Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) has become the leading cause of children’s visual impairment in developed countries. Since CVI may negatively affect neuropsychomotor development, an early diagnosis and characterization become fundamental to de...
Spectral line shapes are a key ingredient of hot-plasma opacity calculations. Since resorting to elaborate line-shape models remains prohibitive for intensive opacity calculations involving ions in different excitation states, with L, M, etc., shells...
Introduction: Growing evidence indicates that diet quality significantly influences metabolic parameters and cognitive functioning. In healthy individuals, higher consumption of minimally processed foods and products rich in omega-3 fatty acids is as...
The soil profile is a strong and complex physicochemical gradient that greatly affects bacterial community structure and function between soil layers. However, little is known about molecular ecological network structure and bacterial community funct...
Forest height and vertical structure profile functions can be estimated using polarimetric interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PolInSAR) data based on the random volume over ground (RVoG) model and polarization coherence tomography (PCT) theory...
The sound speed profile (SSP) is a necessary prerequisite for acoustic field computation and underwater target localization and monitoring. Due to the dynamic nature of the ocean, the reconstruction of SSPs with surface characteristics is a big chall...
AIM: Our goal was to examine the effect of high-intensity physical activity on changes in the lipid profile, complete blood count (CBC), iron metabolism, and kidney and liver function tests of professional water polo players. METHODS: This study incl...
Background: Oxidative stress, lipid profile and renal functions are well-known conventional risk factors for diabetes mellitus (DM). Metformin and gliclazide are popularly used monotherapy drugs for the treatment of DM. Aims: This study aims to asses...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex clonal disorder characterized by clinical, genetic, metabolomic, and epigenetic heterogeneity resulting in the uncontrolled proliferation of aberrant blood-forming precursor cells. Despite advancements in the...
Children with Down syndrome (DS) are at risk for challenges with aspects of executive function (EF). The current study explores whether heterogeneity in EF profiles can be detected within a sample of children with DS. Participants were 69 children wi...
Background/Objectives: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) exhibit more executive function (EF) deficits compared to typically developing (TD) peers. EF deficits are linked to various im...
Background/Objectives: Executive Functions are high-order cognitive processes, fundamental for children’s development, often shown diminished in children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). Although literature is consistent in finding these d...
Background: Children with disabilities and special educational needs show heterogeneous developmental profiles that may be associated with executive functioning and family factors. This study examined functional developmental profiles in primary educ...
Background/Objectives: Executive function (EF) impairments are common in neurodevelopmental disorders but are often examined using group-level approaches that may overlook clinically meaningful cognitive heterogeneity. This study explored EF heteroge...
Background/Objectives: Malan syndrome (MALNS) is an ultra-rare genetic disorder caused by aberrations in the NFIX gene, located at chromosome 19p13.2. Key features of MALNS include general overgrowth, a typical facial gestalt, muscle–skeletal a...
Using a pattern-centered approach, this investigation sought to identify latent subgroups of family functioning and evaluate their associations with health outcomes. A latent profile analysis was conducted using data from the National Study of Midlif...
Food additives recur in combinations across packaged foods, but their association with nutritional quality is uncertain. We identified latent profiles of Codex-mapped functional classes from label-declared additives in a sampled Turkish retail invent...
Gastrointestinal segments in ruminants differ in physiological environment and substrate availability. This study characterized taxonomic and gene-encoded functional profiles in 54 shotgun metagenomes from 30 growing male water buffaloes assigned to...
A modelling framework suitable for detecting shape shifts in functional profiles combining the notion of the Fréchet mean and the concept of deformation models is developed and proposed. The generalized mean sense offered by the Fréchet...
Functional annotation of unknown function genes reveals unidentified functions that can enhance our understanding of complex genome communications. A common approach for inferring gene function involves the ortholog-based method. However, genetic dat...
Background/Objectives: Oxford Nanopore sequencing produces long reads quickly, but most functional profiling tools were developed for short reads or rely on assembly pipelines that are computationally costly and sensitive to long-read error rates. We...
Given the concern for maintaining voltage stability in power systems integrated with renewable power systems due to a mismatch in generation and demand, there remains a need to invoke flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) devices i...
Treatment-refractory rectal cancer liver metastasis represents a major therapeutic challenge, particularly in the absence of actionable genomic biomarkers. Functional precision oncology approaches integrating genomic profiling with patient-derived or...
Background: Autonomic side effects are a major determinant of tolerability for many psychotherapeutic drugs. While often attributed to receptor-mediated mechanisms, the potential contribution of direct modulation of smooth muscle excitability remains...
FOXG1 is an ancient transcription factor gene mastering telencephalic development. A number of distinct structural FOXG1 mutations lead to the “FOXG1 syndrome”, a complex and heterogeneous neuropathological entity, for which no cure is pr...
