Author(s): Larue F; Tasbih T; Ribeiro PAB; Lavoie KL; Dolan E; Bacon SL;

Background: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) are widely used devices that were initially created to aid in smoking cessation. However, their acute physiological effects are unclear and there have been a number of E-cig and Vaping Acute Lung Injury (EVALI) events reported.
Research question: What are the immediate phy ...

Article GUID: 34808583

Author(s): Vahabisani A; An C;

Over the past decades, a large amount of petroleum pollutants has been released into the environment resulting from various activities related to petrochemicals. The discharge of wastewater with petrochemicals can pose considerable risk of harm to the human health and the environment. The use of adsorbents has received much consideration across the envi ...

Article GUID: 34804763

Author(s): Predovan D; Berryman N; Lussier M; Comte F; Vu TTM; Villalpando JM; Bherer L;

Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain health in healthy older adults have been reported using a variety of cardiorespiratory fitness estimates (CRFe). Using commonly used methods to determine CRF, we assessed the relationship between CRFe and executive function performance. Healthy older adults (n = 60, mean age 68 years, 77% women), ...

Article GUID: 34803824

Author(s): Cerqueira RC; de Rivera OR; Jaeger JAG; Grilo C;

Roads pose an imminent threat to wildlife directly through mortality and changes in individual behavior, and also indirectly through modification of the amount and configuration of wildlife habitat. However, few studies have addressed how these mechanisms interact to determine species response to roads. We used structural equation modeling to assess dir ...

Article GUID: 34799617

Author(s): Paul KI; Glathe A; Taatgen NA; Steele CJ; Villringer A; Lanzer P; Cnossen F;

Due to the increasing complexity of diseases in the aging population and rapid progress in catheter-based technology, the demands on operators' skills in conducting endovascular interventions (EI) has increased dramatically, putting more emphasis on training. However, it is not well understood which factors influence learning and performance. In the ...

Article GUID: 34789742

Author(s): Bernos TA; Travouck C; Ramasinoro N; Fraser DJ; Mathevon B;

Local support is critical to the success and longevity of fishery management initiatives. Previous research suggests that how resource users perceive ecological changes, explain them, and cope with them, influences local support. The objectives of this study were two-fold. First, we collated local fishers' knowledge to characterize the long-term soc ...

Article GUID: 34780489

Author(s): Seth Wynes

Unlike other greenhouse gas sources associated with professional sports, team air travel is highly visible, under direct league control, and extremely difficult to decarbonize with technological advancement alone. In an analysis of air travel emissions from the four largest North American sports leagues, I estimate that teams traveled a combined 7.5 mil ...

Article GUID: 34779201

Author(s): Zhang Q; Lin W; Liu T; Ye Z; Liang T; Sun WH;

In the present work, four new mono(imino)pyridine ligands, 2-((2,4-bis(bis(4-R-phenyl)methyl)-6-fluorophenylimino)methyl)pyridine (R = H, L1; R = OCH₃, L2; R = F, L3) and 2-((2-(bis(4-fluorophenyl)methyl)-4-((3-(bis(4-fluorophenyl)methyl)-4-amine-5-fluoro-phenyl)(phenyl)methyl)-6-fluorophenylimino)methyl)pyridine (L4), have been d ...

Article GUID: 34778687

Author(s): Afzali Arani MS; Costa DE; Shihab E;

Inertial sensors are widely used in the field of human activity recognition (HAR), since this source of information is the most informative time series among non-visual datasets. HAR researchers are actively exploring other approaches and different sources of signals to improve the performance of HAR systems. In this study, we investigate the impact of ...

Article GUID: 34770303

Author(s): Calancie OG; Brien DC; Huang J; Coe BC; Booij L; Khalid-Khan S; Munoz DP;

When presented with a periodic stimulus, humans spontaneously adjust their movements from reacting to predicting the timing of its arrival, but little is known about how this sensorimotor adaptation changes across development. To investigate this, we analyzed saccade behavior in 114 healthy humans (ages 6-24 years) performing the visual metronome task, ...

Article GUID: 34759032

Author(s): Mohideen FI; Nguyen LH; Richard JD; Ouadhi S; Kwan DH;

Many small molecule natural products are decorated with sugar moieties that are essential for their biological activity. A considerable number of natural product glycosides and their derivatives are clinically important therapeutics. Anthracyclines like daunorubicin and doxorubicin are examples of valuable glycosylated natural products used in medicine ...

Article GUID: 34751552

Author(s): Davies ME; Tsyplenkov D; Martin VJJ;

While nepetalactone, the active ingredient in catnip, is a potent insect repellent, its low in planta accumulation limits its commercial viability as an alternative repellent. Here we describe for the first time de novo nepetalactone synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, enabling sustainable and scalable production. Nepetalactone production required in ...

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