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Diversidad y riqueza de plantas parásitas del estado de Morelos, México
Authors: Galvan-González Luis Gil , Cerros-Tlatilpa Rosa , Flores-Morales Alejandro , Caspeta-Mandujano Juan Manuel , Flores-Castorena Álvaro 
Published: April 2022

Antecedentes: Las angiospermas parásitas obtienen agua y nutrientes de un hospedero. Éstas pueden ser holoparásitas si obtienen agua y fotosintatos, o hemiparásitas, si obtienen agua y minerales. Las hemiparásitas se dividen en parásitas obligadas, si dependen del hospedero durante todo su ciclo biológico; o en facultativas, si no requieren del hospedero para sobrevivir. Entre las obligadas están los muérdagos, que además pueden parasitar a otros muérdagos, siendo entonces plantas epiparásitas. Para México se consideran 14 familias, 41 géneros y 411 especies de plantas parásitas.
Preguntas: ¿Cuál es la diversidad de angiospermas parásitas en Morelos?
Especies de estudio: Angiospermas parásitas.
Sitio de estudio: Estado de Morelos, México.
Métodos: Se revisaron 650 ejemplares de nueve herbarios (ENCB, FCME, HUAP, HUMO, IEB, MEXU, RSA, UAMIZ y XAL) y de 15 colecciones digitales (ARIZ, ASU, CM, COLO, F, GH, IND, LL, MO, NMC, NY, RM, UCR, UTC y TEX). Se colectaron 178 especímenes en diecinueve municipios. Los nombres de cada taxón fueron validados en Tropicos, The Plant List y el International Plant Names Index.
Resultados: Se registraron 11 familias, 22 géneros y 60 especies de plantas parásitas en Morelos. Del total, 14 especies son holoparásitas, 19 son hemiparásitas facultativas y 27 son hemiparásitas obligadas. Se reportaron diez especies de muérdagos epiparásitos, con cinco registros nuevos de interacciones previamente no documentadas.
Conclusiones: Las plantas parásitas representan el 1.69 % de la riqueza de angiospermas en Morelos, 24 especies son endémicas de México. La mayor diversidad se encuentra en Áreas Naturales Protegidas.

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“None of it was especially easy”: improving COVID-19 vaccine equity for people with disabilities
Authors: Sebring Jennifer C. H. , Capurro Gabriela , Kelly Christine , Jardine Cynthia G. , Tustin Jordan , Driedger S. Michelle 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Objectives
Our study aimed to (1) identify barriers to equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for Canadians with disabilities and (2) present recommendations made by study participants to improve immunization programs in terms of inclusivity and equitable access.

Methods
We invited Manitobans living with disabilities to participate in online focus groups. Focus groups were conducted across multiple disability experiences, although one focus group was advertised explicitly as offering simultaneous American Sign Language interpretation to encourage people who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing to participate. Participants were asked about their perspectives on the management of COVID-19 public health measures and vaccination program rollout. Participants were also asked about barriers and facilitators of their vaccination experiences and if they had recommendations for improvement.

Results
The participants identified three areas where they encountered routine barriers in accessing the COVID-19 vaccines: (1) vaccine information and appointment booking, (2) physical access to vaccination clinics, and (3) vaccination experience. While participants identified specific recommendations to improve vaccine accessibility for people with disabilities, the single most crucial advice consistently identified was to involve people with disabilities in developing accessible immunization programs.

