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Gambling communities are typically forums for discussing and sharing gambling experiences, strategies, and tips as well as gambling problems, while gaming communities are inherently embedded inside a game being an essential part of the gaming experience. Identification with virtual communities influences gambling behavior and monetary gaming behavior through mechanisms of perceived norms, social influence, and community feedback. Whereas some gambling communities may provide protection from excessive gambling habits, gaming communities seem to solely motivate gaming behavior and purchase intentions. The role of online communities should be acknowledged in prevention and treatment of gambling and gaming problems.Applications such as brain computer interfaces require recordings of relevant neuronal population activity with high precision, for example, with electrocorticography (ECoG) grids. In order to achieve this, both the placement of the electrode grid on the cortex and the electrode properties, such as the electrode size and material, need to be optimized. For this purpose, it is essential to have a reliable tool that is able to simulate the extracellular potential, i.e., to solve the so-called ECoG forward problem, and to incorporate the properties of the electrodes explicitly in the model. In this study, this need is addressed by introducing the first open-source pipeline, FEMfuns (finite element method for useful neuroscience simulations), that allows neuroscientists to solve the forward problem in a variety of different geometrical domains, including different types of source models and electrode properties, such as resistive and capacitive materials. FEMfuns is based on the finite element method (FEM) impleme tool to simulate signals generated on electrode grids by the spatiotemporal electrical activity patterns produced by sources and thereby allows the user to optimize grids for brain computer interfaces including exploration of alternative electrode materials/properties.Quarry activities are creating diverse stress on biological resources in the rural areas where most of them are located globally. In this study, the effect of quarry activities on elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) leaves and soils around Onigambari Forest Reserve, Oyo State, Nigeria, were investigated. Soil and samples of elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) leaves were collected from two different distances from the quarry plant. Samples used as control were collected within the boundary of Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Oyo State, Nigeria estate. Samples were analysed using proton-induced X-ray emission, to determine the elements. The physiochemical parameters were also analysed in both soil and leaves samples. The mean concentration of the elements in the soil sample from Site 1 was higher in Mg, Cl, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Zn and Zr than Site 2 and the control site. While in leaves, similar trend was observed. Cd and Ag were highly enriched.This study used the officially released data by the Chinese air quality monitoring network to analyze the pollution characteristics of six air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO, and O3) for 29 cities in the Central Plains Economic Zone (CPEZ; China) in 2015. During 2015, serious particulate matter (PM) pollution often occurred, and the concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 were 77 μg m-3 and 128 μg m-3, respectively. Air pollutants were at higher concentrations in the northern cities than those in the southern region of the CPEZ, and the correlation among the cities indicated that there was regional pollution in CPEZ. Generally, PM, SO2, NO2, and CO showed similar seasonal characteristics and the highest and lowest concentrations appeared in winter and summer, respectively. In addition, we used the HYSPLIT model and trajStat model to identify the potential source contribution function and concentration-weighted trajectory of Zhengzhou, the central city of CPEZ. More serious air pollution occurred when air masses were transported from the west of the CPEZ. Shaanxi Province, Hubei Province, Anhui Province and the northwest of the CPEZ were found to be the main exogenous sources of total PM with contributions of > 100 μg m-3 PM2.5 and > 180 μg m-3 PM10. Therefore, the concentrations of PM in 2015 at Zhengzhou were probably influenced by both long-distance transmission and local emissions.BACKGROUND Lithium remains the first-line treatment for bipolar disorder (BD), but patients respond to it variably. While a myriad of studies have attributed many genes and signaling pathways to lithium responsiveness, a comprehensive study with an integrated conclusion is still lacking. OBJECTIVE We aim to present an integrated mechanism for the therapeutic actions of lithium in BD. METHODS First, a list of lithium responsiveness-associated genes (LRAGs) was collected by searching in the literature. Thereafter, gene set enrichment analysis together with gene-gene interaction network analysis was performed, in order to find the cellular and molecular events related to the LRAGs. RESULTS Gene set enrichment analyses showed that the chromosomal regions 3p26, 4p21, 5q34 and 7p13 could be novel associated loci for lithium responsiveness in BD. Also, expression pattern analysis of the LRAGs showed their enrichment in adulthood stages and different cell lineages of brain, blood and immune system. CM 4620 in vivo Most of the LRAGs exhibited enriched expression in central parts of human brain, suggesting major contribution of these parts in lithium responsiveness. Beside the prediction of several biological processes and signaling pathways related to lithium responsiveness, an interaction network between these processes was constructed that was found to be regulated by a set of microRNAs. Proteins of the network were mainly classified as transcription factors and kinases, which also highlighted the crucial role of glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) in lithium responsiveness. CONCLUSIONS The predicted cellular and molecular events in this study could be considered as mechanisms and also determinants of lithium responsiveness in BD.