Relationship between dental occlusion and brain activity: A narrative review by Sebastian Silva Ulloa, Ana Lucía Cordero Ordóñez, Vinicio Egidio Barzallo Sardi

“…Objectives: Occlusal function stimulates different areas of the cerebral cortex. …”
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Development of speech motility in children with Cerebral Palsy: Game-Based Intervention by Li Yixuan

“…In our review, we did not find any study evaluating the effectiveness of goal-oriented GBI (Game-Based Intervention), which is based on top-down approaches and motor learning strategies, on functional performance in children with CP. …”
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Mining for Protoclusters at z ∼ 4 from Photometric Data Sets with Deep Learning by Yoshihiro Takeda, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kei Ito, Jun Toshikawa, Rieko Momose, Kent Fujiwara, Yongming Liang, Rikako Ishimoto, Takehiro Yoshioka, Junya Arita, Mariko Kubo, Hisakazu Uchiyama

“…To tackle the issue, we develop a new deep-learning-based protocluster detection model, PCFNet, which considers a protocluster as a point cloud. …”
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The Association between Addiction to Online Games and Students’ Academic Engagement: Determining the Mediating Role of Executive Function by Masoud Soltani Nazarlou, Mohammadagha Delavarpour, Seyed Musa Tabatabaee

“…However, it can indirectly predict academic engagement through the mediation of working memory (β=-0.013, P=0.025) and inhibition functions (β=-0.013, P=0.016). Overall, addiction to online games and the dimensions of executive function collectively account for nearly 44% of students’ academic engagement.Conclusions: These results suggested that excessive online gaming is destructive to cognitive abilities and motivation toward learning and schooling among adolescent students. …”
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The effect of the burn wounds dressing and mechanical debridement training package on nursing interns’ knowledge and executive functions: A quasi-experimental study by Manizhe Otaghi, Mohamadreza Bastami, Yousef Veisani, Hamid Taghinejad, Alireza Vasiee, Arman Azadi

“…This research was carried out to determine the effect of a training package on the nursing interns’ knowledge and executive functions regarding the dressing and mechanical debridement of burn wounds. …”
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AI Chatbots and Cognitive Control: Enhancing Executive Functions Through Chatbot Interactions: A Systematic Review by Pantelis Pergantis, Victoria Bamicha, Charalampos Skianis, Athanasios Drigas

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: AI chatbots are an innovative artificial intelligence tool that can function as a digital assistant for learning and expanding executive skills, contributing to the cognitive, metacognitive, and social development of the individual. …”
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Association of menarche, menopause, and reproductive history with cognitive performance in older US women: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2011–2014 by Anquan Hu, Lu Xiong, Huijun Wei, Liangyan Yuan, Yumeng Li, Heyan Qin, Feng Chen, Tao Liu

“…Longer reproductive span was linked to better cognitive function, particularly in immediate recall and processing speed (β = 0.12, p < 0.001 for DSST) in model 3. …”
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The impact of particulate matter exposure on global and domain-specific cognitive function: evidence from the Chinese Square Dancer Study by Jingyi Zhu, Shuaibo Wang, Peizheng Li, Fengping Li, Benchao Li, Lu Ma, Shuang Rong, Jingling Liao

“…Methods This study involved 2,668 female participants from the Lifestyle and Healthy Aging of Chinese Square Dancer Study. Global cognitive function was assessed using a composite Z-score derived from four tests: the Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT), Verbal Fluency Test (VFT), Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST), and Trail Making Test-B (TMT-B). …”
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The examination of physical function and cognitive outcomes in middle-to-older high-risk adults: an unsupervised clustering method by Joshua L. Gills, Joshua L. Gills, Megan D. Jones, Anthony Campitelli, Anthony Campitelli, Sally Paulson, Sally Paulson, Cody Diehl, Charles Rodgers, Charles Rodgers, Erica Madero, Jennifer R. Myers, Kelsey Bryk, Omonigho Michael Bubu, Omonigho Michael Bubu, Omonigho Michael Bubu, Jordan M. Glenn, Michelle Gray

“…Individuals in C1 had significantly higher global cognitive, visuospatial scores, digital executive functioning and associative learning compared to individuals in C3 (p &lt; 0.05). …”
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A Narrative Review on Brain Gym Exercises: An Asset in Alleviating Insomnia and Augmenting Cognitive Functioning by Vaishnavi Mukund Thakre, Mitushi Deshmukh

