Extraction of Antioxidant Peptides and Activity Evaluation of Frog (Rana nigromaculata) Skin by Ultra-high Pressure Assisted Enzyme Hydrolysis by Xicai ZHANG, Rong LI, Yechuan HUANG

“…Besides, on the basis of neutral protease hydrolysis, the optimum technology parameters for secondary enzymatic hydrolysis were alkaline protease dosage 10210 U/g, ultra-high pressure pressure 315 MPa, pressure action time 9.3 min, liquid-material ratio 16 times, and the yield of small molecule peptides with 1~2000 Da was 25.26% under above condition. Ultra-high pressure assisted two-enzyme hydrolysis significantly increased the yield of small-molecule peptides from the skin of the frog (Rana nigromaculata). …”
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Neuroimaging features for cognitive fatigue and its recovery with VR intervention: An EEG microstates analysis by Jia-Cheng Han, Chi Zhang, Yan-Dong Cai, Yu-Ting Li, Yu-Xuan Shang, Zhu-Hong Chen, Guan Yang, Jia-Jie Song, Dan Su, Ke Bai, Jing-Ting Sun, Yu Liu, Na Liu, Ya Duan, Wen Wang

“…We aimed to investigate the effect of VR natural scene on cognitive fatigue and further explored its underlying neurophysiological alterations with electroencephalogram (EEG) microstates analysis. …”
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Effects of Social Structure on Effective Population Size Change Estimates by Bárbara Ribeiro Parreira, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Lounès Chikhi

“…We also find that expansion signals may be observed under simple stationary Wright–Fisher models with low diversity. …”
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Efficient sampling designs to assess biodiversity spatial autocorrelation: should we go fractal? by Laroche, Fabien

“…When the FMGS was around or larger than expected autocorrelation range values, the choice of designs depended on the effect under study. Fractal designs outperformed hybrid designs when studying the effect of a monotonic environmental gradient across space, while grid design was more efficient for other types of question. …”
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A cross-sectional study of the current status of psychological health and its correlation with academic performance in medical students: taking medical students in a medical univer... by Han Chunhong, Han Chunhong, Ding Jingjing, He Huan, Zheng Peiyao, Zhang Xiaona, Yang Xiaowen, Zheng Aiming

“…BackgroundThe psychological health problems are becoming increasingly prominent among medical students under the heavy academic stress and high-intensity clinical internships. …”
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Analysis of reservoir rock permeability changes due to solid precipitation during waterflooding using artificial neural network by Azizollah Khormali, Soroush Ahmadi, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Aleksandrov

“…A comparison of the predicted values of rock permeability under scaling conditions with experimental data showed that the proposed ANN model makes it possible to predict formation damage due to scaling with high accuracy. …”
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Microglia TRPC1 SUMOylation drives neuroinflammation after stroke by modulating NLRP3 activity via increasing TRPC1 interaction with ARRB2 by Huinan Zhang, Xinzhe Du, Tian Gao, Xing Wang, Huifeng Zhang, Manyang Yu, Jing Huang

“…Microglial canonical transient receptor potential channel 1 (TRPC1) has been proposed to influence neuroinflammation after cerebral ischemia and reperfusion injury (CIRI), however, the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. This study demonstrates that TRPC1 is modified by small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO)ylation. …”
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Characteristics of PM and PAHs Emitted from Oil-fired Process by Ming Wei Chang, Minh Man Trinh, Chian Kou Lien, Moo Been Chang

“…The results show that the NO concentration (90 ppm) emitted from the oil-fired boiler at low loading was lower than that of the high loading (176 ppm) while SO2 concentrations are close under two loading conditions. In terms of particulate matter, the concentrations of FPM, FPM2.5, and CPM measured in the stack at low loading were 0.2, 0.1, and 51.2 mg Nm−3, respectively. …”
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Jilin Province of China, 1949–1979: History of Regional and Demographic Development by Svetlana B. Makeeva

“…The paper shall consider some peculiar features of economic processes in the evolution of Jilin Province from 1949 to 1979; identify key trends in ethnic, urban/spatial, and migration processes; determine the causes and consequences of high fertility, low mortality, and a younger age population structure in Jilin Province during the period under review. Materials and methods. The article employs quite a variety of sources on China’s historical demography: population censuses, statistical collections, materials of five-year plans. …”
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Predictors of 7-day symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation in patients with acute ischemic stroke and proposal of a novel screening tool: A retrospective cohort study by Mehmet Muzaffer Islam, Cemrenur Uygun, Melike Delipoyraz, Merve Osoydan Satici, Servan Kurt, Enis Ademoglu, Serkan Emre Eroglu

“…Mechanical thrombectomy, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes mellitus were the independent predictors (P < 0.001, P = 0.003, P = 0.006, respectively). The mean area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristics of the model was 0.916 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.876–0.957). …”
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Cardiovascular disease risk prediction by Framingham risk score in women with polycystic ovary syndrome by Mina Amiri, Maryam Mousavi, Mahsa Noroozzadeh, Fereidoun Azizi, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani

