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29 August 2023

In recent years, architectural interactions have become the center of many important reflections. However, there is little agreement on the subject. Some authors consider architecture to be about its relations with human and nonhuman agents. Others c...

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  • Open Access
2,423 Views
23 Pages

19 July 2025

Relational thinking, as both an ontological and epistemological approach, is inherently intertwined with the discipline of architecture. Yet, despite its growing visibility in the information age, its conceptual depth and theoretical implications rem...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,491 Views
23 Pages

9 November 2023

This paper investigates the narratives involved in the becoming public of an ecological, relational, and culinary culture through artistic mediums. Specifically, the question posed is this: how do food and cooking feature in some selected design and...

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  • Open Access

Architectural responses to sustainability and resilience remain strongly shaped by technocratic frameworks that privilege quantification, optimisation, and finite project delivery, often marginalising the relational and place-based dimensions through...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Participatory Design to Transformative Resilience)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,612 Views
15 Pages

Genome-Wide Association Studies of Plant Architecture-Related Traits in the Chinese Soybean Mini Core Collection

  • Wentao Ding,
  • Xiaoli Zhang,
  • Dandan Liu,
  • Chen Li,
  • Congcong Wang,
  • Ruidong Sun,
  • Xiangpei Jin,
  • Na Guo,
  • Jinming Zhao and
  • Han Xing

28 March 2022

Plant architecture traits are closely related to plant biomass, lodging, and photosynthetic efficiency, which in turn affect soybean yield. In this study, we investigated a Chinese soybean mini core collection consisting of 224 germplasm accessions f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontier Studies in Legumes Genetic Breeding and Production)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,997 Views
16 Pages

NAS-CRE: Neural Architecture Search for Context-Based Relation Extraction

  • Rongen Yan,
  • Dongmei Li,
  • Yan Wu,
  • Depeng Dang,
  • Ye Tao and
  • Shaofei Wang

26 November 2024

Relation extraction, a crucial task in natural language processing (NLP) for constructing knowledge graphs, entails extracting relational semantics between pairs of entities within a sentence. Given the intricacy of language, a single sentence often...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2,517 Views
27 Pages

5 October 2025

Climatic factors have always played a key role in the construction of food-related architecture: mitigation of outdoor temperatures or winds, adoption of raining waters in the productive processes, etc. However, sometimes, climate change has impacted...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,481 Views
21 Pages

Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Multiple Models Reveal the Genetic Basis of Plant Architecture-Related Traits in Maize

  • Beibei Wang,
  • Penghao Wu,
  • Ruotong Wu,
  • Xinru Xie,
  • Zilong Ren,
  • Kaixiang Wang and
  • Jiaojiao Ren

5 April 2026

Plant architecture-related traits are key agronomic traits affecting crop growth and yield. To unravel the genetic architecture of plant height (PH), ear height (EH), tassel length (TL), and tassel primary branch number (TPBN), 379 DH lines derived f...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,818 Views
21 Pages

12 June 2024

Water-related cultural heritage architecture (WRCHA) represents a globally significant and potentially hybrid heritage found across river basins worldwide. Its spatial and temporal evolution characteristics offer insight into the development trends o...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
832 Views
23 Pages

22 December 2025

Universities are central to regional high-quality development, yet existing studies often rely on output-based indicators and neglect efficiency as well as the contributions of architecture and engineering disciplines. This study addresses this limit...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,958 Views
12 Pages

13 July 2023

The present article examines Anglo–Soviet architectural relations during the Second World War, the peculiarities of the perception of foreign experience, and the mutual professional interests. This paper aims to find evidence of multilateral an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Russia: Histories of Mobility)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,796 Views
14 Pages

Validation of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Ultrasound Imaging System for Quantifying Muscle Architecture Parameters of the Rectus Femoris in Disease-Related Malnutrition (DRM)

  • Sergio García-Herreros,
  • Juan Jose López Gómez,
  • Angela Cebria,
  • Olatz Izaola,
  • Pablo Salvador Coloma,
  • Sara Nozal,
  • Jesús Cano,
  • David Primo,
  • Eduardo Jorge Godoy and
  • Daniel de Luis

