A Novel Model to Detect and Classify Fresh and Damaged Fruits to Reduce Food Waste Using a Deep Learning Technique by T. Bharath Kumar, Deepak Prashar, Gayatri Vaidya, Vipin Kumar, S. Deva Kumar, F. Sammy

“…Despite the fact that people routinely classify healthy and rotten fruits, fruit growers find it ineffective. In contrast to humans, robots do not grow tired from doing the same thing again and again. …”
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A Simple Method for Generating Narrowly-dispersed Bioaerosols in Various Sizes by Young-Su Jeong, Hyunsoo Seo, Sang-Soo Han, Young-Jin Koh, Kibong Choi

“…Abstract Biological warfare agents (BWAs) cause disease in humans, animals, and plants when purposefully dispersed in an area. …”
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Beyond words: the relevance of autonomy-supportive language in university syllabi by Dora Herrera, Aranza Lira-Delcore, Aranza Lira-Delcore, Benjamín Lira Luttges

“…Study 1 aimed to examine, in 126 first- and second-year students in Humanities General Studies, how they perceive a syllabus with an autonomy-supportive “tone” vs. one with a controlling language. …”
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Landscape exposure and exercising for health: exposure to natural versus urban landscapes promotes walking for health by Hui-Ju Wu, Yevvon Yi-Chi Chang, Wen-Bin Chiou

“…Objective A common tendency among humans is the devaluation of remote, larger benefits in favour of immediate, smaller gains, a phenomenon known as temporal discounting. …”
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Development of Carnivac-Cov vaccine against coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in carnivores by T. S. Galkina, A. A. Nesterov, A. V. Borisov, I. A. Chvala, A. V. Kononov

“…Development of specific protection in susceptible carnivores against COVID-19 caused by zoonotic agent is of great importance for maintaining epidemic and veterinary favourable situation in the Russian Federation and prevention of new coronavirus infection spread in humans. Development of inactivated adsorbed whole-virion vaccine (Carnivac-Cov) against coronavirus infection (COVID-19) for carnivores intended for specific disease prevention in fur animals and pet animals (cats and dogs) and tests of the vaccine for its safety and effectiveness are described in the paper. …”
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Divergent roles of m6A in orchestrating brown and white adipocyte transcriptomes and systemic metabolism by Ling Xiao, Dario F. De Jesus, Cheng-Wei Ju, Jiang-Bo Wei, Jiang Hu, Ava DiStefano-Forti, Valeria Salerno Gonzales, Tadataka Tsuji, Siying Wei, Matthias Blüher, Yu-Hua Tseng, Chuan He, Rohit N. Kulkarni

“…Here we show that m6A methyltransferase-like 14 (METTL14) differentially regulates transcriptome in brown versus white adipose tissue (BAT and WAT), leading to divergent metabolic outcomes. In humans and mice with insulin resistance, METTL14 expression differs significantly from BAT and WAT in the context of its correlation with insulin sensitivity. …”
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Biological properties of coronaviruses of farm, domestic animals and birds: comparative characterization of pathology they induce (review) by Kh. Z. Gaffarov, A. I. Yarullin, V. G. Gumerov, I. G. Karimullina

“…Some data on the virus antigen structure and immunogenicity, on the presence of related antigens in the coronaviruses infecting humans, animals and birds are demonstrated as well. …”
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Climatic Zoning of Khuzestan Province Based on Litten Ski Method by Seyede Lale Sadat Asl, Gholamreza Yavari, Farid Ejlali

“…In this regard, climatic characteristics and its dominant elements that play a decisive role in the dispersal and formation of vital phenomena (plants, animals, humans) are considered as one of the most important natural-environmental factors. …”
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Process-induced toxicants in food: an overview on structures, formation pathways, sensory properties, safety and health implications by Adel Mirza Alizadeh, Mansoureh Mohammadi, Fataneh Hashempour-baltork, Hedayat Hosseini, Fereidoon Shahidi

“…., baking, cooking, grilling, roasting, and toasting) may lead to the formation of some highly hazardous PITs for humans and animals. These include acrolein, acrylamide, benzene, ethyl carbamate, chlorinated compounds, heterocyclic organic compounds (HOCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs), biogenic amines (BAs), N-nitrosamines, Maillard reaction products (MRPs), and several newly identified toxicants such as 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol. …”
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Cómo crear ediciones digitales académicas entre La Habana y Berlín. El caso de Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD) by Antonio Rojas-Castro, Grisel Terrón Quintero, Alaina Solernou Ferrer, Tobias Kraft

