The Association between Obesity and Cognitive Function in Otherwise Healthy Premenopausal Arab Women by Abdulaziz Farooq, Ann-Marie Gibson, John J. Reilly, Nadia Gaoua

“…All participants completed the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) to assess cognitive performance in three domains: attention, memory, and planning executive function. The Reaction Time (RTI) test was used to assess motor and mental response speeds; the Stockings of Cambridge (SOC) test was used to assess planning executive function. …”
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The Interplay of Non-Verbal Intelligence and Cognitive Functions in Understanding Emotions in Preschool Children by Charkhabi M, Gavrilova M, Tarasova K, Chichinina E, Dutheil F

“…Also, the executive cognitive functions were positively associated with both non-verbal intelligence and emotion understanding. …”
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Enriched rehabilitation on brain functional connectivity in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment by Yaping Huai, Weiwei Yang, Yichen Lv, Kui Wang, Hongyu Zhou, Yiqing Lu, Xiaoyun Zhang, Yaze Wang, Jibing Wang, Xin Wang

“…All patients underwent assessments of overall cognitive function, attention function, and executive function within 24 h before the start of training and within 24 h after the 8 weeks of training. …”
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Neurocognitive functioning during adolescence: Spanish validation of the Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery by Xacobe Fernández‐García, Félix Inchausti, Alicia Pérez‐Albéniz, Javier Ortuño‐Sierra, Raquel Falcó, Eduardo Fonseca‐Pedrero

“…The literature links (dys)functions in these areas with psycho(patho)logical constructs, but evidence is scarce among Spanish‐speaking youth. …”
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Modern Challenges to Effective Functioning of Local Self-Government (On the Example of Saint Petersburg) by V. A. Semenov, V. V. Ereshkin

“…The pluralism of opinions that emerged in local government became particularly important, since without agreement for decision-making the work of representative bodies of local government was impossible, and consequently the exercise of the constitutional rights of citizens to exercise local government and the legitimate functioning of local government in addressing issues of local importance and the execution of certain state powers was impossible. …”
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Nature and Scope of Governmental Order and Its Function in Solving New Problems in Society by Muhammad Eshaq Arefi

“…T he nature of governmental command, its scope and its function in solving new issues of society are the most important ones that have been considered in this article. …”
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A longitudinal study of motor, oculomotor and cognitive function in progressive supranuclear palsy. by Boyd C P Ghosh, Roger H S Carpenter, James B Rowe

“…<h4>Objective</h4>We studied the annual change in measures of motor, oculomotor and cognitive function in progressive supranuclear palsy. This had twin objectives, to assess the potential for clinical parameters to monitor disease progression in clinical trials and to illuminate the progression of pathophysiology.…”
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Neurocognitive function in HIV-infected patients: comparison of two methods to define impairment. by Alejandro Arenas-Pinto, Alan Winston, Wolfgang Stöhr, John Day, Rebecca Wiggins, Say Pheng Quah, Jonathan Ainsworth, Sue Fleck, David Dunn, Alex Accoroni, Nicholas I Paton, PIVOT Trial Team

“…Strong correlations between the two components of the HVLT-R test (learning/recall) (r = 0.73), and the CTT and (attention/executive functioning) (r = 0.66) were observed. PCA showed a clustering with three components accounting for 88% of the total variance. …”
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Changes in cerebrovascular reactivity within functional networks in older adults with long-COVID by Jessica M. Pommy, Alexander Cohen, Amarpreet Mahil, Laura Glass Umfleet, Sara J. Swanson, Malgorzata Franczak, Shawn Obarski, Kelly Ristow, Yang Wang, Yang Wang, Yang Wang

“…A subject-specific approach, Distribution-Corrected Z-scores (DisCo-Z), was used.ResultsAnalyses revealed the long-COVID group demonstrated significantly greater incidence of extreme CVR clusters within the brain (&gt;100 voxels) and within functional networks thought to drive attention and executive function. …”
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Unravelling the interplay: brain regional atrophy and neuropsychological function in early Alzheimer’s disease by Doyun Heo, Min-Seong Kim, Yun-Jin Lee, Seon-Kyeong Kim, Yong Sung Kim, Wonjae Sung, Hee-Jin Kim

