First Iberian aspidothoracid megasecopteran insect and associated plants evidencing herbivory in a tropical Carboniferous forest from León, Spain by ARTAI A. SANTOS, ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ-ORÚE, ENRIQUE PEÑALVER, STEPHEN MCLOUGHLIN, JOSÉ B. DIEZ

“…The fossil leaves bear six types of damage, probably produced by insects, belonging to three functional feeding groups: margin feeding, hole feeding, and piercing and sucking. …”
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Vulnerability of long-range inputome of basal forebrain in normal aging mice by Tingting Sun, Jiale Chen, Bimin Liu, Anan Li, Hui Gong, Xiangning Li, Xiangning Li

“…The basal forebrain (BF) has been shown to have complex connections with the hippocampus (Hip) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) through circuits, and is involved in cognitive functions. …”
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Tourette Syndrome in Children: An Updated Review by Jung-Chieh Du, Ting-Fang Chiu, Kun-Mei Lee, Hsin-Lin Wu, Ya-Chi Yang, Shu-Yeh Hsu, Chung-Shu Sun, Betau Hwang, James F. Leckman

“…Treatment for TS should focus on improving the patient's social functioning, minimizing the impairment from cormobid disorders, and controlling tics, if they are severe. …”
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HLA-E: Presentation of a Broader Peptide Repertoire Impacts the Cellular Immune Response—Implications on HSCT Outcome by Thomas Kraemer, Alexander A. Celik, Trevor Huyton, Heike Kunze-Schumacher, Rainer Blasczyk, Christina Bade-Döding

“…The HLA-E locus encodes a nonclassical class Ib molecule that serves many immune functions from inhibiting NK cells to activating CTLs. …”
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Making sense of the evidence in population health intervention research: building a dry stone wall by David Ogilvie, Jenna Panter, Adrian Bauman, David Humphreys, Louise Foley, Cornelia Guell

“…In this way we might channel a spirit of pragmatic pluralism into making sense of complex sets of evidence, robust enough to support more plausible causal inference to guide action, while accepting and adapting to the reality of the public health landscape rather than wishing it were otherwise. …”
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The surface tension and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation of sea spray aerosol particles by J. Kleinheins, N. Shardt, U. Lohmann, C. Marcolli

“…Since common climate models use parameterizations that are based on classical Köhler theory, these results suggest that the CCN activity of small SSA particles might be underestimated in climate models.</p>…”
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Mapping Hsp104 interactions using cross‐linking mass spectrometry by Kinga Westphal, Karolina Michalska, Andrzej Joachimiak, Lukasz A. Joachimiak

“…Recent cryo‐EM structures of AAA+ molecular machines have uncovered nuanced changes in their conformation that underlie their specialized functions. Structural knowledge of these molecular machines in complex with substrates begins to explain their mechanism of activity. …”
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An integrated proteo-transcriptomics approach reveals novel drug targets against multidrug resistant Escherichia coli by Manisha Aswal, Nirpendra Singh, Neelja Singhal, Manish Kumar

“…Microbial drug resistance is a complex phenomenon which is conditioned by an interplay of several genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic factors. …”
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Conservation translocations in urban environments: State of the knowledge and future directions by Julian Brown, Nicholas S.G. Williams, Kylie Soanes

“…There is also a need for longer-term monitoring of translocation success that might be achieved simultaneously while enhancing human-nature connections through citizen science programs.…”
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Identifying conducive contexts and working mechanisms of sedentary behaviour interventions in older adults: a realist review protocol as part of the ‘Stand UP Seniors’ project by Sebastien F M Chastin, Greet Cardon, Sofie Compernolle, Delfien Van Dyck, Kenneth Vanhove, Emelien Lauwerier

“…Sedentary behaviour is ubiquitous in older adults and has a strong link with age-related functional declines and chronic health conditions. Although several interventions have been developed aimed at the reduction of sedentary behaviour in older adults, little in-depth information is available on how these complex interventions work in different contexts. …”
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Phylogenetic analysis of viruses in Tuscan Vitis vinifera sylvestris (Gmeli) Hegi. by Erika Sabella, Roberto Pierro, Andrea Luvisi, Alessandra Panattoni, Claudio D'Onofrio, Giancarlo Scalabrelli, Eliana Nutricati, Alessio Aprile, Luigi De Bellis, Alberto Materazzi

