Irrigation Management of HLB-Affected Trees by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold W. Schumann

“…Any degree of water stress or imbalance can produce a deleterious change in physiological activity of growth and production of citrus trees.  …”
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Modelling Euphrates river water quality index based on field measured data in Al-Diwaniyah City, Iraq by Marwah M. Al-Khuzaie, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud, Wan Hanna Melini Wan Mohtar, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…An ANN model suggested to estimate Heavy Metal Pollution Index (HPI) considering physiological and chemical factors. It formulates six scenarios to enhance HPI prediction accuracy, utilizing ANN in MATLAB for modeling and GIS statistical tools with inverse distance weighted (IDW) methods for a comprehensive assessment. …”
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Picobirnaviruses: prevalence, genetic diversity, detection methods by A. Yu. Kashnikov, N. V. Epifanova, N. A. Novikova

“…Such factors as stress syndrome, physiological conditions, immune status and host age at the time of primary PBV infection influence the virus detection rate in humans and animals. …”
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Dobutamine-induced alterations in internal carotid artery blood flow and cerebral blood flow in healthy adults by Fengxia Yu, Dong Liu, Xia Ma, Yawen Liu, Linkun Cai, Erwei Zhao, Zixu Huang, Zhe Zhang, Tingting Zhang, PengGang Qiao, Wei Zheng, Chunyan Guo, Linxue Qian, Pengling Ren, Zhenchang Wang

“…Methods: Forty-eight healthy volunteers underwent physiological assessment, ICA ultrasound, and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data before and after the administration of dobutamine. …”
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Optimised fertigation improves yield and quality of cucumbers for resource efficiency and economic return in high-tech greenhouses by Sonali, Jing He, Yuanyuan Wang, Weiguang Liang, Fatemeh Rasouli, Lihua Li, Jayakumar Bose, Michelle Donovan-Mak, Samsul Huda, Vijay Jayasena, Talaat Ahmed, David T. Tissue, Zhong-Hua Chen

“…The EC 2.5 fertigation led to the highest cucumber yields, enhanced water use efficiency (WUE) and fruit quality. Key physiological responses, such as net photosynthesis, stomatal conductance, and transpiration rates, remained stable across EC levels, while electron transport rates were highest at EC 2.5. …”
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A modular, human body-mimicking phantom with active thermoregulation capabilities for validation and verification of convective hyperthermia devices by L. Van den Bossche, W. Vertessen, J. Van den Bossche, O. Rudenko, J. Bogers, L. Brancato

“…These are promising results as an effective tool for hyperthermia device validation and verification, representing human physiological responses.…”
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Irrigation Management of HLB-Affected Trees by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold W. Schumann

“…Any degree of water stress or imbalance can produce a deleterious change in physiological activity of growth and production of citrus trees.  …”
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Cardiovascular Reactivity to Mental Stress and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease by Kasra Moazzami, Samaah Sullivan, Maggie Wang, Alexis K. Okoh, Zakaria Almuwaqqat, Brad Pearce, Amit J. Shah, Yan V. Sun, Yi‐An Ko, Paolo Raggi, J. Douglas Bremner, Viola Vaccarino, Arshed A. Quyyumi

“…Background Acute psychological stress may induce physiological changes predisposing individuals to adverse health outcomes through hemodynamic and vascular effects. …”
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Revealing excitation-inhibition imbalance in Alzheimer’s disease using multiscale neural model inversion of resting-state functional MRI by Guoshi Li, Li-Ming Hsu, Ye Wu, Andrea C. Bozoki, Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Pew-Thian Yap

“…Conclusions Our study constitutes an important attempt to delineate E-I imbalance in large-scale neuronal circuits during AD progression, which may facilitate the development of new treatment paradigms to restore physiological E-I balance in AD.…”
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ANTIGENIC AND PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES OF EXPERIMENTAL ASSOCIATED VIRUS VACCINE AGAINST SHEEP POX AND GOAT POX by A. V. Konstantinov, S. K. Starov, V. I. Diev, N. V. Moroz, E. V. Kurnenkova, D. К. Basova, А. V. Kononov, K. Yu. Fedoseyev

“…Administration of the associated virus vaccine did not adversely affect the physiological state of the animals and was accompanied by the formation of viral neutralizing antibodies in protective titres that did not differ from antibody titers in the blood of sheep and goats during monovalent immunization. …”
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Exploring molecular determinants and pharmacokinetic properties of IgG1-scFv bispecific antibodies by Kristina M.J. Aertker, Minu Ravindra Pilvankar, Tobias M. Prass, Michaela Blech, Fabian Higel, Srinath Kasturirangan

