Aeronautical Mutagenesis and Whole-genome Resequencing Reveal the Genetic Basis of Color Change in Naematelia aurantialba by Yukang Zeng, Zhenhui Shen, Yao Cao, Xiangying Luo, Linlei Yang, Rongping Li, Qingqing Lu, Rongchun Li

“…This study was designed to develop novel color-changing germplasm resources and to explore associated functional genes. …”
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Effects of Clozapine, Haloperidol, and the NMDA Antagonist Ketamine on Novel Object Recognition in <i>Gnathonemus petersii</i>: A New Possible Model for Schizophrenia Research by Petra Horká, Josefina Mavrogeni, Veronika Langová, Pavel Horký, Jan Hubený, Ivana Chrtková, Karel Valeš, Martin Kuchař, Jiří Horáček

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Microplastics as an Emerging Potential Threat: Toxicity, Life Cycle Assessment, and Management by Sameh S. Ali, Mohammed Hussein M. Alsharbaty, Rania Al-Tohamy, Maha A. Khalil, Michael Schagerl, Majid Al-Zahrani, Jianzhong Sun

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Pramipexole in addition to mood stabilisers for treatment-resistant bipolar depression: the PAX-BD randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial by Hamish McAllister-Williams, Nicola Goudie, Lumbini Azim, Victoria Bartle, Michael Berger, Chrissie Butcher, Thomas Chadwick, Emily Clare, Paul Courtney, Lyndsey Dixon, Nichola Duffelen, Tony Fouweather, William Gann, John Geddes, Sumeet Gupta, Beth Hall, Timea Helter, Paul Hindmarch, Eva-Maria Holstein, Ward Lawrence, Phil Mawson, Iain McKinnon, Adam Milne, Aisling Molloy, Abigail Moore, Richard Morriss, Anisha Nakulan, Judit Simon, Daniel Smith, Bryony Stokes-Crossley, Paul Stokes, Andrew Swain, Zoë Walmsley, Christopher Weetman, Allan H Young, Stuart Watson

“…Weekly online assessments of mood and anxiety from randomisation to week 52, with psychosocial function, quality of life and healthcare resource utilisation assessments conducted at regular intervals. …”
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Investigation of growth traits in Turkish Merino lambs using multi-locus GWAS approaches: Karacabey Merino by Yalçın Yaman, Ramazan Aymaz, Murat Keleş, Yiğit Emir Kişi, Ecem Hatipoğlu, Arzu Özdemir, Elif Çetinkaya

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Genetic Basis and Exploration of Major Expressed QTL <i>qLA2-3</i> Underlying Leaf Angle in Maize by Yonghui He, Chenxi Wang, Xueyou Hu, Youle Han, Feng Lu, Huanhuan Liu, Xuecai Zhang, Zhitong Yin

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An Affordable AI-Driven and 3D-Printed Personalized Myoelectric Prosthesis: Design, Development, and Assessment by Enzo Romero, Jose G. Garcia, Magno Parra, Sebastian Caballa, Alejandro M. Saldarriaga, Edson F. Luque, Dante J. Rodriguez, Victoria E. Abarca, Dante A. Elias

“…Conventional myoelectric prostheses, while offering functional restoration, have limited adaptability and high cost. …”
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Barriers to and facilitators of rehabilitation according to socio-economic status, after acute respiratory distress syndrome due to COVID-19: A qualitative study in the RECOVIDS co... by Mathilde Kléber, Nicolas Meunier-Beillard, Isabelle Fournel, Eléa Ksiazek, Marine Jacquier, Fiona Ecarnot, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Pierre-Louis Declerq, Jean-Pierre Quenot, Marie Labruyère

“…<h4>Background</h4>The COVID-19 pandemic may have compounded social disparities in access to healthcare, with possible deleterious consequences on the functional prognosis of patients after a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). …”
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Mortalin overexpression predicts poor prognosis in early stage of non–small cell lung cancer by Jie Sun, Shuan-Long Che, Jun-Jie Piao, Ming Xu, Li-Yan Chen, Zhen-Hua Lin

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The neuropeptide sulfakinin is a peripheral regulator of insect behavioral switch between mating and foraging by Hong-Fei Li, Bao Dong, Yuan-Yuan Peng, Hao-Yue Luo, Xiao-Lan Ou, Zheng-Lin Ren, Yoonseong Park, Jin-Jun Wang, Hong-Bo Jiang

“…Further analysis of the mutant flies revealed that sets of odorant receptor (OR) genes were differentially expressed. Functional characterization of the differentially expressed ORs suggested that sulfakinin directly suppresses the expression of ORs that respond to opposite-sex hormones while enhancing the expression of ORs that detect food volatiles. …”
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Semantic distances of WAIS Similarities word pairs in non-demented adults: An item-level index of semantic memory granularity by Matteo De Marco, Satyam Chauhan, Martina Bocchetta, Annalena Venneri

