Many people have heard about two seemingly disparate concepts: recalcitrant (or difficult to grow) plants and liquid chromatography. Plant tissue culture or in vitro culture…
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There are two major enigmas in the outer solar atmosphere, the corona, that have persisted over many decades. Solar flares are explosions above the solar…
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Popular medicinal plants and their infusions have been the subject of significant scientific interest due to their therapeutic value for the prevention and treatment of…
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Globular clusters are densely packed, spherical agglomerations of dim, very old, small stars. They reached some notoriety in the eighties because, according to some account,…
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“A pint is a pound the world around.” This common expression is true when talking about a pint of water, which weighs one pound. It…
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Bell’s theorem (BT) was formulated in 1964 as a continuation of the 1935 Einstein, Podolski, Rosen (EPR) criticism on the completeness of quantum mechanics (QM)….
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One of the main purposes of the earthquake-related standards (e.g. EAK 2003; CEN 2004; Regulatory Guide 1.92 2006; NTC 2008; ASCE 2014) is to provide…
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Nowadays, “bamboo forests” are becoming a serious problem in Japan, especially in western Japan including Kyushu Island. A few decades ago, bamboo (Moso-bamboo) was planted for…
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Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, which majorly affects the elderly. Available scientific literature shows that genes, diet, and environment play an important role…
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Children and adults with type 1 diabetes must test their blood sugar (glucose) four to seven times daily to provide the information necessary to adjust…
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Designing a highly ordered topological structure is an interesting methodology to explore new functional materials with fantastic physiochemical properties. Covalent organic framework (denoted as COF)…
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