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Mind the Gap
The way organelles are viewed by cell biologists is quickly changing. For many years, these cellular entities were thought to be unique and singular structures that performed specific roles. However, in recent decades...
The Impact of Activity-Based Protein Profiling in Malaria Drug Discovery.
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is an approach used at the interface of chemical biology and proteomics that uses small molecular probes to provide dynamic fingerprints of enzymatic activity in complex proteomes. Malaria...
Cross-sectional and prospective impact of reallocating sedentary time to physical activity on children's body composition.
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks
Rui Gaspar, Sílvia Luís, Beate Seibt, Maria Luísa Lima, Afrodita Marcu, Pieter Rutsaert, Dave Fletcher, Wim Verbeke, Julie Barnett
Jan 01, 0001
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory...
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks
Rui Gaspar, Sílvia Luís, Beate Seibt, Maria Luísa Lima, Afrodita Marcu, Pieter Rutsaert, Dave Fletcher, Wim Verbeke, Julie Barnett
Jan 01, 0001
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory...
Paracetamol Is Associated with a Lower Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Decreased ACE2 Protein Expression
Ibuprofen is a common over-the-counter drug taken for pain relief. However, recent studies have raised concerns about its potential toxic effect with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute...
Diagnosis of insulin autoimmune syndrome using polyethylene glycol precipitation and gel filtration chromatography with ex vivo insulin exchange.
David Church, Luís Cardoso, Sonia Bradbury, Catriona Clarke, Anna Stears, Anna Dover, David Halsall, Robert Semple
Oct 24, 2016
Intense bone fluorescence reveals hidden patterns in pumpkin toadlets.
Sandra Goutte, Matthew J Mason, Marta M Antoniazzi, Carlos Jared, Didier Merle, Lilian Cazes, Luís Felipe Toledo, Hanane El-Hafci, Stéphane Pallu, Hugues Portier, Stefan Schramm, Pierre Gueriau, Mathieu Thoury
Apr 25, 2019
The phenomenon of fluorescence can be used by animals to change effective colouration or patterning, potentially to serve functions including intra- and interspecific signalling. Initially believed to be restricted to marine...
Flexible Optical Amplifier for Visible-Light Communications Based on Organic-Inorganic Hybrids.
Ana Bastos, Barry McKenna, Mário Lima, Paulo S André, Luís D Carlos, Rachel C Evans, Rute AS Ferreira
Feb 08, 2019
Visible-light communications (VLCs) based on white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are emerging as a low-cost and energy-efficient alternative solution to wireless communications. As white emitting LEDs use a combination of a...
Profiling IT Security and Interoperability in Brazilian Health Organisations From a Business Perspective
Rui Rijo, Ricardo Martinho, Adicinéia Oliveira, Domingos Alves, Zilma Reis, Cátia Santos-Pereira, Manuel Correia, Luís Antunes, Ricardo Cruz-Correia
Apr 01, 2020
The proliferation of electronic health (e-Health) initiatives in Brazil over the last 2 decades has resulted in a considerable fragmentation within health information technology (IT), with a strong political interference. The...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Cross-sectional and prospective associations of sleep duration and bedtimes with adiposity and obesity risk in 15 810 youth from 11 international cohorts.
Paul J Collings, Anders Grøntved, Russell Jago, Susi Kriemler, Kate Northstone, Jardena J Puder, Jo Salmon, Luís B Sardinha, Jostein Steene-Johannessen, Esther Mf van Sluijs, Lauren B Sherar, Dale W Esliger, Ulf Ekelund, International Children's Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators
Dec 15, 2021
Physical activity attenuates metabolic risk of adolescents with overweight or obesity
André O Werneck, Danilo R Silva, Adewale L Oyeyemi, Rômulo A Fernandes, Jostein Steene-Johannesen, Lars Bo Andersen, Kate Northstone, Luís B Sardinha, International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators
Nov 15, 2019
Synergistic photoluminescence enhancement in conjugated polymer-di-ureasil organic-inorganic composites.
Niamh Willis-Fox, Ana-Teresa Marques, Jochen Arlt, Ullrich Scherf, Luís D Carlos, Hugh D Burrows, Rachel C Evans
Jul 03, 2018
Poly(fluorene) conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE)-di-ureasil organic-inorganic composites have been prepared using a versatile sol-gel processing method, which enables selective localisation of the CPE within the di-ureasil...
