Spatial and Temporal Variability of Aerosol Vertical Distribution Based on Lidar Observations: A Haze Case Study over Jinhua Basin by Wanchun Zhang, Mortier Augustin, Ying Zhang, Zhengqiang Li, Hua Xu, Dong Liu, Zhenzhu Wang, Yuhuan Zhang, Yan Ma, Fengxia Zhang, Yang Lv

“…The impacts of haze emphasized significance of hazards for human activities and importance of observations of aerosol vertical distribution. …”
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Differential Effects of Alpha-Particle Radiation and X-Irradiation on Genes Associated with Apoptosis by Vinita Chauhan, Matthew Howland, Jeremy Chen, Barbara Kutzner, Ruth C. Wilkins

“…This study examined differential effects of alpha-(α-) particle radiation and X-rays on apoptosis and associated changes in gene expression. Human monocytic cells were exposed to α-particle radiation and X-rays from 0 to 1.5 Gy. …”
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Crowd Density Estimation of Scenic Spots Based on Multifeature Ensemble Learning by Xiaohang Xu, Dongming Zhang, Hong Zheng

“…The method first uses human head width as a reference to separate the foreground into multiple levels of blocks. …”
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Machine learning for predicting earthquake magnitudes in the Central Himalaya by Ram Krishna Tiwari, Rudra Prasad Poudel, Harihar Paudyal

“… Human intervention cannot halt natural disasters like earthquakes, but machine learning application expertise can be utilized to detect patterns in data and increase understanding and predictive power. …”
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Force-bearing phagocytic adhesion rings mediate the phagocytosis of surface-bound particles by Subhankar Kundu, Kaushik Pal, Arghajit Pyne, Xuefeng Wang

“…PARs were formed in all tested macrophages (mouse, human and fish) and micron-sized particles (microbeads and E. coli), demonstrating their conserved role in the phagocytosis. …”
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Thermal variation influences the transcriptome of the major malaria vector Anopheles stephensi by Ashutosh K. Pathak, Shannon Quek, Ritu Sharma, Justine C. Shiau, Matthew B. Thomas, Grant L. Hughes, Courtney C. Murdock

“…We describe the effect of temperature on the transcriptome of Anopheles stephensi, an invasive vector of human malaria. Adult females were maintained across a range of mean temperatures (20 °C, 24 °C and 28 °C), with daily fluctuations of +5 °C and −4 °C at each mean temperature. …”
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Latencies of conditioned vocal responses to hearing test tones in killer whales (Orcinus orca) by Jared Stephens, Alyssa W. Accomando, Alyssa W. Accomando, Kayla Nease, Kayla Nease, Brian K. Branstetter, Brian K. Branstetter, Todd R. Robeck

“…IntroductionPerceived loudness is challenging to study in non-human animals. However, reaction time to an acoustic stimulus is a useful behavioral proxy for the assessment of perceived loudness. …”
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Revisiting the 10th‐Century Eldgjá Eruption: Modeling the Climatic and Environmental Impacts by Herman F. Fuglestvedt, Imogen Gabriel, Michael Sigl, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Kirstin Krüger

“…These results imply that the combined climatic and environmental effects of the Eldgjá eruption may have significantly impacted human populations at the time.…”
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“O açaí nosso de cada dia”: formas de consumo de frequentadores de uma feira amazônica (Pará, Brasil) 1 by Flavio Henrique Souza Lobato, Voyner Ravena-Cañete

“…The results obtained allowed a understanding that the açaí in this city transpasses the sine qua non role of food for the human living, comprising, in fact, a cultural element of the daily life of the inhabitants of that city. …”
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Predictive learning as the basis of the testing effect by Haopeng Chen, Cathy Hauspie, Kate Ergo, Cristian Buc Calderon, Tom Verguts

“…To investigate this, we developed an associative memory network incorporating Hebbian and/or predictive learning, together with an experimental design where human participants studied or tested English-Swahili word pairs followed by recognition. …”
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Detection of Deaths Caused by Hyperkalemia by Małgorzata Żulicka, Kamila Sobczak, Dominik Kowalczyk, Sylwia Sikorska, Wioletta Arendt, Marta Hałas-Wiśniewska

