Drugs of abuse drive neurotransmitter plasticity that alters behavior: implications for mental health by Marta Pratelli, Marta Pratelli, Nicholas C. Spitzer, Nicholas C. Spitzer

“…Changes in the transmitter neurons express can generate changes in animal behavior. The ability of neurons to express multiple transmitters and/or switch them in response to environmental stimuli likely evolved to provide flexibility and complexity to neuronal circuit function in an ever-changing environment. …”
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Archaeal diversity in the microbiomes of four wild bird species by Trevor Hunter, Lauren Chance, Chris S. Elphick, Sarah M. Hird

“…In Bacteria-Archaea co-occurrence networks, Archaea-Specific primers found many more significant interactions than the Universal primers alone. …”
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Design and Evaluation of Real-Time Data Storage and Signal Processing in a Long-Range Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Using Cloud-Based Services by Abdusomad Nur, Yonas Muanenda

“…We employ the DynamoDB functionality of Amazon Web Services (AWS), which allows highly expandable storage capacity with latency of access of a few tens of milliseconds. …”
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Evaluating impacts of the trichloroethylene metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovyinyl)-L-cysteine on transcriptomic responses and cytokine release in a macrophage model: implications for pr... by Annella Benjamin, Erica Boldenow, Sammy Jaber, Kelly Bakulski, John Dou, Justin Colacino, Peter Mancuso, Sean Harris

“…We then conducted benchmark dose modeling and compared benchmark doses for DCVC cytotoxicity vs. cytokine suppression and determined that inhibition of cytokine release was the more potent endpoint compared to cytotoxicity. Finally, we analyzed a previously generated transcriptomic dataset from THP-1 cells stimulated with LPS, with or without DCVC treatment. …”
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Biotechnology Advances in Natural Food Colorant Acylated Anthocyanin Production by Shaohua Zeng, Shuang Lin, Rong Jiang, Jinrong Wei, Ying Wang

“…ABSTRACT The food application of natural blue colorants such as acylated anthocyanin is becoming increasingly popular due to their safety, nutritional value, organoleptic attributes, and more pH/thermo‐stable properties compared to nonacylated anthocyanins. …”
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Parents’ experiences of family-based physical activity interventions: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis by Carol Brennan, Evangeline Streight, Shishi Cheng, Ryan E. Rhodes

“…However, the effects of these interventions on child and adolescent PA are often inconsistent, with calls for more in-depth understanding of the contextual issues related to intervention implementation and parents’ experiences of interventions. …”
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Media and information literacy to counter disinformation by Samy Abdel Raoof Tayia

“…These competencies include the ability to: access, find, evaluate, use the information they need in ethical and effective ways; understand the role and functions of media and other information providers such as libraries, museums and archives, including those on the Internet, in democratic societies and in the lives of individuals; understand the conditions under which media and information providers can fulfil their functions; critically evaluate information and media content; engage with<br /> media and information providers for self-expression, life-long learning, democratic participation, and good governance; and update skills (including ICTs skills) needed to produce  content, including user-generated.…”
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A Transient Photoelectric Spiking Neuron Based on a Highly Robust MgO Composite Threshold Switching Memristor for Selective UV Perception by Yaxiong Cao, Rui Wang, Saisai Wang, Tonglong Zeng, Wanlin Zhang, Jing Sun, Xiaohua Ma, Hong Wang, Yue Hao

“…The transient memristor with a MgO:Mg resistive layer implemented by the co‐sputtering process of MgO and Mg targets shows highly robust TS performance, while the ZnO‐based transient photodetector can selectively detect UV light at power densities below 10 mW cm−2. More interestingly, the frequency of the firing spikes generated by artificial photoelectric spiking neuron increases with the enhancement of UV light intensity. …”
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Dissecting the genetic basis of fruiting efficiency for genetic enhancement of harvest index, grain number, and yield in wheat by Dipendra Shahi, Jia Guo, Md Ali Babar, Sumit Pradhan, Muhsin AVCI, Jordan McBreen, Zhao Liu, Guihua Bai, Paul St. Amand, Amy Bernardo, Matthew Reynolds, Gemma Molero, Sivakumar Sukumaran, John Foulkes, Jahangir Khan

“…Fruiting efficiency (FE) is a key trait for increasing GN by making more spike assimilates available to reproductive structures. …”
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Self-rehabilitation strategy for rural community-dwelling stroke survivors in a lower-middle income country: a modified Delphi study. by Rabiu Ibrahim, Conran Joseph, Aimée Stewart, Isa Usman Lawal

