Seagrass ecosystems play a vital role in marine environments, providing essential services, and supporting a diversity of fauna and algae that are critical components in marine trophic structures. However, global and local seagrass declines due to various influences raise concerns about the health of these ecosystems. This study investigated the structural and environmental drivers influencing epifaunal communities associated with the dwarf eelgrass ( Zostera capensis), in a temperate lagoon ecosystem. Variation in epifaunal patterns across phenotypically distinct seagrass populations were observed. Large-leaved morphotypes in deeper intertidal stands near the lagoon mouth exhibited higher species diversity and richness. Conversely, small-leaved populations in higher shore stands supported greater species abundances, notably, two desiccation-resistant gastropods, Assiminea sp. and Siphonaria compressa. Seasonal differences in epifauna were significant, with higher abundances observed during spring and summer, while diversity and richness peaked in autumn and winter. Several key factors influencing epifaunal abundances were identified. The results of structural equation modelling showed seagrass shoot densities and leaf width to have positive direct effects, with light (turbidity) and oxygen levels also playing important roles. Temperature, pH, and exposure indirectly affected epifaunal abundances, however, temperature had a direct effect on seagrass structure and significantly influenced five out of six seagrass metrics measured. Ongoing assessments of seagrass distribution in the lagoon indicate more significant declines in populations near to the lagoon mouth, suggesting a simultaneous reduction in associated epifaunal communities reliant on large-leaved seagrass beds. As climate change-induced warming continues, further declines in seagrass populations are anticipated, particularly in large-leaved varieties. This trend is likely to have adverse consequences for the associated epifaunal communities and other trophic levels within the ecosystem. Given the significance of seagrass habitats for food provision and sustaining livelihoods, the loss of these ecosystems could have far-reaching consequences. Preserving seagrass ecosystems is therefore crucial to ensuring the continued provision of these ecosystem services.

Introduction: Children with atopic dermatitis(AD) suffer from a high illness burden that has a detrimental influence on their quality of life . Objective: To determine whether topical corticosteroids and dupilumab are effective for treating atopic dermatitis in children. Methods: Web of Science, PubMed, and Embase, three well-known databases, were used to conduct a thorough literature search. Using a fixed-effects or random-effects model, the standard mean difference (SMD) or risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated.PROSPERO lists the trial protocol as CRD42023408546. Results: There were 3 investigations in total, and 896 people met the requirements for inclusion.The combined estimate showed that dupilumab plus topical corticosteroids had numerically greater efficacy in terms of EASI-50, EASI-75, EASI-90, and Investigator Global Assessment (IGA) score of 0 or 1.When compared to placebo, children who got topical corticosteroids and dupilumab scored considerably higher on the dermatological life quality index (CDLQI). The number of individuals who achieved IGA0/1 rose with the use of dupilumab and topical corticosteroids. Conclusions:In children with AD, dipilumab and topical corticosteroids may be used to treat the symptoms. Given the substantial variation between the research, the findings should, however, be regarded with caution.

An efficient and convenient method was developed for the one-pot construction of pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinoxalines via a Cu(II)-catalyzed domino reaction between 2-(1H-pyrrol-1-yl)anilines and alkylsilyl peroxides. The synthetic protocol is characterized by a broad sub-strate scope, O2 as oxidant, and commercially readily available catalysts. This reaction proceeds through a C–C bond cleavage and new C–C and C–N bond formation. A mechanistic study suggests that alkyl radical species participate in the cascade reaction.

