Devaluing memories of reward: a case for dopamine by Benjamin R. Fry, Nicolette Russell, Victoria Fex, Bing Mo, Nathan Pence, Joseph A. Beatty, Fredric P. Manfredsson, Brandon A. Toth, Christian R. Burgess, Samuel Gershman, Alexander W. Johnson

“…Recent findings have questioned whether reward prediction error can fully account for dopamine function and suggest a more complex role for dopamine in encoding detailed features of the reward environment. …”
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Ambient Atmospheric Aerosol Extinction Coefficient Reconstruction from PM2.5 Mass Concentrations and Application to Haze Identification in China by Lina Gao, Peng Yan, Jietai Mao, Xiaochun Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yongxue Wu, Junshan Jing, Jianming Xu, Xuejiao Deng, Wenxue Chi

“…A closure study enabled us to determine the threshold of the extinction ratio (β/βObs) and identify haze and fog weather phenomena at the stations. Finally, we assessed the bias in the predicted number of hours with haze for 61 stations in China by comparing the estimates derived from different values for the model’s parameters with those derived from the reference values and found a relative bias of less than 15% for approximately 99.8% of the stations, indicating the feasibility of our approach for detecting haze.…”
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DIFFERENT CERVICAL LAMINOPLASTY TECHNIQUES - UPDATE AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by FRANCISCO ALVES DE ARAÚJO JÚNIOR, JURANDIR MARCODES RIBAS FILHO, OSVALDO MALAFAIA, ALUÍZIO AUGUSTO ARANTES JÚNIOR, GUILHERME HENRIQUE WEILER CECCATO, PEDRO HELO DOS SANTOS NETO

“…Both ODL and FDL achieve favorable clinical and radiological results for the patient, and it is not yet possible to say whether one is better than the other. Level of Evidence II; Therapeutic Studies.…”
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Effects of Kettlebell Swing Style and Mass on Female Hip Joint Kinetics by Kasey M Murphy, Bryan L Riemann

“…# Background Kettlebell (KB) swing exercises, whether performed using shoulder height (SHS) or overhead (OHS) swing variations in therapeutic or strength and conditioning settings, are posterior chain dominant exercises that require hip extension contributions when performed correctly…”
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Trichromacy is insufficient for mate detection in a mimetic butterfly by Andrew Dang, Gary D. Bernard, Furong Yuan, Aide Macias-Muñoz, Ryan I. Hill, J. P. Lawrence, Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin, Armando Luis-Martínez, Sean P. Mullen, Jorge Llorente-Bousquets, Adriana D. Briscoe

“…Visual modeling suggests that neither A. fessonia nor avian predators can readily distinguish the co-mimics’ coloration using chromatic or achromatic vision under natural conditions. …”
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Is COVID-19 pandemic associated with sadness? A prepandemic and postpandemic comparison by Samuel Carvalho Dumith, Elizabet Saes-Silva, Fernanda de Oliveira Meller, Antônio Augusto Schäfer, Micaela Rabelo Quadra, Lauro Miranda Demenech

“…ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze whether the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with an increment in the feeling of sadness among adults and elderly individuals from southern Brazil. …”
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Beyond minutiae: inferring missing details from global structure in fingerprints by Rachel A. Searston, Matthew B. Thompson, Samuel G. Robson, Jason M. Tangen

“…This study explores the role of visual inference as a function of expertise in the context of fingerprint examination, where professional examiners need to determine whether two fingerprints were left by the same person, or not, often based on limited or impoverished visual information. …”
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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE IT SECTOR: WAS THE ADJUSTMENT AS EASY AS IT SEEMED? THE CASE OF CROATIA by Julia Perić, Ružica Stanić

“…In addition, this paper answers whether and to what extent IT companies had to adapt their business models and what other challenges (cybersecurity, new platforms, etc.) they had to respond to. …”
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DIGITAL SECURITY IN EDUCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS: A STUDY BASED ON FUTURE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS by María José Latorre-Medina, Chaimae Tnibar-Harrus

“…The intention, after applying descriptive and inferential statistics tests, was to determine whether students in pre-service training really feel competent on digital matters or if they feel need more theoretical-practical training, especially in the area of security. …”
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The causal effects between low back pain and cerebrospinal fluid metabolites: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Run Peng, Xiaoxin Wang, Wei Wang, Zeqin Li, Yuze Sun, Mingliang Yang

