Optimization of non-smooth functions via differentiable surrogates. by Shikun Chen, Zebin Huang, Wenlong Zheng

“…Through extensive testing on classical optimization benchmarks including Rosenbrock, Levy, and Rastrigin functions with varying dimensions and constraint conditions, we demonstrate that our method achieves solutions up to 40% better than traditional methods while reducing computation time by orders of magnitude. …”
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Genetic modifiers of MeCP2 function in Drosophila. by Holly N Cukier, Alma M Perez, Ann L Collins, Zhaolan Zhou, Huda Y Zoghbi, Juan Botas

“…The levels of methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) are critical for normal post-natal development and function of the nervous system. Loss of function of MeCP2, a transcriptional regulator involved in chromatin remodeling, causes classic Rett syndrome (RTT) as well as other related conditions characterized by autism, learning disabilities, or mental retardation. …”
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ANN Activation Function Estimators for Homomorphic Encrypted Inference by Mhd Raja Abou Harb, Baris Celiktas

“…Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computations on encrypted data, facilitating machine learning inference in sensitive environments such as healthcare and finance. …”
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Mechanisms through which exercise reduces symptom severity and/or functional impairment in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Protocol for a living systematic review of human an... by Fiona J. Ramage, Edoardo G. Ostinelli, Claire Stainsfield, Spyridon Siafis, Virginia Chiocchia, Simonne Wright, Francesca Tinsdeall, Claire Friedrich, James Thomas, Malcolm Macleod, Toshi A. Furukawa, Georgia Salanti, Soraya Seedat, Olufisayo Elugbadebo, Andrea Cipriani, Ouma Simple, Jennifer Potts

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Functional neurological disorders: effective teaching for health professionals by Alexander Lehn, Dharsha Navaratnam, Megan Broughton, Vince Cheah, Alison Fenton, Karl Harm, Diana Owen, Paul Pun

“…Objectives To provide an outline for the delivery of an educational course or lecture about functional neurological disorders (FND) that is directed towards health professionals with varying clinical knowledge and to highlight the educational efficacy that can be derived from a well-designed educational platform.Method Through multidisciplinary collaboration, a course designed to develop the skills for diagnosis and management of FND was created. …”
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Ketogenic diet and microRNAs: focus on cognitive function by Diana Marisol Abrego-Guandique, Erika Cione, Erika Cione, Maria Cristina Caroleo, Maria Cristina Caroleo, Diego A. Bonilla, Diego A. Bonilla, Diego A. Bonilla, Roberto Cannataro, Roberto Cannataro

“…Cognition is a mental process of understanding and learning driven by memory. Recent advances in molecular biology and neuroscience have revealed a fascinating interplay between cognitive function and microRNAs (miRNAs). …”
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Hardware assurance with silicon photonic physical unclonable functions by Mohammad Amin Mahdian, Ebadollah Taheri, Kaveh Rahbardar Mojaver, Mahdi Nikdast

“…We introduce several innovative design enhancements, including randomized corrugation functions, perforated designs, and ring-assisted CDCs, to increase the complexity and unpredictability of the CDC response. …”
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BOD1 Is Required for Cognitive Function in Humans and Drosophila. by Sahar Esmaeeli-Nieh, Michaela Fenckova, Iain M Porter, M Mahdi Motazacker, Bonnie Nijhof, Anna Castells-Nobau, Zoltan Asztalos, Robert Weißmann, Farkhondeh Behjati, Andreas Tzschach, Ute Felbor, Harry Scherthan, Seyed Morteza Sayfati, H Hilger Ropers, Kimia Kahrizi, Hossein Najmabadi, Jason R Swedlow, Annette Schenck, Andreas W Kuss

“…Together our results reveal novel postmitotic functions of BOD1 as well as pathogenic mechanisms that strongly support a causative role of BOD1 deficiency in the aetiology of intellectual disability. …”
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Legal aspects of functional security standardisation of the Internet of Things by P. S. Klimushyn, V. Ye. Roh, T. P. Kolisnyk

“…The functional security of the Internet of Things has been studied in terms of the security function, security completeness and resilience, which are subject to regulation in the technical requirements for the product being designed. …”
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Mechanisms of glutamate metabolic function and dysfunction in vascular dementia by Jiawen Wang, Yingmei Zhang, Ning Tian, Dongshan Ya, Jiaxin Yang, Yanlin Jiang, Xiaoxia Li, Xiaohui Lin, Bin Yang, Qinghua Li, Rujia Liao

