The effect of age and sex on brain metabolites: from childhood to adulthood by María Ortuño, Adriana Fortea, Isabel Valli, Emma Muñoz-Moreno, Roger Borràs, Irene Martínez-Serrano, Mireia Masias Bruns, Patricia Camprodon-Boadas, Enric Vilajosana, Lydia Fortea, Joaquim Raduà, Elena de la Serna, Inmaculada Baeza, Josefina Castro-Fornieles, Gisela Sugranyes

“…This cross-sectional study set out to examine the relationship between levels of neurometabolites and age and sex —key modulators of brain function and structure—, continuously from childhood to early adulthood, in areas relevant to the study of psychiatric disorders.Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹H MRS) data was acquired in the dorsomedial prefrontal region (dmPF) and the medial temporal lobe (mTL) in 128 healthy individuals aged 7 to 34 years, 68.5 % females (ndmPF = 124; nmTL = 75). …”
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Dietary Solid-state-fermentation product of Bacillus velezensis T23 alleviate hepatic steatosis, oxidative stress, gut barrier damage, and microbiota dysbiosis in juvenile genetica... by Qiang Hao, Rolf Erik Olsen, Einar Ringø, Qianwen Ding, Tsegay Teame, Yuanyuan Yao, Chao Ran, Yalin Yang, Zhen Zhang, Zhigang Zhou

“…On the contrary, feeding with 0.3T23 negatively affects the gut microbiota diversity and structure of tilapia. Therefore, a 0.2 g/kg dose is suggested to supplement the diet of Nile tilapia to improve liver health and modulate the gut microbiota profile of the fish positively. …”
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Design, Fabrication, and Application of GaN-Based Micro-LED Arrays With Individual Addressing by N-Electrodes by Enyuan Xie, Mark Stonehouse, Ricardo Ferreira, Jonathan J. D. McKendry, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Xiangyu He, Sujan Rajbhandari, Hyunchae Chun, Aravind V. N. Jalajakumari, Oscar Almer, Grahame Faulkner, Ian M. Watson, Erdan Gu, Robert Henderson, Dominic O'Brien, Martin D. Dawson

“…Compared to conventional GaN-based LED arrays, this array design employs a reversed structure of common and individual electrodes, which makes it innovative and compatible with n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor-based drivers for faster modulation. …”
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Genetic influence of the brain imaging phenotypes, brain and cerebrospinal fluid metabolites and brain genes on migraine subtypes: a Mendelian randomization and multi-omics study by Ping-An Zhang, Jie-Lin Wang, Mei-Hua Dong, Xiang-Chun Huang, Nai-Jian Li, Run-Dong Qin, Jing Li

“…Conclusions Our study integrates cross-omics analyses to investigate the causal links between brain structure, metabolic alterations, gene expression, and migraine including its MA and MO subtypes. …”
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Survey of gut microbial biogeography and their functional niche in the grow-finishing swine of ordinary feeding by Lili Cao, Lili Cao, Wei Guo, Shiyu Yang, Shiyu Yang, Anum Ali Ahmad, Yuntao Dong, Cen Gong, Shuoqi Wang, Xuemin Yang, Zhentao Cheng, Zhihong Yan, Zhihong Yan, Weiwei Wang

“…While extensive research has focused on the fecal microbiota of swine, investigations into microbial communities across different intestinal segments remain limited.ObjectiveThis study aims to elucidate the intestinal microbiota of swine by analyzing luminal contents from different intestinal segments, including the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, and colon.MethodsWe employed 16S rRNA sequencing to explore the diversity and structure of gut microbial biogeography, microbial functional niches, and their associated pathways.ResultsOur findings reveal significantly lower microbial richness and diversity in the small intestine (duodenum, jejunum, and ileum) compared to the large intestine (cecum and colon) (p < 0.05). …”
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Genome-wide identification of VOZ gene family in ten cotton species and the function analysis of GhVOZ2 involved in heat stress response by Xiangxiang Hu, Kailu Chen, Shuangquan Xie, Quanliang Xie, Xifeng Chen, Zhuang Meng, Asigul Ismayil, Xiang Jin, Shandang Shi, Fei Wang, Hongbin Li

