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Using stable isotopes to investigate the seasonal diet of Southern African rodents across natural and Peri-urban landscapesNARA Subscribed
Dietary studies on wildlife using minimally invasive techniques can elucidate the impacts of anthropogenic activities on ecosystems and native species. Investigating diet-related resource partitioning of biological indicator species can improve our understanding of mechanisms employed by animals to survive in a rapidly changing world. We compared carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotope ratios from hair tissue of four dom...
Education Is Treatment: Integrating Chemosensory Dysfunction Education in Oncology CareNARA Subscribed
Chemosensory dysfunction, defined as an altered or lost taste and smell, is a prevalent side effect of cancer treatment, with 93% of patients complaining of taste and 60% complaining of changes in smell. Despite their impact, it is an underrecognized symptom, impairing nutritional intake, quality of life, and treatment outcomes. Surprisingly, taste and smell changes are rarely assessed or addressed in oncology care. This comme...
Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegenerationNARA Subscribed
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can fi...
Aim The Indo‐Pacific is the world's largest marine biogeographic region. It is characterised by different degrees of connectivity among its subregions and harbours the majority of demosponge species currently known to science. Comparisons between regional sponge faunas have been undertaken in the past, mostly based on morphological species identification. The Sponge Barcoding Project, in tandem with regional DNA taxonomy campa...
Local and Landscape‐Level Environmental Conditions Drive Habitat Selection Across Terrestrial Mammal SpeciesNARA Subscribed
Aim Animal movements are a fundamental process affecting communities and ecosystems. Quantifying habitat selection across species and habitats is key for understanding how animals respond to environmental change. Currently, we lack comparative studies that examine how habitat selection varies across species traits and landscapes. We aim to quantify global patterns of habitat selection to help understand the fundamental drivers...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately affects women and carriers of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE4), yet little is known about how sex and APOE interact to influence white matter (WM) integrity during disease progression. We integrated diffusion MRI and matched blood transcriptomic data to investigate these interactions and their underlying biological mechanisms. WM microstructure was quantified using diffusion te...
Accelerated carbon cycling after 50 years of warming and increasing hydrologic variability in a temperate streamNARA Subscribed
Rivers transform and transport much of the organic input they receive from terrestrial ecosystems. This carbon sustains stream food webs and fuels the production and release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Warming water temperatures and intensification of the hydrologic cycle due to climate change are likely to affect these carbon transformations and downstream transport in streams. Here, we examine the natura...
Despite a broad consensus on the necessity of fundamental change, endeavors to transform food systems appear to have reached an impasse. Greater engagement with the uncertainty of food systems could open up new ways of triggering transformation directed towards achieving more sustainable and inclusive outcomes. As a way of reorienting current food system change efforts to better embrace uncertainty, we propose a framework for...