Arterial sites of interest
Following the vascular tree’s hierarchical branching structure, each peripheral location is reached from the heart through a unique arterial path. The sum of bifurcations encountered along the transit path reflects the…
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Towards definitive functional forms for Monin–Obukhov similarity functions in stable and very stable surface layers
Section “Linking the EFB closure to MOST” begins with a review of the steady-state Energy and Flux Budget (EFB) closure framework (Sect. 4.1–4.5) to establish the theoretical foundations, and concludes in Sect. 4.6 with the analytic…
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Dysregulated type I/III interferon system in circulation from patients with anti-MDA5-positive dermatomyositis
Cohorts
This study used three cohorts: the derivation and internal validation cohorts from NMSH, and the external validation cohort from the Hamamatsu University Hospital (Fig. 1). For the discovery cohort, we prospectively enrolled consecutive…
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Leveraging computational linguistics and machine learning for detection of ultra-high risk of mental health disorders in youths
Key findings
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the value of speech-derived sentiment and linguistic features in detecting UHR. We found that features capturing sentiment variability (i.e., EVA), lexical…
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Effect of alkali treatment on physicochemical and microstructural properties of false banana fiber
Fiber density and diameter
The diameter and density of untreated FBF were compared with the fiber treated with NaOH at the optimum treatment conditions of 6.3 w/v%, 80.6 oC, and 60 min. The optical microscopic images of untreated and…
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Large-scale underwater acoustic cloak based on honeycomb lattice pentamode metamaterials
Metamaterials, which are composed of artificially engineered composite structures, enable access to extraordinary and controllable physical properties—properties that are difficult to achieve in natural materials. Recent rapid advancements have…
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Conducting the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2023 in Malaysia with focus on methodology and main findings on non-communicable diseases
Study design, sampling frame and sampling design
This study was a cross-sectional, nationwide, population-based epidemiological survey conducted in Malaysia. The sampling frame was obtained from the 2020 National Population and Housing Census to…
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Green and black: the implicit color metaphor of environmental concepts and its impact on pro-environmental behavior
Research questions
Are the Colors Green and Black Implicitly Associated with Environmental Concepts in Chinese and English?
Participants
G-power version 3.1 was used to estimate the required sample size. Based on the effect size d = 0.39 from…
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Disruption of the cerebrospinal fluid–plasma protein balance in cognitive impairment and aging
To understand the relationships between CSF and plasma protein levels, we used the SomaScan platform to perform proteomics on paired CSF and plasma samples from 2,171 people, including 931 healthy controls and 1,240 participants with…
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