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Thermodynamics
Qingyue Cheng, Liangyu Li, Qin Liao, Hao Fu, Jiangxia Nie, Yongheng Luo, Zhonglin Wang, Huilai Yin, Chuanhai Shu, Zongkui Chen, Yongjian Sun, Jun Ma, Na Li, Zhiyuan Yang
Summary: This study evaluated and compared the energy use, environmental impact, and economic benefits of smallholders' rice production mode (SHM) and scale rice production modes. The results showed that the scale rice production modes increased net energy, energy use efficiency, net economic return, and profit-to-labor use ratio, while decreasing global warming potential (GWP) and yield-scaled GWP. These findings suggest that scale rice production modes promote sustainable and low-carbon development of the agricultural industry in China. Government support for developing scale rice production modes and encouraging farmers to take equity in their lands or lease them to micro cooperatives is recommended.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Guilherme Renke, Consuelo Callizo, Raphaela Paes, Mariana Antunes, Glaycon Michels, Luana Concha, Ordanio Almeida, Christiane Valente, Thomaz Baesso, Bruna Giovannoni
Summary: Segesterone acetate (SA) or Nestorone, a fourth-generation progestogen, is a synthetic compound with high progestational activity. It is used in female contraception and postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and has potential uses in endometriosis, polycystic ovaries syndrome (PCOS), and neuroprotection. However, the standardized dose and long-term safety of SA implant therapy in women are still controversial.
Editorial Material
Hematology
Sebastien Malinge
Summary: The gain of chromosome 21 is a common alteration in leukemia, but its impact on hematopoiesis is not fully understood. In this study, the authors provide evidence for the oncogenic role of a transcript imbalance in myeloid leukemia associated with children with Down syndrome.
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Neurosciences
Alana Brown, Nicole J. Gervais, Jenny Rieck, Anne Almey, Laura Gravelsins, Rebekah Reuben, Laurice Karkaby, M. Natasha Rajah, Cheryl Grady, Gillian Einstein
Summary: Women who undergo early bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to women who go through natural menopause. This study investigated the changes in associative memory in young women with BSO and whether these changes were similar to those observed in women with natural menopause. The results suggest that women with BSO without estrogen replacement therapy have similar brain function to women with natural menopause, indicating that early estrogen loss may lead to altered brain function and increased AD risk.
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
(2023)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Fernando M. Aragon, Diego Restuccia, Juan Pablo Rud
Summary: This paper highlights that using yields as an indicator may not accurately reflect the relationship between farm size and productivity in small-scale farming. Market distortions and decreasing returns to scale also affect yields, which may result in a misleading interpretation of the relationship between farm productivity and land size. The empirical findings from Uganda, Peru, Tanzania, and Bangladesh emphasize the importance of revisiting the evidence on farm size-productivity relationship for policy implications.
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
H. Silven, S. M. Savukoski, P. Pesonen, E. Pukkala, M. Gissler, E. Suvanto, M. Niinimaki
Summary: The incidence of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) has increased in females aged 15-19 years since 2007 but has decreased in older age groups. Relatives of women with POI have a significantly increased risk of developing POI. POI women tend to have slightly lower socioeconomic status and level of education compared to controls.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2022)
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Jing Chen, Yan Han, Wenjie Shi, Xiaohong Yan, Yingying Shi, Ye Yang, Hong Gao, Youzhu Li
Summary: Cryopreservation of ovarian tissue is an alternative method for fertility preservation and hormone replacement. It is suitable for cancer patients, patients in urgent need of cancer treatment, and women with premature ovarian failure or menopause, providing physiological doses of hormones while avoiding risks associated with oral hormone replacement.
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2022)
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Business, Finance
Giampaolo Arachi, Massimo D'Antoni
Summary: Taxation of capital gains upon realization can reduce asset liquidation and have a smaller impact on intertemporal consumption allocation. In certain conditions, realization-based taxation may lead to lower overall distortion of investment choices compared to accrual-based taxation, with likely very small differences in efficiency in either direction.
Article
Plant Sciences
Juergen Drewe, Georg Boonen, Carsten Culmsee
Summary: Cimicifuga extracts alleviate menopausal symptoms and age-related metabolic changes by modulating the AMP-activated protein kinase.
