The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the abrupt closure of circus schools, venues, and companies, introducing a myriad of novel stressors.Performers and students must now attempt to maintain their technical, physical, artistic, creative, and cognitive abilities without in-person support from their coaches and must manage the isolation from their train
In this paper we demonstrate the use of network analysis to characterise patterns of clustering in spatio-temporal events.Such clustering is of both theoretical and practical importance in the study of crime, and forms the basis for a number of preventative strategies.However, existing analytical methods show only that clustering is present in data
Leishmania is a protozoan parasite that alternates its life cycle between the sand-fly vector and the mammalian host.This alternation involves environmental changes and leads the parasite to dynamic modifications in morphology, metabolism, cellular signaling and regulation of gene expression to allow for a rapid adaptation to new conditions.The L-a
The cation channel of sperm (CatSper) protein family plays offworld drum pads important roles in male reproduction and infertility.The four members of this family are expressed exclusively in the testis and are localized differently in sperm.To investigate the effects of Panax ginseng treatment on the expression of CatSper genes and sperm hyperacti