Optimizing Post-activation Performance Enhancement in Athletic Tasks: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis for Prescription Variables and Research Methods.

Background: Post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE) has demonstrated efficacy in acutely improving athletic performance. However, its distinction from general warm-up (GW) effects remains ambiguous, and experimental designs adopted in most PAPE studies exhibit important limitations.

Objectives: The aims of this work are to (i) examine the effects of research methodology on PAPE outcomes, (ii) explore PAPE outcomes in relation to comparison methods, performance measures, GW comprehensiveness, recovery duration, participants' characteristics, conditioning activity (CA) parameters, and (iii) make recommendations for future PAPE experimental designs on the basis of the results of the meta-analysis.

Optimal Frequency of Interrupting Prolonged Sitting for Cardiometabolic Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Crossover Trials.

Increasing evidence highlights the efficacy of interruptions in prolonged sitting (i.e., activity/sedentary breaks) for improving cardiometabolic health, but precise conclusions and recommendations regarding the optimal interruption frequency remain poorly defined.

Meso-scale reorganization of local-global brain networks under mild sedation of propofol anesthesia.

The fragmentation of the functional brain network has been identified through the functional connectivity (FC) analysis in studies investigating anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness (LOC). However, it remains unclear whether mild sedation of anesthesia can cause similar effects. This paper aims to explore the changes in local-global brain network topology during mild anesthesia, to better understand the macroscopic neural mechanism underlying anesthesia sedation.

Rigid ureteroscopic lithotripsy with a pressure-controlling ureteral access sheath for complex steinstrasse.

Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of rigid ureteroscopic lithotripsy with a pressure-controlling ureteral access sheath (PC-UAS) for complex steinstrasse.

Methods: Thirty-one consecutive patients (male: 18; female: 13) with steinstrasse were enrolled, six of whom had concurrent kidney stones. The mean cumulative stone size was 2.

The Practice of Weight Loss in Combat Sports Athletes: A Systematic Review.

The aim of this systematic review is to comprehensively assess the weight loss (WL) practices in different combat sports (CS). The review protocol was preregistered with PROSPERO [CRD42023487196]. Three databases were searched (Web of Science, EBSCOhost, and PubMed) until 8 December 2023.

Characterization and relationship analysis of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory peptides in pomelo fruitlet albumin.

Several macromolecules from the pomelo fruitlet (PF) have demonstrated functional potential in previous research. In this study, pomelo fruitlet albumin (PFA) was extracted from PF, its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties were assessed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, and its capacity to clear free radicals was measured. Meanwhile, we hypothesize that the amino acid sequence may affect the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, and the two may rely on common significant sites within the amino acid sequence.

Efficient Malaria Parasite Detection From Diverse Images of Thick Blood Smears for Cross-Regional Model Accuracy.

: The purpose of this work is to improve malaria diagnosis efficiency by integrating smartphones with microscopes. This integration involves image acquisition and algorithmic detection of malaria parasites in various thick blood smear (TBS) datasets sourced from different global regions, including low-quality images from Sub-Saharan Africa. This approach combines image segmentation and a convolutional neural network (CNN) to distinguish between white blood cells, artifacts, and malaria parasites.

Enhanced nitrogen removal via -mediated nitrogen and related metabolism of from wastewater.

We investigated the optimum co-culture ratio with the highest biological nitrogen removal rate, revealing that chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen (TN), and ammoniacal nitrogen (NH-N) removal was increased in the and co-culture system at a 3:1 ratio. Compared with the control, TN and NH-N content in the co-incubated system was decreased within 2-6 days. We investigated mRNA/microRNA (miRNA) expression in the and co-culture after 3 and 5 days, identifying 9885 and 3976 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), respectively.

Robotic-assisted tumor enucleation versus robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy for intermediate and high complexity renal cell carcinoma: a single-institution experience.

Objectives: To compare the perioperative and oncological outcomes of robotic-assisted tumor enucleation (RATE) and robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) in the treatment of intermediate and high complexity renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Methods: We retrospectively collected the data of 359 patients with intermediate and high complexity RCC who underwent RATE and RAPN. The perioperative, oncological, and pathological outcomes of the two groups were compared, and univariate and multivariate analyses were used to evaluate the risk factors for warm ischemia time (WIT) > 25 min.

Evaluation of stability and antitumor activity of two-dimensional black phosphorus modified with positively charged protein.

Two-dimensional black phosphorus (2D BP), a novel 2D photoelectric material with excellent near-infrared optical absorption, biocompatibility, and degradability, has shown enormous potential in biomedical field. However, under the action of light, oxygen and water, 2D BP is easily degraded to phosphate and phosphonate. In this work, trastuzumab (Tmab) as a positively charged protein was used to modify 2D BP through electrostatic interaction to form BP-Tmab.

Microbiological mechanism for "production while remediating" in Cd-contaminated paddy fields: A field experiment.

Security utilization measures (SUMs) for "production while remediating" in moderate and mild Cd-polluted paddy fields had been widely used. To investigate how SUMs drove rhizosphere soil microbial communities and reduced soil Cd bioavailability, a field experiment was conducted using soil biochemical analysis and 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing. Results showed that SUMs improved rice yield by increasing the number of effective panicles and filled grains, while also inhibiting soil acidification and enhancing disease resistance by improving soil enzyme activities.

Clinical application of flexible ureteroscopic sheath with controllable intraluminal pressure in treating ureteral stones.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to assess the clinical efficacy and safety of a combined perfusion suction platform with pressure feedback control function and an ureteroscopic suction sheath that can measure the ureteropelvic pressure in implementing lithotripsies.

