Auditory confounds can drive online effects of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation in humans by Benjamin R Kop, Yazan Shamli Oghli, Talyta C Grippe, Tulika Nandi, Judith Lefkes, Sjoerd W Meijer, Soha Farboud, Marwan Engels, Michelle Hamani, Melissa Null, Angela Radetz, Umair Hassan, Ghazaleh Darmani, Andrey Chetverikov, Hanneke EM den Ouden, Til Ole Bergmann, Robert Chen, Lennart Verhagen

“…Furthermore, we consider neuromodulation beyond driving overall excitation/inhibition and show preliminary evidence of how TUS might interact with ongoing neural dynamics instead. …”
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Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder 6 weeks and 6 months after ICU: Six out of 10 survivors affected by E van der Merwe, L Stroud, G Sharp, N van Vuuren, M Mosola, T Fodo, F Paruk

“…A third of those affected developed these symptoms only beyond 6 weeks after hospital discharge. A potentially modifiable association with psychological symptoms was frightening memories of the ICU stay. …”
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Therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles in ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis of preclinical studies by Xiaoming Zhang, Yibing Guo, Kun Fang, Xiangqian Huang, Duo Lan, Mengqi Wang, Lina Jia, Xunming Ji, Ran Meng, Da Zhou

“…Treatment within 24 hours and beyond 24 hours of stroke induction both demonstrated substantial reductions in infarct volume/ratio compared to controls. …”
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Unveiling GPT-4V's hidden challenges behind high accuracy on USMLE questions: Observational Study by Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao, Mahbuba Tasmin, Parth Vashisht, Won Seok Jang, Feiyun Ouyang, Beining Wang, David McManus, Dan Berlowitz, Hong Yu

“…These findings reveal hidden flaws in the image interpretation capabilities of GPT-4V, underscoring the need for more comprehensive evaluations beyond multiple-choice questions before integrating GPT-4V into clinical settings.…”
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Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Exercise Can Increase Exercise in Older Adults Living in the Community and in Long-Term Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Sheehy L, Bharadwaj L, Nissen KA, Estey JL

“…Most were interested to continue beyond the study.Conclusion: Non-immersive virtual reality for home-based and facility-based older adults is safe, enjoyable and feasible and may increase users’ weekly levels of physical activity leading to clinical benefits for functional walking in facility-based users.Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04083885; registered 2019– 09-06).Plain language summary: Regular exercise is so important for older adults. …”
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Gestational weight gain and increased risk of cesarean delivery across body mass index categoriesAJOG Global Reports at a Glance by Pearl A. McElfish, PhD, Britni L. Ayers, PhD, Nicola L. Hawley, PhD, Aaron Caldwell, PhD, Austin Porter, DrPh, Michael D. Macechko, MD, Donya Watson, MD, Jennifer A. Callaghan-Koru, PhD, James P. Selig, PhD, Jennifer A. Andersen, PhD, Nirvana Manning, MD, Lanita White, PharmD, Enrique Gomez-Pomar, MD, Clare C. Brown, PhD

“…However, weight gain beyond the appropriate level increased the risk of cesarean delivery. …”
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VSIG4+ tumor-associated macrophages mediate neutrophil infiltration and impair antigen-specific immunity in aggressive cancers through epigenetic regulation of SPP1 by Zongfu Pan, Jinming Chen, Tong Xu, Anqi Cai, Bing Han, Ying Li, Ziwen Fang, Dingyi Yu, Shanshan Wang, Junyu Zhou, Yingying Gong, Yulu Che, Xiaozhou Zou, Lei Cheng, Zhuo Tan, Minghua Ge, Ping Huang

