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Health risks associated to the use of tropical wildlife have so far been envisioned through the lens of zoonotic pathogens spread by the bushmeat trade, putting aside the equally vibrant network of traditional medicine markets (TMMs). We collected information on the preservative techniques used for animal body parts from TMMs in Benin through a semi-structured questionnaire addressed to 45 sellers. We show that a recent shift from traditional preservative techniques using harmless treatments towards modern techniques -involving the recurrent use of hazardous chemicals (such as Sniper)- is likely to pose a serious health risk to practitioners and consumers of animal parts from TMMs in Benin. We conclude that the non-regulation of the TMM activities represents a critical risk to both biodiversity conservation and human health in western Africa.Therapeutic programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) blockade enhances T cell mediated anti-tumor immunity, but many patients do not respond, and a significant proportion develops inflammatory toxicities. To develop better therapeutics and to understand the signaling pathways downstream of PD-1 we performed phosphoproteomic interrogation of PD-1 to identify key mediators of PD-1 signaling. Hereby, supporting data of the research article "VRK2 inhibition synergizes with PD-1 blockade to improve T cell responses" are presented. In the primary publication, we proposed that VRK2 is a unique therapeutic target and that combination of VRK2 inhibitors with PD-1 blockade may improve cancer immunotherapy. Here, we provide data on the effect of other kinases on PD-1 signaling utilizing shRNA knockdown of the different kinases in Jurkat T cells. JTE 013 purchase In addition, we used VRK2 inhibition by a pharmacologic approach in the MC38 tumor mouse model, to show the combined outcome of anti PD-1 treatment with VRK2 inhibition. These data provide additional targets downstream PD-1 and point toward methods of testing the effect of the inhibition of these targets on tumor progression in vivo.In this work, we present data related to the structural features and thermal characteristics of starches from four varieties banana, likewise, we present the synthesis and characterization of starch nanoparticles from those starches. Data shows the structure of the starch granule and the nanoparticles are formed through XRD spectroscopy.This paper describes a data collection campaign and the resulting dataset derived from smartphone sensors characterizing the daily life activities of 3 volunteers in a period of two weeks. The dataset is released as a collection of CSV files containing more than 45K data samples, where each sample is composed by 1332 features related to a heterogeneous set of physical and virtual sensors, including motion sensors, running applications, devices in proximity, and weather conditions. Moreover, each data sample is associated with a ground truth label that describes the user activity and the situation in which she was involved during the sensing experiment (e.g., working, at restaurant, and doing sport activity). To avoid introducing any bias during the data collection, we performed the sensing experiment in-the-wild, that is, by using the volunteers' devices, and without defining any constraint related to the user's behavior. For this reason, the collected dataset represents a useful source of real data to both define and evaluate a broad set of novel context-aware solutions (both algorithms and protocols) that aim to adapt their behavior according to the changes in the user's situation in a mobile environment.Brewers' Spent Grain (BSG) is the primary waste of the beer brewing process, which comprises a plethora of nutritionally appealing ingredients such as proteins, dietary fibres, essential lipids and micronutrients. In our previous study [1], the acid-induced gelation capacity of BSG protein isolate as influenced by the thermal pre-treatment severity was systematically investigated. In the present work, we aimed at providing a dataset outlining the gastrointestinal fate of the acid gels under simulating pre-absorptive digestion conditions adopting the INFOGEST static in-vitro digestion protocol. Protein hydrogel digestibility was assessed by quantification of the total soluble nitrogen content in the initial acid gels as well as the obtained gastric and small intestine chymes. The extent of proteolysis occurring in the oral, gastric and intestinal phases was investigated by SDS-PAGE and the molecular weight distribution of the proteins in the obtained gastric chymes and intestinal digesta was determined by image analysis. The dataset can be deployed to assist food scientists in the design and development of alternative protein-based food and food supplement products adopting the "waste-to-fork" concept.In this article we describe the dataset titled "Response inhibition and selective attention in adults and children with and without ADHD" which is publicly available on OpenNeuro.org. This dataset is comprised of neuroimaging and standardized cognitive assessment scores from 11 adults, 12 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and 15 age matched children without ADHD. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data were collected while participants completed selective attention and response inhibition tasks designed and balanced for within or cross-task comparisons. Previous research utilizing this dataset has yet to explore associations between brain function and cognitive assessment scores or differences in neural processes across stimuli features making this dataset valuable for its future contributions to the field as well as replication of prior findings.Ongoing global pandemic crisis of coronavirus (COVID-19) and its fast- and wide-spreading into entire worlds, critically intimidating our current and future lives, put more emphasis on the development of efficient UV-C emitting phosphors for the germicidal and medical applications due to the intense UV-C emission, which can effectively deactivate such viruses. In this regard, UV-C emitting Pr3+-activated three presentative rare earth phosphate such as YPO4, LaPO4, and La (x mol.%, x =0-0.21)-doped YPO4 have been systematically investigated in terms of crystallographic evolution and their impact on the UV-C emitting properties. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images along with X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns attested the substitutional doping of La into YPO4 host matrices. Optical properties mainly investigated using the photoluminescence (PL) emission spectroscopy in the spectral range from 220-300 nm corresponding to UV-C energy region clearly demonstrated that the substitutional doping of La into YPO4Pr3+ leads to the increase in transition probability of UV-C emission, resulted from the electronic transition of activator corresponding to [Xe]4f15d1→[Xe]4f2.