Author(s): Wang Z; An C; Chen X; Lee K; Zhang B; Feng Q;

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven explosive growth in the use of masks has resulted in many issues related to the disposal and management of waste masks. As improperly disposed masks enter the ocean, the risk to the marine ecological system is further aggravated, especially in the shoreline environment. The objective of this study is to explore the changin ...

Article GUID: 34015713

Author(s): Kremin LV; Alves J; Orena AJ; Polka L; Byers-Heinlein K;

Code-switching is a common phenomenon in bilingual communities, but little is known about bilingual parents' code-switching when speaking to their infants. In a pre-registered study, we identified instances of code-switching in day-long at-home audio recordings of 21 French-English bilingual families in Montreal, Canada, who provided recordings when t ...

Article GUID: 34006344

Author(s): Wei L; Williams R; Loupas T; Helfield B; Burns PN;

Doppler ultrasound has become a standard method used to diagnose and grade vascular diseases and monitor their progression. Conventional focused-beam color Doppler imaging is routinely used in clinical practice, but suffers from inherent trade-offs between spatial, temporal and velocity resolution. Newer, plane-wave Doppler imaging offers rapid simultaneo ...

Article GUID: 34006440

Author(s): Safiabadi Tali SH; LeBlanc JJ; Sadiq Z; Oyewunmi OD; Camargo C; Nikpour B; Armanfard N; Sagan SM; Jahanshahi-Anbuhi S;

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory disease coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to millions of confirmed cases and deaths worldwide. Efficient diagnostic tools are in high demand, as rapid and large-scale testing plays a pivotal role in patient man ...

Article GUID: 33980687

Author(s): Mohammad K; Titorenko VI;

Caloric restriction and the tor1? mutation are robust geroprotectors in yeast and other eukaryotes. Lithocholic acid is a potent geroprotector in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here, we used liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry method of non-targeted metabolomics to compare the effects of these three geroprotectors on the intracellular m ...

Article GUID: 33868583

Author(s): Li W; Shrivastava M; Lu H; Jiang Y;

Increased morbidity and mortality of candidiasis are a notable threat to the immunocompromised patients. At present, the types of drugs available to treat C. albicans infection are relatively limited. Moreover, the emergence of antifungal drug resistance of C. albicans makes the treatment of C. albicans infection more difficult. The calcium-calcineurin si ...

Article GUID: 33989979

Author(s): Liczner C; Duke K; Juneau G; Egli M; Wilds CJ;

Over the past 25 years, the acceleration of achievements in the development of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics has resulted in numerous new drugs making it to the market for the treatment of various diseases. Oligonucleotides with alterations to their scaffold, prepared with modified nucleosides and solid-phase synthesis, have yielded molecules with in ...

Article GUID: 33981365

Author(s): Feng Z; Cao SJ; Wang J; Kumar P; Haghighat F;

Airborne transmissions of infectious disease (e.g. SARS-CoV-2) in indoor environments may induce serious threat to public health. Air purification devices are necessary to remove and/or inactivate airborne biological species from indoor air environment. Corona discharge in an electrostatic precipitator is capable of removing particulate matter and disinfe ...

Article GUID: 33994653

Author(s): Zhang G; Patel T; Nellepalli P; Bhagat S; Hase H; Jazani AM; Salzmann I; Ye Z; Oh JK;

The development of heterogeneous covalent adaptable networks (CANs) embedded with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that undergo reversible dissociation/recombination through thermoreversibility has been significantly explored. However, the carbon nanotube (CNT)-incorporation methods based on physical mixing and chemical modification could result in either phase se ...

Article GUID: 33988899

Author(s): Shih PC; Steele CJ; Nikulin VV; Gundlach C; Kruse J; Villringer A; Sehm B;

Bilateral in-phase (IP) and anti-phase (AP) movements represent two fundamental modes of bilateral coordination that are essential for daily living. Although previous studies have shown that aging is behaviorally associated with decline in bilateral coordination, especially in AP movements, the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we use kin ...

Article GUID: 33979705

Author(s): Segado M; Zatorre RJ; Penhune VB;

Many everyday tasks share high-level sensory goals but differ in the movements used to accomplish them. One example of this is musical pitch regulation, where the same notes can be produced using the vocal system or a musical instrument controlled by the hands. Cello playing has previously been shown to rely on brain structures within the singing network ...

Article GUID: 33989814

Author(s): Reijngoud J; Arentshorst M; Ruijmbeek C; Reid I; Alazi ED; Punt PJ; Tsang A; Ram AFJ;

Objective: With the aim to decipher the mechanisms involved in the transcriptional regulation of feruloyl esterase encoded by faeB, a genetic screen was performed to isolate A. niger mutants displaying inducer-independent expression from the faeB promoter. Result: PfaeB-amdS and PfaeB-lux dual reporter strains were constructed and used to isolate trans-a ...

Article GUID: 33738610