Environmental gradients shape genetic variation in the desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis Mitt. (Pottiaceae) by Ugbad A. Farah, Kirsten M. Fisher

“…The species occupies a variety of dryland habitats with varying levels of drought and temperature stress, suggesting the potential for ecological specialization within S. caninervis. Here, we sampled S. caninervis from sites along two elevation gradients and used restriction site associated DNA sequencing to compare the relative impacts of environmental factors and geospatial distances on genetic differentiation in S. caninervis populations. …”
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Math-Phys-Chem Approaches to Life by Hitomi Kitaojima, Shigeru Kanemitsu

“…Here mathematics can play some essential role because of its freedom from practical and immediate phenomena under its own nose. …”
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RETRACTED: Biodiversity Loss with Habitat and Risk of New Diseases by Darshit Ram

“…However, assuming microbial diversity correlates with that of all other life forms, there may be increased potential for novel pathogens to emerge from biodiverse regions. Here, we present a theoretical framework that exploits the species–area relationship (SAR) to link habitat biodiversity and fragmentation with the exposure to novel infectious diseases.By exploiting ecological theory, it is possible to identify high-risk areas for risk mitigation and mitigation measures that may simultaneously reduce risk and conserve biodiversity, a problem that has previously been described as both conceptually and practically challenging.…”
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Cognitive and discursive features of Joe Biden's address to the joint session of the United States Congress on April 29, 2021 by O.I. Afonina

“…The relevance of the research stems from the need to better understand the tactics and strategies employed by politicians to influence their audiences at the times when politics plays a key role in our lives. …”
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Anti-Diabetic Therapeutic Medicinal Plant Identification Using Deep Fused Discriminant Subspace Ensemble (D2SE) by N. Sasikaladevi, S. Pradeepa, A. Revathi, S. Vimal, Gaurav Dhiman

“…The fused deep neural network (DNN) model with Discriminant Subspace Ensemble is designed to identify the diabetic plants from VNPlant200 data set. Here, the deep features are extracted using DenseNet201 and the matrix-based discriminant analysis is adopted to learn the discriminative feature subspace for classification. …”
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Auditory risk recognition is socially transmitted across territory borders in wild birds by Jakub Szymkowiak

“…Although auditory risk recognition is ubiquitous in animals, it remains unclear how individuals gain the ability to recognize specific sounds as cues of a threat. Here, it has been shown that free-living birds (Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix) can learn to recognize unfamiliar, complex sounds (samples of punk rock songs) as cues of a threat from conspecifics holding adjacent territories during the spring breeding season. …”
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Entre espaces domestiques et « espaces domestiqués » : « L’autonomisation intime » des étudiantes en Turquie by Tuğba Gökduman

“…This article uses some of the data I collected during a master’s research at the EHESS. It draws from a sociological survey conducted between 2018-2020 among young women living in Istanbul without their families. …”
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Long-term trends in the burden of multiple myeloma in China: a Joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort analysis based on GBD 2021 by Yanyu Zhang, Quanxin Su, Jiawen Yu, Xiuli Sun

“…Here, we analyzed the disease burden and changing trends of MM in China from 1990 to 2021, aiming to provide a scientific and effective basis for the prevention and control of MM disease in China.MethodsWe extracted MM related data from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2021 database from 1990 to 2021. …”
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Ultra narrow linewidth frequency reference via measurement and feedback by Barberena, Diego, Lewis-Swan, Robert J., Rey, Ana Maria, Thompson, James K.

“…One such source is the superradiant laser, which relies on collectively interacting ultra long lived dipoles driven by incoherent light. Here we discuss a different way of generating spectrally pure light by coherently driving such dipoles inside an optical QED cavity. …”
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Exome sequencing of UK birth cohorts [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Petr Danecek, Amy Hough, John Wright, Karen Ho, Nicholas J. Timpson, Sarah J. Lindsay, Davide Bonfanti, Daniel S. Malawsky, Rafaq Azad, Deborah Plowman, Sara Widaa, Gemma Shireby, Emla Fitzsimons, David Bann, Matthew E. Hurles, Hilary C. Martin, Susan M. Ring, Dan Mason, Michael A. Quail, Wei Huang, Vivek Iyer, Mahmoud Koko, Iaroslav Popov, Laurie Fabian, Gennadii Zakharov, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, Emma E. Wade, Qin Qin Huang

