Effect of Tai Chi combined with music therapy on the cognitive function in older adult individuals with mild cognitive impairment by Chunhui Zhou

“…The participants with TCMG showed notable enhancements in MoCA (P = 0.000), MMSE (P = 0.001), attention accuracy (P = 0.025), visuospatial and executive functions (P = 0.001), naming (P = 0.014), abstraction (P = 0.020), and delayed recall (P = 0.006). …”
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Embedded Software Unit Dynamic Test Based on C++Test by YANG Ying, LI Wen-bo, ZHONG Li

“…Taking on-board auxiliary converter platform software unit dynamic test as an example, embedded software unit dynamic test technology and method based on C++Test tool were expounded, including embedded software unit test environment developing, setting of stub function, test cases programming and executing, and coverage ratio accounting etc, which guided unit test for software designer and tester effectively.…”
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Space Debris Sky Survey Observation Strategy Based on HEALPix and Greedy Algorithm by Shuqi Liu, Shaoming Hu, Junju Du, Hai Cao, Bo Zhang, Yuchen Jiang, Shuai Feng

“…The characteristics of the telescope and dynamic changes in the movement and position of space debris are considered in this strategy. An objective function was designed based on these factors. Using the pixelated sphere method to finely divide the celestial area, applying the summation filtering method, and using a greedy algorithm, the benefit of the objective function can be maximized, thus generating the optimal sky survey observation strategy. …”
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HIV- and AIDS-associated neurocognitive functioning in Zambia – a perspective based on differences between the genders by Kabuba N, Menon JA, Franklin Jr DR, Heaton RK, Hestad KA

“…The norms corrected for effects of age, education, and gender in the general population, and the test battery measures domains of attention/working memory (learning and delayed recall), executive function, verbal fluency, processing speed, verbal and visual episodic memory, and fine motor skills. …”
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Hot‐Plugging Logic‐Enabled Valves by Jing Xu, Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort

“…Furthermore, by utilizing two PAs and adjusting the control pressure, the valve can execute a range of logical functions, including NOT, NAND, and NOR, without modifying its pneumatic connections. …”
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Altered dynamic functional connectivity in antagonistic state in first-episode, drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder by Min Wang, Tao Chen, Zhongyi He, Lawrence Wing-Chi Chan, Qinger Guo, Shuyang Cai, Jingfeng Duan, Danbin Zhang, Xunda Wang, Yu Fang, Hong Yang

“…Abstract Objective Major depressive disorder (MDD) is known to be characterized by disrupted brain functional network connectivity (FNC) patterns, while the dynamic change mode of different functional networks is unclear. …”
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Deciphering Default Mode Network Dynamics in Alcohol Use Disorder Through Directed Transfer Function Analysis of EEG by Komal Masroor, Danish M. Khan, Hashim Raza Khan, Norashikin Yahya, Kamran Arshad, Khaled Assaleh

“…Key findings include reduced connectivity between F3 and Fz and diminished frontal-parietal connections, such as F<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4\leftarrow $ </tex-math></inline-formula>P4 and Pz<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\leftarrow $ </tex-math></inline-formula>F4, linked to impaired executive functions, memory encoding, and visuospatial attention. …”
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Salience and default networks predict borderline personality traits and affective symptoms: a dynamic functional connectivity analysis by Alessandro Grecucci, Miriam Langerbeck, Richard Bakiaj, Parisa Ahmadi Ghomroudi, Davide Rivolta, Xiaoping Yi, Xiaoping Yi, Xiaoping Yi, Irene Messina, Irene Messina

“…While prior research has reported functional connectivity alterations in the default mode network (DMN), the salience network (SN), and the central-executive network (CEN) in patients with BPD, the impairment of these networks in subclinical BPT remain underexplored. …”
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The effects of diabetes on attention function: a comparative analysis of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their healthy peers by Paulina Wais, Maia Stanisławska-Kubiak, Elżbieta Niechciał, Katarzyna Anna Majewska, Joanna Wyrwas, Ewa Mojs, Piotr Fichna, Andrzej Kędzia

“…These self-management tasks demand intact cognitive and executive functions, particularly attention. Attention deficits in children and adolescents with T1D have been associated with poor metabolic control and an increased risk of complications. …”
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Improving Sleep and Daytime Function with Tryptophan, Magnesium, Melissa and Lactuca Formulation: An Exploratory Study in Adults with Sleep Disturbances by Schmitt F, Weishaupt R, Katumba PKM, Vogt D, Meyer N, Feld M, Hellhammer J

