Complex Ecosystems Lose Stability When Resource Consumption Is Out of Niche by Yizhou Liu, Jiliang Hu, Hyunseok Lee, Jeff Gore

“…Natural communities display a rich variety of dynamics, including global stability, multistability, periodic oscillations, and chaotic fluctuations in species abundances. …”
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Successful ventilation through a Rüsch intubation guide catheter in severe laryngotracheal stenosis by Victoria Van Regemorter, Arnaud Potié, Sandra Schmitz, Jean-Louis Scholtes, Laurent Veevaete, Michel Van Boven

“…Abstract Background Providing adequate ventilation may remain complex in patients with severe proximal laryngotracheal stenosis, especially when the airway is shared with the surgeon during tracheal resection surgery. …”
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Evaluation of immunohistochemical expression of novel neuroendocrine marker INSM1 and histological tumor growth pattern in well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors of the appendix... by Ali Koyuncuer, Tolga Canbak, Aylin Acar, Onur Şahin

“…INSM1 is a novel transcription factor marker with high sensitivity and specificity for neuroendocrine differentiation. It may display architecturally diverse tumor growth patterns including solid, nest, insular trabecular, and acinar. …”
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Analysis of graphene coatings on various metallic/oxide crystal/composite material substrates using machine learning for enhanced solar thermal energy conversion by Khaled Aliqab, Dhruvik Agravat, Shobhit K. Patel, Ammar Armghan, Naim Ben Ali, Meshari Alsharari

“…The optothermal properties of such CuO-graphene, MAPBI3-graphene, and Fe-graphene combinations display the highest average absorptance of 96.8% across the solar spectrum between 0.2 and 2.5 μm followed by 86.7% by MAPBI3-graphene. …”
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Synergistic and off-target effects of bacteriocins in a simplified human intestinal microbiome: implications for Clostridioides difficile infection control by Natalia S. Ríos Colombo, R. Paul Ross, Colin Hill

“…Our results show that lacticin 3147 and pediocin PA-1 display synergy, resulting in higher anti-C. difficile activity. …”
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Comparison of I-gel and Baska mask in elective surgery: a meta-analysis by Hao Wang, Jiaxin Shen, Jiaxiao Shi, Xiaoyun Miao, Jinglin Zhao, Qingchun Dai

“…Objective The supraglottic airway device is a viable alternative to tracheal intubation for elective surgery. …”
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Management of Anesthesia under Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Support in an Infant with Severe Subglottic Stenosis by Rie Soeda, Fumika Taniguchi, Maiko Sawada, Saeko Hamaoka, Masayuki Shibasaki, Yasufumi Nakajima, Satoru Hashimoto, Teiji Sawa, Yoshinobu Nakayama

“…Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support is an alternative for maintenance of oxygenation in difficult airway management in infants.…”
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The potential role of nanobodies in asthma therapy by Baraa Khalid Salah Al-Sheakly, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Jennifer E. Hundt, Rabih Halwani, Rabih Halwani

“…Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by bronchoconstriction, airway hyperresponsiveness, and mucus production. …”
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Prophylactic mRNA Vaccination against Allergy Confers Long-Term Memory Responses and Persistent Protection in Mice by E. Hattinger, S. Scheiblhofer, E. Roesler, T. Thalhamer, J. Thalhamer, R. Weiss

“…Recently, mRNA vaccines have been introduced as a safety-optimized alternative to plasmid DNA-based vaccines for protection against allergy. …”
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Viability of flax particles to develop cellular construction materials: Physico-mechanical characterisation by Mohamed Hamadou-Ali, Amar Benazzouk, Haikel Ben Hamed

“…In this context, agricultural wastes are the excellent alternative materials to substitute mineral aggregates because they are widespread and easily accessible. …”
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SPOCK2 controls the proliferation and function of immature pancreatic β-cells through MMP2 by Katarzyna Blaszczyk, Anna P. Jedrzejak, Natalia Ziojla, Ekaterina Shcheglova, Karolina Szarafin, Artur Jankowski, Christine A. Beamish, Jolanta Chmielowiec, Omaima M. Sabek, Ashok Balasubramanyam, Sanjeet Patel, Malgorzata Borowiak