8 June 2024

(1) Background: The aim was to validate an AI-based system compared to the classic method of reading ultrasound images of the rectus femur (RF) muscle in a real cohort of patients with disease-related malnutrition. (2) Methods: One hundred adult pati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Morphofunctional Nutritional Assessment in Clinical Practice)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,041 Views
30 Pages

8 October 2021

This paper is built on the assumption that architecture is the establishment of the relationship between past and future, built and unbuilt, within the inherited and natural context and in direct connection with the overall culture. Unlike a traditio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Social Dimension of Heritage Values—Re-thinking Methodological Approaches for Heritage Management and Research)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
574 Views
41 Pages

We compare six purposively selected term pairs using an English-language web corpus composed mainly of encyclopedic sources: engawa/veranda, tsuboniwa/impluvium, shōji/fusuma, tokonoma/chigaidana, ma/mu, and wabi/sabi. The pairs form three group...

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23 Pages

14 October 2026

Historic-district maintenance and repainting may preserve familiar colors while altering relationships among roofs, facades, and architectural accents. Conventional palette surveys identify which colors occur but provide limited information about the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Dimensional Organic Conservation of Historical Neighborhood Buildings in the Context of Sustainable Urban Renewal—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2,181 Views
28 Pages

19 November 2025

This study investigates how architectural buildings integrating open-space architectural forms that enabled new modes of public space contributed to reshaping civic life in Riyadh between the 1980s and early 1990s. While previous scholarship has larg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging -Scapes: Conceptual and Spatial Constructs in Architectural and Urban Studies)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,670 Views
34 Pages

Architectural Systemic Approach: The Serpentine Gallery 2005, a Reciprocal Frame Case Study

  • Beatriz del Río-Calleja,
  • Joaquín Grau Enguix and
  • Alfonso García-Santos

The application of the systemic approach in architecture aims to promote an integral, holistic view of the architectural design process. The literature reviewed calls for models with systemic behavior, and for these models to be applied in concrete c...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,950 Views
32 Pages

11 April 2025

Architectural elements—such as shapes, colors, and lighting—significantly influence how users emotionally respond to spaces. This study addresses the challenge of capturing unconscious and rapid emotional responses by employing a 32-chann...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Affective Computing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,410 Views
20 Pages

The Genetic Basis of Wheat Spike Architecture

  • Zhen Ji,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Fei Yan,
  • Shouqing Wu and
  • Yanfang Du

Wheat is one of the three major staple crops globally. The wheat spike serves as the primary structure bearing wheat grains. Spike architectures of wheat have a direct impact on the number of grains per spike, and thus the grain yield per spike. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,034 Views
26 Pages

Understanding the Complexity of Sleep Disturbances in ASD: From Mechanisms to Management

  • Adelina Glangher,
  • Ina-Ofelia Focsa,
  • Vanda Roxana Nimigean,
  • Florentina Ionela Linca,
  • Doina Ioana,
  • Sorina Mihaela Papuc,
  • Alina Erbescu-Dobre,
  • Catrinel Iliescu,
  • Carmen-Adella Sirbu and
  • Magdalena Budisteanu

Sleep disturbances represent one of the most frequent and clinically significant comorbidities in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), affecting approximately 50–80% of individuals. Clinically, these disturbances encompass a broad spec...

(This article belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
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  • Open Access
532 Views
21 Pages

Design Methodology Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Relational Databases for the Xinjiang Smart Tourism WebGIS System

  • Shaodong Xie,
  • Angze Li,
  • Fei Zheng,
  • Akhylbek Kazhigulovich Kurishbayev,
  • Duman Imanmadi and
  • Yue Yin

The rapid advancement of internet technology has transformed the tourism industry from traditional offline services to digital networked, and intelligent platforms. WebGIS has become critical infrastructure for tourism information retrieval and spati...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,117 Views
24 Pages

