Orangutans and chimpanzees produce morphologically varied laugh faces in response to the age and sex of their social partners by Fabio Crepaldi, Florence Rocque, Guillaume Dezecache, Leanne Proops, Marina Davila-Ross

“…In total, we analysed over 600 facial expressions of 14 orangutans and 17 chimpanzees by coding the specific muscle activations (Action Units, i.e. …”
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An observational study of patient characteristics associated with the mode of admission to acute stroke services in North East, England. by Christopher I Price, Victoria Rae, Jay Duckett, Ruth Wood, Joanne Gray, Peter McMeekin, Helen Rodgers, Karen Portas, Gary A Ford

“…Emergency ambulance patients were older (76 vs 69 years), more likely to be from institutional care (10% vs 1%) and experiencing total anterior circulation symptoms (27% vs 6%). …”
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Genome-wide identification and characterization of DNA enhancers with a stacked multivariate fusion framework. by Yansong Wang, Zilong Hou, Yuning Yang, Ka-Chun Wong, Xiangtao Li

“…Enhancers are short non-coding DNA sequences outside of the target promoter regions that can be bound by specific proteins to increase a gene's transcriptional activity, which has a crucial role in the spatiotemporal and quantitative regulation of gene expression. …”
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Shrinking Cities of the Russian Arctic: Public Discourse of Vorkuta Residents on the Place Identity and the Reasons for Population Outflow by Elena V. Nedoseka, Ekaterina N. Sharova, Veronika A. Lisova

“…Quantitative analysis of the number of comments (under posts) and likes (under comments) made it possible to identify the most significant and persistent problems, which are certainly of increased interest to representatives of municipal and regional authorities.…”
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Analysis of the human monocyte-derived macrophage transcriptome and response to lipopolysaccharide provides new insights into genetic aetiology of inflammatory bowel disease. by J Kenneth Baillie, Erik Arner, Carsten Daub, Michiel De Hoon, Masayoshi Itoh, Hideya Kawaji, Timo Lassmann, Piero Carninci, Alistair R R Forrest, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, FANTOM Consortium, Geoffrey J Faulkner, Christine A Wells, Michael Rehli, Paul Pavli, Kim M Summers, David A Hume

“…LPS-inducible long non-coding RNAs were commonly associated with clusters of inducible enhancers. …”
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Epigenome-wide methylation analysis shows phosphonoethylamine alleviates aberrant DNA methylation in NASH caused by Pcyt2 deficiency. by Sophie Grapentine, Prasoon Agarwal, Vernon W Dolinsky, Marica Bakovic

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The Pcyt2 + /- liver methylome and transcriptome is altered and likely underlies much of the pathology in Pcyt2 + /- NASH phenotype. …”
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PrEP your step: Implementing an online crowdsourcing contest to engage young people in HIV prevention in Washington DC, USA. by Tamara Taggart, Allison Mathews, Toni Junious, Joseph A Lindsey, Andrea Augustine, Charles Debnam, Yavonne Boyd, Seraiya Wright, Joseph D Tucker, Manya Magnus

“…Survey data (n = 887) showed that the crowdsourced messages were well-liked and resonated with the community. Most preferred to see PrEP messages in social media (23%), email (17%) and videos (14%). …”
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Evolving Trends in Teacher Self-Efficacy Research: A BibliometricReview (2020–2025) by Ana-Maria MADINA, Daniel MARA

“…Significant database specialisation patterns emerged, with Springer publications substantially more likely to address teacher self-efficacy than ScienceDirect (47.7% versus 1.8%). …”
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8.2% of the Human genome is constrained: variation in rates of turnover across functional element classes in the human lineage. by Chris M Rands, Stephen Meader, Chris P Ponting, Gerton Lunter

“…By contrast, protein coding sequence has been highly stable, with an estimated half-life of over a billion years (d1/2 = 2.1-5.0). …”
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Cell death and antioxidant responses in Mytilus galloprovincialis under heat stress: Evidence of genetic loci potentially associated with thermal resilience. by Dimitrios K Papadopoulos, Basile Michaelidis, Ioannis A Giantsis