Although organic amendment has been widely demonstrated to be capable of reassembling soil microbiomes in coastal salt-affected soils, quantitative characterization in respect to how abiotic and biotic components drive the diversifications of soil mi...
Background: Maternal dyslipidemia during pregnancy may influence fetal cardiac development and function, potentially predisposing offspring to cardiovascular diseases later in life. This study aims to evaluate the relationship between maternal lipid...
We analyzed the fecal microbiome by deep sequencing of the 16S ribosomal genes and the metabolomic profiles of 43 intestinal transplant recipients to identify biomarkers of graft function. Stool samples were collected from 23 patients with stable gra...
Pea protein concentrates and isolates are important raw materials for the production of plant-based food products. To select suitable peas (Pisum sativum L.) for protein extraction for further use as food ingredients, twelve different cultivars were...
Longitudinal approaches for disease-monitoring in old animals face survival and frailty limitations, but also assessment and re-test bias on genotype and sex effects. The present work investigated these effects on 56 variables for behavior, functiona...
Lupin protein isolate was treated using the combination of enzymatic hydrolysis (Papain, Alcalase 2.4 L and Pepsin) and lactic acid fermentation (Lactobacillus sakei ssp. carnosus, Lactobacillus amylolyticus and Lactobacillus helveticus) to investiga...
The global spread of antibiotic resistance is forcing the scientific community to find new molecular strategies to counteract it. Deep functional profiling of microbiomes provides an alternative source for the discovery of novel antibiotic producers...
Urbanisation is a major driver of ecological change, altering the composition and functioning of ecosystems through land use conversion, pollution, and environmental fragmentation. Although some authors reported that air pollutants could be absorbed...
During the 2008 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, there was a perception that the rate at which wood bats were breaking was on the rise. MLB responded by implementing changes to the wood bat regulations that were essentially transparent to the play...
The red imported fire ant (RIFA), Solenopsis invicta, is a globally invasive pest that causes substantial ecological, agricultural, and public health challenges. Conventional control strategies primarily depend on chemical insecticides, which present...
Objective: To explore the relationship between the erythrocyte fatty acid profile and cognition in elderly Chinese adults. Methods: 60 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subjects and 60 age- and gender-matched control adults (aged 55 years and above) we...
Assessing bacterial communities across water resources is crucial for understanding ecological dynamics and improving water quality management. This study examines the functional profiles of bacterial communities in drinking water resources in Mega M...
This study developed a complex functional ingredient based on beef offal paste, whey, rapeseed and sunflower cake powder, and flax flour, and evaluated its effect on beef cutlets formulated with 0, 5, 10, and 15% additive. The study examined chemical...
Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is the precursor of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). Dysplastic BE (DBE) has a higher progression risk to EAC compared to non-dysplastic BE (NDBE). However, the miss rates for the endoscopic detection of DBE remain high...
The amino acid profile, techno-functionalities (foaming stability/capacity, emulsion stability/capacity, solubility, and coagulation), and physicochemical characteristics (colour, particle size, surface hydrophobicity, Fourier-transform infrared spec...
Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile L.) is renowned for its production of essential oils, which major components are sesquiterpenoids. As the important enzyme in the sesquiterpenoid biosynthesis pathway, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase...
Functional vegetable oils are highly considered not only for their nutritional value, but also for their health benefits. The profile of phytochemicals responsible for their quality is useful also for the identification of possible mislabeling or adu...
Arid and semi-arid soils represent extreme habitats where microbial life is constrained by high temperature, low water availability, salinity, and nutrient limitation, yet these ecosystems harbor unique bacterial communities that sustain key ecologic...
The actinobacterial strain DEC002 was isolated recently from volcanic soils of Deception Island. Its taxonomic identity was resolved through a polyphasic strategy integrating morphology, physiological profiling, multilocus phylogeny, and genome-wide...
Long-term cultivation of strawberries can alter plant-associated microbial communities; however, the responses of root-associated bacteria within the combined rhizoplane and endophytic community remain insufficiently characterized. This study compare...
Low-molecular-weight phytochemicals have health benefits and reduce the risk of diseases, but the mechanisms underlying their activities have remained elusive because of the lack of a methodology that can easily visualize the exact behavior of such s...
Background: This paper is based on results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), exploring many aspects (health, economic situation and welfare) of the European population aged 50+. Differently from many other internatio...
Blueberry plants are among the most important fruit-bearing shrubs, but they have shallow, hairless roots that are not conducive to water and nutrient uptake, especially under drought conditions. Therefore, the mechanism underlying blueberry root dro...
Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (PiBO) is a chronic lung disease that develops after severe lower respiratory infections and leads to persistent inflammation and fibrotic changes in the small airways. In the present study, gene expression an...
The existence of common inflammatory biomarkers linking obesity and asthma in children has been hypothesized. Nevertheless, laboratory and clinical characteristics of children with obesity and asthma are still poorly defined. The primary aim of the p...
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