Publications by authors named "A J JULIEN"

Tidal flooding can significantly impact vegetation pixel reflectance of coastal salt marshes, presenting a problem for remote sensing studies of these highly productive ecosystems. The current study aimed to spatially and temporally expand our previously developed Flooding in Landsat Across Tidal Systems (FLATS) model to detect and analyze the long-term changes in flooded marsh pixels in Landsat 5-9 imagery. As the FLATS index is only calibrated for Landsat 8, our goal was to expand the use of FLATS to a greater range of Landsat imagery and facilitate the masking of flooded pixels in long-term time series of vegetation indices.

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  • The study aimed to evaluate a web-based intervention using personalized avatars to improve understanding of community immunity (herd immunity) and its impact on individuals' risk perception regarding vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and influenza.
  • Researchers developed an interactive application where users create avatars that represent themselves and others in their community, which illustrates how infections spread with and without community immunity.
  • The trial with 3883 Canadian adults found that participants who used the web application showed improved risk perception, motivations, and emotions related to vaccination compared to those in a control group, validating the effectiveness of the intervention.
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Regionalized disease prevalence is a common feature of the gastrointestinal tract. Herein, we employed regionally resolved Smart-seq3 single-cell sequencing, generating a comprehensive cell atlas of the adult mouse esophagus. Characterizing the esophageal axis, we identify non-uniform distribution of epithelial basal cells, fibroblasts, and immune cells.

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Musculoskeletal traumatic injuries (MTI) involve soft tissue lesions adjacent to a bone fracture leading to fibrous nonunion. The impact of MTI on the inflammatory response to fracture and on the immunomodulation of skeletal stem/progenitor cells (SSPCs) remains unknown. Here, we used single-nucleus transcriptomic analyses to describe the immune cell dynamics after bone fracture and identified distinct macrophage subsets with successive pro-inflammatory, pro-repair and anti-inflammatory profiles.

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Fibrotic scar tissue formation occurs in humans and mice. The fibrotic scar impairs tissue regeneration and functional recovery. However, the origin of scar-forming fibroblasts is unclear.

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