Indeed, many believed this sound barrier unbreakable until, on Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager's rocket-powered Bell X-1 proved them wrong. But what if you could turn all that piled-up air to your advantage? What if, instead of churning through it with propellers or burning through it with...
In a large part of the southern North Sea, the seabed mainly consists of sand (Eisma et al., 1987; Huthnance, 1991; Irion and Zollmer, 1999), containing a relatively small fraction of fines, i.e., sediment with a grain size smaller than 63 μm. However, many studies have shown ...
Also, for many industrial processes, such as nutritional supplementation or biotransformations, moderate purity is often sufficient. Fusing proteins to thermostable domains was previously shown to allow stabilization34 and heat-purification of proteins of interest, but this required the protein of interest...
By the end of the third day of unloading, the calcium ion accumulation together with a decrease in the levels of NO (see below), a powerful endogenous calpain inhibitor, lead to the activation of µ-calpain [85,86], significant destruction of many important cytoskeletal ...
Part of the resin row, showing both Cistus Absolute and Labdanum Absolute. Many people and sites, like Fragrantica and myself, call Cistus “Labdanum” but AbdesSalaam finds a difference in aroma. Arctander has pages on the two, noting very technical differences in the type of plant specie...
This rapid return of the wolf into its historic ranges occurred within several human-dominated landscapes in Germany, comprising intensively managed forests, large agricultural areas, dense traffic networks and many urban areas. Although anthropogenic mortality (traffic or poaching) is high (Reinhardt et...
They also forecast that fossil fuels will continue to be the world’s dominant source of primary energy for many decades to come… Previous EIA graph plotted as a stacked area chart. The problem with the future will always be… The future’s uncertain and the end is always near… ...
Due to the exclusive location of the Haller's organ on the 1st pair of legs, an in silico subtraction was performed between the Illumina 1st and 4th leg contigs for only those contigs with putative functions. Removal of Illumina 1st leg contigs with identical counterparts, based on function ...
As a visible mode of consumption, the veil incites controversy and contestation in the public domain and brings with it many different connotations. Bucar (2017, p. 1) mentions that many people from the West view the veil as a sign of enforced oppression of women (both in its form as a...
The wealth of information provided by genomic sequencing of various plant species, transcriptomics and proteomics studies, as well as reverse genetics approaches, has been invaluable to describe the full complement of lectins in many plant species, and to understand their functions. New families of ...