EmoHeart: Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing from Text by Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

“…Based on the result of the Affect Analysis Model, the developed EmoHeart (“object” in Second Life) triggers animations of avatar facial expressions and visualizes emotion by heart-shaped textures.…”
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Antenatal Steroids and the IUGR Fetus: Are Exposure and Physiological Effects on the Lung and Cardiovascular System the Same as in Normally Grown Fetuses? by Janna L. Morrison, Kimberley J. Botting, Poh Seng Soo, Erin V. McGillick, Jennifer Hiscock, Song Zhang, I. Caroline McMillen, Sandra Orgeig

“…There is conflicting evidence on the effect of exogenous glucocorticoids on surfactant protein expression in different animal models of IUGR. Furthermore, the IUGR fetus undergoes significant cardiovascular adaptations, including altered blood pressure regulation, which is in conflict with glucocorticoid-induced alterations in blood pressure and flow. …”
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Species Knowledge About a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site and the Importance of Connectedness with Nature by Ricardo Puppe, Till Schmäing

“…Species knowledge of local animal species is of great importance for one’s own environmental awareness and is a major component for managing present and future crises in education for sustainable development. …”
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A Review of Kant’s Pragmatic Anthropology: Its Origin, Meaning and Critical Significance by Somayyeh Rafigi, Muhammad Asghari

“…In this work, she claims that Kant’s pragmatic anthropology is not empirical psychology, in addition to exploring in the origin and meaning of pragmatic humanism, introducing man from the perspective of this philosopher as being possess the four predisposition animal, technical, pragmatic and ethical that should try with use of his talent to attain the ultimate destiny of humanity, which is ethics and freedom. …”
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Advances in fear memory erasure and its neural mechanisms by Wenbo Guo, Xibo Wang, Xibo Wang, Zihan Zhou, Zihan Zhou, Yuhui Li, Yuhui Li, Yani Hou, Keyan Wang, Ruyuan Wei, Xiaoyu Ma, Hao Zhang

“…BackgroundIn nature, animals must learn to recognize danger signals and respond immediately to threats to improve their environmental adaptation. …”
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Cholinergic Potentiation of Restoration of Visual Function after Optic Nerve Damage in Rats by Mira Chamoun, Elena G. Sergeeva, Petra Henrich-Noack, Shaobo Jia, Lisa Grigartzik, Jing Ma, Qing You, Frédéric Huppé-Gourgues, Bernhard A. Sabel, Elvire Vaucher

“…Donepezil administration enhanced brightness discrimination capacity after optic nerve crush compared to nontreated animals. The visually evoked activation of the primary visual cortex was not restored, as measured by evoked potentials, but the cortical neuronal activity measured by thallium autometallography was not significantly affected four weeks after the optic nerve crush. …”
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Multiprotocol Communication Interface PMSM Control on Account of Industrial Configuration Software by Li-guo Zhang, Man-feng Dou

“…Database creation, data acquisition, and animation links of PC configuration software are realized. …”
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Pellet Production from Green Pistachio Shell Waste with Varying Levels in Livestock Feed by kazem laei, Mohammad Hossein Kianmehr, Ghanbar laei

“…Green pistachio shells, a common agricultural waste in the country, face limited use as animal feed due to harmful microbes and bacteria. …”
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Porcine Cysticercosis in Southeast Uganda: Seroprevalence in Kamuli and Kaliro Districts by C. Waiswa, E. M. Fèvre, Z. Nsadha, C. S. Sikasunge, A. L. Willingham

“…Human exposure is a function of the size of the animal reservoir of this zoonosis. This is the first field survey for porcine cysticercosis to investigate the prevalence of antigen-positive pigs across an entire rural district of south-east Uganda. …”
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A study on the relationships between some linear type traits and mastitis in brown-swiss cows by İbrahim Şeker, Ali Rişvanlı, Metin Bayraktar, Selim Kul, Erdal Kaygusuzoğlu

“…A higher incidence of mastitis was noticed in animal with high score of front teat length but the difference between groups was not statistically significant. …”
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Evolutionary plasticity and functional repurposing of the essential metabolic enzyme MoeA by Daniela Megrian, Mariano Martinez, Pedro M. Alzari, Anne Marie Wehenkel

