Affective-Sexual Health Promotion in Early Childhood: Critical Review in The Context of Childcare and Education in Costa Rica by Milvia Rodríguez Sánchez, Laura Brenes Vásquez

“…We conclude that an update of the preschool program is required,  accompanied by continuous training for staff and families of infants. …”
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Agroecological functions of the agrobiodiversity niches of rural Bogota, Colombia by Stefan Ortiz, Catalina Quiroga-Manrique, Julieth Monroy-Hernández, Darío Pérez

“…The rapid expansion of industrial agriculture in rural Bogotá has led to a reduction in the diversity of plants cultivated by peasant families. This generates transformations in livelihoods and biocultural relations, affecting local environmental knowledge and practices for the use and management of agrobiodiversity. …”
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Novel Implications in Molecular Diagnosis of Lynch Syndrome by Raffaella Liccardo, Marina De Rosa, Paola Izzo, Francesca Duraturo

“…About 10% of total colorectal cancers are associated with known Mendelian inheritance, as Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) and Lynch syndrome (LS). …”
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Peculiar Evolutionary History of miR390-Guided TAS3-Like Genes in Land Plants by Maria S. Krasnikova, Denis V. Goryunov, Alexey V. Troitsky, Andrey G. Solovyev, Lydmila V. Ozerova, Sergey Y. Morozov

“…The presented analysis shows that moss TAS3 families may undergone losses of tasiAP2 sites during evolution toward ferns and seed plants. …”
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Prenatal maternal stress in rats alters the epigenetic and transcriptomic landscape of the maternal-fetal interface across four generations by Stephanie E. King, Nicola A. Schatz, Olena Babenko, Yaroslav Ilnytskyy, Igor Kovalchuk, Gerlinde A. S. Metz

“…The transgenerational persistence of critical DNAm, miRNA and mRNA signatures may explain familial non-genetic disease risks.…”
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Genetic improvement of cooking time in common bean: the role of dominance by Rita Carolina de Melo, Jefferson Luís Meirelles Coimbra, Luan Tiago dos Santos Carbonari, Paulo Henrique Cerutti, Altamir Frederico Guidolin

“…Regardless of the hierarchical variance model in the segregating families tested, the dominance component was at least twice as high as the additive variance fraction. …”
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Diversity in the Dark: Bat Fauna from Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Royal Reserve by Hannah Haggon, David White, Joshua Smithson, David Wells, Ricardo Oliveira Ramalho

“…The survey results confirmed the presence of 18 species belonging to 14 genera of eight families. This research has greatly expanded our knowledge on the diversity of bats within the Kingdom, increasing the reported bat species in the Tabuk region by seven species, with the addition of <i>Rhyneptesicus nasutus</i>, <i>Rhinolophus hipposideros</i>, <i>Nycteris thebaica</i>, <i>Tadarida aegyptiaca</i>, <i>Rhinopoma microphyllum</i>, <i>Taphozous nudiventris</i>, and <i>Taphozous perforatus</i> and increasing the number of species within Saudi Arabia by one species, with the addition of <i>Vansonia rueppellii</i>.…”
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Compositional changes of dissolved organic matter during high flow events in headwater catchments along a gradient of climate and land use by Jeanneau, Laurent, Fovet, Ophélie, Faucheux, Mikaël, Gruau, Gérard,  Liotaud, Marine, Pierret, Marie-Claire, Cotel, Solenn, Molénat, Jérôme,  Lagacherie, Manon, Dessert, Céline, Probst, Anne

“…The DOM composition was analyzed by thermochemolysis coupled with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, making it possible to perform a joint analysis of several biomolecule families, monitor the proportion of compounds derived from plant inputs (%VEG) and study the lignin composition through the C/V ratio. …”
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Crab biodiversity under different management schemes of mangrove ecosystems by M. Bandibas, V. Hilomen

“…A total of twelve species of crabs belonging to six families were identified in protected mangroves while only four species were documented in reforested mangroves. …”
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An Unintended Effect of Financing the University Education of the Most Brilliant and Poorest Colombian Students: The Case of the Intervention of the Ser Pilo Paga Program by Pablo Medina, Natalia Ariza, Pablo Navas, Fernando Rojas, Gina Parody, Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Roberto Zarama, Juan Felipe Penagos

“…Every year, 10,000 new students were chosen from the best applicants in the top decile of the population in the entrance exam to higher education in Colombia that also came from families that live under the level of poverty according to a national survey. …”
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Contribution to the Study of Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance of Insect Fauna in Salt Wetlands of Setif Region, Algeria by Djamila Mouhoubi, Rédha Djenidi, Mustapha Bounechada