28 November 2022

Affinity with the Holy Land, and especially with Jerusalem, is a common theme in the sacred geography of Abrahamic religions, expressed in prayer houses and holy sites. This theme was especially prominent in Solomonic Ethiopia, both among Ethiopian O...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research of Jewish Communities in Africa and in Their Diaspora)
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42 Pages

Double Materiality Disclosure Architectures Under European Sustainability Reporting Standards: Evidence from European Oil and Gas Companies

  • Stamatios K. Chrysikopoulos,
  • Panos T. Chountalas,
  • Alexandra P. Alexandropoulou and
  • Dimitrios A. Georgakellos

15 July 2026

This study examines how double materiality is structured and disclosed during the early implementation of the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the corresponding European Sustainability Reporting Standards...

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  • Open Access
74 Citations
11,481 Views
23 Pages

Long Non-Coding RNAs in Neuronal Aging

  • Diana Pereira Fernandes,
  • Mainá Bitar,
  • Frank M. J. Jacobs and
  • Guy Barry

The expansion of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in organismal genomes has been associated with the emergence of sophisticated regulatory networks that may have contributed to more complex neuronal processes, such as higher-order cognition. In line wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Coding RNA in the Nervous System)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,926 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2019

The international system has changed rapidly in the last thirty years and Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) has become a new critical factor of the world order of the 21st century. The interaction between STI and international affairs has incr...

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  • Open Access
781 Views
26 Pages

Traditional architectural decorative patterns are increasingly reused in contemporary design, yet the link between object selection and design generation often remains experience-driven: public perceptual differences are rarely formalized, and evalua...

(This article belongs to the Topic Revitalizing Buildings and Our Urban Heritage)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,259 Views
19 Pages

Integration of Phenotype and Hormone Data during Adventitious Rooting in Carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) Stem Cuttings

  • María Salud Justamante,
  • José Ramón Acosta-Motos,
  • Antonio Cano,
  • Joan Villanova,
  • Virginia Birlanga,
  • Alfonso Albacete,
  • Emilio Á. Cano,
  • Manuel Acosta and
  • José Manuel Pérez-Pérez

15 July 2019

The rooting of stem cuttings is a highly efficient procedure for the vegetative propagation of ornamental plants. In cultivated carnations, an increased auxin level in the stem cutting base produced by active auxin transport from the leaves triggers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adventitious Root Formation in Tree Species)
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  • Open Access
162 Views
22 Pages

Conserved and Promoter-Specific Cis-Regulatory Features of Digestion-Associated Chitinase Genes in Droseraceae

  • Martin Jopčík,
  • Monika Danchenko,
  • Ľubomír Harenčár and
  • Jana Libantová

7 October 2026

Carnivorous plants recruit defense-related pathways for prey digestion, yet the cis-regulatory architecture underlying their expression remains poorly characterized. In addition to herbivore and fungal pathogen responses, chitinases play an important...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Insights into the Function and Evolution of Carnivorous Plants)
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  • Open Access
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24 Pages

16 July 2026

Background: Depression-related liability is frequently accompanied by reduced physical function, yet the shared genetic architecture linking mood-related traits and physical-function decline remains incompletely characterized. Methods: We applied gen...

(This article belongs to the Section Neurogenomics)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,527 Views
13 Pages

Variation of Phenotypic Traits in Twelve Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) Genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations

  • Xiuqing Gao,
  • Aliyu Siise Abdullah Bamba,
  • Aloyce Callist Kundy,
  • Kumbirai Ivyne Mateva,
  • Hui Hui Chai,
  • Wai Kuan Ho,
  • Mukhtar Musa,
  • Sean Mayes and
  • Festo Massawe

23 September 2020

Underutilised species such as bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) have the potential to contribute significantly to meeting food and nutritional needs worldwide. We evaluated phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut genotypes from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genotype× Environment Interactions in Crop Breeding)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,995 Views
38 Pages

21 August 2022

Currently, abnormality detection and/or prediction is a very hot topic. In this paper, we addressed it in the frame of activity monitoring of a human in bed. This paper presents a comprehensive formulation of a requirements engineering dossier for a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Intelligence through Neurocomputing)
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  • Open Access
2,543 Views
21 Pages