“…These interactions likely stabilize the BsAb FcRn interaction at physiological pH, which in turn could disrupt FcRn-mediated BsAb recycling. …”
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Protective mechanisms of exogenous melatonin on chlorophyll metabolism and photosynthesis in tomato seedlings under heat stress by Wangwang An, Guangzheng Wang, Jianhua Dou, Yonghai Zhang, Qing Yang, Yongmei He, Zhongqi Tang, Jihua Yu, Jihua Yu

“…Tomato seedlings treated with 100 μmol MT showed improved physiological and photosynthetic performance under heat stress. …”
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Developmental and hormonal regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana ornithine-delta-aminotransferase by A. A. Egorova, S. V. Gerasimova, A. V. Kochetov

“…OAT activity is shown to be associated with biotic and abiotic stress responses and nitrogen metabolism, but its physiological role is still unclear. In our study, we decided to investigate transcriptional regulation of the OAT gene in Arabidopsis thaliana under normal conditions and in response to various growth regulators. …”
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Smoking Induces the Circulating Levels of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 and Its Association with Cardiovascular Risk in Young Smokers by Dinesh NATH, Meera SHIVASEKAR, V. M. VINODHINI

“…Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is a zinc-containing endopeptidase that degrades the extracellular matrix and is involved in tissue remodelling and several physiological processes. As a result, smoking-induced elevated serum MMP-9 levels, particularly at a younger age, raise the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). …”
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MORPHOFUNCTIONAL EVALUATION OF THYMUS IN PEKIN DUCK DURING DIETARY INCORPORATION OF ORGANIC SELENIUM FEED ADDITIVE DAFS-25k by V. V. Pronin, Ye. O. Anisimova, M. S. Dyumin, S. P. Fisenko

“…From the age of 90 days signs of age involution in the organ were observed, and in the experimental group these processes were going more physiologically in accordance with the age of the birds. …”
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Investigation of the Flow Field Characteristics of Aortic Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valves with Different Leaflet Shapes Using PIV by Y. Qiang, T. C. Duan, M. Z. Zhang, L. Qi, L. J. Wei

“…Non-physiological flow patterns generated by bileaflet mechanical aortic valves are closely associated with thromboembolism following valve replacement surgery. …”
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Usefulness of the Hybrid RFR-FFR Approach: Results of a Prospective and Multicenter Analysis of Diagnostic Agreement between RFR and FFR—The RECOPA (REsting Full-Cycle Ratio Compar... by Juan Casanova-Sandoval, Diego Fernández-Rodríguez, Imanol Otaegui, Teresa Gil Jiménez, Marcos Rodríguez-Esteban, Kristian Rivera, Francisco Torres-Saura, Víctor Jiménez Díaz, Raymundo Ocaranza-Sánchez, Vicente Peral Disdier, Guillermo Sánchez-Elvira, Fernando Worner

“…Patients subjected to invasive physiological study in 9 Spanish centers were prospectively recruited between April 2019 and March 2020. …”
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High-level biosynthesis and purification of the antimicrobial peptide Kiadin based on non-chromatographic purification and acid cleavage methods by Liangjun Zheng, Fengyi Yang, Chen Wang, Muhammad Zafir, Zishuo Gao, Pilong Liu, Fatma A. El-Gohary, Xin Zhao, Huping Xue

“…Despite their potential, the physiological toxicity of AMPs to host cells significantly hampers their biosynthetic production. …”
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Use of the oxygen reserve index/FiO2 as a non-invasive index to estimate venous admixture in anesthetized dogs by Luca Bellini, Jill K. Maney, Francesca Zanusso, Brighton T. Dzikiti

“…Youden’s index identified the optimal cut-off point to predict a physiological F-shunt (≤ 10%). A total of 77 paired observations were collected, revealing a moderate negative correlation between F-shunt and ORi/FiO2 (rho = −0.59, p < 0.001). …”
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The Effects of Polystyrene Microplastics and Copper Ion Co-Contamination on the Growth of Rice Seedlings by Huiyu Jin, Guohe Lin, Mingzi Ma, Lin Wang, Lixiang Liu

“…This study investigates the independent and combined effects of polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) and Cu on the physiological and biochemical responses of rice seedlings (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.), a key staple crop. …”
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