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Analysis of a passive ankle exoskeleton for reduction of metabolic costs during walking

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Defence Technology（防务技术） 2024年第7期37卷 62-68页

作者： Luís Quinto Pedro Pinheiro Sergio B.Goncalves Ivo Roupa paula Simoes Miguel Tavares da Silva CINAMIL Academia MilitarInstituto Universitario MilitarLisbonPortugal IDMEC Instituto Superior TecnicoUniversidade de LisboaLisbonPortugal

Modern conflicts demand substantial physical and psychological exertion,often resulting in fatigue and diminished combat or operational *** exoskeletons have been developed recently to address these challenges,presenting various limitations that affect their operational or everyday *** article evaluates the performance of a dual-purpose passive ankle exoskeleton developed for the reduction of metabolic costs during walking,seeking to identify a force element that could be applied to the target *** on the 6-min walk test,twenty-nine subjects participated in the study using three different force *** results indicate that it is possible to reduce metabolic expenditure while using the developed ***,the comfort and range of motion results verify the exoskeleton's suitability for use in uneven terrain and during extended ***,the choice of the force element should be tailored to each user,and the control system should be adjustable to optimise the exoskeleton's performance.

关键词： Ankle passive exoskeleton Metabolic cost reduction Dual-use exoskeleton Gait Biomechanics

Flowers Are Evoked to Bring Us Delicious Coffee

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Agricultural Sciences 2024年第7期15卷 754-779页

作者： paula Cristina da Silva Angelo Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuria (Embrapa Coffee/IDR-Paran) Londrina Brazil

Coffee is highly appreciated as stimulant. Brazil is the first producer and second consumer in the world. Flower evocation triggered by environmental signals is essential for adaptability and productivity, and despite that it is neglected and barely considered as a part of the reproductive cycle. Aiming to review molecular mechanisms producing phenological responses observed in the fields, orthologs to A. thaliana CO, FLC/FLM, FLT, SOC and VRN genes were identified in silico for C. arabica and its ancestors C. canephora and C. eugenioides. Protein structures and conserved domains, regulatory elements in promoters, and the related literature in both genera were accessed and compared. Hypotheses regarding Coffea spp. orthologs responsiveness to light and temperature signals at the tropics are proposed. Preliminary analysis of phenological data taken from early, intermediary and late C. arabica plants are included to illustrate the diversity regarding flower bud emission, which quite certainly is defined during flower evocation.

关键词： Rubiaceae Café Biometeorology Climate Adaptability

Proximity to corridors benefits bird communities in vegetated interrow vineyards in Mendoza, Argentina

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Avian Research 2024年第2期15卷 147-155页

作者： Andrea paula Goijman Agustín Zarco EEA La Consulta Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria(INTA)San CarlosMendozaArgentina Instituto Argentino de Investigacion en las Zonas Aridas(IADIZA)CONICET 5500MendozaArgentina

Management under ecological schemes and increasing habitat heterogeneity,are essential for enhancing biodiversity in *** provide several contributions to agriculture,for example pest control,recreation and enhancing human mental health,and have intrinsic *** are also ideal model organisms because they are easy to survey,and species respond differently to agricultural land use at different *** borders of crops are key for many species of birds,and distance to the border have been found to be an important factor in vineyard-dominated *** evaluate if there are differences in the bird assemblage,between the interior compared to borders within vineyards,using a hierarchical community occupancy *** hypoth-esized that occupancy of birds is greater in environments with greater heterogeneity,which in this study was considered to be contributed by the proximity to vegetated *** expected that vineyard borders close to corridors will have higher bird occupancy than the center of the *** research was conducted in three vineyards with biodiversity-friendly management practices,in Gualtallary,Mendoza,*** surveys were conducted over three breeding seasons from 2018 to *** and richness of the bird community was more closely associated with the borders adjacent to the corridors than with the interior of the vineyards,as we initially predicted,although the assemblage of birds did not differ *** than 75%of the registered species consume exclusively or partially ***-friendly management and ecological schemes,together with vegetated corridors provide multiple benefits for biodiversity *** ap-proaches not only minimize the use of agrochemicals but also prioritize soil cover with spontaneous vegetation,which supports a diverse community of insectivorous bird species,potentially contributing to pest control.

