Impact of reduced sonic boom exposure on introspective judgments and annoyance, pleasantness and loudness ratings for simulated booms presented in a realistic indoor environment by Marmel Frédéric, Cretagne Léo, Thuong Linh-Thao, Coulouvrat François, Fritz Claudia

“…This paper reports on a project that quantified the effects of sonic boom exposure on human responses, in situations representative of the daily life of European citizens, to inform policy, and develop protection concepts for a new generation of supersonic commercial aircraft that should emit a reduced but perceivable boom while flying overland. …”
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Ecological drivers of evolution of swine influenza in the United States: a review by Varun Goel, Jessica Ding, Bijaya Hatuwal, Emily Giri, Thomas J. Deliberto, James Lowe, Richard Webby, Michael Emch, Xiu-Feng Wan

“…Pigs have been proposed as “mixing vessels” for avian, swine, and human IAVs, significantly contributing to influenza ecology. …”
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Integrative assessment of heavy metal risks in mining polluted sediments and soils of Aguascalientes, Mexico by Thanya Crespo-Toledo, Francisco Avelar-González, Alma Guerrero-Barrera, Kerry Mitchell, Laura Yamamoto-Flores, Oscar Flores-Amaro

“…Residual metals from mining activities pose significant risks to both the environment and human health, especially when they exist in bioavailable and mobile forms. …”
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Opportunistic Infections in Patients with HTLV-1 Infection by Toshiki Tanaka, Toshio Sekioka, Masakatsu Usui, Shinsaku Imashuku

“…As an acquired immunodeficiency, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is primarily responsible for opportunistic infections in infected patients. …”
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Anti-Tissue-Transglutaminase IgA Antibodies Presence Determination Using Electrochemical Square Wave Voltammetry and Modified Electrodes Based on Polypyrrole and Quantum Dots by Angela Gabriela Pãun, Simona Popescu, Alisa Ioana Ungureanu, Roxana Trusca, Alina Popp, Cristina Dumitriu, George-Octavian Buica

“…The novel electrode measures anti-tissue antibody levels in real time using human blood serum samples. The modified electrode has great repeatability and an 8.7 U/mL detection limit. …”
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Exploring the link between gut health, diet, and food allergy by Magdalena Klimczak, Barbara Rymarczyk, Radosław Gawlik

“…The gut microbiota refers to the complex ecosystem of microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, viruses and fungi, that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract and play a central role in human health, contributing to a range of physiological functions. …”
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Brain metabolites in ISIAH and Wistar rats by O. B. Shevelev, A. A. Seryapina, A. L. Markel, M. P. Moshkin

“…Hypertension is one of the most common human diseases. This disease leads to serious disturbances such as myocardial infarction and stroke. …”
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The Usage of Lion’s Mane in Sports and Its Metabolic Impact – a literature review by Karolina Stankevič, Kamila Fuczyło, Ewelina Kopczyńska, Piotr Kulej, Wiktor Biesiada, Justyna Weronika Kmieć, Justyna Woźniak, Anna-Mariia Chernysh, Aleksandra Dusińska, Jakub Waszczyński

“…Preclinical studies are promising but need to be validated in well-designed human trials. …”
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Silver Nanoparticles: Biosynthesis Using an ATCC Reference Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Activity as Broad Spectrum Clinical Antibacterial Agents by Melisa A. Quinteros, Ivana M. Aiassa Martínez, Pablo R. Dalmasso, Paulina L. Páez

“…In addition, these Ag-NPs showed negligible cytotoxic effect in human neutrophils suggesting low toxicity to the host.…”
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Reevaluating the Concept of Treating Experimental Tumors with a Mixed Bacterial Vaccine: Coley’s Toxin by C. Maletzki, U. Klier, W. Obst, B. Kreikemeyer, M. Linnebacher

“…Besides, CT effectively stimulated human peripheral blood leukocytes (huPBL) from healthy volunteers. …”
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Evolution and importance of Molecular Microbiology in the Laboratory of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology by María de Lourdes Sánchez Alvarez, Rafael Abreu Duarte, Edenis García Alvarez, Adrian Fernández García, Ermis Alexander González Martínez, Maidelys Mendoza Acosta