Conclusion
Meaningful engagement with people living with disabilities in immunization program planning would help ensure that people with disabilities, who already face significant challenges due to COVID-19, are offered the same protections as the rest of the population. These recommendations could be easily transferred to the administration of other large-scale immunization campaigns (e.g., influenza vaccines).
Advanced Concepts of the Role of Social Factors in the Development of Internet Addiction Behavior in Children and Adolescents (Based on Foreign Studies)
Authors: Semenova N.B. 
Published: April 2022

Objective. To analyze the currently available data on social risk factors and their influence on the IA development process and to evaluate possible prospects for further research in the field of Internet addiction behavior in children and adolescents.Background. The excessive Internet use among children and adolescents is known to be a serious public health problem, however, the influence factors and the mechanisms of Internet addiction (IA) remain largely unknown. The importance of social factors in the formation of addictive behavior is undeniable, and currently there seems to be an extremely little information of this kind of research. So far many mechanisms explaining the contribution of family and school factors to the development of IA have not been identified. The question remains open why, with the same conditions of upbringing, some adolescents develop IA, while others do not.Conclusions. The quality of family relationships and the school environment have a significant impact on the IA development process in young people, which is mediated through the development of certain character traits that either facilitate for social norms and rules to be acquired or encourage the addictive behavior. However, social factors of influence cannot be considered to be absolute. The presence in adolescents of such qualities as a high level of self-control and volitional self-regulation provide the resilience to the IA development process. The phenomenon of resilience is an extremely urgent but poorly studied area, which determines the prospects for further scientific research, including the problem of Internet addiction behavior in children and adolescents.
Features of Religiosity and Faith of Representatives of the “Information” and “New” Generations
Authors: Pishchik V.I. , Lobacheva A.O. 
Published: April 2022

Objective. Comparison of the value bases of faith, objects of faith, belief in conspiracies, the level of religiosity among representatives of the “Information” and “New” generations.Background. If traditional values are destroyed, meaning is lost, there is an intergenerational gap, and religious institutions are in crisis, the problem of religious certainty for young generations arises. There is a lack of confidence in the younger generation, a gap between external and internal religiosity. The generational approach to the study of religiosity is poorly represented in research. It is highly relevant to study the features of religiosity and faith of representatives of generations in a transitive society.Study design. The study was conducted using a socio-psychological survey. The data were analyzed by factor analysis, methods for determining the significance of differences in indicators.Participants. Secondary school students (150 people, 53% girls and 47% boys from 14 to 17 years old) are the “New” generation; first-year university students aged 19 to 23 years (140 people, 50% girls and 50% boys) are the “Information” generation of Rostov-on-Don.Measurements. Method of measuring types of mentality; method of measuring values through fears; method of “Belief in a conspiracy”; scale of ranking objects of faith; questionnaire for measuring religiosity. The SPSS-20 application software package was used. to process the results.Results. In both groups, the innovative mentality prevails, archetypes are in the transition zone from tradition to innovation; the value of the “Mystical” is less pronounced in the “Information” generation; representatives of both generations believe more in miracles, God, Paradise and life after death; to a lesser extent — in UFOs, ghosts and witchcraft. Representatives of the “Information” generation believe more in political, food and pharmaceutical conspiracies. Representatives of the “New” generation believe more in information and food conspiracies. The “Information” generation believes that spirituality and faith are very important in life, but they do not adhere to any religious faith, they consider themselves spiritual. The degree of religiosity in both groups is weak, but prevails in the group of the “New” generation.Conclusions. There is a contradiction between the objects of faith, spirituality and religiosity. This indicates that the representatives of the studied generations have immature forms of religiosity.
An autopsy study of neck structures in manual strangulation [throttling]
Authors: Rao Dinesh 
Published: April 2022

Manual Strangulation injuries are a heterogeneous set of traumatic pathology that occurs as a result of mechanical force applied externally to the neck and surrounding structures by human Hand. These injuries may result in decreased cerebral oxygen delivery either by compression of cervical blood vessels, or tracheal occlusion.All Cases Referred were Forensic Autopsies. Blood Less Filed was created at Neck Region to Study the Neck Injuries. The External and Internal injuries resulting as a result of Compression were entered in the Templates for Analysis.A Total of 36 Cases were Reported during the period of Study. Cases were reported in Individuals until Fifth Decade. Majority of the cases Reported in 2nd and 3rd Decade. Females Contributed to Major Number of Cases [72%].Hyoid bone fracture was noted in only 22%[n-8] of the cases.Nail Scratch Abrasion with Contusions seen over Neck Surface in Majority of the Cases. Internal Muscular and Vascular Damage is Seen in Majority of the cases. Parotid and Thyroid Gland showed Parenchymal and Capsular Hemorrhages.
Estimation of the state of the microbiome in the elderly with impairments of carbohydrate and lipid exchange by the method of microbiome-associated exposomics
Authors: Bezrodny Svyatoslav L. , Mardanly Seyfaddin G. , Zatevalov Alexander M. , Pomazanov Vladimir V. , Mekhtiyev Emil R. 
Published: April 2022

