Effects of Exercise on Arterial Stiffness: Mechanistic Insights into Peripheral, Central, and Systemic Vascular Health in Young Men by Yongsheng Lan, Ruisi Wu, Yujuan Feng, Teng Keen Khong, Cunhan Wang, Ashril Yusof, Guangwei Che

“…Background/Objectives: Arterial stiffness, a critical predictor of cardiovascular events, varies regionally across peripheral, central, and systemic arteries, necessitating targeted exercise interventions for young men. …”
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Population changes and primary healthcare delivery in Ebonyi State, Nigeria by Agatha Arochukwu, Felix Ike, Adelowo Adefisayo Adewoyin, Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin

“…Results The population distribution across Ebonyi’s 13 Local Government Areas (LGAs) varied significantly. …”
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A cross-tissue transcriptomic approach decodes glucocorticoid receptor-dependent links to human metabolic phenotypes by Marcin Piechota, Mateusz Zieba, Małgorzata Borczyk, Slawomir Golda, Jacek Hajto, Urszula Skupio, Michal Slezak, Jan Rodriguez Parkitna, Michal Korostynski

“…Abundant evidence shows that GR-triggered responses differ across tissues, however, the extent of this specificity was not comprehensively explored. …”
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The dynamics of sea otter prey selection under population growth and expansion by Clinton B. Leach, Benjamin P. Weitzman, James L. Bodkin, Daniel Esler, George G. Esslinger, Kimberly A. Kloecker, Daniel H. Monson, Jamie N. Womble, Mevin B. Hooten

“…We integrated these two data sources to investigate how sea otter diet changed in space and time as sea otters established and spread across Glacier Bay. Specifically, we developed a multilevel Bayesian model to capture how sea otter diet at a location (the number, type, and size of prey collected) changed as a function of local cumulative otter abundance and the year in which the location was first occupied. …”
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Species turnover within cystic fibrosis lung microbiota is indicative of acute pulmonary exacerbation onset by Leah Cuthbertson, Lauren Hatfield, Helen Gavillet, Michelle Hardman, Ryan Marsh, Damian W. Rivett, Christopher van der Gast

“…Greater turnover was found to be significantly associated with greater change in lung function with time. When microbiota turnover was examined at a finer scale across each pwCF time series, w-values could clearly be observed to increase in the exacerbation period, then peaking within the treatment period, demonstrating that increases in turnover were not solely a result of perturbations caused by PEx antibiotic interventions. …”
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Association of predicted basal metabolic rate and insulin resistance in a Chinese general population by Linghuan Wang, Tingting Lu, Peixin Wu, Kang Chen, Yiming Mu

“…Abstract Background Although basal metabolic rate (BMR) is involved in glucose homeostasis, existing evidence regarding its association with insulin resistance (IR) remains inconsistent across populations. This study aimed to clarify the relationship between predicted BMR and the prevalence of IR in a large, community-based Chinese population. …”
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Impact of “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery” (ERAS) protocols vs. traditional perioperative care on patient outcomes after colorectal surgery: a systematic review by Vaishnavi Kannan, Najeeb Ullah, Sunitha Geddada, Amir Ibrahiam, Zahraa Munaf Shakir Al-Qassab, Osman Ahmed, Iana Malasevskaia

“…An extensive search was conducted across multiple electronic databases and registers from July 2 to July 5, 2024, complemented by citation searching on November 30, 2024. …”
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Outcomes of lateral approach total knee replacement in the elderly cohort: A focused analysis on patients aged 80 and above by Michael Messieh, Steve Nguyen

“…They experienced slower but satisfactory functional recovery as indicated by lower KSS Function scores at various postoperative intervals compared to younger cohorts. …”
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Initial impacts of wildfire on overwintering conditions for a Species-at-Risk snake by T.D. North, C.E. Markle, R.Y. Fallas, P.A. Moore, J.M. Waddington

