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During the early development of the mammalian visual system, the distribution of neuronal preferred orientations in the primary visual cortex (V1) gradually shifts to match major orientation features of the environment, achieving its optimal representation. By combining computational modeling and electrophysiological recording, we provide a circuit plasticity mechanism that underlies the developmental emergence of such matched representation in the visual cortical network. Specifically, in a canonical circuit of densely-interconnected pyramidal cells and inhibitory parvalbumin-expressing (PV+) fast-spiking interneurons in V1 layer 2/3, our model successfully simulates the experimental observations and further reveals that the nonuniform inhibition plays a key role in shaping the network representation through spike timing-dependent plasticity. The experimental results suggest that PV + interneurons in V1 are capable of providing nonuniform inhibition shortly after vision onset. Our study elucidates a circuit mechanism for acquisition of prior knowledge of environment for optimal inference in sensory neural systems.Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in medical imaging. However, most algorithms focused exclusively on improving the accuracy of classification while neglecting the major challenges in a real-world application. The opacity of algorithms prevents users from knowing when the algorithms might fail. And the natural gap between training datasets and the in-reality data may lead to unexpected AI system malfunction. Knowing the underlying uncertainty is essential for improving system reliability. Therefore, we developed a COVID-19 AI system, utilizing a Bayesian neural network to calculate uncertainties in classification and reliability intervals of datasets. Validated with four multi-region datasets simulating different scenarios, our approach was proved to be effective to suggest the system failing possibility and give the decision power to human experts in time. Leveraging on the complementary strengths of AI and health professionals, our present method has the potential to improve the practicability of AI systems in clinical application.The exposome concept encourages holistic consideration of the non-genetic factors (environmental exposures including lifestyle) that influence an individual's health over their life course. However, disconnect between the concept and practical application has promoted divergent interpretations of the exposome across disciplines and reinforced separation of the environmental (emphasizing exposures) and biological (emphasizing responses) research communities. In particular, while knowledge of biological responses can help to distinguish actual (i.e. experienced) from potential exposures, the inclusion of endogenous processes has generated confusion about the position of the exposome in a multi-omics systems biology context. We propose a reattribution of "exposome" to exclusively represent the totality of contact with external factors that a biological entity experiences, and introduce the term "functional exposomics" to denote the systematic study of exposure-phenotype interaction. This reoriented definition of the exposome allows a more readily integrable dataset for multi-omics and systems biology research.Human centenarians and longevity mutants of model organisms show lower incidence rates of late-life morbidities than the average population. However, whether longevity is caused by a compression of the portion of life spent in a state of morbidity, i.e., "sickspan," is highly debated even in isogenic Caenorhabditis elegans. Here, we developed a microfluidic device that employs acoustophoretic force fields to quantify the maximum muscle strength and dynamic power in aging C. elegans. Together with different biomarkers for healthspan, we found a stochastic onset of morbidity, starting with a decline in dynamic muscle power and structural integrity, culminating in frailty. Surprisingly, we did not observe a compression of sickspan in longevity mutants but instead observed a temporal scaling of healthspan. Given the conservation of these longevity interventions, this raises the question of whether the healthspan of mammalian longevity interventions is also temporally scaled.The Mammary gland undergoes complicated epithelial remodeling to form lobuloalveoli during pregnancy, in which basal epithelial cells remarkably increase to form a basket-like architecture. However, it remains largely unknown how dormant mammary basal stem/progenitor cells involve in lobuloalveolar development. Here, we show that Nfatc1 expression marks a rare population of mammary epithelial cells with the majority being basal epithelial cells. Nfatc1 reporter-marked basal epithelial cells are relatively dormant mammary stem/progenitor cells. Although Nfatc1 reporter-marked basal epithelial cells have limited contribution to the homeostasis of mammary epithelium, they divide rapidly during pregnancy and contribute to lobuloalveolar development. Furthermore, Nfatc1 reporter-marked basal epithelial cells are preferentially used for multiple pregnancies. Using single-cell RNA-seq analysis, we identify multiple functionally distinct clusters within the Nfatc1 reporter-marked cell-derived progeny cells during pregnancy. Taken together, our findings underscore Nfatc1 reporter-marked basal cells as dormant stem/progenitor cells that contribute to mammary lobuloalveolar development during pregnancy.Covid-19 has made a significant impact on the lives of people. The education sector is also impacted by it. The unwarranted change was difficult to handle at first, but slowly got mitigated. The schools and colleges closed to avoid mass gatherings and communication. To help the education system cope with this virus, there was a need to understand how students would accept the change and what could be the impact of students' learning approaches due to Covid-19. This research focuses on examining students' learning habits during the pandemic. A dataset was constructed to examine Indian (Maharashtra) Students' learning habits during the time schools, and colleges were suspended due to the novel coronavirus- SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). In response to understanding the potential effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the questionnaires were spread over a network of educational communities on Facebook and Whatsapp from September 30 to October 20, 2020. Researchers delivered the given survey to teachers and parents to collect information. In order to live the influence of students' socioeconomic status and occupational aspirations on their learning habits of students during school closures, the survey included three significant information concerns (A) Individual demographics, including family socioeconomic status(B) Student's learning time spent during COVID-19, Support system as teachers and parents guidance; and (C) Importance of Self-learning and Effectiveness of it. But this research focuses on the Student's learning time spent during COVID-19. Around 859 responses were received through the survey. AUZ454 clinical trial With the effective aid of the LP model and the Simplex method, the importance of instructors during online learning can be analyzed. This paper presents results with the applied approach.The aim of this paper is analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on the perishable products' value chain in Ethiopia. As a methodology, both data sources and types primary and secondary, qualitative and quantitative, were used to achieve the objective of the study under consideration. The primary data sources used in this work is mainly phone survey, expert opinions and judgments based on real situation observation, and that of secondary data were collected through review of materials published on lessons learned from previous pandemics by different reputable sources. Therefore, this work is based on systematically reviewing and retrieving secondary sources through Google search, library plus harvesting and word type searching. The findings of the study revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic cut the full functioning of the value and supply chain of perishable products due to social distance restrictions imposed by the government, fear of the disease, cutoff transportation and even lock-down of market centers. This led to price changes, gross domestic product loss, the start-up of agro-industrial parks was delayed, reduced export and more women become out of work due to their high participation in perishable products' value chain. To mention, Ethiopia has lost about $25 million-almost 10% of annual revenue-just over $10 million within the horticultural sector and around 50,000 workers lose their jobs-mostly female labourers. Based on the results, the authors forwarded the collective engagement of the concerned bodies to reduce the negative impacts of COVID-19 on perishable products by using the possible mechanism.In this article, the authors introduce mutual insurance as a constructive component of the modern entrepreneurial landscape aimed at the protection of the wealth-related interests of the participants of the mutual insurance company (mutual insurance society, friendly society, etc.). Analyzing mutual insurance, the authors display it from the standpoint of entrepreneurship and assume that such companies (MICs) are among the insurance market actors. The specific feature of MICs is that they form the community of their members-policyholders. As far as members of each organization of this kind are its co-owners, they carry out some critical entrepreneurial activity functions. The object of this research is represented by the insurance market of the Russian Federation, through the prism of which the degree of development of MICs was demonstrated, and the barriers to its infrastructure growth were determined.Cancer is one of the most alarming diseases due to its high mortality and still increasing incidence rate. Currently available treatments for this condition present several shortcomings and new options are continuously being developed and evaluated, aiming at increasing the overall treatment efficiency and reducing associated adverse side effects. Gemcitabine has proven activity and is used in chemotherapy. However, its therapeutic efficiency is limited by its low bioavailability as a result of rapid enzymatic inactivation. Additionally, tumor cells often develop drug resistance after initial tumor regression related to transporter deficiency. We have previously developed three gemcitabine conjugates with cell-penetrating hexapeptides (CPP6) to facilitate intracellular delivery of this drug while also preventing enzymatic deamination. The bioactivity of these new prodrugs was evaluated in different cell lines and showed promising results. Here, we assessed the absorption and permeability across Caco-2 monolayers of these conjugates in comparison with gemcitabine and the respective isolated cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs). CPP6-2 (KLPVMW) and respective Gem-CPP6-2 conjugate showed the highest permeability in Caco-2 cells.Zonulin protein is a haptoglobin precursor and functions to modulate the permeability of tight junctions between enterocytes. Local inflammation or systemic inflammation can trigger zonulin expression. While the increased zonulin level causes an increase of intestinal permeability and entrance of foreign antigens, the latter can increase insulin resistance and inflammation. Polycystic ovarian syndrome affects women during their reproductive age characterized by hyperinsulinemia and/or hyperandrogenemia and associated with infertility problems. Changes in gut permeability such as irritable bowel syndrome are often found in PCOS patients. While metformin increases insulin mediates glucose uptake and, acts as an insulin-sensitizing drug used to treat PCOS patients is recently discovered to reshape intestinal bacteria and hence may affect intestinal action. This study was designed to find any association between zonulin level and other parameters in PCOS patients and to find metformin treatment effects on zonulin in PCOS patients.