The Implications of Atlantic Salmon ( L.) Fatty Acid Profiles for Their Thiamine Status.

Thiamine deficiency is an ongoing issue across the Northern Hemisphere, causing reproductive failure in multiple salmonid populations. In the Baltic Sea, a large brackish water system in northern Europe, previous research has suggested that this deficiency is associated with lipid-rich diets with a high proportion of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3). The mechanism proposed is that a diet abundant in highly unsaturated fatty acids, such as DHA, depletes thiamine as an antioxidant defense in adult salmonids, rather than allocating thiamine to the offspring.

From Threatening Chaos to Temporary Order through a Complex Process of Adaptation: A Grounded Theory Study of the Escalation of Intensive Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

To ensure high-quality care, operationalize resilience and fill the knowledge gap regarding how to improve the prerequisites for resilient performance, it is necessary to understand how adaptive capacity unfolds in practice. The main aim of this research was to explain the escalation process of intensive care during the first wave of the pandemic from a microlevel perspective, including expressions of resilient performance, intervening conditions at the micro-meso-macrolevels and short- and long-term consequences. A secondary aim was to provide recommendations regarding how to optimize the prerequisites for resilient performance in intensive care.

A quantum mechanical investigation of nanocone oxide as a drug carrier for zidovudine: AIDS drug.

Traditionally, nanocones as a drug delivery material allow controlled drug delivery close to the target area while reducing the toxicity and generic accumulation associated with traditional intravenous injection methods. In the current study, density functional theory (DFT) is employed to investigate the therapeutic potential of carbon nanocone oxide (ONC) as a carrier with zidovudine drug for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The electronic ground state and excited state were studied to evaluate the drug carrier potential of ONC and Zidovudine-ONC complex.

Iridium catalysed C2 site-selective methylation of indoles using a pivaloyl directing group through weak chelation-assistance.

Here we present an iridium catalysed C2-selective methylation of indoles using methyltrifluoroborate as a source of methyl group. The iridium catalyst selectively discriminates the indole C2 and C4 C-H bonds by coordination with a pivaloyl directing group.

What matters in care continuity on the chronic care trajectory for patients and family carers?-A conceptual model.

Aims And Objectives: To describe essential aspects of care continuity from the perspectives of persons with complex care needs and their family carers.

Background: Continuity of care is an important aspect of quality, safety and efficiency. For people with multiple chronic diseases and complex care needs, care must be experienced as connected and coherent, and consistent with medical and individual needs.

Ambient assisted living technology-mediated interventions for older people and their informal carers in the context of healthy ageing: A scoping review.

Background And Aims: There is a growing demand for health and social care services to provide technology-mediated interventions that promote the health and well-being of older people with health or care needs and of their informal carers. The objectives of this study were to scope and review the nature and extent of prior intervention studies involving ambient assisted living technology-mediated interventions for older people and their informal carers, and how and in what ways (if any) the goals and aims of these interventions reflected the domains of the World Health Organization framework for healthy ageing.

Methods: We conducted a scoping review.

Older persons and relatives' experience of coordinated care planning via a video meeting.

Aim: The study aimed to describe coordinated care planning via a video meeting from the perspective of older persons and their relatives.

Design: A qualitative inductive research design was used to describe older persons and relatives' experience of care planning via video meeting.

Methods: Eight unstructured interviews were conducted.

Odorant receptor phylogeny confirms conserved channels for sex pheromone and host plant signals in tortricid moths.

The search for mates and food is mediated by volatile chemicals. Insects sense food odorants and sex pheromones through odorant receptors (ORs) and pheromone receptors (PRs), which are expressed in olfactory sensory neurons. Molecular phylogenetics of ORs, informed by behavioral and functional data, generates sound hypotheses for the identification of semiochemicals driving olfactory behavior.

A Review of Capture-recapture Methods and Its Possibilities in Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences.

Epidemiological information is expected to be used to develop key aspects of eye care such as to control and minimise the impact of diseases, to allocate resources, to monitor public health actions, to determine the best treatment options and to forecast the consequence of diseases in populations. Epidemiological studies are expected to provide information about the prevalence and/or incidence of eye diseases or conditions. To determine prevalence is necessary to perform a cross-sectional screening of the population at risk to ascertain the number of cases.

Opposite latitudinal patterns for bird and arthropod predation revealed in experiments with differently colored artificial prey.

The strength of biotic interactions is generally thought to increase toward the equator, but support for this hypothesis is contradictory. We explored whether predator attacks on artificial prey of eight different colors vary among climates and whether this variation affects the detection of latitudinal patterns in predation. Bird attack rates negatively correlated with model luminance in cold and temperate environments, but not in tropical environments.

Flours from Swedish pulses: Effects of treatment on functional properties and nutrient content.

