Editorial Material
Health Care Sciences & Services
Yunus Celik, Alan Godfrey
Summary: Contemporary wearables with advanced sensors and algorithms help monitor physiological outcomes, but data integration is challenging due to compatibility issues. Combining different data streams is crucial for a holistic understanding of health.
NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Delma Ramos, Judy Marquez Kiyama
Summary: This study proposes a unified corpus of six core tenets for Funds of Knowledge (fk), providing significant implications for research utilizing the fk framework holistically and cohesively.
EDUCATIONAL STUDIES-AESA
(2021)
Review
Spectroscopy
Quentin Duez, Sebastien Hoyas, Thomas Josse, Jerome Cornil, Pascal Gerbaux, Julien De Winter
Summary: An increasing number of studies utilize ion mobility spectrometry coupled to mass spectrometry to investigate the spatial structure of gaseous ions. Synthetic polymers play a unique role in this field due to their dispersity, providing a wide range of homologous ions with different lengths. This review focuses on the synergy between IMS-MS and theoretical approaches, including computational chemistry, demonstrating their essential role in fully understanding and interpreting IMS-MS data.
MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Microbiology
Bronwyn M. Gunn
Summary: This study successfully stabilized the presentation of LASV immunogens and induced the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies using a novel nanoparticle strategy.
CELL HOST & MICROBE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Marusa Levstek, Rubie Mai Barnby, Katherine L. Pocock, Robin Banerjee
Summary: The study found that virtual music groups are a meaningful psychological resource for children and young people, allowing them to express themselves through music, manage emotions, and regain lost musical identities and confidence. Virtual music groups indirectly foster a sense of belongingness, but the direct connection seen in in-person group music-making experiences was not observed in virtual groups.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Biology
Long Zhang, Na Li, Ren Xu
Summary: Progenitor cells in articular cartilage express NFATc1 gene, which prevents premature development of articular chondrocytes in the joint.
Review
Plant Sciences
Nabila Riaz, Mary Lou Guerinot
Summary: Iron is an essential micronutrient for plants and animals, with deficiency leading to anemia in humans. Plants heavily rely on plant-based foods as their primary source of iron, but these foods are often poor sources of dietary iron. Understanding how plants adapt to iron deficiency is crucial for optimizing iron uptake and ensuring optimal plant growth.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sonsoles Lopez-Pernas, Mohammed Saqr, Olga Viberg
Summary: Learning programming is a complex and challenging task that requires understanding theoretical concepts and acquiring practical skills. Existing studies on learning analytics applied to programming education have mainly relied on frequency analysis, which provides limited insights into the individual time-related characteristics of the learning process. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of students' learning process and types of learners, learning analytics methods that account for the temporal order of learning actions are necessary.
Review
Biophysics
Feyza Nur Arslan, Julia Eckert, Thomas Schmidt, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Summary: This review article focuses on the importance and research status of cell-cell adhesion, including descriptions and regulations at different levels, as well as discussions on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of cell-cell adhesion.
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Business
Mina Beigi, Melika Shirmohammadi, Wee Chan Au, Chira Tochia
Summary: We conducted a qualitative study to examine how professional dual-earner couples, with school-age children, adjusted to the changes brought by working from home during the COVID-19 lockdown. By interviewing parents and asking children to draw their perception of their parents' work-from-home experience, we identified the resources, demands, and strategies employed by families to manage collective work from home. Our research extends the existing work-from-home scholarship by considering the roles of all family members and theorizes the supportive, attentive, relational, delegative, and compromising strategies families adopt to generate changes in resource-demand dynamics. We introduce the concept of family adaptive capability, which refers to the collective ability of families to initiate strategies to meet remote work demands with resources generated from the new work arrangement. The strategies presented in our work can be helpful for employers of dual-earner couples and families experiencing similar dynamics.
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Stephanie D. Jurburg, Petr Keil, Brajesh K. Singh, Jonathan M. Chase
Summary: The soil environment harbors a vast reservoir of biodiversity that can be explored through sequencing methods. Understanding the biases in sequencing data that affect measurements of biodiversity in soil eukaryotes is crucial for accurate analysis, interpretation, and synthesis of the data. Standardization of sequencing protocols can improve the comparability of data, and overcoming limitations through analytical approaches is recommended.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Pragya Virendrakumar Jain, Jauntea Maxey, Michael W. Lawlor, Lauren N. Parsons
Summary: Neu-Laxova syndrome (NLS) is a rare lethal disorder characterized by multiple congenital anomalies and autosomal recessive inheritance. A case of NLS exhibited severe intrauterine growth restriction, abnormal facial features, central nervous system malformations, skeletal muscle contractures, ichthyotic skin, excessive subcutaneous tissue with edema, and homozygosity in chromosome 1p13.2-p11.2. Based on multiple tests and genetic analysis, NLS was diagnosed. NLS is a rare developmental disorder with heterogenous neuroectodermal defects caused by loss-of-function mutations in PHGDH, PSAT1, and PSPH genes responsible for de novo L-serine synthesis.
CUREUS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Cell Biology
Anna Kohl, Kung -Chi Kao, Ping-Chih Ho
Summary: The study found that tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells have a higher glucose uptake capacity than tumor cells, while tumor cells exhibit enhanced glutamine metabolism, suggesting that nutrient partitioning in the tumor microenvironment may be more complex than previously thought.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Luke Woodford, Graeme Sharp, Fiona Highet, David J. Evans
Summary: This study demonstrates the benefits of coordinated treatment of Varroa mites in improving honey bee colony health and reducing virus infection and mite numbers in a geographically isolated environment.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Immunology
Dermot Cox
Summary: Sepsis is accompanied by thrombocytopenia, which is associated with mortality. This thrombocytopenia is characteristic of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), the sepsis-associated coagulopathy. Pathogens that cause sepsis directly activate platelets, leading to systemic thrombosis and multi-organ failure of DIC. This paper reviews the mechanisms of platelet activation by pathogens and the evidence for the use of anti-platelet agents in the management of sepsis.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)