The morphology of the brain undergoes changes throughout the aging process, and accurately predicting a person’s brain age and gender using brain morphology features can aid in detecting atypical brain patterns. Neuroimaging-based estimation of...
The compounds derived from secondary metabolism in plants perform a variety of ecological functions, providing the plant with resistance to biotic and abiotic factors. The basal levels of these metabolites for each organ, tissue or cell type depend o...
Background: Asthma, a chronic respiratory disease characterized by airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness, exhibits significant heterogeneity in its presentation. This study aimed to investigate age-related comorbidity patterns, seasonal variati...
Pacific abalone is a high-value, commercially important marine invertebrate. It shows low growth as well as individual and yearly growth variation in aquaculture. Marker-assisted selection breeding could potentially resolve the problem of low and var...
The spatial distribution of the population is uneven for various reasons, such as urban-rural differences and geographical conditions differences. As the basic element of the natural structure of the population, the age structure composition of popul...
South Korea’s successful reforestation efforts over the past 50 years have led to abundant forest resources. However, intensive reforestation during the 1970s and 1980s skewed the forests’ age distribution towards forest stands aged 30 ye...
Background: Tongue anatomy plays a critical role in airway-related disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Understanding variations in tongue volume across age and gender is essential for refining diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. This...
The pericentric satellite III (SatIII or Sat3) and II tandem repeats recently appeared to be transcribed under stress conditions, and the transcripts were shown to play an essential role in the universal stress response. In this paper, we review the...
Cognitive impairment is a frequent but heterogeneous consequence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, with objective cognitive deficits not always aligning with subjective cognitive complaints. Age, nutritional status, and stress-related biological pathways may...
Environmental variation likely modifies the life-history traits of vertebrates. As ectothermic vertebrates, it is possible that the body size of amphibians is impacted by environmental conditions. Here, we firstly quantified age and body size variati...
Aluminum profiles—for instance, profiles made of precipitation-hardenable alloys—are increasingly used for decorative details in the automotive industry. Typically, after hot extrusion and at least two to three days of natural aging (NA),...
Tangible variation of sensory characteristics is often observed in wine aged in similar barrels. Barrel-to-barrel variation in barrel-aged wines was investigated in respect of the most important phenolic compounds of oenological interest. A red wine...
Background/Objectives: This study compares the clinical features and treatment outcomes of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) based on age at onset. Methods: A retrospective longitudinal cohort of patients with GPA diagnosed between January 1978...
At present, the filling mining method is widely used. To study strength evolution laws of cemented tailings backfill (CTB) under different curing ages, in the experiment, mine tailings were used as aggregates, ordinary Portland cement (PC32.5) was us...
The geographic variation in life-history traits of organisms and the mechanisms underlying adaptation are interesting ideas in evolutionary biology. This study investigated age and body size of the Asian common toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) among...
Candida albicans, Candida auris, Candida glabrata, and Cryptococcus neoformans are pathogenic yeasts which can cause systemic infections in immune-compromised as well as immune-competent individuals. These yeasts undergo replicative aging analogous t...
Given that suckling lambs with immature rumen development rely on intestinal microbiota for nutrient utilization, investigating the composition and functional characteristics of their intestinal microbiota is therefore of paramount importance. In thi...
This study aims to analyse the effect of selected variation factors on the ejaculate characteristics of boars and to characterise changes in ejaculate characteristics in Landrace, Large White, Duroc, and Pietrain boars during their use for artificial...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate normal values of healthy human bone marrow (n = 56) and identify gender- and age-related variations using cell lineage markers and maturational curves. Using 10-color quantitative flow cytometry, various cell...
This paper aims to facilitate a more nuanced understanding of regional disparities in the population age structure at a local scale by applying a recent method for visualizing these disparities. Utilizing data from the three most recent population ce...
We currently have a poor understanding of how different soil sampling methods (pedogenetic horizon versus fixed-depth) influence the evaluation of soil properties. Here, 159 soil profiles were sampled from larch (Larix gmelinii) plantations in northe...
In this work, a battery consisting of eight commercial NMC/graphite cells connected in series was cycled to 60% of its initial capacity. During the test, special care was taken to ensure that the results were not influenced by either the module assem...
Embryos from prepubertal water buffalo can be produced using laparoscopic ovum pickup (LOPU) and in vitro embryo production (IVEP). However, to date, it is unclear what factors and environmental conditions can affect LOPU-IVEP efficiency in prepubert...
The Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) is one of the most endangered primates globally, threatened by habitat destruction, genetic diversity loss, and ecological competition. In this study, given the critical role of the gut microbiota in host immune...
Despite their advantages regarding production costs and flexibility, chemiresistive gas sensors often show drawbacks in reproducibility, signal drift and ageing. As pattern recognition algorithms, such as neural networks, are operating on top of raw...