We performed the biochemical analysis and studied the chemical composition of blood samples in 163 people 45-90 years old with type 2 diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia. We examined the concentrations of the following compounds in the blood samples: fatty acids, aldehydes, styrenes of microbial origin, as well as the levels of glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, and lipids of low and high density. The chemical composition of blood was determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The concentrations of fatty acids, aldehydes (including octadecenaldehyde (18a)), and styrenes were used to calculate the total molar concentration of small molecules originating from microbes (SMOM), of hydroxy acids - derivatives of the hydroxyl residue of Lipid A, and of bacterial endotoxin (3OH-FA), as well as grouped total concentrations of chemical compounds of microbial origin, which determine the representation of the main four phylotypes of the human microbiome: Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Firmicutes. Over the course of this study, we obtained data that show the increase in the total concentration of chemical compounds, the concentration of octadecenaldehyde and the concentration of 3OH-FA in patients with carbohydrate metabolism disorders due to diabetes mellitus type 2. We observed a decrease in the representation of Bacteroidetes in patients with carbohydrate metabolism disorders and a decrease in the representation of Proteobacteria and Firmicutes in patients with carbohydrate and lipid metabolism disorders, as well as an increase in the representation of Actinobacteria in patients with lipid metabolism disorders, including patients with combined lipid and carbohydrate metabolism disorders. There was a direct correlation between the representation of Bacteroidetes and the level of triglycerides in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus as well as an inverse correlation between the representation of Firmicutes and glucose levels in these patients and in control group.
We did not reveal statistically significant changes in the concentrations of microbial markers nor statistically significant correlations between the biochemical blood parameters and the representation of microbiome phylotypes in the blood of patients with lipid metabolism disorders.
Dietary Calendars in the Slavic Middle Ages: A Case Study
Authors: Kuzidova-Karadžinova Irina 
Published: April 2022

Thе article attempts to delineate the boundaries of dissemination of dietary calendars in the Balkan Slavic cultural area through the evidence that can be obtained from the names, places, and very rarely patrons, found in the manuscripts that contain them. Special attention is paid to the most eminent men of letters who included dieteticons in their miscellanies – the Moldavian copyist Gavriil Urik, the Serbian monks Gavriil of Mount Athos and Gavrilo Trojičanin, and the Bulgarian priest Avram Dimitrievič. The analysis of the dissemination of dietary calendars in mediaeval South Slavic and Slavic-Moldavian literatures shows that the trajectory of this marginal genre started from royal codices, ran through manuscripts commissioned by rich patrons and produced in scriptoria, and ended in the miscellanies of ordinary priests and laypersons. Whatever their hierarchical dynamics may be in Slavic literatures, they, as a whole, remain outside the context of properly medical knowledge, gravitating around miscellanies of divinatory and astrological works, erotapokriseis and apocrypha.
Examining some of the Students’ Challenges and Alternative Conceptions in Learning about Acid-base Titrations
Authors: Salame Issa I. , Montero Adrianny , Eschweiler Dani 
Published: April 2022