“…Daytime performance indicators included a 13% reduction in sleepiness and a 23% improvement in mood (p ≤ 0.014). Executive function showed a 13% improvement (p ≤ 0.001) on computerized tests (COMPASS). …”
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Relationship between cognitive functions and serum neurotrophic factor levels in long-term hospitalized male patients with schizophrenia by Pan Jing, Xiaopeng Yin, Haihang Yu, Ye Fu, Fangmin Wang, Xi Mei, Qiaozhen Zhang, Qing Tian, Xiaobin Zhang

“…Methods A total of 82 male schizophrenia patients with long-term hospitalization and 52 healthy controls were recruited. Cognitive functions were evaluated in all participants, including verbal fluency function, attention function, executive function, and spatial function. …”
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Peripheral inflammation and neurocognitive functioning in early psychosis: Specific associations of TNF-α and IL-6 with social cognition by Ana Catalán, Claudia Aymerich, José Manuel Rodríguez-Sánchez, Borja Pedruzo, Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo, Patxi Gil, Francisco Aguayo, Garazi Acasuso, Alvaro Collado-Pérez, Javier Goena, Olatz Ibarretxe, Iñaki Zorrilla, Ana González-Pinto, Leire Erkoreka, Daniel Alonso-Alconada, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Miguel Angel González-Torres

“…Assessments included memory, processing speed, executive function, and social cognition. Cytokines were measured from fasting serum samples. …”
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Intrinsic brain mapping of cognitive abilities: A multiple-dataset study on intelligence and its components by Simone Di Plinio, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Grazia Ferrara, Maria Rita Sergi, Marco Tommasi, Mariavittoria Martino, Aristide Saggino, Sjoerd JH Ebisch

“…Nodal efficiency in fronto-parietal sensorimotor regions consistently played a pivotal role in fluid reasoning, whereas efficiency in visual networks was linked to executive functions and memory. A broad, low-resolution 'task-positive' network emerged as predictive of full-scale IQ scores, indicating a hierarchical brain-behavior coding. …”
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Improving the interoperability of a Function-as-a-Service platform using an orchestration framework with a cloud-agnostic approach by Zameer Ahmed Adhoni, Dayananda Lal Narayan

“…Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications suffer from cold-start latency owing to their high execution time and memory usage. …”
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Approaches to indices choice and the experience of assessment of soil covering ability to realize general biospheric functions (analytical review) by V. I. Titova

“…The costs for support of soil fertility (an environment component and a guarantor of biogeocenotic functions execution) was calculated and it was 2 259.5 rubles a year per hectare. …”
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Effect of Aesthetic Images on a Population with Mild Cognitive Decline: An Electroencephalography/Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study by Livio Clemente, Marianna La Rocca, Marianna Delussi, Giusy Tancredi, Katia Ricci, Giuseppe Procida, Antonio Brunetti, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Marina de Tommaso

“…For each participant (six subjects with mild cognitive decline and ten controls), electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data were acquired thanks to a wearable EEG–fNIRS system during the execution of a P300 task.…”
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Specific and shared biological functions of PARP2 – is PARP2 really a lil’ brother of PARP1? by Magdolna Szántó, José Yélamos, Péter Bai

“…A better understanding of the specific functions of PARP2 in all of these biological processes is crucial for the development of new PARP-centred selective therapies.…”
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Legal regulation of the system of public administration entities providing the administrative and legal regime of special economic zones by O. A. Lakaev

“…The idea was formulated to describe in the proposed chapter a list of all subjects of public administration of special economic zones - the Russian Government, the authorized federal executive body, authorized executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, executive and administrative bodies of municipalities, management companies, supervisory boards and expert councils and determine the powers of each of them.…”
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Signal Denoising Method Based on Improved Wavelet Threshold Function for Microchip Electrophoresis C4D Equipment by Yaonan Tong, Jingui Li, Yaohui Xu, Lichen Cao

“…A signal denoising method using improved wavelet threshold function is presented for microchip electrophoresis based on capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (ME-C4D) device. …”
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Protocol for estimating the contrast transfer function and absolute tilt angle offset for cryo-electron tomography using CTFMeasure by Ranhao Zhang, Yuan Shen, Xueming Li

“…Summary: Contrast transfer function (CTF) estimation is essential to the data processing workflow of cryo-electron tomography (cryoET). …”
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