关键词： Avian Bayesian analysis Field scale agroecosystem Management Multi-species occupancy model Nature’s contributions to people

Tracking the change in Spanish greenhouse gas emissions through an LMDI decomposition model:A global and sectoral approach

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Journal of Environmental Sciences 2024年第5期139卷 114-122页

作者： paula Fernández González María José Presno Manuel Landajo Department of Applied Economics University of OviedoAuda del Cristos/n 33011 OviedoSpain

The reduction of GHG emissions to reverse the greenhouse effect is one of the main challenges in this *** this paper we pursue two ***,we analyze the evolution of GHG emissions in Spain in 2008–2018,at both the global and sectoral levels,with the variation in emissions decomposed into a set of determining ***,we propose several actions specifically oriented to more tightly controlling the level of *** results showed a remarkable reduction(18.44%)in GHG emissions,mainly due to the intensity effect,but also to the production-per-capita *** detected somewhat different patterns among the various sectors *** the intensity effect was the most influential one in the agricultural,transport,and others sectors,the production-per-capita effect was predominant in the case of *** carbonization effect was revealed as crucial in the commerce *** above findings highlight the importance of the energy efficiency measures taken in recent years in the Spanish economy,also pointing to the need to deepen those strategies and to propose new measures that entail greater efficiency in *** efforts in areas like innovation,R&D,diffusion of more eco-friendly technologies,and a greater use of greener energies all prove to be essential reduction actions to fight the greenhouse effect.

关键词： LMDI Decomposition Spain GHG emissions

Lax-Oleinik-Type Formulas and Efficient Algorithms for Certain High-Dimensional Optimal Control Problems

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Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation 2024年第2期6卷 1428-1471页

作者： paula Chen Jerome darbon Tingwei Meng Division of Applied Mathematics Brown UniversityProvidenceRIUSA Department of Mathematics UCLALos AngelesCAUSA

Two of the main challenges in optimal control are solving problems with state-dependent running costs and developing efficient numerical solvers that are computationally tractable in high *** this paper,we provide analytical solutions to certain optimal control problems whose running cost depends on the state variable and with constraints on the *** also provide Lax-Oleinik-type representation formulas for the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations with state-dependent ***,we present an efficient,grid-free numerical solver based on our representation formulas,which is shown to scale linearly with the state dimension,and thus,to overcome the curse of *** existing optimization methods and the min-plus technique,we extend our numerical solvers to address more general classes of convex and nonconvex initial *** demonstrate the capabilities of our numerical solvers using implementations on a central processing unit(CPU)and a field-programmable gate array(FPGA).In several cases,our FPGA implementation obtains over a 10 times speedup compared to the CPU,which demonstrates the promising performance boosts FPGAs can *** numerical results show that our solvers have the potential to serve as a building block for solving broader classes of high-dimensional optimal control problems in real-time.

关键词： Optimal control Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations Grid-free numerical methods High dimensions Field-programmable gate arrays(FPGAs)

Pathological and therapeutic effects of extracellular vesicles in neurological and neurodegenerative diseases

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第1期19卷 55-61页

作者： paula lzquierdo-Altarejos Victoria Moreno-Manzano Vicente Felipo Laboratory of Neurobiology Centro Investigación Príncipe FelipeValenciaSpain Neuronal and Tissue Regeneration Laboratory Centro Investigación Príncipe FelipeValenciaSpain

