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A systematic review and meta‐analysis of prevalence of complications after tracheal stenting in dogs
Authors: Robin Thibaud , Robin Elisabeth , Le Boedec Kevin 
Published: June 2024

AbstractBackgroundStenting has become popular to treat tracheal collapse in dogs, but complications might arise and negatively affect treatment outcome.ObjectivesDetermine the overall prevalence of complications of tracheal stenting in dogs.MethodsA bibliographic search was performed of publications from 2000 to 2020. Studies were assessed for quality of evidence and measured prevalence of the 8 most commonly reported complications after tracheal stenting in dogs (stent fracture, stent migration, relapsing collapse, granuloma formation, tracheobronchial infections, and early, late, and clinically relevant late cough). Random effects meta‐analyses were used to estimate pooled complications prevalence.ResultsFifteen studies met inclusion criteria. Cough (early: 99%; 95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 95%–100%, late: 75%; 95% CI: 63%–85%, and clinically relevant: 52%; 95% CI: 42%–61%), tracheobronchial infections (24%; 95% CI: 14%–35%), and granulomas (20%; 95% CI: 11%–30%) were common after tracheal stenting. Stent fractures (12%; 95% CI: 5%–20%), relapsing collapse (10%; 95% CI: 5%–15%), and stent migration (5%; 95% CI: 1%–9%) were less frequent. Significant heterogeneity among studies was identified for the estimated prevalence of stent fracture, granulomas, infections, and late cough.Conclusions and Clinical ImportanceTracheal stenting in dogs is associated with a high risk of coughing and a moderate risk of tracheobronchial infections and granuloma formation. Because most complications will impact a dog's quality of life, owners must be informed that tracheal stenting is a second‐line procedure that does not necessarily alleviate the need for medical treatment and frequent follow‐up visits. Additional studies are warranted to identify the risk factors of these complications.
Fire stimulates seedling recruitment from the seed bank in the Cerrado
Authors: Dairel Mariana , Fidelis Alessandra 
Published: June 2024

AbstractQuestionsFire is an important ecological factor influencing plant communities in many fire‐prone ecosystems. Savannas in the Cerrado are resilient to fire, with plants exhibiting fire‐related traits, allowing them to persist in post‐fire environments. Therefore, excluding fire may result in changes in plant community dynamics, thus affecting their resilience. We investigated the effect of the reintroduction of fire in savannas where fire has been excluded for longer periods (>12 years) on seedling recruitment. We asked the following questions: (i) how does fire affect seed bank germination in sites with different fire histories; and (ii) how did fire exclusion affect species composition of the seed bank?LocationEstação Ecológica de Itirapina (EEI), Southeastern Brazil.MethodsTwo sites with different fire histories were selected: FE1985 – fire exclusion for more than 30 years, with one fire event in 1985; and FE2009 – fire exclusion for 12 years, with three fire events since 1985, the last one being in 2009. Both areas have low fire frequency, but different times since the last fire. Soil samples were collected before and after prescribed fires to evaluate the effects of fire after longer periods of fire exclusion in the soil seed bank. Using the seedling emergence method, we evaluate the effects of the reintroduction of fire after longer periods of fire exclusion in the soil seed bank.ResultsWe found that fire significantly increased the seed bank recruitment at both sites, FE1985 and FE2009 (increase of 16% and 50% in seedling recruitment, respectively), showing that species of the Cerrado responded positively to the fire passage. The reintroduction of fire promoted different effects on seed bank recruitment: shrubs experienced a significant decrease in seedling emergence from the seed bank at FE1985, while their recruitment was not affected at FE2009. Time since last fire appears to influence the seed bank composition, showing a shift in dominance from a grassy community to a woody one.ConclusionsAfter fire, more species germinated from the seed bank, showing that direct and indirect effects of fire are affecting seed germination from the seed bank, and its importance on seedling recruitment from the seed bank in the Cerrado.
Painted flowers: Eluta generates pigment patterning in Antirrhinum
Authors: Moss Sarah M. A. , Zhou Yanfei , Butelli Eugenio , Waite Chethi N. , Yeh Shin‐Mei , Cordiner Sarah B. , Harris Nilangani N. , Copsey Lucy , Schwinn Kathy E. , Davies Kevin M. , Hudson Andrew , Martin Cathie , Albert Nick W. 
Published: June 2024

Summary

In the early 1900s, Erwin Baur established Antirrhinum majus as a model system, identifying and characterising numerous flower colour variants. This included Picturatum/Eluta, which restricts the accumulation of magenta anthocyanin pigments, forming bullseye markings on the flower face.