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One of key factors in simulating offshore wind field is con- sidering the effects of waves on momentum and energy ex- changes between the atmosphere and ocean. However, most NWP models traditionally overlook the effects of waves, due to the lack of suitable roughness length parameterization. To address this issue, coupling atmospheric and wave mod- els has emerged which handles the wind-wave interaction through the exchange of a few quantities between two mod- els. On the other hand, integrating atmospheric and wave models requires substantial computational resources and as- sociated expenses. In this study, we developed an offline wave coupling method in the WRF to account for wave ef- fects on wind field simulations. With this method, the WRF is modified to read wave parameters and bathymetry data, and to parameterize roughness length using these data. Our study aims to evaluate the offline method by comparing it to an online coupling system that uses the coupled atmosphere and wave models, as well as observation data. We found that the offline method utilizes almost 17% fewer computational resources and 19% less computational time compared to the online method, while maintaining identical forecasting accu- racy. Evaluation of the results during dominant swell con- dition suggested that both methods are able to reduce the forecast uncertainty compared to LiDAR measurement spe- cially in the lower part of atmosphere.

Motivation: Cancer, a leading cause of death worldwide, is intertwined with immune system. Changing the state of immune system, as a complex network of cells and molecules interacting in a hierarchical mode, holds considerable fascination to fight cancer. This alteration can involve debilitating pro-tumorigenic and reinvigorating anti-tumorigenic functions by the help of driver vertices. The utilization of network controllability and control centrality-based analysis will aid in the identification of driver vertices to control target proteins that play significant roles in the anti-tumorigenic and pro-tumorigenic functions of immune cells. In this study, a weighted generalization of the control centrality was constructed, in which the control power of each vertex in the network is obtained based on the importance of a set of under control vertices. Results: Screening all homo sapiens-related pathways in KEGG database, we find that “Immune and cancer pathways” subnetwork showed the greatest number of edges and nodes in relation to positive and negative target proteins. The first five driver vertices obtained for positive targets are ICAM2, TLR2, MAP2K4, ELK1, SIRT1 and for negative targets are ELK4, RBX1, NFATC1, NFATC2, NFATC3. Our results suggest that exposing the external signal to reinvigorate driver vertices of positive targets and debilitate driver vertices of negative target will result in changing the immune system state to fight cancer.

Different components of emotional responding may be affected by using specific emotion regulation strategies that enable children’s volitional self-regulation. This study examined the affective, cognitive, and physiological effects of experimentally instructing children to deploy distraction and reappraisal to regulate negative emotion during an evocative film clip. One-hundred eighty-four 4- to 11-year-old children (M = 7.66 years; SD = 2.33 years; 94 girls) participated. Neither strategy affected observed distress or self-reported negative emotion. Relative to a control condition, children instructed to use reappraisal reported marginally less happiness after the emotional film and attenuated rumination. Distraction also predicted attenuated rumination, as well as a pattern of parasympathetic reactivity indicative of disengagement that correlated with parents’ reported use of minimizing and punitive emotion socialization practices. Findings underscore the utility of multi-method approaches that examine parasympathetic activity in conjunction with volitional measures of self-regulation.

Heart rate variability (HRV) theoretically provides a biomarker for self-regulation, although studies with young children offer mixed findings regarding the relevance of emotional demands in this link. We aimed to describe variation in children’s HRV during tasks with relatively high and low emotional load, and to determine the relation of HRV during these tasks to different behavioral measures of children’s self-regulation. Electrocardiograms were recorded in 80 3 - 5-year-olds (M = 57 months; 54% male, 47% female) while they completed a Go/No-go task with low emotional load and an emotionally challenging Delay Frustration task. Mean HRV was similar across these tasks, although it increased during a between-task rest interval. Accounting for age, gender, and caregiver education, higher HRV during both tasks, but not during rest, correlated with children’s executive function task performance. HRV during Delay Frustration correlated with caregiver-reported self-regulation, whereas greater HRV withdrawal during tasks correlated with children’s task-related negative frustration. Children’s maintenance of HRV during emotional and cognitive challenge may support their effective self-regulation.