“…<h4>Background</h4>More than half of stroke survivors in lower-middle income countries lack access to stroke rehabilitation services. …”
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Sky cooling for LED streetlights by Saichao Dang, Hasan H. Almahfoudh, Abdulrahman M. Alajlan, Hussam Qasem, Jiake Wang, Yingkun Zhu, Osman M. Bakr, Boon S. Ooi, Qiaoqiang Gan

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Combined metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis reveals the key genes for triterpenoid biosynthesis in Cyclocarya paliurus by Duo Chen, Xupeng Chen, Xuehai Zheng, Jinmao Zhu, Ting Xue

“…Triterpenoids can improve the bioactive function of C. paliurus health tea and also improve the efficacy of health care tea. …”
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Machine learning-based prediction of FeNi nanoparticle magnetization by Federico Williamson, Nadhir Naciff, Carlos Catania, Gonzalo dos Santos, Nicolás Amigo, Eduardo M. Bringa

“…More than 1600 NPs were created and split into training and testing sets (70%–30% split), with features including the number of Ni/Fe surface and core atoms, potential energy distributions, pair correlation functions, and coordination distributions. …”
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Carbon and water footprints within an environmental laboratory: Water, energy, and packaging management strategies by María F. Manobanda-Lisintuña, Cristina A. Villamar-Ayala

“…Results show that under normal conditions the laboratory generated a carbon footprint of 10.10 kg CO2-eq/sample (82 % energy used), and a water footprint of 11.76 m3/sample (97 % indirect water). …”
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Uncovering soil compaction: performance of electrical and electromagnetic geophysical methods by A. Carrera, A. Carrera, L. Peruzzo, M. Longo, G. Cassiani, F. Morari

“…</p> <p>In this study, we compared the ability of electric and electromagnetic geophysical methods, i.e., electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and frequency-domain electromagnetic (FDEM) method, to assess the effects caused by both heavy plastic soil deformations generated by a super-heavy vehicle and the more common tractor tramlines on silty-loam soils. …”
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235 Root cause analysis of barriers and facilitators to accrual to a pragmatic, EHR-embedded clinical trial by Lindsay Lennox, Bethany M Kwan, Adit A Ginde, Thomas W. Flaig, Sarah V Kautz, Matthew Mimnall, Andrew Nicklwsky, Goldie Komaie, Christine Velez, Aaron Babour, Laurie Blmberg-Romero, Cecilia C. Low Wang

“…We summarized data from the EHR by eligibility, provider encounters, and alerts, and generated CONSORT diagrams and tables to trace the enrollment pathway. …”
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DFT Study of Initial Surface Reactions in Gallium Nitride Atomic Layer Deposition Using Trimethylgallium and Ammonia by P. Pungboon Pansila, Seckson Sukhasena, Saksit Sukprasong, Worasitti Sriboon, Wipawee Temnuch, Tongsai Jamnongkan, Tanabat Promjun

“…The initial surface reaction of gallium nitride (GaN) grown by atomic layer deposition (GaN-ALD) was investigated using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Trimethylgallium (TMG) and ammonia (NH₃) were used as gallium (Ga) and nitrogen (N) precursors, respectively. …”
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Revisiting Cosa (Ansedonia, Italy): contributions of SAR-X images from the PAZ satellite to non-invasive archaeological prospecting by José Ignacio Fiz Fernández, Pere Manel Martín Serrano, Maria Mercè Grau Salvat, Antoni Cartes Reverté

“…Abstract: Some archaeological results are shown in this article, which have been generated from the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-X images obtained from the PAZ satellite and applied to part of what was called Ager Cosanus, that is, the territory of the city of Cosa, which was one of the first maritime colonies of Rome in the heart of Etruscan territory. …”
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Explainable Self-Supervised Dynamic Neuroimaging Using Time Reversal by Zafar Iqbal, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Usman Mahmood, Qasim Zia, Zening Fu, Vince D. Calhoun, Sergey Plis

“…Objective: Functional magnetic resonance imaging data pose significant challenges due to their inherently noisy and complex nature, making traditional statistical models less effective in capturing predictive features. …”
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Selisistat, a SIRT1 inhibitor, enhances paclitaxel activity in luminal and triple-negative breast cancer: in silico, in vitro, and in vivo studies by Anna Wawruszak, Jarogniew Luszczki, Damian Bartuzi, Joanna Kalafut, Estera Okon, Arkadiusz Czerwonka, Andrzej Stepulak

“…The co-treatment of EX527 with PAX generated desirable additive drug-drug interaction. …”
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