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Women in space: A review of known physiological adaptations and health perspectives

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure to the spaceflight environment causes adaptations in most human physiological systems, many of which are thought to affect women differently from men. Since only 11.5% of astronauts worldwide have been female, these issues are largely understudied.
Millie Hughes‐Fulford, Danielle J. Carroll, Heather C. M. Allaway, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Aenor J. Sawyer   +4 more
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50% body weight loading reduces stature increases and lumbar disc expansion from 4 h hyper‐buoyancy floatation versus 15 min sitting upright

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Microgravity is associated with stature increases, back pain and post‐flight intervertebral disc (IVD) herniation. This study aims to determine whether 30 s seated 50% body weight (BW) axial loading is comparable to 15 min sitting upright in 1 g upon changes in stature, anterior lumbar IVD height (via ultrasound), passive vertebral stiffness ...
David Marcos‐Lorenzo, Christina Lysandrou, Laura Sudres, Alfonso Gil‐Martinez, Jaap Swanenburg, James Edward Clark, David Andrew Green   +6 more
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Are disk galaxies the progenitors of giant ellipticals? [PDF]

, 2007
A popular formation scenario for giant elliptical galaxies proposes that they might have formed from binary mergers of disk galaxies. Difficulties with the scenario that emerged from earlier studies included providing the necessary stellar mass and ...
Barden, Bell, Bell, Bell, Bender, Bender, Bender, Bender, Binney, Brinchmann, Ciotti, Cox, Côté, Côté, Dasyra, Dasyra, Davies, de Jong, Dehnen, di Serego Alighieri, Ferrarese, Genzel, Gerhard, Gerhard, González-García, Hogg, Hogg, Hopkins, Hopkins, Hopkins, Hubble, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Jesseit, Johansson, Khochfar, Khochfar, Kormendy, Kriek, Larson, Larson, Larson, Li, McIntosh, Naab, Naab, Naab, Naab, Nagamine, Nakamura, Negroponte, Ostriker, Rix, Robertson, Robertson, Rothberg, Rothberg, Springel, Surma, Thomas, Thorsten Naab, Toomre, Toomre, Treu, Trujillo, Trujillo, van der Wel, van Dokkum, van Dokkum, van Dokkum, White   +69 more
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Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
wiley   +1 more source

Secular evolution in disk galaxies [PDF]

, 2013
159 pages, 84 postscript figures, 3 tables, LaTeX, requires tweaked cupbook.cls; published in Secular Evolution of Galaxies, XXIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, ed. J Falcon-Barroso & J. H.
openaire   +2 more sources

Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1582-1605, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of bars and transient spirals on the vertical heating in disk galaxies

, 2010
The nature of vertical heating of disk stars in the inner as well as the outer region of disk galaxies is studied. The galactic bar (which is the strongest non-axisymmetric pattern in the disk) is shown to be a potential source of vertical heating of the
Ardi, Athanassoula, Athanassoula, Binney, Binney, Bizyaev, Buta, Combes, Combes, de Blok, Debattista, Dehnen, Dehnen, Dubinski, Edvardsson, Evans, Font, Gerssen, Jenkins, Kanak Saha, Kuijken, Lacey, Lacey, Markwardt, Martinez-Valpuesta, Martinez-Valpuesta, Masset, Matthews, Matthews, More, Pfenniger, Pfenniger, Pfenniger, Pfenniger, Quillen, Ronald E. Taam, Shapiro, Velazquez, Villa-Vargas, Yao-Huan Tseng   +39 more
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Deletion of a Pax1 Sex‐Associated Genomic Region Associated With Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Leads to Disc Degeneration, Instability, and Vertebral Rotation in Mice

JOR SPINE, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2026.
Overview of the effects of Pax1‐SAR deletion on gene expression, IVD degeneration, and resultant scoliotic‐like curvature between sexes. Proposed mechanism of sex‐dependent changes in gene expression in females (right) and males (left), resulting in sex‐dependent disc degeneration and scoliotic phenotypes.
Edward C. Moody, Emma M. Wade, Shuji Mizumoto, Jeremy McCallum‐Loudeac, Megan J. Wilson   +4 more
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Detection of a Star Forming Galaxy in the Center of a Low-Mass Galaxy Cluster

, 2018
Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) residing in the centers of galaxy clusters are typically quenched giant ellipticals. A recent study hinted that star-forming galaxies with large disks, so-called superluminous spirals and lenticulars, are the BCGs of a ...
Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Bogdan, Akos, Forman, William R., Jones, Christine, Kovacs, Orsolya E., Kraft, Ralph P., Lovisari, Lorenzo   +6 more
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What Observations Would an Energetic Neutral Atom Imager Have Made During the Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 131, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract We present large‐scale simulations of energetic neutral atom (ENA) emissions at Uranus from a spacecraft viewpoint. Models of magnetic field, extended hydrogen exosphere, moon‐sourced neutral tori, and proton radiation belt are implemented into a simulator to evaluate the production of ENAs for L $L$ = 1–15.
D. Santos‐Costa, N. André
wiley   +1 more source