Contradictions of students’ motivation for participation in the activities of voluntary organisations by A. V. Starshinova

“…The materials were processed in the programme Vortex 10.Results and scientific novelty. The study of the activity of volunteer associations existing on the basis of educational institutions indicates that such activity has become a compulsory type of extra-school work of students, which is veiled under volunteerism. …”
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The effect of soaking heat-polymerized acrylic resin denture base in avocado seed extract (Persea americana Mill.) on the inhibition of denture-plaque microorganisms biofilm growth... by Siti Wahyuni, Thalia Angela, Susanna Halim

“…Each disc was shaken with a vortex mixer for 1 minute, and 100 μL was added into 96-well microplates with three times repetition and incubated for 24 hours. …”
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Intensification of convective heat exchange of walls of heat pipe of 3D-printed micro-sized turbojet engine by A. V. Pobelyansky, D. K. Dmitriev, A. A. Levikhin

“…One of the acceptable ways to cool the walls of a small-sized chamber heat pipe is convective heat exchange of the outer side of the heat pipe due to intense vortex formation in the boundary layer of the flow. …”
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Circulating Stress Hormones, Brain Health, and Cognition in Healthy Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Findings and Sex Differences in Age-Well by Maxie Liebscher, Silke White, Simon Hass, Anne Chocat, Florence Mezenge, Brigitte Landeau, Marion Delarue, Oriane Hébert, Anne-Laure Turpin, Natalie L. Marchant, Gaël Chételat, Olga Klimecki, Géraldine Poisnel, Miranka Wirth, Claire André, Pierre Champetier, Léa Chauveau, Fabienne Collette, Sophie Dautricourt, Robin de Flores, Vincent De La Sayette, Harriet Demnitz-King, Séverine Fauvel, Francesca Felisatti, Victor Ferment, Eglantine Ferrand-Devouge, Julie Gonneaud, Antoine Garnier-Crussard, Anaïs Hamel, Sacha Haudry, Pierre Krolak-Salmon, Elizabeth Kuhn, Valérie Lefranc, Antoine Lutz, Valentin Ourry, Cassandre Palix, Anne Quillard, Géraldine Rauchs, Eric Salmon, Edelweiss Touron, Patrik Vuilleumier, Tim Whitfield

“…Results: Higher epinephrine levels were associated (false discovery rate–corrected p < .05) with lower glucose metabolism in the anterior cingulate cortex (β = −0.26, p = .008), posterior cingulate cortex (β = −0.32, p = .006), and precuneus (β = −0.27, p = .021) and lower perfusion in the posterior cingulate cortex (β = −0.23, p = .013). …”
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Morphological Biomarker Differentiating MCI Converters from Nonconverters: Longitudinal Evidence Based on Hemispheric Asymmetry by Xiaojing Long, Chunxiang Jiang, Lijuan Zhang

“…Asymmetry variation was observed in the medial temporal lobe, especially in the entorhinal cortex, between converters and nonconverters 3 years before the former developed AD. …”
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IMAGING ANALYSIS OF PERIODONTAL STATUS IN A GROUP OF PATIENTS WITH OSTEOPOROSIS by Stoica George, Roxana Popescu, Andreea Diana Ilinca, Daniela Pomohaci, Balcos Carina, Alexandru Nemtoi, Sirghe Ana, Haba Danisia

“…Radiographic evaluation demonstrated that 58.7% of patients with osteoporosis had a slightly eroded mandibular cortex (C2), while 34.9% showed severe erosion (C3). …”
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Beyond what was said: Neural computations underlying pragmatic reasoning in referential communication by Shanshan Zhen, Mario Martinez-Saito, Rongjun Yu

“…Our fMRI results showed that Bayesian posterior probability was positively correlated with activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and ventral striatum and negatively correlated with activity in dorsomedial PFC, anterior insula (AI), and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). …”
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Discriminative training of spiking neural networks organised in columns for stream‐based biometric authentication by Enrique Argones Rúa, Tim Vanhamme, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen

“…A network structure based on neuron columns is proposed, resembling cortical columns in the human cortex, and a new derivation of error backpropagation for the spiking neural networks that integrate the lateral inhibition in these structures. …”
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Prevention of Cerebral Embolism Progression by Emergency Surgery of the Left Atrial Myxoma by Syuichi Tetsuka, Kunihiko Ikeguchi

“…Hyperintense areas in the left basal ganglia, corona radiata, and cortex of the temporal lobe were found by brain diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, indicating acute cerebral infarction. …”
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Neuroinflammation and ALS: Transcriptomic Insights into Molecular Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets by Giovanna Morello, Antonio Gianmaria Spampinato, Sebastiano Cavallaro