We identified the gene underlying the Eluta locus by transposon‐tagging, using an Antirrhinum line that spontaneously lost the nonsuppressive el phenotype. A candidate MYB repressor gene at this locus contained a CACTA transposable element. We subsequently identified plants where this element excised, reverting to a suppressive Eluta phenotype. El alleles inhibit expression of anthocyanin biosynthetic genes, confirming it to be a regulatory locus. The modes of action of Eluta were investigated by generating stable transgenic tobacco lines, biolistic transformation of Antirrhinum petals and promoter activation/repression assays.

Eluta competes with MYB activators for promoter cis‐elements, and also by titrating essential cofactors (bHLH proteins) to reduce transcription of target genes. Eluta restricts the pigmentation established by the R2R3‐MYB factors, Rosea and Venosa, with the greatest repression on those parts of the petals where Eluta is most highly expressed.

Baur questioned the origin of heredity units determining flower colour variation in cultivated A. majus. Our findings support introgression from wild species into cultivated varieties.
The potential for using entrustable professional activities in assessing optometric clinical competence
Authors: Holmes Will , Porter Catherine , van Tilborg Mirjam M. A. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractQualifications required to practise optometry seek to provide assurance that those completing them have the necessary competencies to be safe and effective clinicians. Often, this assurance is gained via high stakes assessments such as objective structured clinical examinations. This paper introduces entrustable professional activities (EPAs) as a potential alternative approach to assessing optometric clinical competence. Entrustable professional activities are defined in the context of optometric practice and the potential advantages and challenges of using them are outlined.
Psychometric properties of disease‐specific health‐related quality of life instruments for food allergy: A COnsensus‐based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments‐based systematic review
Authors: Liu Ke , Wang Shuyi , Li Zeen , Xia Yuting , Chen Qirong 
Published: June 2024

AbstractFood allergies severely impact the health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients and their caregivers (family or informal caregivers). Currently there is no comprehensive review to provide an overview and critical assessment of the instruments in the field. Six databases were searched from inception until 10 August 2023, and a combination of subject terms and free words was used to search the literature. We used the COnsensus‐based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments methodology (COSMIN) to evaluate the measurement properties of the instruments. Forty‐one studies reported on ten eligible instruments. Based on COSMIN guidelines, one instrument was recommended for Grade A, and the remaining nine instruments were recommended for Grade B. The Grade A instrument identified, the Food Allergy Quality of Life Questionnaire‐Parent Form (FAQLQ‐PF), can help researchers assess the effectiveness of treatment for patients with food allergy and to understand the psychosocial impact of the disease on patients.
Understanding the other from an inferentialist perspective
Authors: Iikawa Haruka 
Published: June 2024

Abstract‘The other’ is one of the mysteries of modern philosophy. Since the other is thought to be essentially different from the self, how we can understand each other is a difficult problem. In the first place, what does it mean to understand the other? I address this question from the perspective of normative inferentialism, by explicating what it means to understand the other's beliefs and actions. I propose that we should distinguish between attributional and fundamental understanding. While attributional understanding serves to specify the other's ways of thinking, fundamental understanding is an endorsement of them. Contrasting these two types of understanding gives us a rational picture of how people understand each other.
How will global trade patterns evolve in the long run?
Authors: Bekkers Eddy , Corong Erwin , Métivier Jeanne , Orlov Daniil 
Published: June 2024

AbstractIn this paper, the evolution of global trade patterns until 2050 is projected with a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. Feeding the model with exogenous projections on macroeconomic, demographic, sectoral and trade cost variables, the evolution of trade patterns emerges endogenously from the model. The approach is innovative in both modelling approach and exogenous inputs. GDP growth emerges endogenously in the model because of diffusion of ideas as a result of international trade and trade cost changes are based on estimates of technology and trade policy changes. The projections indicate that (i) because of projected reductions in trade costs, trade will grow more than GDP, generating a global trade‐to‐GDP growth rate of 1.1; (ii) because of structural change, the global share of manufacturing trade falls from 64% in 2020 to 52% by 2050, whereas the share of services trade rises substantially from 24% to 38%; and (iii) because of technological catch‐up, the share in global trade of both developing and least‐developed countries (LDCs) will rise (with developing countries overtaking developed economies around 2035), the share of intra‐developed country trade will fall, whereas the share of intra‐developing country trade and those between developing and developed countries will rise.
ENERGY EFFECTIVE HETEROGENEOUS GROUPING IDEAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH FUZZY IDENTIFICATION IN UWSNTION IN UWSN
Authors: Rama P. , Cyril C.Pretty Diana , Theresa W.Gracy 
Published: June 2024

