Publications by authors named "J Ayers"
Monitoring the seasonal and diurnal variations in headwater stream metabolic regimes can provide critical information for understanding how ecosystems will respond to future environmental changes. In East Fork Creek, a headwater stream in middle Tennessee, week-long field campaigns were set up each month from May 2022 to May 2023 to collect stream metabolism estimators. In a more extensive field campaign from July 2-5 in 2022, diel signals were observed for temperature, pH, turbidity, and concentrations of Ca, Mg, K, Se, Fe, Ba, chloride, nitrate, DIC, DO, DOC, and total algae.
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- - The study investigates how the gut microbiome is related to colorectal cancer (CRC) and health, finding that about 23-40% of gut bacteria are associated with either CRC or overall health.
- - Researchers utilized advanced sequencing techniques to identify and analyze protein-coding gene clusters, discovering 2,319 co-abundant gene clusters related to CRC, including many previously unknown bacteria linked to the disease.
- - The findings provide evidence that certain gut bacteria can influence precancerous conditions in the colon and suggest that understanding these microbial connections could lead to new cancer prevention strategies.
Did the COVID-19 pandemic bring people together or push them apart? While infectious diseases tend to push people apart, crises can also bring people together through positive interdependence. We studied this question by asking an international sample (N = 1,006) about their inclinations to cooperate, perceptions of interdependence (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: A clinical trial of Epidiolex, the only US FDA-approved cannabis-derived consumer product (CDP), discovered an interaction with an immunosuppressant (tacrolimus) that led to drug toxicity, highlighting the unique intersection of prescription and commonly unregulated consumer products.
Objective: We aimed to identify if similar drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are occurring among the consumer CDP market, even though they cannot be identified through trials.
Methods: We searched Reddit for subreddits related to CDPs or health, resulting in 63,561,233 posts.