Letter
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Willard Enrique R. Macaraan
Summary: The authors argue that the #ChurchInAction hashtag not only represents the social engagement of the Church with the poor during the pandemic, but also serves as a political symbol against the emerging anti-church sentiment. This hashtag is not just a display of Church prosocial engagement, but is embedded with a sense of collective identity and activism against critics of the Catholic institution.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Yingying Huang, Kun Duan, Tapas Mishra
Summary: The study found that Bitcoin can provide diversification and risk mitigation benefits in multiple economies, but its safe haven effect on traditional assets varies across different economies. Additionally, the role of Bitcoin in various markets has been altered by the COVID-19 outbreak, except for the US.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Juliana M. Kling, Maritza Dowling, Heather Bimonte-Nelson, Carey E. Gleason, Kejal Kantarci, Cynthia M. Stonnington, S. Mitch Harman, Frederick Naftolin, Lubna Pal, Marcelle Cedars, JoAnn E. Manson, Taryn T. James, Eliot A. Brinton, Virginia M. Miller
Summary: This study found that baseline estrone levels were inversely associated with certain cognitive functions in healthy, recently menopausal women, while other pituitary-ovarian hormone levels studied were not related to cognitive performance.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
S. Dube, M. Santaguida, C. Y. Zhu, S. Di Tomasso, R. Hu, G. Cormier, A. P. Johnson, D. Vachon
Summary: Examining the links between personality traits and attitudes toward sex robots can provide insights into who may desire such machines, and why. This study found that willingness to engage with and perceived appropriateness of using sex robots were more closely related to emtophilia and sexual sensation seeking than any other traits. It also revealed that cismen and non-binary/gender nonconforming individuals were more willing to engage with sex robots and perceive their use as more appropriate than ciswomen. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the role of technology in our intimate lives and relationships.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Hee Joong Lee, Banghyun Lee, Hangseok Choi, Taehee Kim, Yejeong Kim, Yong Beom Kim
Summary: Endometriosis is a risk factor for ovarian cancer, but the effect of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on postmenopausal endometriosis remains unclear. This study investigated the impact of HRT on ovarian cancer occurrence in postmenopausal women with a history of endometriosis or de novo endometriosis. With the exception of HRT using estrogen alone, HRT did not increase the risk of ovarian cancer in these women.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Agnieszka Zelazniewicz, Judyta Nowak-Kornicka, Klaudia Zbyrowska, Boguslaw Pawlowski
Summary: The study found that a woman's facial attractiveness at reproductive age is negatively correlated with anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) level, a hormone predictor of age at menopause, and positively correlated with estradiol level (E2), an indicator of current fecundity level. This suggests that physical attractiveness may be related to both expected age at menopause and current fecundity level in women.
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
M. J. Schleedoorn, B. H. Mulder, D. D. M. Braat, C. C. M. Beerendonk, R. Peek, W. L. D. M. Nelen, E. Van Leeuwen, A. A. E. M. Van der Velden, K. Fleischer
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2020)
Review
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Soraya Pourmollaei, Abolfazl Barzegari, Azizeh Farshbaf-Khalili, Mohammad Nouri, Amir Fattahi, Mahnaz Shahnazi, Ralf Dittrich
Article
Cell & Tissue Engineering
Amir Fattahi, Liliana Liverani, Ralf Dittrich, Inge Hoffmann, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Matthias W. Beckmann, Nathalie Bleisinger
TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A
(2020)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Frank Nawroth, Andreas N. Schuering, Michael von Wolff
ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA
(2020)
Article
Pediatrics
Livia Amanda Purtschert, Vera Ruth Mitter, Jarmila Anna Zdanowicz, Mirja Amadea Minger, Anna Spaeth, Michael von Wolff, Alexandra Sabrina Kohl Schwartz
Summary: This comparative study in Switzerland found that in vitro fertilisation treatments did not lead to earlier breastfeeding cessation, with similar rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration between the IVF group and the control group.
Review
Genetics & Heredity
Fatemeh Diba-Bagtash, Azizeh Farshbaf-Khalili, Alyeh Ghasemzadeh, Laura Lotz, Amir Fattahi, Mahnaz Shahnazi, Ralf Dittrich
JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nathalie Bleisinger, Ralf Dittrich, Olga Strahl, Robert Brauweiler, Inge Hoffmann, Matthias W. Beckmann, Tilmann Volk
Article
Oncology
Greta Sommerhaeuser, Anja Borgmann-Staudt, Kathy Astrahantseff, Katja Baust, Gabriele Calaminus, Ralf Dittrich, Marta J. Fernandez-Gonzalez, Heike Hoelling, Charlotte J. Koenig, Ralph Schilling, Theresa Schuster, Laura Lotz, Magdalena Balcerek
Summary: An increasing number of childhood cancer survivors are turning to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to overcome fertility impairment from treatment. The use of ART by survivors did not increase the risk of adverse perinatal or health outcomes in offspring, compared to spontaneously conceived children. Successful pregnancies were achieved with fresh and cryopreserved oocytes/sperm, and no increase in childhood cancer or congenital malformations was observed in offspring born to survivors who utilized ART.
