Helminths and COVID-19 susceptibility, disease progression, and vaccination efficacy.

Almost 2 years into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it remains to be determined how helminths interact with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We discuss how helminths may alter susceptibility to infection, COVID-19 pathology, and the efficiency of vaccines by combined analysis of available COVID-19 data and previous investigations of the effect of helminths in viral infections.

Lifestyle intervention for morbid obesity: effects on liver steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis.

The prevalence of obesity-related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rising. NAFLD may result in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), progressing to liver cirrhosis. Weight loss is recommended to treat obesity-related NASH.

Assessing the effects of temporal coherence on auditory stream formation through comodulation masking release.

Recent studies of auditory streaming have suggested that repeated synchronous onsets and offsets over time, referred to as "temporal coherence," provide a strong grouping cue between acoustic components, even when they are spectrally remote. This study uses a measure of auditory stream formation, based on comodulation masking release (CMR), to assess the conditions under which a loss of temporal coherence across frequency can lead to auditory stream segregation. The measure relies on the assumption that the CMR, produced by flanking bands remote from the masker and target frequency, only occurs if the masking and flanking bands form part of the same perceptual stream.

Effects of tonotopicity, adaptation, modulation tuning, and temporal coherence in "primitive" auditory stream segregation.

The perceptual organization of two-tone sequences into auditory streams was investigated using a modeling framework consisting of an auditory pre-processing front end [Dau et al., J. Acoust.

Non-stationary aging dynamics in ant societies.

In recent experiments by Richardson et al. (2010) [Richardson, T.O.

Thermal shifts and intermittent linear response of aging systems.

At time t after an initial quench, an aging system responds to a perturbation turned on at time tw View Article and Find Full Text PDF