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Seven-year experience (2018–2025) of a hospital-based cardiovascular tissue bank in Israel: operational insights and clinical impactNARA Subscribed
Cryopreserved human heart valves and cardiovascular tissues (homografts) are essential for the surgical treatment of congenital and acquired valvular diseases, particularly in pediatric patients, where prosthetic options are limited. To address the clinical demand for high-quality grafts in Israel, Sheba Medical Center, the largest tertiary care hospital in Israel, established a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant Card...
SNAPSHOT USA 2024: Year 6 of the Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Motivation SNAPSHOT USA is an annual, multi‐contributor camera trap survey of mammals across the United States. The growing SNAPSHOT USA dataset is intended for tracking the spatial and temporal responses of mammal populations to changes in land use, land cover and climate. These data will be useful for exploring the drivers of spatial and temporal changes in relative abundance and distribution, as well as the impacts of speci...
Glacial meltwater is a major contributor to stratification in polar waters, particularly in glacial fjords where it is contained by fjord topography. Stratification from glacial meltwater input impacts both light and nutrient availability, altering the timing and magnitude of phytoplankton blooms and peak in secondary productivity. Ice conditions can further impede near-surface circulation and trap low-density meltwater plumes...
Supine-dependent OSA is a well-recognised OSA phenotype and may relate to craniofacial structure. Our aim was to assess whether craniofacial photos are able to identify positional OSA, specifically supine-isolated OSA, in comparison to non-positional OSA. Frontal and profile craniofacial photographs of participants were acquired according to a standardised protocol. Photographs were analysed and compared between non-positional...
Waterfowl Move Less in Heterogeneous and Human‐Populated Landscapes, With Implications for Spread of Avian Influenza VirusesNARA Subscribed
Animal movements contribute to the spread of infectious diseases and are driven in part by environmental conditions. We investigated the links among the environment, animal movement, and infectious disease dynamics in waterfowl, which are among the primary wildlife hosts of avian influenza viruses. By combining telemetry data on 4606 individuals from 26 waterfowl species with data on land cover, weather, and vegetation, we fou...
Your brain doesn’t look a day past 70! Cross-sectional associations with brain-predicted age in the cognitively-intact oldest-oldNARA Subscribed
The cognitively-intact oldest-old (85 +) may be the most-resilient members of their birth cohort; due to survivorship effects (e.g., depletion of susceptibles), risk factors associated with brain aging biomarkers in younger samples may not generalize to the cognitively-intact oldest-old. We evaluated associations between established aging-related risk factors and brain-predicted age difference (brainPAD) in a cross-sectional c...
Comparing the efficacy of two antibiotic cocktails in decontamination of cardiovascular tissuesNARA Subscribed
Cardiovascular allografts are essential for patients with severe cardiovascular diseases. Yet, microbial contamination of the grafts poses a life-threatening risk to recipients. Tissue banks utilize various decontamination methods during cardiovascular tissue processing, often involving antibiotic solutions. This study compares the efficacy of an in-house prepared antibiotic cocktail (tissue bank cocktail) and a commercially a...
Nature is an opaque concept. Consequently, the term biodiversity conservation has replaced nature conservation in most conservation contexts. We review the conceptual indeterminacies that plague the terms nature and natural but then show that comparable difficulties plague biodiversity . Then, we provide a new theory that sorts out the respective normative roles of naturalness and biodiversity within the ecocentric–intrinsic s...
Assessing the Corn Belt as an anthropogenic barrier to migrating landbirds in the United StatesNARA Subscribed
Migrating landbirds adjust their flight and stopover behaviors to efficiently cross inhospitable geographies, such as the Gulf of Mexico and the Sahara Desert. In addition to these natural barriers, birds may increasingly encounter anthropogenic barriers created by large‐scale changes in land use. One such barrier could be the Corn Belt in the Midwest United States, where 76.4% of precolonial vegetation (forest and grassland c...
Land use change threatens global biodiversity and compromises ecosystem functions, including pollination and food production. Reduced taxonomic α‐diversity is often reported under land use change, yet the impacts could be different at larger spatial scales (i.e., γ‐diversity), either due to reduced β‐diversity amplifying diversity loss or increased β‐diversity dampening diversity loss. Additionally, studies often focus on taxo...