Why are eggs and poultry so susceptible to spoilage? Give/explain 3 reasons why having a transgenic mammal secrete a pharmaceutically useful protein into milk is a good strategy. Summarize the importance of insects. What are some health problems associated with high protein diets if followed for ...
whereas aerobes must have oxygen. Anaerobic bacteria use fermentation to produce energy. Anaerobic bacteria are typically found in the moist environment of the human gut and can cause serious health problems if they enter the bloodstream or lungs. On the other hand, aerobic bacteria typically live...
Explain what the term "non-native species" means and why it is such a problem in an ecosystem. Discuss two areas where the introduction of a non-native organism has created problems for the ecosystem. What was the organism,...
There are inherent methodological challenges in the measurement of mental health problems in longitudinal research. There is constant development in definitions, taxonomies and demands concerning the properties of mental health measurements. We have tested the properties of the mental health measures (mostly...
One solution to problems like this is to fit a macerating toilet (sometimes called an upflush toilet), which is a bit like a cross between a conventional toilet and a waste disposal unit. The waste passes into a kind of blender that mashes it up into a liquid, before pumping it up ...
Ecological theory is built on trade-offs, where trait differences among species evolved as adaptations to different environments. Trade-offs are often assumed to be bidirectional, where opposite ends of a gradient in trait values confer advantages in different environments. However, unidirectional benefit...
Our calculation is outlined in the Methods and further detailed in the Supplementary Information. Here we present our main results. Our results rely on the Mercer decomposition of the kernel in terms of orthogonal eigenfunctions {ϕρ}, $$\int {\mathrm{d}}{\bf{x}}^{\prime} p({\bf{x...
repeatable differences in the reaction to both a novel environment and objects; Drent, van Oers, & van Noordwijk, 2003) can influence how individuals retrieve information from their environment (Smit & van Oers, 2019), how quickly they solve problems (Hopper et al., 2014), and the degree of...
One of the many potential implications of such a correlation is that the health care costs of an ageing population will, in part, be determined by health events experienced in childhood and may be less responsive to the prevention and treatment of health problems that arise in adulthood. On a...
The SWV technique has several advantages over other voltammetric techniques such as CV and DPV, including the fact that it consumes fewer electroactive species, is faster, is more sensitive, takes much less time to analyse, and has fewer problems with electrode poisoning than other methods [54,55...