Abstract Purpose The main objective of this study is to characterize and analyze modified peptides in DBS samples. This includes deciphering their specific PTMs and understanding their potential impact on the population or disease cohort under study. Experimental design Using mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches, we performed a comprehensive analysis of DBS samples. Our focus was on the identification and quantification of modified peptides. We also took advantage of recent advances in DBS mass spectrometry to ensure accurate detection and quantification. Results A comprehensive analysis identified 976 modified peptides in DBS samples. Of these, a subset of 211 peptides was consistently present in all samples, highlighting their potential biological importance and relevance. This indicates a diverse spectrum of PTMs in the proteome of DBS samples. Conclusions and clinical relevance Integration of mass spectrometry and proteomics has revealed a broad spectrum of modified peptides in DBS samples and highlighted their importance in biological processes and disease progression. Accurate detection of these PTMs may be critical for risk stratification and disease management. This study improves the understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying biological processes and disease development, providing important insights for clinical applications.

Acute glaucoma’s main sign is acute ocular hypertension (AOH), leading to retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death and irreversible visual loss. However, there is currently no approved effective therapy for this condition. This research aimed to identify the major regulators and the overall protein changes involved in AOH-induced RGC death. Mass-spectrometry was used to analyze proteomic patterns in the retinal protein extracts from the AOH and sham-group, and then Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway studies were performed. In proteomics analysis, we identified 92 proteins in the AOH group compared to the control group, with 58 proteins being up-regulated and 34 proteins being down-regulated. Western blot and biochemical assay analyses identified changes in Fatty acid-binding protein 7 (FABP7), and caveolin-1(Cav-1) that were related to fatty acid metabolism and ocular inflammatory signaling. Moreover, variations in the expression of the proteins Galectin-1 (Gal-1), S100 calcium-binding protein A6 (S100a6), and Visinin-like protein-1 (VILIP) was shown, all of which were associated to the process of neuronal ischemia. Our investigation demonstrated that neuroinflammation and fatty acid metabolism were involved in retinal impairment following AOH, offering a potential therapeutic strategy for acute glaucoma.

Background: Allergic rhinitis is the specific inflammation against allergen by immune defense cells on nasal mucosa, which can lead to chronic nasal symptoms such as sneezing, itching, runny nose, and nasal congestion. it is associated with high morbidities including sinusitis, asthma, otitis media, hypertrophied inferior turbinate and nasal polyp. Despite its complications, it remains poorly recognized and tracked. Methods: A cross-sectional hospital based study was done, a total of 221 patients received ORL services at Kilimanjaro Christian medical Centre during study period were interviewed all patients with a clinical diagnosis of allergic rhinitis were captured; Data was collected using a pre-tested coded questionnaire (SFAR) The data was then analyzed by SPSS version 22. Results: A total of 221 patients with clinical diagnosis of allergic rhinitis were approached in Six (6) months study period, 111 (50.2%) were females, 140 (63.4%) were residing in urban areas. The prevalence of allergic rhinitis was 23.9%. Factors such as age OR 0.12, 95% C.I (0.03; 0.40), education OR 0.13, 95% C.I (0.04; 0.44), occupation OR 3.75, 95% C.I (1.36; 10.32), Adenotonsillar hypertrophy OR 4.66, 95% C.I (2.21; 9.80) and OME OR 4.11, 95% C.I (1.32; 12.83) (p=0.009) was found to be significantly associated with allergic rhinitis. 60.4%, Inferior turbinate hypertrophy was the leading co-morbidity of allergic rhinitis which accounts 64.7%. Conclusion: Allergic rhinitis is among the common health problems affecting Tanzanians. It is a commonly seen disorder in younger age (<15 yrs) which is in correlation with other studies done in Africa and worldwide.

Background Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity (RSA-R) correlates both positively and negatively with externalizing behavior in autistic individuals. These inconsistencies may result from task-based differences. Furthermore, RSA-R is understudied in young autistic children, despite particular challenges with externalizing behavior. This pilot study measured RSA-R in 4-to 6-year-olds, across two time-points, using four validated tasks with matched baseline and challenge periods. Methods RSA and parent-reported externalizing behavior were collected from 17 children (Mage=5.57 years). RSA-R was measured by the difference score of the challenge task minus its corresponding comparison task. Correlations were computed to evaluate relationships between RSA-R and behavior. Results RSA was reliably measured for 3/4 tasks (.694 ≤ ICCs ≤ .896). Only RSA-R during a social task correlated with externalizing behavior. These results support using a battery that measures a range of challenges, differing in social demands, to characterize how arousal contributes to emotion regulation demands among young autistic children.

