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Oxides are of interest for thermoelectrics due to their high thermal stability, chemical inertness, low cost, and eco-friendly constituting elements. Here, adopting a unique synthesis route via chemical co-precipitation at strongly alkaline conditions, one of the highest thermoelectric performances for ZnO ceramics ( <mml:math xmlns:mml="https://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:semantics><mml:mrow><mml:mi>P</mml:mi> <mml:msub><mml:mi>F</mml:mi> <mml:mi>max</mml:mi></mml:msub> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo></mml:mrow> <mml:annotation>$PF_{\text{max}} =$</mml:annotation></mml:semantics> </mml:math>  21...

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Rhino-cerebral mucormycosis (RM) is a rare and opportunistic fungal infection observed in immune-compromised patients and metabolic imbalances such as Diabetes Mellitus. RM rapidly infiltrates blood vessels, leading to vascular thrombosis, subsequent tissue necrosis, and high mortality rates (23.6-60%). Due to its fast advancement, RM is a life-threatening condition requiring accurate clinical decisions by the medical and surgical teams. Based on the report of six cases, we emphasize the need for an early diagnosis and starting antifungal pharmacological therapy at the slightest suspicion of RM...

Environmental benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) and itsmetabolite benzo(a)pyrene-7, 8-dihydrodiol-9, 10-epoxide (BPDE), classic endocrine disrupting chemical and persistent organic pollutant, could cause miscarriage. However, the detailed mechanisms are still largely unclear and should be further explored. In this study, we discovered that exposure of trophoblast cells with BPDE could suppressed cell invasion/migration by inhibiting MEST/VIM (Vimentin) pathway. Moreover, BPDE exposure also increased lnc-HZ01 expression level, which further inhibited MEST/VIM pathway and then suppressed invasion/migration...

Gouda cheese was produced from pasteurized milk and ripened for 30 weeks (PM-G). By application of gas chromatography/olfactometry and an aroma extract dilution analysis on the volatiles isolated by extraction/SAFE distillation, 25 odor-active compounds in the flavor dilution (FD) factor range from 16 to 4096 were identified. Butanoic acid, 2- and 3-methylbutanoic acid, and acetic acid showed the highest FD factors, and 2-phenylethanol, δ-decalactone, and δ-dodecalactone were most odor-active in the neutral-basic fraction...

Hyperglycemia occurring in pregnancy is a growing burden worldwide. It is now standard of care to screen all women during pregnancy, both to detect preexisting diabetes as well as gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Traditionally, GDM was diagnosed at 24-28 weeks. However, with many international bodies recommending screening at first contact or booking, we are now diagnosing GDM earlier on in pregnancy. Based on the time of gestation at which it is diagnosed, GDM can be classified as conventional gestational diabetes mellitus (cGDM) or early gestational diabetes mellitus (eGDM)...

Gouda-type cheeses were produced on a pilot-scale from raw milk (RM-G) and pasteurized milk (PM-G). Sixteen key aroma compounds previously characterized by the sensomics approach were quantitated in the unripened cheeses and at five different ripening stages (4, 7, 11, 19, and 30 weeks) by means of stable isotope dilution assays. Different trends were observed in the formation of the key aroma compounds. Short-chain free fatty acids and ethyl butanoate as well as ethyl hexanoate continuously increased during ripening but to a greater extent in RM-G...

Rabbit (RM) has become a valuable source of nutrients since the 1970s, helping to transform the European food industry into the largest RM producer in the world. However, the RM industry is experiencing a critical period of ethical imbalance. This trend, described as feed conversion ratio, impacts the environmental and financial performance of RM farms, which could lead to an increase production of industrial waste. In addition, the loss of corporate ethical responsibility and sustainable development by RM-oriented companies has further exacerbated the situation...

The processing of visual information occurs mainly in the retina, and the retinal preprocessing function greatly improves the transmission quality and efficiency of visual information. The artificial retina system provides a promising path to efficient image processing. Here, we propose graphene/InSe/h-BN heterogeneous structure, which exhibits negative and positive photoconductance effects by altering the strength of a single wavelength laser. Moreover, we present a modified theoretical model based on the power-dependent photoconductivity effect of laser: <mml:math xmlns:mml="https://www...

BACKGROUND: Carbon ion beams are well accepted as densely ionizing radiation with a high linear energy transfer (LET). However, the current clinical practice does not fully exploit the highest possible dose-averaged LET (LETd ) and, consequently, the biological potential in the target. This aspect becomes worse in larger tumors for which inferior clinical outcomes and corresponding lower LETd was reported. PURPOSE: The vicinity to critical organs in general and the inferior overall survival reported for larger sacral chordomas treated with carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT), makes the treatment of such tumors challenging...

