Nitrogen enrichment and vascular plant richness loss reduce bryophyte richness by Maeve Lin, Ariel Bergamini, Noémie A. Pichon, Eric Allan, Steffen Boch

“…Our results highlight novel mechanisms by which land-use intensification can affect bryophytes and suggest that a loss of vascular plant richness might have cascading effects on other taxonomic groups.…”
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Battery Energy Storage Systems in Microgrids: A Review of SoC Balancing and Perspectives by Thales Augusto Fagundes, Guilherme Henrique Favaro Fuzato, Lucas Jonys Ribeiro Silva, Augusto Matheus dos Santos Alonso, Juan C. Vasquez, Josep M. Guerrero, Ricardo Quadros Machado

“…Moreover, in this article, we discuss alternatives to improve EMS and strategies regarding the topology of power converters, including redundancy-based topology, modular multilevel converter, cascaded-based converter, and hybrid-type systems. …”
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Long-Term Dynamic Monitoring of Post-Tensioning External Tendons: Temperature Effect Evaluation by Luis Chillitupa-Palomino, Carlos M. C. Renedo, Jaime H. García-Palacios, Iván M. Díaz

“…On this subject, this paper presents the experimental long-term monitoring of several post-tensioning external tendons in a high-speed railway bridge in which a sectorized weighted peak-picking frequency identification procedure is proposed for frequency estimation, alongside a cascade clustering process, which allows meaningful frequency estimates to be selected. …”
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Targeting the B-Cell Pathway in Lupus Nephritis: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives by Panagiotis Pateinakis, Athina Pyrpasopoulou

“…Several hypotheses are currently experimentally tested to further elucidate the direct induction of inflammation through interaction of the pathological autoantibodies with intrinsic glomerular components and the triggering of a complement-driven autoinflammatory cascade. B-cells have, in the last decade, emerged as a promising new therapeutic target, as biological treatments successfully attempting B-cell depletion, inhibition of B-cell proliferation and differentiation, or modulation of B-cell function have become bioengineered. …”
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How Hippo Signaling Pathway Modulates Cardiovascular Development and Diseases by Wenyi Zhou, Mingyi Zhao

“…The canonical Hippo tumor suppressor pathway in mammalian cells is primarily composed of the MST1/2-SAV1-LATS1/2-MOB1-YAP/TAZ cascade. Continuing research on this pathway has identified other factors like RASSF1A, Nf2, MAP4Ks, and NDR1/2, further enriching our knowledge of the Hippo-YAP pathway. …”
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Plasma proteome fingerprint in kidney diseases by Kirill S. Nikolsky, Arthur T. Kopylov, Valeriya I. Nakhod, Natalia V. Potoldykova, Dmitry V. Enikeev, Tatiana V. Butkova, Liudmila I. Kulikova, Kristina A. Malsagova, Vladimir R. Rudnev, Denis V. Petrovskiy, Alexander A. Izotov, Anna L. Kaysheva

“…These proteins are important participants of complement and coagulation cascade activation and lipid metabolism.ResultsThe revealed phosphorylated proteoforms (CFB, C4A/C4B, F2, APOB, TTR, and NRAP) were identified. …”
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USP20 mediates malignant phenotypic changes in bladder cancer through direct interactions with YAP1 by Wensun Chen, Siqi Wu, Yifan Chen, Weijian Li, Yiqing Cao, Yingchun Liang, Xiyu Dai, Xinan Chen, Yilin Chen, Tian Chen, Shenghua Liu, Chen Yang, Haowen Jiang

“…Hippo pathway activity is controlled by the phosphorylation cascade in the MST1/2-LATS1/2-YAP1 axis, in addition to other modifications such as ubiquitination of the Hippo pathway proteins through the co-regulation of E3 ligases and deubiquitinases. …”
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Assessment of Artificial Neural Networks for Hourly Solar Radiation Prediction by Tamer Khatib, Azah Mohamed, K. Sopian, M. Mahmoud

“…The Four ANNs topologies were used including a generalized (GRNN), a feed-forward backpropagation (FFNN), a cascade-forward backpropagation (CFNN), and an Elman backpropagation (ELMNN). …”
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Guayaramerim: a borderland marked by the Mamore River and its “cachuelas” by Bianca De Marchi-Moyano, Laura Helena Arraya-Pareja

“…The article describes the site where the city was built, its historical permanency, and the role played by the river and its cascades in encouraging its founding just on the borders between Bolivia and Brazil. …”
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Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism Secondary to Thrombophilic Disorder: A Case Report by Satbir Kaur Malik, Vineetha Naga Lakshmi Giduturi, Sindhuri Goud Nimmala, Vijayashree Gokhale