“…Model accuracy was evaluated using the C-statistic, while discrimination and calibration were assessed via the ROC curve, area under the ROC curve (AUC) statistics, and the Hosmer- Lemeshow test. …”
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Proteomics unveil candidate biomarkers and pathogenesis of subacute thyroiditis by Litong Ran, Xiufei Liu, Yongfeng Tian, Jiaran Zhu, Zhengyuan Gong, Qiao Qiao, Xin Jiang, Yuren Wang, Guojun Yang, Hongting Zheng, Yi Zheng, Hua Qu

“…The results revealed that each factor demonstrated an area under the curve score above 0.8. Thus, these high-abundance proteins can potentially serve as biomarkers for SAT diagnosis and outcome prediction. …”
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Are there benefits of culture-based detection of Mycobacterium avium spp paratuberculosis over histopathology? by Motlatso T. Hlokwe, Nomawethu S. Masina, Boitumelo Letsoko, Sewellyn C. Davey, Anita L. Michel

“…The current work assessed the diagnostic value of the VersaTREK automated liquid culture system in isolating Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) from faecal and intestinal tissue samples from ovine under South African conditions and compared it with the current method of choice, histopathological examination. …”
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Preservation of cfRNA in cytological supernatants for cfDNA & cfRNA double detection in non‐small cell lung cancer patients by Yidan Ma, Yifei Wang, Lei He, Jun Du, Lin Li, Zhixin Bie, Yuanming Li, Xiaomao Xu, Wei Zhou, Xiaonan Wu, Li Yang, Jing Di, Chenyang Li, Xiaoguang Li, Dongge Liu, Zheng Wang

“…Furthermore, we collected an additional set of malignant cytological and matched tumor samples from 84 NSCLC patients, cfDNA & cfRNA extraction and double detection for driver gene mutations was validated using the multi‐gene mutations detection by RT‐qPCR. Results Under the optimal protection system, 91.0% (101/111) of cfRNA were protected effectively. …”
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Methodological advances in seismic noise imaging of the Alpine area by Paul, Anne, Pedersen, Helle A., Bodin, Thomas, Kästle, Emanuel, Soergel, Dorian, Alder, Chloé, Lu, Yang, Nouibat, Ahmed

“…Our findings include detailed mapping of strong and abrupt Moho depth changes under the Western Alps, contrasting orientations of fast velocity directions between the upper and lower Alpine crust, and the absence of significant radial anisotropy everywhere in the European crust and shallow upper mantle, except in the Apenninic lower crust. …”
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Outcome of Excision with Primary Midline Closure for Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus Disease by Bahzad Waso Hamad

“…This is a retrospective study with telephone contact and review of 36 patients operated for Sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus disease from January 2011 through January 2016 under care of one consultant surgeon (the Author) in Public and Private Hospitals in Rania, Sulaimani, Iraq. …”
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DEEP STRUCTURE, TECTONIC EVOLUTION AND HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF THE KALAMIT SWELL (NORTHWESTERN SHELF OF THE BLACK SEA) ACCORDING TO DENSITY MODELING DATA by M.V. Kozlenko, Yu.V. Kozlenko

“…The sublatitudinal North Crimean region of the Baikalides and the greenschist belt of the Moesian Plate in the NW-SW direction developed under the influence of separate tectonic impulses, as they were delimited by a sharply unconformable meridional syncline zone in the middle part of the swell. …”
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Immediate and Intermediate-Term Outcomes of Infants With Transposition of Great Arteries Who Underwent Balloon Atrial Septostomy in Sudan by Sulafa K. M. Ali, Amna Elsheikh, Mohammed Abdulrahman Alhassan

“…Pre-BAS median oxygen saturation was 48 (Interquartile Range (IQR) 40–60%). BAS was performed under fluoroscopy and echocardiography guidance with immediate success achieved in 98% of patients. …”
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Impoundments facilitate upstream invasion and introgression: Case studies of fluvial black basses (Micropterus spp.) in the southeastern USA. by Andrew T Taylor, Michael D Tringali, James M Long

“…Introgression rates also varied markedly across the species pairs studied-from very little introgression to the onset of hybrid swarming-illustrating the importance of underlying eco-evolutionary mechanisms such as habitat alteration, propagule pressure, and reproductive isolation. …”
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A parametric study of polymer-enhanced CO2 injection in a light-oil reservoir using full-physics simulation by Rapheephan Laochamroonvorapongse, Falan Srisuriyachai, Jirawat Chewaroungroaj

“…Abstract This study aims to assess the performance of polymer-enhanced CO2 injection in a light-oil reservoir under various reservoir geometries, parameters, and polymer properties. …”
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