“…Birth cohort studies involve repeated surveys of large numbers of individuals from birth and throughout their lives. They collect information useful for a wide range of life course research domains, and biological samples which can be used to derive data from an increasing collection of omic technologies. …”
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The Effect of Anthelmintic Treatment on Coccidia Oocyst Shedding in a Wild Mammal Host with Intermittent Cestode Infection by Radovan Václav, Jana Blažeková

“…One problem is that most study systems involve domestic and laboratory animals with conditions hardly comparable to those of free-living animals. Here, we study the effect of anthelmintic treatment on coccidia infection intensity in wild Alpine marmots, M. marmota. …”
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Cooperation in the face of crisis: effect of demographic noise in collective-risk social dilemmas by José F. Fontanari

“…For most parameter settings, free-riders (defectors) cannot be eliminated from the population, leading to a coexistence equilibrium between cooperators and defectors for infinite populations. …”
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Complete genome of mangrove-derived anti-MRSA streptomycete, Streptomyces pluripotens MUSC 135T by Hooi-Leng Ser, Kok-Gan Chan, Wen-Si Tan, Wai-Fong Yin, Bey-Hing Goh, Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib, Learn-Han Lee

“…Members of Streptomyces have contributed greatly towards improving lives, particularly against deadly infections and chronic diseases. …”
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Les recompositions territoriales de l’action publique à l’aune de la proximité by Catherine Carré, Eleni Chouli, José Frédéric Deroubaix

“…Source control implies a switch from a sector-related and technical management to a contextual water management, involving a wide range of stakeholders, interacting in order to create an optimum living environment. …”
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Altered microbiome and metabolome profiling in fearful companion dogs: An exploratory study. by Luigi Sacchettino, Michele Costanzo, Iolanda Veneruso, Valeria D'Argenio, Maria Mayer, Francesco Napolitano, Danila d'Angelo

“…Growing evidence in humans and animals highlight the importance of the gut-brain axis in the modulation of the brain physiology and behavior as well. Here, taking advantage of the next generation sequencing approach, we sought to investigate the potential connection between gut microbiota and microbiome in dogs suffering from generalized fear (n = 8), when compared to healthy subjects (n = 8), who all lived in different families. …”
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Utilizing Cytokines to Function-Enable Human NK Cells for the Immunotherapy of Cancer by Rizwan Romee, Jeffrey W. Leong, Todd A. Fehniger

“…We highlight a recent development in NK cell biology, the identification of innate NK cell memory, and focus on cytokine-induced memory-like (CIML) NK cells that result from a brief, combined activation with IL-12, IL-15, and IL-18. …”
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The proposed protein and carbohydrate ingredients and the acceptance of moist feed by newly hatched Bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) by Natthawut Chanlek, Jirapan Satjarak, Yuzuru Ikeda, Nutt Nuntapong, Karun Thongprajukaew

“…Here, thirty sources of protein and seven of carbohydrate were tested for in vitro digestibility using digestive enzymes from viscera of Bigfin reef squid. …”
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A hybrid setup for rodent hyperpolarized metabolic imaging using a clinical magnetic resonance scanner by Ditte Bentsen Christensen, Ingeborg Sæten Skre, Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen, Mor Mishkovsky, Mathilde H Lerche

“…Over the past two decades, the method has transitioned from in vitro studies to clinical research, with an increasing focus on clinical applications.Here, we present a hybrid system that adapts a clinical magnetic resonance scanner for pre-clinical rodent experiments. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Maria Lenk, Antony Mason, Markus Rutsche

“… If you had to choose one moment in history in which to be born, and you didn’t know in advance whether you were going to be male or female, which country you were going to be from, what your status was, you’d choose right now.” …”
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Production of abiotic or biogenic hydrocarbons on rock particles in the presence of H2O and carbon compounds by Young Sang Cho, In-Hwan Oh, Ju Hee Kim, Jae Ik Kim, Kang-Bong Lee, In Wook Nah

“…The results of this study imply that abiotic H2 and diverse hydrocarbons are produced in the subsurface of Earth regardless of the presence of living organisms and suggest that solid acid-containing rocks near hot springs or volcanic areas can promote CO2 conversion into CH4 with the aid of H radicals supplied from H2O dissociation over the rocks.…”
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