Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Xue-jiao Yin, Shou-kun Ji, Chun-hui Duan, Pei-zhi Tian, Si-si Ju, Hui Yan, Ying-jie Zhang, Yue-qin Liu
Summary: This study investigated the dynamics of fungal communities in the rumen and rectum of lambs and found that the composition, diversity, and abundance of gastrointestinal fungal communities were influenced by the age of the lambs. The study also discovered significant differences in fungal communities between the rumen and rectum.
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Dheeraj Ralhan, Heather Keith, Jakob Pavlin, Annemiek Irene Stegehuis, William Marchand, Alexandre Fruleux, Miroslav Polacek, Marek Svitok, Thomas A. Nagel, Martin Mikolas, Daniel Kozak, Arne Buechling, Martin Dusatko, Pavel Janda, Oleh Chaskovsky, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Miroslav Svoboda
Summary: Primary forests in the Carpathians play a critical role in climate regulation by capturing and storing carbon. Our research shows that these forests have comparable biomass levels to other temperate primary forests and continue to accumulate biomass over long time frames. Preserving these unmanaged forests is essential for climate mitigation.
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Bingbing Duan, Guoqiao Chen, Xiaoduo Jin, Wei Chang, Tian Lan, Yimei Zhao, Xiangyu Sun, Xu Liu
Summary: This study examined the changes in condensed tannins (CTs) in grape skins during maturation and explored the possibility of using a mechanical puncture approach to assess CTs profile. It was found that the composition and structure of CTs in the skins changed during maturation and mechanical properties could be used to predict and evaluate CTs.
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Maxime Ramzi
Summary: This article provides a brief proof that the Yoneda embedding is natural for ∞-categories, and further proves that the space of natural transformations that are, pointwise, the Yoneda embedding, is contractible.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Giovanni Mian, Nicola Belfiore, Rita Musetti, Diego Tomasi, Pierpaolo Cantone, Lorenzo Lovat, Stefania Lupinelli, Lucilla Iacumin, Emilio Celotti, Fabrizio Golinelli
Summary: Biostimulants are organic compounds that can influence the biochemical activity of plants. This study investigated the effect of foliar application of a biostimulant containing amino acids, peptides, and natural triacontanol on a woody perennial crop, the 'Ribolla Gialla' grapevine. The treated plants showed earlier ripening, veraison, and harvest, as well as higher enological parameters compared to the non-treated plants. Additionally, the biostimulant promoted the growth of the microbial community on the berry skin, which had a positive effect on must quality for winemaking.
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Marta Ormazabal, Jose M. Sarriegi, Eliot Rich, Elisabeth Viles, Jose J. Gonzalez
Summary: This study conducted interviews and model building with industrial companies in Spain to study the progression toward Leading Green Company as the highest maturity stage of environmental management. The findings were then validated through surveys, interviews, and case studies in other European countries, leading to the development of a causal model that can guide companies in transitioning toward higher maturity stages.
ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Andras Juhasz, Dylan P. Thurston, Ian Zemke
Summary: All versions of Heegaard Floer homology, link Floer homology, and sutured Floer homology are natural, assigning concrete groups to each based 3-manifold, based link, and balanced sutured manifold, respectively. Isomorphisms are functorially assigned to (based) diffeomorphisms, and it is shown that this assignment is isotopy invariant. By finding a simple generating set for the fundamental group of the space of Heegaard diagrams and proving that Heegaard Floer homology has no monodromy around these generators, sufficient conditions for an arbitrary invariant of multi-pointed Heegaard diagrams to descend to a natural invariant of 3-manifolds, links, or sutured manifolds are given.
MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Shaohua Xing, Lu Liu, Hui Guan, Xiru Zhang, Xuemei Sun, Huamin Li, Wenli Liu
Summary: This study focused on investigating the effect of temperature on the change of titratable acidity in Chinese spicy cabbage and successfully developed a dynamic prediction model to determine its ripening degree. The results showed that the titratable acidity gradually increased with storage time and temperature within a certain temperature range, indicating variations in maturity under different temperatures.