“…Glutamate, the most abundant amino acid in the brain, plays a critical role as an excitatory neurotransmitter, impacting cognitive function, learning, and memory. Abnormal glutamate metabolism has been closely linked to dementia, and reduced blood flow to the brain can lead to excessive glutamate accumulation, resulting in neuronal death. …”
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Educational Function of the State as an Object of Administrative and Legal Regulation by V. V. Abroskin

“…As a result of revealing the essence of the categories “function of the state” and “education” the author has formulated own definition of the concept of “educational function of the state” as the direction conditioned by the social purpose of the state, during which the state (in the form of state and non-state subjects of educational activity) creates proper conditions to meet the needs of citizens for their intellectual, spiritual, physical and cultural development, to provide them with equal access to educational services, which, as a consequence, may lead to the achievement of the planned learning outcomes. …”
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Foot darkening with age in Spheniscus penguins: applications and functions by Ginger A. Rebstock, K. Pearl Wellington, P. Dee Boersma

“…The timing of foot darkening within species was consistent with foot color functioning in protection from UV radiation, and not with foot color functioning in thermoregulation. …”
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Defending CNN Against FGSM Attacks Using Beta-Based Personalized Activation Functions and Adversarial Training by Hanen Issaoui, Asma Eladel, Ahmed Zouinkhi, Mourad Zaied, Lazhar Khriji, Sarvar Hussain Nengroo

“…Mainly, we proposed a CNN model based on personalized activation functions using Beta function and its primitive. Then, the new resulted low degree polynomials are used to approximate the ReLU, Sigmoid and Tanh activation functions. …”
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The Life Functioning Scale: A Measurement Tool Developed to Assess the Physical Functioning Abilities of Community-Dwelling Adults Aged 50 Years or Older by Yunhwan Lee, Eunsaem Kim, Jihye Yun, Jaewon Choi, Jinhee Kim, Chang Won Won, Miji Kim, Soongnang Jang, Kyungwon Oh, Jihee Kim

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A multicenter cross-sectional study to elucidate altered resting-state functional connectivity of the insular cortex in anorexia nervosa, segmented by functional localization by Yusuke Sudo, Rio Kamashita, Tsunehiko Takamura, Sayo Hamatani, Noriko Numata, Koji Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Sato, Yumi Hamamoto, Tomotaka Shoji, Tomohiko Muratsubaki, Motoaki Sugiura, Shin Fukudo, Michiko Kawabata, Momo Sunada, Tomomi Noda, Keima Tose, Masanori Isobe, Naoki Kodama, Shingo Kakeda, Masatoshi Takahashi, Hiroaki Adachi, Shu Takakura, Motoharu Gondo, Kazufumi Yoshihara, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Eiji Shimizu, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yoshiyuki Hirano

“…Abstract Although changes in insular function have been thought to play a central role in the pathophysiology of anorexia nervosa (AN), due to factors such as insufficient sample size, there have been no studies examining changes in resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) between insula and whole brain in AN, based on functional localization of insula. …”
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The VNF Cybersecurity Dataset for Research (VNFCYBERDATA) by Believe Ayodele, Victor Buttigieg

“…Virtualisation has received widespread adoption and deployment across a wide range of enterprises and industries throughout the years. Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) is a technical concept that presents a method for dynamically delivering virtualised network functions as virtualised or software components. …”
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Existence of an Equilibrium for Lower Semicontinuous Information Acquisition Functions by Agnès Bialecki, Eléonore Haguet, Gabriel Turinici

“…Because of systematic biases agents are supposed not to learn from others' decisions. In a previous work under somehow strong technical assumptions a market equilibrium was proved to exist and the supply and demand functions were proved to be strictly monotonic with respect to the price. …”
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The role of war cry and its rhetorical function in Shahname by Hamid Rabiei, Ali Mohammasd Shahsani

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Frequencies and functions of vocalizations and gestures in the second year of life. by Megan M Burkhardt-Reed, Edina R Bene, D Kimbrough Oller

“…Now we bring longitudinal data on the second year (13, 16 and 20 mo), showing again that vocalizations predominated, and especially in conventional (learned) communication; > 9 times more spoken words were observed than gestures that could be viewed as functionally equivalent to words (i.e., signs). …”
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Short playful interactions improve executive functions in children by Daniela Yaffe, Limor Shtoots, Omer Kochav Isakow, Yuval Daniel, Omer Reuveni, Shoshi Keisari, Yulia Golland

“…These promising findings suggest that playful interactions are multidimensional activities that simultaneously engage cognitive, emotional, and social functions. We suggest that social playfulness holds unique potential for interventions aimed at training EFs in primary school children, as it is highly enjoyable and easy to learn and integrate into daily activities.…”
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