“…To assess the potential impact of wildfire on massasauga overwintering habitat, we monitored water table position, snow depth, and peat thermal dynamics in hummocks across a burn severity gradient (unburned to severely burned) in three burned and three unburned peatlands across three winters (2019–2022). …”
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The Cardiovascular Benefits of Dark Chocolate Supplementation before High-Intensity Resistance Exercise in the Early Follicular and Mid-Luteal Phases of the Menstrual Cycle by Chun-Wei Wang, Shih-Hua Fang, Tse-An Yu, Liang-You Chen, Chung-Kai Wang, Soun-Cheng Wang, Cheng-Shiun He

“…Abstract Background Dark chocolate, rich in flavanols, may support vascular health by reducing arterial stiffness and blood pressure across menstrual phases. This study examined the effects of 85% dark chocolate on nitric oxide (NO) levels and vascular function during high-intensity resistance exercise in healthy women across the early follicular and mid-luteal phases. …”
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Genome-wide microsatellite characterization and their marker development and transferability in Broussonetia Species by Xiaowen Jia, Hanyu Li, Ying Han, Lu Wang, Chanjuan Lai, Xi Liu, Pan Li, Zupei Lei, Yonghua Zhang

“…Genic-mapped SSRs may regulate biological processes by influencing gene activity and protein function. To verify SSRs polymorphism, we selected 30 ones from 10,752 potentially polymorphic SSRs loci for PCR amplification among these three species, all of which were successfully amplified and exhibited polymorphism across these three species. …”
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Towards precision agriculture tea leaf disease detection using CNNs and image processing by Irfan Sadiq Rahat, Hritwik Ghosh, Suresh Dara, Shashi Kant

“…This stage features a dropout layer for regularization, a dense layer with 512 units for further pattern learning, and a final dense layer with 8 units and a soft max activation function, producing a probability distribution across different disease classes. …”
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Impact of mHealth and eHealth on oral health literacy: A systematic review by Ravinder S Saini, Shubham Chopra, Yahya Ahmed Assiri, Fahad Hussain Alhamoudi, Sunil Kumar Vaddamanu, Mudita Chaturvedi, Mohamed Saheer Kuruniyan, Morteza Banakar, Artak Heboyan

“…Conclusion Mobile apps, SMS-based therapies, and virtual reality applications greatly improved oral health knowledge, habits, and literacy scores across different age groups.…”
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Towards a theory of sustainable city sizes by Liton Md Kamruzzaman

“…Results show that UCLs within ±4% of their theoretical size achieve optimal outcomes across all indicators. Nationally, achieving equilibrium could save $5.3 billion in annual rent, generate 44,000 additional daily walking trips, and reduce multi-vehicle dependency in 275,000 households. …”
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The Growing Power of Judges in Democratic Political Systems: Causes and Manifestations by Bertrand Mathieu

“…This is reflected particularly by the multiplication of the courts’ function and the corresponding strengthening of their normative power. …”
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Stochastic attractor models of visual working memory. by W Penny

“…These models have previously been shown to account for response-biases that are manifest across multiple trials of a visual working memory task. …”
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Control the Epithelial Barrier: A Pivotal First Line of Defense by Catherine M McKay, Derek M McKay

“…Increased epithelial permeability (or decreased barrier function) has repeatedly been demonstrated in a variety of gut disturbances; notably, in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). …”
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Role of TRPV1 in neuroendocrine regulation: a potential target against obesity? by Jiexin Wang, Maohui Liu, Lingmiao Wen, Pengfei Xing, Jiawei Chen, Xiuwen Xia, WeiJun Ding

“…Activation of the transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) cascade plays a key role in lipid metabolism and energy intake. TRPV1 is expressed across the central nervous system and peripheral organs is involved in the regulation of hormone secretion, appetite and mitochondrial function, and is recognized as one of the key targets for preventing obesity. …”
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‘We are celebrated but not included’: heteronormativity and cisnormativity in Aotearoa New Zealand workplaces by Le Cui

“…Using survey comments from organisations across various sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand, this qualitative study examines the workplace climate for Rainbow employees. …”
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Entropies and Degree-Based Topological Indices of Coronene Fractal Structures by Si-Ao Xu, Jia-Bao Liu

“…Molecular fractals are geometric patterns that appear self-similar across all length scales and are constructed by repeating a single unit on a regular basis. …”
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