In Vivo Assessment of Healing Potential of Ointments Containing Bee Products, Vegetal Extracts, and Polymers on Skin Lesions by Calin Vasile Andritoiu, Cristina Lungu, Camelia Elena Iurciuc (Tincu), Corina Elena Andriescu, Corneliu Havarneanu, Marcel Popa, Magdalena Cuciureanu, Liliana Mititelu Tarţău, Bianca Ivanescu

“…On the ninth day of treatment, the wound contraction rate was 98.17 ± 0.15% for the mixed ointment group, compared to the negative control group’s rate of 14.85 ± 2.95%. …”
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Simulations of pH and thermal effects on SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein by Ziyuan Niu, Georgios Kementzidis, Miriam Rafailovich, Marcia Simon, Evangelos Papadopoulos, Bertal H. Aktas, Yuefan Deng

“…Smaller structural changes are observed at pH = 3 and 11. 2) The pH and thermal conditions impact on the protein structures: substantial acidic and basic conditions expand the protein’s solvent exposure, while high heat contracts. This effect is primarily pH-driven at extreme acidity and thermo-driven at moderate pH. 3) The Gibbs free energy landscape reveals that pH as the main driver of structural changes. 4) The parametrized methods enable the predictions of the S-protein properties at any reasonable pH and thermal conditions without explicit MD simulations.…”
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A Straightforward Approach of Wet‐Spinning Poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene):Polystyrene Sulfate Fibers for Use in All Conducting Polymer‐Based Textile Actuators by Mathis Bruns, Shayan Mehraeen, Jose G. Martinez, Johannes Mersch, Iris Kruppke, Edwin W. H. Jager, Chokri Cherif

“…This study introduces a straightforward and efficient method for creating PEDOT‐based, biomimetic, fiber‐shaped, linearly contracting ionic electroactive polymer actuators. To achieve this, a wet‐spinning technique is presented, which enables a continuous production of PEDOT:polystyrene sulfate (PSS) fibers at high production rates of 34 m h−1, an additional fiber washing step and a sulfuric acid posttreatment step to increase the fibers conductivity. …”
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Self-Injurious Behavior in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Units: Actual Aspects of the Complex Care Provision by Sigita Lesinskienė, Mariam Afrahi, Kamilė Pociūtė

“…Results: Self-injurious behavior in psychiatric inpatient settings was managed through risk assessment, monitoring, communication, medication, counselling, removal of sharp objects, patient allocation, and a several of other methods such as safety contracts, rewards or alternate pain-inducing or self-harm mimicking stimuli. …”
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Effect of Noni (Morinda citrifolia Linn.) Fruit and Its Bioactive Principles Scopoletin and Rutin on Rat Vas Deferens Contractility: An Ex Vivo Study by Vijayapandi Pandy, Megala Narasingam, Thubasni Kunasegaran, Dharmani Devi Murugan, Zahurin Mohamed

“…Haloperidol and prazosin, reference dopamine D2, and α1-adrenoceptors antagonists significantly reversed the dopamine- and noradrenaline-induced contractions, respectively, in a dose-dependent manner. …”
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Mechanisms Underlying Adaptation of Respiratory Network Activity to Modulatory Stimuli in the Mouse Embryo by Marc Chevalier, Rafaël De Sa, Laura Cardoit, Muriel Thoby-Brisson

“…Breathing is a rhythmic behavior that requires organized contractions of respiratory effector muscles. This behavior must adapt to constantly changing conditions in order to ensure homeostasis, proper body oxygenation, and CO2/pH regulation. …”
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Intrauterine Fetal Surgery Current Approaches by Ayla Eser, Nermin Köşüş, Aydın Köşüş, Müberra Namlı Kalem, Nilüfer Akgün, Ebru Yüce

“…Suitable surgical techniques, appropriate and effective high end methods to monitor fetal and uterine development and prevention of uterine contractions after surgery (tocolysis) are a few of the key bottlenecks that need to be addressed urgently to make intrauterine fetal surgery more useful. …”
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The GLP-1R agonist semaglutide reshapes pancreatic cancer associated fibroblasts reducing collagen proline hydroxylation and favoring T lymphocyte infiltration by Chiara Cencioni, Silvia Malatesta, Virginia Vigiano Benedetti, Valerio Licursi, Livia Perfetto, Federica Conte, Danilo Ranieri, Armando Bartolazzi, Martina Kunkl, Loretta Tuosto, Alberto Larghi, Geny Piro, Antonio Agostini, Giampaolo Tortora, Vincenzo Corbo, Carmine Carbone, Francesco Spallotta

“…Upon dysmetabolism, P4HA1 boosts collagen proline hydroxylation, intensifies collagen contraction strength, precluding PDAC infiltration. …”
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Neural Mass Modeling in the Cortical Motor Area and the Mechanism of Alpha Rhythm Changes by Yuanyuan Zhang, Zhaoying Li, Hang Xu, Ziang Song, Ping Xie, Penghu Wei, Guoguang Zhao

