Review
Virology
Blossom Damania, Dirk P. Dittmer
Summary: This review provides an overview of the diverse manifestations of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) under various circumstances. It discusses the historical background of KS and KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), highlights the clinical diversity of KS presentations, summarizes our understanding of the tumor's cell of origin, explores KSHV viral load as a potential biomarker for acute infections and KS-related complications, and discusses immune modulators that affect KSHV infection, persistence, and KS disease.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2023)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zipeng Yu, Feng Zhang, Jiri Friml, Zhaojun Ding
Summary: Auxin, one of the most widely studied phytohormones, has been a hot topic in plant biology. The advances in understanding auxin signaling, including perception, rapid responses, transcriptional and non-transcriptional branches, and epigenetic regulation, have been highlighted. Feedback inhibition mechanisms and non-canonical signaling have also been explored. Further identification of auxin signaling components and their regulation will deepen our understanding of how auxin signals regulate plant growth and development at the cellular level.
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Max C. A. Torbenson, Ulf Buentgen, Jan Esper, Otmar Urban, Jan Balek, Frederick Reinig, Paul J. Krusic, Edurne Martinez del Castillo, Rudolf Brazdil, Daniela Semeradova, Petr Stepanek, Natallie Pernicova, Tomas Kolar, Michal Rybnicek, Eva Konasova, Juliana Arbelaez, Miroslav Trnka
Summary: Central Europe has been experiencing unprecedented summer droughts since 2015, with significant effects on natural and agricultural systems. By analyzing tree-ring isotopes, we reconstructed temperature and moisture variability in central Europe over the past 2000 years. These reconstructions provide historical context and can be used for future climate projections.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2023)
Review
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Giulia Magi Meconi, Ivan R. Sasselli, Valentino Bianco, Jose N. Onuchic, Ivan Coluzza
Summary: Proteins are the indispensable force of life, serving as the structural foundation of living systems and the most efficient molecular machines. Their enzymatic activity surpasses any artificial system in terms of versatility. The remarkable feature of proteins lies in their modular nature, with a diverse range of functions encoded by a simple alphabet of approximately 20 amino acids. The protein folding problem involves encoding all the necessary information within a sequence of these 20 letters. This review explores the progress made in the past 30 years, providing an overview of the state of the art and highlighting applications relevant to the fundamental issues of protein evolution.
REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Zhongxiang Zhao
Summary: Global satellite altimetry measurements show that mode-1 M-2 internal tides have strengthened in the past 30 years. However, this strengthening is spatially uneven, with significant enhancements observed in certain regions and weakening observed in the central Pacific. Additionally, the propagation speed of M-2 internal tides has increased.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kangshun Zhao, Min Zhang, Kang Wang, Konghao Zhu, Congjun Xu, Jiayi Xie, Jun Xu
Summary: China, as the world's largest producer of aquaculture and capture fisheries, has seen significant changes in its aquaculture industry over the years. While there has been a strong relationship between marine aquaculture and wild fisheries from 1989 to 2002, the impact of freshwater aquaculture has increased from 2003 to 2018. Despite the ongoing pressure on marine wild fisheries, China's aquaculture is moving towards a sustainable development pattern with low input and high output.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Ning Zhang, Rongyan Yuan, Scott Jarvie, Qing Zhang
Summary: This study explores the landscape ecological risk and driving factors of China's nature reserves and finds that the overall risk has decreased over the past three decades. Climate and human activities are the main drivers of spatial heterogeneity and temporal change in landscape ecological risk. Coastal nature reserves face increasing risks, while other ecosystem types have seen a decrease.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Maria Ruiz-Minaya, Elsa Mendizabal-Vicente, Wenceslao Vasquez-Jimenez, Laura Perez-Burrel, Irene Aracil-Moreno, Carolina Agra-Pujol, Mireia Bernal-Claverol, Beatriz L. Martinez-Bernal, Mercedes Munoz-Fernandez, Melanie Morote-Gonzalez, Miguel A. Ortega, Santiago Lizarraga-Bonelli, Juan A. De Leon-Luis
Summary: Uterine sarcomas, rare and heterogeneous malignancies, exhibit different clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis based on histological subtypes. Due to the challenges of collecting a significant number of patients per year, multicentre or national registries are recommended for a more exhaustive analysis of this pathology.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mitchell James Finlay
Summary: This study analyzed data from the male boxing World Heavyweight Championship over the past 30 years and found that winners typically have advantages in height, reach, punch output, and accuracy compared to losers. Future research could explore similar analyses in other weight divisions and female boxing.
Article
Urban Studies
Sabrina Sgambati, Carmela Gargiulo
Summary: This paper reviews the definitions, paradigms, and trends of urban competitiveness through bibliometric analysis. The research indicates that the ability to cope with future challenges is increasingly seen as the defining factor of a city's competitiveness, especially after the global financial crisis in 2008 and the recent COVID-19 crisis.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Dan-Dan Zhu, Zhi-Hong Li, Li-Xuan Guo, Jian-Wei Lu, Ri-Huan Cong, Tao Ren, Xiao-Kun Li
Summary: Balanced potassium fertilization and an increasing proportion of returning straw to the soil have effectively increased soil available potassium content and crop yield in the Yangtze River basin. These measures have alleviated the negative balance of soil potassium and reduced the fixation rate of potassium in the soil.
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Ying Cheng, Xin-Yu Xia, Wei Zhang, Li Ren, Chen-Fu Tian, Dan Liu, Gang Xue
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics of antithyroid drug-induced aplastic anemia over the past 30 years. A total of 17 cases were analyzed, with a male to female ratio of 1:16. The majority of patients were treated with methimazole (MMI) at doses ≥ 30 mg/day. Aplastic anemia occurred within 6 months of therapy initiation in most cases. Prompt drug cessation and appropriate treatments resulted in favorable prognosis for the majority of patients.
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Yu Tian, Nalin Suranjith Gama-Arachchige, Ming Zhao
Summary: Seed priming (SP) treatments are widely used in agriculture and restoration to improve seed germination and seedling vigor. A bibliometric analysis reveals a steady increase in publications and citations in SP research over the past three decades, with priming and germination being the most frequently used keywords.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Oana A. Dumitru, Jacqueline Austermann, Victor J. Polyak, Joan J. Fornos, Yemane Asmerom, Joaquin Gines, Angel Gines, Bogdan P. Onac
Summary: Sea-level reconstructions using phreatic overgrowths on speleothems from caves in Mallorca, Spain provided snapshots of Neogene and Quaternary sea levels, with estimates of global mean sea level during significant transitions in the Earth's history. The study highlights the importance of understanding past sea level variation in relation to climate change.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Hanieh Seyedhashemi, Florentina Moatar, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Dominique Thiery
Summary: This study presents retrospective simulations (1963-2019) and future projections (1976-2100) of daily time series of discharge and stream temperature for 52,278 reaches over the Loire River basin in France. The simulations and projections utilize a physical process-based thermal model coupled with a semi distributed hydrological model, and are based on meteorological reanalysis and bias-corrected dataset. The dataset of discharge and stream temperature stands out due to its large scale, high spatial resolution, and the use of a physical process-based thermal model. The entire dataset is freely available for download in NetCDF format.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2023)