Emerging PET Radiotracers and Targets for Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Outlook Beyond TSPO by Vidya Narayanaswami PhD, Kenneth Dahl PhD, Vadim Bernard-Gauthier PhD, Lee Josephson PhD, Paul Cumming PhD, Neil Vasdev PhD

“…The dynamic and multicellular processes of neuroinflammation are mediated by the nonneuronal cells of the central nervous system, which include astrocytes and the brain’s resident macrophages, microglia. Although initiation of an inflammatory response may be beneficial in response to injury of the nervous system, chronic or maladaptive neuroinflammation can have harmful outcomes in many neurological diseases. …”
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Changes in the Parietal Lobe Subregion Volume at Various Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease and the Role in Cognitively Normal and Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion by Fang Lu, Qing Ma, Cailing Shi, Wenjun Yue

“…Methods: We included 662 participants from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database, including 228 CN, 221 early MCI (EMCI), 112 late MCI (LMCI), and 101 AD participants. …”
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SOCIALINĖS EPISTEMOLOGIJOS IDĖJA IR NATŪRALISTINĖ DILEMA by Audronė Rimkutė

“…Afterward his approach evolves to the more methodologically consistent naturalism, but in so doing it loses its normativity in the sense of classical epistemology. The initial idea of the sociological naturalism of Steve Fuller is epistemology as the "economy of text production". …”
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Prevalence of “weak B” phenotypes and their evaluation and differentiation in healthy blood donor population in Eastern India by Sudipta Sekhar Das, Sourav Mukherjee, Sourav Chowdhury

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: The 9-year prospective study included 84,534 healthy blood donors. Initial blood grouping and antibody screening of all donor samples were performed using automated solid-phase assay. …”
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An X-Linked Hyper-IgM Patient Followed Successfully for 23 Years without Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation by Necil Kutukculer, Neslihan Edeer Karaca, Guzide Aksu, Ayca Aykut, Erhan Pariltay, Ozgur Cogulu

“…A seven-year-old male patient was admitted with recurrent upper and lower respiratory tract infections and recurrent otitis media. His initial immunologic evaluation revealed low IgG and normal IgA and IgM levels with normal lymphocyte phenotyping and inadequate specific antibody responses. …”
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Effectiveness of the barley cultivar ‘Bios 1’ as source material for breeding by N. A. Zhilin, I. Yu. Zaytseva, I. N. Shchennikova, S. A. Emelev

“…In Vyatka State Agricultural Academy, 190 mutant forms of barley were produced using ‘Bios 1’ as the initial form. According to the results of laboratory experiments and competitive variety trials, 5 mutant forms of barley were identified as promising. …”
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Tabu Search Algorithm for Optimization of Blood Distribution Routes by Agus Mulyadi, St. Nova Meirizha, Ari Andriyas, Irsan Pratama

“…Based on the study results, the route 0-1-14-8-18-6-2-17-11-10-4-3-15-9-5-7-16-19-12-13-0 with a distance of 55, 9 KM in 67.1 Minutes. The initial distribution route is 0-1-2-6-5-4-3-7-17-8-13-11-12-14-16-15-18-9-10-19-0 with a distance of 130.7 KM in 156.8 minutes. …”
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Analisis Upaya Pelayanan Kesehatan di Pusat Pendidikan dan Latihan Olahraga Pelajar (PPLP) Propinsi Sumatera Barat by Pudia M. Indika, Afriwardi ., Delmi Sulastri

“…The results showed that the health care efforts in ETSC of West Sumatra has had a policy for initial medical examinations of prospective students and have not done centrally. …”
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Potential of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Aircraft for Commercial Applications with Advanced Airframe and Propulsion Technologies by Stanislav Karpuk, Yannik Freund, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach

“…Future technologies considered in the present work include laminar flow control, active load alleviation, new materials and structures, ultra-high bypass ratio turbofan engines, more efficient thermal management systems, and superconducting electric motors. A multi-fidelity initial sizing framework with coupled constraint and mission analysis blocks was used for parametric airplane sizing and calculations of all necessary characteristics. …”
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Congenital colour vision deficiency in healthcare professionals: a scoping review protocol of the impact on clinical practice and patient safety by Euan Lawson, Adam M Taylor, Aqib Khan, Quenton Wessels

“…It will be limited to congenital CVD and will exclude the impact of visual impairment and acquired CVD.There will be an initial search to validate the search strategy. Titles and abstracts will be screened to determine eligibility, and the full text will be reviewed using a data extraction framework. …”
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International development cooperation and political risks for transnational business: Linking research topics by V. I. Bartenev

