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Former Kaizer Chiefs legend Brian Baloyi says that holding the Kaizer Chiefs No 1 jersey requires a hardened mentality, but he is upbeat over Amakhosi's chances this season.

RK Tangirala
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Tricia Rowlison
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Kyle Swovick
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by the epididymal epithelium transfer to spermatozoa key proteins that are essential in promoting motility and subsequent fertilization success. Using the domestic cat model, the objectives were to (1) characterize and compare protein content of EVs between segments of the epididymis, and (2) compare EV protein compositions between normo- and teratospermic individuals (producing >60% of abnormal spermatozoa). Epididymal EVs from adult cats were isolated and assessed via liquid chromatography tandem MS. Both male types shared 3008 proteins in total, with 98 and 20 EV proteins unique to normospermic and teratospermic males, respectively. Expression levels of several proteins changed between epididymal segments in both male types. Several proteins in both groups were related to sperm motility (e.g. hexokinase 1, adenylate kinase isoenzyme) and zona pellucida or oolemma binding (e.g. disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain proteins, zona binding proteins 1 and 2). Interestingly, seven cauda-derived EV proteins trended downward in teratospermic compared with normospermic males, which may relate to poor sperm quality. Collective results revealed, for the first time, EV proteins related to sequential sperm maturation with differences observed between normospermic and teratospermic individuals.

Cells continually degrade and replace damaged proteins. However, the high energetic demand of protein turnover generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) that compromise the long-term health of the proteome. Thus, the relationship between aging, protein turnover and energetic demand remains unclear. Here, we used a proteomic approach to measure rates of protein turnover within primary fibroblasts isolated from a number of species with diverse lifespans including the longest-lived mammal, the bowhead whale. We show that organismal lifespan is negatively correlated with turnover rates of highly abundant proteins. In comparison to mice, cells from long-lived naked mole rats have slower rates of protein turnover, lower levels of ATP production and reduced ROS levels. Despite having slower rates of protein turnover, naked mole rat cells tolerate protein misfolding stress more effectively than mouse cells. We suggest that in lieu of rapid constitutive turnover, long-lived species may have evolved more energetically efficient mechanisms for selective detection and clearance of damaged proteins.

An Alaskan high school exchange program works to promote understanding between the state's urban centers and its remote Native Villages and communities.

The first computer is thought to be the invention of a 19th century mathematician

The answer…and why you should care

OM Hungary works alongside partner organisations to bring comfort and Jesus’ love to refugees in Budapest.

Seeing how little it takes to make a difference and experiencing that God can use them, young Moldovans get passionate about sharing the gospel.

As war continues in the east of Ukraine, refugees flood Odessa. OM cannot turn a blind eye to its new neighbours.

Logos Hope's Visitor Experience deck creatively engages people with the gospel as local volunteers make the language and cultural barriers obsolete.

Over 100 young people, coaches and supporters hear the Word of God at a volleyball and football tournament held in conjunction with local churches.

A comprehensive look at how U.S. schools served students in the aftermath of the coronavirus closures finds that schools responded more fully in communities where parents' education levels were higher.

How prayer shaped the history of OM and how important prayer still is today.

Hi All

I am looking for the functions which are different about OrCAD Professional and Allegro tier.

is there any resource?

regard

Hai Community,

What are the differences between the Cadence OrCAD / Allegro 24.1 with the Altium Designer 24.

Can I get the grid matrix difference between these two tools?

Regards,

Rohit Rohan

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High-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have been instrumental in investigating biological questions at the bulk and single-cell levels. Comparative analysis of two HTS data sets often relies on testing the statistical significance for the difference of two negative binomial distributions (DOTNB). Although negative binomial distributions are well studied, the theoretical results for DOTNB remain largely unexplored. Here, we derive basic analytical results for DOTNB and examine its asymptotic properties. As a state-of-the-art application of DOTNB, we introduce DEGage, a computational method for detecting differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in scRNA-seq data. DEGage calculates the mean of the sample-wise differences of gene expression levels as the test statistic and determines significant differential expression by computing the P-value with DOTNB. Extensive validation using simulated and real scRNA-seq data sets demonstrates that DEGage outperforms five popular DEG analysis tools: DEGseq2, DEsingle, edgeR, Monocle3, and scDD. DEGage is robust against high dropout levels and exhibits superior sensitivity when applied to balanced and imbalanced data sets, even with small sample sizes. We utilize DEGage to analyze prostate cancer scRNA-seq data sets and identify marker genes for 17 cell types. Furthermore, we apply DEGage to scRNA-seq data sets of mouse neurons with and without fear memory and reveal eight potential memory-related genes overlooked in previous analyses. The theoretical results and supporting software for DOTNB can be widely applied to comparative analyses of dispersed count data in HTS and broad research questions.

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common side effect of chemotherapy treatment, routinely manifesting as increased pain sensitivity (allodynia) in distal extremities. Despite its prevalence, effective treatment options are limited. Cannabinoids are increasingly being evaluated for their ability to treat chronic pain conditions, including CIPN. While previous studies have revealed sex differences in cannabinoid-mediated antinociception in acute and chronic pain models, there is a paucity of studies addressing potential sex differences in the response of CIPN to cannabinoid treatment. Therefore, we evaluated the long-term antiallodynic efficacy of cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB₁)-selective, cannabinoid receptor type 2 (CB₂)-selective, and CB₁/CB₂ mixed agonists in the cisplatin CIPN model, using both male and female mice. CB₁ selective agonism was observed to have sex differences in the development of tolerance to antiallodynic effects, with females developing tolerance more rapidly than males, while the antiallodynic effects of selective CB₂ agonism lacked tolerance development. Compound-specific changes to the female estrous cycle and female plasma estradiol levels were noted, with CB₁ selective agonism decreasing plasma estradiol while CB₂ selective agonism increased plasma estradiol. Chronic administration of a mixed CB₁/CB₂ agonist resulted in increased mRNA expression of proinflammatory cytokines and endocannabinoid regulatory enzymes in female spinal cord tissue. Ovarian tissue was noted to have proinflammatory cytokine mRNA expression following administration of a CB₂ acting compound while selective CB₁ agonism resulted in decreased proinflammatory cytokines and endocannabinoid regulatory enzymes in testes. These results support the need for further investigation into the role of sex and sex hormones signaling in pain and cannabinoid-mediated antinociceptive effects.