“…Overall, our studies demonstrate the epigenetic regulation function of VSIG4 confers on TAMs an alternative pattern, beyond the checkpoint role of VSIG4, to shape the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and impair antigen-specific immunity against aggressive cancers. …”
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Visceral adipose tissue area and proportion provide distinct reflections of cardiometabolic outcomes in weight loss; pooled analysis of MRI-assessed CENTRAL and DIRECT PLUS dietary... by Hadar Klein, Hila Zelicha, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Ehud Rinott, Gal Tsaban, Alon Kaplan, Yoash Chassidim, Yftach Gepner, Matthias Blüher, Uta Ceglarek, Berend Isermann, Michael Stumvoll, Ilan Shelef, Lu Qi, Jun Li, Frank B. Hu, Meir J. Stampfer, Iris Shai

“…After 18 months of lifestyle intervention, both VATcm2 and VAT% loss were significantly associated with decreased triglycerides, HbA1c, ferritin, and liver enzymes, and increased HDL-c levels beyond weight loss (FDR < 0.05). Only VATcm2 loss was correlated with decreased HOMA-IR, chemerin, and leptin levels. …”
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Most prevalent jobs of young master’s degree graduates by detailed field of study by Marc Frenette, Tomasz Handler

“…Investing in a postsecondary education is an important decision in the lives of young people, because it may lead to significantly higher lifetime earnings (Frenette, 2019), which may vary substantially across different disciplines (Ostrovsky and Frenette, 2014). Beyond the monetary gains, the satisfaction derived from one’s day-to-day work activities may also matter in overall life satisfaction. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Marisa dos Reis, Joseph Burke, Raphaelle Schwarzberg (†)

“…Notably, the Commissioner is shown to go beyond a narrow mandate of environmental protection to a wider concern with future generations. …”
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Acute respiratory tract infections during the first 6 years of life – results from the German birth cohort study LoewenKIDS by Bianca Klee, Sophie Diexer, Susan Langer, Cornelia Gottschick, Carla Hartmann, Nadine Glaser, Johannes Horn, Evelyn Dorendorf, Heike Raupach-Rosin, Lamiaa Hassan, Nicole Rübsamen, Kristin Maria Meyer-Schlinkmann, Carlos A. Guzman, Valerie Heselich, Eva Battin, Thomas Pietschmann, Dietmar H. Pieper, Mathias Pletz, Peggy Riese, Stephanie Trittel, Saskia Thies, Constantin von Kaisenberg, Frank Dressler, Florian Guthmann, Carsten Oberhoff, Ralf L. Schild, Andre Karch, Rafael Mikolajczyk

“…To date, data on self-reported ARIs beyond infancy are limited. This study aimed to describe the incidence and characteristics of self-reported ARIs in the first 6 years of life. …”
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Solid Predominant Histology and High Podoplanin Expression in Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Predict Primary Resistance to Osimertinib in EGFR-Mutated Lung Adenocarcinoma by Yuji Uehara, MD, Hiroki Izumi, MD, PhD, Tetsuro Taki, MD, PhD, Tetsuya Sakai, MD, PhD, Hibiki Udagawa, MD, PhD, Eri Sugiyama, MD, PhD, Shigeki Umemura, MD, PhD, Yoshitaka Zenke, MD, PhD, Shingo Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Kiyotaka Yoh, MD, PhD, Shoko Kubota, MD, PhD, Keiju Aokage, MD, PhD, Naoya Sakamoto, MD, PhD, Shingo Sakashita, MD, PhD, Motohiro Kojima, MD, PhD, Michiko Nagamine, MD, PhD, Yukio Hosomi, MD, PhD, Masahiro Tsuboi, MD, PhD, Koichi Goto, MD, PhD, Genichiro Ishii, MD, PhD

“…Conclusions: Solid predominant histology and high-podoplanin expression in CAFs predicted osimertinib resistance, potentially guiding the selection of patients for more intensive treatments beyond osimertinib monotherapy.…”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…While it may be misplaced to draw a comparison between Fágúnwà and Fálétí, there is a sense in which Fálétí’s demonstrates a more robust literary sensibility that goes beyond the allegorical into a realistic assessment of human relationship and sociality within the context of the Yorùbá cultural template. …”
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GravIS: mass anomaly products from satellite gravimetry by C. Dahle, E. Boergens, I. Sasgen, I. Sasgen, T. Döhne, S. Reißland, H. Dobslaw, V. Klemann, M. Murböck, M. Murböck, R. König, R. König, R. Dill, M. Sips, U. Sylla, A. Groh, M. Horwath, F. Flechtner, F. Flechtner

