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As a potential high-quality protein food, peas are enriched in protein and fibre. This study investigated the judicious utilisation of pea fibre and the impact of maternal diet on offspring health in mice. Thirty-six eight-week-old, female, healthy C57BL/6J mice were divided into three groups at random (n = 12 per group): deprived fibre diet (DFD), 5% pea fibre diet (LFD), and 10% pea fibre diet (HFD). After weaning, the offspring mice were fed the same diet as their parents; the respective corresponding groups were DFDO, LFDO, and HFDO. Fibre-deprived mice exhibited decreased average litter size, diminished reproductive performance, increased body weight, and intestinal barrier damage. Mice fed pea fibre showed increased litter size, improved fertility rate of parental mice, regulated body weight, and maintained a normal intestinal barrier morphology without inflammatory cell infiltration. Furthermore, 16S rRNA analysis revealed that pea fibre enhanced diversity and richness of the intestinal microbiota and altered microbial composition. Notably, changes in Lactobacillus and Parabacteroides in fibre-deprived mice suggest that pea fibre might be a potentially beneficial option for neuropsychiatric diseases. In conclusion, supplementing the diet of maternal mice with pea fibre can mitigate the aforementioned issues in their offspring. This study emphasised the crucial role of maternal fibre consumption in increasing litter size, promoting gut health in offspring, and reducing susceptibility to obesity. Full article

The paper presents a new analytical method called the local fractional Laplace variational iteration method (LFLVIM), which is a combination of the local fractional Laplace transform (LFLT) and the local fractional variational iteration method (LFVIM), for solving the two-dimensional Helmholtz and coupled Helmholtz equations with local fractional derivative operators (LFDOs). The operators are taken in the local fractional sense. Two test problems are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and the accuracy of the proposed method. The approximate solutions obtained are compared with the results obtained by the local fractional Laplace decomposition method (LFLDM). The results reveal that the LFLVIM is very effective and convenient to solve linear and nonlinear PDEs. Full article

In this paper, we apply a new technique, namely, the local fractional Laplace homotopy perturbation method (LFLHPM), on Helmholtz and coupled Helmholtz equations to obtain analytical approximate solutions. The iteration procedure is based on local fractional derivative operators (LFDOs). This method is a combination of the local fractional Laplace transform (LFLT) and the homotopy perturbation method (HPM). The method in general is easy to implement and yields good results. Illustrative examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the new technique. Full article

In this paper, we apply the local fractional Laplace variational iteration method (LFLVIM) and the local fractional Laplace decomposition method (LFLDM) to obtain approximate solutions for solving the damped wave equation and dissipative wave equation within local fractional derivative operators (LFDOs). The efficiency of the considered methods are illustrated by some examples. The results obtained by LFLVIM and LFLDM are compared with the results obtained by LFVIM. The results reveal that the suggested algorithms are very effective and simple, and can be applied for linear and nonlinear problems in sciences and engineering. Full article

In this manuscript, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for local fractional differential equations (LFDEs) with local fractional derivative operators (LFDOs). By using the contracting mapping theorem (CMT) and increasing and decreasing theorem (IDT), existence and uniqueness results are obtained. Some examples are presented to illustrate the validity of our results. Full article