“…In addition, analyses of genetic recombination suggest no significant point mutations that might play a significant role in genetic diversification. …”
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Context Adaptation of Fuzzy Inference System-Based Construction Labor Productivity Models by Abraham Assefa Tsehayae, Aminah Robinson Fayek

“…However, CLP model development remains a challenge, as the complex impact of multiple subjective and objective influencing variables have to be examined in various project contexts while dealing with limited data availability. …”
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Genomic hotspots for adaptation: the population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene clade. by Simon W Baxter, Nicola J Nadeau, Luana S Maroja, Paul Wilkinson, Brian A Counterman, Anna Dawson, Margarita Beltran, Silvia Perez-Espona, Nicola Chamberlain, Laura Ferguson, Richard Clark, Claire Davidson, Rebecca Glithero, James Mallet, W Owen McMillan, Marcus Kronforst, Mathieu Joron, Richard H Ffrench-Constant, Chris D Jiggins

“…In contrast, at HmB a single peak of association indicates the likely position of functional sites at three genes, encoding a kinesin, a G-protein coupled receptor, and an mRNA splicing factor. …”
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Detection of Toxicity of heavy metal pollution in soils based on their respiratory activity in native soils and simulated substrates (a case-study of the protected area “YAMSKAYA s... by N. O. Bakunovich, O. S. Khokhlova, T. N. Myakshina, A. V. Rusakov, A. S. Shapovalov

“…The area “Yamskaya Steppe” of “Belogorye” preserve is located in Belgorod Oblast near the concentration of mining factories: Lebedinskiy and Stoylenskiy mining and concentration complex (MCC), complexes of “KMA-ore” and Oskol metallurgical, TPP etc. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification of the GPAT Family in <i>Medicago sativa</i> L. and Expression Profiling Under Abiotic Stress by Jianzhi Ma, Mingyang Du, Huiyan Xiong, Ruijun Duan

“…It was also ascertained that these <i>GPAT</i> genes might assume a crucial role in salt and drought stress. …”
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Multiple mechanisms contribute to leakiness of a frameshift mutation in canine cone-rod dystrophy. by Keiko Miyadera, Ian Brierley, Jesús Aguirre-Hernández, Cathryn S Mellersh, David R Sargan

“…<h4>Results and significance</h4>We observed a low rate of use of alternative start codons having potential to allow forms of transcript not including the insertion, with the possibility of encoding truncated functional RPGRIP1 protein isoforms. Complex alternative splicing was observed, but did not increase this potential. …”
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Quantifying conformational heterogeneity of 3D genome organization in fruit fly. by Samira Mali, Igor S Tolokh, Erik Cross, Alexey V Onufriev

“…Within our computational approach, depletion of nuclear lamins leads to increased structural heterogeneity at nearly all genomic separations, with the potential implication that cell functions that depend on chromatin structure might be more variable within lamins depleted nuclei compared to the wild type.…”
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Inter-reader agreement and additive benefit of SPECT or SPECT/CT modality with [99mTc]Tc-pertechnetate scintigraphy imaging for the assessment of thyroid nodules in a tertiary care... by Emil Novruzov, Dominik Schmitt, Katalin Mattes-György, Julian Kuhlmann, Mareike Muchalla, Matthias Schott, Christina Antke, Frederik L. Giesel, Eduards Mamlins

“…The recent advancements and increasing access of SPECT/CT scanners might contribute to thyroid management. This study aimed to elucidate additive value of SPECT(-CT) imaging in initial evaluation of complex TN cases, particularly on multinodular goiter and difficult-to-characterize solitary nodules. …”
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Study of the corrective ability of sync codes for the matched processing decoder by A. V. Sadchenko, O. A. Kushnirenko, A. G. Yurkevych, V. S. Sevastianov

“…Increase of the operation reliability of the frame synchronization schemes of communication systems affected by interferences might be achieved by using sync sequences optimal according to the minimax criterion and having the best ratio of the maximum side-lobe level to the main peak of the non-periodic autocorrelation function. …”
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Proteomic Approach to Study the Effect of <i>Pneumocystis jirovecii</i> Colonization in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Jonás Carmona-Pírez, Rocío Salsoso, Eléna Charpentier, Cinta Olmedo, Francisco J. Medrano, Lucas Román, Carmen de la Horra, Yaxsier de Armas, Enrique J. Calderón, Vicente Friaza

“…We found 11 protein complexes, notably the JAK-STAT signaling complex in non-colonized IPF patients. …”
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