An Improved U-Net-Based Framework for Estimating River Surface Flow Velocity by 周继威, 安国成, 王根一

“…Comparative analysis with state-of-the-art methods highlighted the framework’s advantages. …”
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Whole-genome sequencing shows modulation of neurodegenerative genes by Withania somnifera in human SK-N-SH cells by Eshita Sharma, Eshita Sharma, Dilip Mehta, Dilip Mehta, Nikita Jadhav, Gunjan Gujrati, Gunjan Gujrati, S. Dhananya, Manju Moorthy, Gopalakrishna Ramaswamy, Yundong Zhou, Sujit Nair, Sujit Nair

“…BackgroundAging is driven by several primary and secondary hallmarks that manifest with age, of which neurodegenerative diseases are important manifestations. The ability to decelerate or reverse aging, and promote healthy aging, has garnered great interest in recent times. …”
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A scoping review of tropical pioneer trees’ roles for restoration and conservation management: Harungana madagascariensis (Hypericaceae) a widespread African species as a model by François M.M.P. Baguette, Cláudia Baider, F.B. Vincent Florens

“…Following the PRISMA screening process for scoping reviews, 398 publications and 4,379 records from GBIF (2023) were used in the final analysis out of a total of 1,159 unique articles and 5,230 records originally retrieved. …”
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The single beacon: progresses in understanding Earth as an exoplanet using DSCOVR/EPIC observations by Xun Jian, Xun Jian, Lixiang Gu, Siteng Fan, Stuart J. Bartlett, Jiani Yang, Jonathan H. Jiang, Yangcheng Luo, Yuk L. Yung, Yuk L. Yung

“…These findings provide a valuable observational baseline for future exoplanet studies, refining our ability to recognize life-supporting worlds beyond the Solar System.…”
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Exogenous Trehalose Assists <i>Zygosaccharomyces rouxii</i> in Resisting High-Temperature Stress Mainly by Activating Genes Rather than Entering Metabolism by Xiong Xiao, Quan Liu, Qian Zhang, Zhenzhen Yan, Dongbo Cai, Xin Li

“…A high concentration of trehalose (20% Tre) can promote the expression of high glucose receptor gene <i>GRT2</i> (12.0-fold) and induce the up-regulation of <i>HSF1</i> (27.1-fold), <i>MSN4</i> (58.9-fold), <i>HXK1</i> (8.3-fold), and other signal transduction protein genes, and the increase of trehalose concentration will maintain the temporal up-regulation of these genes. Transcriptome analysis showed that trehalose concentration and the presence of glucose had a significant effect on the gene expression of <i>Z. rouxii</i> under high-temperature stress. …”
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Drought monitoring using the Climate Hazards InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) in Ethiopia by Birhan Getachew Tikuye, Ram L. Ray, Busnur Manjunatha, Gebrekidan Worku Tefera, Sanjita Gurau

“…Temporal variations in drought indices reveal that certain years, such as 1984, 2010, and 2016, were among the driest periods in Ethiopia, both in terms of annual and seasonal drought severity. …”
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High Genetic Diversity Among <i>Bacillus cereus</i> Isolates Contaminating Donated Milk at a Canadian Human Milk Bank by Mathew Gene, Jennifer L. Guthrie, Kevin Li, Sarah Teatero, Aimee Paterson, Angel Li, Alain Doyen, Deborah Yamamura, Sarah Khan, Jocelyn A. Srigley, Debbie Stone, Deborah L. O’Connor, Susan Poutanen, Sharon Unger, Allison McGeer, Nahuel Fittipaldi

“…<i>Bacillus cereus</i> poses a persistent challenge for human milk banks (HMBs) due to its ability to survive Holder pasteurization (HoP; 62.5 °C for 30 min). …”
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Decades of leopard coexistence in the Himalayas driven by ecological dynamics, not climate change by Paras Bikram Singh, Pradip Saud, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Pawan Rai, Jeff R. Muntifering, Huijian Hu, Ajay Karki, Yiming Hu, Kumar P. Mainali

“…Instead, our findings suggest a long-term adaptation of common leopards to high-altitude environments, demonstrated by their ability to survive and breed in cold temperatures as low as −18°C. …”
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Faculty perceptions of extra-cognitive factors in virtual teaching during the pandemic by Gonzalo D. Andrés, Guillermo E. Macbeth, Patricia S. San-Martín

“…The results indicate that, whereas the faculty had available technologies, abilities to use them, and an appropriate institutional environment, in that moment emerging difficulties manifested related to the conditions of livability and the possibilities of spatial-temporal organization for carrying out telework. …”
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Characterising grey-white matter relationships in recent-onset psychosis and its association with cognitive function by Yoshito Saito, Christos Pantelis, Vanessa Cropley, Liliana Laskaris, Cassandra M.J. Wannan, Warda T. Syeda

“…Understanding characteristic GM-WM patterns may also clarify the basis of cognitive impairments, which are potentially linked to network dysfunction in psychosis. Using multivariate analysis, we examined whole-brain GM-WM relationships and their association with cognitive abilities in ROP.We used T1 and diffusion-weighted images from 71 non-affective ROP individuals (age 22.09 ± 3.08) and 71 matched controls (age 22.05 ± 3.21). …”
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Assessment of the psychophysiological and functional state of basketball students in the pre-competition period by S. M. Ryabtsev, T. A. Zhmurova