Sequencing conjugated polymers by eye.
Daniel A Warr, Luís MA Perdigão, Harry Pinfold, Jonathan Blohm, David Stringer, Anastasia Leventis, Hugo Bronstein, Alessandro Troisi, Giovanni Costantini
Nov 05, 2018
The solid-state microstructure of a conjugated polymer is the most important parameter determining its properties and performance in (opto)-electronic devices. A huge amount of research has been dedicated to tuning and...
European domestic horses originated in two holocene refugia
V Warmuth, A Eriksson, MA Bower, J Cañon, G Cothran, O Distl, ML Glowatzki-Mullis, H Hunt, C Luís, M do Mar Oom
Jul 14, 2017
Isolated Taylor Bubbles in Co-Current with Shear Thinning CMC Solutions in Microchannels—A Numerical Study
Slug flow is a multiphase flow pattern characterized by the occurrence of long gas bubbles (Taylor bubbles) separated by liquid slugs. This multiphase flow regime is present in many and diversified natural and industrial...
Ana I Moreira, Luís AM Rocha, João Carneiro, José DP Araújo, João BLM Campos, João M Miranda
Feb 21, 2020
Ferroelectric Orthorhombic ZrO2 Thin Films Achieved Through Nanosecond Laser Annealing.
Anna PS Crema, Marian C Istrate, Alexandre Silva, Veniero Lenzi, Leonardo Domingues, Megan O Hill, Valentin S Teodorescu, Corneliu Ghica, Maria JM Gomes, Mario Pereira, Luís Marques, Judith L Macmanus-Driscoll, José PB Silva
Mar 23, 2023
A new approach for the stabilization of the ferroelectric orthorhombic ZrO2 films is demonstrated through nanosecond laser annealing (NLA) of as-deposited Si/SiOx /W(14 nm)/ZrO2 (8 nm)/W(22 nm), grown by ion beam sputtering at...
How to use biomarkers of infection or sepsis at the bedside
Pedro Póvoa, Luís Coelho, Felipe Dal-Pizzol, Ricard Ferrer, Angela Huttner, Andrew Conway Morris, Vandack Nobre, Paula Ramirez, Anahita Rouze, Jorge Salluh, Mervyn Singer, Daniel A Sweeney, Antoni Torres, Grant Waterer, Andre C Kalil
Feb 01, 2023
Hepatobiliary phenotypes of adults with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Malin Fromme, Carolin V Schneider, Vitor Pereira, Karim Hamesch, Monica Pons, Matthias C Reichert, Federica Benini, Paul Ellis, Katrine H Thorhauge, Mattias Mandorfer, Barbara Burbaum, Vivien Woditsch, Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko, Jef Verbeek, Frederik Nevens, Joan Genesca, Marc Miravitlles, Alexa Nuñez, Benedikt Schaefer, Heinz Zoller, Sabina Janciauskiene, Nélia Abreu, Luís Jasmins, Rui Gaspar, Rodrigo Liberal, Guilherme Macedo, Ravi Mahadeva, Catarina Gomes, Kai Markus Schneider, Michael Trauner, Aleksander Krag, Bibek Gooptu, Douglas Thorburn, Aileen Marshall, John R Hurst, David A Lomas, Frank Lammert, Nadine T Gaisa, Virginia Clark, William Griffiths, Christian Trautwein, Alice M Turner, Noel G McElvaney, Pavel Strnad
Mar 02, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is a common, potentially lethal inborn disorder caused by mutations in alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT). Homozygosity for the 'Pi*Z' variant of AAT (Pi*ZZ genotype) causes lung and liver...
Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes.
Juan P González-Varo, Beatriz Rumeu, Jörg Albrecht, Juan M Arroyo, Rafael S Bueno, Tamara Burgos, Luís P da Silva, Gema Escribano-Ávila, Nina Farwig, Daniel García, Ruben H Heleno, Juan C Illera, Pedro Jordano, Przemysław Kurek, Benno I Simmons, Emilio Virgós, William J Sutherland, Anna Traveset
Jul 09, 2021
Climate change is forcing the redistribution of life on Earth at an unprecedented velocity1,2. Migratory birds are thought to help plants to track climate change through long-distance seed dispersal3,4. However, seeds may be...
