{"title":"A Study on the Impact of Lamprey’s Adaptive Gender Ratio Changes on Ecosystem Stability Based on Logical Growth and Predator-Prey Models","authors":"Haonan Li, Junhan Zeng, Yunyang Huang","doi":"10.54097/jq7gp219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/jq7gp219","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to assess the ecological ramifications of lampreys' capacity to regulate population sex ratios in response to resource availability, exploring both the advantages and disadvantages associated with this unique ability. Initially, an enhanced logistic population growth model, derived from the Lotka-Volterra model, was developed to examine the broader ecological implications of lamprey influence. This involved integrating a logistic growth model into the traditional Lotka-Volterra framework to simulate the inhibitory impact of intrapopulation competition on population growth. The phase diagram with asymptotically stable fixed points further illustrates the advantage of lampreys using sex ratios to maintain population stability. Notably, distinctions in the survivability and resource-consuming capacity between male and female lampreys were considered by incorporating varying parameter values. The study posits that extreme sex ratios could lead to lamprey population extinction, while a balanced sex ratio correlates with a significant reduction in lamprey prey organisms within a larger ecological context.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"8 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141808038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on the Variation of Lamprey Population with Food Resources","authors":"Xianyu Qu","doi":"10.54097/k85psg49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/k85psg49","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the sexually deformable characteristics of the lamprey, this paper combines the logistic model and Bayesian logistic regression model to study the changes in its population numbers with food resources. In this paper, it is assumed that the growth rate is proportional to the food intake before the food reaches saturation. First, based on the traditional logistic model, this paper introduces the sex-related growth index and uses the least square method to fit it. Second, to investigate the relationship between food intake and gender ratio, this paper uses a Bayesian logistic regression model. The methodology of this paper provides a new idea to study the population size of sex-variable organisms, which has some credibility and novelty. At the same time, it also helps a lot in controlling the number of lampreys, which is favorable to the development of fisheries.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"41 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"mRNA Vaccine: The Starting Point of the Human Body Revolution","authors":"Wenhao Jiang","doi":"10.54097/4edpd319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/4edpd319","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of the initially high incidence of allergic reactions to the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, scientists' explanations fell short. To address this, a study delved into the history of in vitro-transcribed mRNA. The researcher proposes that a more plausible reason lies in +1 ribosomal frameshifting of certain tRNAs during the translation of in vitro transcribed mRNA in vivo. While not the first instance of experiments, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Based on this, I have conceived an explanatory principle: \"tRNA stalling leading to +1 frameshifting due to collisions.\" Although further experiments are needed to validate, the theoretical explanation holds a certain degree of possibility. This concept may contribute to addressing the issue of \"+1 frameshifting,\" enhancing the functionality of in vitro-transcribed mRNA.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"52 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent advances in preservation and freshness monitoring methods for fish: a review on the quality and structural changes of fish after slaughter","authors":"Tianchang Zou, Zhanyi Liu","doi":"10.54097/r5t8xe53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/r5t8xe53","url":null,"abstract":"Fish is a popular and nutritious food, which faces rapid spoilage due to its high protein content, leading to a short shelf life. Consequently, research has been directed towards effective preservation techniques and monitoring methods to address this challenge. This review delves into advancements in fish preservation and freshness monitoring, highlighting the perishable nature of fish owing to its protein content. It examines post-slaughter quality and structural changes in fish meat, recent preservation methods including physical methods and packaging approaches, and proposes a theoretical framework for further development in fish preservation and freshness assessment. Key areas of focus include sensory quality changes, pH value, water-holding capacity, thiobarbituric acid reactive substance value, TVB-N value, structural changes post-slaughter, stress-related muscle metabolism alterations, enzymatic myofibrillar proteolysis, and lipid impacts on fish quality. Additionally, the review discusses preservation methods like physical treatments, ultrasound, modified atmosphere packaging, vacuum packaging, and active packaging, along with monitoring techniques such as sensory bionic technology and spectroscopy technology for assessing fish freshness.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"22 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141806267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Association Between Intestinal Flora and Lung Cancer and the Regulatory Role of Dietary Fiber","authors":"Huizi Wu","doi":"10.54097/p06r5454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/p06r5454","url":null,"abstract":"Lung cancer accounts for a large proportion of malignant tumor-related deaths. In recent years many studies have demonstrated that dysbiosis is associated with carcinoma of the lungs. Intestinal flora is one of the most complex and diverse microbial populations in the human body. The intestinal flora can maintain a dynamic balance under normal circumstances and has the functions of promoting metabolism and enhancing immunity. This mechanism is partly dependent on short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) produced by the gut microbiota. Dietary fiber provides nutrition for intestinal flora, regulates the diversity and richness of intestinal flora. It also occupies a dominate position in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. When lung cancer-related microbiota is modulated by dietary fiber, they may have an influence on the lung cancer development. In this paper, the mechanism of intestinal flora and dietary fiber affecting the role of intestinal flora and dietary fiber in lung cancer, respectively, and the correlation between them were summarized.