“…The laboratory became relevant due to the arrival of the 2019 new coronavirus pandemic: 511,225 nasopharyngeal exudate samples and 14,568 determinations were processed for the diagnosis of human immunodeficiency viruses, hepatitis C and B, and human papilloma carried out on the COBAS 4800® platform. …”
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KRAS, p53 and BRAF Gene Mutations and Aneuploidy in Sporadic Colorectal Cancer Progression by Daniele Calistri, Claudia Rengucci, Ian Seymour, Elena Leonardi, Mauro Truini, Davide Malacarne, Patrizio Castagnola, Walter Giaretti

“…We previously investigated a limited number of human sporadic colorectal cancers (CRCs) and observed a statistically different occurrence of KRAS and p53 mutations among predetermined subgroups of tumors with different degrees of DNA aneuploidy. …”
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Influence of the ICT learning model on quality improvement at Mandiri LPK SNU’R Bogor by Iwan Armawan, Amiruddin Saleh, Pudji Muljono, Musa Hubeis

“…The influence of the ICT learning model gets several results in quality, namely increasing student skills, changing attitudes, awareness, and abilities of students' human resources in using ICT, human resource development has a significant effect on the quality of learning at LPK Mandiri Snur Bogor.…”
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A Global hydrological index describes ecological conditions in rivers: A new approach to environmental flow calculation reflecting macroinvertebrate requirements by Andrzej Wałęga, Renata Kędzior, Tomasz Skalski, Dariusz Młyński

“…To implement effective river management, the balance between environmental requirements and human activities needs more attention, emphasizing the quantity, timing, and quality of water required to support freshwater and water-dependent ecosystems along with the needs of human users of water resources.…”
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Multi-objective optimization of hybrid energy systems using gravitational search algorithm by Sayyed Mostafa Mahmoudi, Akbar Maleki, Dariush Rezaei Ochbelagh

“…In this work, the optimal system achieves an 18.4% increase in renewable energy share, reducing ecosystem and human health damage by 14.2%. Notably, with a 20% increase in the carbon tax, system costs increased by 3%. …”
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Indigenous food sovereignty: Pathways for Native scholars by Mapuana Antonio, Joseph Brewer, Richard Elm-Hill, Michael Johnson, Tabitha Robin, A-Dae Romero-Briones, Lois Stevens, Keith Williams

“…As an intro­duction to the IFSEC, this column will briefly outline the centrality of food, place, and learning in Indigenous lifeways, the main differences between Indigenous and Western approaches to the food system, and some thoughts on the role of Indige­nous ways of knowing and being for the collective flourishing of humanity and all our relations, human and otherwise. …”
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Transcriptional Targeting of Mature Dendritic Cells with Adenoviral Vectors via a Modular Promoter System for Antigen Expression and Functional Manipulation by Ilka Knippertz, Andrea Deinzer, Jan Dörrie, Niels Schaft, Dirk M. Nettelbeck, Alexander Steinkasserer

“…Second, we generated the two-vector-based “modular promoter” system, where one vector contains the mHSF1 under the control of the human CD83 promoter, which is specifically active only in DCs and after maturation. mHSF1, in turn, activates the Hsp70B′ core promotor-driven expression of transgenes MelanA and IL-12p70 in the DC-like cell line XS52 and in human mature and hence immunogenic DCs, but not in tolerogenic immature DCs. …”
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Combinations of TLR Ligands: A Promising Approach in Cancer Immunotherapy by Saskia Stier, Claudia Maletzki, Ulrike Klier, Michael Linnebacher

“…Combinations of the substances here did not improve the results, whereas antitumoral effects were dramatically boosted when human lymphocytes were added. …”
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Importance of New Edible Oil Extracted from Seeds of Seven Cereals Species by Amor Slama, Ammar Cherif, Sadok Boukhchina

“…Cereals constitute a major source of human and animal nutrition. In spite of the extensive production of numerous cereal species, some information is unavailable in terms of lipid composition. …”
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Rift Valley Fever in Rwanda Is Urging for Enhancing Global Health Security Through Multisectoral One Health Strategy by Claude Mambo Muvunyi, Jean Claude Semuto Ngabonziza, Emmanuel Edwar Siddig, Ayman Ahmed

“…Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a devastating zoonotic mosquito-borne viral hemorrhagic fever disease that threats human and animal health and biodiversity in Africa, including in Rwanda. …”
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