Anisotropy of Charge Transport in a Uniaxially Aligned Fused Electron-Deficient Polymer Processed by Solution Shear Coating.
Mingfei Xiao, Boseok Kang, Seon Baek Lee, Luís MA Perdigão, Alex Luci, Daniel A Warr, Satyaprasad P Senanayak, Mark Nikolka, Martin Statz, Yutian Wu, Aditya Sadhanala, Sam Schott, Remington Carey, Qijing Wang, Mijung Lee, Chaewon Kim, Ada Onwubiko, Cameron Jellett, Hailiang Liao, Wan Yue, Kilwon Cho, Giovanni Costantini, Iain McCulloch, Henning Sirringhaus
Mar 27, 2020
Precise control of the microstructure in organic semiconductors (OSCs) is essential for developing high-performance organic electronic devices. Here, a comprehensive charge transport characterization of two recently reported...
Deletion of iRhom2 protects against diet-induced obesity by increasing thermogenesis.
Marina Badenes, Abdulbasit Amin, Ismael González-García, Inês Félix, Emma Burbridge, Miguel Cavadas, Francisco José Ortega, Érika de Carvalho, Pedro Faísca, Stefania Carobbio, Elsa Seixas, Dora Pedroso, Ana Neves-Costa, Luís F Moita, José Manuel Fernández-Real, António Vidal-Puig, Ana Domingos, Miguel López, Colin Adrain
Feb 10, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Obesity is the result of positive energy balance. It can be caused by excessive energy consumption but also by decreased energy dissipation, which occurs under several conditions including when the development or...
Immunophenotype of Gastric Tumors Unveils a Pleiotropic Role of Regulatory T Cells in Tumor Development.
Sara Rocha, Afonso P Basto, Marieke E Ijsselsteijn, Sara P Teles, Maria M Azevedo, Gilza Gonçalves, Irene Gullo, Gabriela M Almeida, Joaquín J Maqueda, Marta I Oliveira, Fátima Carneiro, João T Barata, Luís Graça, Noel FCC de Miranda, Joana Carvalho, Carla Oliveira
Jan 24, 2021
Gastric cancer (GC) patients display increased regulatory T cell (Tregs) numbers in peripheral blood and among tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Nevertheless, the role of Tregs in GC progression remains controversial. Here, we...
The future for Mediterranean wetlands
Nigel G Taylor, Patrick Grillas, Hazem Al Hreisha, Özge Balkız, Maud Borie, Olivier Boutron, Ana Catita, Jocelyn Champagnon, Semia Cherif, Kerim Çiçek, Luís T Costa, Mohamed Dakki, Mauro Fois, Thomas Galewski, Alessandro Galli, Nicholas M Georgiadis, Andy J Green, Virgilio Hermoso, Rezart Kapedani, Manfred A Lange, Zoran Mateljak, Maher Osta, Eva Papastergiadou, Clairie Papazoglou, Sergi Sabater, Boudjéma Samraoui, Farrah Samraoui, Abdelkrim Si Bachir, Eva Tankovic, Mathieu Thévenet, Antonio Troya, William J Sutherland
Apr 14, 2021
UNLABELLED: Wetlands are critically important for biodiversity and human wellbeing, but face a range of challenges. This is especially true in the Mediterranean region, where wetlands support endemic and threatened species and...
Genomic analysis of European bovine Staphylococcus aureus from clinical versus subclinical mastitis
Jurriaan Hoekstra, Aldert L. Zomer, Victor P. M. G. Rutten, Lindert Benedictus, Arjan Stegeman, Mirlin P. Spaninks, Torben W. Bennedsgaard, Andrew Biggs, Sarne De Vliegher, Demetrio Herrera Mateo, Reglindis Huber-Schlenstedt, Jørgen Katholm, Péter Kovács, Volker Krömker, Guillaume Lequeux, Paolo Moroni, Luís Pinho, Sebastian Smulski, Karlien Supré, Jantijn M. Swinkels, Mark A. Holmes, Theo J. G. M. Lam, Gerrit Koop
Oct 23, 2020
Abstract: Intramammary infections (IMI) with Staphylococcus aureus are a common cause of bovine mastitis and can result in both clinical (CM) or subclinical mastitis (SCM). Although bacterial isolates of S. aureus differ in...
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