“…Abstract MoeA, also known as gephyrin in higher eukaryotes, is an enzyme essential for molybdenum cofactor (Moco) biosynthesis and involved in GABA and GlyR receptor clustering at the synapse in animals. We recently discovered that Actinobacteria have a repurposed version of MoeA (Glp) linked to bacterial cell division. …”
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Miglustat Reverts the Impairment of Synaptic Plasticity in a Mouse Model of NPC Disease by G. D’Arcangelo, D. Grossi, M. Racaniello, A. Cardinale, A. Zaratti, S. Rufini, A. Cutarelli, V. Tancredi, D. Merlo, C. Frank

“…Here, we studied synaptic plasticity phenomena and evaluated ERKs activation in the hippocampus of BALB/c NPC1−/− mice, a well described animal model of the disease. Our results demonstrated an impairment of both induction and maintenance of long term synaptic potentiation in NPC1−/− mouse slices, associated with the lack of ERKs phosphorylation. …”
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Could Proteomic Research Deliver the Next Generation of Treatments for Pneumococcal Meningitis? by U. R. Goonetilleke, S. A. Ward, S. B. Gordon

“…Using proteomic techniques and bioinformatics, the protein content of cerebrospinal fluid can be examined in great detail. Animal models have added greatly to our knowledge of possible mechanisms and shown that hippocampal apoptosis and cortical necrosis are distinct mechanisms of neuronal death. …”
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Natural Climate Variability Can Influence Cyanobacteria Blooms in Florida Lakes and Reservoirs by Karl E. Havens, Mark V. Hoyer, Edward J. Phlips

“…They look awful, smell bad, and can poison fish and other animals in the water. To help resource managers considering costly remediation projects or evaluating the effectiveness of nutrient reduction strategies to manage the problem, this 7-page fact sheet presents the results from 15 years of studies observing three large, nutrient-rich lakes in Florida (Lake Harris, Lake George, and Lake Okeechobee) to study the relationship between rainfall and cyanobacteria blooms and learn causes of year-to-year bloom variability. …”
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Prospects of Nanobiomaterials for Biosensing by Ravindra P. Singh

“…The biosensors using smart nanomaterials have applications for rapid, specific, sensitive, inexpensive, in-field, on-line and/or real-time detection of pesticides, antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, proteins, microbes, plants, animals, foods, soil, air, and water. Thus, biosensors are excellent analytical tools for pollution monitoring, by which implementation of legislative provisions to safeguard our biosphere could be made effectively plausible. …”
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Assessment and incorporation of in vitro correlates to pharmacokinetic outcomes in antibody developability workflows by Tushar Jain, Bianka Prinz, Alexander Marker, Alexander Michel, Katrin Reichel, Valerie Czepczor, Sylvie Klieber, Wei Sun, Sagar Kathuria, Sevim Oezguer Bruederle, Christian Lange, Lena Wahl, Charles Starr, Alessandro Masiero, Lindsay Avery

“…This can minimize the need for extensive early in vivo PK characterization, thereby reducing animal usage and optimizing resources. In this study, we recommend bolstering classical developability workflows with in vitro measures correlated with PK. …”
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A comprehensive method on black-legged tick larvae and nymph feeding on mice to study Lyme disease transmission and acquisition by Aaron Scholl, Bingjie Li, John Dennis, Sandip De

“…To develop effective control measures against these diseases and prevent the transmission of tick-borne infections through human and animal tissues, it is very important to develop detection assays and understand the transmission mechanisms of tick-borne infections. …”
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Mining the Virgin Land of Neurotoxicology: A Novel Paradigm of Neurotoxic Peptides Action on Glycosylated Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels by Zhirui Liu, Jie Tao, Pin Ye, Yonghua Ji

“…Sodium channel-specific neurotoxic toxins, a family of long-chain polypeptides originated from venomous animals, are found to potentially share the binding sites adjacent to glycosylated region on VGSCs. …”
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Trichromacy is insufficient for mate detection in a mimetic butterfly by Andrew Dang, Gary D. Bernard, Furong Yuan, Aide Macias-Muñoz, Ryan I. Hill, J. P. Lawrence, Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin, Armando Luis-Martínez, Sean P. Mullen, Jorge Llorente-Bousquets, Adriana D. Briscoe

“…Abstract Color vision is thought to play a key role in the evolution of animal coloration, while achromatic vision is rarely considered as a mechanism for species recognition. …”
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Systematic review on mitigation of food loss and waste in the milk supply chain by Romadlon Fauzan, Wan Ahmad Wan Nurul Karimah, Shamsuddin Alina

“…The review was divided into three themes based on the causes of food loss and waste: animal health, actor performance, and managerial approach. …”
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