Mucin Cross-feeding Shapes The Metabolic Environment In The Infant Gut
Mucin is released by mucous and goblet cells of the gastrointestinal tract. Production starts before birth, and a complete mucus layer has already developed shortly…
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How Facial Thermography Can Estimate A Pilot’s Mental Workload
In industries where excessive mental workload can have tragic consequences, researchers at the University of Nottingham have been investigating non-invasive and non-intrusive methods to assess…
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Balancing Capitalism, Modernization And Sustainable Development For Future Generations
Current human societies experience how rapid economic development, urbanization, and modernization worldwide come up with overexploitation of natural resources and environmental pollution. Natural resource depletion…
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Morphoscape Ecology: Assessing The Variability Of Beetle Forms Across Habitats
At the time of George Perkins Marsh’s book ‘Man and Nature’, published in 1864, people realized that human activities have an impact on the environment….
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Substrates On Which Lichens Grow Appear To Act As Reservoir Of Lichen Photobionts
On the 10th September 1867, at a meeting of the botanical section of the Swiss Society for Natural Sciences, Simon Schwendener announced his opinion that…
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Accelerating Rate Of Sea Level Rise And The Fate Of Coastal Ecosystems And Urbanized Areas
During the past 3000 years (called the Late Holocene) the rate of sea level rise was less than 1 mm y-1 and coastal ecosystems such…
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Unneutralized Electric Currents In Flare Prediction
Solar flares are abrupt brightenings in the solar atmosphere. The released energy is emitted throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio wavelengths to high energy…
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Using Genetic Engineering To Control Leaf Miner Insects In Tomato Plants
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 2.75 million metric tons of pesticides were used worldwide in 2015 with…
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Overview Of Our Current Understanding Of Galactic Spiral Arms In The Milky Way
How far are we from the Center of the Galaxy? How far is the Sun from the center of the Milky Way (Galactic Center, GC)?…
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Updated Census For Work-related Fatal And Non-fatal Injuries And Illnesses By Animals In The US
Compared to the general population, workers can be more vulnerable to animal-related injuries and illnesses. Injuries and illnesses to workers from animal encounters may result…
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Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering: A Tool For Single Molecule Detection
Raman scattering of photons by molecules was discovered by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist, in 1923. Raman received the Nobel prize in Physics in…
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