Extracellular vesicles are released by all cell types and contain proteins,microRNAs,mRNAs,and other bioactive *** vesicles play an important role in intercellular communication and in the modulation of the immune system and *** cargo of extra cellular vesicles(e.g.,proteins and microRNAs)is altered in pathological *** vesicles contribute to the pathogenesis of many pathologies associated with sustained inflammation and neuroinflammation,including cance r,diabetes,hype rammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy,and other neurological and neurodegenerative *** vesicles may cross the blood-brain barrier and transfer pathological signals from the periphery to the *** contributes to inducing neuroinflammation and cognitive and motor impairment in hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy and in neurodegenerative *** mechanisms involved are beginning to be unde *** example,increased tumor necrosis factor a in extracellular vesicles from plasma of hype rammonemic rats induces neuroinflammation and motor impairment when injected into normal *** the mechanisms by which extracellular vesicles contribute to the pathogenesis of these diseases will help to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools for their easy and early *** contrast,extra cellular vesicles from mesenchymal stem cells have therapeutic utility in many of the above pathologies,by reducing inflammation and neuroinflammation and improving cognitive and motor *** extra cellular vesicles recapitulate the beneficial effects of mesenchymal stem cells and have advantages as therapeutic tools:they are less immunoge nic,may not diffe rentiate to malignant cells,cross the blood-brain barrier,and may reach more easily target *** vesicles from mesenchymal stem cells have beneficial effects in models of ischemic brain injury,Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases,hyperammonemia,and

关键词： extracellular vesicles inflammation cognitive function mesenchymal stem cells neurodegenerative diseases neuroinflammation therapy transforming growth factor-β

Plant growth and metabolism of exotic and native Crotalaria species for mine land rehabilitation in the Amazon

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Journal of Forestry Research 2024年第1期35卷 143-154页

作者： Hemelyn Soares das Chagas Rafael Silva Guedes Markus Gastauer paula Godinho Ribeiro Allan Klynger da Silva Lobato Cecílio Frois Caldeira Fabrício William deÁvila AndréRodrigues dos Reis Silvio Junio Ramos Instituto Tecnológico Vale Rua Boaventura da Silva955BelémPA 66055-090Brazil Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará XinguaraPABrazil Núcleo de Pesquisa Vegetal Básica e Aplicada Universidade Federal Rural da AmazôniaParagominasPABrazil Departamento de Engenharia Florestal Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste/UNICENTROIratiPRBrazil School of Sciences and Engineering São Paulo State University(UNESP)TupãSP.CEP 17602-496Brazil

Despite its enormous benefits,mining is respon-sible for intense changes to vegetation and soil ***,after extraction,it is necessary to rehabilitate the mined areas,creating better conditions for the establishment of plant species which is *** study evaluated mineral and organic fertilization on the growth,and carbon and nitrogen(N)metabolism of two Crotalaria species[Cro-talaria spectabilis(exotic species)and Crotalaria maypu-rensis(native species from Carajás Mineral Province(CMP)]established on a waste pile from an iron mine in CMP.A control(without fertilizer application)and six fertilization mixtures were tested(i=NPK;ii=NPK+micronutrients;iii=NPK+micronutrients+organic compost;iv=PK;v=PK+micronutrients;vi=PK+micronutrients+organic compost).Fertilization contributed to increased growth of both species,and treatments with NPK and micronutrients had the best results(up to 257%***),while organic fertilization did not show *** Crotalaria had a greater number of nodules,higher nodule dry mass,chlorophyll a and b contents and showed free ammonium as the predominant N form,reflecting greater increments in biomass compared to native *** having lower growth,the use of this native species in the rehabilitation of mining areas should be considered,mainly because it has good development and meets current government legislation as an opportunity to restore local biodiversity.

