Clostridium Scindens Protects Against Vancomycin‐Induced Cholestasis and Liver Fibrosis by Activating Intestinal FXR‐FGF15/19 Signaling by Jintao Xiao, Yanliang Hou, Xingyang Luo, Yuhao Zhu, Wenhu Li, Bingbing Li, LinXiang Zhou, Xia Chen, Ying Guo, Xiaomei Zhang, Haiyue He, Xiaowei Liu

“…Similar effects are observed in mice treated with engineered Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 that are capable of expressing bile acid 7α‐dehydratas (BaiE) from C. scindens (EcN‐BaiE). …”
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A literature review of climate-smart landscapes as a tool in soil- water management in Sub-Saharan Africa by Turyasingura, Benson, Tumwesigye, Wycliffe, Atuhaire, Abraham, Tumushabe, Jennifer Turyatemba, Akatwijuka, , Rogers

“…Using "landscape governance" AND "climate smart landscape," 31 papers (31) were obtained from the Web of Science (WOS) and twenty-nine (27) from the Scopus databases using search engines from (1992-2022). On equitable climate-smart landscapes, it was found that multi-stakeholder participation in landscape management is an iterative and changing process that can assist in addressing and resolving disputes as well as facilitating fair negotiation procedures for underrepresented and minority groups. …”
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Internet Usage and Academic Performance of Students At Uganda Martyrs University Kabale Campus. by Niwashaba, Brendah

“…From the study findings, upgrading the system, organizing internet training, installation of generating set, institutional subscription to some sites, employing computer engineers, increasing work station, continuous system maintenance, and installation of a library dedicated server were some of the possible solutions to the challenges encountered by students in the use of internet facilities at Uganda Martyrs University, Kabale campus. …”
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Frozen Weights as Prior for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning by Xiaolong Ma, Peishun Liu, Haojie Gao, Zikang Yan, Ningning Ma, Wenqiang Liu, Xuefang Wang, Ruichun Tang

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Intercomparison of Solid Precipitation Derived from the Weighting Rain Gauge and Optical Instruments in the Interior Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau by Lele Zhang, Lin Zhao, Changwei Xie, Guangyue Liu, Liming Gao, Yao Xiao, Jianzong Shi, Yongping Qiao

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Comparison of Field and Virtual Vegetation Surveys Conducted Using Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Imagery at Two Coastal Marsh Restoration Projects by Aaron N. Schad, Molly K. Reif, Joseph H. Harwood, Christopher L. Macon, Lynde L. Dodd, Katie L. Vasquez, Kevin D. Philley, Glenn E. Dobson, Katie M. Steinmetz

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Lunar and Martian gravity alter immune cell interactions with endothelia in parabolic flight by Yu Du, Bing Han, Katharina Biere, Nathalie Abdelmalek, Xinyu Shu, Chaoyang Song, Guangyao Chen, Ning Li, Marina Tuschen, Huan Wu, Shujin Sun, Alexander Choukér, Mian Long, Dominique Moser

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Highly Effective Ex Vivo Gene Manipulation to Study Kidney Development Using Self-Complementary Adenoassociated Viruses by Tie-Lin Chen, Hong-Lian Wang, Yun-Hong Liu, Yin Fang, Rui-Zhi Tan, Pu-Hui Zhou, Qin Zhou, Xiao-Yan Lv

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The Difficult Airway Trolley: A Narrative Review and Practical Guide by Martin F. Bjurström, Mikael Bodelsson, Louise W. Sturesson

“…A systematic literature search was performed, using the PubMed, Embase, and Google Scholar search engines. Based on evidence presented in 11 national or international guidelines, and peer-reviewed journals, we present and outline a difficult airway trolley organized to accommodate sequential progression through a four-step difficult airway algorithm. …”
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SynoExtractor: A Novel Pipeline for Arabic Synonym Extraction Using Word2Vec Word Embeddings by Rawan N. Al-Matham, Hend S. Al-Khalifa

“…SynoExtractor outperformed the Sketch Engine thesaurus for synonym extraction by 32% in terms of MAP. …”
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Stress Distribution in 5-Unit Fixed Partial Dentures with a Pier Abutment and Rigid and Nonrigid Connectors with Two Different Occlusal Schemes: A Three-Dimensional Finite Element... by Behnaz Ebadian, Amirhossein Fathi, Shivasadat Tabatabaei

