Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Agriculture: Pathways to Sustainable Reductions.

Agriculture serves as both a source and a sink of global greenhouse gases (GHGs), with agricultural intensification continuing to contribute to GHG emissions. Climate-smart agriculture, encompassing both nature- and technology-based actions, offers promising solutions to mitigate GHG emissions. We synthesized global data, between 1990 and 2021, from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to analyze the impacts of agricultural activities on global GHG emissions from agricultural land, using structural equation modeling.

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation effect in the redundant and synergistic networks consistent across macaques.

Low-intensity transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is a noninvasive technique that safely alters neural activity, reaching deep brain areas with good spatial accuracy. We investigated the effects of TUS in macaques using a recent metric, the synergy minus redundancy rank gradient, which quantifies different kinds of neural information processing. We analyzed this high-order quantity on the fMRI data after TUS in two targets: the supplementary motor area (SMA-TUS) and the frontal polar cortex (FPC-TUS).

Innovative Nutrition Policies and Programs to Reduce Low-Income Children's Sodium Intake in the United States: Implication for Social Work.

Globally, high sodium intake is the leading dietary risk factor of morality. Most Americans, including children, consume too much sodium compared with the federal guidelines. Socioeconomic and racial disparities place children, many of color, from low-income households and neighborhoods, at higher risk of consuming foods high in sodium.

Different MHC class I cell surface expression levels in diverse chicken lines, associations with B blood group, and proposed relationship to antigen-binding repertoire.

The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a cluster of genes with primarily immune-related functions. The MHC class I genes are responsible for self- versus non-self-recognition and viral antigen presentation to T lymphocytes. The chicken MHC class I protein binds its cognate antigen(s) over a repertoire spectrum ranging from promiscuous (generalist) to fastidious (specialist).