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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Boris Jidovtseff, Liliane De Sousa Morgado, Arja Sääkslahti, Kristy Howells, Lisa M Barnett, Eva D'Hondt, Aldo M Costa, Kristine De Martelaer
In its recent development, the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Water Competence (PSPWC) showed good face and construct validity. However, additional reliability and validity research is needed, including test-retest reliability and a demonstration of the relationship between PSPWEC test scores and actual water competence. Toward that aim, we administered the PSPWC to 124 children, aged 5-8 years. We repeated this test administration after one week for a subset of 55 children to determine its test-retest reliability, and the remaining 69 children also performed the fully aligned Actual Aquatic Skills Test (AAST) in an indoor swimming pool to provide data for our investigation of the relationship between PSPWC scores and actual water competence...
April 24, 2024: Perceptual and Motor Skills
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sangjin Kim, Jelisaveta Čkrkić, Željko Tomanović, Ju-Hyeong Sohn, Jongok Lim, Hyojoong Kim
BACKGROUND: The genus Monoctonus Haliday, 1833 is a small group which consists of 24 species worldwide. In South Korea, Chang and Youn (1983) recorded one species, M.similis Starý & Schlinger, 1967, but the evidence for identification of this species is doubtful and further confirmation is required (personal communication with Prof. Jong-Cheol Paik). NEW INFORMATION: An additional Monoctonus species is recorded as new to science from South Korea. Descriptions and illustrations of the new species - Monoctonuskoreanus sp...
2024: Biodiversity Data Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ansu Wang, Yufeng Zhou, Xuyan Li, Weiqun Wang, Xu Zhao, Ping Chen, Wenbo Liao
BACKGROUND: Chronic shoulder and neck pain is one of the most common chronic occupational disorders, with an average incidence rate of 48.5%, severely affecting patients' quality of life and ability to work. According to epidemiological research, the prevalence of chronic neck, shoulder, and low back pain in adults over the age of 45 ranges from 40 to 80%. According to reports, medical staff have a higher incidence rate than other populations, and there is a positive correlation between the grade of the medical institution and the incidence rate, making medical staff a priority group for the prevention of chronic neck, shoulder, and low back pain...
April 23, 2024: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
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REVIEW
Leihan Wang, Dong Tang
Tumor is accompanied by complex and dynamic microenvironment development, and the interaction of all its components influences disease progression and response to treatment. Once the tumor microenvironment has been eradicated, various mechanisms can induce the tumors. Microorganisms can maintain the homeostasis of the tumor microenvironment through immune regulation, thereby inhibiting tumor development. Akkermania muciniphila (A. muciniphila), an anaerobic bacterium, can induce tumor immunity, regulate the gastrointestinal microenvironment through metabolites, outer membrane proteins, and some cytokines, and enhance the curative effect through combined immunization...
April 23, 2024: Clinical & Translational Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Caitlin Byron, Katrina R Kissock, Eden M Barrett, Eleanor J Beck
PURPOSE: Front-of-pack labelling systems, such as the Health Star Rating (HSR), aim to aid healthy consumer dietary choices and complement national dietary guidelines. Dietary guidelines aim to be holistic by extending beyond the individual nutrients of food, including other food components that indicate diet quality, including whole grains. We aimed to test the feasibility of including whole grains in the HSR algorithm, to better inform dietary guidance in Australia coherent with existing dietary guidelines...
April 23, 2024: European Journal of Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zuchun Chen, Xueyou Li, Jiahao Gao, Yue Liu, Ning Zhang, Yusong Guo, Zhongduo Wang, Zhongdian Dong
Salinity is an important environmental factor influencing the toxicity of chemicals. Bisphenol A (BPA) is an environmental endocrine disruptor with adverse effects on aquatic organisms, such as fish. However, the influence of salinity on the biotoxicity of BPA and the underlying mechanism are unclear. In this study, we exposed marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma) to BPA at different salinities (0 psu, 15 psu, and 30 psu) for 70days to investigate the toxic effects. At 0 psu salinity, BPA had an inhibitory effect on the swimming behavior of female medaka...