Chemical equilibria, including acid-base equilibria, play a significant role in the learning of general chemistry. Acid-base reactions as well as acidity and basicity concepts and their relationship to titrations are an important part of any general chemistry course, and students have difficulties understanding these concepts. The purpose of this research project is to examine some of the challenges and alternative conceptions that students face in learning about acid-base titrations. A Likert-type survey with open-ended questions were used to assess the understanding of 110 participants. The investigation took place at a public, urban, and minority-serving institute. Our data suggest that students struggle with learning about acid-base titration problems and concepts. They rely on algorithmic problem solving, rote- learning, plugging into equations, and calculator use when approaching acid-base titration problems instead of developing their conceptual understanding and meaningful learning of the concepts. Additionally, our data support the notion that development of conceptual understanding of acid-base titration is important for students’ learning. Furthermore, our research data suggest that students have difficulties with understanding and visualizing what is taking place at the microscopic level during acid-base titration reactions. Instructors should consider teaching strategies that include leaning about and interrelating the symbolic, macroscopic, and microscopic levels of representations which can promote learning and deeper understanding of abstract chemical concepts. We recommend that instructors explicitly address and relate the three levels of representation in their teaching of chemistry concepts.
Keywords: chemistry education research, acid-base titration, challenges
Hubungan Celebrity Worship dengan Perilaku Berbelanja Kompulsif pada Remaja
Authors: Sari Yulia , Fianiyanti Kristina , Yuliadi Istar 
Published: April 2022

