Bioresorbable fibers for interstitial null-separation diffuse optical spectroscopy using fast temporal gating by Vamshi Damagatla, Nadia G Boetti, Laura Di Sieno, Diego Pugliese, Ilaria Bargigia, Davide Janner, Alberto Dalla Mora, Antonio Pifferi

“…Bioresorbable fibers are an exciting prospect as probes and implants to provide optical access to the human body. In this work, we demonstrate interstitial spectroscopy with bioresorbable fibers at null distance, using time-domain diffuse optics that disentangles absorption from scattering properties and probes the tissues up to a depth of a few cm around the fiber tips. …”
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Neurophysiology of Drosophila Models of Parkinson’s Disease by Ryan J. H. West, Rebecca Furmston, Charles A. C. Williams, Christopher J. H. Elliott

“…Given the neurological impact of disease causing mutations within these same genes in humans the phenotypes observed in fly are of significant interest. …”
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Novel Approaches to Diagnose COVID-19 by Solaf Jawhar Ali

“…Different samples taken from the human body such as oropharyngeal (OP) and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs are used to detect the virus. …”
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Coinfections increase the risk of HIV acquisition, AIDS progression, and therapy and prophylaxis failure: a review by Robert Root-Bernstein

“… Few people exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) become infected. …”
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Salonica Fire of 1890 and its Impacts on the Transformation of the City by Özer Özbozdağlı

“…Fires caused by natural causes or human error were part of everyday life in Salonica. …”
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Heavy metals impact environmental capacity of oasis soils in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau dry zone by Siqi Han, Bin Wang, Zhen Yao, Lu Dai, Youning Wei, Yao Niu, Ling Qian

“…However, the overexploitation of resources by humans for production and living has affected the quality of soils in the Qinghai-Tibet region, whereby the environmental capacity is decreasing. …”
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Assessing the Impacts of Climatic and Water Management Scenarios in a Small Mountainous Greek River by Angeliki Mentzafou, Anastasios Papadopoulos, Elias Dimitriou

“…Transboundary cooperation, data exchange mechanisms, common policy frameworks, and monitoring, reporting, and evaluation systems, could reduce human and ecosystems’ vulnerabilities and improve the water security of the area.…”
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Życie rodzinne jako forma doświadczenia religijnego by Dariusz Tułowiecki, Anna Czyżkowska

“…If family life is experienced as contact with a reality that goes beyond everyday life, a reality "above"; if it gives meaning to human actions and constitutes a cognitive category; if it is a space of deep personal involvement, it seems that it can be treated and examined in terms of religious experience. …”
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Development of Chemo-Selective Gas Sensors Based on Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Quartz Crystal Microbalance for Detection of Bioactive Compounds in <i>Curcuma longa</i> by Fajar Hardoyono

“…Turmeric contains bioactive compounds that are efficacious for human health. A breakthrough of simpler and lower-cost identification techniques is needed to utilize it. …”
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Judicial protection of real property rights by Tasić Anđelija, Lazić Miroslav

“…One of these tendencies (embodied in the principle of polidatiry) is the right to a home, established by the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and confirmed by the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia.…”
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Le site du Carreau du Temple (Paris) entre “ marais ” et “ marécages ” : indices géoarchéologiques et paléo-environnementaux by Jérôme Brenot, Isabelle Caillot, Erwan Messager, Cristiano Nicosia, Aline Emery-Barbier

“…The principal results found no markers indicating a wetland environment; however, extensive evidence of intensive human activity related to agricultural practices from the Middle Ages was identified, including evidence for both cereal and more specifically, vegetable production. …”
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Purslane Weed (Portulaca oleracea): A Prospective Plant Source of Nutrition, Omega-3 Fatty Acid, and Antioxidant Attributes by Md. Kamal Uddin, Abdul Shukor Juraimi, Md Sabir Hossain, Most. Altaf Un Nahar, Md. Eaqub Ali, M. M. Rahman

“…The antioxidant content and nutritional value of purslane are important for human consumption. It revealed tremendous nutritional potential and has indicated the potential use of this herb for the future.…”
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Reflection in Practice as Source of Values: The Cross-cultural Creation of a Health-care Ethic in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Augustine Shutte

“…This dialogue may uncover values whose scope is wider than that of health-care and which could provide a really humane foundation for a society containing different cultures. …”
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The Influence of Precipitation and Consecutive Dry Days on Burned Areas in Yunnan Province, Southwestern China by Feng Chen, Zhaofei Fan, Shukui Niu, Jingming Zheng