INTRODUCTION: Episodic memory disruptions in epilepsy stem from shared neurocircuitry. While prior research has focused on retrospective memory (RM), prospective memory (PM; i.e. remembering to remember) also deserves consideration given its critical role in the management of daily activities. The current investigation assessed whether PM is associated with disability and quality of life in people with epilepsy. METHODS: This cross-sectional, correlational study included a consecutive series of 50 people with epilepsy presenting for neuropsychological evaluation who completed the Royal Prince Alfred Prospective Memory Test (RPA) and Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ) and 63 demographically comparable healthy adults...

AIMS: The aims of this study were to verify if a 5-week cognitive-motor training (CMT) using FitlightsTM induced changes in young adult judo athletes compared to a non-intervention group. Specifically, it was verified if CMT influenced executive functions (EFs), physical fitness and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels. Additionally, athletes' competitive results were compared between groups. METHOD: Twenty-seven athletes (14 males and 13 females; age = 19...

This study compared the kinematics, surface electromyography (sEMG) and kinetics among isometric squats performed at 10 different heights of the upward part and a one-repetition maximum (1-RM) squat. Eleven males (age: 27.5 ± 3.4 years, body mass: 84.9 ± 8.1 kg, body height: 1.79 ± 0.06 m, 1-RM squat: 152.2 ± 20.55 kg) took part in this study. It was found that force output was lowest in the sticking region at around the event of peak deceleration for the 1-RM trial with force output at 2179 ± 212 N...

The current study compared the spatial excitation of the primary muscles during the lat pull-down exercise with the bar passing in front (front-LPD) or behind the neck (back-LPD) using high-density electromyography. Fourteen resistance trained men performed a front-LPD or a back-LPD within a non-fatiguing set with 8-RM as the external load. The muscle excitation centroid of latissimus dorsi, middle trapezius, pectoralis major, biceps brachii, triceps brachii and posterior deltoid muscles were recorded during the ascending and the descending phase...

BACKGROUND/AIM: Recent research has increasingly demonstrated an association between proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and serious adverse events. This study aimed to evaluate the association between PPI and rhabdomyolysis (RM), examining its time-to-onset profiles using the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Data spanning from April 2004 to March 2022 were used. The association between PPIs and RM was evaluated using the reporting odds ratio (ROR), adjusted for sex and age...

BACKGROUND: Although frailty is one of the aging syndromes, it can occur at a younger age and in individuals with organ diseases. Identifying frailty and pre-frailty in patients with chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) is an emerging assessment in the field of pulmonary medicine and rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of frailty among chronic respiratory disease patients. METHODS: A single centre cross-sectional survey study with a total population of 381 patients, adults aged 18-90 years presenting to the pulmonology OPD was included based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria...

Background Plate osteosynthesis is the gold standard treatment for the management of humeral shaft fractures. In the present study, we performed plate osteosynthesis on the anteromedial and anterolateral surfaces using the anterolateral approach to compare the functional outcomes. Aims and objectives To study and compare the functional outcome, time to achieve union and associated complications of anteromedial and anterolateral plating in humerus shaft fracture by anterolateral approach. Methods This prospective, randomised control study was performed at Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital, New Delhi, India...

Most research on trinucleotide repeats (TRs) focuses on human diseases, with few on the impact of TR expansions on plant gene expression. This work investigates TRs' effect on global gene expression in Psidium guajava L., a plant species with widespread distribution and significant relevance in the food, pharmacology, and economics sectors. We analyzed TR-containing coding sequences in 1,107 transcripts from 2,256 genes across root, shoot, young leaf, old leaf, and flower bud tissues of the Brazilian guava cultivars Cortibel RM and Paluma...

BACKGROUND: High-resolution brain positron emission tomography (PET) scanner is emerging as a significant and transformative non-invasive neuroimaging tool to advance neuroscience research as well as improve diagnosis and treatment in neurology and psychiatry. Time-of-flight (TOF) and depth-of-interaction (DOI) information provide markedly higher PET imaging performance by increasing image signal-to-noise ratio and mitigating spatial resolution degradation due to parallax error, respectively...

BACKGROUND: Iran is facing an epidemiological transition with the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases, such as obesity-related disorders and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). We conducted a population-based prospective study to assess the prevalence and incidence rates of CVDs and obesity-related metabolic disorders and to evaluate the predictive ability of various CVD risk assessment tools in an Iranian population. METHOD: We enrolled 5,799 participants in Amol, a city in northern Iran, in 2009-2010 and carried out the first repeated measurement (RM) after seven years (2016-2017)...