Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Impact on Alzheimer’s Disease: Role in Inflammation, Stress, and Cognition by Jonathan Zegarra-Valdivia, Harold Arana-Nombera, Leandro Perez-Fernandez, Milagros del Rocío Casimiro, Viviana Gallegos-Manayay, María del Rosario Oliva-Piscoya, Reyna Alamo-Medina, Eduardo Abanto-Saldaña, María Celinda Cruz-Ordinola, Carmen Paredes-Manrique, Brenda Chino-Vilca

“…Special attention is given to high-level cognitive processes, including executive functions and social cognition, which are particularly vulnerable to these disruptions. …”
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Frailty links the heterogeneity of tinnitus disorder and response to interventions in older patients by Jian Ruan, Min Zhang, Zhao Han, Jie Chen, Jie Chen, Qingwei Ruan, Qingwei Ruan, Zhijun Bao, Zhijun Bao

“…In this model, the dysfunction of dynamic executive functioning might be the common pathway of tinnitus disorder and frailty. …”
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The research progress on effective connectivity in adolescent depression based on resting-state fMRI by Xuan Deng, Jiajing Cui, Jinyuan Zhao, Jinji Bai, Junfeng Li, Kefeng Li

“…IntroductionThe brain’s spontaneous neural activity can be recorded during rest using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), and intricate brain functional networks and interaction patterns can be discovered through correlation analysis. …”
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Clinical characteristics in subcortical ischemic white matter disease Características clínicas na doença isquêmica da substância branca subcortical by Gilberto Sousa Alves, Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Alves, Maria Elisa de Oliveira Lanna, Letice Ericeira-Valente, Felipe Kenji Sudo, Denise Moreira, Eliasz Engelhardt, Jerson Laks

“…CONCLUSION: Executive dysfunction, apathy, and ratio depression were the main characteristics found. …”
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Output Efficiency and Liquidity Risk of Islamic Banks by Nurul Nadiyah Hashim, Aisyah Abdul-Rahman, Syajarul Imna Mohd Amin

“…A twostage analysis was conducted: 1) output distance function was used to estimate the scores of bank efficiency, and 2) system generalised method of moments (GMM) was employed to investigate the relation between output efficiency and liquidity. …”
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Assessment of functional capacity in elderly residents of an outlying area in the hinterland of Bahia/Northeast Brazil Avaliação da capacidade funcional em idosos residentes em áre... by Gilson de Vasconcelos Torres, Luciana Araújo dos Reis, Luana Araújo dos Reis

“…CONCLUSION: An elevated number of elderly were classified as dependent in terms of functional capacity and increased age is related to greater impairment in the execution of instrumental activities of daily living.…”
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Determining the relationship between mobile phone network signal strength and radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure: protocol and pilot study to derive conversion functions... by Lea Belácková, Isabelle Deltour, Florence Guida, Marco Zahner, Arno Thielens, Nekane Sandoval-Diez, Anke Huss, Hamed Jalilian, Jürg Fröhlich, Martin Röösli, Adriana Fernandes Veludo

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Multi-Objective Design and Optimization of Hardware-Friendly Grid-Based Sparse MIMO Arrays by Suleyman Gokhun Tanyer, Paul Dent, Murtaza Ali, Curtis Davis, Senthilkumar Rajagopal, Peter F. Driessen

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The effects of stress on working-memory-related prefrontal processing: an fNIRS study by Christoph Felix Geissler, Christian Frings, Gregor Domes

“…Acute stress causes a shift from executive to automated behavior. A key executive function suffering from this shift is working memory. …”
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Simulation of discrete control systems with parallelism of behavior by D. I. Cheremisinov, L. D. Cheremisinova

“…The aim of the work is to develop a method for simulating descriptions of such systems, which allows their behavior testing dynamically on the area limited by their possible functioning.Methods. The paper considers a class of control systems with parallelism of the processes occurring in them, which permits linearization of their execution. …”
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Fine-tuning text-to-SQL models with reinforcement-learning training objectives by Xuan-Bang Nguyen, Xuan-Hieu Phan, Massimo Piccardi