Methods: Fifty-two patients who underwent lithotripsy under intelligent monitoring of ureteral intraluminal pressure from June 2016 to January 2018 were retrospectively recruited. The inclusion standard was stone diameter >1.

Involvement of branched RG-I pectin with hemicellulose in cell-cell adhesion of tomato during fruit softening.

Cell adhesion of four cultivars of tomato fruit, "Micro Tom (MT)", "Heinz 1706 (H1706)", "Money Maker (MM)", "Ailsa Craig (AC)" were evaluated and cell walls were analyzed in order to assess the possible contribution of pectic and hemicellulosic polysaccharides to the softening and altered cell adhesion at two different stages of ripeness. Cell wall material (CWM) and solubilised fractions of green and red ripe fruit were analyzed by chemical, enzymatic techniques. In comparison with the four cultivars of tomato fruits, H1706 and MM are harder than MT and AC at both green and red ripe stage.

Microplastics existence intensified bloom of antibiotic resistance in livestock feces transformed by black soldier fly.

Efficient degradation of residual antibiotics in livestock and poultry feces by black soldier flies (BSFs) has been widely reported. Nevertheless, the effects of widely detected microplastics in feces on the dynamic reduction of antibiotics and the transfer of gut bacterial resistome remain unclear. In this study, red fluorescence-labeled microplastics are observed to be abundantly distributed in BSFs gut, which caused epithelial cell damage along with gut peristalsis and friction, thereby releasing reactive oxygen species and activating the antioxidant enzyme system.

A reciprocal learning strategy for semisupervised medical image segmentation.

Background: Semisupervised strategy has been utilized to alleviate issues from segmentation applications due to challenges in collecting abundant annotated segmentation masks, which is an essential prerequisite for training high-performance 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) .

Purpose: Existing semisupervised segmentation methods are mainly concerned with how to generate the pseudo labels with regularization but not evaluate the quality of the pseudo labels explicitly. To alleviate this problem, we offer a simple yet effective reciprocal learning strategy for semisupervised volumetric medical image segmentation, which generates more reliable pseudo labels for the unannotated data.

Polysaccharide Alleviates Intestinal Inflammation by Promoting Small Extracellular Vesicle Packaging of miR-433-3p.

polysaccharide (DOP) attenuates inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but its role in regulating cross-talk between intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) and macrophages against IBD is unclear. This study aimed to investigate DOP protective effects on the intestinal inflammatory response through regulation by miRNA in small extracellular vesicles (sEVs). Our results show that DOP interfered with the secretion of small extracellular vesicles (DIEs) by IEC, which reduced the levels of inflammatory mediators.

Genome-wide association study and transcriptome of olecranon-type traits in peach (Prunus persica L.) germplasm.

Background: The top of the olecranon honey peach (Prunus persica L.) fruit appears similar to an eagle's beak. In this study, a single olecranon honey peach with a round-type fruit was observed in our fruit orchard.

Nutritive quality prediction of peaches during storage.

Peaches ( L. Batsch) are commonly consumed fruits with high nutritional value. We evaluated the nutritive qualities of peach fruit during storage.

Biomass, lipid accumulation kinetics, and the transcriptome of heterotrophic oleaginous microalga Tetradesmus bernardii under different carbon and nitrogen sources.

Background: Heterotrophic cultivation of microalgae has been proposed as a viable alternative method for novel high-value biomolecules, enriched biomass, and biofuel production because of their allowance of high cell density levels, as well as simple production technology. Tetradesmus bernardii, a newly isolated high-yielding oleaginous microalga under photoautotrophic conditions, is able to grow heterotrophically, meaning that it can consume organic carbon sources in dark condition. We investigated the effect of different carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratios on the growth and lipid accumulation of T.

Simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal by interactions between phosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) and denitrifying phosphate accumulating organisms (DPAOs) in a sequencing batch reactor.

The identification of phosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs), denitrifying phosphate-accumulating organisms (DPAOs) and their relationship is a key pathway for optimizing nitrate and phosphate removal efficiency in activated sludge. In this study, the acclimatization of microorganisms in sequencing batch reactor were performed with anaerobic/aerobic (A/O) and anaerobic/anoxic (A/A) cycles, the biomass changes of PAOs and DPAOs and the correlations were then discussed. The results indicated that after acclimatization, the nutrient removal efficiencies reached to 85.

Phytoremediation of cadmium-polluted soil assisted by D-gluconate-enhanced Enterobacter cloacae colonization in the Solanum nigrum L. rhizosphere.

Microbe-assisted phytoremediation for Cd-polluted soil is being regarded increasingly. However, the availability of microbes that can collaborate with Cd-hyperaccumulators effectively has become one of bottlenecks restricting the remediation efficiency. A siderophore-producing bacterium (Y16; Enterobacter cloacae) isolated from the rhizospheric soil of Cd-hyperaccumulator Solanum nigrum L.

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Model to Predict Antioxidant Effects of the Peptide Fraction Extracted from a Co-Culture System of and .

In this study, the antioxidant components in co-culture of and (3:1 ratio) were confirmed as trypsin-hydrolyzed peptides (EHPs). The EHPs were composed of 836 different peptides with molecular weights ranging from 639 to 3531 Da and were mainly composed of hydrophobic amino acids (48.1%).

Co-cultivation of and to improve nutrient removal and protein content by their synergistic relationship.

With the continuous development of the livestock breeding industry, the amount of piggery wastewater discharged increases year by year, and the pressure of controlling environmental pollution continuously increases. A novel method using a co-culture of and in piggery wastewater was proposed in this study, which was aimed at treating piggery wastewater and producing useful products. The results showed that the optimal inoculum ratio of algae to yeast was 3 : 1 in the wastewater, which achieved the removal efficiencies of 58.