April 21, 2024: Chemosphere
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Andrew Toivonen, Gaurav Waratkar, Geoffrey Mo, Deep Chatterjee, Sarah Antier, Patrick Brockill, Michael W Coughlin, Reed Essick, Shaon Ghosh, Soichiro Morisaki, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda Baylor, Naresh Adhikari, Patrick Brady, Gareth Cabourn Davies, Tito Dal Canton, Marco Cavaglia, Jolien Creighton, Sunil Choudhary, Yu-Kuang Chu, Patrick Clearwater, Luke Davis, Thomas Dent, Marco Drago, Becca Ewing, Patrick Godwin, Weichangfeng Guo, Chad Hanna, Rachael Huxford, Ian Harry, Erik Katsavounidis, Manoj Kovalam, Alvin K Y Li, Ryan Magee, Ethan Marx, Duncan Meacher, Cody Messick, Xan Morice-Atkinson, Alexander Pace, Roberto De Pietri, Brandon Piotrzkowski, Soumen Roy, Surabhi Sachdev, Leo P Singer, Divya Singh, Marek Szczepanczyk, Daniel Tang, Max Trevor, Leo Tsukada, Verónica Villa-Ortega, Linqing Wen, Daniel Wysocki
Multimessenger searches for binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are currently one of the most exciting areas of astronomy. The search for joint electromagnetic and neutrino counterparts to gravitational wave (GW)s has resumed with ALIGO's, AdVirgo's and KAGRA's fourth observing run (O4). To support this effort, public semiautomated data products are sent in near real-time and include localization and source properties to guide complementary observations. In preparation for O4, we have conducted a study using a simulated population of compact binaries and a mock data challenge (MDC) in the form of a real-time replay to optimize and profile the software infrastructure and scientific deliverables...
April 30, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leonie Müller, Sirin Salman, Thorsten Hoppe
Many proteins self-assemble into dimers and higher-order oligomers. Therefore, the goal of this protocol is to characterize the conformational states of an endogenous protein of interest. Here, we present a protocol for assessing protein self-assembly in cell lysates using chemical cross-linking. We describe steps for chemical cross-linking with recombinant proteins as well as steps for cell culture and cell lysate preparation, chemical cross-linking, SDS-PAGE, and western blotting for the detection of endogenous proteins...
April 22, 2024: STAR protocols
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Protocol to develop a moisture-desorptive passive cooling system for electronics thermal management.
Zengguang Sui, Yunren Sui, Zhixiong Ding, Haosheng Lin, Fuxiang Li, Wei Wu
Passive thermal management with zero-energy consumption and high compactness has drawn increasing attention. Here, we present a protocol to develop a hygroscopic salt-loaded heat sink with a moisture-permeable membrane encapsulation technique for electronics cooling. We describe steps for preparing lithium bromide solution and heat sink with anti-corrosion graphene coating. We then detail procedures for preparing the hygroscopic salt-loaded membrane-encapsulated heat sinks (HSMHSs). The produced low-cost HSMHS exhibits remarkably high thermal management performance without the risks of leakage and corrosion...
April 22, 2024: STAR protocols
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carlo Botrugno, Chiara Crico, Mauro Iori, Oliver Blanck, Slawomir Blamek, Pieter G Postema, Aurelio Quesada, Etienne Pruvot, Joost J C Verhoeff, Ludovica De Panfilis
This preliminary ethical appraisal from the STOPSTORM.eu consortium is meant to raise critical points that clinicians administering stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation should consider to meet the highest standards in medical ethics and thus promote quality of life of patients recruited for radiotherapy treatments at a stage in which they experience a significant degree of vulnerability.
April 23, 2024: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie: Organ der Deutschen Röntgengesellschaft ... [et Al]
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hidetoshi Matsukawa, Kazutaka Uchida, Mohammad-Mahdi Sowlat, Sameh Samir Elawady, Conor Cunningham, Ali Alawieh, Sami Al Kasab, Pascal Jabbour, Justin Mascitelli, Michael R Levitt, Hugo Cuellar, Waleed Brinjikji, Edgar Samaniego, Jan-Karl Burkhardt, Peter Kan, W Christopher Fox, Mark Moss, Mohamad Ezzeldin, Ramesh Grandhi, David J Altschul, Alejandro M Spiotta, Shinichi Yoshimura
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The impact of race on outcomes in the treatment of intracranial aneurysm (IA) remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the relationship between race classified into White, Black, Hispanic, and other and treatment outcomes in patients with ruptured and unruptured IAs. METHODS: The study population consisted of 2836 patients with IA with endovascular treatment or microsurgical treatment (MST) from 16 centers in the United States and Asia, all participating in the observational "STAR" registry...
April 23, 2024: Neurosurgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tarun Walia, M S Muthu, Ankita Saikia, Robert Anthonappa, M S Satyanarayana
BACKGROUND: Despite the exponential growth of mobile device applications in promoting awareness on traumatic dental injuries (TDIs), the overall validity of existing applications in content, engagement, usability, functionality, esthetics, and user perception remains largely uncertain. AIMS: The primary aim was to systematically search and assess the quality, functionality, perceived impact and usability of available applications related to TDIs using the User Version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS) and the Coventry, Aberdeen, and London-Revised (CA-LO-RE) scale...
April 23, 2024: Dental Traumatology: Official Publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xinying He, Yuru Cui, Guhuan Liu
Carbon-chain dendritic polymers hold unique properties and promising applications. However, synthesizing carbon-chain dendrimers, beyond conjugated ones, remains a challenge. Here, we described the use of the iterative single unit monomer insertions (SUMIs) technique for synthesizing 2.5 generation partial carbon-chain dendrimers (G2.5), utilizing bismaleimide as the core, a maleimide-trithiocarbonate conjugate as the branching unit, and indene as the spacer unit, following a divergent growth strategy. The optimized conditions for synthesizing the maleimide-trithiocarbonate branching unit were a bismaleimide to trithiocarbonate ratio of 5:1 and a reaction time of 30 minutes...