“…After outlining the origins, we present the workflow developed between the Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities to digitize, describe, publish, edit and preserve in digital format a collection of previously selected texts. …”
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Steatotic liver disease diagnosed in a 24-year-old woman with Rett syndrome: a case report by Larissa Albino, Adil Adatia, Aducio Thiesen, Brendan Halloran, Victor Dong, Carlos Moctezuma-Velázquez

“…Although SLD has been described in RTT mouse models, it remains undocumented in humans. We herein describe a 24-year-old woman with RTT who was evaluated for abnormal liver enzymes. …”
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Χαρτοφυλάκιον/Scrinium: An integrating activity for monitoring and assessing the learning of classical languages by Sofía Villegas-Rodríguez, Ronald Forero-Álvarez, Fernando Alexander Calderón-Velasco

“…This paper is a product of the project Proteus I: Development of Virtual Environments for Experiential Learning in the Humanities.…”
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Pause before action: Waiting short time as a simple and resource-rational boost by Masaru Shirasuna, Rina Kagawa, Hidehito Honda

“…., irritation, cognitive conflict) are associated with prolonged thinking because of humans limited cognitive resources. Therefore, there should be an appropriately short thinking time to achieve higher accuracy with minimal workload. …”
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A KIF20A-based thermosensitive hydrogel vaccine effectively potentiates immune checkpoint blockade therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma by Xingyang Zhao, Feichao Xuan, Zirong Li, Xiangyi Yin, Xiaojun Zeng, Jiali Chen, Chihua Fang

“…Moreover, K/RLip@Gel improved the therapeutic efficacy of PD-L1 blockade in subcutaneous and orthotopic cell-derived xenograft (CDX) models, along with immune-humanized patient-derived xenograft (PDX) HCC models, which was evidenced by improved maturation of DCs and elevated infiltration and activation of CD8+ T cells. …”
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Induction of Tolerance via the Sublingual Route: Mechanisms and Applications by Philippe Moingeon, Laurent Mascarell

“…Sublingual vaccines have an excellent safety record, documented with approximately 2 billion doses administered, as of today, in humans. The oral immune system comprises various antigen-presenting cells, including Langerhans cells, as well as myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (DCs) with a distinct localisation in the mucosa, along the lamina propria and in subepithelial tissues, respectively. …”
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Prospects for the use of <i>Bacillus anthracis</i> toxin in cancer therapy by A. P. Rodionov, S. V. Ivanova, E. A. Artemeva, L. A. Melnikova

“…Cancer is one of the major causes of death in pet animals and humans worldwide. The contraindications and side effects associated with conventional cancer therapies heighten the importance of research aimed at finding new ways to combat cancer. …”
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Mammals in urban centers: a dataset from the perspective of the media in Brazil by Carolina Alves, Wellington Hannibal

“…The continuous growth of the urban population, coupled with habitat loss, has resulted in unanticipated interactions between animals and humans in urban centers. In this study, we investigated the presence of mammals in urban centers through newspaper reports on websites. …”
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Case report: Bevacizumab-induced cerebrovascular events: a case series report and literature review by Ke Chen, Boyang Jiang, Boyang Jiang, Huiping Yan, Huiping Yan, Liu Yang, Liu Yang, Zheling Chen, Zheling Chen

“…In clinical use, bevacizumab has improved the overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) of malignant solid tumors, and the safe use of bevacizumab has gradually become the mainstream direction of clinical, nursing and pharmaceutical research. Bevacizumab is a humanized anti-VEGF drug. By binding to VEGF, it loses the opportunity to activate VEGFR and then plays an anti-angiogenic role. …”
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Research on Airport Target Recognition under Low-Visibility Condition Based on Transfer Learning by Jiajun Li, Yongzhong Wang, Yuexin Qian, Tianyi Xu, Kaiwen Wang, Liancheng Wan

“…From the perspective of transfer learning, this paper will explore the identification of all targets (mainly including aircraft, humans, ground vehicles, hangars, and birds) in the airport field under low-visibility conditions (caused by bad weather such as fog, rain, and snow). …”
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Distinct roles for intra- and extracellular siderophores during Aspergillus fumigatus infection. by Markus Schrettl, Elaine Bignell, Claudia Kragl, Yasmin Sabiha, Omar Loss, Martin Eisendle, Anja Wallner, Herbert N Arst, Ken Haynes, Hubertus Haas

“…Siderophore biosynthesis by the highly lethal mould Aspergillus fumigatus is essential for virulence, but non-existent in humans, presenting a rare opportunity to strategize therapeutically against this pathogen. …”
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