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Grit Höppner, Monika Urban • Frontiers in Sociology
(2018)
In the last decade, the focus of studies on age and aging has fundamentally changed from biological to symbolic, discursive, and cultural phenomena. Currently, the most studied topic in material gerontology is the materiality of age and agi...
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DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2018.00007
Swapno Aditya, Adam Clarke, Lucy Armitage, Wing-Kai Lam et al. • Sensors
(2026)
Background: Age-related changes in motor–cognitive function are associated with altered neural adaptability, particularly during tasks requiring integration of cognitive and motor processes. Dual-task paradigms are commonly used to assess s...
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DOI: 10.3390/s26144575
Hao Tang, Ting Qin, Zhiwen Yan, Changqing Li et al. • Frontiers in Neuroscience
(2026)
ObjectiveDioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a widely used plasticizer in food packaging and environmental materials, has raised concerns regarding its potential impact on human health. This study aims to investigate the neurotoxicity-related mec...
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DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2026.1783807
Nobuhiro Watanabe, Mathieu Piché, Harumi Hotta • Molecular Pain
(2015)
Background In anesthetized rats and conscious humans, a gentle touch using a soft disc covered with microcones (with a texture similar to that of a finger), but not with a flat disc, inhibits nociceptive somatocardiac reflexes. Such an inhi...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12990-015-0001-x
Mateus H. Gouveia, Amy R. Bentley, Hampton Leonard, Karlijn A. C. Meeks et al. • Scientific Reports
(2021)
Abstract Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic loci associated with cross-sectional blood pressure (BP) traits; however, GWAS based on longitudinal BP have been underexplored. We performed ethnic-specif...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83450-3
Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro, Monica I. Norvik, Monica I. Norvik • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
(2026)
Broca’s description of aphemia signals the emergence of aphasiology as a discipline. It also marks the beginning of a long tradition of studies of right-handed patients (“Nous parlons avec l’hémisphère gauche”) with lesions in the inferior ...
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DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1783073
Jiao Pan, Tao Chen, Antonio Plaza • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
(2025)
Revealing the spatial-temporal evolution and interactions of ecosystem services (ESs) in mining area is critical for sustainable environmental management. The temporal and spatial characteristics and changing trends of six ESs in Yuzhong mi...
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DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3586637
Li-Xin Guo, Meng-Long Hsieh, Olga Gorodetskaya, Zi-Hao Fan et al. • Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
(2023)
Abstract The Yellow River Plain (YRP), being regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization, is traditionally thought to be the locale of the Great Flood, a hazardous flood (or floods) tamed by Yu who started China’s first “dynasty”, Xia, i...
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DOI: 10.1007/s44195-023-00044-4
Kun-Sung Liu • Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
(2017)
The purpose of this study is to estimate maximum ground motions in southern Taiwan as well as to assess potential human fatalities from scenario earthquakes on the Chishan active faults in this area. The resultant Shake Map patterns of maxi...
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DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2017.01.06.01
Vladimir V. Pitulko, Elena Y. Pavlova • Frontiers in Earth Science
(2022)
Ice-rich syncryogenic (termed “Ice Complex”) deposits are common in northern East Siberia and constitute the most important feature of the Quaternary geology of the region. The Ice Complex formed throughout the Late Pleistocene and not only...
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DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.744775
D. Schmidlin, L. Scheiber, M. Teixidó, E. Vázquez et al. • Advances in Geosciences
(2023)
Groundwater is a vital resource for the development of
urban areas, where the problem focuses on the quantity and on the quality of
this freshwater resource. Barcelona is a good example as because currently
groundwater is used for irrigatio...
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DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-59-59-2023
Gibson Moreira Praça, André Gustavo Pereira de Andrade, Sarah da Glória Teles Bredt, Pedro Emilio Drumond Moreira et al. • Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano
(2020)
This study aimed to compare the width, the length, the length per width ratio, and the stretch index between the first and the second halves in official soccer matches, and to compare the spatial exploration index between players from diffe...
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Yuanyuan Yang, Shuwen Zhang, Jiuchun Yang, Xiaoshi Xing et al. • Energies
(2015)
Decadal to centennial land use and land cover change has been consistently singled out as a key element and an important driver of global environmental change, playing an essential role in balancing energy use. Understanding long-term human...
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DOI: 10.3390/en8053882
Freiberg, Florentina Joyce, Kunstmann, Erdmute, König, Thomas, Matlach, Juliane et al. • GMS Ophthalmology Cases
(2016)
Background: To present a case of conjunctival lymphangioma in a girl with tuberous sclerosis complex.Methods/results: A 4-year-old girl presented with a relapsing cystic lesion of the bulbar conjunctiva in the right eye with string-of-pear...
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DOI: 10.3205/oc000046
A. V. Fatianova, V. A. Lavrinenko, O. V. Trapezov, N. S. Yudin • Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
(2017)
Striking similarities between human and miniature pig anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, skin and digestive organs have made miniature pigs a successful animal model for addressing problems of xenotransplantation. However,...
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Marina M Watowich, Rachel M Petersen, Layla Brassington, Audrey M Arner et al. • PLoS Genetics
(2026)
The apolipoprotein ε4 (APOE ε4) isoform directly alters cholesterol and immune biology and is associated with an increased risk of neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease in industrialized settings; nevertheless, APOE ε4-which is ance...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1012285
Majed Alluqmani, Abdulfatah M. Alayoubi, Jamil A. Hashmi, Jamil A. Hashmi et al. • Frontiers in Genetics
(2024)
BackgroundVariants in a gene encoding sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 1 (SCN1A) are known to cause a broad clinical spectrum of epilepsy and associated features, including Dravet syndrome (MIM 607208), non-Dravet developmental an...
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DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2024.1496683
Guy Karlebach, Peter Hansen, Diogo FT Veiga, Robin Steinhaus et al. • Genome Biology
(2020)
Abstract We present Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Differential Expression and ALternative Splicing (HBA-DEALS), which simultaneously characterizes differential expression and splicing in cohorts. HBA-DEALS attains state of the art or be...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02072-6
Patrick H. Wightman, James A. Martin, John C. Kilgo, Emily Rushton et al. • Ecology and Evolution
(2022)
Abstract Gobbling activity of Eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris; hereafter, turkeys) has been widely studied, focusing on drivers of daily variation. Weather variables are widely believed to influence gobbling activity, b...
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9018
Giulia Ricchezze, Erika Buratti, Francesco De Micco, Mariano Cingolani et al. • Microorganisms
(2024)
Microbiome has recently seen an increase in its forensic applications. It could be employed to identify a suspect when DNA is not available; it can be used to establish postmortem interval (PMI). Furthermore, it could prove to be fundamenta...
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DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12122424