“…The post-mortem accumulation of potassium ions in various human tissues and organs, such as the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, and vitreous body, particularly in cases of overdose, has been an area of research interest for years. …”
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Recent Advances, Research Trends, and Clinical Relevance of Hyaluronic Acid Applied to Wound Healing and Regeneration by Gloria Huerta-Ángeles, Edgar Mixcoha

“…Hyaluronan (HA) is a ubiquitous macromolecule in the human body with remarkable structure and function. …”
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Vitamin D, Essential Minerals, and Toxic Elements: Exploring Interactions between Nutrients and Toxicants in Clinical Medicine by Gerry K. Schwalfenberg, Stephen J. Genuis

“…In clinical medicine, increasing attention is being directed towards the important areas of nutritional biochemistry and toxicant bioaccumulation as they relate to human health and chronic disease. Optimal nutritional status, including healthy levels of vitamin D and essential minerals, is requisite for proper physiological function; conversely, accrual of toxic elements has the potential to impair normal physiology. …”
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Libraries in society: comparing international metrics of societal progress to library usage statistics by Margaret Sullivan

“…Using data from the World Bank, UNESCO, the United Nations and the IFLA Map of the World, the author grouped countries several different ways by income levels, the Human Development Index, literacy rate, and the Gender Inequality Index in order to explore the relationship between literacy and library usage in each categorization. …”
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Determinants and factors of labour capital modification in the context of economic socialisation by R. M. Sadykov, V. Ya. Akhmetov

“…The formation and labour capital modification in the context of the economic socialisation determined by the search for new qualitative characteristics and factors, the most favorable conditions for the accumulation and fuller human potential use. The solution to this problem must be taken out of the labour capital framework and solved in the economic relations system, in which the signs of its socialisation should be adequately developed, aimed at improving the employee position in the professional relations system. …”
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Does educational quality drive ecological performance? Case of high and low developed countries by V. Koziuk, O.V. Dluhopolskyi, Y. Hayda, Y. Klapkiv

“…The significant correlation was found between the education index and the ecological conditions in countries with a very high, medium and low level of Human Development Index. The significant correlation between the processes of implementation of educational and science public policy and a set of environment’s criteria was found. …”
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Lipase and Its Unique Selectivity: A Mini-Review by Jun-Young Park, Kyung-Min Park

“…There are already several commercialized lipases that have become important tools for various lipid-related studies, although there is still a need to discover novel lipases with unique substrate selectivity to facilitate more innovative reactions in human applications such as household care, cosmetics, foods, and pharmaceuticals. …”
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Explaining the prevalence of marital conflict: conceptual bifurcation and sociological explanations by Wing-Chung Ho

“…This conceptual paper aims to address this issue by first critically reviewing how scholars have assessed the prevalence of marital conflict in human societies. This review is then extended to the conceptual elusiveness in gauging “marital conflict,” arguing that the concept has been inadvertently bifurcated as (i) a constituent (oft-represented as a single global continuous measure) of certain critical consequential events within a marriage (e.g., divorce); and (ii) a predisposition (oft-represented in terms of a set of multifarious binary variables) in pair-bonding relationships that increases the likelihood of the occurrence of certain critical consequential events. …”
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COVID-19: Seguridad de Alimentos: Me debo preocupar del coronavirus cuando voy al supermarcado? by Michelle Danyluk, Natalie Seymour, Mary Yavelak, Candice Christian, Ben Chapman

“…Written by Natalie Seymour, Mary Yavelak, Candice Christian, and Ben Chapman (NC State University Extension), and published by the UF/IFAS Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, April 2020. FSHN20-20s/FS365: COVID-19: Seguridad de Alimentos: Me debo preocupar del coronavirus cuando voy al supermarcado? …”
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Rethinking the Viability and Utility of Inhaled Insulin in Clinical Practice by Lutz Heinemann, Christopher G. Parkin

“…Improvements in the PK/PD characteristics of today’s SC insulins provide more physiologic coverage of basal and prandial insulin requirements than regular human insulin; however, they do not achieve the rapid on/rapid off characteristics of endogenously secreted insulin seen in healthy, nondiabetic individuals. …”
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