4 December 2025

This article interrogates the theoretical articulations of the body–space nexus through the formulation of an alternative methodological framework. It advances the premise that body and space cannot be reduced to physical parameters or represen...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Review
  • Open Access
323 Views
19 Pages

8 October 2026

Built environments continuously shape how people perceive, act, feel, and make sense of their surroundings. In recent decades, research into architectural experience has produced increasingly detailed accounts of these processes, revealing how charac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue BioCognitive Architectural Design)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,468 Views
29 Pages

27 January 2023

Supply chains have evolved into dynamic, interconnected supply networks, which increases the complexity of achieving end-to-end traceability of object flows and their experienced events. With its capability of ensuring a secure, transparent, and immu...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
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  • Open Access
494 Views
37 Pages

21 August 2026

Ordinary architectural conditions interact through arrangements that static representations often detach from time and use. This study examines six selected Turkish popular films as a mediated comparative corpus of apartments, neighborhood interfaces...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,240 Views
20 Pages

11 October 2022

Many professionals from several disciplines need to cooperate in designing and constructing tall buildings since their design and construction require more complex systems and technologies in terms of structure, installation, facade, vertical circula...

(This article belongs to the Topic Architectures, Materials and Urban Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,336 Views
19 Pages

11 December 2020

The COVID-19 era is bringing changes to different parts of everyday life, redefining what people used to consider normal. As the world deals with this highly contagious disease, the issue of the built environment, buildings, their architecture and po...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,717 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2022

Since ancient times, courtyards have played a vital role in architecture, particularly in domestic architecture. Over time, the existence of vernacular architecture has made beauty and harmony; these have always been important components of tradition...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,018 Views
18 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification of Gramineae Brassinosteroid-Related Genes and Their Roles in Plant Architecture and Salt Stress Adaptation

  • Jinyong Huang,
  • Shengjie Ma,
  • Kaiyan Zhang,
  • Xiaohan Liu,
  • Linlin Hu,
  • Wenming Wang and
  • Liwei Zheng

Brassinosteroid-related genes are involved in regulating plant growth and stress responses. However, systematic analysis is limited to Gramineae species, and their roles in plant architecture and salt stress remain unclear. In this study, we identifi...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Plant Sciences)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
936 Views
27 Pages

22 July 2026

Controlled institutional environments such as prisons and psychiatric hospitals shape human behaviour through surveillance, discipline, and spatial regulation. Although these environments have been extensively examined from architectural and sociolog...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,114 Views
20 Pages

5 February 2021

Cloud-native network design, which leverages network virtualization and softwarization together with the service-oriented architectural principle, is transforming communication networks to a versatile platform for converged network-cloud/edge service...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud-Native Applications and Services)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
16,176 Views
38 Pages

Since the first launch of an artificial satellite—Sputnik 1—in 1957, space activities have played a significant role as a pioneering technological sector with a high impact on the international scenario. The space system has changed rapid...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,775 Views
17 Pages

Joint-GWAS, Linkage Mapping, and Transcriptome Analysis to Reveal the Genetic Basis of Plant Architecture-Related Traits in Maize

  • Xuefeng Lu,
  • Pengfei Liu,
  • Liang Tu,
  • Xiangyang Guo,
  • Angui Wang,
  • Yunfang Zhu,
  • Yulin Jiang,
  • Chunlan Zhang,
  • Yan Xu and
  • Xun Wu
  • + 1 author

26 February 2024

Plant architecture is one of the key factors affecting maize yield formation and can be divided into secondary traits, such as plant height (PH), ear height (EH), and leaf number (LN). It is a viable approach for exploiting genetic resources to impro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Genetics and Plant Breeding 3.0)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,273 Views
26 Pages

3 January 2025

As the civil aviation market is in a state of continuous growth, the architecture of passenger airport terminals needs to follow the industry’s constant development. The objective of this research is to investigate the current state of terminal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Architecture and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,017 Views
20 Pages

