Use the keywords feature with a free QxMD account.
Use Read by QxMD to access full text via your institution or open access sources.
Read also provides personalized recommendations to keep you up to date in your field.
Existing User
Sign InNew to Read
Sign Up#21
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fangli Wu, Hui Kong, Lingtian Xie, Inna M Sokolova
Aquatic environments face escalating challenges from multiple stressors like hypoxia and nanoparticle exposure, with impact on mussel immunity, especially under prolonged hypoxia and its potential modulation by nanopollutants, poorly understood. We investigated the individual and combined effects of short-term and long-term hypoxia and exposure to zinc oxide nanoparticles (nZnO) on hemocytes immune response of the mussels (Mytilus edulis). Hemocyte functional traits (mortality, adhesion capacity, phagocytosis, lysosomal abundance, and oxidative burst), and transcript levels of immune-related genes involved in pathogen recognition (the Toll-like receptors, the complement system components, and the adaptor proteins MyD88) were assessed...
May 3, 2024: Environmental Pollution
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mireia Bartrons, Carolina Trochine, Malgorzata Blicharska, Beat Oertli, Manuel Lago, Sandra Brucet
Unlocking the full potential of ponds (small water bodies) and pondscapes (network of ponds) as Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is critical pursuit for enhancing ecosystems and societal resilience to climate change and other societal challenges. Despite scattered initiatives for pond/pondscape creation, restoration and management-each considered here a distinct NbS-there is a significant knowledge gap in utilising ponds/pondscapes as effective NbS. We aimed to assess these NbS in terms of their objectives, outcomes, effectiveness, multifunctionality, delivery of potentially conflicting effects, and the implementation process while considering their Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs, i...
May 4, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eleanor Atkins, Panagiota Birmpili, Ian Kellar, Amundeep S Johal, Qiuju Li, Sam Waton, Jonathan R Boyle, Arun D Pherwani, Ian Chetter, David A Cromwell
INTRODUCTION: Patients in the community with suspected Chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) should be urgently referred to vascular services for investigation and management. The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) allows identification of influences on health professional behaviour in order to inform future interventions. Here, the TDF is used to explore primary care clinicians' behaviours with regards to recognition and referral of CLTI. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 podiatrists, nurses and general practitioners in primary care...
June 2024: Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David D Hofmann, Dominik M Behr, John W McNutt, Arpat Ozgul, Gabriele Cozzi
While climate change has been shown to impact several life-history traits of wild-living animal populations, little is known about its effects on dispersal and connectivity. Here, we capitalize on the highly variable flooding regime of the Okavango Delta to investigate the impacts of changing environmental conditions on the dispersal and connectivity of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). Based on remote sensed flood extents observed over 20 years, we derive two extreme flood scenarios: a minimum and a maximum flood extent, representative of very dry and very wet environmental periods...
May 2024: Global Change Biology
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gwanwoo Jo, Yoon-Mi Hur
Researchers have proposed that culture significantly influences perceived stress (PS). To date, however, twin studies on PS have been conducted mostly in western, individualistic cultures, which demonstrate that PS due to controllable (personal) life events is more heritable than PS due to uncontrollable (network) life events. This study aimed to investigate genetic and environmental influences on PS in South Korean twins. South Korea practices a dominant collectivist culture. In total, 1372 twin individuals (mean age = 22...
May 3, 2024: Twin Research and Human Genetics: the Official Journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
#26
REVIEW
Christopher J De Jonge, Christopher L R Barratt, R John Aitken, Richard A Anderson, Peter Baker, David Y L Chan, Mark P Connolly, Michael L Eisenberg, Nicolas Garrido, Niels Jørgensen, Sarah Kimmins, Csilla Krausz, Robert I McLachlan, Craig Niederberger, Moira K O'Bryan, Allan Pacey, Lærke Priskorn, Satu Rautakallio-Hokkanen, Gamal Serour, Joris A Veltman, Donna L Vogel, Mónica H Vazquez-Levin
BACKGROUND: The widespread interest in male reproductive health (MRH), fueled by emerging evidence, such as the global decline in sperm counts, has intensified concerns about the status of MRH. Consequently, there is a pressing requirement for a strategic, systematic approach to identifying critical questions, collecting pertinent information, and utilizing these data to develop evidence-based strategies. The methods for addressing these questions and the pathways toward their answers will inevitably vary based on the variations in cultural, geopolitical, and health-related contexts...
2024: Human Reproduction Open
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Colomer, G Massei, D Roos, C Rosell, J D Rodríguez-Teijeiro
Accurate prediction of fluctuations of wildlife local number of individuals is crucial for effective population management to minimise human-wildlife conflicts. Climate, habitat, food availability, and density dependence are among the main factors influencing mammalian population dynamics. In southern Europe, precipitation and temperature, particularly during summer have been suggested as key factors affecting wild boar (Sus scrofa L.). However, there is uncertainty regarding the role of these factors and the mechanisms driving population fluctuations...