JOURNAL OF CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
(2021)
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Immunology
Vera R. Mitter, Sheila Meier, Tilman T. Rau, Tessa Gillon, Michael D. Mueller, Marcel Zwahlen, Michael von Wolff, Alexandra S. Kohl Schwartz
Summary: The study found that performing endometrial diagnostic biopsy followed by antibiotic treatment in cases of chronic endometritis can increase the chances of pregnancy and live birth.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Michael von Wolff, Markus Eisenhut, Petra Stute, Nick A. Bersinger
Summary: This study compared follicular fluid hormone concentrations and mRNA expression of LHCG, FSH and androgen receptors, aromatase, and anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) in naturally matured and stimulated follicles. The results showed that hormone concentrations were lower in stimulated cycles, but mRNA concentrations did not differ between the two groups. Quantitative associations between hormone and mRNA concentrations were observed in natural cycles, but not in stimulated cycles.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Vera Ruth Mitter, Flavia Gradel, Alexandra Sabrina Kohl Schwartz, Michael von Wolff
Summary: Research suggests that gonadotropin stimulation in IVF treatment affects embryo quality and the endometrium, potentially influencing embryo implantation, placentation, and establishment of a viable pregnancy.
REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
L. Lotz, J. Bender-Liebenthron, R. Dittrich, L. Haeberle, M. W. Beckmann, A. Germeyer, M. Korell, N. Saenger, J. S. Kruessel, M. von Wolff
Summary: The study reveals the high potential of ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation, but only if freezing is performed in younger women. The study suggests focus should be placed on the first and not on repeated transplantations. It also opens the discussion of whether transplantation should rather be performed by experienced centres.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Isotta M. Magaton, Anja Helmer, Markus Eisenhut, Marie Roumet, Petra Stute, Michael von Wolff
Summary: High-dose gonadotrophin stimulation affects oocyte and early-stage embryo development. The study found that natural cycle IVF (NC-IVF) had higher rates of mature oocytes and fertilized zygotes compared to conventional IVF (cIVF). In addition, the morphology of the cleavage-stage embryo was also improved in NC-IVF.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2023)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Flavia Gradel, Michael von Wolff, Alexandra Sabrina Kohl Schwartz, Vera Ruth Mitter
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether the antiestrogen effect of clomiphene citrate on the endometrium reduces implantation and subsequently decreases pregnancy and live birth rates per transferred embryo. The results showed that low-dose clomiphene citrate does not negatively affect embryo implantation or pregnancy rates, and can be safely used in infertility treatment.
ARCHIVES OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS
(2023)
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Joachim Alfer, Amir Fattahi, Nathalie Bleisinger, Juergen Krieg, Rolf Behrens, Ralf Dittrich, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arndt Hartmann, Irmgard Classen-Linke, Roxana M. Popovici
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Alice Newman-Sanders, Jackson C. Kirkman-Brown, Meurig T. Gallagher
Summary: This study revealed a significant lack of awareness among young adults in the UK regarding the potential impacts of gym lifestyles and supplementation on male infertility. Men were found to have a concerning lack of concern for their own fertility, with differences in awareness levels between men and women. It was also observed that men were more likely to consider making changes to their behavior if it had a long-term impact on their fertility compared to short-term effects.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2024)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Shachar Reuvenny, Michal Youngster, Almog Luz, Rohi Hourvitz, Ettie Maman, Micha Baum, Ariel Hourvitz
Summary: Using a machine-learning model to determine the optimal trigger days can improve the outcomes of antagonist protocol cycles in freeze-all or fresh transfer cycles, for all age groups. Implementing these models can more accurately predict the number of retrieved oocytes, optimizing physicians' decisions, balancing workloads, and creating more standardized yet patient-specific protocols.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2024)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Chao Chen, Qi Wen, Feng Deng, Rong Li, Ying Wang, Xiumei Zhen, Jing Hang
Summary: This study investigates the proteomic and phosphoproteomic differences in the endometrium of women with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) compared to healthy control women during different phases of the menstrual cycle. The results identify differentially expressed proteins and phosphorylated proteins, and highlight the insulin/cyclic nucleotide signalling pathway and AMPK/mTOR signalling pathway as major contributors to the abnormality of RPL endometrium. The findings provide insights into potential proteins associated with the pathogenesis of RPL and contribute to the identification of potential targets for RPL treatment.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2024)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Jaime Guerrero, Juan Carlos Castillo, Jorge Ten, Jose Antonio Ortiz, Belen Lledo, Domingo Orozco, Francisco Quereda, Andrea Bernabeu, Rafael Bernabeu
Summary: The study found no significant differences in clinical outcomes between using oocytes obtained from random-start protocols and those from conventional ovarian stimulation in oocyte donation treatments. Luteal-phase stimulation required longer stimulation and higher FSH consumption.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2024)
