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Anti-Markovnikov hydro(amino)alkylation regarding vinylarenes through photoredox catalysis.
Dendroctonus armandi (Tsai and Li) (Coleoptera Curculionidae Scolytinae) is considered to be the most destructive forest pest in the Qinling and Bashan Mountains of China. Low winter temperatures limit insect's populations, distribution, activity, and development. Insects have developed different strategies such as freeze-tolerance and freeze-avoidance to survive in low temperature conditions. In the present study, we used gene cloning, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), RNA interference (RNAi), and heterologous expression to study the function of the D. armandi antifreeze protein gene (DaAFP). this website We cloned the 800 bp full-length cDNA encoding 228 amino acids of DaAFP and analyzed its structure using bioinformatics analysis. The DaAFP amino acid sequence exhibited 24-86% similarity with other insect species. The expression of DaAFP was high in January and in the larvae, head, and midgut of D. armandi. In addition, the expression of DaAFP increased with decreasing temperature and increasing exposure time. RNAi analysis also demonstrated that AFP plays an important role in the cold tolerance of overwintering larvae. The thermal hysteresis and antifreeze activity assay of DaAFP and its mutants indicated that the more regular the DaAFP threonine-cystine-threonine (TXT) motif, the stronger the antifreeze activity. These results suggest that DaAFP plays an essential role as a biological cryoprotectant in overwintering D. armandi larvae and provides a theoretical basis for new pest control methods.Although a growing literature explores the relationship between migration and fertility, far less scholarship has examined how migrant childbearing varies over time, including across migrant cohorts. I extend previous research by exploring migrant-cohort differences in fertility and the role of changing composition by education and type of family migration. Using 1984-2016 German Socio-Economic Panel data, I investigate the transition into first, second, and third birth among foreign-born women in West Germany. Results from an event-history analysis reveal that education and type of family migration-including marriage migration and family reunions-contribute to differences in first birth across migrant cohorts. Specifically, more rapid entry into first birth among recent migrants from Turkey stems from a greater representation of marriage migrants across arrival cohorts, while increasing education is associated with reduced first birth propensities among recent migrants from Southern Europe. I also find variation in the risk of higher parity transitions across migrant cohorts, particularly lower third birth risks among recent arrivals from Turkey, likely a result of changing exposures within origin and destination contexts. These findings suggest that as political and socioeconomic circumstances vary within origin and destination contexts, selection, adaptation, and socialization processes jointly shape childbearing behavior.Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair remains challenging in patients with high surgical risk. We report a case of TAAA in an 84-year-old woman with type Ib endoleak after thoracic endovascular aortic repair with coeliac artery coverage due to impending ruptured TAAA. A stent graft was assembled to create 3 fenestrations and sew 3 inner grafts for the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and bilateral renal arteries. This stent graft system was inserted into the thoraco-abdominal aorta and partially unsheathed until the first inner branch endograft fully expanded. The wire was used to catheterize the stent graft, inner branch, and SMA from the left upper limb, and a bridge stent was deployed from the inner branch to the SMA. A similar procedure was performed for bilateral renal arteries. link2 The stent graft system was fully unsheathed. Postoperative computed tomography angiography revealed no endoleak and good flow of the visceral artery. The use of the physician-modified inner branched endograft system described is feasible and can make TAAA endovascular repair simpler and safer.Finite element musculoskeletal (FEMS) approaches using concurrent musculoskeletal (MS) and finite element (FE) models driven by motion data such as marker-based motion trajectory can provide insight into the interactions between the knee joint secondary kinematics, contact mechanics, and muscle forces in subject-specific biomechanical investigations. However, these data-driven FEMS systems have two major disadvantages that make them challenging to apply in clinical environments they are computationally expensive and they require expensive and inconvenient equipment for data acquisition. In this study, we developed an FEMS model of the lower limb, driven solely by inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, that includes the tissue geometries of the intact knee joint and combines muscle modeling and elastic foundation (EF) theory-based contact analysis of a knee into a single framework. The model requires only the angular velocities and accelerations measured by the sensors as input, and the target outputs (knee contact mechanics, secondary kinematics, and muscle forces) are predicted from the convergence results of iterative calculations of muscle force optimization and knee contact mechanics. To evaluate its accuracy, the model was compared with in vivo experimental data during gait. The maximum contact pressure (12.6 MPa) in the rigid body contact analysis occurred on the medial side of the cartilage at the maximum loading response. The proposed computationally efficient framework drastically reduced the computational time (97.5% reduction) in comparison with the conventional deformable FE analysis. The developed framework combines measurement convenience and computational efficiency and shows promise for clinical applications aimed at understanding subject-specific interactions between the knee joint secondary kinematics, contact mechanics, and muscle forces.There is conflicting