April 23, 2024: Macromolecular Rapid Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Riaan Mulder, Naeemah Noordien, Nicoline Potgieter
BACKGROUND: Cytocompatibility should always be considered, especially if the surface of treated carious lesions is close to soft tissue or is accidentally exposed to the oral soft tissue by the clinician. METHODS: The aim of the present study was to compare the cytocompatibility of two fluoride-containing liquids and two resin-containing restorative materials with buccal mucosa fibroblasts. The fluoride-containing materials were silver diamine fluoride and water-based silver fluoride...
2024: Front Oral Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sirio Belli, Minjung Park, Rebecca L Davies, J Trevor Mendel, Benjamin D Johnson, Charlie Conroy, Chloë Benton, Letizia Bugiani, Razieh Emami, Joel Leja, Yijia Li, Gabriel Maheson, Elijah P Mathews, Rohan P Naidu, Erica J Nelson, Sandro Tacchella, Bryan A Terrazas, Rainer Weinberger
Large-scale outflows driven by supermassive black holes are thought to play a fundamental role in suppressing star formation in massive galaxies. However, direct observational evidence for this hypothesis is still lacking, particularly in the young universe where star formation quenching is remarkably rapid1-3 , thus requiring effective removal of gas4 as opposed to slow gas heating5,6 . While outflows of ionized gas are commonly detected in massive distant galaxies7 , the amount of ejected mass is too small to be able to suppress star formation8,9 ...
April 22, 2024: Nature
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jan-Michael Y Carrillo, Vijith Parambil, Tarak K Patra, Zhan Chen, Thomas P Russell, Subramanian K R S Sankaranarayanan, Bobby G Sumpter, Rohit Batra
Star block copolymers (s-BCPs) have potential applications as novel surfactants or amphiphiles for emulsification, compatibilization, chemical transformations, and separations. s-BCPs have chain architectures where three or more linear diblock copolymer arms comprised of two chemically distinct linear polymers, e.g., solvophobic and solvophilic chains, are covalently joined at one point. The chemical composition of each of the subunit polymer chains comprising the arms, their molecular weights, and the number of arms can be varied to tailor the surface and interfacial activity of these architecturally unique molecules...
April 22, 2024: Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jinchao Cheng, Qifu Wang, Chen Li, Jun Rong, Tingzheng Li, Min Li, Ruijun Bai
OBJECTIVE: To study the microanatomic structure of the subtemporal transtentorial approach to the lateral side of the brainstem, and to provide anatomical information that will assist clinicians to perform surgeries on the lateral, circumferential, and petroclival regions of the brainstem. METHODS: Anatomical investigations were conducted on 8 cadaveric head specimens (16 sides) using the infratemporal transtentorial approach. The heads were tilted to one side, with the zygomatic arch at its highest point...
March 20, 2024: Sichuan da Xue Xue Bao. Yi Xue Ban, Journal of Sichuan University. Medical Science Edition
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EDITORIAL
Shelley Minteer
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April 17, 2024: ACS Meas Sci Au
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Muhammad Umar Ijaz, Saba Yaqoob, Ali Hamza, Mehwish David, Tayyaba Afsar, Fohad Mabood Husain, Houda Amor, Suhail Razak
Doxorubicin (DOX) is a highly effective, commonly prescribed, potent anti-neoplastic drug that damages the testicular tissues and leads to infertility. Apigetrin (APG) is an important flavonoid that shows diverse biological activities. The present research was designed to evaluate the alleviative role of APG against DOX-induced testicular damages in rats. Forty-eight adult male albino rats were randomly distributed into 4 groups, control, DOX administered (3 mgkg-1 ), DOX + APG co-administered (3 mgkg-1 of DOX; 15 mgkg-1 of APG), and APG administered group (15 mgkg-1 )...
April 20, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuwei Duan, Bing Cai, Jing Guo, Chen Wang, Qingyun Mai, Yan Xu, Yang Zeng, Yue Shi, Boyan Wang, Chenhui Ding, Minghui Chen, Canquan Zhou, Yanwen Xu
BACKGROUND: Antral follicles consist of an oocyte cumulus complex surrounding by somatic cells, including mural granulosa cells as the inner layer and theca cells as the outsider layer. The communications between oocytes and granulosa cells have been extensively explored in in vitro studies, however, the role of oocyte-derived factor GDF9 on in vivo antral follicle development remains elusive due to lack of an appropriate animal model. Clinically, the phenotype of GDF9 variants needs to be determined...
April 20, 2024: Cell Communication and Signaling: CCS
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