Mechanism and function of Drosophila capa GPCR: a desiccation stress-responsive receptor with functional homology to human neuromedinU receptor. by Selim Terhzaz, Pablo Cabrero, Joris H Robben, Jonathan C Radford, Brian D Hudson, Graeme Milligan, Julian A T Dow, Shireen-A Davies

“…To date, the capa peptide family constitutes the only known nitridergic peptides in insects, so the mechanisms and physiological function of ligand-receptor signalling of this peptide family are of interest. …”
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Adverse childhood experiences impair cognitive function via social isolation and functional limitations in Chinese middle-aged and older adults by Yan Zhu, Haojie Yin, Xianli Zhong, Li Wang, Xiaobin Tang, Qin Zhang, Ping Jia

“…Abstract Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are among the factors affecting cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults, but the combined effects of ACEs, social isolation and functional limitations on cognitive function have not been fully explored. …”
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Effectiveness executive function training program using augmented reality on Communication skills in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder by Shirin Mojaver, Aliakbar Arjmandnia, Mohsen Shokoohi yekta, Bagher Ghobari bonab, Fatemeh Jafarkhani

“…Introduction: Children with autism spectrum disorder have deficiencies in verbal or nonverbal communication skills. …”
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Association between near functional visual acuity and physical function in community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study by Tomoki Manabe, Yuko Oguma, Kento Tabira, Miki Sugimoto, Kazuno Negishi, Kaori Yagasaki

“…To date, a few studies have examined the relationship between visual and overall physical function. …”
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Brain Function Status may be Related to Pelvic Floor Function and Pregnancy Weight Gain in Postpartum Women with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction by Yu Chen, Xiaojuan Yu, Changping Lu, Wei Shi

“…Conclusions: This study observed that most postpartum women have abnormal brain function, including mood, sleep, fatigue, cerebral oxygen metabolism, concentration, and information processing ability, and showed that postpartum brain function problems might correlated with pelvic floor function and pregnancy weight gain.…”
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Baduanjin exercise improves functional capacity and cardiovascular function in older adults with cardiovascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xingyu Hu, Yiran Li, Haiyun Jiang, Zhihao Luo, Zengqing, Zengqing, Jihua Zou, Jihua Zou, Xiaoyan Zheng

“…Moreover, the effects of Baduanjin exercise on functional capacity in older adults with cardiovascular diseases have not been adequately investigated. …”
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Functional avidity of anti-B7H3 CAR-T constructs predicts antigen density thresholds for triggering effector function by Marta Barisa, Henrike P. Muller, Elisa Zappa, Rivani Shah, Juliane L. Buhl, Benjamin Draper, Courtney Himsworth, Chantelle Bowers, Sophie Munnings-Tomes, Marilena Nicolaidou, Sonia Morlando, Kathleen Birley, Clara Leboreiro-Babe, Alice Vitali, Laura Privitera, Kyle O’Sullivan, Ailsa Greppi, Magdalena Buschhaus, Mario Barrera Román, Sam de Blank, Femke van den Ham, Brenna R. van ‘t Veld, Gabrielle Ferry, Jonathan Fisher, Debarati Shome, Reza Nadafi, Israrul H. Ansari, Rogier Reijmers, Stefano Giuliani, Paul Sondel, Laura K. Donovan, Louis Chesler, Jan Molenaar, Jarno Drost, Anne C. Rios, Kerry Chester, Judith Wienke, John Anderson

“…Abstract Chimeric Antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) treatments for solid cancers have been compromised by limited expansion and survival in the tumor microenvironment following interaction with antigen-expressing target cells. …”
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Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests by Hans ter Steege, Lourens Poorter, Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Claire Fortunel, William E. Magnusson, Oliver L. Phillips, Edwin Pos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Chris Baraloto, Juan Ernesto Guevara, María-José Endara, Tim R. Baker, Maria Natalia Umaña, Masha van der Sande, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Matt McGlone, Freddie C. Draper, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Florian Wittmann, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Carolina V. Castilho, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Daniel Sabatier, Jean-François Molino, Layon O. Demarchi, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jochen Schöngart, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, José Ferreira Ramos, Olaf S. Bánki, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Carlos A. Peres, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Joseph E. Hawes, Everton José Almeida, Luciane Ferreira Barbosa, Larissa Cavalheiro, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Cintia Rodrigues De Souza, Marcus Vinicio Neves de Oliveira, Flávia R. C. Costa, Julien Engel, Ted R. Feldpausch, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Flávia Machado Durgante, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Hernán Castellanos, John Ethan Householder, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Gisele Biem Mori, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Caroline C. Vasconcelos, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Roel Brienen, Pâmella Leite de Sousa Assis, Darlene Gris, Karoline Aparecida Felix Ribeiro, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogollón, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Marcos Rios Paredes, Alberto Vicentini, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, William Nauray Huari, David Neill, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Yennie K. Bredin, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Janaína Costa Noronha, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, John J. Pipoly, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Joice Ferreira, Maria Julia Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Carolina Levis, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cerón, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, Kyle G. Dexter, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Toby Pennington, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Alfredo Fuentes Claros, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Pena, Luis Torres Montenegro, J. Sebastián Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Therany Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Egleé L. Zent, Stanford Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Tony Mori Vargas, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres-Lezama, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Riley P. Fortier, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Aurora Levesley, Georgia Pickavance