“…Firstly, EEG signals were recorded from 11 healthy participants under 20%, 40%, and 60% maximum voluntary contraction, and alpha rhythm power spectral density characteristics were extracted using the Welch power spectrum method. …”
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Den Use Patterns of Endangered San Joaquin Kit Foxes in Urban Environments May Facilitate Disease Transmission by Brian L. Cypher, Alyse Gabaldon, Erica C. Kelly, Tory L. Westall, Nicole A. Deatherage

“…During 120-day intervals, the minimum survival time for kit foxes contracting mange, collared foxes used a mean of 7.6 dens, 9.8 other foxes used the same dens, and 7.3 foxes used the dens concurrently with the collared foxes. …”
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Blasting Vibration Generated by Breaking-Blasting Large Barriers with EBBLB by Wang Zhen-xiong, Gu Wen-bin, Liang Ting, Liu Jian-qing, Xu Jing-lin, Liu Xin

“…And the research decomposes vibrating signals in vertical direction of different distances from blasting center with Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), extracting information of empirical mode components of blasting vibration signals; thus vibrating signals are contracted by spectrum information and energy information, three-dimensional energy, and energy attenuation of vibration with different distances from blasting center. …”
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Determination of the Analytical Solutions of the Radio Emission Geometry and Polar Cap Structure of Pulsars Having Perturbed Dipole by Tridib Roy, Mageshwaran Tamilan, Ramkrishna Das

“…Our results show that the rotational effect also leads to a contraction of the dimensions of the polar cap for a given range of the obliquity parameters. …”
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Administrative and legal principles of formation of tariffs for freight transportation by railway transport by Voroniatnikov O.

“…Results: it was determined that on the modern market of freight rail transportation, the main service providers are JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” and operators of rolling stock – independent business entities that, based on contracts with the railway and shippers, participate in the process of transporting goods using their own rolling stock or rolling stock that they legally own. …”
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Evaluating the migration of boundary river shorelines and coastal land cover changes for the Beilun River between China and Vietnam by Xie Shuangmi, Zhang Wenzhu, Wu Bin, Lu Shengquan, Gu Guanhai, Liu Yanhua

“…Analysis of dynamic degree and transfer matrices shows a contraction of cultivated land, forest land, and water bodies, with a significant increase in construction land and other types of land, reflecting a conversion between cultivated and forest land and the encroachment of construction land on cultivated land. …”
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The economic situation of state farms and collective farms Altai Territory in the second half of 1980s by D. S. Orlov, A. A. Chirkov

“…Attempts were made to introduce self-financing and contracting, elements of economic lease were introduced, and the economic independence of agricultural enterprises was expanded. …”
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Effects of Low-Intensity Laser Irradiation on Wound Healing in Diabetic Rats by Hui Ma, Ying-xin Li, Hong-li Chen, Mei-ling Kang, Timon Cheng-Yi Liu

“…LISL could obviously promote wound contraction, fibroblasts proliferation, and collagen synthesis, alter bFGF and TGF-β1 expression, and reduce inflammatory reaction in the early and middle phases of chronic wound-healing process. …”
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Brewed for Performance: Caffeine’s Impact on Nutrition, Endurance and Strength in Sports by Michał Janiszewski, Marcin Komorowski, Rafał Kaczorowski, Jaromir Hunia, Jonasz Jurek, Alicja Kapciak, Julia Górny, Aleksandra Pelczarska, Tomasz Forenc

“…Our comprehensive review of literature indicates that caffeine typically ingested one hour before exercise in doses around 3-6 mg/kg raises metabolic rate, increases free fatty acids mobilization, extends time to exhaustion in running and cycling, improves maximal voluntary contraction and enhances high-speed muscular activity with low-load movements. …”
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A Coupled Thermo-Hydromechanical Model of Soil Slope in Seasonally Frozen Regions under Freeze-Thaw Action by Yongxiang Zhan, Zheng Lu, Hailin Yao, Shaohua Xian

“…The slope displacement is closely related to the change in temperature—a relation that is in agreement with the phenomenon of thermal expansion and contraction in unfrozen areas and reflects the phenomenon of frost heave and thaw settlement in frozen areas.…”
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Family-Centered Approaches to Pediatric Tuberculosis and Nutritional Challenges in North Aceh: A Qualitative Study by Mardiati, Anna Millizia, Noviana Zara, Khania Atika, Najwa Zakiyya

“…Most were normally nourished, and nearly half had pulmonary TB, primarily contracted from household contact. This study identified five key themes: increasing TB incidence, pediatric TB treatment challenges, nutritional concerns, inadequate sanitation, and strategies to address treatment and nutritional issues in children with TB. …”
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Nitric oxide in exercise physiology: past and present perspectives by Breanna J. Mueller, Michael D. Roberts, Christopher B. Mobley, Robert L. Judd, Andreas N. Kavazis

“…However, its effect on submaximal contraction is still undetermined. In mitochondria, NO may stimulate biogenesis and affect respiratory efficiency. …”
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