Despite the high nutritional profile in pulses, pulse consumption in Sweden is still low. However, the recent increase in consumption of sustainable and locally produced food in Sweden is driving demand for a versatile, functional pulse-based ingredient that can be incorporated into different food products. This study assessed different treatments (boiling, roasting, and germination) when preparing flour from domestically grown pulses (yellow pea, gray pea, faba bean, and white bean).

Productivity Losses and Their Explanatory Factors Amongst People with Impaired Vision.

To estimate productivity losses amongst people with impaired vision in Portugal and to investigate explanatory factors associated with non-participation in the labour market. A total of 546 visually impaired individuals participated in face-to-face interviews. Participants were asked about their workforce participation to determine productivity (employment status questionnaire), their health-related quality of life - HRQoL (EQ-5D) and their visual acuity and visual ability (Activity Inventory).

Future temperature and salinity do not exert selection pressure on cyst germination of a toxic phytoplankton species.

Unlabelled: Environmental conditions regulate the germination of phytoplankton resting stages. While some factors lead to synchronous germination, others stimulate germination of only a small fraction of the resting stages. This suggests that habitat filters may act on the germination level and thus affect selection of blooming strains.

Production stability and biomass quality in microalgal cultivation - Contribution of community dynamics.

The prospect of using constructed communities of microalgae in algal cultivation was confirmed in this study. Three different algal communities, constructed of diatoms (), green algae (), and cyanobacteria (), each mixed with a natural community of microalgae were cultivated in batch and semi-continuous mode and fed CO or cement flue gas (12-15% CO). had the highest growth rate but had the highest yield.

Determinants of patient participation for safer care: A qualitative study of physicians' experiences and perceptions.

Objective: There is a paucity of research on physicians' perspectives on involving patients to achieve safer care. This study aims to explore determinants of patient participation for safer care, according to physicians in Swedish health care.

Methods: We used a deductive descriptive design, applying qualitative content analysis based on the Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behaviour framework.

Contrasting patterns of neutral and functional genetic diversity in stable and disturbed environments.

Genetic structure among and diversity within natural populations is influenced by a combination of ecological and evolutionary processes. These processes can differently influence neutral and functional genetic diversity and also vary according to environmental settings. To investigate the roles of interacting processes as drivers of population-level genetic diversity in the wild, we compared neutral and functional structure and diversity between 20 pygmy grasshopper populations in disturbed and stable habitats.

Longing to get back on track: Patients' experiences and supportive care needs after lung cancer surgery.

Aims And Objectives: This study aims to describe surgically treated lung cancer patients' experiences of coming home after discharge from hospital to expand the knowledge about their supportive care needs.

Background: Existing research reports that patients suffer from a high symptom burden after lung cancer surgery. Such burden has negative impacts on their physical, emotional and social wellbeing.

Sex-specific effects of outbreeding on offspring quality in pike ().

Intraspecific genetic admixture occurs when previously separated populations within a species start interbreeding, and it can have either positive, negative, or neutral effects on reproductive performance. As there currently is no reliable predictor for the outcome of admixture, an increased knowledge about admixture effects in different species and populations is important to increase the understanding about what determines the response to admixture. We tested for effects of admixture on F1 offspring quality in three subpopulations of pike ().

The use of informal care by people with vision impairment.

Purpose: To estimate and characterize the use of informal care by people with vision impairment in Portugal.

Methods: A total of 546 visually impaired individuals were recruited from Portuguese hospitals. Clinical information was obtained from medical records, socio-demographic details and informal care use were collected during face-to-face interviews.

Patient involvement for improved patient safety: A qualitative study of nurses' perceptions and experiences.

Aim: To explore nurses' perceptions and experiences of patient involvement relevant to patient safety.

Design: Qualitative design using individual semi-structured interviews.

Methods: Interviews with registered nurses (=11) and nurse assistants (=8) were conducted in 2015-2016.

Can spatial sorting associated with spawning migration explain evolution of body size and vertebral number in eels?

Spatial sorting is a process that can contribute to microevolutionary change by assembling phenotypes through space, owing to nonrandom dispersal. Here we first build upon and develop the "neutral" version of the spatial sorting hypothesis by arguing that in systems that are not characterized by repeated range expansions, the evolutionary effects of variation in dispersal capacity and assortative mating might not be independent of but interact with natural selection. In addition to generating assortative mating, variation in dispersal capacity together with spatial and temporal variation in quality of spawning area is likely to influence both reproductive success and survival of spawning migrating individuals, and this will contribute to the evolution of dispersal-enhancing traits.

Multiple Osmotic Stress Responses in Result in Tolerance to Chloride Ions.

Extremely acidophilic microorganisms (pH optima for growth of ≤3) are utilized for the extraction of metals from sulfide minerals in the industrial biotechnology of "biomining." A long term goal for biomining has been development of microbial consortia able to withstand increased chloride concentrations for use in regions where freshwater is scarce. However, when challenged by elevated salt, acidophiles experience both osmotic stress and an acidification of the cytoplasm due to a collapse of the inside positive membrane potential, leading to an influx of protons.