Canopy Architecture and Sun Exposure Influence Berry Cluster–Water Relations in the Grapevine Variety Muscat of Alexandria

  • Olfa Zarrouk,
  • Clara Pinto,
  • Maria Victoria Alarcón,
  • Alicia Flores-Roco,
  • Leonardo Santos,
  • Teresa S. David,
  • Sara Amancio,
  • Carlos M. Lopes and
  • Luisa C. Carvalho

29 May 2024

Climate-change-related increases in the frequency and intensity of heatwaves affect viticulture, leading to losses in yield and grape quality. We assessed whether canopy-architecture manipulation mitigates the effects of summer stress in a Mediterran...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Grapevine Response to Abiotic Stress)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,439 Views
31 Pages

Relating Advanced Electrospun Fiber Architectures to the Temporal Release of Active Agents to Meet the Needs of Next-Generation Intravaginal Delivery Applications

  • Kevin M. Tyo,
  • Farnaz Minooei,
  • Keegan C. Curry,
  • Sarah M. NeCamp,
  • Danielle L. Graves,
  • Joel R. Fried and
  • Jill M. Steinbach-Rankins

Electrospun fibers have emerged as a relatively new delivery platform to improve active agent retention and delivery for intravaginal applications. While uniaxial fibers have been explored in a variety of applications including intravaginal delivery,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches for Delivery of Anti-HIV Drugs)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
530 Views
13 Pages

Mapping QTL for Plant Architecture-Related Traits in Soybean Across Multiple Environments

  • Tao Wang,
  • Qiang Chen,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Long Yan,
  • Xiao-Lei Shi,
  • Xiao-Dong Tang,
  • Xiao-Tong Lei,
  • Fu-Ming Xiao and
  • Meng-Chen Zhang

28 June 2026

Improving soybean plant architecture is critical for enhancing yield potential. To dissect the genetics of related traits, a recombinant inbred line population of 175 F9:12 families (derived from Glycine max cultivars Jidou 12 [female] × Ji NF5...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,341 Views
24 Pages

Unraveling the Shared Genetic Architecture and Polygenic Overlap Between Loneliness, Major Depressive Disorder, and Sleep-Related Traits

  • Zainab Rehman,
  • Abdul Aziz Khan,
  • Jun Ye,
  • Xianda Ma,
  • Yifang Kuang,
  • Ziying Wang,
  • Zhaohui Lan,
  • Qian Zhao,
  • Jiarun Yang and
  • Weidong Li
  • + 2 authors

16 December 2025

Background: Loneliness (LON) is a heritable psychosocial trait that frequently co-occurs with major depressive disorder (MDD) and sleep traits. Despite known genetic contributions, the shared genetic architecture and molecular mechanisms underlying t...

(This article belongs to the Section Neurobiology and Clinical Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,601 Views
26 Pages

A Diagnostic Post-Occupancy Evaluation of the Nacadia® Therapy Garden

  • Ulrik Sidenius,
  • Patrik Karlsson Nyed,
  • Victoria Linn Lygum and
  • Ulrika K. Stigsdotter

The design of the Nacadia® therapy garden is based on a model for evidence-based health design in landscape architecture (EBHDL). One element of the model is a diagnostic post-occupancy evaluation (DPOE), which has not previously been fully developed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscapes and Human Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,379 Views
14 Pages

The Actin-Family Protein Arp4 Is a Novel Suppressor for the Formation and Functions of Nuclear F-Actin

  • Shota Yamazaki,
  • Christian Gerhold,
  • Koji Yamamoto,
  • Yuya Ueno,
  • Robert Grosse,
  • Kei Miyamoto and
  • Masahiko Harata

19 March 2020

The crosstalk between actin and actin-related proteins (Arps), namely Arp2 and Arp3, plays a central role in facilitating actin polymerization in the cytoplasm and also in the nucleus. Nuclear F-actin is required for transcriptional regulation, doubl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nuclear Architecture, Lipids, and Phase Separation)

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