“…By engaging in brain gym exercises, individuals may experience improvements in their sleep patterns, leading to better overall sleep quality and duration and may experience enhancements in their ability to think, learn and perform cognitive tasks effectively. The review concludes that incorporating brain gym exercises offers notable benefits for both insomnia and cognitive functioning.…”
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Alzheimer&#x2019;s Disease Prediction via Brain Structural-Functional Deep Fusing Network by Qiankun Zuo, Yanyan Shen, Ning Zhong, C. L. Philip Chen, Baiying Lei, Shuqiang Wang

“…Fusing structural-functional images of the brain has shown great potential to analyze the deterioration of Alzheimer&#x2019;s disease (AD). …”
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Depth-dependent contributions of various vascular zones to cerebral autoregulation and functional hyperemia: An in-silico analysis. by Hadi Esfandi, Mahshad Javidan, Rozalyn M Anderson, Ramin Pashaie

“…However, temporal alterations in capillary diameter contribute moderately to cerebral autoregulation and minimally to functional hyperemia. In addition, hemodynamic analysis shows that while hemodynamics within capillaries remain relatively stable across all cortical depths throughout the entire autoregulation range, significant variability in hemodynamics can be observed within the first few branch orders of precapillary arterioles or transitional zone vessels. …”
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A unique spumavirus Gag N-terminal domain with functional properties of orthoretroviral matrix and capsid. by David C Goldstone, Thomas G Flower, Neil J Ball, Marta Sanz-Ramos, Melvyn W Yap, Roksana W Ogrodowicz, Nicole Stanke, Juliane Reh, Dirk Lindemann, Jonathan P Stoye, Ian A Taylor

“…Presently, there is a paucity of structural information with regards FVs and it is unclear how disparate FV and orthoretroviral Gag molecules share the same function. Therefore, in order to probe the functional overlap of FV and orthoretroviral Gag and learn more about FV egress and replication we have undertaken a structural, biophysical and virological study of PFV-Gag. …”
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Perspectives of Physiotherapists on Immune Functioning in Oncological Rehabilitation in the Netherlands: Insights from a Qualitative Study by Anne M. S. de Hoop, Karin Jäger, Jaap J. Dronkers, Cindy Veenhof, Jelle P. Ruurda, Cyrille A. M. Krul, Raymond H. H. Pieters, Karin Valkenet

“…In conclusion, oncology physiotherapists play an important role in the personalized and comprehensive care of patients with cancer. They are eager to learn more about immune functioning with the goal of better informing patients about the health effects of exercise and to tailor their training better. …”
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Distinct role of primate DLPFC and LIP in hierarchical control of learned saccade sequences by Qingjun Wang, Binchao Shi, Jing Jia, Jingyu Hu, Haoran Li, Xin Jin, Aihua Chen

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Prediction of Propellant Electrostatic Sensitivity Based on Small-Sample Machine Learning Models by Fei Wang, Kai Cui, Jinxiang Liu, Wenhai He, Qiuyu Zhang, Weihai Zhang, Tianshuai Wang

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Recognition of prokaryotic and eukaryotic promoters using convolutional deep learning neural networks. by Ramzan Kh Umarov, Victor V Solovyev

“…Accurate computational identification of promoters remains a challenge as these key DNA regulatory regions have variable structures composed of functional motifs that provide gene-specific initiation of transcription. …”
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Apprendere parole [Learning Words]: an app to support lexical expansion and grammatical development by Debora Musola

“…Apprendere parole [Learning Words] is a free app designed according to the Logogenia method to help deaf students expand their knowledge of Italian vocabulary and strengthen their recognition of grammatical information, which is conveyed through the endings of lexical elements (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and the forms of functional elements (pronouns, prepositions, functional verbs). …”
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Iterative Learning Tracking Control for a Vehicle-Manipulator System With Input Constraint by Fang Guo, Yi Qin, Fujie Wang, Zewen Sun

“…Based on differential equations model, a novel iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm is designed, where two saturation functions and two hyperbolic tangent functions are developed to deal with actuator saturation constraint and an adaptive law is developed to reduce the impact of disturbance uncertainty. …”
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Unpacking Performance Variability in Deep Reinforcement Learning: The Role of Observation Space Divergence by Sooyoung Jang, Ahyun Lee

“…Furthermore, we cross-evaluated the learned actor and value networks, measuring the average absolute TD-error, the RMSE of value estimates, and the KL divergence between policies to assess their functional similarity. …”
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