Extracellular vesicles in seminal plasma of Sahiwal cattle bulls carry a differential abundance of sperm fertility-associated proteins for augmenting the functional quality of low-... by Ankit Pal, Seema Karanwal, Mir Ahmad Habib, Fanny Josan, Vikrant Gaur, Aditya Patel, Muskaan Garg, Mukesh Bhakat, Tirtha K. Datta, Rakesh Kumar

“…Abstract Poor male fertility significantly affects dairy production, primarily due to low conception rates (CR) in bulls, even when cows are inseminated with morphologically normal sperm. …”
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Urbanization enhances consumer protist-driven ARGs dissemination in riverine ecosystems by Bob Adyari, Lanping Zhang, Ana Maravić, Jiaxin Chen, Laiyi Li, Mahmoud Gad, Chang-Ping Yu, Anyi Hu

“…We collected water samples from the highly urbanized (western: 65 % built land, sewage-affected) and lesser-urbanized (northern: 25 % built land, drinking water source) downstream tributaries of the Jiulong River in southeast China over dry and wet seasons. …”
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Maturation of the biofloc system in Penaeus vannamei culture under different salinities and its effects on the microbial communities by Shaikha Y. Al-Sayegh, Victor Torres Rosas, Ponnumony Vethamony, Nor Azman Kasan, Hon Jung Liew, Mhd Ikhwanuddin, Zulfa Ali Al Disi, Hadil Elsayed, Jassim A. Al-Khayat

“…This study indicates the crucial role of salinity in affecting the microbial community and maturation functionality of the BFT. …”
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Minimal sourced and lightweight federated transfer learning models for skin cancer detection by Vikas Khullar, Prabhjot Kaur, Shubham Gargrish, Anand Muni Mishra, Prabhishek Singh, Manoj Diwakar, Anchit Bijalwan, Indrajeet Gupta

“…Abstract One of the most fatal diseases that affect people is skin cancer. Because nevus and melanoma lesions are so similar and there is a high likelihood of false negative diagnoses challenges in hospitals. …”
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The Effects of Fenobucarb on the Physiology, Behavior, and Growth of Silver Barb (<i>Barbonymus gonionotus</i>) by Tam Thanh Nguyen, Håkan Berg, Loi Ngoc Nguyen, Yen Thi Hai Nguyen, Cong Van Nguyen

“…It also assessed the AChE inhibition levels that cause the abnormal swimming, behavior, and mortality of silver barb and how the feeding regime affects the recovery rate of the AChE activity. The results showed that the brain AChE inhibition increased with the F concentrations. …”
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Telomere length varies with sex, hatching rank and year of birth in the Little Owl, Athene noctua by Criscuolo, François, Fache, Inès, Scaar, Bertrand, Zahn, Sandrine, Bleu, Josefa

“…Moreover, TL is also affected by environmental stressors and/or resource-demanding situations particularly during early-life. …”
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Falciparum Malaria in Febrile Patients at Sentinel Sites for Influenza Surveillance in the Central African Republic from 2015 to 2018 by Romaric Nzoumbou-Boko, Brice Martial Yambiyo, Carine Ngoagouni, Ulrich Vickos, Alexandre Manirakiza, Emmanuel Nakouné

“…The age group of 1–4 years was the most affected by malaria (76.0%). Moreover, prevalence varied across different sentinel sites, with the Bossembele Health Center, located in a rural area, showing an incidence of 96%, the Saint Joseph Health Center in a semiurban area of Bangui showing an incidence of 75%, and the Bangui Pediatric Complex in an urban site with an incidence of only 44.6%. …”
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Emergence of Pituitary Adenoma in a Child during Surveillance: Clinical Challenges and the Family Members’ View in an AIP Mutation-Positive Family by Pedro Marques, Sayka Barry, Amy Ronaldson, Arla Ogilvie, Helen L. Storr, Peter J. Goadsby, Michael Powell, Mary N. Dang, Harvinder S. Chahal, Jane Evanson, Ajith V. Kumar, Joan Grieve, Márta Korbonits

“…Out of the 14 members harbouring germline AIP mutations in this kindred, 5 have pituitary adenoma. Affected members had different features and courses of disease. …”
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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Molecular Defensive Mechanism of Arachis hypogaea in Response to Salt Stress by Hao Zhang, Xiaobo Zhao, Quanxi Sun, Caixia Yan, Juan Wang, Cuiling Yuan, Chunjuan Li, Shihua Shan, Fengzhen Liu