April 30, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Freya C Womersley, Christoph A Rohner, Katya Abrantes, Pedro Afonso, Shin Arunrugstichai, Steffen S Bach, Shir Bar, Adi Barash, Peter Barnes, Adam Barnett, Ginevra Boldrocchi, Noemie Buffat, Tom Canon, Clara Canovas Perez, Metavee Chuangcharoendee, Jesse E M Cochran, Rafael de la Parra, Stella Diamant, William Driggers, Christine Dudgeon, Mark V Erdmann, Richard Fitzpatrick, Anna Flam, Jorge Fontes, Gemma Francis, Beatriz Eugenia Galvan, Rachel Graham, Sofia M Green, Jonathan R Green, Ya'ara Grosmark, Hector M Guzman, Royale S Hardenstine, Maria Harvey, Jessica Harvey-Carroll, Abdi Wunanto Hasan, Alex R Hearn, Jill M Hendon, Mochamad Iqbal Herwata Putra, Mahardika Rizqi Himawan, Eric Hoffmayer, Jason Holmberg, Hua Hsun Hsu, Mohammed Y Jaidah, Ashlee Jansen, Christy Judd, Baraka Kuguru, Emily Lester, Bruno C L Macena, Kirsty Magson, Rossana Maguiño, Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto, Stacia Marcoux, Travis Marcoux, Jennifer McKinney, Mark Meekan, Alejandra Mendoza, Muhammad Moazzam, Emily Monacella, Brad Norman, Cameron Perry, Simon Pierce, Clare Prebble, Dení Ramírez Macías, Holly Raudino, Samantha Reynolds, David Robinson, David Rowat, Mudjekeewis D Santos, Jennifer Schmidt, Chad Scott, Sian Tian See, Abraham Sianipar, Conrad W Speed, Ismail Syakurachman, Julian A Tyne, Kelly Waples, Chloe Winn, Ranny R Yuneni, Irthisham Zareer, Gonzalo Araujo
The expansion of the world's merchant fleet poses a great threat to the ocean's biodiversity. Collisions between ships and marine megafauna can have population-level consequences for vulnerable species. The Endangered whale shark (Rhincodon typus), shares a circumglobal distribution with this expanding fleet and tracking of movement pathways has shown that large vessel collisions pose a major threat to the species. However, it is not yet known whether they are also at risk within aggregation sites, where up to 400 individuals can gather to feed on seasonal bursts of planktonic productivity...
April 30, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca Lewis, Michael D Pointer, Lucy Friend, Matthew J G Gage, Lewis G Spurgin
Small, isolated populations are often characterised by low levels of genetic diversity. This can result in inbreeding depression and reduced capacity to adapt to changes in the environment, and therefore higher risk of extinction. However, sometimes these populations can be rescued if allowed to increase in size or if migrants enter, bringing in new allelic variation and thus increasing genetic diversity. This study uses experimental manipulation of population size and migration to quantify their effects on fitness in a challenging environment to better understand genetic rescue...
May 2024: Ecology and Evolution
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicolas Jovanovic, Vicente Mustieles, Marc Althuser, Sarah Lyon-Caen, Nadia Alfaidy, Cathrine Thomsen, Amrit Kaur Sakhi, Azemira Sabaredzovic, Sam Bayat, Anne Couturier-Tarrade, Rémy Slama, Claire Philippat
STUDY QUESTION: Is exposure to environmental chemicals associated with modifications of placental morphology and function? SUMMARY ANSWER: Phthalates, a class of ubiquitous chemicals, showed an association with altered placental weight, placental vascular resistance (PVR), and placental efficiency. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Only a few epidemiological studies have assessed the effects of phenols and phthalates on placental health. Their results were affected by exposure measurement errors linked to the rapid excretion of these compounds and the reliance on a limited number of spot urine samples to assess exposure...
2024: Human Reproduction Open
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elhadi H Aburawi, Linda Östlundh, Hanan E Aburawi, Rami H Al Rifai, Akshaya Bhagavathula, Abdelouahab Bellou
BACKGROUND: Conotruncal congenital heart defects (CTD) are a subset of congenital heart diseases (CHD) that involve structural anomalies of the right, left, or both cardiac outflow tracts. CHD is caused by multifactorial inheritance and changes in the genes or chromosomes. Recently, CHD was found to be due to epigenetic alterations, which are a combination of genetic and other environmental factors. Epigenetics is the study of how a gene's function changes as a result of environmental and behavioral influences...
2024: PloS One
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
W H Brightly, C Crifò, T J Gallaher, R Hermans, S Lavin, A J Lowe, C A Smythies, E Stiles, P Wilson Deibel, C A E Strömberg
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Palm fossils are often used as evidence for warm and wet palaeoenvironments, reflecting the affinities of most modern palms. However, several extant palm lineages tolerate cool and/or arid climates, making a clear understanding of the taxonomic composition of ancient palm communities important for reliable palaeoenvironmental inference. However, taxonomically identifiable palm fossils are rare and often confined to specific facies. Although the resolution of taxonomic information they provide remains unclear, phytoliths (microscopic silica bodies) provide a possible solution because of their high preservation potential under conditions where other plant fossils are scarce...