An updated synopsis of the genus Chara L. (Characeae) occurring in India are discussed here in conformity with the available monographs, literatures, related publications, digital herbarium records and online taxonomic databases. The taxonomy and nomenclature are based on the critical review of 51 taxa of Chara L. which include 35 species, 9 varieties and 7 forms so far reported from India. Information related to type citations, range of distribution along with the key for each taxon was included in discussion. The review further marks 9 taxonomically uncertain taxa of India.

Objective：To compare the efficacy and safety of telbivudine (LdT), tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) for preventing Hepatitis B transmission in immune-tolerant pregnant women with HBV infection. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study involving women who had HBV DNA 2 × 105 IU / ml and initiated LdT, TDF or TAF to prevent mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). The primary endpoint was the safety of mothers and infants. The secondary endpoints were maternal hepatitis B virus DNA reduction at delivery and mother-to-child transmission rate. Results: A total of 96 patients were enrolled in the study ( LdT group, n=36; TDF group, n=35; TAF group, n=25). All infants received hepatitis B virus immunoprophylaxis. The mother-to-child transmission rate was 0%( [0 of 25] vs. [0 of 35] vs [0 of 36], P＞0.05). No severe liver function damage occurred in any of the mothers. Babies delivered in all groups had prenatal ultrasound screening abnormalities, but abnormality rates were not statistically significant between groups. Conclusion: The application of TDF, TAF, or LdT to immune-tolerant HBV-infected pregnant women in middle-late pregnancy, can successfully interrupt mother-to-child transmission of the HBV virus. However, for all three groups of pregnant women who delivered babies with abnormal prenatal ultrasound screening, an expanded sample size may be needed for further observation.

This paper continues the publication of Aspidistra species newly discovered in the flora of Vietnam. It includes an illustrated description of A. pentagona, found in northern parts of the country. Detailed analytical color illustrations, data on morphology and ecology, phenology, tentative relationships, distribution, and expected conservation status are provided for the discovered species.

This study examines the impact of the deviation between parents' educational expectations and children's parent--child educational expectations on children's health based on the data from Chinese family tracking surveys conducted in 2018 and 2020. We found that when parents' educational expectations are higher than their children's educational expectations, they have a negative impact on children's health status. According to the influence mechanism, the higher the parents' expectations of education are, the greater children's remedial behavior will be, the less leisure time will be, which will adversely affect children's health. Furthermore, we found that a good parent-child relationship moderated the negative impact of the deviation in parent-child educational expectations on children's health. Therefore, in order to ensure the healthy development of children, it is necessary to resolve the adverse effects of the deviation in parent--child educational expectations by arranging tutoring and leisure time rationally and establishing a good parent-child relationship.

Species of Apiaceae despite uniform floral structure show great variation in floral morphs and sexual distribution. In the present study, ontogeny of the diclinous flowers within “cage-like” inflorescence of the andromonoecious Dicyclophora persica Boiss., studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), in order to recognize whether they follow the same ontogenetic processes. The development of interesting unusual club-like organ in center of the umbel, furthermore, studied. The floral organs in diclinous flowers initiated from the common sectorial group-like primordia. Petals initiated as clockwise direction and stamens as modified helical pattern. Perfect flowers, despite sepal suppression, synchronized with staminate flowers in initiation of petals, stamens and carpels. In staminate flowers, in turn, two prominent sepals arise subsequently after initiation of stamens. Only in late stages, ovules get aborted. The club-like organ initiated from a naked receptacle that has no resemblances to the umbellets or flowers. The prolonged spatial constrains imposed by massive staminate flowers are responsible for suppression of sepals and sessile status of perfect flowers. Considering the ovules suppression, staminate flowers may likely adopt to conserve the perfect flowers from exposing in extreme environmental conditions, but not as substitution for perfect flowers.

