Mitochondrial DNA and Functional Investigations into the Radiosensitivity of Four Mouse Strains by Steven B. Zhang, David Maguire, Mei Zhang, Yeping Tian, Shanmin Yang, Amy Zhang, Katherine Casey-Sawicki, Deping Han, Jun Ma, Liangjie Yin, Yongson Guo, Xiaohui Wang, Chun Chen, Alexandra Litvinchuk, Zhenhuan Zhang, Steven Swarts, Sadasivan Vidyasagar, Lurong Zhang, Paul Okunieff

“…We investigated whether genetic radiosensitivity-related changes in mtDNA/nDNA ratios are significant to mitochondrial function and if a material effect on mtDNA content and function exists. …”
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Identification of functional non-coding variants associated with orofacial cleft by Priyanka Kumari, Ryan Z. Friedman, Sarah W. Curtis, Lira Pi, Kitt Paraiso, Axel Visel, Lindsey Rhea, Martine Dunnwald, Anjali P. Patni, Daniel Mar, Karol Bomsztyk, Julie Mathieu, Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Elizabeth J. Leslie-Clarkson, Michael A. White, Barak A. Cohen, Robert A. Cornell

“…To identify candidates for functional SNPs at eight such loci we conduct a massively parallel reporter assay in a fetal oral epithelial cell line, revealing SNPs with allele-specific effects on enhancer activity. …”
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Functional characteristics of endosymbiotic picornia-like virus in Diaphorina citri by Shuai Wang, Muhammad Younas, Chengtao Bao, Yuxi Xiao, Inzamam Ul Haq, Jia Lü, Yu Bin, Taiyun Wei, You Li

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Bilateral reverse shoulder arthroplasty: functional outcomes and technical considerations by Peter Boufadel, Ryan Lopez, Mohammad Daher, Jonathan Koa, Mohamad Y. Fares, Jie J. Yao, Joseph A. Abboud

“…This review aims to explore the functional outcomes of patients with bilateral RSA and examine the effect of risk factors and implant positioning on internal rotation. …”
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Collinear Acousto-Optic Filtration With Electronically Adjustable Transmission Function by Sergey N. Mantsevich, Vladimir I. Balakshy

“…It is shown that the feedback circuit electrical parameters variation enable controlling the spectral characteristics of the acousto-optic collinear filtration, resulting in enhancing the maximal spectral resolution and transmission function side lobes suppression.…”
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Enalapril and endothelial function in arterial hypertension patients of various age by L. I. Katelnitskaya, L. A. Khaisheva, S. A. Pleskachev

“…Vasoactive endothelial function (EF) was assessed in 48 patients with arterial hypertension (AH) (18 participants under 60 years, 30 patients older than 60). …”
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Design of Bacterial Cultures in Fermented Functional Maize Product Formulation by Zuzana Matejčeková, Anna Mikulajová, Eva Vlková, Denisa Liptáková, Silvia Mošovská, Eva Hybenová, Ľubomír Valík

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Insomnia and sleep duration for kidney function: Mendelian randomization study by Yang Zhang, Zhaozhong Zhong, Zuofu Tang, Ruojiao Wang, Jiaqing Wu, Ning Na, Jinhua Zhang

“…Objectives Extensive researches highlight the detrimental impact of sleep disorders such as insomnia and insufficient sleep duration on kidney function. However, establishing a clear causal relationship between insomnia, sleep duration, and kidney function remains challenging. …”
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Overcoming the protective functions of macrophages by Streptococcus pyogenes virulence factors by I. S. Freydlin, E. A. Starikova, A. M. Lebedeva

“…The review is devoted to the analysis of molecular mechanisms of action of S. pyogenes virulence factors aimed at overcoming the protective functions of macrophages. The review describes in detail the main protective functions of macrophages and the mechanisms of their implementation in the course of streptococcal infection. …”
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Influence of orthokeratology lenses on the state of accommodative function in children with myopia by T. E. Tsybulskaya

“…It was showed that optimal optical correction have positive effect on the accommodative apparatus of the myopic eye. …”
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Heavy quarkonium spectral function in the spinning black hole background by Zhou-Run Zhu, Manman Sun, Rui Zhou, Zhuang Ma, Jinzhong Han