“…As reinforcement learning reward, we propose a novel function which better aligns with the text-to-SQL evaluation metrics, applied in conjunction with two strong policy gradient algorithms, REINFORCE and RELAX. …”
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Prevalence of participation of Brazilian aged people in Advanced Activities of Daily Living and associated factors by Vanessa de Barros e Silva Mazer, Rafael da Silveira Moreira, Kenio Costa de Lima, Maria das Graças Wanderley de Sales Coriolano, Vanessa de Lima Silva

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Evaluating the effectiveness of an exercise program based on the Adapted Utilitarian Judo program by analyzing fall competence in older adults by Marta Ortiz-Molina, Karin Strömqvist Bååthe, Óscar DelCastillo-Andrés, María del Carmen Campos-Mesa

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Gender differences in advanced activities of daily living: evidence from the longitudinal study of health and aging in Mexico 2012–2018 by Martha A. Sánchez-Rodríguez, Mariano Zacarías-Flores, Lesly Estefanía Castañeda-Sánchez, Víctor Manuel Mendoza-Núñez

“…BackgroundPerforming advanced activities of daily living (AADLs) is a component of healthy aging (HA) because it involves functional capacity. The ability to perform them can be hampered by several factors, which appear different for men and women.ObjectiveTo evaluate the performance data of AADLs in older Mexican adults from Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) from 2012 to 2018 and to determine the risk factors for not performing AADLs.MethodsA secondary longitudinal analysis of the 2012 and 2018 waves of the MHAS was conducted. …”
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Designing a model of effective marketing capabilities based on communication by Yoones Banisaeed, Ghanbar Amirnejad, Morteza mousakhani, Leila Andervazh

“…The research method is applicable in terms of its purpose; mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of execution method; descriptive-survey in terms of nature and method; and it is an exploratory study type of research. …”
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Enhance triangular fuzzy parametric framework for solid multi objective transportation problem with split decision variables by Vishwas Deep Joshi, Medha Sharma, Lenka Čepová, Huda Alsaud, Kanak Kalita

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Drawing the mind: assessing cognitive decline through self-figure drawings by Limor Goldner, Limor Goldner, Amit Pery, Johanna Czamanski-Cohen, Alex Nisara Jaroenkajornkij, Aviel Ben-Bassat, Gefen Avraham, Bussakorn Binson, Rachel Lev-Wiesel

“…BackgroundDrawing requires the integration of visual perception, spatial processing, motor planning, and executive functions, but few studies have explored the potential connection between drawings, cognitive decline and dementia.AimThis study compared self-figure drawings of elderly individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to those with normative cognitive functioning.MethodA total of 496 older adults from Thailand and Israel (Mage = 73.97, 70% women) participated in this study. …”
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation may promote the reversion of mild cognitive impairment to normal cognition by Zhiwei Guo, Zhiwei Guo, Yi Jiang, Jiayuan He, Ning Jiang

“…Functional connectivity was more severely damaged in MCI-M participants, notably within the default mode network (DMN), executive control network (ECN), and frontoparietal network (FPN). …”
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Brain topology and cognitive outcomes after cardiac arrest: A graph theoretical analysis of fMRI data by Marlous M.L.H. Verhulst, Puck Lange, Anil Man Tuladhar, Prejaas Tewarie, Pauline C.W. van Gils, Caroline van Heugten, Judith Bonnes, Thijs Delnoij, Rick Helmich, Jeannette Hofmeijer

“…Our analyses showed consistent relations between various topology measures of the sensory/somatomotor network (SSN) and MoCA score during hospitalization and memory, attention, and executive functioning at twelve months follow up. After correction for multiple testing, we found no statistically significant relations between whole-brain and subnetwork graph measures and cognitive outcomes. …”
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Large-Scale Cortical Network Analysis and Classification of MI-BCI Tasks Based on Bayesian Nonnegative Matrix Factorization by Shiqi Yu, Bin Mao, Yuanhang Zhou, Yunhong Liu, Chanlin Yi, Fali Li, Dezhong Yao, Peng Xu, X. San Liang, Tao Zhang

“…Compared to right-hand MI, the results showed that the significantly increased functional network connectivities (FNCs) mainly located among the visual network (VN), sensorimotor network (SMN), right temporal network, right central executive network, and right parietal network in the left-hand MI at the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (13-30Hz) and all (8-30Hz) frequency bands. …”
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