The Gulf of Naples as a model system for plankton ecology studiesAdriana Zingone, Domenico D’Alelio and Maria Grazia MazzocchiStazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, NaplesPlankton play a fundamental role in coastal and oceanic ecosystems as a key element of biogeochemical cycles and pelagic trophic webs and contribute to determine and maintain the health of the oceans. Half of the world’s population leaving along the coasts (Vitousek et al., 1997) relies on services offered by plankton in terms of seafood availability and sea water quality. Therefore, monitoring, quantifying, and understanding the responses of plankton to the variability of the coastal ecosystem represent an urgent challenge to the scientific community, and even more so in an epoch of rapid environmental changes. Yet, because of the prevalently microscopic nature of planktonic organisms and logistic hindrances, research in this field has start developing only in the second half of the XIX century.One of the first marine sites where plankton were studied was the Gulf of Naples (GoN), a coastal embayment of the mid Tyrrhenian Sea in the western Mediterranean. The GoN is in the temperate zone but with subtropical characteristics, under the anthropogenic impacts from one of the most densely populated areas of the Mediterranean Sea contrasted by the influence of the open oligotrophic Tyrrhenian waters. Consequently, the GoN marine ecosystem is a mosaic of areas with different ecological conditions, where highly impacted habitats coexist with relatively pristine localities and marine protected areas. Studies on the plankton of the GoN were fostered by scientists working at the Stazione Zoologica (SZN), the first marine institution in Europe funded in 1872 by Anton Dohrn.Plankton of the GoN were initially analysed to unveil their extraordinary diversity (e.g., Giesbrecht, 1892) and phenology (De Angelis, 1958; Indelli 1944; Issel, 1934). In the second half of the last century, studies also focused on plankton taxonomy, life cycles, and distribution in space and time, until regular monitoring was started in 1984 with a long-term ecological research program at the siteMareChiara (LTER-MC) since 2006 part of the Italian, European and international LTER networks. LTER-MC is located two nautical miles off the coast of the city of Naples in an area that can be alternatively influenced by the eutrophic coastal zone and the oligotrophic waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Over the years, LTER-MC has proved to be not only a valuable observatory of the diversity, complexity and temporal variability of plankton but also a precious natural laboratory to test hypotheses that emerged from field observations (reviewed by Zingone et al., 2019).In this Special Issue we have collected the results of the most recent ecological investigations conducted on the plankton of the GoN with the intent to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the SZN foundation, an important occasion that has been widely celebrated (Boero et al., 2023). This special issue focuses on phyto- and zooplankton and their environment studied in both field and lab investigations, with classical methods as well as taking advantage of advanced technologies such as the recent developments of molecular approaches. With this collection, we gather the most updated knowledge on the plankton of the GoN, with a special attention to features that may shed light on general aspects going beyond the local scale of the sampling site.The topics investigated in this Special Issue span over different temporal scales. Some studies took into consideration a large period of the LTER-MC time-series and examined trends of environmental variables (Kokozska et al., 2023; Romillac et al., 2023), revealing that, in the case of plankton, hydrographic changes including inshore–offshore exchanges, the residence time of freshwater and the shallowing of the mixed layer depth are more important than simple temperature increase recorded in summer. The response of plankton is seen in the increased contribution over the years of the autumnal blooms deriving from a lengthening of the stratification period, and in significant trends in specific elements of the phyto- and meso-zooplankton (Saggiomo et al., 2023; Mazzocchi et al. 2023). Interestingly the observed environmental changes are contrasted by the overall stability of the whole mesozooplankton community (Mazzocchi et al., 2023), which parallels the resistance to interannual variation recently highlighted for phytoplankton (Longobardi et al., 2022). When it comes to individual key taxa, the need emerges to consider different aspects of their life cycle, such as fecundity and egg hutching success, to understand the important role played by biology in shaping the observed seasonal