Megan W Bourassa, Keith Lividini, Gabriela Cormick, Filomena Gomes, Ziaul H Rana
{"title":"The Global Calcium Dashboard: Country-Specific Data on Calcium Intakes, Policies, and Related Health Outcomes.","authors":"Megan W Bourassa, Keith Lividini, Gabriela Cormick, Filomena Gomes, Ziaul H Rana","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Low calcium intake is a widespread global health problem that impacts maternal health, neonatal survival, and the development of chronic health problems such as osteoporosis. Despite its important health implications, fragmented data on calcium intakes and related health outcomes have hindered more strategic responses. We aimed to develop a centralized, interactive platform that visualizes calcium intakes, associated health outcomes, and policies across countries. The Global Calcium Dashboard integrates datasets that include calcium intake estimates, as well as calcium supplementation guidelines, food-based recommendations, and fortification legislation. Epidemiological data and modeled estimates on preterm births, maternal hypertensive disorders, and bone fractures were also incorporated to highlight areas with the greatest potential need for improved calcium intake. Country typologies were created based on the risk of adverse health outcomes and the presence of policies or guidelines for calcium interventions. Countries with the greatest risk of adverse health outcomes and lacking calcium intervention policies were primarily found in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia. Supporting these countries in developing calcium-based interventions to address this nutrient gap has the greatest likelihood to improve health outcomes, especially for mothers and their infants.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1559 1","pages":"e70286"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147832895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ivana Konvalinka, Natalie Sebanz, Günther Knoblich
{"title":"The Social, Decoupled Self: Interpersonal Synchronization of Breathing Alters Intrapersonal Cardiorespiratory Coupling.","authors":"Ivana Konvalinka, Natalie Sebanz, Günther Knoblich","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70285","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People synchronize their behavioral and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive effects such as social bonding, some evidence suggests that it may also impair self-regulation and disrupt intrapersonal coordination. Because respiration and heart rhythms are weakly coupled within individuals, we investigated whether synchronizing breathing with another person alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling. Across two experiments, participants synchronized their breathing reciprocally (bidirectional interaction), unidirectionally with a confederate, or with prerecorded breathing signals, while respiration and electrocardiography were continuously measured. Relative phase analyses revealed that bidirectional breathing synchronization induced in-phase synchronization of heart rhythms between individuals. Critically, interpersonal synchronization coincided with cardiorespiratory decoupling: respiration and heart rhythms became more out-of-phase during interaction compared to resting baselines and the unidirectional condition. Moreover, stronger interpersonal respiratory synchronization predicted greater intrapersonal cardiorespiratory decoupling, particularly when participants adapted their own breathing to another person's. These findings provide evidence that interpersonal physiological synchronization entails a trade-off with intrapersonal physiological coupling, perturbing the phase relationship within one's own physiological system. We propose that aligning one's physiological rhythms with others strengthens self-other coupling but weakens intrapersonal coupling, pointing to a physiological mechanism of self-decoupling during social interaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1559 1","pages":"e70285"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13131310/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147760615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linyi Lv, Hui Deng, Yinshuang Yang, Zheyi Wu, Anrun Li
{"title":"Soil Erosion in the Lancang River Basin: Variations, Drivers, and Future Projections From RUSLE-CMIP6.","authors":"Linyi Lv, Hui Deng, Yinshuang Yang, Zheyi Wu, Anrun Li","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70287","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soil erosion constrains agricultural productivity, ecological security, and water resources in the Lancang River Basin. This study mapped annual soil erosion at 30-m resolution from 2000 to 2024 using the revised universal soil loss equation combined with Theil-Sen slope estimation and the Mann-Kendall test. Basin-wide mean erosion remained generally stable, while pixel-wise analyses revealed significant localized intensification (p < 0.05) in localized areas. Areas classified as very slight and slight erosion accounted for approximately 55%-73% and 25%-37% of the basin, respectively, whereas moderate-to-extreme erosion occupied <2% of the area. Optimal parameter geographical detector analysis identified precipitation (Q = 0.196) and land use (Q = 0.170) as the dominant controls, with strong bifactor enhancement indicating synergistic effects on exposed slopes. Future erosion for 2025-2050 was assessed using precipitation-driven CMIP6 scenarios (SSP1-1.9, SSP2-4.5, SSP5-8.5) based on the GFDL-CM4 model. Results indicate minimal change under SSP1-1.9, increases of 5%-10% under SSP2-4.5, and pronounced intensification exceeding 10% in parts of the middle and lower basin under SSP5-8.5. Sensitivity analyses confirm that the identified patterns are robust to reasonable uncertainty in land-cover and conservation parameters. These findings provide quantitative guidance for prioritizing soil conservation under future climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1559 