“…Chromosome location and collinearity analysis revealed that this gene family had experienced segment duplication events. The exon-intron structure and conserved motif analysis showed high conservations in each branch of the cotton VOZ genes. …”
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Insights from a Pseudo-Polygyny Cohort unmasking high sperm concentration and low forward motility as potential risk factors for recurrent failure of sperm donation IVF (RFDI), a s... by Tiancheng Zhang, Fan Dong, Xu Zhang, Ping Ping, Jin Qiu, Zhen Lu, Huachun Zou, Qian Xiao, Jianhui Li, Gaoyue Zhang, Huijuan Shi, Xiangfeng Chen

“…We investigated potential risk factors for UMI leveraging data from a sperm bank with a “one male to multiple females” structure to reduce confounding arising from female factors. …”
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Gonadal Histology and Expression Analysis of Sex Characteristic Genes in Grass Carp at Different Ages by Bo QI, Shengjie LI, Jinxing DU, Xiaofang XIAO, Dongyun ZHANG, Tao ZHU, Caixia LEI, Zhijun LIU, Hongmei SONG

“…Anti-Müllerian hormone (amh) regulates the structure of reproductive organs and the differentiation and development of reproductive cells. …”
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Dificuldades e Facilidades do processo educativo desenvolvido por enfermeiros às pessoas com estomias [What nurses find difficult and helpful when educating people with ostomies] [... by Vanessa Cristina Maurício, Norma Valéria Dantas de Oliveira Souza, Carlos Eduardo Maurício, Carolina Cabral Pereira da Costa, Marcia de Souza Silva, Anna Beatryz Marques Roque

“…Results: the factors that hampered the educational process were inappropriate physical structure, and scarcity of financial and human resources. …”
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THE TONAL AND THE INSTRUMENTAL SYMBOLISM IN “MAGNIFICAT” (BWV 243), D MAJOR, OF J. S. BACH by Gabriela Coca

“…The analysis was carried out starting from the details to the whole, in each of the 12 parts, view on the following aspects: the text, the orchestral ensemble, the shape, the tonal structure, and the instrumentation. Each part attached as an Annex the coloristic spectrum of tonal-instrumental structure of hers. …”
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Probiotics improve eggshell quality via regulating microbial composition in the uterine and cecum by Yuxiang Lu, Hengyong Xu, Zhi Hu, Dan Li, Alma Rustempasic, Yuxin Zhou, Qingqing Deng, Jiaxue Pu, Xiaoling Zhao, Yao Zhang, Yiping Liu, Yan Wang

“…Furthermore, the changes of these phenotypes are closely related to the microbial structure of the uterus and cecum. Overall, the data suggest that dietary probiotics improved uterine and cecal microbiota, optimized egg quality, eggshell quality, uterus development, and regulated mineralization gene expression and ion content in serum and eggshell, thereby improving productivity of laying hens. …”
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Identification of WRKY gene family and analysis of drought stress expression in Poncirus polyandra by ZHANG Shanshan, RUAN Sunmei, YANG Wenzhong

“…Comprehensive analyses were systematically performed using bioinformatics methods, including the physicochemical properties, sequence characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, chromosome localization, collinearity, gene structure and cis-acting elements of the PpWRKY family members. …”
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Interest groups in Lithuania: dynamics of development and characteristics of institutionalization by Alvidas Lukošaitis

“…The interest groups topic is wide: analysis of the methods concerning the reasons for birth, organizational structure, and methods of activity can be treated as a starting point for scientific research, whereas the ending point of the research could be reserved for studying the patterns of interest groups – state relationships. …”
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EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT OF CHRONIC CATARRHAL GINGIVITIS IN CHILDREN WITH DIABETES MELLITUS IN LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS by L.F. Kaskova, V.A. Honcharenko

“… Epidemiological studies in recent years indicate a significant prevalence with an increasing tendency to periodontal disease in the structure of all dental diseases in children. The prevalence of chronical catarrhal gingivitis (CCG) is about 90% of all forms of the disease [1–6]. …”
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<i>α</i> Effect and Magnetic Diffusivity <i>β</i> in Helical Plasma Under Turbulence Growth by Kiwan Park