关键词： Biological nitrogen fixation Mining Nitrogen metabolism Plant nutrition

The relationship between morphology and flight in Drosophila:a study of two pairs of sibling species from a natural population

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Insect Science 2024年第3期31卷 885-900页

作者： Nicolás Flaibani Victoría Estefania Ortiz Juan JoséFanara Valeria paula Carreira Laboratorio de Evolucion Departamento de EcologiaGenética y Evolucion(DEGE)Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales(FCEN)Universidad de Buenos Aires(UBA)Instituto de GenéticaEcologia y Evolucion de Buenos Aires(IEGEBA)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificasy Tecnicas(CONICET)-UBABuenos AiresArgentina

Insect flight is a complex trait involved in different behaviors,from the search for sexual partners,food,or breeding *** studies have postulated the adaptive advantages of certain morphological traits in relation to increased flight capacity,such as low values of wing loading or high values of wing:thorax ratio and wing-aspect ***,few studies have evaluated the relationship between variables related to flight and morphological traits in *** work aimed to study morphological traits in males and females of two pairs of sibling species:Drosophila buzzati Patterson and Wheeler-Drosophila koeferae Fontdevila and Wasserman,and Drosophila melanogaster Meigen-Drosophila simulans Sturtevant,and to analyze its relationship with *** detected the highest proportion of flight time in *** and *** compared to *** and ***,*** results also revealed sexual dimorphism,with males exhibiting a higher proportion of flight time than ***,we did not find a general pattern to explain the relationship between morphology and the proportion of flight time because associations varied depending upon the analyses(considering all groups together or each sex-species combination separately).Moreover,these associations explained a low percentage of variation,suggesting that other nonmorphological components related to flight,such as physiological variables,should be taken into *** work allowed us to show the variability and complexity of an aspect of flight,suggesting that the adaptive role of the morphological traits studied might have been overestimated.

关键词： morphological traits time in flight wing loading wing:thorax ratio wingaspect ratio wing second moment of area

Unraveling the gut-brain axis:the impact of steroid hormones and nutrition on Parkinson's disease

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第10期19卷 2219-2228页

作者： paula Maria Neufeld Ralf A.Nettersheim Veronika Matschke Matthias Vorgerd Sarah Stahlke Carsten Theiss Department of Cytology Institute of AnatomyMedical FacultyRuhr-University BochumBochumGermany Department of Visceral Surgery University Hospital BergmannsheilRuhr-University BochumBochumGermany Department of Neurology Heimer Institute for Muscle ResearchUniversity Hospital BergmannsheilRuhr-University BochumBochumGermany

This comprehensive review explores the intricate relationship between nutrition,the gut microbiome,steroid hormones,and Parkinson's disease within the context of the gut-brain *** gut-brain axis plays a pivotal role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease,encompassing diverse components such as the gut microbiota,immune system,metabolism,and neural *** gut microbiome,profoundly influenced by dietary factors,emerges as a key *** during the first 1000 days of life shapes the gut microbiota composition,influencing immune responses and impacting both child development and adult ***-fat,high-sugar diets can disrupt this delicate balance,contributing to inflammation and immune *** nutritional strategies,the Mediterranean diet's anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties show promise in reducing Parkinson's disease ***-targeted dietary approaches and the ketogenic diet hold the potential in improving brain *** nutrition,emerging research uncovers potential interactions between steroid hormones,nutrition,and Parkinson's ***,with its anti-inflammatory properties and presence in the nervous system,offers a novel option for Parkinson's disease *** ability to enhance neuroprotection within the enteric nervous system presents exciting *** review addresses the hypothesis thatα-synuclein aggregates originate from the gut and may enter the brain via the vagus *** symptoms preceding motor symptoms support this *** gut-brain signaling during gut dysbiosis contributes to inflammation and neurotransmitter imbalances,emphasizing the potential of microbiota-based *** summary,this review uncovers the complex web of interactions between nutrition,the gut microbiome,steroid hormones,and Parkinson's disease within the gut-brain axis *** these connections not only offers novel therapeutic insi

关键词： diet gut-brain axis microbiome neurodegenerative diseases nutrition Parkinson's disease progesterone steroid hormones