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Wiley

β‐diversity reveals ecological connectivity patterns underlying marine community recovery: Implications for conservation

AbstractAs β‐diversity can be seen as a proxy of ecological connections among species assemblages, modeling the decay of similarity in species composition at increasing distance may help elucidate spatial patterns of connectivity and local‐ to large‐scale processes driving community assembly within a marine region. This, in turn, may provide invaluable information for setting ecologically coherent networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) in which protected communities are potentially interrelated...

Download 2023 Ferdinando Boero , Lisandro Benedetti‐Cecchi , Stanislao Bevilacqua , Francesco De Leo , Simonetta Fraschetti , Giuseppe Guarnieri , Vesna Mačić , Antonio Terlizzi

MDPI AG

Identifying the Level of Symmetrization of Reaction Time According to Manual Lateralization between Team Sports Athletes, Individual Sports Athletes, and Non-Athletes

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of practicing sports activities on manual skills, focused on reaction time depending on manual laterality. The objectives of the study were to identify the differences in improving simple, optional, and cognitive reaction times in the manual executions of student athletes who practice team sports involving the manual handling of the ball (volleyball, basketball, handball) in comparison with student athletes who practice individual sports and with...

Download 2023 Iulius Radulian Margarit , Dan Cristian Manescu , Dragos Florin Teodor , Virgil Tudor , Dana Badau , Adela Badau , Adriana Neofit , Catalin Octavian Manescu , Corina Claudia Dinciu , Ana Maria Mujea , ... Pogledajte sve

Research Square Platform LLC

DNA barcode-based survey documents underestimated diversity and intricate phylogeographic patterns of aquatic Heteroptera in an endangered Balkan biodiversity hotspot: ancient Lake Skadar basin

Abstract Lake Skadar with its surrounding springs, wetlands and larger affluents is among the most diverse freshwater ecosystems in the Mediterranean region and a key biodiversity/endemism hotspot in Europe. It is also highly endangered due to climate change and rapid tourism development in the area. Being abundant, diverse and mostly predatory, true aquatic bugs play an important role in the functioning of freshwater ecosystems and are used as indicators of aquatic habitat quality. Nevertheless,...

Download 2023 Tomasz Rewicz , Grzegorz Tończyk , Tomasz Mamos , Piotr Gadawski , Vladimir Pešić , Andrzej Zawal , Łukasz Trębicki , Michał Grabowski

MDPI AG

In Vitro Antioxidant and In Vivo Antigenotoxic Features of a Series of 61 Essential Oils and Quantitative Composition–Activity Relationships Modeled through Machine Learning Algorithms

The antioxidant activity of essential oils (EOs) is an important and frequently studied property, yet it is not sufficiently understood in terms of the contribution of EOs mixtures’ constituents and biological properties. In this study, a series of 61 commercial EOs were first evaluated as antioxidants in vitro, following as closely as possible the cellular pathways of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. Hence, EOs were assessed for the ability either to chelate metal ions, thus interfering...

Download 2023 Roberta Astolfi , Nevena Tomašević , Rino Ragno , Milan Mladenović , Mijat Božović , Filippo Sapienza , Sanja Matić

MDPI AG

River Habitat Survey: Does This Help to Explain the Nature of Water Mite (Acari and Hydrachnidia) Assemblages?

In the European Union, assessments of the quality of the aquatic environment based on aquatic invertebrates are mandatory. Biological methods are supplemented with hydromorphological assessments of watercourses. There are many studies analysing the relationships between aquatic invertebrates and the hydromorphological assessment of the environment by the River Habitat Survey (RHS) method, but thus far, there has been no detailed study including water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) and the application...

Download 2023 Grzegorz Michoński , Joanna Pakulnicka , Iga Lewin , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Vladimir Pešić , Ewa Filip , Robert Stryjecki , Andrzej Zawal , Aleksandra Bańkowska , Tapas Chatterjee

Wiley

Limited population genetic variation but pronounced seascape genetic structuring in populations of the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from the eastern Adriatic Sea

AbstractPopulation genetic analysis of variation at five neutral microsatellite loci for Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from 18 sites along the eastern Adriatic Sea revealed little or no spatial variation. In contrast, seascape genetics analysis revealed a pronounced locus‐specific gradient in allelic and genotypic frequencies across the study region. At a sixth locus, MGE7, the frequencies of two alleles, MGE7243 and MGE7249, were strongly associated, negatively and positively,...

Download 2023 Lidija Svečnjak , Ana Gavrilović , Joanna S. Hamilton , Mirna Mrkonjić Fuka , Rigers Bakiu , Slađana Nikolić , Marina Piria , Jonathan P. A. Gardner

SAGE Publications

No social distancing from food: How the COVID-19 pandemic shaped student food-related activities in the Western Balkans

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced food preparation and consumption habits, as well as food wastage. The pandemic also affected the lives of university students worldwide; their learning and living environments changed, influencing their eating habits. Aim The purpose of this study was to evaluate the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ food-related activities in four countries in the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Montenegro. Methods...

Download 2023 Sinisa Berjan , Željko Vaško , Tarek Ben Hassen , Aleksandra Despotovic , Hamid El Bilali , Adriana Radosavac , Zvezda Bogevska , Drago Cvijanovic , Mohammad S. Allahyari

IEEE

Research and Analysis of IT Specifications of Good Practices in the Area of Artificial Intelligence

Download 2023 K. Rasheva - Yordanova , P. Petrov , P. Tsvetkova , V. Martsenyuk , I. Dirgova-Luptakova , I. Kostadinova , P. Petrova , I. Jovancevic , G. Dimitrov , D. Rancic

MDPI AG

Redox Status and Telomere–Telomerase System Biomarkers in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Using a Principal Component Analysis: Is There a Link?

In the present study, we examined redox status parameters in arterial and venous blood samples, its potential to predict the prognosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients assessed through its impact on the comprehensive grading SYNTAX score, and its clinical accuracy. Potential connections between common blood biomarkers, biomarkers of redox status, leukocyte telomere length, and telomerase enzyme activity in the acute myocardial infarction burden were assessed using principal component...

Download 2023 Milica Stefanović , Srdjan Kafedžić , Aleksandar N. Nešković , Saša Hinić , Ivan Ilić , Barbara Ostanek , Miron Sopić , Nataša Bogavac-Stanojević , Janja Marc , Marija Zdravković , ... Pogledajte sve

MDPI AG

The Effects of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2-Inhibitors on Steatosis and Fibrosis in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease or Steatohepatitis and Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are part of metabolic syndrome and share multiple causal associations. Both conditions have an alarmingly increasing incidence and lead to multiple complications, which have an impact on a variety of organs and systems, such as the kidneys, eyes, and nervous and cardiovascular systems, or may cause metabolic disruptions. Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2-inhibitors (SGLT2-i), as an antidiabetic class with well-established...

Download 2023 Roxana Adriana Stoica , Anca Pantea Stoian , Manfredi Rizzo , Andrej Janež , Špela Volčanšek , Djordje Popovic , Emir Muzurović , Teodor Salmen , Ioana-Cristina Bica