“…To facilitate easy accessibility of GRACE and GRACE-FO (GRACE/-FO in the following) results (also beyond the geodetic community), the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) developed the Gravity Information Service (GravIS) portal (<span class="uri">https://gravis.gfz.de</span>, last access: 21 January 2025). …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Maria Lenk, Antony Mason, Markus Rutsche

“…This answer to his one-question test was used by Barack Obama in several of his speeches to demonstrate how humanity has made progress up until the present day. Is he right? Beyond asking people what their preferred birth year would be in the context of such a thought experiment, it is possible to compare the attractiveness of actual birth years (and thus epochs in which to lead one’s life) from official statistics. …”
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Editorial by Michael Rose, Jonathan M. Hoffmann

“…Does the NIP also apply beyond the biomedical? For this IGJR special issue, scholars were invited to assess the scope and relevance of the NIP in questions of climate change (C-NIP). …”
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ORCHAMP: an observation network for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across space and time in mountainous regions by Thuiller, Wilfried, Saillard, Amélie, Abdulhak, Sylvain, Augé, Vincent,  Birck, Carole, Bonet, Richard, Choler, Philippe, Delestrade, Anne,  Kunstler, Georges, Leccia, Marie-France, Lienard, Bertrand, Poulenard, Jérome, Valay, Jean-Gabriel, Bayle, Arthur, Bonfanti, Nicolas, Brousset, Lenka,  Bizard, Léa,  Calderón-Sanou, Irene, Dentant, Cédric, Desjonquères, Camille, Gielly, Ludovic, Guéguen, Maya, Guiter, Frédéric, Hedde, Mickael,  Hustache, Eric, Kedhim, Norine, Lapenu, Pierre, Le Guillarme, Nicolas,  Marchal, Lise, Mahieu, Chloé, Martin, Gabrielle, Martinez-Almoyna, Camille,  Miele, Vincent, Murienne, Jérôme, Paillet, Yoan, Rome, Maxime,  Renaud, Julien, The Orchamp Consortium

“…Leveraging the natural elevational gradients of mountain environments, the ORCHAMP program was established in 2016 as a comprehensive initiative to monitor, understand, and predict the repercussions of environmental changes on biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions in the French Alps and Pyrenees.Beyond its monitoring role, ORCHAMP has catalyzed the development of tools for data integration, statistical analyses, visualization, and AI-based automated data processing and predictions. …”
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MINDS. JWST-MIRI Observations of a Spatially Resolved Atomic Jet and Polychromatic Molecular Wind toward SY Cha by Kamber R. Schwarz, Matthias Samland, Göran Olofsson, Thomas Henning, Andrew Sellek, Manuel Güdel, Benoît Tabone, Inga Kamp, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Alessio Caratti o Garatti, Adrian M. Glauser, Tom P. Ray, Aditya M. Arabhavi, Valentin Christiaens, R. Franceschi, Danny Gasman, Sierra L. Grant, Jayatee Kanwar, Till Kaeufer, Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Giulia Perotti, Milou Temmink, Marissa Vlasblom

“…These observations demonstrate MIRI-MRS's utility in expanding studies of resolved disk winds beyond edge-on sources.…”
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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…They establish the basic institutions of government, enshrine the fundamental values of a people, and place certain questions beyond the reach of simple majorities. Constitutions, especially written ones, are often on purpose difficult to modify. …”
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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…Conclusions We make five recommendations: (1) better and empowered decision-making for trans young people; (2) recognising and catering for gender diversity in health care; (3) a ‘systems change’ intervention approach that goes beyond training for individual health practitioners; (4) a restructured service based upon informed consent; and (5) a positive role for the National Health Service in public debate, challenging misinformation. …”
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