“…In this FEA study, a geometrical model of the maxilla with natural teeth and periodontal ligament (PDL) was three-dimensionally designed and meshed by ANSYS and Pro/Engineer software programs. A 5-unit FPD was then designed to replace the lost first premolar and first molar teeth; the second premolar served as a pier abutment, and the canine and second molar served as terminal abutments. …”
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Template switching during DNA replication is a prevalent source of adaptive gene amplification by Julie N Chuong, Nadav Ben Nun, Ina Suresh, Julia Cano Matthews, Titir De, Grace Avecilla, Farah Abdul-Rahman, Nathan Brandt, Yoav Ram, David Gresham

“…To test the role of these genomic elements on CNV-mediated adaptive evolution, we evolved engineered strains lacking either the adjacent LTRs, ARS, or all elements in glutamine-limited chemostats. …”
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<i>Agrobacterium rhizogenes</i>-Mediated Hairy Root Transformation in <i>Rosa</i> by Jun Lu, Yuwen Huang, Yuhan Guo, Chunguo Fan, Guozhen Yuan, Rui Zhou, Jingjing Sun, Mengjuan Bai, Kun Wang, Jinyi Liu, Changquan Wang

“…The rapid and efficient transformation system developed here will enable efforts to investigate gene function in roses and engineer improved rose varieties. Refining the transformation protocol to work under aseptic and non-aseptic conditions will allow researchers to use this system efficiently and broadly.…”
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Geopolymers in nuclear waste storage and immobilization: mechanisms, applications, and challenges by M. Houhou, N. Leklou, H. Ranaivomanana, JD. Penot, S. de Barros

“…Cementitious materials such as ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and other materials are commonly employed as engineered barriers for the long-term containment of nuclear waste in both surface and underground geological repositories. …”
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The principles of tactical formation identification in association football (soccer) — a survey by Hadi Sotudeh

“…Preprocessing includes match segments and normalized locations followed by data representation using various options, such as average locations, hand-engineered features, and graphs for the team-level and relative locations, distributions, and images for the position-level approaches. …”
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Health Care System in Sudan: Review and Analysis of Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats (SWOT Analysis) by Ebrahim Mohammed Abdullah Ebrahim, Luam Ghebrehiwot, Tasneem Abdalgfar, Muhammad Hanafiah Juni

“…Materials and Methods: The search was done from two electronic databases: MEDLINE/Pubmed and from public search engines: Google Scholar and Google with key Search words used mainly as “Healthcare system in Sudan “. …”
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Involvement of the intracellular β-glucosidase BGL1B from Aspergillus niger in the regulation of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes’ synthesis by Zhen Zhang, Hua Li, Feiyu Dong, Hui Lin, Yanan Li, Kun Cheng, Hongge Chen

“…Also, it provides a strategy to create an engineered strain with high production of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes.…”
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Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes by Chad C Papa, Kylie Clay, Lauren T Cooper, Scott C Stark

“…Because forests stand to play a significant role in reaching net-zero emission targets, politicians and policymakers must act decisively to engineer a rapid paradigm shift that maintains forests’ resilience and adaptive capacity. …”
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Modified CD15/CD16-CLL1 inhibitory CAR-T cells for mitigating granulocytopenia toxicities in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia by Rui Zhang, Yifan Zhao, Xiao Chai, Yingshuai Wang, Mohan Zhao, Shujing Guo, Yu Zhang, Mingfeng Zhao

“…In conclusion, we have successfully engineered innovative CD16-CLL1 iCAR-T cells, which preserves the cytotoxicity against tumor cells while preventing elimination of neutrophils, thereby significantly reducing the incidence of granulocytopenia during CAR-T therapy. …”
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Pleiotropic effects of mutant huntingtin on retinopathy in two mouse models of Huntington's disease by Hui Xu, Anakha Ajayan, Ralf Langen, Jeannie Chen

“…We investigated whether these defects extend to the zQ175KI mouse model which is thought to be more representative of the human condition because it was engineered to contain the extended CAG repeat within the endogenous HTT locus. …”
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