“…LCH predicted semantic memory performance but not on a test significantly supported by executive resources. LCH also predicted clinical aetiology and grey-matter density in the transentorhinal cortex and in other regions involved in linguistic-semantic processing. …”
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A novel human pluripotent stem cell gene activation system identifies IGFBP2 as a mediator in the production of haematopoietic progenitors in vitro by Paolo Petazzi, Telma Ventura, Francesca Paola Luongo, Heather McClafferty, Alisha May, Helen Alice Taylor, Michael J Shipston, Nicola Romanò, Lesley M Forrester, Pablo Menendez, Antonella Fidanza

“…A major challenge in the stem cell biology field is the ability to produce fully functional cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) that are a valuable resource for cell therapy, drug screening, and disease modelling. …”
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Composition of the culturable bacterial community associated with the water column and soft tissues from oysters of the mangrove ecosystem at Honda Swamp, Colombian Caribbean by Lersy López Gutiérrez, Martha Torres, Esteban Zarza González, Alejandro Henao Castro, Laura Contreras Vega

“…Microbiological activity is the basis of ecosystems functioning, among these are the mangroves, which offer a wide variety of goods and services to humanity. …”
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Unraveling Fish Community Diversity and Structure in the Yellow Sea: Evidence from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Bottom Trawling by Jinyong Zhang, Xiaoyu Cui, Lin Lin, Yuan Liu, Jinqing Ye, Weiyue Zhang, Hongjun Li

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Biomechanical Changes to the Ankle After Zadek Osteotomy by Nicholas Bellas MD, Raghunandan Nayak BS, Mehreen Pasha BS, Megan R. Wolf MD, Elifho Obopilwe MS, Thomas McDonald MD, Lauren E. Geaney MD

“…Category: Hindfoot; Sports Introduction/Purpose: Insertional Achilles tendinopathy is a common source of heel pain in active adults and athletes. …”
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Acoustic Features for Identifying Suicide Risk in Crisis Hotline Callers: Machine Learning Approach by Zhengyuan Su, Huadong Jiang, Ying Yang, Xiangqing Hou, Yanli Su, Li Yang

“…Basic acoustic features (eg, Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients, formant frequencies, jitter, shimmer) and high-level statistical function (HSF) features (using OpenSMILE [Open-Source Speech and Music Interpretation by Large-Space Extraction] with the ComParE 2016 configuration) were extracted. …”
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Estimating the mass of tephra accumulated on roads to best manage the impact of volcanic eruptions: the example of Mt Etna, Italy by L. Mereu, L. Mereu, M. Stocchi, M. Stocchi, A. Garcia, M. Prestifilippo, L. Sandri, C. Bonadonna, S. Scollo

“…First, we analysed a sequence of 39 short-lasting and intense lava fountains detected by the X-band weather radar, applying a volcanic ash radar retrieval approach that permits us to compute the main eruption source parameters (ESPs), such MER, <span class="inline-formula"><i>H</i>_TP</span>, and GSD. …”
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Personality and Personality Disorders in Medication-Overuse Headache: A Controlled Study by SWAP-200 by Federica Galli, Annalisa Tanzilli, Alessandra Simonelli, Cristina Tassorelli, Grazia Sances, Micol Parolin, Patrizia Cristofalo, Ivan Gualco, Vittorio Lingiardi

“…At levels of specific PDs, MOH patients showed higher obsessive and dysphoric traits and better overall psychological functioning than SUD and PD patients. Conclusion. Although MOH, SUD, and PD populations have been evaluated in multiple sites with different levels of expertise, the study supported the presence of a specific constellation of personality in MOH patients including obsessive (perfectionist) and dysphoric characteristics, as well as good enough psychological resources. …”
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Health-related quality of life, physical and mental capacity at one year follow up of COVID-19 ICU patients: A prospective cohort study by Anders Ersson, Henrik Överengen Reuterborg, Anestis Divanoglou, Richard Levi, Lotti Orwelius

“…Abstract Purpose In 2020 as COVID-19 rapidly overwhelmed ICU resources, patient care capacity was reduced thus increasing the risk of development of post intensive care syndrome (PICS). …”
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Predicting the course of localized periodontitis of traumatic etiology after complex treatment by Aleksandra V. Smirnova, Diana A. Kuzmina, Natalia A. Sokolovich, Ekaterina S. Mikhailova, Svetlana V. Sverdlova, Ivan V. Grigoriev

“…To assess the body’s adaptive resources, the entropy of the leukocyte blood count was calculated, and risk factors for the occurrence of LPT were assessed. …”
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