Flavonoids May Help With Weight Loss
British researchers believe that certain plant substances can influence the amount of body fat. There is this simple rule: If you consume fewer calories than…
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Table-Top Alternative To Synchrotrons: New Instrumentation To Study Radioactive Materials With Great Precision
The study of materials used in nuclear power plants is rendered difficult due to the high radioactivity of even a few gram samples. Whereas it…
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The Arsenic In Our Food
Arsenic is a widely-distributed toxic carcinogenic metalloid popularly known as the king of poisons and the poison of the kings. The history of intentional and…
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Exploring Spatial Representation In Artificial Intelligence Systems
Artificial Intelligence has made great progress in the last decade, in particular, thanks to recent developments in machine learning. As a consequence, we often read in the…
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An Analysis Of Occupant Responses To Transitions Across Indoor Thermal Zones
Across a building or even a floor of the building, one encounters spaces with different thermal conditions. Through our everyday life, we move across these…
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Presence And Removal Of Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances In Potable Reuse
Many communities within the United States are experiencing a decline in both the quality and the quantity of water available from traditional sources (e.g., rivers,…
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Innovative Solution Of The Time Domain Deconvolution Problem
Signal measurement is an extremely important aspect of scientific research. However, many quantities of interest are not directly measurable using instruments with which we are…
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Glacier Retreat Across The Chinese Tien Shan Due To Rising Air Temperature
Glaciers are the largest reservoirs of fresh water on Earth. Many glaciers store water as ice by snowfall during the colder seasons and then release…
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Growth Motivation In The Context Of Health
People commonly make excuses for their shortcomings. For example, students who do poorly on exams are often quick to blame the unfairness of a test,…
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A Novel Method For Estimating Equivalent-Volume Ice Thickness Without Ridging Parameters
For the past decades, the trend of reduction of extent and thickness of ice cover in the Arctic has been noticed. While there are numerous…
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At Low Doses, Supposedly Non-phytotoxic, Triazine Xenobiotics Disrupt Hormonal Regulations In A Stress- And Low-energy-dependent Manner
Conventional farming practices have led to the widespread application of xenobiotic pesticides and their global diffusion in soil and water compartments. Among persistent pesticides, herbicides…
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