“…Methods We performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to examine whether there is a causal relationship between CSF metabolites and LBP. …”
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VULNERABLITY OF RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN NINH THUAN PROVINCE TO DROUGHT by Tan Luc Chau, Ha Anh Hoang, Thai Hiep Vo, Thanh Ha Dang

“…There is a need to establish an early warning system for climate change and extreme weather events while simultaneously disseminating information widely to farmers so that they can take timely measures to cope. …”
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Estimation of PM10 and PM2.5 Using Backscatter Coefficient of Ceilometer and Machine Learning by Bu-Yo Kim, Joo Wan Cha, Yong Hee Lee

“…In this study, PM10 and PM2.5 in Cheongju city, South Korea, were estimated using the attenuated backscatter coefficient of the ceilometer and meteorological observation data from an automatic weather station with supervised machine learning (ML). …”
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Major data gaps and recommendations in monitoring regulations of activities in EU marine protected areas by Juliette Aminian-Biquet, Jennifer Sletten, Timothé Vincent, Margherita Pieraccini, Betty Queffelec, Anastasiya Laznya, Natașa Vaidianu, Joachim Claudet, Juliette Young, Barbara Horta e Costa

“…The regulation of each activity was known in 40% or less of the MPA area (whether allowed, prohibited, or restricted), except for fishing activities (70% of MPA area), albeit with limited detail. …”
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It’s Hard to Prepare for Task Novelty: Cueing the Novelty of Upcoming Tasks Does Not Facilitate Task Performance by Mengqiao Chai, Ana F. Palenciano, Ravi Mill, Michael W. Cole, Senne Braem

“…Here, we investigated whether explicitly informing about the novelty of an incoming task would help participants prepare for different task configuration processes, such as pre-adjusting working memory gating functions. …”
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Clinical Benefits of Parasternal Block with Multihole Catheters when Inserted before Sternotomy by Vedat Eljezi, Crispin Jallas, Bruno Pereira, Melanie Chasteloux, Christian Dualé, Lionel Camilleri

“…Background: The aim of this study was to assess whether parasternal block with multihole catheters inserted before surgical incision enables to alleviate postoperative analgesia and opioid reduction in cardiac surgery patients with sternotomy. …”
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LENDING RATE AND COMMERCIAL BANK LENDING IN NIGERIA by Lateef Adewale Yunusa, Mayowa Ebenezer Ariyibi, Kehinde Isiaq Olaiya, Tolulope Oyakhilome Williams

“…Future researchers could extend the research by carrying out a cross country study in order to ascertain whether these variables will generate the same or a contradicting result. …”
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Growth response of Douglas fir to the first early and delayed thinning by Dušek David, Novák Jiří

“…The response of DF promising trees to delayed thinning was negligible. Neither early nor delayed thinning had a detectable effect on height growth of the DF promising trees. …”
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Exploring homotopy with hyperspherical tracking to find complex roots with application to electrical circuits by Sandoval-Hernandez Mario A., Jimenez-Islas Hugo, Vazquez-Leal Hector, Quemada-Villagómez Miriam L., Lopez-Gonzalez María de la Luz

“…Identifying their roots, whether real or complex, is of critical importance. …”
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The relationship between perception and landscape characteristics of recreational places with human mental well-being by Janina Vanhöfen, Talia Härtel, Giovanna Reichert, Christoph Randler

“…In a second survey, 49 participants were shown images of the areas to assess whether they perceived them in the same way as people on-site did. …”
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The efficacy of an allosteric modulator of the alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in a murine model of stroke by Katherine Hernandez, Nathan Jones, Sterling B. Ortega

“…Using a murine transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) model, we sought to evaluate the neurotherapeutic efficacy of a positive allosteric modulator of the alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7-nAChR), PNU-120596 (PNU), specifically examining whether PNU would modulate stroke-induced neurological dysfunction and neuropathology, with modulation of neuroinflammation as a possible mechanism.MethodsYoung male C57BL/6J mice received a subcutaneous injection of 20mg/kg of vehicle (DMSO) or PNU-120596 immediately after reperfusion, and infarct area and Bederson score were analyzed 24 hours post-stroke. …”
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