Effects of ENSO on Autumn Rainfall in Central Vietnam by Thang Van Vu, Hieu Trong Nguyen, Thang Van Nguyen, Hiep Van Nguyen, Huong Thi Thanh Pham, Lan Thi Nguyen

“…This reduction seems to be caused by a weakening of the North East monsoon circulation, which appears to be linked to an anomalous anticyclonic vortex and a positive sea level pressure anomaly over the East Sea. …”
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Improvement of a Free-Wake Model for the Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Analysis of a Small-Scale Two-Bladed Propeller in Hover by Manuel Iannotta, Antonio Visingardi, Domenico Quagliarella, Fabrizio De Gregorio, Mattia Barbarino, Alex Zanotti

“…An optimization procedure based on the application of the evolutionary Genetic Algorithm is followed to identify the values of the parameters describing the dissipative and diffusive properties in the Bhagwat–Leishman vortex core model, an upgraded version of the classical Lamb–Oseen one. …”
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Altered cortical activation patterns in post-stroke patients during walking with two-channel functional electrical stimulation: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy observationa... by Sheng Xu, Shizhe Zhu, Minyao Li, Tianjiao Zhang, Qinglei Wang, Youxin Sui, Ying Shen, Kan Chaojie, Ren Zhuang, Chuan Guo, Tong Wang, Lan Zhu, Lan Zhu

“…Our findings revealed only a significant reduction in ΔOxy-Hb in the contralesional pre-motor cortex (z = −2.803, p = 0.005) during the FES-on walking sessions compared to the FES-off sessions. …”
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Pirfenidone regulates seizures through the HMGB1/TLR4 axis to improve cognitive functions and modulate oxidative stress and neurotransmitters in PTZ-induced kindling in mice by Mansi Dahalia, Sparsh Gupta, Haya Majid, Divya Vohora, Nidhi

“…Histopathological changes were also assessed in the hippocampus and cortex of experimental mice.ResultsPirfenidone at 200 mg/kg and 300 mg/kg significantly increased Seizure Threshold Current in the Increasing Current Electroshock test, indicating a protective effect against seizures. …”
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Cerebellar-cerebral circuits functional connectivity in patients with cognitive impairment after basal ganglia stroke: a pilot study by Lijun Zuo, Xinlong Lan, Yijun Zhou, Hao Liu, Yang Hu, Yongjun Wang, Yongjun Wang, Tao Liu, Zixiao Li, Zixiao Li

“…IntroductionThis study aims to assess the pattern of functional connectivity (FC) between cerebellar subregions, the basal ganglia (BG), and the cortex, and explore the relationship between FC patterns and cognitive function after stroke with BG infarcts.MethodsA total of 39 stroke patients and 29 healthy controls were recruited. …”
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Effect on Balance Function in Patients with Parkinson's Disease Treated by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation by Na QIAO, Jianjun LU, Yongliang GUO, Wenhua ZHENG, Tiebin YAN

“…Anode electrode of tDCS was placed over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and cathode electrode of tDCS was placed over the right orbital frontal cortex. …”
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Sugemule-7 alleviates oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and cell death, promoting synaptic plasticity recovery in mice with postpartum depression by Qiang Fu, Rui Qiu, Jiaquan Liang, Shuai Wu, Dezhi Huang, Yuxiang Qin, Qiaosheng Li, Xiaojie Shi, Xiyue Xiong, Zhongyong Jiang, Yuewen Chen, Yong Cheng

“…Transcriptomic sequencing of hippocampal and prefrontal cortex tissues supported our findings, revealing that differential gene expression is primarily involved in regulating synaptic plasticity. …”
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Tungsten erosion during L-mode discharges in the DIII-D SAS-VW divertor by G. Sinclair, T. Abrams, M.S. Parsons, S.H. Messer, J. Mateja, S.A. Zamperini, D.M. Thomas, J.D. Elder, R. Maurizio, T. Odstrcil, R.S. Wilcox, J.L. Herfindal, D.D. Truong, J.G. Watkins, A.G. McLean, D.L. Rudakov, J. Ren, D. Donovan

“…Consistently low estimates of the effective W yield based on measurements taken a few cm outwards from the vertex suggest potentially significant C surface contamination. …”
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Effect of Five Elements Music Concrete Hypnosis Technique on Subthreshold Depression after Stroke by ZHANG Jiale, ZHOU Xia, LIU Jianxian, QIAN Qian, WANG Qin, WANG Zhensong

“…Compared with those before treatment, the occipital visual cortex, posterior cingulate, cortical area and other peripheral brain areas (Brodman zone 18, 30, 31) in the observation group were activated after treatment.ConclusionFive elements music concrete hypnosis technique can effectively improve the depressive mood state, somatic motor function and ability of activities of daily living of patients with subthreshold depression after stroke, which may be related to the activation of occipital visual cortex, posterior cingulate and cortical areas.…”
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Language function improvement and cortical activity alteration using scalp acupuncture coupled with speech-language training in post-stroke aphasia: A randomised controlled study by Bingbing Lin, Jinglei Ni, Xiao Xiong, Lanlan Zhang, Jian Song, Mengxue Wang, Linsong Chai, Yunshi Huang, Jia Huang

“…Our objectives were to evaluate the impact of scalp acupuncture on the cerebral cortex of post-stroke aphasia patients. Methods: This assessor-blinded, parallel-arm design, single-center, randomized clinical trial recruited 64 patients with post-stroke aphasia. …”
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Deconstructing the self and reshaping perceptions: An intensive whole-brain 7T MRI case study of the stages of insight during advanced investigative insight meditation by Winson F.Z. Yang, Avijit Chowdhury, Terje Sparby, Matthew D. Sacchet