The consumption of ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)- or cannabis-containing edibles has increased in recent years; however, the behavioral and neural circuit effects of such consumption remain unknown, especially in the context of ingestion of higher doses resulting in cannabis intoxication. We examined the neural and behavioral effects of acute high-dose edible cannabis consumption (AHDECC). Sprague-Dawley rats (six males, seven females) were implanted with electrodes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), dorsal hippocampus (dHipp), cingulate cortex (Cg), and nucleus accumbens (NAc). Rats were provided access to a mixture of Nutella (6 g/kg) and THC-containing cannabis oil (20 mg/kg) for 10 minutes, during which they voluntarily consumed all of the provided Nutella and THC mixture. Cannabis tetrad and neural oscillations were examined 2, 4, 8, and 24 hours after exposure. In another cohort (16 males, 15 females), we examined the effects of AHDECC on learning and prepulse inhibition and serum and brain THC and 11-hydroxy-THC concentrations. AHDECC resulted in higher brain and serum THC and 11-hydroxy-THC levels in female rats over 24 hours. AHDECC also produced: 1) Cg, dHipp, and NAc gamma power suppression, with the suppression being greater in female rats, in a time-dependent manner; 2) hypolocomotion, hypothermia, and antinociception in a time-dependent manner; and 3) learning and prepulse inhibition impairments. Additionally, most neural activity and behavior changes appear 2 hours after ingestion, suggesting that interventions around this time might be effective in reversing/reducing the effects of AHDECC.

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There has been a distinction made in the 2001 Canadian C-Spine Rule regarding patients 65 and older and younger than 65 years of age as far as indications for cervical spine CT scanning. We sought to determine if there are differences in the symptoms, mechanisms of injury, fracture locations, and types that are still relevant in 2024.

South Korea's National Assembly is expected to pass a bill this week extending the maximum medlinkparental leave/medlink from two years to three. (!--ref1--) Rep.

In United States among different cities, medical reimbursement for the same medlinkmental health/medlink treatment was found to vary dramatically.

In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, Bryson Koehler, Revinate CEO, guest hosts to interview Jeff Jonas, Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Senzing. Jeff paints two pictures — one in which hoteliers practice responsible data management and another in which hoteliers fail to make intelligent decisions because of disorganized and inaccurate data. Identity resolution is one of the most important tools Jeff believes every tech stack should have to manage their data, understand guest profiles with accuracy, and execute data-powered marketing initiatives.

India head coach Gautam Gambhir downplayed the criticism he has faced after a humiliating 3-0 series loss to New Zealand at home in the recent series, saying he knew that taking up the prestigious role of India coach is highly difficult and don't think "he is feeling the heat" as his job is "absolutely honest".

Fees (in INR)IT, Operations Management, Business Analytics, Marketing, HR, etc."What is more valuable, an MBA or a PGDM?" This question has long caused consternation among management candidates. Both the Master of Business Administration (MBA Full Form) and the Post Graduate Diploma

The world of stock markets has different characteristics in each country, shaped by the underlying economy, regulations, and also investor behaviour.

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Vinod Muralidhar, the founder of Culvee Trust, says enabling a bright but underprivileged student to get to college can make the world a better place

Lawlor, Laurie, author

Amends Rule 11 UAC(4) of the Income Tax Rules

A deep tech start-up uses an electricity-driven, low energy consumption approach to tackle industrial effluents and domestic sewage

'I think because India is a bigger country and Bollywood is such a well-oiled machine, the star thing has become so much bigger than the actor thing.'

As the number of highly capable large language models (LLMs) released continues to quickly increase, I added the ability to test new models when they become available in the Ask Luke conversational interface on this site.

For context there's a number of places in the Ask Luke pipeline that make use of AI models to transform, clean, embed, retrieve, generate content and more. I put together a short video that explains how this pipeline is constructed and why if you're interested.

Specifically for the content generation step, once the right content is found, ranked, and assembled into a set of instructions, I can select which large language model to send these instructions to. Every model gets the same instructions unless they can support a larger context window. In which case they might get more ranked results than a model with a smaller context size.

Despite the consistent instructions, switching LLMs can have a very big impact on answer generation. I'll leave you to guess which of these two answers is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and which one comes from Antrhopic's new (this week) Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Some of you might astutely point out that the instruction set could be altered in specific ways when changing models. Recently, we've found the most advanced LLMs to be more interchangeable than before. But there's still differences in how they generate content as you can clearly see in the example above. Which one is best though... could soon be a matter of personal preference.

Thanks to Yangguang Li and Sam for the dev help on this feature.

This year around, the Watch Oscars threw up some surprises by independent watchmakers

Celia Hodent, game UX strategist, in conversation with Melanie Cornwell

The effect was observed regardless of whether hallucinations were auditory or visual in nature, consistent with a reality monitoring explanation.

When it comes to avast vs malwarebytes, both companies have superb reputations as well-established antivirus security software software providers. Both courses offer solid paid plans that can shield all your units from a number of cyber dangers. They also offer a solid free type for standard protection. The main big difference between the two is […]

The Indian renewable energy industry is in a situation of concern but there is no cause for despondency