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Optical cycling of MgF molecules within the hyperfine states in X(N=1) state
Co-option of an ancestral cloacal regulatory landscape during digit evolution
Development and evaluation of hybrid harris hawks optimization algorithms for advanced engineering applications
Taiwan invests in genetic resource for health
Soil communities following harvest have different early successional dynamics compared with post-wildfire patterns
Abstract Stand-replacing wildfire is the primary natural disturbance in jack pine-dominated boreal forests; but clearcut harvest also emulates this natural renewal process. We used a 60-year clearcut harvest chronosequence to assess whether soil communities became more similar to those in wildfire-origin stands over time. We assessed convergence across disturbance types at each stand development stage and recovery compared to the wildfire mature stand development stage (~ 85 years). To evaluate cumulative effects, we also assessed a 20-year salvage harvest chronosequence where wildfire was followed by salvage logging of fire-killed trees. Beta diversity analyses showed different recovery times among soil taxa. Following clearcut harvest, bacteria converged to wildfire reference conditions more quickly, followed by arthropods, whereas fungi did not converge within the study period. Soil communities in salvage-logged sites diverged from clearcut harvest and wildfire references suggesting compounded disturbance effects. This work showcases how highly-scalable DNA metabarcoding and bioinformatic tools can be applied to simultaneously monitor a diverse array of soil biota. In future work, tracking fungal and arthropod soil communities may provide more insights into the longer-term effects of current forest management practices and provide guidance when comparing alternative approaches.
Astragaloside IV attenuates uremia-induced myocardial injury by inhibiting autophagy via ATF4
Analysis and treatment of invert uplift in a long span tunnel in weak mudstone
ETV1 orchestrates a self-reinforcing ERK1/2-RSK3 signaling loop to drive atrial fibrillation pathogenesis: implications for targeted therapy
Factors affecting colonization and assemblage structure of fish in newly created ponds
Micro-Doppler radar deception and camouflage of airborne targets
Analysis of clinically relevant large tandem repeats using nanopore sequencing
A simple behavioral evaluation test of human face identity recognition with natural images validated with the case of prosopagnosia PS
Abstract Behavioral evaluation of face identity recognition (FIR) ability has been performed with images for decades but remains subject to challenges regarding the stimuli and tasks used as well as the measured variables. Here we validate two simple nonverbal tests of FIR with ambient natural face images in neurotypical individuals and the well-documented brain-damaged case of prosopagnosia PS. In the first task, participants must select a famous identity among 3 simultaneously presented pictures. While neurotypical individuals scored almost at ceiling, PS was at chance level. In contrast, she was flawless at the same task with written names. The second task requires matching different views of familiar or unfamiliar faces for their identity against one distractor face, at upright or inverted orientation. While performing well above chance level, PS was significantly impaired and slowed down compared to neurotypical controls. Moreover, unlike controls, she showed no advantage for familiar or upright faces. Altogether, these simple behavioral FIR tests present with numerous advantages in terms of validity (i.e., natural images, lack of response biases, familiarity and inversion effects) and sensitivity (i.e., high contrast between patients and controls), making them particularly advantageous to rapidly evaluate the integrity of this function in normal and pathological populations.