and long-term trends in copepod populations (Carotenuto et al., 2023).At the seasonal scale, the annual patterns of seven different and stable phytoplankton associations, identified by leveraging the multiannual data on species distribution from the LTER-MC time series, showed a close relationship with variables related to astronomical factors (Zingone et al., 2023). Their functional diversity varied across the seasons, with divergent or convergent traits within each association reflecting the variable strength of the environmental filtering. A high seasonal signal was also found in dinoflagellate communities investigated in a three-year metabarcoding dataset, along with the identification of a species-rich winter community, so far neglected by the current views of dinoflagellate preference for stable and warm summer conditions (Mordret et al., 2023).A whole range of classical and advanced approaches were used to address plankton variability, including the analysis of physical-chemical, biological and diversity data from the natural environment (Kokozska et al., 2023; Mazzocchi et al., 2023; Romillac et al., 2023; Zingone et al., 2023), laboratory experiments (e.g., Carotenuto et al., 2023; René et al. 2023; Traboni et al., 2023) and more sophisticated chemotaxonomic (Saggiomo et al., 2023) and biomolecular approaches (Di Capua et al., 2023; Mordret et al., 2023; Russo et al., 2023). The latter studies have addressed temporal trends in groups of species hardly detected by morphological studies, unveiling, for example, a high amount of dinoflagellate diversity not assigned to any described taxa (Mordret et al., 2023). This unknown diversity may reveal novel species to be discovered and described, but may also be the effect of massive gaps in reference datasets, i.e., the dictionaries that allow translating the environmental DNA data into biologically meaningful information. In this respect, the delivery of novel reference sequences from several crustacean zooplankters of the GoN represents a relevant contribution to help interpret metabarcoding data and decipher the hidden diversity of plankton communities and their role in the ecology of the system (Di Capua et al., 2023).Molecular approaches are also proven useful and usable to address interspecific relationships of different natures. Co-occurrences derived from a three-year metabarcoding time-series coupled with background biological information on size and trophic habits of their components revealed a trophic hierarchy and modularity in the network, which would allow quick food-web re-arrangements under shifting hydrographic conditions that are typical of the coastal area of the GoN (Russo et al., 2023). The same three-year time series was also explored in the first investigation on diatom parasites of the GoN, where incubation experiments were combined with microscopy observations and contextual metabarcoding analyses (Renè et al., 2023). This multi-approach study revealed that chytrid fungi (Chytridiomycota) are a common component of the protist community in the GoN and would deserve quantification with specific techniques to assess their role in the mortality of their hosts. Besides metabarcoding, another special technique, the stable isotope analysis, provided relevant details of trophic interactions to unveil the complexity of planktonic food webs, which can buffer the environmental variability due to the specific hydrographic features of the GoN (Merquiol et al., 2023). Finally, laboratory experiments conducted with microplastics, which are presently one of the most concerning threats for marine organisms, have revealed that copepod daily intake of food was not significantly affected by their presence, likely because of their ability to avoid those particles and flexible feeding habits (Traboni et al., 2023).The studies presented in this Special Issue have provided many new pieces to the complex puzzle of the plankton ecosystem in the GoN, at the same time opening new questions and providing indications for new studies to be developed in the future. Mainly the topic of trophic and non-trophic interactions has only started to be explored. The discovery of a high amount of parasitic Syndiniales and highly dynamic chytrid fungi populations highlights the need to take into consideration all levels of the network that connects the existence of marine planktonic organisms. While trends are observed in some components of the system, it is necessary to go beyond descriptions and take into consideration the life cycles and reproductive traits of plankton species along with other functional aspects that allow unveiling the mechanism underlying those trends, thus opening the way to the forecast of future scenarios under changing environmental conditions. 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