[Giant pericranial sinus with extensive occipital calvarium defect].

Background: Giant non-traumatic and non-iatrogenic cranial vault defects are poorly studied due to their rarity. Therefore, diagnosis and analysis of their causes are difficult. In available literature, we found only 4 cases of giant pericranial sinus accompanied by extensive cranial vault defects.

Repeatome Analysis and Satellite DNA Chromosome Patterns in Species.

The cosmopolitan genus L. (Fabaceae) is divided into sections , , and This genus includes many valuable medicinal, melliferous, and forage species. The species taxonomy and genome relationships within the sections are still unclear.

Causality-aware Social Recommender System with Network Homophily Informed Multi-treatment Confounders.

Typical recommender systems utilize observed ratings of users as inputs to learn their preferences and aim to output recommendations of new items that users will like by predicting their potential ratings. The real world is driven by causality given that whether or not a user is made exposed to the item may significantly affect the rating. While some recent methods have taken a causal view to mitigate the confounding bias in observed rating data, few have recognized recommendation as a multiple causal inference problem that concerns numerous items simultaneously in practice.

Antioxidant properties of the soluble carotenoprotein AstaP and its feasibility for retinal protection against oxidative stress.

Photodamage to the outer segments of photoreceptor cells and their impaired utilization by retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells contribute to the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) leading to blindness. Degeneration of photoreceptor cells and RPE cells is triggered by reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by photochemical reactions involving bisretinoids, by-products of the visual cycle, which accumulate in photoreceptor discs and lipofuscin granules of RPE. Carotenoids, natural antioxidants with high potential efficacy against a wide range of ROS, may protect against the cytotoxic properties of lipofuscin.