“…Abstract Human pluripotent stem cell-derived β-cells (SC-β-cells) represent an alternative cell source for transplantation in diabetic patients. …”
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Enhancing electrocatalytic performance of RuO2-based catalysts: mechanistic insights, strategic approaches, and recent advances by Binod Raj KC, Dhananjay Kumar, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti

“…Ruthenium oxide (RuO _2 ) based materials display high performance for OER and HER because of their capacity to bind oxygen, eminent catalytic activity, low cost compared to other precious metals, and stability in a wide pH range. …”
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The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios by Gabriela Silveira Neves, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Roberta Maia de Castro Romanelli, Jannine dos Santos Nascimento, André Dias Sanglard, James Batchelor

“…While seven reports (30%) indicated that CXR is irreplaceable by other diagnostic tools for NRDS diagnosis, 10 studies (43%) found that alternative methods surpassed CXR in several respects, such as severity assessment, monitoring progress, predicting the need for surfactant therapy, foreseeing Continuous Positive Airway Pressure failure, anticipating intubation requirements, and aiding in differential diagnosis. …”
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Labor Epidural Analgesia to Cesarean Section Anesthetic Conversion Failure: A National Survey by Neel Desai, Andrew Gardner, Brendan Carvalho

“…If the sensory block level was higher or unilateral, then a lower dose of intrathecal local anesthetic was selected and alternative options such as combined-spinal epidural and general anesthesia were increasingly favored. …”
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Exploring the Effects of Sub-Dissociative Doses of Ketamine on Sedation Quality in Bronchoscopy: A Double-Blind Clinical Study by Hamidreza Shetabi, Samira Rostami

“… Background: Sedation is recommended during flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FFB) to aid in airway evaluation, minimize patient mobility, and enhance patient safety. …”
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A Massively Parallel SMC Sampler for Decision Trees by Efthyvoulos Drousiotis, Alessandro Varsi, Alexander M. Phillips, Simon Maskell, Paul G. Spirakis

“…Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers are a parallel alternative to MCMC, which do not trade off accuracy for parallelism. …”
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Respiratory abnormalities in sarcoidosis: physiopathology and early diagnosis using oscillometry combined with respiratory modeling by Bruno Falcão Oliveira, Caroline Oliveira Ribeiro, Cíntia Moraes de Sá Sousa, Mariana Carneiro Lopes, Agnaldo José Lopes, Pedro Lopes de Melo

“…Respiratory oscillometry allows a simple alternative for the analysis of respiratory abnormalities. …”
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Polymer Design of Microwell Hydrogels Influences Epithelial–Mesenchymal Interactions During Human Bronchosphere Formation by Madeline K. Eiken, Justin E. Levine, Shinyeong Lee, Samantha Lukpat, Eleanor M. Plaster, Vikram Bala, Jason R. Spence, Claudia Loebel

“…Several organoid models, including from airway (e.g., bronchial, tracheal) cells, require three‐dimensional (3D) Matrigel, a complex mouse tumor‐derived matrix that typically leads to heterogeneous size and structures. …”
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An Efficient Frequency Encoding Scheme for Optical Convolution Accelerator by Gongyu Xia, Jiacheng Liu, Qilin Hong, Pingyu Zhu, Ping Xu, Zhihong Zhu

“…For convolution operations with a kernel size of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>M</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, compared to existing encoding schemes, it can achieve an <i>M</i>-fold increase in effective computation rate. …”
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Exosomes and Their Therapeutic Potentials of Stem Cells by Chao Han, Xuan Sun, Ling Liu, Haiyang Jiang, Yan Shen, Xiaoyun Xu, Jie Li, Guoxin Zhang, Jinsha Huang, Zhicheng Lin, Nian Xiong, Tao Wang

“…Numerous studies indicate that exosomes play important roles in cell-to-cell communication, and exosomes from specific cell types and conditions display multiple functions such as exerting positive effects on regeneration in many tissues. …”
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