Due to its unique natural conditions and agricultural tradition, northeast China (NEC) has formed a distinctive open biomass burning habit with local-specific biomass burning aerosol features. In this research, with the help of a newly optimized biom...
Background/Objectives: Bitter Taste Receptors (encoded by TAS2R genes) are expressed in mucosal and bronchial epithelia, as well as in immune cells, contributing to defense against airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. Data on single-nucleotide poly...
7 January 2019
Functional literacy is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Functional literacy indicators are likely to vary between locations given the geographical variability of its major determinants. This proper...
Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial relationship between the incisive canal (IC) and apical region of the maxillary central incisors in the Korean population, using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging. The find...
Background: Multimorbidity (the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions) is increasingly common among older adults and contributes to diminished well-being and greater healthcare use. While national data highlight regional variation, few stud...
Circuit delays are increasingly sensitive to process, voltage, temperature, and aging (PVTA) variations, severely impacting circuit performance. Accurate measurement of circuit delay is essential. However, the additional hardware structures for measu...
29 May 2019
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of height-adjustable standing desks on time-series variation in sedentary behavior (SB) among primary school children. Thirty-eight children aged 11–12 years (22 boys and 16 girls) fro...
Mechanisms for somatic chromosomal mosaicism (SCM) and chromosomal instability (CIN) are not completely understood. During molecular karyotyping and bioinformatic analyses of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and congenital malformations (n...
Prolactin is a hormone for which actions on the central nervous system such as neurogenesis and neuroprotection have been described by acting on specific receptors. The presence of prolactin receptors in the brain, including the hippocampus, is well...
Background: Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (ATIN) is a significant yet under-monitored cause of U.S. mortality, particularly among the elderly. This study anrackalyzed national trends and demographic disparities in age-adjusted mortality rates (A...
Among the polymeric family, high-temperature-vulcanized silicone rubber (HTV-SR) is the most deployed material for high voltage insulation applications. However, in an outdoor environment, due to contamination and wetting-induced dry band arcing, con...
Research Question: Is maternal age only a gross predictor of chromosome abnormalities in human embryos? Design: Here, we evaluated the less-studied variation in chromosome abnormality rates in embryos of patients within the same age group. Patients u...
Intra-specific variation in functional traits and their inter-relationships reflect how plants allocate resources, adapt, and evolve in response to environmental changes. This study investigated eight functional traits—leaf area (LA), specific...
Background/Objectives: UBC demonstrates a relatively low prevalence in patients under 50 years old. Our study aimed to compare the pathological characteristics of UBC in young and elderly patients and to assess the age-related variations in these cha...
We present a multidimensional acoustic report describing variation in speech productions on data collected from 500 francophone adult speakers (20 to 93 y.o.a.) as a function of age. In this cross-sectional study, chronological age is considered as a...
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are affected by enhanced oxidative stress and chronic inflammation, and these factors may contribute to increase advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). In this study we quantified AGEs and soluble receptors...
23 December 2022
Second derivative of photoplethysmogram (SDPTG) indices correlate with aging and vascular health. The trend of SDPTG indices with age has not yet been studied in the Korean population. Various SDPTG indices were measured in 300 healthy Koreans (150 m...
While several studies have attested the presence of systematic gender and age variations in pharmacists’ satisfaction with their jobs, only a few of them have considered both classifications simultaneously. None have done so while systematicall...
Over the past 20 years, analyses of single brain cell genomes have revealed that the brain is composed of cells with myriad distinct genomes: the brain is a genomic mosaic, generated by a host of DNA sequence-altering processes that occur somatically...
29 August 2022
As population aging progresses, demands of patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) on the primary care services is inevitably increased. However, the utilisation of primary care services across varying age groups is unknown. The study aims to exp...
Muscle synergy has been widely acknowledged as a possible strategy of neuromotor control, but current research has ignored the potential inhibitory components in muscle synergies. Our study aims to identify and characterize the inhibitory components...
Home-range size is a key aspect of space-use, and variation in home-range size and structure may have profound consequences for the potential impact of damage and control strategies for invasive species. However, knowledge on home-range structure of...
Background and Objectives: Type I interferon (IFN-I) transcriptional signatures are widely utilised as readouts of innate immunity. We evaluated whether age and sex affect single interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) and the composite IFN-I score, with...
Objective: The purpose was to examine clinical profiles in concussed children aged 5–9 and 10–12 years and compare them with those of adolescents >12 years. Methods: This study included patients aged 5–18 years presenting to a sp...
20 August 2020
The aim of the study was to analyze sex and age-related body composition variations among older adults from the Brazilian, Italian, and Mexican population. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted in 1103 community-dwelling older adults (634 women an...
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