Melatonin in Male Dromedary Camel (<i>Camelus dromedarius</i>) Seminal Plasma and Its Specific MT1 and MT2 Receptors on Sperm Membranes by Lamia Doghbri, Melissa Carvajal-Serna, Moufida Atigui, Adriana Casao, Victoria Peña-Delgado, Mabrouk-Mouldi Seddik, Mohamed Dbara, Rosaura Pérez-Pé, Mohamed Hammadi

“…Two melatonin receptors (MT1, MT2) were detected on camel spermatozoa, with several immunotypes labeled mainly in the tail and post-acrosome region, but also in the acrosome and neck. …”
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Mothers at the Intersection of Trauma, Addiction, and Involvement with the Criminal Legal System: An Analysis of Multiple Case Studies by Monica Solinas-Saunders PhD, Maureen L. Petrunich-Rutherford PhD, Mark D. Thomas PhD, Natasha R. Brown PhD, Kevin L. McElmurry PhD, Melissa A. Jones PhD, Abigail M. Cognetti BSc, Lytina Andrews BSc, Amira Zahabi BSc

“…Across these life transitions, participants emphasized the relevance of traumatic experiences and mental health disorders as main reasons for their drug addiction. For each theme highlighted in the narrative of each case, a connection to all other participants was made to summarize the findings in the whole sample. …”
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Spatial-temporal differentiation and influencing factors of ecosystem health in Three-River-Source national Park by Yanqin Wang, Huaju Xue, Aiqing Li, Xiaofan Ma, Ailing Sun, Jinhe Zhang

“…It also showed significant “high-high” and “low-low” clustering effects in the eastern and northwestern regions. (3) Among all the indicators assessed, ecosystem vigor was the indicator that contributed the most to the growth of the ecosystem health index. (4) Variations in ecosystem health of TNP were mainly shaped by land use intensity and precipitation, and interactions between natural environmental factors and human activity factors enhanced the explanation of these changes. …”
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Flow stress-strain curves and dynamic recrystallization behavior of high carbon low alloy steels during hot deformation by D.Z. Li, X.M. Zhao, H.L. Zhang, J. Li

“…Based on the dislocation density theory, this paper established the stress-strain curve equation and analyzed in detail the critical stresses for nucleation and growth of DRX in relation to the stress-strain curve. The main DRX mechanism of the HCLA steel is discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (dDRX). …”
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Smartphone Household Wireless Electroencephalogram Hat by Harold Szu, Charles Hsu, Gyu Moon, Takeshi Yamakawa, Binh Q. Tran, Tzyy Ping Jung, Joseph Landa

“…During the design phase, we took tethered laboratory EEG dataset and applied fuzzy logic to compute (a) spatiotemporal average of larger magnitude EEG data centers in 0.3 second intervals and (b) inside brainwave sources by Independent Component Analysis blind deconvolution without knowing the impulse response function. Our main contributions are the fidelity of quality wireless EEG data compared to original tethered data and the speed of compressive image recovery. …”
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Time-Frequency Characteristics and the Influence Mechanism of the EMR from Coal with Different Joint Angles by Hongwei Mu, Dazhao Song, Shan Yin, Xueqiu He, Liming Qiu, Dongfang Su, Yang Liu

“…The duration of the EMR waveform, the dominant frequency of the EMR, and the peak number of the frequency spectrum of coal samples are on the rise. (2) As the joint angle increases, the samples’ failure mode changes from the stage fracture dominated by tension cracks to the rapid fracture with the coexistence of shear and tension cracks and finally to the burst fracture which produces a large number of fragments. This is also the main reason for the difference of the EMR generation mechanism and the signal of samples with different joint angles. (3) According to the experimental results, we established the modified formulas for calculating the EMR threshold value and deviation of coal and rock with joints under different stress environments and revealed that the longer the EMR waveform duration, the higher the dominant frequency, and the more the number of spectrum peaks, the greater the burst risk of coal and rock.…”
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DyCeModel: a tool for 1D simulation for distribution of plant hormones controlling tissue patterning by D. S. Azarova, N. A. Omelyanchuk, V. V. Mironova, E. V. Zemlyanskaya, V. V. Lavrekha

“…Plant hormones are the main regulators of the cell dynamics in plant tissues; they form gradients and maxima and control molecular processes in a concentration-dependent manner. …”
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Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). VIII. Complex and Stochastic Metallicity Gradients at z > 2 by Ayan Acharyya, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O’Shea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Anna C. Wright, Raymond C. Simons, Ramona Augustin, Britton D. Smith, Eugene Hyeonmin Lee

“…FOGGIE galaxies generally exhibit steep negative gradients for most of their history, with only a few short-lived instances reaching positive slopes that appear to arise mainly from interactions with other galaxies. FOGGIE concurs with other simulation results but disagrees with the robust observational finding that flat and positive gradients are common at z  > 1. …”
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Brake Drum Temperature Rise and Its Influence on Truck Driving Safety in Tunnel Groups Section by Yunyong He, Enhuai He, Le Zhang, Jianping Gao, Changfeng Yang, Lu Sun, Haotian Yang, Zhen Gong, Ziqiang Liu