Latar Belakang: Perilaku berbelanja masyarakat dapat dipengaruhi oleh orang yang mereka idolakan. Pemujaan idola (celebrity worship) merupakan salah satu bagian dalam pengembangan identitas di masa remaja. Pemenuhan kebutuhan ketika menjadi bagian dari kelompok penggemar tidak bisa lepas dari praktik konsumsi. Namun jika dilakukan secara terus-menerus secara adiktif-obsesif dengan melakukan pembelian barang-barang yang tidak begitu diperlukan maka akan menjadi perilaku berbelanja kompulsif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara celebrity worship dan perilaku berbelanja kompulsif pada remaja
Metode: Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian observasional analitik dengan pendekatan studi potong lintang (cross sectional). Subjek yang dipilih berasal dari mahasiswa kedokteran UNS. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang dipakai adalah non-probability sampling, dengan tipe purposive sampling. Dengan rumus besar sampel analitik korelatif ordinal-ordinal, dibutuhkan 100 subjek dalam penelitian ini sesuai dengan kriteria inklusi yakni berusia 17-21 tahun, memiliki minimal satu idola, dan bersedia menjadi subjek penelitian. Kriteria ekslusi yakni pernah didiagnosis gangguan jiwa dan tidak bersedia menjadi subjek penelitian.
Hasil: Penelitian ini dari hasil uji korelasi spearman bahwa terdapat hubungan antara celebrity worship dan perilaku berbelanja kompuslif remaja dengan nilai koefisien korelasi (r) 0,272 dengan nilai signifikansi (p) 0,006. Uji linieritas menunjukkan nilai signifikansi (p) sebesar 0,000.
Simpulan: Terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara celebrity worship dan perilaku berbelanja kompuslif pada remaja
Nuclear activation in dual-durotaxing cells on a matrix with cell-scale stiffness-heterogeneity
Authors: Kidoaki Satoru , Ebata Hiroyuki , Moriyama Kosuke , Kuboki Thasaneeya , Tsuji Yukie , Sawada Rumi , Sasaki Saori , Okuda Tatsuya , Hamano Kosuke , Kawano Takahito , Yamamoto Aki , Kono Ken , Tanaka Kazusa 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Living organisms are typically composed of various tissues with microscopic cell-scale stiffness-heterogeneity, in which some cells receive dynamically fluctuating mechanical stimuli from the heterogeneous extracellular milieu during long-term movement. Although intracellular stress dynamics (ISD), which are closely related to the regulation of cell functions such as proliferation and differentiation, can be characteristically modulated in cells migrating on a matrix with stiffness-heterogeneity, it has been unclear how the mode of fluctuation of ISD affects cell functions. In the present study, we demonstrate that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) dual-durotaxing (i.e., both forward and reverse durotaxis) on microelastically-patterned gels with stiff triangular domains markedly amplify the fluctuation of ISD, nuclear shape, and the spatial distribution of chromatins, which makes the cells remain far from tensional equilibrium. We provide evidence that amplified chromatin fluctuation in the dual-durotaxing MSCs can cause activation of cellular vigor and maintenance of the stemness.
Predictors of delayed consultation in undescended testis patients at a Rwandan referral hospital
Authors: Bonane Alexis , Nshimiyimana Alexis , Nzeyimana Innocent , Nyirimodoka Alexandre , Muhawenimana Emmanuel , Hategekimana Theobald , Rickard Jennifer 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
PurposeTo identify the causes of delayed consultation of patients with undescended testis (UDT) at a Rwandan referral hospital.MethodsThis was a retrospective descriptive study of patients with delayed UDT from 2012 – 2016. Delayed UDT was defined as any patient presenting with UDT at >1 year of age. Relevant data was extracted from patients’ files.ResultsOver the study period, there were 44 cases of delayed presentation of UDT. Most patients (n=35, 80%) were born at a hospital and 9 (21%) were born at home. Most (n=29, 65%) parents had primary level of education, 6 (14%) secondary level, 1 (2%) university level, and 8 (18%) never went to school.Overall, 16 (36%) patients reported that they delayed due to ignorance, 12 (27%) due to poor physical examination at birth, 7 (16%) due to poor guidance, 4 (9%) due to poverty and 5 (11%) due to long appointments. Patients born at home were more likely to identify ignorance as a reason for delayed presentation (p=0.007). Of the 16 patients who delayed due to ignorance, 12 parents had primary level of education and 3 had no education.Most (n=34, 77%) patients were fertile during their adulthood, but 9 (21%) presented with infertility and 1 (2%) presented with testicular torsion.ConclusionA number of reasons are responsible for delayed consultation in patients with UDT including ignorance, poor physical examination at birth by physicians, poor guidance, and poverty. Most causes are preventable. Henceforth, urgent need for population awareness on UDT and collaboration between physicians is paramount for early consult and timely management.
Interleukin-35 controls the balance between osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation of progenitor cells
Authors: Li Yuxuan , Wang Xiaofei , Lu Jing 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Aims: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent stem cells that are able to differentiate into several cell types, including cartilage, fat, and bone. It has been reported that the decision process of MSCs into fat and bone cells is competing and reciprocal. Interleukin (IL)-35 is an important effector protein in the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway that acts as a bone metabolism regulator. However, it is unclear whether IL-35 is also important for regulating MSCs differentiation to fat and bone.Methods: In current study, we evaluated the role of IL-35 in C3H10T1/2 cells, which are a good cell model for investigating osteogenesis and adipogenesis in bone-marrows. The role of IL-35 on MSCs proliferation and apoptosis were assessed using cell counting kit -8 assay and flow cytometry, respectively. Extracellular matrix mineralization and lipid accumulation were measured by Alizarin red S staining and Oil-red O staining, respectively. The most important transcription factor of the process of osteogenesis Runx2 and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway components β-catenin and Axin2 were investigated in response to IL-35 treatment. Furthermore, the adipogenic markers PPAR-γ and C/EBPα were also investigated.Results: Our observations showed that IL-35 could promote the proliferation of MSCs and inhibit the apoptosis of MSCs. We found that IL-35 treatment resulted in a dramatic stimulation of osteogenesis and inhibition of adipogenesis. Moreover, IL-35 enhanced Wnt/β-catenin pathway key component β-catenin as well as Axin2 expression during MSCs differentiated to osteoblasts.Conclusions: Our findings suggested that IL-35 might control the balance between osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation of progenitor cells through Wnt/β-catenin-PPARγ signaling pathway, suggesting its potential application in providing an intervention in osteoporosis and obesity.