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Garlic, as well as several natural food ingredients such as basil, ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, clove, pepper etc., has long been traditionally used as routine anti-viral and anti-bacterial remedy. Allyl methyl sulfide (AMS) is reportedly a persistent main active metabolite component of allicin after garlic ingestion accounting for at least 90% of the allicin consumed. Several studies have reported the presence of AMS in organs such as lung, kidney etc. and body fluids such as mucous, and blood-plasma. Glycoproteins of enveloped viruses are actively involved in viral pathogenesis. N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid) and N-Acetylglucosamine, are some of the vital amino acids involved in several viral infections using glycoproteins via glycosylation. Simulations studies based on First-principles density functional theory show that these amino acids attach with AMS, and the reactions are thermodynamically spontaneous (ΔG and ΔS negative are at 310.15 K as well as lower and higher temperatures). Further, phospholipid phosphatidylethanolamine (a component of some viral envelops) also attaches readily with AMS and the reaction is spontaneous. AMS molecules attachment with viral phospholipids and amino-acids involved in viral infection would denature the virus and prevent its attachment to the host cell. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.Research indicates the role of parents in women's body dissatisfaction and maladaptive eating patterns. Fathers, in particular, have unique roles in determining daughters' protection against these health risks. Additionally, self-esteem, feminist values, and psychological empowerment are linked with body dissatisfaction and maladaptive eating patterns among women. This study examined the contributions of these psychological factors, family relational factors, and the role of fathers in empowering their daughters. Seventy-seven young adult women from intact families were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk and a university campus and completed self-report surveys. Participants were between the ages of 18 and 38 and primarily White. Results indicate that women with higher self-esteem and psychological empowerment endorsed greater body satisfaction. Women with higher self-esteem and endorsement of feminist values also reported significantly fewer maladaptive eating patterns. Greater family conflict was related to more maladaptive eating patterns. Analyses indicated increased body dissatisfaction and increased eating disorder risk decreased the odds of women reporting agency and fatherly supportive resources in their father-daughter communication narratives. Narrative data analysis revealed that fathers play a crucial role in promoting daughter's empowerment, egalitarian gender-role socialization, and healthy psychological wellbeing. Implications for research and clinical community-based treatment and prevention strategies are discussed.Safety seat belt usage has been a great interest to the transportation community. Understanding factors that influence driver's decision of wearing a safety seat belt or not is essential in determining ways to enhance safety seat belt usage rate. A modeling approach is made to observe the trend of seat belt usage in Mumbai city and to understand the effect of vehicle type, ownership type, driver's sociodemographic, and environmental characteristics on safety seat belt usage in Mumbai City. Data were collected by roadside observational surveys at various locations in Mumbai during the years 2015 through 2018. The time series model estimate confirms declining trend of drivers not wearing safety seat belt. When vehicles are disaggregated into different build types, buses are found to be associated with no use of safety seat belt as compared to other type of vehicles, and even male drivers follow the same trend in the city. By using random parameter logit model unobserved heterogeneity was captured among individuals. Findings can be used by policymakers to develop intervention strategies to increase seat belt usage in Mumbai and other cities having similar traffic characteristics and social environment features.The aim was to analyse the relationship between isokinetic strength, dynamic stability, muscular extensibility and impacts transmission during fatigued running. Low- and high-frequency impacts-related to body movements and the severity of impacts, respectively-were assessed in 17 male recreational runners, before and after a treadmill running fatigue protocol, using a triaxial accelerometry system. Selleckchem LAQ824 High-frequency impacts in the tibia were negatively correlated to the knee angle at which the quadriceps peak torque was reached (p = 0.014), and also to the extensibility of the hamstrings and soleus (p = 0.001 and p = 0.023, respectively). The increases of high-frequency impacts in tibia caused by fatigue were positively related to the knee angle at which the hamstrings peak torque was reached (p = 0.001) and to stability after landing (p = 0.007). The attenuation of high-frequency impacts was positively related to hamstrings/quadriceps ratio of strength (p = 0.010) and to stability (p = 0.006). Limiting possible deficits in hamstring and soleus range of motion, improving stability after landing, developing hamstring and quadriceps strength in elongated muscle range, and maintaining a balanced ratio of hamstring/quadriceps strength could help to reduce the injury risk in running.Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is the first rate-limiting enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway. One of the enzyme's most important functions is the production of a reducing agent that is essential for preserving the level of reduced glutathione (GSH). However, some chemicals, such as industrial waste and the active ingredients of several drugs, can cause reduction or blockage in this enzyme's activity. This case causes the occurrence of anemia by damaging erythrocytes. In this study, the G6PD enzyme was purified 21,981 fold with affinity chromatography and the effects of the active ingredients of some antiarrhythmic drugs on enzyme activity were investigated with in vitro and in silico methods. We found that dobutamine hydrochloride significantly decreased enzyme activity and its inhibitory constant (Ki ) value was calculated as 19.02 ± 4.83 mM. The in vitro study results also show that dobutamine hydrochloride is a potent inhibitor of enzyme activity. We also found that dobutamine hydrochloride inhibits the hG6PD enzyme's activity by causing structural alterations in substrate and coenzyme binding sites.