Network connectivity is the fundamental issue for ensuring the longevity of the networks in underground wireless sensor networks. Other important factors are consider in the WSN is minimum path count, energy usage, and packet delivery ratio. There are numerous approaches that might be used to extend the life of UWSN, however sustaining the energy level of network in underground locations in soil is still a challenge. It is projected that the Energy Effective Heterogeneous Grouping Ideal Transmission System with Fuzzy Identification (EEHG-ITSFI) technique will significantly lower the amount of energy used to transport data from node to bottom station and will increase the network of subterranean devices' useful life. Using EEHC-OTSFI, which randomly chooses a cluster head from the collection of clusters, the sensors are grouped into clusters. A fuzzy identification technique is used to focus this connectivity, which is seen as a QoS indication. The network's packet delivery is sped up and delayed less thanks to fuzzy identification technology. The ability to combine different variables into a single indicator, which demonstrates creative presentation for the growth of routing performance in WSNs, is the key benefit.The suggested methodology maximises lifetime in heterogeneous Underground Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) while lowering energy consumption by 25–30%, average hop count by 38–42%, and packet latency by up to 40–44%.
The finite type of modules of bounded projective dimension and Serre's conditions
Authors: Hrbek Michal , Le Gros Giovanna 
Published: June 2024

AbstractLet be a commutative Noetherian ring. For a natural number , we prove that the class of modules of projective dimension bounded by is of finite type if and only if satisfies Serre's condition . In particular, this answers positively a question of Bazzoni and Herbera in the specific setting of a Gorenstein ring. Applying similar techniques, we also show that the ‐dimensional version of the Govorov–Lazard theorem holds if and only if satisfies the ‘almost’ Serre condition .
Exercise training alters skeletal muscle microvascular endothelial cell properties in recent postmenopausal females
Authors: Nørregaard L. B. , Hansen C. C. , Wickham K. A. , Møller S. , Olsen K. , Ehlers T. , Bangsbo J. , Hellsten Y. 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThe present study examined and compared the impact of exercise training on redox and molecular properties of human microvascular endothelial cells derived from skeletal muscle biopsies from sedentary recent (RPF, ≤ 5 years as postmenopausal) and late (LPF, ≥ 10 years as postmenopausal) postmenopausal females. Resting skeletal muscle biopsies were obtained before and after 8 weeks of intense aerobic exercise training for isolation of microvascular endothelial cells and determination of skeletal muscle angiogenic proteins and capillarisation. The microvascular endothelial cells were analysed for mitochondrial respiration and production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), glycolysis and proteins related to vascular function, redox balance and oestrogen receptors. Exercise training led to a reduced endothelial cell ROS formation (∼50%; P = 0.009 and P = 0.020 for intact and permeabilized cells (state 3), respectively) in RPF only, with no effect on endothelial mitochondrial capacity in either group. Basal endothelial cell lactate formation was higher (7%; P = 0.028), indicating increased glycolysis, after compared to before the exercise training period in RPF only. Baseline endothelial G protein‐coupled oestrogen receptor (P = 0.028) and muscle capillarisation (P = 0.028) was lower in LPF than in RPF. Muscle vascular endothelial growth factor protein was higher (32%; P = 0.002) following exercise training in LPF only. Exercise training did not influence endothelial cell proliferation or skeletal muscle capillarisation in either group, but the CD31 level in the muscle tissue, indicating endothelial cell content, was higher (>50%; P < 0.05) in both groups. In conclusion, 8 weeks of intense aerobic exercise training reduces ROS formation and enhances glycolysis in microvascular endothelial cells from RPF but does not induce skeletal muscle angiogenesis.
imageKey points
Late postmenopausal females have been reported to achieve limited vascular adaptations to exercise training.
There is a paucity of data on the effect of exercise training on isolated skeletal muscle microvascular endothelial cells (MMECs).
In this study the formation of reactive oxygen species in MMECs was reduced and glycolysis increased after 8 weeks of aerobic exercise training in recent but not late postmenopausal females.
Late postmenopausal females had lower levels of G protein‐coupled oestrogen receptor in MMECs and lower skeletal muscle capillary density at baseline.
Eight weeks of intense exercise training altered MMEC properties but did not induce skeletal muscle angiogenesis in postmenopausal females.
Test–Retest Reliability of Running Economy and Metabolic and Cardiorespiratory Parameters During a Multistage Incremental Treadmill Test in Male Middle- and Long-Distance Runners
Authors: Brady Aidan J. , Roantree Mark , Egan Brendan 
Published: June 2024