1","pages":"e70287"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147855832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Featured Cover, Volume 1558, Issue 1","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147752609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Skin to Brain: Antagonism and Parallelism in the MCH and MSH Systems","authors":"Amal Alachkar, Olivier Civelli","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70267","url":null,"abstract":"The melanin‐concentrating hormone (MCH) and melanocyte‐stimulating hormone (MSH, α‐MSH) systems are examples of functional antagonism built upon mechanistic parallelism. Evolved from light‐responsive pigment mechanisms, these peptides were repurposed into hypothalamic circuits regulating energy balance, circadian rhythms, and complex behaviors. Their antagonism manifests across multiple biological scales. In the skin, MCH induces melanosome aggregation in low light, whereas MSH promotes their dispersion for ultraviolet protection. In the brain, this pigmentary logic was repurposed into circadian and metabolic regulation: MCH promotes feeding, energy conservation, and sleep, while MSH drives satiety, thermogenesis, and wakefulness. Strikingly, their antagonism extends to subcellular organelles. MCH shortens neuronal primary cilia, whereas MSH elongates them, paralleling their opposite actions on melanosomes. Both processes depend on cAMP–PKA–regulated microtubule transport, reflecting a conserved cellular architecture probably rooted in the shared neural crest origins of melanocytes and neurons. Importantly, these pathways remain tightly entrained to the circadian clock, translating external light−dark cycles into rhythmic control of skin pigmentation and the body's internal metabolic state. Disruptions of these systems contribute to diverse metabolic and neuropsychiatric disorders, often through opposite imbalances of signaling, and understanding this deep evolutionary continuity reveals new therapeutic targets, from receptor ligands to circadian interventions and cilia‐targeted therapies.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147743784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin Jamey, Hugo Laflamme, Nicholas E. V. Foster, Simon Rigoulot, Krista L. Hyde, Simone Dalla Bella
{"title":"A Randomized Proof‐of‐Concept Study of Gamified Rhythmic Training in Autistic Children","authors":"Kevin Jamey, Hugo Laflamme, Nicholas E. V. Foster, Simon Rigoulot, Krista L. Hyde, Simone Dalla Bella","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70270","url":null,"abstract":"Autistic children often experience differences in rhythmic skills and executive functioning, which are associated with rhythm‐related challenges and the degree of autistic traits. Training rhythmic skills could support autistic individuals, given the fundamental role of timing skills in various aspects of cognitive, motor, and social functioning. We evaluated the feasibility of rhythmic training to support perceptual, motor, and cognitive functioning by testing Rhythm Workers (RW), a finger‐tapping serious game, in autistic children (ages 7–13; <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 26). Participants were randomly assigned to play either RW or a control game with similar auditory‐motor demands over 2 weeks. Feasibility results showed high compliance (retention, adherence) and similar engagement (training duration, enjoyment, perceived difficulty) for both games. Compared to the control group, children who played RW showed greater improvement in rhythmic skills as a function of training duration and autistic traits (social awareness). Gains were also observed in composite scores of executive functioning (accuracy), though not all subcomponent tasks showed significant effects. These findings offer preliminary support for the feasibility of implementing digital gamified rhythmic training for autistic children, and suggest potential benefits for motor and cognitive engagement that warrant further investigation.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147736479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica K. Bone, Feifei Bu, Jill K. Sonke, Daisy Fancourt
{"title":"Behavioral Phenotyping of Arts Engagement Using 20 Years of the American Time Use Survey","authors":"Jessica K. Bone, Feifei Bu, Jill K. Sonke, Daisy Fancourt","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70284","url":null,"abstract":"Arts and cultural engagement have been linked to health and wellbeing but there has not been any national monitoring of arts and cultural behaviors in the United States. Given its potential benefits, understanding how engagement is changing is vital. We used the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a continuous cross‐sectional survey (2003−2023) measuring activities during the last 24 h. We estimated rates of arts engagement on an average day; determined how long people spent on the arts; explored with whom activities were done; identified where activities were done; examined potential disparities across different subgroups of the population; and described the time trends in these measures. In this nationally representative sample ( <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 236,270), daily arts engagement rates were stable from 2003 to 2023, with small underlying increases in participatory engagement (dancing/performing/arts/crafts/writing) and slight declines in receptive engagement (attending performing arts/museums/watching dancing). There were less consistent trends in time spent on the arts. People increasingly did arts activities alone at home. There were disparities in engagement, with differing trends according to sex, age, and income. To understand population‐level engagement, arts behaviors should be monitored nationally. Tracking different activities separately is crucial, alongside the factors influencing participation.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lia Laffi, Alice Salerno, Olivier Friard, Silvia Poletti, Giorgia Ruffa, Martina Tubito, Vittorio Luigi Bianco, Daria Valente, Michele Capasso, Roberta Castiglioni, Valentina Isaja, Andrea Ravignani, Marco Gamba
