Digital Phenotyping of Geriatric Depression Using a Community-Based Digital Mental Health Monitoring Platform for Socially Vulnerable Older Adults and Their Community Caregivers: 6-Week Living Lab Single-Arm Pilot Study.

Background: Despite the increasing need for digital services to support geriatric mental health, the development and implementation of digital mental health care systems for older adults have been hindered by a lack of studies involving socially vulnerable older adult users and their caregivers in natural living environments.

Objective: This study aims to determine whether digital sensing data on heart rate variability, sleep quality, and physical activity can predict same-day or next-day depressive symptoms among socially vulnerable older adults in their everyday living environments. In addition, this study tested the feasibility of a digital mental health monitoring platform designed to inform older adult users and their community caregivers about day-to-day changes in the health status of older adults.

Development of a Bioactive Flowable Resin Composite Containing a Zinc-Doped Phosphate-Based Glass.

Flowable resins used for dental restoration are subject to biofilm formation. Zinc has antibacterial properties. Thus, we prepared a zinc-doped phosphate-based glass (Zn-PBG) to dope a flowable resin and evaluated the antibacterial activity of the composite against () to extrapolate the preventative effect toward secondary caries.

Cloning, expression, and biochemical characterization of a novel GH16 β-agarase AgaG1 from Alteromonas sp. GNUM-1.

Alteromonas sp. GNUM-1 is known to degrade agar, the main cell wall component of red macroalgae, for their growth. A putative agarase gene (agaG1) was identified from the mini-library of GNUM-1, when extracellular agarase activity was detected in a bacterial transformant.

Heterologous expression of a putative K+/H+ antiporter of S. coelicolor A3(2) enhances K+, acidic-pH shock tolerances, and geldanamycin secretion.

Heterologous expression of a putative K+/H+ antiporter of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) (designated as sha4) in E. coli and Streptomyces hygroscopicus JCM4427 showed enhanced tolerance to K+ stress, acidic-pH shock, and/or geldanamycin production under K+ stress. In a series of K+ extrusion experiments with sha4-carrying E.