“…To clarify <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>α</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>β</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, we introduce a field structure model, identifying <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>α</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> as the electrodynamic induction effect and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>β</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> as the fluid-like diffusion effect. …”
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A 50 s Quasiperiodic Oscillation in the Early X-Ray Afterglow of GRB 220711B by H. Gao, W.-H. Lei, S. Xiao, Z.-P. Zhu, L. Lan, S.-K. Ai, A. Li, N. Xu, T.-C. Wang, B. Zhang, D. Xu, J. P. U. Fynbo, K. E. Heintz, P. Jakobsson, D. A. Kann, S.-Y. Fu, S.-Q. Jiang, X. Liu, S.-L. Xiong, W.-X. Peng, X.-B. Li, W.-C. Xue

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Study of the influence of population immunity to tick-borne encephalitis virus on the characteristics of the epidemic process in Russia by Temur K. Muminov, Vladimir A. Gushchin, Vladimir A. Gushchin, Vladimir A. Gushchin, Denis A. Kleymenov, Artem P. Tkachuk, Artem P. Tkachuk, Viktor A. Manuylov, Viktor A. Manuylov, Andrei E. Siniavin, Andrei E. Siniavin, Daria A. Ogarkova, Nadezhda A. Kuznetsova, Vladimir I. Zlobin, Alexander L. Gintsburg, Alexander L. Gintsburg

“…The rates of post-infection immunity were 33.4% in Novosibirsk Region, 42.4% in Khabarovsk Region and below 12% in other regions.ConclusionsOur results demonstrated diversity of population immunity level and structure in different regions of Russia. The analysis showed that study participants are at risk of TBE infection, especially high in endemic regions, due to insufficient level of population immunity, vaccination coverage, and protective post-vaccine immunity.…”
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Spatiotemporal variability in the feeding habits of anchovy and sardine: a comparison of upwelling and river-runoff driven ecosystems by Paola Rumolo, Marco Barra, Angelo Bonanno, Simona Altieri, Rosalia Ferreri, Antonella Gargano, Gualtiero Basilone, Serena Gherardi, Simona Genovese, Maria Rosa Di Cicco, Carmine Lubritto

“…However, local factors—such as environmental conditions, human activities, coastal pollution, and more generally, climate change have had a significant impact on their trophic interactions, affecting the energy flow, structure, and function of the marine ecosystems in which they live. …”
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Influence of Starvation on Biochemical, Physiological, Morphological, and Transcriptional Responses Associated with Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in the Liver of Javelin Goby (<i>Sy... by Xiangyu Cui, Xiaoyang Huang, Xiangning Chen, Honghui Li, Yanru Wu, Zikui Yang, Zhiyu Liu, Rui Feng, Jianhe Xu, Chaoqing Wei, Zhujin Ding, Hanliang Cheng

“…Overall, starvation lasting 7 days or more could concurrently mobilize hepatic carbohydrates and fat as energy resources and diminished their hepatic accumulation by suppressing biosynthesis and enhancing catabolism and transport, ultimately metabolically and structurally perturbing the liver in <i>S. hasta</i>. …”
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Complex Variation in Afrotropical Mammal Communities With Human Impact by Deogratias Tuyisingize, Lars Kulik, Delagnon Assou, Diorne Zausa, Solange Kamga, Onella Mundi, Stefanie Heinicke, Inza Kone, Samedi Jean Pierre Mucyo, Tenekwetche Sop, Christophe Boesch, Colleen Stephens, Anthony Agbor, Samuel Angedakin, Emma Bailey, Mattia Bessone, Charlotte Coupland, Josephine Head, Tobias Deschner, Paula Dieguez, Villard Ebot Egbe, Anne‐Céline Granjon, Thurston Cleveland Hicks, Sorrel Jones, Ammie K. Kalan, Kevin E. Langergraber, Juan Lapuente, Kevin C. Lee, Laura K. Lynn, Nuria Maldonado, Maureen S. McCarthy, Amelia Meier, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Alex K. Piel, Lilah Sciaky, Volker Sommer, Fiona A. Stewart, Erin G. Wessling, Jane Widness, Roman M. Wittig, Pauline Strohbach, Mimi Arandjelovic, Yntze van derHoek, Hjalmar S. Kühl

“…We assessed variation in the structure and composition of Afrotropical medium and large mammal communities within and outside protected areas, and under varying human impact. …”
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