“…These results will help forest managers evaluate regionalfire danger indices for forest fire prevention, particularly for catastrophic forest wildfires causing significant economic losses and threats to human life and environment.…”
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Illuminating the Chaos and Obscurity: Polyphony in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Elena Ferrante by Sarah Hudspith, Olivia Santovetti

“…What kind of writing do they consider authentic, and what is the nature of the human experience that authentic writing should expose? …”
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Structural Determinants of Photoreactivity of Triplex Forming Oligonucleotides Conjugated to Psoralens by Rajagopal Krishnan, Dennis H. Oh

“…We designed TFO sequences with DNA and 2′-O-methyl RNA backbones conjugated to psoralen by 2-carbon linkers and examined their ability to bind and target damage to model DNA duplexes corresponding to sequences within the human HPRT gene. While TFO binding affinity was not dramatically affected by the type of backbone, psoralen photoreactivity was completely abrogated by the 2′-O-methyl RNA backbone. …”
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Protective effects of 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid on Pasteurella multocida–induced vascular inflammatory injury in mice by Qirong Lu, Qirong Lu, Luyao Wang, Luyao Wang, Xueping Jiang, Xueping Jiang, Wantong Han, Wantong Han, Pu Guo, Pu Guo, Yu Liu, Yu Liu, Shulin Fu, Shulin Fu, Jianglin Xiong, Jianglin Xiong, Zhongyuan Wu, Zhongyuan Wu, Yinsheng Qiu, Yinsheng Qiu

“…Pasteurella multocida (Pm) is a widespread zoonotic pathogen with the ability to infect wild animals, livestock, and humans. Pm infection can cause haemorrhagic pneumonia, indicating that the pathogenesis involves serious vascular injury and inflammation. 18β-Glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) has cardiovascular protective and anti-inflammatory effects, but its effect on vascular injury caused by Pm infection is not clear. …”
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The landscape of alternative polyadenylation during EMT and its regulation by the RNA-binding protein Quaking by Daniel P. Neumann, Katherine A. Pillman, B. Kate Dredge, Andrew G. Bert, Caroline A. Phillips, Rachael Lumb, Yesha Ramani, Cameron P. Bracken, Brett G. Hollier, Luke A. Selth, Traude H. Beilharz, Gregory J. Goodall, Philip A. Gregory

“…Using 3’ end anchored RNA sequencing, we mapped the alternative polyadenylation (APA) landscape following Transforming Growth Factor (TGF)-β-mediated induction of EMT in human mammary epithelial cells and found APA generally causes 3’UTR lengthening during this cell state transition. …”
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Toxoplasma gondii in Slaughtered Sheep in High- and Low-Humidity Regions in the South of Iran: Molecular Prevalence and Genotype Identification by Seyedeh Zahra Khademi, Fatemeh Ghaffarifar, Abdolhossein Dalimi, Mohammad Saaid Dayer, Amir Abdoli

“…Toxoplasma gondii is one of the most common meat-born zoonoses that infect all warm-blooded animals and humans. Sheep (Ovis aries) is one of the main reservoirs of T. gondii worldwide, and the infections induce various sequels, such as abortion and stillbirth. …”
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Pathology Survey on a Captive-Bred Colony of the Mexican Goodeid, Nearly Extinct in the Wild, Zoogoneticus tequila (Webb & Miller 1998) by Alessio Arbuatti, Leonardo Della Salda, Mariarita Romanucci

“…Encountered diseases included the following: 7 cases of scoliosis (2 males and 5 females); 2 fish with a similar congenital deviation of ocular axis; 1 adult male with left corneal opacity, presumably of traumatic origin; 1 female fish with a large subocular fluid-filled sac, histologically referable to a lymphatic cyst, similarly to the eye sacs of a Goldfish variety (Carassius auratus) called bubble eye; and 1 female fish with recurrent abdominal distension consequent to distal bowel dilation and thinning, associated with complete mucosal atrophy, and comparable to intestinal pseudo-obstruction syndromes described in humans and various animal species. The absence of infectious or parasitic diseases, as well as the low incidence of diseases potentially related to environmental alterations or nutritional disorders such as spinal deformities, suggests the adequacy of breeding management techniques of Z. tequila for its conservation and reintroduction in to the original habitat in the near future.…”
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