“…Specifically, we analyze the spectral function of charmonium and bottomonium in the spinning black hole background and examine how the angular momentum affects the dissociation of $$J/\Psi $$ J / Ψ and $$\Upsilon (1S)$$ Υ ( 1 S ) . …”
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Genotypic, functional, and phenotypic characterization in CTNNB1 neurodevelopmental syndrome by Nina Žakelj, David Gosar, Špela Miroševič, Stephan J. Sanders, Alicia Ljungdahl, Sayeh Kohani, Shouhe Huang, Lok I Leong, Ying An, Miou-Jing Teo, Fiona Moultrie, Roman Jerala, Duško Lainšček, Vida Forstnerič, Petra Sušjan, Leszek Lisowski, Andrea Perez-Iturralde, Jasna Oražem Mrak, Ho Yin Edwin Chan, Damjan Osredkar

“…Across the 127 included participants (mean age, 70 months; range, 7–242 months) from 20 countries, we identified 88 different variants of the CTNNB1 gene, 87 of which were predicted to lead to loss of CTNNB1 function. Functional assays demonstrated reduced Wnt signaling activity, including 11 variants that also exhibited a dominant-negative effect. …”
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Modafinil alters the functional connectivity of distinct thalamic nuclei with the neocortex by Stefano Delli Pizzi, Federica Tomaiuolo, Carlo Sestieri, Antonio Maria Chiarelli, Francesco Gambi, Antonio Ferretti, Stefano L Sensi

“…Modafinil promotes wakefulness and enhances cognitive function through mechanisms and neural effects that are still partially unknown. …”
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Verification on policies for network functions in SDN/NFV-based environment by Haoyu CHEN, Deqing ZOU, Hai JIN

“…Although the newly introduced SDN and NFV technologies bring flexibility and convenience in network management, the dynamic forwarding policies introduced by SDN may cause invalidation in the network function policies, and the policies in different network functions may also cause conflicts due to their own behaviors.In order to verify the policies in SDN/NFV-based cloud network, the verification on policies between the network function and the SDN device, as well as across the network functions were considered.A unified policy expression for analysis was summarized, and policy verification scheme, framework and prototype implementation were proposed to verify the correctness of polices in different scenarios, then experiments were conducted to justify the effectiveness and performance…”
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Formation of student personality’s physical culture as subject of professional functioning by O.V. Otravenko

“…Conclusions: educational process shall be oriented on support of active motor functioning, motivation for physical exercises’ and healthy life style practicing.…”
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Functional connectivity profiles in remitted depression and their relation to ruminative thinking by Zhuo Fang, Emma Lynn, Verner J. Knott, Natalia Jaworska

“…Greater FC during the task vs. rest condition between DMN and SN nodes, as well as between CEN and SN nodes were also observed. These effects were more pronounced in the rMDD group as per our exploratory analyses. …”
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Radiation preparation and research progress of functional hydrogel wound dressings by LIU Kun, TANG Dongxu, FU Lili, WANG Zhijun, CHEN Huangqin, LI Yuesheng

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System of Creation and Functioning of Instruments of Territories Development (Part One) by Elena Sergeevna Charkina, Sergey Nikolaevich Miroshnikov

“…The conclusion about need of development of the complex system of creation and functioning of instruments of territories development including requirements to the content of justifications of expediency of use of instruments of development of territories within one or several territorial subjects of the Russian Federation, criteria for evaluation of efficiency of their functioning taking into account multiplicative effect of complex application is drawn.…”
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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL HETEROGENEITY OF ASTROCYTES IN THE BRAIN: ROLE IN NEURODEGENERATION AND NEUROINFLAMMATION by A. V. Morgun, N. A. Malinovskaya, Yu. K Komleva, O. L. Lopatina, N. V. Kuvacheva, Yu. A. Panina, T. Ye. Taranushenko, Yu. R. Solonchuk, A. B. Salmina

“…Changes at the initial stages of neurodegeneration or in neurodevelopmental disorders are associated with significant alterations in astroglial structural and functional properties, thus suggesting new approaches to therapeutic strategies implementing astroglia-expressing molecules and targets for effective…”
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Qualitative Functional Decomposition Analysis of Evolved Neuromorphic Flight Controllers by Sanjay K. Boddhu, John C. Gallagher

“…In the previous work, it was demonstrated that one can effectively employ CTRNN-EH (a neuromorphic variant of EH method) methodology to evolve neuromorphic flight controllers for a flapping wing robot. …”
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