“…Various tests reflecting frontal and executive functions did not reveal significant correlations with the frontal regions. …”
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A meta-analysis of the influence of traditional Chinese exercises on cognitive function in the elderly by Xueqi Liu, Dewei Sun, Weiran Zhao, Xiaoying Zhang, Yixin Wu

“…The results demonstrate that traditional Chinese exercises substantially improve language abilities (Category Verbal Fluency: MD = 0.90, 95% CI: 0.38 to 1.41), executive function (TMT B: MD = −13.70, 95% CI: −16.06 to −11.35), short-term memory (MD = 0.85, 95% CI: 0.42 to 1.29), and long-term delayed recall (MD = 1.39, 95% CI: 0.72 to 2.06). …”
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Differential dynamic functional network connectivity in different motor subtypes of Parkinson's disease by Yu Pan, Hang Qu, Yi Zhao, Zhaoxia Qin, Jiangbing Liu, Wei Wang

“…Results: Eight functional networks were identified, and four connectivity states were clustered. …”
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ON THE SOCIAL-LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN PENITENTIARY SYSTEM by O. A. Pogudin

“…Results: the position is justified, according to which the pay increase of convicts is based on the development and technological re-equipment of industrial production of the criminal-executive system, and is intended to be linked with both positive dynamics of production and economic activity of the criminal-executive system and effective the institution of their work rating. …”
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Alterations in static and dynamic functional network connectivity in subcortical vascular cognitive impairment by Haixia Mao, Yachen Shi, Qianqian Gao, Min Xu, Xiaoyun Hu, Feng Wang, Xiangming Fang

“…Spearman correlation analyses were performed to explore relationships between sFNC and dFNC changes and cognitive function. In the sFNC analysis, the SVCI group showed significantly decreased interactions between the sensorimotor network and lateral visual network, which was negatively associated with executive function (r = − 0.248, p = 0.027). …”
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Information systems validation using formal models by Azadeh Sarram, Ali Harounabadi

“…During the past few years, there has been growing interest to use unified modeling language (UML) to consider the functional requirements. However, lacking a tool to detect the accuracy and the logic of diagrams in this language makes a formal model indispensable. …”
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The Oversight Role Of Legislative Institutions In Emergency Situations (Comparison Of Indonesia With The United States) by Rizqya Nafila Putri, Muhammad Ali Ausath

“…The House of Representatives (DPR), as the legislative body, is responsible for overseeing the executive branch. However, the oversight function of the DPR appears to be suspended during emergencies under Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 23 of 1959 (Perppu Keadaan Darurat). …”
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Functional Role of Internal and External Visual Imagery: Preliminary Evidences from Pilates by Simone Montuori, Giuseppe Curcio, Pierpaolo Sorrentino, Lidia Belloni, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Francesca Foti, Laura Mandolesi

“…The present study investigates whether a functional difference between the visualization of a sequence of movements in the perspective of the first- (internal VMI-I) or third- (external VMI-E) person exists, which might be relevant to promote learning. …”
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Server Resource Dimensioning and Routing of Service Function Chain in NFV Network Architectures by V. Eramo, A. Tosti, E. Miucci

“…Any service is represented by the Service Function Chain (SFC) that is a set of VNFs to be executed according to a given order. …”
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Realizing the Calculation of a Fully Normalized Associated Legendre Function Based on an FPGA by Yuxiang Fang, Qingbin Wang, Yichao Yang

“…A large number of fully normalized associated Legendre function (fnALF) calculations are required to compute Earth’s gravity field elements using ultra high-order gravity field coefficient models. …”
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A Prototype Mechatronic Device for Upper Limb Rehabilitation and Analysis of Its Functionality by Jacek S. Tutak, Jacek Mucha

“…The device enables the execution of upper limb rehabilitation exercises and integrates essential modules for assessment, reporting, and user feedback (biofeedback). …”
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