“…The initial brake drum temperature, operating speed, and total vehicle mass are identified as the main controlling factors for the change in brake drum temperature. …”
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Assessment of scenarios for intensifying pasture management and grazing in fragile micro-watersheds of high Andean mountains by Jorge Eduardo Grijalva Olmedo, Paola Mercedes Palate Moreta, Roy Roger Vera-Vélez, Raúl Armando Ramos Veintimilla, Jean-François Tourrand, Arnulfo Portilla Narváez

“… In the Andean hillsides of Ecuador, indigenous populations use land mainly for grazing sheep and cattle. Animal response depends exclusively on the quality of forage and the soil’s physical and chemical conditions. …”
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Impacts of high CDW levels on the chemical, microstructural, and mechanical behavior of cement-based mortars by M.L. Peixoto, S.D. Jesus, H.S. Cavalcante, B.S. Teti, R.C. Manta, N.B. Lima, H.C.B. Nascimento, S. Fucale, N.B.D. Lima

“…A comprehensive experimental program was conducted to evaluate workability, compressive strength, and microstructural characteristics, providing insight into sustainable applications in construction. In this sense, the main goal of the present work is to examine the mechanical behavior of mortars produced with CDW due to their potential for introduction into the civil construction market. …”
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Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Ulva prolifera and Ulva linza to Cadmium Stress by He-ping Jiang, Bing-bing Gao, Wen-hui Li, Ming Zhu, Chun-fang Zheng, Qing-song Zheng, Chang-hai Wang

“…Thus, U. linza has a better adaptation to Cd2+ than U. prolifera, which was due mainly to higher nutrient content and stronger OAA and photosynthesis in U. linza.…”
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Aftershock Spatiotemporal Activity and Coseismic Slip Model of the 2022 Mw 6.7 Luding Earthquake: Fault Geometry Structures and Complex Rupture Characteristics by Qibo Hu, Hongwei Liang, Hongyi Li, Xinjian Shan, Guohong Zhang

“…Aftershock activity is divided into four main seismic clusters, with two smaller clusters located to the north and south and four interval zones in between. …”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Artificial Cores Saturated With Ice: An Analogical Simulation to Natural Gas Hydrate Bearing Sediments by Kaixiang Shen, Wenwei Xie, Yanjiang Yu, Yingsheng Wang, Zizhen Wang, Xiaokang Wang, Wensheng Zhang

“…Using the quartz sand, calcite grains, and illite powder as the main mineral composites, and Portland cement as the bonding material, the host skeleton with similar porosity and mechanical properties to the target reservoir were prepared. …”
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Comparing the Structural and Physicochemical Properties of Highland Barley <i>β</i>-Glucan from Different Sources: A Focus on Color by Ping Yu, Xuemin Kang, Pengfei Liu, Zhengzong Wu, Yue Cheng, Bo Cui, Wei Gao

“…The high-performance anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) results indicated the extracted BBG, LBG, and WBG mainly comprised glucose regardless of color. The molecular weight (M_w) of BBG, LBG, and WBG were 55.87 kDa, 65.19 kDa, and 81.59 kDa, respectively. 4-Glc(p), 3-Glc(p), and t-Glc(p) accounted for a larger proportion (>90%) of the total methylated residues according to gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. …”
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Fast Task Scheduling With Model Predictive Control Integrating a Priority-Based Heuristic by Francesco Liberati, Manuel Donsante, Chiara Maria Francesca Cirino, Andrea Tortorelli

“…The use case motivating the work is given by the problem of managing the integration activities involved in the final assembly of the Vega rocket at the European space center in Kourou, French Guiana. There are two main objectives. The algorithm shall suggest to the planning operators an optimized scheduling of the activities, i.e., one which minimizes the total completion time (the makespan), while satisfying all the applicable constraints. …”
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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of <i>Macrobrachium nipponense</i> Populations in the Saline–Alkaline Regions of China by Romaric Iko, Zijian Gao, Sufei Jiang, Yiwei Xiong, Wenyi Zhang, Hui Qiao, Shubo Jin, Hongtuo Fu

“…The cluster analyses and the phylogenetic tree identified two main groups. There is an association among sites by geographic location, and the JS site shows higher diversity. …”
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Impact of antiplatelet therapy on hemostatic plug formation in the setting of thrombocytopenia by Robert H. Lee, Abigail Ballard-Kordeliski, Summer R. Jones, Wolfgang Bergmeier

“…Background: Antiplatelet therapy (APT), mainly aspirin and P2Y12 receptor inhibitors, reduces the incidence of recurrent arterial thrombosis but also increases bleeding risk. …”
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Effects of Whole-Body 50-Hz Magnetic Field Exposure on Mouse Leydig Cells by Zsolt Forgács, Zoltán Somosy, Györgyi Kubinyi, Hanna Sinay, Jozsef Bakos, György Thuróczy, András Surján, Aranka Hudák, Ferenc Olajos, Péter Lázár

“…The main goal of this study was to evaluate the possible effect of whole-body magnetic field (MF) exposure on the steroidogenic capacity of Leydig cells in vitro. …”
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Numerical Simulation Study of Pore-Throat Evolution of Upper Paleozoic in Ordos Basin, China by Qing Cao, Zhangxing Chen, JingZhou Zhao, Jiacheng Dang, Jiaxuan Song, Bin Chen

“…The fitting results show that the main factors influencing the evolution of porosity and a pore-throat system are grain size and siliceous cement, which can also be validated by the measured data on two gas-bearing intervals. …”
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