Representation and reporting of kidney disease in cerebrovascular disease: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. by Ioannis Konstantinidis, Shanti Patel, Marianne Camargo, Achint Patel, Priti Poojary, Steven G Coca, Girish N Nadkarni

“…Although 19 (14.1%) trials reported the incidence of acute kidney injury, no trial examined adverse event rates according to renal function. In summary, more than one third of major CVD trials excluded patients with KD, primarily based on serum creatinine or non-specific criteria, and outcomes were not stratified by renal parameters. …”
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Real-world therapeutic performance of pirfenidone for connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases by Xueting Yuan, Chen Yu, Shengyun Liu, Qiang Shu, Xinwang Duan, Lin Tang, Liying Peng, Shuang Zhou, Chanyuan Wu, Jiuliang Zhao, Dong Xu, Lan Song, Hui Huang, Mengtao Li, Yanhong Wang, Qian Wang, Xiaofeng Zeng

“…A linear mixed effects model was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of PFD in alleviating lung function changes. Differences in response to PFD were analyzed based on CTD subtype, imaging classification, and pattern of pulmonary function at baseline. …”
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Cognitive and Emotional Impairment after Minor Stroke and Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI): A Prevalence Study by Åse Hagen Morsund, Hanne Ellekjær, Arne Gramstad, Magnus Tallaksen Reiestad, Rune Midgard, Sigrid Botne Sando, Egil Jonsbu, Halvor Næss

“…Minor stroke patients and to a lesser extent NSTEMI patients scored worse on more complex cognitive functions including planning and implementation of activities compared to validated normative data. …”
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A FtsZ cis disassembly element acts in Z-ring assembly during bacterial cell division by Huijia Yin, Yang Liu, Ying Zhao, Pengyue Chen, Zengyi Chang

“…This delicate balance ensures not only apparent stability, but also continuous remodeling, both of which are required for Z-ring functioning. However, the molecular nature of such subcellular structures remains elusive. …”
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Individual variability and the H* ~ L + H* contrast in English by Riccardo Orrico, Stella Gryllia, Jiseung Kim, Amalia Arvaniti

“…We focused on Standard Southern British English (SSBE), which has not been extensively investigated with respect to this contrast, and used Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) to examine differences in prominence based on accent form and function. L + H*s were rated more prominent than H*s but only when the former were used for contrast and the latter were not, indicating that participants had expectations about the form–function connection. …”
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Social cognition, the male brain and the autism spectrum. by Jeremy Hall, Ruth C M Philip, Katie Marwick, Heather C Whalley, Liana Romaniuk, Andrew M McIntosh, Isabel Santos, Reiner Sprengelmeyer, Eve C Johnstone, Andrew C Stanfield, Andy W Young, Stephen M Lawrie

“…Furthermore Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), which are characterized by impairments in social functioning and empathy, occur more commonly in males than females. …”
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The beard of the Bearded Vulture (<i>Gypaetus barbatus</i>): citizen science suggests an adjustable airflow sensor by Tiziano Londei

“…This viewpoint might produce further hypotheses, e.g., that the longer beards of the adult birds might serve their visibly more agile flight and that the likely ornamental function in sexual/social displays might be an added function to the primary, sensory role of the facial bristles, both of which would be enhanced by the length of the beard. …”
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The Role of RPGR and Its Interacting Proteins in Ciliopathies by Sarita Rani Patnaik, Rakesh Kotapati Raghupathy, Xun Zhang, David Mansfield, Xinhua Shu

“…We summarize the function of the three proteins and highlight recent studies that provide insight into the cellular function of those proteins.…”
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The “plant neurobiology” revolution by Peter V. Minorsky

“…As such, scientists in the triad disciplines favor a more natural and holistic approach toward understanding plant function. …”
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Rough-Terrain Path Planning Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Yufeng Yang, Zijie Zhang

“…Road undulations have a significant impact on path lengths and energy consumption, so rough-terrain path planning for unmanned vehicles is of great research importance for performing more tasks with limited energy. This paper proposes a Deep Q-Network (DQN)-based path-planning method, which shapes the reward by introducing a slope penalty function and a terrain penalty function. …”
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A practical guide to item bank calibration with multiple matrix sampling by Güneş Ertaş, Serkan Arıkan, Eren Can Aybek

“…The results of the present study showed that the standard mirt() function is more practical and makes more precise estimations compared to the multipleGroup() function.…”
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Morphology of the lateral aspects of the human cortex: an informational explanation by Jeel Moya-Salazar, Hans Contreras-Pulache

“…This article presents a novel perspective on the structure and function of the human cortex, grounded in the Sociobiological Informational Theory (SIT). …”
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Travel patterns in China. by Tini Garske, Hongjie Yu, Zhibin Peng, Min Ye, Hang Zhou, Xiaowen Cheng, Jiabing Wu, Neil Ferguson

“…Conversely, in the less developed rural region of Anhui, travel was much more local, with very few journeys over 30 km. Travel patterns in both populations were well-fitted by a gravity model with a lognormal kernel function. …”
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Extracellular and Intracellular Regulation of Calcium Homeostasis by Felix Bronner

“…Very rapid shape changes of osteoblasts and osteoclasts, in response to hormonal signals, modulate the available bone surfaces so that plasma calcium can increase when more low-affinity bone calcium binding sites are made available and can decrease when more high-affinity binding sites are exposed. …”
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Internet of things data security and privacy protection based on improved federated learning by Wang Gang

“…To ensure the security of IoT data and user privacy in various scenarios, the federated learning (FL) method is optimized based on function encryption and blockchain. At the same time, using the decentralized function to encrypt the privacy of the training model, the learning model can provide more secure and reliable services, aiming to solve the problem of large difference in the quality of computing nodes and data privacy leakage in the current FL. …”
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Comparative analysis of profitability and resource use efficiency between Penaeus monodon and Litopenaeus vannamei in India. by Ubair Nisar, Hongzhi Zhang, Mahida Navghan, Yugui Zhu, Yongtong Mu

“…The study aimed to highlight the profitability and production function analysis of Penaeus monodon and Litopenaeus vannamei in intensified shrimp farms in Gujarat (India). …”
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The potential of unused railway areas by Jiří Kugl

“…The remaining areas are sometimes sporadically used, but more effective and conscious management of the station could fairly easily lead up to the release of these areas for another, more useful function for both the city and the station. …”
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Systematic Analysis and Modelling of Profit Maximization on Carsharing by Giulio Giorgione, Dzmitry Kliazovich, Luca Bolzani, Francesco Ciari, Francesco Viti

“…The success of carsharing as a relatively new and more sustainable way of traveling is moving private car ownership towards a service use model. …”
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APPLICATION OF THE SPECTROMETRIC METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE DOSE RATE FOR CREATING CALIBRATION HIGHLY SENSITIVE INSTRUMENTS BASED ON SCINTILLATION DETECTION UNITS by R. V. Lukashevich, G. A. Fokov

“…Using predetermined or measured functions of the detector response to the action of gamma radiation of a given energy and flux density, a certain function of the energy G(E) is determined. …”
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The role of the human cerebellum in representing social behavior sequences: An SDM-PSI meta-analysis by Yuting Zhang, Yidan Qiu, Shuting Lin, Xiaoyu Zheng, Liwei Tan, Xia Liu, Ruiwang Huang

“…In sequencing processes, the cerebellar posterior Crus II responded more strongly to social than to non-social events, suggesting that the sequencing function of this cerebellar sub-region is more applicable to social contexts. …”
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