“…Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a leaf economics spectrum reflecting slow to fast returns on investments in leaf nutrients and carbon. …”
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Purity of the ideal of continuous functions with pseudocompact support by Emad A. Abu Osba

“…Let CΨ(X) be the ideal of functions with pseudocompact support and let kX be the set of all points in υX having compact neighborhoods. …”
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Radius Constants for Functions with the Prescribed Coefficient Bounds by Om P. Ahuja, Sumit Nagpal, V. Ravichandran

“…This motivated several authors to determine various radii constants associated with the analytic functions having prescribed coefficient bounds. In this paper, a survey of the related work is presented for analytic and harmonic mappings. …”
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The Vector-Valued Functions Associated with Circular Cones by Jinchuan Zhou, Jein-Shan Chen

“…Let Lθ denote the circular cone in Rn. For a function f from R to R, one can define a corresponding vector-valued function fLθ on Rn by applying f to the spectral values of the spectral decomposition of x∈Rn with respect to Lθ. …”
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Functional Data Analysis in Forecasting Serbian Fertility by Vladimir Nikitović

“…Similarly, modelling and forecasting fertility rates with regards to age and not total fertility rates shows how important it is for the recognized tendency of postponing childbearing in Serbia to be included in coefficients of functional time series. Besides, the method is based completely on evaluation of historical data, without subjective views of forecasters having to be taken into account. …”
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Chemistry and Functionality of Bioactive Compounds Present in Persimmon by Shazia Yaqub, Umar Farooq, Afshan Shafi, Kashif Akram, Mian Anjum Murtaza, Tusneem Kausar, Farzana Siddique

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Functional data analysis in forecasting Serbian fertility by Nikitović Vladimir

“…Similarly, modelling and forecasting fertility rates with regards to age and not total fertility rates shows how important it is for the recognized tendency of postponing childbearing in Serbia to be included in coefficients of functional time series. Besides, the method is based completely on evaluation of historical data, without subjective views of forecasters having to be taken into account. …”
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Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera by Doron Pinko, Dewi Langlet, Olha Sur, Filip Husnik, Maria Holzmann, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Eyal Rahav, Natalia Belkin, Michal Kucera, Raphaël Morard, Uri Abdu, Alexander Upcher, Sigal Abramovich

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THE ROLE OF OLFACTORY FUNCTION AND MULTIMORBIDITY IN COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT by Kevin Kristian, Gennesia Vebriana, Nicholas Hardi, Yuda Turana, Yvonne Suzy Handajani

“…The presence of multiple chronic diseases was determined by looking for highest prevalence of disease pairs, and the sense of smell was tested with an 8-smell test. Cognitive function was measured with the CERAD questionnaire, with a score below 52 indicating cognitive impairment. …”
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The Effect of Extra Functional Exercises with and without Functional Muscle Stimulation on the Lumbar Lordosis in Women Aged 20-30 Years in Tabriz by Amir Ghiami rad, Solmaz Jafari Amirkhiz, Behnam Shahbazi

“…The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of extra-functional exercises with and without functional stimulation of the muscles around the lumbar joints in women with increased lumbar lordosis. …”
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Identification of Bioactive Substances Derived from the Probiotic-Induced Bioconversion of <i>Lagerstroemia speciosa</i> Pers. Leaf Extract That Have Beneficial Effects on Diabetes... by Byung Chull An, Sang Hee Kwak, Jun Young Ahn, Hye Yeon Won, Tae Hoon Kim, Yongku Ryu, Myung Jun Chung

“…(Banaba) has been used as a functional food because of its diuretic, decongestant, antipyretic, anti-hyperglycemic, and anti-adipogenic activities. …”
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Normal Hematopoietic Progenitor Subsets Have Distinct Reactive Oxygen Species, BCL2 and Cell-Cycle Profiles That Are Decoupled from Maturation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. by Naeem Khan, Robert K Hills, Steve Knapper, Lora Steadman, Ushna Qureshi, Jerrald L Rector, Charlotte Bradbury, Nigel H Russell, Paresh Vyas, Alan K Burnett, David Grimwade, Paul S Hole, Sylvie D Freeman

“…LSC in CD34+ and more mature CD34- AML have heterogeneous immunophenotypes overlapping with normal stem/progenitor cells (SPC) but may be differentiated by functional markers. …”
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The actin-binding proteins eps8 and gelsolin have complementary roles in regulating the growth and stability of mechanosensory hair bundles of mammalian cochlear outer hair cells. by Jennifer Olt, Philomena Mburu, Stuart L Johnson, Andy Parker, Stephanie Kuhn, Mike Bowl, Walter Marcotti, Steve D M Brown

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