“…Despite political risks had initially been associated with developing countries (and transition economies — after the Cold War), two distinctive research clusters have developed separately from one another — quite inexplicably. …”
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REGAIN STUDY: Retrospective Study to Assess the Effectiveness, Tolerability, and Safety of Ferric Carboxymaltose in the Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women by Saleema Wani, Mariyam Noushad, Shabana Ashiq

“…Data from 1001 pregnant women who received at least one administration of FCM (500, 1000, or 1500 mg) during their second or third trimester of pregnancy (2 years backward from study initiation) were collected retrospectively from electronic medical records at Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE. …”
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Research on the Impact of Different Force Directions on the Mechanical Properties and Damage Evolution Law of Sandstone with Different Hole Diameters by Fukun Xiao, Renhe Li, Le Xing

“…For the rock sample with the horizontal hole, symmetrical tensile cracks initially appear in the upper and lower parts of the hole and finally form shear failure. …”
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Identifying strokes in Nigerian children with sickle cell disease as part of clinical trials: training curriculum for healthcare professionals in low-income settings by Djamila L. Ghafuri, Halima Bello-Manga, Fenella J. Kirkham, Mariana Ciobanu, Edwin Trevathan, Edwin Trevathan, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Michael R. DeBaun, Lori C. Jordan

“…Of 20 children with suspected stroke, 8 and 11 children had acute initial or acute recurrent strokes confirmed in the SPRING (N = 220) and SPRINT (N = 101) trials, respectively. …”
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Extended Use of The Spanner® Temporary Prostatic Stent in Catheter-Dependent Men with Comorbidities by Angelo J. Cambio, Richard M. Roach, Paul Arnold, Joseph Cambio, Clifford D. Gluck, Sean P. Heron

“…Patients were 77.1 ± 10.6 years old; 63/107 (58.9%) were dependent on Foley and 40/107 (37.4%) on intermittent catheterization for 36.0 ± 39.3 days and 30.2 ± 45.8 days, respectively. 25/107 (23.4%) discontinuations were primarily due to voluntary patient withdrawal 9/107 (8.4%), investigator-initiated withdrawal 8/107 (7.5%), or lack of effectiveness 4/107 (3.7%). …”
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Processing, characterisation and oxidation resistance of βNiAl bond coat: Al and Zr effects by Chandio A.D., Shaikh A.A., Salman W., Ahmed H.

“…Moreover, the study focused on the development of a systematic understanding of underlying mechanisms behind the beneficial effects of REs. Initially, three sets of BCs were prepared: Zr-free βNiAl (undoped), Al and Zr co-deposited in a single-step process (1SP), and Zr and Al, which were individually deposited in two processing steps (2SP): zirconizing and aluminizing. …”
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Verbalization of the concept of “hearing” in Slavic languages by Liudmyla Pedchenko

“…From the onomasiological point of view, it is possible to ascertain the presence of two main cognitive features that influence the nature of the verbalization of the concept of “hearing” in Slavic languages: first, the obvious initial connection of auditory perception with human speech activity (the conceptualization of the human ability to hear was formed in connection connected with the development of articulate speech), and secondly, the semantic syncretism of perceptive vocabulary, which is based on the interaction of different perceptual modes of a person (the phenomenon of synesthesia).…”
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The effect of propagation saw test geometries on critical cut length by B. Bergfeld, K. W. Birkeland, V. Adam, V. Adam, P. L. Rosendahl, A. van Herwijnen

“…<p>For a slab avalanche to release, a crack in a weak snow layer beneath a cohesive snow slab has to initiate and propagate. Information on crack propagation is essential for assessing avalanche triggering potential. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Pelvic Examination and Holistic Treatment of Infertility by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick

“…We have established a procedure of slow or extended pelvic examination, where time is spent to make the patient familiar with the examination and accept the whole procedure, before the treatment is initiated. The procedure is carried out with a nurse, and 3 h are set aside. …”
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Robust Prediction of Healthcare Inflation Rate With Statistical and AI Methods in Iran by Mohammad Javad Shaibani, Ali Akbar Fazaeli

“…Using monthly time series data of HCIR in Iran, we developed various forecasting techniques based on classical smoothing methods, decomposition ETS (error, trend, and seasonality) approaches, autoregressive (AR) integrated moving average (ARIMA), seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA), and a multilayer nonlinear AR artificial neural network (NARANN) with several training algorithms including Bayesian regularization (BR), Levenberg–Marquardt (LM), scaled conjugate gradient (SCG), Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton, conjugate gradient with Powell–Beale restarts (CGB), conjugate gradient with Fletcher–Reeves updates (CGF), and resilient propagation (RPROP) algorithms. Initially, based upon various criteria and possible combinations, we selected the superior model for each method separately. …”
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