“…Our research group recently described genome-wide characterization of motor cortex samples from sporadic ALS (SALS) patients, revealing the existence of molecular and functional heterogeneity in SALS. …”
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Clinicoradiological Correlation of Macropsia due to Acute Stroke: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mayra Johana Montalvo, Muhib Alam Khan

“…The difference of our case as compared to previous case reports is that the lesion in our patient spared Brodmann area 17 (calcarine cortex) and therefore did not present symptoms of quadrantanopsia. …”
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Layout Aware Optimization of High Speed Fixed Coefficient FIR Filters for FPGAs by Shahnam Mirzaei, Ryan Kastner, Anup Hosangadi

“…The optimization target platforms are Xilinx Virtex FPGA devices where we compare the implementation results with those produced by Xilinx Coregen, which is based on distributed arithmetic (DA). …”
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Motor Recovery of the Affected Hand in Subacute Stroke Correlates with Changes of Contralesional Cortical Hand Motor Representation by Jitka Veldema, Kathrin Bösl, Dennis Alexander Nowak

“…Recovery of motor function of the affected hand after stroke is accompanied by definite changes in excitability, size, volume, and location of hand motor representation over the contralesional primary motor cortex. These measures may serve as surrogate markers for the outcome of hand motor rehabilitation after stroke.…”
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Executive Function Improvement in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Following Shunt Surgery by Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Andrés Cervio, Jorge Salvat, Anselmo Rodríguez Loffredo, Luciana Vita, María Roca, Teresa Torralva, Facundo Manes

“…Patients with NPH were assessed before and after shunt surgery with tests shown to be sensitive to damage to the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Significant differences were found between basal and follow-up performances on the Boston Naming Test, the backwards digits span, Part B of the Trail Making Test, and the number of words produced on the phonological fluency task. …”
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A Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Apathy in Parkinson’s Disease by Olivia Plant, Annika Kienast, Daniel S. Drew, Elitsa D. Slavkova, Kinan Muhammed, Helen Kennerley, Masud Husain

“…Emerging lines of evidence conceptualize apathy as a reduction of motivation associated with disordered effort-based decision-making and dysfunction of distinct neural circuitry between the basal ganglia and medial prefrontal cortex. Here, we introduce a novel cognitive-behavioral framework that can inform a clinician’s conceptualization and treatment of apathy, using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques. …”
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Is Optical Coherence Tomography a Useful Tool to Objectively Detect Actual Posterior Vitreous Adhesion Status? by Thomas Bertelmann, Christina Goos, Walter Sekundo, Stephan Schulze, Stefan Mennel

“…To objectively detect true posterior vitreous cortex (PVC) adhesion status using a commercially available swept-source OCT device (DRI OCT-1, Atlantis©). …”
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Pontocerebellar hypoplasia: clinical case and literature review by L. Anužis, E. Buivydas, D. Petrova, M. Šukys, R. Gleiznienė

“…Most common MRI features include dragonfly configuration cerebellum in coronal sections, absent or severely reduced in size pontine prominence, various degrees of cerebral cortex atrophy, and delayed myelination. To confirm the diagnosis of PCH2A, genetic analysis is required detecting homozygous missense mutation in the TSEN54 gene. …”
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Hardware-Efficient Design of Real-Time Profile Shape Matching Stereo Vision Algorithm on FPGA by Beau Tippetts, Dah Jye Lee, Kirt Lillywhite, James K. Archibald

“…Hardware resource usage is presented for the targeted micro-UV platform, Helio-copter, that uses the Xilinx Virtex 4 FX60 FPGA. Less than a fifth of the resources on this FGPA were used to produce dense disparity maps for image sizes up to 450 × 375, with the ability to scale up easily by increasing BRAM usage. …”
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Unstructured Grid Solutions for Incompressible Laminar Flow over a Circular Cylinder Using a Particular Finite Volume-Finite Element Method by Mahdi Yousefifard, Parviz Ghadimi, Rahim Zamanian

“…A numerical modeling of a 2D Navier-Stokes equation by a particular vertex centered control volume framework on an unstructured grid is presented in this paper. …”
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Modification of the Ladder Rung Walking Task—New Options for Analysis of Skilled Movements by Iwa Antonow-Schlorke, Julia Ehrhardt, Marcel Knieling

“…Rats (males, n=10) underwent unilateral photothrombotic lesion of the motor cortex of the forelimb and hind limb areas. Locomotion was video recorded before the insult and at postischemic days 7 and 28. …”
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