research regarding how conspecific plant density can affect pollinator visitation, with some studies indicating dense flower patches will receive more visitors and other studies demonstrating the opposite. link3 This study investigated the effects of conspecific density on pollinator visitation in a restored prairie. Three plant species, Penstemon digitalis (Nutt. ex Sims) (Lamiales Plantaginaceae), Monarda fistulosa (L.) (Lamiales Lamiaceae), and Eryngium yuccifolium (Michx.) (Apiales Apiaceae), were observed, with visiting pollinators recorded. Conspecific density did not have an effect on total pollinator visitation rates for any of the focal plant species. However, different groups of pollinators varied in their responses to flower density, notably with larger Bombus spp. tending to visit dense flowering patches more than did other groups of bees. This suggests that plant density may impact certain pollinators differently than others. These results also indicate a possible mechanism through which multiple pollinator species can coexist while only one flowering resource is available, with the foraging behavior of smaller bees potentially allowing them to avoid competition with larger, social bees. Furthermore, a comparison of seed weight demonstrated that E. yuccifolium plants tended to have larger seed sets in isolated individuals, suggesting that flowers in large patches may be pollinated less effectively and are competing for, rather than facilitating, pollinator visits.Many service, clerical, and technical hospital workers deemed essential during the pandemic have wages that do not reflect the essential nature of their work and do not earn enough income to cover basic expenses. Thus, many experience material hardships related to food, housing, and medical care. Previous studies have shown strong relationships between material hardships and health; however, they do not fully explain the role of stress as an intervening mechanism. This cross-sectional study analyzes an online survey with 257 lower-wage hospital workers to examine the relationships between hardships and health, and how perceived stress mediates these relationships. Path analysis revealed that financial and food hardships were related to mental health through perceived stress, while medical hardship was directly associated with physical health. These findings add to the evidence that workers' hardships either directly or indirectly contribute to negative mental and physical health outcomes through perceived stress. Future investigations should further examine relationships among material hardships, stress, and health, and advocacy efforts should focus on raising wages for essential hospital workers.Cleft palate is one of the major congenital craniofacial birth defects. The etiology underlying the pathogenesis of cleft palate has yet to be fully elucidated. Dissociation of the medial edge epithelium (MEE) at the contacting region of palatal shelves and subsequent migration or apoptosis of MEE cells is required for proper MEE removal. Ras-responsive element-binding protein 1 (RREB1), a RAS transcriptional effector, has recently been shown to play a crucial role in developmental epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), in which loss of epithelial characteristics is an initial step, during mid-gastrulation of embryonic development. Interestingly, the involvement of RREB1 in cleft palate has been indicated in humans. Here, we demonstrated that pan-Ras inhibitor prevents the dissociation of MEE during murine palatal fusion. Rreb1 is expressed in the palatal epithelium during palatal fusion, and knockdown of Rreb1 in palatal organ culture resulted in palatal fusion defects by inhibiting the dissociation of MEE cells. Our present findings provide evidence that RREB1-mediated Ras signaling is required during palatal fusion. Aberrant RREB1-mediated Ras signaling might be involved in the pathogenesis of cleft palate.Terminally differentiated cells are generally thought to have arrived at their final form and function. Many terminally differentiated cell types are polyploid, i.e. they have multiple copies of the normally diploid genome. Mammalian heart muscle cells, termed cardiomyocytes, are one such example of polyploid cells. Terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes are bi- or multi-nucleated, or have polyploid nuclei. Recent mechanistic studies of polyploid cardiomyocytes indicate that they can limit cellular proliferation and, hence, heart regeneration. In this short Spotlight, we present the mechanisms generating bi- and multi-nucleated cardiomyocytes, and the mechanisms generating polyploid nuclei. Our aim is to develop hypotheses about how these mechanisms might relate to cardiomyocyte proliferation and cardiac regeneration. We also discuss how these new findings could be applied to advance cardiac regeneration research, and how they relate to studies of other polyploid cells, such as cancer cells.
Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) is a 3D imaging technology that enables the visualization of subcellular structures in situ at near-atomic resolution. Cellular cryo-ET images help in resolving the structures of macromolecules and determining their spatial relationship in a single cell, which has broad significance in cell and structural biology. Subtomogram classification and recognition constitute a primary step in the systematic recovery of these macromolecular structures. Supervised deep learning methods have been proven to be highly accurate and efficient for subtomogram classification, but suffer from limited applicability due to scarcity of annotated data. While generating simulated data for training supervised models is a potential solution, a sizeable difference in the image intensity distribution in generated data as compared with real experimental data will cause the trained models to perform poorly in predicting classes on real subtomograms.

In this work, we present Cryo-Shift, a fully unsupervised domain adaptation and randomization framework for deep learning-based cross-domain subtomogram classification.
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