“…The article presents an analysis of the results of the psychophysiological and functional state of the body of the examined, obtained through the use of complex control using psychodiagnostic and functional research methods.Results: indicators of psychodiagnostic techniques characterize the insufficient development of the studied properties of attention for those engaged in playing sports and the fitness of the functional abilities of the leading hand of basketball players. …”
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Unexpected rise in the circulation of complex HBV variants enriched of HBsAg vaccine-escape mutations in HBV genotype-D: potential impact on HBsAg detection/quantification and vacc... by Lorenzo Piermatteo, Stefano D’Anna, Ada Bertoli, Maria Bellocchi, Luca Carioti, Lavinia Fabeni, Mohammad Alkhatib, Simone La Frazia, Miriam Lichtner, Claudio Mastroianni, Giuseppe De Sanctis, Massimo Marignani, Caterina Pasquazzi, Nerio Iapadre, Giustino Parruti, Giuseppina Cappiello, Jacopo Vecchiet, Vincenzo Malagnino, Sandro Grelli, Francesca Ceccherini-Silbertein, Massimo Andreoni, Loredana Sarmati, Valentina Svicher, Romina Salpini

“…These in-vivo findings are in keeping with our in-vitro results showing the ability of these mutations in hampering HBsAg secretion or HBsAg recognition by diagnostic antibodies. …”
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Spatial patterns and MRI-based radiomic prediction of high peritumoral tertiary lymphoid structure density in hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter study by Juan Chen, Xiong Chen, Kai Fu, Lan Zhou, Shichao Long, Mengsi Li, Linhui Zhong, Aerzuguli Abudulimu, Wenguang Liu, Deng Pan, Ganmian Dai, Yigang Pei, Wenzheng Li

“…This included training (n=307) and temporal validation (n=76) cohorts from Xiangya Hospital, and external validation cohorts from three independent hospitals (n=277). …”
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Analyzing the impact of area of interest (AOI) size and endmember selection on evapotranspiration (ET) estimation through a contextual model (SEBAL) by Hamza Barguache, Jamal Ezzahar, Jamal Elfarkh, Said Khabba, Salah Er-Raki, Valerie Le Dantec, Mohamed Hakim Kharrou, Ghizlane Aouade, Abdelghani Chehbouni

“…Advancements in remote sensing technology have made ET models indispensable, offering high-resolution spatial and temporal assessments. Contextual models such as the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) are particularly valuable for ET estimation. …”
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The Paleochrono-1.1 probabilistic model to derive a common age model for several paleoclimatic sites using absolute and relative dating constraints by F. Parrenin, M. Bouchet, C. Buizert, E. Capron, E. Corrick, R. Drysdale, K. Kawamura, A. Landais, R. Mulvaney, I. Oyabu, S. O. Rasmussen

“…Paleochrono-1.1 outperforms IceChrono in terms of computational efficiency, ease of use and accuracy. We demonstrate the ability of Paleochrono-1.1 in an experiment involving only the MSL speleothem in Hulu Cave (China), and we compare the resulting age model with the Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis version 2 (SISALv2) age models. …”
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Protective effects of 4-HBd on blood–brain barrier integrity in MCAO/R model rats based on brain pharmacokinetic characteristics by Jin Feng, Qian Yang, Ming Chen, Yan Wang, Dan Luo, Dongxiong Hu, Dongxiong Hu, Jianjun Cheng, Xuelan Song, Xiaonan Zhou, Qingting Meng, Qing Lin, Fangyan He

“…Microdialysis, combined with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), was employed to determine the temporal distribution of 4-HBd in the brains of both normal and MCAO/R model rats. …”
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Human motor control during movements with high demands by Paul Kaufmann, Willi Koller, Elias Wallnöfer, Basilio Goncalves, Clara Scheer, Juliana Exel, Olivia Froschauer, Catherine Hlavac, Mathias Wiplinger, Lorenz Zweier, Arnold Baca, Hans Kainz

“…Thirdly, it was observed that psychological stress had an effect on temporal-spatial gait parameters, but not on synergies. …”
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Deep learning-based screening for locomotive syndrome using single-camera walking video: Development and validation study. by Junichi Kushioka, Satoru Tada, Noriko Takemura, Taku Fujimoto, Hajime Nagahara, Masahiko Onoe, Keiko Yamada, Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez, Takenori Oda, Hideki Mochizuki, Ken Nakata, Seiji Okada, Yu Moriguchi

“…To address this, we introduced a Deep Learning (DL)-based computer vision model that employs OpenPose for pose estimation and MS-G3D for spatial-temporal graph analysis. This model objectively assesses gait patterns through single-camera video captures, offering a novel and efficient method for LS prediction and analysis. …”
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Cognitive declines precede and predict functional declines in aging and Alzheimer's disease. by Laura B Zahodne, Jennifer J Manly, Anna MacKay-Brandt, Yaakov Stern

“…Data were analyzed with autoregressive cross-lagged panel analysis.<h4>Results</h4>Cognitive scores more consistently predicted subsequent functional abilities than vice versa in non-demented older adults, participants with eventual incident dementia, and patients with prevalent AD.…”
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Mathematical modeling reveals ferritin as the strongest cellular driver of dietary iron transfer block in enterocytes. by Joseph Masison, Pedro Mendes

“…Intestinal mucosal block is the transient reduction in iron absorption ability of intestinal epithelial cells (enterocytes) in response to previous iron exposures that occur at the cell scale. …”
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