Urbana University

Evaluation of perennial Glycine species for response to Meloidogyne incognita, Rotylenchulus reniformis, and Pratylenchus penetrans

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Effects of a Mushroom-Based β-Glucan and Bovine Colostrum Blend on the Gastrointestinal Health and Immune Function of Healthy Adult Dogs

Abstract Mushroom-derived β-glucans and bovine colostrum have potential roles in modulating gut health and immune function, but limited data are available regarding their effects on the gut microbiome, microbial metabolites, and immune responsiveness in adult dogs. Twenty healthy...

Trimethylamine N-oxide and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events: results of umbrella review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Circulating trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) may be a causal factor or marker for major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACE), but evidence in humans is limited to observational studies with inherent uncertainties. Methods We conducted an umbrella sys...

The urinary pathobiont Actinobaculum massiliense can generate androgens via the dirAB pathway

While overlooked during the Human Microbiome Project, characterizing the urinary microbiota in health and disease is a new frontier in microbiome science. Recent studies have associated differential abundance of bacterial taxa including Propionimicrobium lymphophilum and Actinoba...

Well-connected community detection at extreme scale: shared- and distributed-memory parallel algorithms

Abstract Community detection algorithms such as Leiden frequently produce clusters thatare internally disconnected or poorly connected, limiting their utility indownstream network analysis. The Well-Connected Clusters (WCC) and ConnectivityModifier (CM) algorithms address this by...

Dams trigger long-term river-floodplain decoupling in dynamic Andean foreland rivers

Andean foreland rivers are preferential sites for ongoing and planned hydroelectric dam construction in the Amazon Basin. These rivers are characterized by high sediment fluxes that drive rapid rates of channel migration, large river-floodplain sediment exchanges, and creatediver...

Gravity Wave Energy Baselines (∼30–110 km) Established From Lidar Observations at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.67°E), Antarctica: Energy Dissipation and Constituent Diffusion

Abstract Lidar observations above McMurdo, Antarctica from 2011 to 2024 are used to characterize gravity wave (GWs) potential energies () in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). Alongside characterizations in the middle atmosphere (30–70 km), the GW baselines show dissipa...