This study investigated the test–retest reliability of running economy (RE) and metabolic and cardiorespiratory parameters related to endurance running performance using a multistage incremental treadmill test. On two occasions separated by 21–28 days, 12 male middle- and long-distance runners ran at 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 km/hr for 8 min each stage, immediately followed by a ramp test to volitional exhaustion. Carbohydrate (10% maltodextrin solution) was consumed before and during the test to provide ∼1 g/min of exercise. RE, minute ventilation (), oxygen consumption (), carbon dioxide production (), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), heart rate (HR), ratings of perceived exertion (RPE), and blood glucose and lactate concentrations were recorded for each stage and at volitional exhaustion. Time-to-exhaustion (TTE) and peak oxygen consumption () during the ramp test were also recorded. Absolute reliability, calculated as the coefficient of variation (CV) between repeated measures, ranged from 2.3% to 3.1% for RE, whereas relative reliability, calculated as the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), ranged from .42 to .79. , , , , RER, and HR had a CV of 1.1%–4.3% across all stages. TTE and RPE had a CV of 7.2% and 2.3%–10.8%, respectively, while glucose and lactate had a CV of 4.0%–17.8%. All other parameters, except for blood glucose, were demonstrated to have good-to-excellent relative reliability assessed by ICC. Measures of RE, , and TTE were reliable during this two-phase multistage incremental treadmill test in a cohort of trained and highly trained male middle- and long-distance runners.
Velocity–Load Jump Testing Predicts Acceleration Performance in Elite Speed Skaters: But Does Movement Specificity Matter?
Authors: Zukowski Matthew , Herzog Walter , Jordan Matthew J. 
Published: June 2024

Purpose: In this study, we compared the influence of movement specificity during velocity–load jump testing to predict on-ice acceleration performance in elite speed skaters. Methods: Elite long-track speed skaters (N = 27) performed velocity–load testing with 3 external loads during unilateral horizontal jumping, lateral jumping, and bilateral vertical countermovement jumping. For the unilateral tests, external load conditions were set to 10 N, 7.5% and 15% of external load relative to body weight. For the countermovement jumping, load conditions were body weight and 30% and 60% of external load relative to body weight. On-ice performance measures were obtained during maximal 50-m accelerations from a standing start, including maximal skating speed, maximal acceleration capacity, and maximum horizontal power. The 100-m split time from a 500-m race was also obtained. Regularized regression models were used to identify the most important predictors of on-ice acceleration performance. In addition to regularized regression coefficients, Pearson correlation coefficients (r) were calculated for all variables retained by the model to assess interrelationships between single predictors and on-ice performance measures. Results: The countermovement jump with 30% of body mass demonstrated the strongest association with maximal skating speed, maximum horizontal power, and 100-m time (regularized regression coefficient = .16−.49, r = .84−.97, P < .001). Horizontal jump with 15% of body mass was the strongest predictor of maximal acceleration capacity performance (regularized regression coefficient = .08, r = .83, P < .001). Conclusions: The findings of this study suggest that mechanical specificity rather than movement specificity was more relevant for predicting on-ice acceleration performance.
Synchronous Group-Based Online Exercise Programs for Older Adults Living in the Community: A Scoping Review
Authors: Fuentes Diaz Maria Fernanda , Leadbetter Brianna , Pitre Vanessa , Nowell Sarah , Sénéchal Martin , Bouchard Danielle R. 
Published: June 2024

Older adults are the least physically active group with specific barriers to regular exercise, and online exercise programs could overcome some of those barriers. This scoping review aimed to describe the characteristics of supervised group-based synchronous online exercise programs for older adults living in the community, their feasibility, acceptability, and potential benefits. MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase, SPORTDiscus, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature were searched until November 2022. The included studies met the following criteria: participants aged 50 years and above, a minimum of a 6-week group-based supervised and synchronous intervention, and original articles available in English. Eighteen articles were included, with 1,178 participants (67% female, average age of 71 [57–93] years), most (83%) published in the past 3 years. From the limited reported studies, delivering supervised, synchronous online exercise programs (one to three times/week, between 8 and 32 weeks) for older adults living in the community seems feasible, accepted, and can improve physical function.
High-Resolution Diatomic Spectroscopy near the Dissociation Threshold
Authors: Stolyarov A. V. 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
Current progress in and prospects for high-resolution molecular laser spectroscopy used for quantum-mechanical modeling of the energy and radiation properties of the rovibronic states of diatomic molecules near the dissociation threshold are discussed at the experimental (spectroscopic) level of accuracy, which is impossible without taking into account all types of intramolecular interactions. The weakly bound, quasibound, and continuum rovibronic states localized near the dissociation threshold actively participate in the formation of stable molecules during spontaneous or laser-stimulated association of colliding atoms, which leads to cooling of the initial reaction medium. Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) combined with high-resolution Fourier transform spectroscopy is a unique experimental technique, which allows the study of all the three (bound, quasibound, and continuum) parts of the molecular spectrum simultaneously. LIF experiments combined with precision ab initio electronic structure calculations and global nonadiabatic analysis of quasidegenerate rovibronic states converging to the same dissociation limit make it possible to study the structural and dynamic properties of isolated molecules over a very wide range of their electronic-vibrational-rotational excitation.