{"title":"Dual Sound Sources in Siamangs Generate Individually Rhythmic and Temporally Coordinated Vocal Emissions","authors":"Lia Laffi, Alice Salerno, Olivier Friard, Silvia Poletti, Giorgia Ruffa, Martina Tubito, Vittorio Luigi Bianco, Daria Valente, Michele Capasso, Roberta Castiglioni, Valentina Isaja, Andrea Ravignani, Marco Gamba","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70273","url":null,"abstract":"Temporal organization is crucial for efficient communication in many animal species, particularly those with complex vocal output. Singing primates structure their songs into rhythmic categories based on small‐integer ratios between adjacent intervals. However, rhythmic organization usually emerges from a single sound source, and it remains unknown whether any species can produce rhythms through the coordination of multiple vocal production mechanisms. This study investigates rhythmicity in the song of siamangs ( <jats:italic>Symphalangus syndactylus</jats:italic> ). This singing primate uses two distinct vocal mechanisms: modulation of the oral tract and radiation through the laryngeal sac. We analyzed the temporal structure of vocal units resonated in the oral tract (mouth units) and those by the laryngeal sac (sac units), as well as the combined output of both. Both mouth and sac units displayed an isochronous pattern (1:1), corresponding to adjacent intervals of the same duration. The combined output showed significant isochrony (1:1) and two additional nonsignificant clusters at ratios of 1:9 and 9:1. These findings suggest that the interaction between the two vocal mechanisms yields a more complex rhythmic structure, representing a unique case of vocal coordination in nonhuman primates.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"66 1","pages":"e70273"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147731813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mikhail Ordin, Dina Abdel Salam El‐Dakhs, Leona Polyanskaya
{"title":"The Effect of Writing Direction and Task‐Specific Experience on Mapping Time and Numbers on Space","authors":"Mikhail Ordin, Dina Abdel Salam El‐Dakhs, Leona Polyanskaya","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70282","url":null,"abstract":"Mapping time and numbers on space is affected by the writing direction. In two experiments, we searched for an explanation of how writing scripts can influence the mental representation of time and number axes. We presented to participants either 2 months (written in their native language) or two numbers (Arabic numerals), one on the left and the other on the right of the screen, and asked them to judge which number is larger or which month comes later in the year. For the months, Arabic speakers responded more accurately and faster when the correct answer was shown on the left, and the pattern was reversed for the Portuguese. However, this effect was not detected when the numbers were compared. We suggest that the observed effect is not rooted in mental mapping of time on space but is accounted for by automatized behavioral patterns related to habitual information processing. We also found that mathematicians performed better with numbers and worse with month names than nonmathematicians, confirming the direct effect of experience on cognitive processing without involving mental representations of number or time axes.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"e70282"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147731812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ricardo Mouta, Liliane Tavares de Faria Cavalcante, Marcelo Alves Soares, Carlos G. Schrago, Mirela D'arc, Filipe Romero Rabelo Moreira, André Felipe Andrade dos Santos
{"title":"Evolutionary Dynamics of Endogenous Feline Leukemia Virus in the Felis Genus Through the Lens of Genomics","authors":"Ricardo Mouta, Liliane Tavares de Faria Cavalcante, Marcelo Alves Soares, Carlos G. Schrago, Mirela D'arc, Filipe Romero Rabelo Moreira, André Felipe Andrade dos Santos","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70278","url":null,"abstract":"Feline leukemia virus ( <jats:italic>Gammaretrovirus felleu</jats:italic> ) causes variable pathologies, partially modulated by its endogenous form (enFeLV). Although enFeLV is found in genomes of all species of the <jats:italic>Felis</jats:italic> genus, the limitations of transposable element sequencing have hindered a comprehensive characterization. In this study, we examined 17 felid genomes for enFeLV copies, confirming that enFeLV is restricted to the <jats:italic>Felis</jats:italic> genus. From the long‐read genomes of <jats:italic>Felis catus</jats:italic> , <jats:italic>Felis nigripes</jats:italic> , and <jats:italic>Felis chaus</jats:italic> , we identified 73 solo LTRs, 64 copies with genic segments, and 4 atypical copies. These were annotated and characterized using recombination assessment, phylogenetic analysis, insertion dating, and Fisher's exact tests. All enFeLV copies shared a single origin, with insertions occurring within the last 3.5 million years, except for predicted recombinants. Copy distribution, dating, and the phylogenetic position of <jats:italic>F. chaus</jats:italic> copies reinforce the hypothesis of a recent introgression of enFeLV into this species. Furthermore, 41 copies exhibit identical LTR pairs and 14 retain intact open reading frames spanning the viral genome. Uneven evolutionary pressures across the enFeLV genome were evidenced by discrepancies between tree topologies of individual genes and the preferential loss of <jats:italic>pol</jats:italic> . We conclude that enFeLV has undergone a complex post‐endogenization evolutionary history and urge additional studies of other endogenous retroviruses.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":"e70278"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147731811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}