“…At 28°C, although oxidative damage occurred after 24 hours, survivors maintained a prolonged activated antioxidant defense and increased lc3b transcription, which likely contributed to the observed reduction of pro-apoptotic and oxidative damage metrics on day 25, compared to 26°C. …”
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How, when, and who should ask about pregnancy intentions in primary care? A qualitative study of primary healthcare professionals’ preferences by Jennifer Hall, Helen Carr, Anne Connolly, Geraldine Barrett

“…Framework analysis was conducted in NVivo, adapting a coding frame from complementary interviews with women. …”
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Phylogenetic reconstruction of orthology, paralogy, and conserved synteny for dog and human. by Leo Goodstadt, Chris P Ponting

“…Having accounted for 2,954 likely pseudogenes and gene fragments, and after separating 346 erroneously merged genes, we estimated that the human genome encodes a minimum of 19,700 protein-coding genes, similar to the gene count of nematode worms. …”
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Dynamic stages of personality adjustment: language switching and acculturation in first-generation Chinese immigrants by Xin Chen

“…Descriptive and pattern coding strategies were employed to identify key themes. …”
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Between heuristic and deliberative thinking: a multi-center qualitative study of physicians’ decision-making in infection prevention practice by Miriam Schutte, Mireille Dekker, Jonne Sikkens, Rosa van Mansfeld

“…These findings suggest that interventions are most likely to be beneficial if these focus on developing heuristics, changing risk beliefs, using social norms and imitation and generating a supportive environment. …”
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Exon level machine learning analyses elucidate novel candidate miRNA targets in an avian model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. by Abrar E Al-Shaer, George R Flentke, Mark E Berres, Ana Garic, Susan M Smith

“…We address these limitations with a novel approach and implemented an unsupervised machine learning model, which we applied to an exon-level analysis to reduce data complexity to the most likely functionally relevant exons, without loss of novel information. …”
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The Influence of CYP2B6 Variants and Administration of Propofol on Patient Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury by Katherine O’Meara, Ava M. Puccio, Dianxu Ren, Sandra Deslouches, Ruchira Jha, David O. Okonkwo, Yvette P. Conley

“…Individuals homozygous for the alleles coding for the reduced enzyme expression and activity were more likely to have worse outcomes. …”
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Unveiling conserved HIV-1 open reading frames encoding T cell antigens using ribosome profiling by Lisa Bertrand, Annika Nelde, Bertha Cecilia Ramirez, Isabelle Hatin, Hugo Arbes, Pauline François, Stéphane Demais, Emmanuel Labaronne, Didier Decimo, Laura Guiguettaz, Sylvie Grégoire, Anne Bet, Guillaume Beauclair, Antoine Gross, Maja C. Ziegler, Mathias Pereira, Raphaël Jeger-Madiot, Yann Verdier, Joelle Vinh, Sylvain Cardinaud, Stéphanie Graff-Dubois, Audrey Esclatine, Cécile Gouttefangeas, Marcus Altfeld, Laurent Hocqueloux, Assia Samri, Brigitte Autran, Olivier Lambotte, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Emiliano P. Ricci, Juliane Walz, Olivier Namy, Arnaud Moris

“…Abstract The development of ribosomal profiling (Riboseq) revealed the immense coding capacity of human and viral genomes. Here, we used Riboseq to delineate the translatome of HIV-1 in infected CD4+ T cells. …”
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Evaluating Usability and Accessibility of Visual Programming Tools for Novice Programmers—The Case of App Inventor, Scratch, and StarLogo by Kamil Żyła, Kinga Chwaleba, Dominik Choma

“…Not all modern engineers will become fully fledged programmers, but sometimes the possibility to use low-code programming environments like LabView or MIT App Inventor will be sufficient. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to changes in adolescent physical activity during COVID-19 by Kwok Ng, Jemima Cooper, Fiona McHale, Joanna Clifford, Catherine Woods

“…Adolescents who did less PA were more likely to be overweight (OR=1.8, CI=1.2–2.7) or obese (OR=2.2, CI=1.2–4.0) and less likely to have strong prior PA habits (OR=0.4, CI=0.2–0.6). …”
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Association between household cooking energy sources and under-five mortality: evidence from demographic health survey by Byrne Kaulu, Eskaya Martha Kapilili, Paul Kaulu, Goodwell Kaulu

“…Results A child in a household using charcoal cooking fuel is at least 1.58 times more likely to experience under-five mortality than one using electricity (OR = 1.58, 95% CI = 1.09—2.29). …”
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