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"69 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141808305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the Health and Environmental Impacts of Vegetarian and Meat-Based Diets","authors":"Xingcheng Hou","doi":"10.54097/ta6k1p68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/ta6k1p68","url":null,"abstract":"With the advancement of nutrition, the health effects of vegetarian diets and meat-based diets have been re-evaluated, giving the nutritional balance of meals a new way of evaluation. This paper assesses the comparative impact of vegetarian and meat diets on human health and environmental sustainability. It synthesizes research from multiple disciplines to assess the impact of these dietary patterns on health, with a focus on their role in the prevalence and management of chronic disease. Environmental assessments highlight the resource inefficiency of meat production and its ecological footprint, and advocate reducing meat consumption. In addition, the emergence of plant-based meat alternatives is discussed, considering their potential to mitigate health and environmental concerns. This paper concludes by promoting flexible eating habits, particularly Mediterranean and flexitarian diets, as a balanced approach to achieving health benefits and environmental sustainability.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"39 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Sweeteners may Have Adverse Effects on the Human Body","authors":"Xiwen Dong, Yiling Qian, Ruixuan Zhang","doi":"10.54097/r5dq4236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/r5dq4236","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing attention to people's health, the concept of healthy diet has gradually become popular among the public. Among many processed foods, artificial sweeteners have been favored by consumers all over the world because of their low calories and high sweetness. However, with the deepening of the research on artificial sweeteners, there are continuous research on artificial sweetness. The medicine is not a completely healthy food. Through rat experiments and clinical experiments, researchers from all over the world have verified that ingestion of artificial sweeteners not only promotes drug resistance mutations in human cells, but may also affect the human central nervous system, thus interfering with the normal metabolic process of the human body, eventually causing toxic damage to brain tissue and damage to the hippocampus. Xi and memory, obesity, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia and other metabolic syndromes. In addition to the above adverse effects, there are also research results that show that the intake of aspartame is related to cancer, but the research in this regard has not reached a definite conclusion, so the final result is still controversial, and further clinical trial verification results are needed. This article has sorted out the current evidence that eating artificial sweeteners may have adverse effects on the human body, hoping to provide relevant scholars and consumers with a more objective and rational new perspective, so as to consider the intake of artificial sweeteners more carefully.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"40 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the Lamprey Ecosystem Based on the Lotka-Volterra Model","authors":"Yueqian Wu","doi":"10.54097/sgnnd324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/sgnnd324","url":null,"abstract":"The lamprey (Vertebrinidae) is the sole survivor of the oldest vertebrate known. Many studies have shown that sex differentiation in sea lamprey is influenced by external environmental factors, making it dependent on and also influencing the surrounding ecosystem. This article focuses on studying the impact of this sexual variation on the species itself and the surrounding ecosystem. Using differential equations, based on reality, this article constructed a cellular automaton model and a variant Lotka-Volterra model incorporating three species. This article comprehensively applied software programming tools such as MATLAB to solve these models. By building the model, obtained the general operation of lamprey ecosystem and the reproduction and evolution of lamprey population. This article primary aim is to investigate the sex ratio of species and its dependence on and impact on local environmental conditions. This article aim to understand how organisms within this ecosystem interact and adapt to environmental changes. Furthermore, this article seek to understand how sex ratio is influenced during upstream spawning migrations, and whether this dynamic change in sex ratio has ecological adaptive significance.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progress in Therapy of Lung Cancer","authors":"Benchang Xu","doi":"10.54097/wxpa7677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/wxpa7677","url":null,"abstract":"Lung cancer has become one of the most common cancers worldwide, and it is also the main cause of cancer-related deaths. It is estimated that over 22 million new cases and 1.79 million deaths are caused by lung cancer each year. The theory of \"airway field of injury\" has been used to explain the pathogenesis of lung cancer, but its specific molecular mechanism is not clear yet. With the completion of comprehensive genomic analysis of lung cancer, modern medicine has revealed its genetic heterogeneity and complexity, and identified many oncogenic driving genes and molecular pathogenesis of lung cancer. At present, common treatment methods for lung cancer include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, and gene therapy. Each treatment has a unique mechanism and targets, but also has different advantages and disadvantages. Corresponding to different lung cancer patients, it is necessary to comprehensively consider their physiological health and economic status, choosing appropriate treatment strategies.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"37 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research Progresses of Plant Polysaccharides with α-Glucosidase Inhibition activities","authors":"Ziyi Yang","doi":"10.54097/30vypy41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54097/30vypy41","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetes has become one of the major diseases threatening human health, and has become the main economic burden of the public health system. Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors are the first choice for the treatment of type II diabetes. However, the widely used AGI in clinical practice often has varying degrees of side effects. Plant polysaccharide is a kind of active substance that widely exists in plants and has great potential to alleviate diabetes. Screening of plant polysaccharides with hypoglycemic effects has attracted much attention due to efficient health care ability and good biocompatibility. This article focused on plant polysaccharides with α-glucosidase inhibitory activity, systematically elaborated on the hypoglycemic effect of plant polysaccharides, and provided a detailed review on the effects of extraction and purification methods on the physicochemical properties of plant polysaccharides and the activity of α-glucosidase inhibitors, as well as the researches on improving the AGI inhibitory abilities of plant polysaccharides through modification. This article aims to provide reference for the research and development of novel plant-based α-glucosidase inhibitors.","PeriodicalId":147629,"journal":{"name":"Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology","volume":"50 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141809559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}