Association between 5-item modified frailty index and clinical outcomes in elderly rectal cancer patients after radical surgery by Hong Wu, Feiyu Shi, Chenhao Hu, Lei Zhang, Penghong Qu, Junjun She

“…In conclusion, the 5-item mFI serves as a concise and effective tool for preoperative frailty stratification and for predicting clinical outcomes in elderly rectal cancer patients.…”
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Effects of Cooking Treatment on the Changes of Polyphenol and Antioxidant Activity in Sorghum Rice and Its Exploration on the Flavor Enhancement Based on the Multi-omics Technique by Ke LIU, Lei XU, Changyuan WANG, Zhijiang LI, Jingzhi DENG

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The New Digital Documentality of Contemporary Film Scoring Practices. Preliminary Results Based on Participant Observation at the Studio of North American Composer Christopher Youn... by Gabriele, Giulia Ferdeghini, Ilario Meandri

“… The digital transition has radically transformed the atelier of the contemporary composer, leading to the emergence of a new “digital documentality”. …”
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Starting a just transition in the context of macro-economic policy by Pavićević Nina, Ćosić Milivoje, Đorđević Vladimir

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Reflections on the ecclesiastical interpretations of 6th April 1652 as a South African symbolic date by R. M. Britz

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BLUE THEOLOGY AND WATERSHED DISCIPLESHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA

“…Watershed discipleship has the potential to offer a postcolonial interpretation of the great commission as the incarnational yet missional re-inhabiting of the places in which we reside. …”
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Iron-catalysed stereoselective NH transfer enables dynamic kinetic resolution of sulfoxides by Fang-Xu Fan, Hui Xu, Shi-Xiong Tang, Yanfeng Dang, Fei Wang

“…However, enantioselective NH transfer that allows concise assembly of unprotected enantioenriched amines remains an enduring challenge. …”
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Characterization and Pickering emulsifying ability of Adinandra nitida leaf polysaccharides by Yingxuan Zhou, Lu Bai, Sheng Geng, Benguo Liu

“…ANP was identified as a polysaccharide with a weight-average molecular weight of 383.10 ± 8.57 kDa that was mainly composed of galacturonic acid (43.94 ± 3.63 mol%), arabinose (17.44 ± 1.06 mol%), glucose (8.53 ± 0.65 mol%), and rhamnose (4.88 ± 0.32 mol%). …”
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Structural characteristics, sugar metabolizing enzyme activity and biological activity of Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides at different growth stages by Shengjian Ma, Yuliang Chen, Huaguo Huang, Xiaorui Pu, Huangbin Liang, Yu Kuang, Yijun Liu

“…The results showed that the monosaccharides of GLPs in GLFB were mainly composed of galactose, glucose, and mannose. During the maturation of GLFB, the polysaccharide content, hexose kinase and phosphoglucose isomerase activities showed an increasing trend, the structure of functional groups did not change significantly, and the molecular weight of GLPs showed a tendency to increase (112 kDa up to 11358 kDa) and then decrease (11358 kDa down to 7678 kDa). …”
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Hyaluronic acid-curcumin nanoparticles for preventing the progression of experimental autoimmune uveitis through the Keap1/Nrf2/HO-1 signaling pathway by Weiwei Tang, Xiaomin Huang, Yun-Di Yi, Fan Cao, Manli Deng, Jiawei Fan, Zheng-Xuan Jiang, Li-Ming Tao, Xianwen Wang, Lei Shi

“…In summary, this study revealed that HA-CUR NPs, which are composed of a natural product and biomacromolecules with outstanding artificial antioxidant enzyme activities, may be novel agents for effectively and safely treating uveitis and other ROS-related diseases.…”
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A new scheme for boosting in situ Fenton-like reaction in plant pathogenic tissues for selective structural degradation of capsid proteins by Jun Ma, Ming Chen, Yujie Wang, Jiaying Li, Jian Tang, Shengjun Wu, Chi He, J. Paul Chen

“…Within 10 min, the complex induced complete degradation of tertiary structure pockets composed of α-helices and β-sheets located at residues MET1-GLU23, TYR73-ARG93, and SER147-PRO157. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…In the last article, Róbert Gál and Judit Monostori present an insightful and concise taxonomy of empirical indicators of economic sustainability and intergenerational fairness, summarised from their earlier wide-ranging survey of over 80 indicators.[1] They neatly organise their taxonomy along four different scope conditions: specific public programmes, the general government, the market economy, and the total economy, which adds the household economy (the output of unpaid household labour). …”
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