn about the truth and participate in a world in projection. The art of cultivating good words also contributes to the cultivation of humanity.…”
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