“…The most common inherited thrombophilias—such as Factor V Leiden mutation, prothrombin G20210A mutation and deficiencies in protein C, protein S and antithrombin III—are a group of genetic conditions that predispose individuals to thrombotic events by influencing various factors involved in the coagulation cascade. Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is a common condition that is part of venous thromboembolism disorders and represents the third most common cause of death from cardiovascular disease, following heart attacks and strokes. …”
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Upper‐Atmosphere Mass Density Variations From CASSIOPE Precise Orbits by Andrés Calabia, Shuanggen Jin

“…In this study, TMD is estimated from the precise orbits of CAScade SmallSat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer (CASSIOPE) at one‐second time step, and the TMD variations following the February 2014 geomagnetic storm are investigated. …”
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Genetic Evidence of Killer Whale Predation on White Sharks in Australia by Isabella M. M. Reeves, Andrew R. Weeks, Alison V. Towner, Rachael Impey, Jessica J. Fish, Zach S. R. Clark, Paul A. Butcher, Lauren Meyer, David M. Donnelly, Charlie Huveneers, Nicky Hudson, Adam D. Miller

“…ABSTRACT Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have been documented to prey on white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), in some cases causing localised shark displacement and triggering ecological cascades. Notably, a series of such predation events have been reported from South Africa over the last decade, with killer whales specifically targeting sharks' liver. …”
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Codeine 3-O-demethylase catalyzed biotransformation of morphinan alkaloids in Escherichia coli: site directed mutagenesis of terminal residues improves enzyme expression, stability... by Garrick W. K. Spencer, Xu Li, Kenny W. L. Lam, George Mutch, Fiona H. Fry, Sally L. Gras

“…The enzyme codeine 3-O-demethylase can transform morphinan alkaloids by O-demethylation and has been applied in single step biotransformation reactions or as part of larger biosynthetic cascade, however, the productivity for these reactions remains low and suboptimal enzyme properties could be improved. …”
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Research progress on modification of hemodialysis membranes with anticoagulant properties by Xuan WANG, Zehua LI, Runjie SHI, Tiantian LI, Ruolin WANG, Chunmei NIU

“…However, when the membrane material is in contact with blood directly, plasma proteins will quickly adsorb on the surface of the membrane and bind to the glycoprotein receptors on platelets, resulting in platelet activation, coagulation cascade and complement activation. This will inevitably induce coagulation and thrombosis, threatening the health and life safety of patients. …”
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A method of processing mechanical mixtures using vortex set of deep separation by V. I. Kuznetsov, O. A. Sharikov

“…The method involves processing mechanical mixtures using the new physical process of the vortex effect of the confuser, the series cascade connection of technological units in the main processing line and an additional line machines: separator-constrictors, cyclonesconstrictors, overpasses, separators exhaust air that drives the indivisible particles of the mixture of the overpass with the ejector, to reuse the exhaust air. …”
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A A three-phase induction motor dynamic framework regulated by predictive and intelligent optimizations. by Shaswat Chirantan, Bibhuti Bhusan Pati

“…Conversely, the I-FCS-MPC uses a cascade feedback structure with an appropriately adjusted controller gain to determine the optimal set of control variables. …”
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Cross-attention swin-transformer for detailed segmentation of ancient architectural color patterns by Lv Yongyin, Yu Caixia

“…These methods struggle with balancing precision and computational efficiency, especially when dealing with complex patterns and high-resolution images.MethodsTo address these limitations, we propose a novel segmentation model that integrates a hierarchical vision transformer backbone with multi-scale self-attention, cascaded attention decoding, and diffusion-based robustness enhancement. …”
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Procoagulant Phospholipids and Tissue Factor Activity in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Intracerebral Haemorrhage by Patrick Van Dreden, Guy Hue, Jean-François Dreyfus, Barry Woodhams, Marc Vasse

“…Brain contains large amounts of tissue factor, the major initiator of the coagulation cascade. Neuronal apoptosis after intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) leads to the shedding of procoagulant phospholipids (PPLs). …”
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Neurokinin-1 Receptor Antagonist Treatment in Polymicrobial Sepsis: Molecular Insights by Akhil Hegde, Yung-Hua Koh, Shabbir M. Moochhala, Madhav Bhatia

“…We conclude that substance P acting via neurokinin-1 receptor in sepsis initiated signaling cascade mediated mainly by protein kinase C-α, led to NF-κB and activator protein-1 activation, and further modulated proinflammatory mediators.…”
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Targeting C-Reactive Protein in Inflammatory Disease by Preventing Conformational Changes by J. R. Thiele, J. Zeller, H. Bannasch, G. B. Stark, K. Peter, S. U. Eisenhardt

“…Native, pentameric CRP (pCRP) is considered to be the circulating precursor form of monomeric CRP (mCRP) that has been identified to be strongly proinflammatory. …”
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