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Science
January 2025
Department of Biology & Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
The impacts of degradation and deforestation on tropical forests are poorly understood, particularly at landscape scales. We present an extensive ecosystem analysis of the impacts of logging and conversion of tropical forest to oil palm from a large-scale study in Borneo, synthesizing responses from 82 variables categorized into four ecological levels spanning a broad suite of ecosystem properties: (i) structure and environment, (ii) species traits, (iii) biodiversity, and (iv) ecosystem functions. Responses were highly heterogeneous and often complex and nonlinear.
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January 2025
Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh.
The objective of this study was the develop of fortified cookies enriched with oats flour and bitter gourd powder and monitoring the effects of these enrichments on the physicochemical, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and sensory attributes. This study was subjected to four treatments: control (0% oats flour and bitter gourd powder), T1 (10% oats flour), T2 (3% bitter gourd powder), and T3 (7% oats flour and 3% bitter gourd powder). Various physical properties of the cookies, including weight, thickness, diameter, spread ratio, baking loss, pH, and color values (L*, a*, and b*), were measured.
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January 2025
Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Objective: The Adult Scale/National Stressful Events Survey Short Scale (NSESSS) is an emerging brief screening measure for the severity of Acute Stress Symptoms based on the of acute stress disorder (ASD). Scant information is known about the NSESSS's psychometric properties among different cultures or populations exposed to an ongoing trauma and displacement. Therefore, the present study aimed to (a) assess for the first time the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Hebrew version of NSESSS in an internally displaced population following the massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023; and (b) assess the possible risk and protective predictors of ASD according to sociodemographic characteristics, types of trauma exposure, absence of basic needs, and social support.
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December 2024
Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University of San Andrés, Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Background: Beyond dementia syndromes, cognitive symptoms are highly prevalent in Parkinson's disease (PD), often manifesting as mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Yet, their detection and characterization remain suboptimal because standard approaches rely on subjective impressions derived from lengthy, univariate tests. Here we introduce a novel approach to detect cognitive symptom severity and identify MCI in PD using fully automated word property analyses on brief verbal fluency tasks.
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December 2024
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA.
Background: Differences in amyloid PET radiotracer pharmacokinetics and binding properties lead to discrepancies in amyloid uptake measurements, which may adversely affect the statistical power of clinical trials that utilize multiple tracers to track brain amyloid deposition. To address this, Centiloid was developed for standardizing global amyloid SUVRs across tracers to a common scale. Alternatively, ComBat is a technique for harmonizing batch effects while preserving variations from biologically-relevant covariates.
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