DISCRIMINATION AS A PREDICTOR OF POOR MENTAL HEALTH AMONG LGBTQ+ PEOPLE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE ONLINE QUEERANTINE STUDY

Objectives To assess the mental health and experiences of discrimination among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) people at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Design Data come from a cross-sectional online survey targeted at LGBTQ+ people, which collected data on mental health, experiences of discrimination and a number of other pan

Plants undergo dynamic metabolic changes at the cellular level upon insect infestation to better defend themselves.Phenylpropanoids, a hub of secondary plant metabolites, encompass a wide range of compounds that can contribute to insect resistance.Here, the role of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) phenylpropanoids in providing defense against the chewing

Solenopsis invicta Buren is an invasive ant species that has been introduced to multiple continents.One such area, the southern United States, has a history of multiple control projects using chemical pesticides over varying ranges, often resulting in non-target effects across trophic levels.With the advent of next generation sequencing and RNAi te

Variational quantum machine learning (VQML) models based on parameterized quantum circuits (PQC) have been expected to offer a potential quantum advantage for machine learning (ML) applications.However, comparison between VQML models and their classical counterparts is hard due to the lack of interpretability of VQML models.In this study, we introd