“…Abiotic stresses comprise all nonliving factors, such as soil salinity, drought, extreme temperatures, and metal toxicity, posing a serious threat to agriculture and affecting the plant production around the world. Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is one of the most important crops for vegetable oil, proteins, minerals, and vitamins in the world. …”
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Urine amino acid and gamma aminobutyric acid level in COVID 19 patients by Cemal Kazezoglu, Arzu İrvem, Yasemin Tuba Sutasir, Büşra Çakiroglu, Banu Kirgiz, Habip Yilmaz, Ali Kocatas

“…Conclusion: It has been thought that the height of GABA may be due to bacteria producing GABA as a result of the change in microbiota due to lactic acidosis, as well as that the virus may directly affect the brain and cause an increase in GABA. …”
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Adoption of sustainable agricultural intensification practices: assessing the role of institutional and socio economic factors amongst smallholder farmers. by Kule, Enos Katya, Agole, David, Obia, Alfred, Okello, Daniel Micheal, Odongo, Walter

“…This study assessed the institutional and socio-economic factors affecting the adoption and adoption intensity of SAIPs amongst smallholder maize farmers in Eastern Uganda. …”
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A long-term analysis of oxidant (OX = O3 + NO2) and its local and regional levels in Tehran, Iran, a high NOx-saturated condition by Ahmad Taheri, Babak Khorsandi, Mohammad Reza Alavi Moghaddam

“…The findings indicated that the OX trend is primarily affected by O3 fluctuations during the warmer months, whereas NO2 variations have a stronger correlation with OX during the remaining months. …”
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Strategies for diversification of economic activities in villages of Saqez city using SWOC method and QSPM matrix by ahadollah fatahi, afsaneh ahmadi, vahid riahi, hamid jalalian

“…The key factors of the migration and exodus of elite educated to Tehran and neighboring provinces, climate change and increasing natural hazards such as floods and droughts are the most important external barriers affecting the diversification of economic activities in the villages of the study area. …”
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Association of haplotypes for SNPs in the LTR regions of bovine leukemia virus with hematological indices of cattle by N. V. Blazhko, S. Kh. Vyshegurov, A. S. Donchenko, K. S. Shatokhin, T. I. Krytsyna, V. A. Ryabinina

“…The numbers of leukocytes, erythrocytes and platelets in the blood of carriers of haplotype III exceeded the corresponding parameters of cattle affected by the virus of haplotype I. It is interesting to note that the difference in the hemolytic status of animals was manifested not only by the concentration of leukocytes as direct immune agents but also by the count of erythrocytes and platelets, which are not directly involved in the immune response. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of Stunting among Primary School Children in Northeast Ethiopia by Getaw Walle Bazie, Mohammed Seid, Gudina Egata

“…Stunting is a major public health problem affecting children in low- and middle-income countries and has become one of the underlying causes of early childhood mortality. …”
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An online intelligent electronic medical record system via speech recognition by Xin Xia, Yunlong Ma, Ye Luo, Jianwei Lu

“…This inefficient interaction seriously affects the communication between doctors and patients and reduces the speed at which doctors can diagnose patients’ conditions. …”
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Neutrophils: From Inflammatory Bowel Disease to Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer by Chen T, Liu J, Hang R, Chen Q, Wang D

“…Dysregulation in the quantity and functionality of neutrophils plays a significant role in the onset, progression, and recurrence of IBD, as well as in the transition from IBD to CAC. Neutrophils affect the pathophysiology of IBD through various mechanisms, including the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), degranulation, the release of inflammatory mediators and chemokines, and the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). …”
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Characterization of preclinical models to investigate spinal cord stimulation for neuropathic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dave Mugan, Quoc C. Vuong, Birte E. Dietz, Ilona Obara

“…In addition, different stimulation intensity, frequency, and electrode design did not affect effect size. The risk of bias was assessed using Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation criteria and was unclear, and only the frequency subgroup analysis showed publication bias. …”
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Results of using cell technologies for creation of new barley varieties resistant against aluminum toxicity and drought by O. N. Shupletsova, I. N. Shchennikova

“…Regenerant pants are typically much less affected by phytopathogenic fungi. The genotypes screened in selective systems in vitro had advantages over the initial varieties and standard varieties in productivity, especially under provocative conditions of acid soils and moisture deficit in 2010. …”
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Clinical characterization of a novel episodic ataxia in young working Cocker Spaniels by Clara Sarró, Catherine Stalin, Rodrigo Gutierrez‐Quintana, Ana Cloquell

“…Clinical signs, video footage, investigations, treatment, and outcome were reviewed. Owners of affected dogs were invited to complete a questionnaire. …”
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