April 30, 2024: Annals of Botany
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Donna L Applebaum
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Personal and profession-related factors affect graduate transition to practice. Social supports and a sense of belonging are recognized as critical factors affecting success. The need for a professional to postprofessional continuum of learning has been identified. Development of a process to effectively move learners through this continuum are affected by conflicts such as economic issues, varied educational and practice philosophies, and capacity demands for clinical sites and instructors...
April 30, 2024: Journal, Physical Therapy Education
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christian Sponagel, Jan Weik, Arndt Feuerbacher, Enno Bahrs
Tackling climate change remains a critical challenge for society. Achieving climate neutrality requires a massive expansion of renewable energies such as wind and photovoltaics (PV). Agriculture plays a key role in this context, especially as the expansion of ground-mounted PV systems often leads to land-use conflicts. Agrivoltaics (AV), which combines agricultural and electricity production, can be a solution, but the synergies are particularly dependent on local agronomic conditions. There is also a knowledge gap in how AV expansion impacts greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the landscape level and how it contributes to regional emission reduction targets...
April 27, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jipeng Chen, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Rongkun Jian, Weibin Bai, Guocai Zheng, Zhipeng Xie, Qi Lin, Fengcai Lin, Yanlian Xu
Marine anti-fouling coatings represent an efficient approach to prevent and control the marine biofouling. However, a significant amount of antifouling agent is added to improve the static antifouling performance of the coatings, which leads to an issue whereby static antifouling performance conflicts with eco-friendly traits. Herein, this work reports an in situ reduction synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) within polymers to produce composite coatings, aiming to solve the aforementioned issue. Firstly, urushiol-based benzoxazine monomers were synthesized by the Mannich reaction, using an eco-friendly natural product urushiol and n -octylamine and paraformaldehyde as the reactants...
April 21, 2024: Polymers
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Doris Yuet Lan Leung, Hilary Hwu, Shoilee Khan, Aaida Mamuji, Jack Rozdilsky, Terri Chu, Charlotte Lee
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, immigrants were among the most socially vulnerable in Western countries. The Chinese diaspora in Canada were one such group due to the widespread cultural stigma surrounding their purported greater susceptibility to transmit and become infected by COVID-19. This paper aims to understand the social vulnerability of the Chinese diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, during the first wave of COVID-19 from an explanation of their risk perception and threat appraisal of risk communication...
April 21, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Attà Negri, Arianna Barazzetti, Alice Rinzivillo, Rachele Mariani, Cinzia Di Monte
The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health has been widely demonstrated; however, few studies have investigated the psychological processes involved in this impact, including core beliefs violation, meaning-making disruption, interpersonal support, or one's relational functioning. This study explored the mental health of 215 Italian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war. By administering a set of questionnaires, several cognitive and emotional variables were investigated, including core belief violation, meaning attribution to the pandemic and war, attachment, and emotion regulation, social media addiction, and relationships with significant others and teachers...
April 19, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
#38
REVIEW
Eleni Sazakli
The toxicity and carcinogenicity of hexavalent chromium via the inhalation route is well established. However, a scientific debate has arisen about the potential effects of oral exposure to chromium on human health. Epidemiological studies evaluating the connection between ingested chromium and adverse health effects on the general population are limited. In recent years, a wealth of biomonitoring studies has emerged evaluating the associations between chromium levels in body fluids and tissues and health outcomes...
March 27, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ivan Andráško, Barbora Duží, Stanislav Martinát
This study focuses on the Skalička Waterwork (SWW), a largely debated and media-covered water-related/flood-protection project in the Czech Republic. Relying primarily on stakeholder interviews, we traced back and reconstructed the project's development, including its key tipping points reflecting the changing societal preferences for particular measures, yet also the involvement of individual actors/stakeholders, and their differing views. The case eventually crystallized into the "dam versus polder" dispute; concerned by the repercussions for the local landscape, a joint initiative of NGOs, local activists, and politicians not only opposed the dam variant proposed by the state river basin administration but also succeeded in pushing through the alternative scheme of side dry polder...
April 26, 2024: Ambio
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Caitlin A Moe, Andrés Villaveces, Pablo Montoya, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar
IMPORTANCE: Armed conflicts are directly and indirectly associated with morbidity and mortality due to destruction of health infrastructure and diversion of resources, forced displacement, environmental damage, and erosion of social and economic security. Colombia's conflict began in the 1940s and has been uniquely long-lasting and geographically dynamic. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the proportion of infant and child mortality associated with armed conflict exposure from 1998 to 2019 in Colombia...
April 1, 2024: JAMA Network Open
Make the most of Read.
Download the mobile app.
Download the mobile app.
Fetching more papers... 