FOOD PACKAGING AND SHELF LIFE
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Fazlollah Soleymani, Houman Masnavi, Stanford Shateyi
Summary: Bankruptcy prediction using financial ratios methods is crucial, especially in determining the quality of loan portfolios and predicting the position of loan candidates. The application of machine learning in mathematical finance and banking has shown to be effective in classifying large economic data under various features. The K-nearest neighbors algorithm, along with other parallelization techniques, is a good approach to save computational time in classifying financial data.
Article
Business, Finance
Hongda Zhong
Summary: Borrowing from multiple creditors can improve repayment incentives but also exposes firms to rollover risk. Companies tend to increase creditor dispersion after poor performance, whereas higher-growth firms can support more dispersed creditors. Frequent debt renegotiation limits firms' ability to increase pledgeability by having more creditors. Holding a cash balance while borrowing from multiple creditors uniformly improves firms' repayment incentives across all future states.
JOURNAL OF FINANCE
(2021)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Shuaishuai Cheng, Pengyun Chen, Zhengzheng Su, Liang Ma, Pengbo Hao, Jingjing Zhang, Qiang Ma, Guoyuan Liu, Ji Liu, Hantao Wang, Hengling Wei, Shuxun Yu
Summary: The study identified key genes and pathways involved in cotton flowering regulation, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms of cotton early maturation. The discovery of the novel regulatory gene GhCAL and its interactions with other genes provides valuable genetic resources for cotton breeding programs targeting early maturation.
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Yiming Che, Changqing Cheng
Summary: Basin stability (BS) has gained significant attention as a method to quantify the reliability of dynamic systems, particularly in power grid networks. By utilizing relevance vector machine and active learning techniques, it is possible to efficiently locate the boundary of stable dynamics and reduce simulation costs by over 95%.
Article
Management
Xu Tian
Summary: Shadow banks play a crucial role in the financial system and their dynamics are influenced by uncertainty fluctuations and bank default. The increase in asset return uncertainty during the crisis resulted in difficulties for shadow banks to repay their debts, leading to a decrease in credit intermediation. The study demonstrates that uncertainty shocks explain a significant portion of the contraction and deleveraging in the shadow banking sector.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Christine Moos, Heike Lischke
Summary: Mountain forests are impacted by rockfall, but trees play an important role in protecting settlements. This study analyzed the interaction between rockfall disturbance and forest development, and found that rockfall disturbance decreases forest biomass and has a positive feedback effect on forest development.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Rui Wang, Feng Han, Wenfu Wu
Summary: The study proposed a method for predicting paddy rice maturity using color features and the random forest regression algorithm, which greatly supports farmers in optimizing harvest time. By extracting features from paddy panicle images and establishing a model, the maturity of paddy rice was successfully estimated with good prediction performance.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD PROPERTIES
(2021)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
F. Hubert, M. -H. Rodier, A. Minoza, V. Portet-Sulla, E. Cateau, K. Brunet
Summary: Candida auris, an emerging species responsible for life-threatening infections, has shown resistance to most antifungal drugs and persistence in hospital environments. This study explored interactions between C. auris and two free-living amoeba species, demonstrating that the amoebas can promote yeast survival and proliferation while also internalizing viable C. auris. This suggests that a water environmental reservoir of C. auris may be considered through free-living amoebas, potentially leading to contamination of hospital water networks.
LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Karine Prince, Paul Rouveyrol, Vincent Pellissier, Julien Touroult, Frederic Jiguet
Summary: The Natura 2000 protected area network is a key tool for the conservation of European biodiversity. A study in France showed that common bird populations are declining, but the decline is less steep within N2000 areas, especially for farmland specialists. Despite more diverse bird communities within N2000 areas, their ongoing functional biotic homogenization suggests a limited effectiveness of the network in reversing negative population trends. Improving management plans and expanding protected areas are suggested as priority actions to enhance the effectiveness of N2000.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Clement Dumond, Florence Aulagnon, Isabelle Etienne, Anne-Elisabeth Heng, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, Loic Favennec, Nassim Kamar, Xavier Iriart, Bruno Pereira, Mathias Buchler, Guillaume Desoubeaux, Hannah Kaminski, Florian Lussac-Sorton, Gilles Gargala, Dany Anglicheau, Philippe Poirier, Anne Scemla, Cyril Garrouste
Summary: Microsporidiosis is an emerging opportunistic infection in renal transplantation recipients, predominantly manifesting as diarrhea and acute renal injury. Treatment involves reducing immunosuppression and administering drugs such as fumagillin, with a high overall clinical remission rate.
TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Julien Touroult, Olivier Pascal, Florian Barnier, Marc Pollet
Summary: The exploration in Mitaraka massif has led to the discovery of 218 new species, including 127 new to French Guiana. The observation data from the expedition have established Mitaraka as the area with the greatest entomological richness on the Guiana Shield. Recommendations for inventories include assigning a person per taxonomic group and deploying a variety of collecting strategies.
Article
Critical Care Medicine
Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Eric Dannaoui, Arnaud Fekkar, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Francoise Botterel, Nicolas De Prost, Jean-Marc Tadie, Florian Reizine, Sandrine Houze, Jean-Francois Timsit, Xavier Iriart, Beatrice Riu-Poulenc, Boualem Sendid, Saad Nseir, Florence Persat, Florent Wallet, Patrice Le Pape, Emmanuel Canet, Ana Novara, Melek Manai, Estelle Cateau, Arnaud W. Thille, Sophie Brun, Yves Cohen, Alexandre Alanio, Bruno Megarbane, Muriel Cornet, Nicolas Terzi, Lionel Lamhaut, Estelle Sabourin, Guillaume Desoubeaux, Stephan Ehrmann, Christophe Hennequin, Guillaume Voiriot, Gilles Nevez, Cecile Aubron, Valerie Letscher-Bru, Ferhat Meziani, Marion Blaize, Julien Mayaux, Antoine Monsel, Frederique Boquel, Florence Robert-Gangneux, Yves Le Tulzo, Philippe Seguin, Helene Guegan, Brice Autier, Matthieu Lesouhaitier, Romain Pelletier, Sorya Belaz, Christine Bonnal, Antoine Berry, Jordan Leroy, Nadine Francois, Jean-Christophe Richard, Sylvie Paulus, Laurent Argaud, Damien Dupont, Jean Menotti, Florent Morio, Marie Soulie, Carole Schwebel, Cecile Garnaud, Juliette Guitard, Solene Le Gal, Dorothee Quinio, Jeff Morcet, Bruno Laviolle, Jean-Ralph Zahar, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux
Summary: This study demonstrates a high prevalence of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and candidemia in mechanically ventilated patients with severe COVID-19, and a high mortality associated with pr/pb CAPA. These findings highlight the importance of active surveillance for fungal pathogens in patients with severe COVID-19.
LANCET RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Microbiology
Stephane Bretagne, Karine Sitbon, Francoise Botterel, Sarah Delliere, Valerie Letscher-Bru, Taieb Chouaki, Anne-Pauline Bellanger, Christine Bonnal, Arnault Fekkar, Florence Persat, Damien Costa, Nathalie Bourgeois, Frederic Dalle, Florian Lussac-Sorton, Andre Paugam, Sophie Cassaing, Lilia Hasseine, Antoine Huguenin, Nadia Guennouni, Edith Mazars, Solene Le Gal, Milene Sasso, Sophie Brun, Lucile Cadot, Carole Cassagne, Estelle Cateau, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Maxime Moniot, Anne-Laure Roux, Celine Tournus, Nicole Desbois-Nogard, Alain Le Coustumier, Olivier Moquet, Alexandre Alanio, Francoise Dromer
Summary: To diagnose fungal coinfections in patients with COVID-19 in the ICU, it is important to implement correct treatment and prevention. Respiratory specimens remain the best approach for diagnosing CAPA, while fungemias are associated with a mortality rate of 45.7% in ICU patients. Pneumocystosis mainly occurs in immunocompromised patients and is diagnosed at ICU admission.
MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kevin Brunet, Julien Verdon, Ali Ladram, Simon Arnault, Marie-Helene Rodier, Estelle Cateau
Summary: This study evaluated the activity of a frog antimicrobial peptide (AMP), [K-3]temporin-SHa, against yeasts and moulds, particularly Candida albicans. The results showed that [K-3]temporin-SHa had fungicidal activity against several yeasts and displayed rapid killing effect against C. albicans. Additionally, [K-3]temporin-SHa demonstrated synergistic effect with amphotericin B against C. albicans.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Microbiology
Stephane Bretagne, Karine Sitbon, Marie Desnos-Ollivier, Dea Garcia-Hermoso, Valerie Letscher-Bru, Sophie Cassaing, Laurence Millon, Florent Morio, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Lilia Hasseine, Loic Favennec, Estelle Cateau, Eric Bailly, Maxime Moniot, Julie Bonhomme, Nicole Desbois-Nogard, Taieb Chouaki, Andre Paugam, Bernard Bouteille, Marc Pihet, Frederic Dalle, Odile Eloy, Milene Sasso, Magalie Demar, Patricia Mariani-Kurkdjian, Vincent Robert, Olivier Lortholary, Francoise Dromer
Summary: The epidemiology of invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) is difficult to determine due to diagnostic challenges. This study emphasizes the importance of active surveillance by mycologists and clinicians to understand global incidence and main IFDs. The findings show an increase in yeast fungemia and a higher prevalence of IFDs in older individuals. Despite advancements in diagnostic tools and antifungal drugs, global survival rates for IFDs have not improved.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Fanny Lepareur, Mathieu Manceau, Yorick Reyjol, Julien Touroult, Solane Robert, Arnaud Horellou, Laurent Poncet, Quentin Groom
Summary: In France, ZNIEFF is a survey programme launched in 1982 by the Ecology Ministry to protect and understand the ecological characteristics of natural areas, and it holds significant scientific and ecological value.
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Estelle Cateau, Antoine Leclerc, Noemie Cartier, Isabel Valsecchi, Eric Bailly, Ronan Le Senechal, Margaux Becerra, Brice Le Gallou, Rose-Anne Lavergne, Adelaide Chesnay, Jean-Patrice Robin, Carolyn Cray, Nicolas Goddard, Milan Thorel, Jacques Guillot, Baptiste Mulot, Guillaume Desoubeaux
Summary: The incidence of aspergillosis in the penguin population of a French zoo was found elevated, mostly in juveniles. The fungal contamination was high in the surrounding environment, especially at the end of summer. Globally, a great level of genetic diversity was observed, except for one clonal strain.
Article
Mycology
Luc Deroche, Julien Buyck, Estelle Cateau, Blandine Rammaert, Sandrine Marchand, Kevin Brunet
Summary: K. bovina is a yeast species related to bloodstream infections, and its genome has not been published yet.
Editorial Material
Entomology
Sarah M. Smith, Julien Touroult, Anthony Cognato
COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN
(2022)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Adelaide Chesnay, Adelin Pastuszka, Lucie Richard, Agnes Beby-Defaux, Estelle Cateau, Cecile Le Brun, Guillaume Desoubeaux, Philippe Lanotte
Summary: In a retrospective study, sequencing was used to analyze Trichomonas vaginalis-positive specimens. The study found that the majority of T. vaginalis-positive genital and pharyngeal specimens actually contained T. tenax.
DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
(2022)
Article
Microbiology
Mohammed Benlaassri, Florine Ecale, Alexandre Crepin, Marie-Helene Rodier, Nicolas Venisse, Estelle Cateau
Summary: In this study, the reciprocal interactions between three parabens and yeasts from the human cutaneous mycobiota were explored in vitro. The results showed that ethylparaben completely inhibited the growth of Cryptococcus uniguttulatus and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, while methylparaben and propylparaben had no effect on these two fungi. Candida parapsilosis and R. mucilaginosa were found to degrade propylparaben, while C. uniguttulatus did not degrade any paraben.
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Parasitology
Nicolas Argy, Celine Nourrisson, Ahmed Aboubacar, Philippe Poirier, Stephane Valot, Adrien Laude, Guillaume Desoubeaux, Christelle Pomares, Marie Machouart, Yohann Le Govic, Frederic Dalle, Francoise Botterel, Nathalie Bourgeois, Estelle Cateau, Marion Leterrier, Patrice Le Pape, Florent Morio, Sandrine Houze
Summary: Commercial multiplex PCR assay panels show high sensitivity and specificity for parasitological diagnosis, serving as a complement to traditional microscopic examination methods. However, the PCR procedure and analytical performance for each specific protist may vary depending on the multiplex PCR assay, which should be considered when implementing a PCR-based diagnostic approach.