“…Linear mixed models and correlations were used to examine relations among the cortex, subcortex, brainstem, and cerebellum, and SoI phenomenology. …”
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Elevation of ganglioside degradation pathway drives GM2 and GM3 within amyloid plaques in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by Wenxuan Wang, Sarah J. Myers, Nikita Ollen-Bittle, Shawn N. Whitehead

“…Significantly greater levels of simple gangliosides GM2 and GM3 were observed in the cortex and dentate gyrus of the hippocampus in transgenic mice at 12 and 18 m than in age-matched controls. …”
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Individualized resting-state functional connectivity abnormalities unveil two major depressive disorder subtypes with contrasting abnormal patterns of abnormality by Keke Fang, Lianjie Niu, Baohong Wen, Liang Liu, Ya Tian, Huiting Yang, Ying Hou, Shaoqiang Han, Xianfu Sun, Wenzhou Zhang

“…We identified a set of extreme functional connections that were predominantly between the visual network and the frontoparietal network, the default mode network and the ventral attention network, with the key regions in the anterior cingulate cortex, bilateral orbitofrontal cortex, and supramarginal gyrus. …”
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Deep brain stimulation-entrained gamma oscillations in chronic home recordings in Parkinson's disease by Maria Olaru, Amelia Hahn, Maria Shcherbakova, Simon Little, Wolf-Julian Neumann, Reza Abbasi-Asl, Philip A. Starr

“…Background: In Parkinson's disease, invasive brain recordings show that dopaminergic medication can induce narrowband gamma rhythms in the motor cortex and subthalamic nucleus, which co-fluctuate with dyskinesia scores. …”
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Voxel-Wise Brain-Wide Functional Connectivity Abnormalities in Patients with Primary Blepharospasm at Rest by Pan Pan, Shubao Wei, Huabing Li, Yangpan Ou, Feng Liu, Wenyan Jiang, Wenmei Li, Yiwu Lei, Yanqing Tang, Wenbin Guo, Shuguang Luo

“…Relative to healthy controls, patients with BSP showed significantly decreased GFC in the bilateral superior medial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex (MPFC/ACC) and increased GFC in the right postcentral gyrus/precentral gyrus/paracentral lobule, right superior frontal gyrus (SFG), and left paracentral lobule/supplement motor area (SMA), which were included in the default mode network (DMN) and sensorimotor network. …”
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Analysis of Circulating MicroRNAs In Vivo following Administration of Dexamethasone and Adrenocorticotropin by Ivan Igaz, Gábor Nyírő, Zoltán Nagy, Henriett Butz, Zsolt Nagy, Pál Perge, Peter Sahin, Miklós Tóth, Károly Rácz, Peter Igaz, Attila Patócs

“…The interaction of hormones of the pituitary-adrenal axis and adrenal cortex-associated circulating microRNAs is mostly unknown. …”
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Alternations of interhemispheric functional connectivity in patients with acute acquired concomitant esotropia: a resting state fMRI study using voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivi... by Jiayu Chen, Jie Hao, Jiawen Liu, Huijian Li, Zhaojun Meng, Jing Fu

“…The VMHC values in the bilateral olfactory cortex also positively correlated with the near vision work duration (Right: r = 0.389, p = 0.031; Left: r = 0.372, p = 0.039) while Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores negatively correlated with the VMHC values of the left olfactory cortex (r = −0.359, p = 0.048).ConclusionThe dysfunction of the medial frontal gyrus and anterior cingulate gyrus is the underlying neuropathological mechanism of AACE, and these dysfunctions may be related to poor eye habits and the severity of deviation.…”
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Aerodynamic Interaction Characteristics Study of the Ducted Coaxial Propeller for a Novel eVTOL in Hovering by Junjie Wang, XinFeng Zhang, Jiaxin Lu

“…The results indicate that the duct significantly mitigates the intensity of tip vortexes by changing the characteristics of propeller tip winding, which reduces the corresponding energy loss. …”
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Matrix Formulation of EISs of Graphs and Its Application to WSN Covering Problems by Yongyi Yan, Jumei Yue, He Deng

“…By introducing a characteristic value of a vertex subset of a graph and using the algebraic representation of pseudological functions, several necessary and sufficient conditions of matrix form are proposed to express the externally independent sets (EISs), minimum externally independent sets (MEISs), and kernels of graphs. …”
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TDoA localization-refused area analysis and node placement strategy research by Yue ZHAO, Zan LI, Bing LI, Benjian HAO

“…Regarding the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) as a localization accuracy metric, the sufficient conditions of the LRA in the time difference of arrival (TDoA)-based localization scenario were discussed and the influence of different factors on the LRA were analyzed.Furthermore, the node placement problem for wireless sensor network (WSN) was investigated by formulating an optimization problem with the objective as average CRLB, which was solved by a genetic algorithm based on LRA pre-judgment.Simulation validates the properties of the CRLB in a single-source scenario and verifies the sufficient condition and the spatial range of the LRA.The simulation also shows that the localization accuracy determined by the proposed algorithm is improved by 33.92% higher than the uniform angle array placement scheme, 13.74% compared to the regional vertex placement scheme, and 9.65% compared to the direct genetic algorithm.…”
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