“…The total of individual insects belonging to 9 orders, 71 families, and 131 species were collected from the three sites. …”
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Virtual Goods Recommendations in Virtual Worlds by Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsiu-Yu Liao, Jyun-Hung Chen, Duen-Ren Liu

“…In the VWs, users decorate their houses, visit others’ homes, create families, host parties, and so forth. Users establish their social life circles through these activities. …”
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Progress in Therapy Development for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Kalina Venkova-Hristova, Alexandar Christov, Zarine Kamaluddin, Peter Kobalka, Kenneth Hensley

“…Through decades of studying sporadic and familial ALS (SALS and FALS), researchers are coming to understand ALS as a complex syndrome with diverse genetic and environmental etiologies. …”
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Multifactorial Origin of Exertional Rhabdomyolysis, Recurrent Hematuria, and Episodic Pain in a Service Member with Sickle Cell Trait by Nyamkhishig Sambuughin, Mingqiang Ren, John F. Capacchione, Ognoon Mungunsukh, Kevin Chuang, Iren Horkayne-Szakaly, Francis G. O’Connor, Patricia A. Deuster

“…He carried a pathogenic mutation, NPHS2 p.V260E, reported in nephropathy and a new variant p.R838Q in SCN11A, a gene involved in familial episodic pain syndrome. Results suggest that drug-to-drug interactions coupled with the stress of exercise, coinheritance of HbAS and NPHS2 p.V260E, and p. …”
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Comprehensive Study of a Handheld Raman Spectrometer for the Analysis of Counterfeits of Solid-Dosage Form Medicines by Klara Dégardin, Aurélie Guillemain, Yves Roggo

“…A large number of solid-dosage form medicines have been analyzed with a handheld Raman spectrometer. 33 out of 39 product families could be successfully analysed. The methods were validated with 100% of correct identification. …”
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A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Understand Urban Latino Parent’s Oral Health Knowledge and Beliefs by Tamanna Tiwari, Nayanjot Rai, Eivi Colmenero, Hilda Gonzalez, Mirna Castro

“…The aim of this study is to describe oral health knowledge, behaviors, and beliefs of Latino parents with children under the ages of 6 years and to conduct a needs assessment with Latino families to better understand the challenges in maintaining oral health for their children. …”
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An ichthyofaunal amendment with the length-weight relations and condition factors of some endemic and invasive freshwater fishes from Western Anatolia by Kurtul Irmak, Kaya Cüneyt, Şen Arda, Özcan Ceylin, Ercivan Deniz, Demiral Kaan, Güngör Melike, İlhan Ali, Sarı Hasan Musa

“…In the scope of this study, fish fauna of Küçük Menderes River and its tributaries, updated with the comparison of the recent ichthyofaunal studies, as well as the length-weight relations (LWR) and condition factors (CF) were estimated for 7 freshwater fish species belonging to six families from the river basin: endemic Oxynoemacheilus eliasi, Cobitis fahireae; invasive, Carassius gibelio, Atherina boyeri, transloce Perca fluviatilis and the native Squalius fellowesii, Cyprinus carpio. …”
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Structure, floristic and diversity from Laguna de San Diego (Samaná, Colombia) by Julio Andrés Sierra-Giraldo, Susana Velásquez-Franco, Mitchell James Power, Jairo Andrés Orozco-Agudelo, Luz Amparo Triana-Moreno

“…A total of 100 species and 42 botanical families were recorded. In Bd, the species with the highest IVI was Pourouma bicolor (20.9), while in the Mpen, was Triplaris dugandii (53.7); Psidium guajava (75.6) in P, and Guatteria punctata (21.2) in Vs. …”
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Diversity of Species and Behavior of Hymenopteran Parasitoids of Ants: A Review by Jean-Paul Lachaud, Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud

“…The reliable list of parasitoid wasps using ants as primary hosts includes at least 138 species, reported between 1852 and 2011, distributed among 9 families from 3 superfamilies. These parasitoids exhibit a wide array of biologies and developmental strategies: ecto- or endoparasitism, solitary or gregarious, and idio- or koinobiosis. …”
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Pond Water eDNA Reflects Broad Consistency with Surrounding Terrestrial Plant Ecosystems by Duygu Bozdogan, Shogo Takizawa, Norihiro Furukori, Kosuke Homma, Harue Abe, Hitoshi Sakio, Naoki Harada, Kazuki Suzuki

“…By comparing field surveys with the eDNA data, we identified 79% and 63% of plant families and genera, respectively, suggesting that pond water eDNA may reflect the surrounding terrestrial plant ecosystem. …”
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