1. Aggressively striving for financial or social improvement: a young executive on the make. 2. Eagerly seeking a sexual partner. [Middle English maken, from Old English macian; see mag- in Indo-European roots.] mak′a·ble, make′a·ble adj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English...
Even though the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) hosts a high level of biodiversity and forms an integral part of the Indo- Burma Biodiversity Hotspot, fungi from this region largely remain a mystery. Yunnan Province, China, as part of the GMS, is home to an extremely wid...
Combating the spread of drug resistant tuberculosis is a global health priority. Whole genome association studies are being applied to identify genetic determinants of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs. Protein structure and interaction modelling are
Every year insub-Saharan Africa, tourists get a close-up look atthe king of the junglein its natural habitat. Perhaps unbeknownst to them, lionssee nearly everything around themas potential prey, In the wild,old or sick lions oftenattack humans, which they see as easier prey. Lions are a...
3.3.3. Equinins The antimicrobial activity of equinins (with the excep- tion of eNAP-2) has not yet been proven, but they are able to selectively inhibit the microbial proteinases sub- tilisin and proteinase K. Equinins were discovered by Pellegrini et al. in 1988 [89,90] and ...
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is widely distributed worldwide and well adapted to various habitats. Animal genomes store clues about their pasts, and can reveal the genes underlying their evolutionary success. Here, we report the first high-qual
Coconut (Cocos nucifera, 2n =32), a member of the monocotyledonous Arecaceae (Palmaceae) family and Arecoideae sub-family. It is an important tropical oil and fruit crop, widely distributed across 93 tropical countries [1,2]. In 2018, the global coconut acreage was 12.2 million hectares...
The process, how lipids are removed from the circulation and transferred from high density lipoprotein (HDL) – a main carrier of cholesterol in the blood stream – to cells, is highly complex. HDL particles are captured from the blood stream by the scav
ve got a reservation at the hotel you’ve asked him to take you to isn’t concerned for you, but more likely to be trying to take you to a hotel of a friend of is where you’ll pay through the nose for a sub standard room. That random “friend” of the cabbie that just got ...
If “every language is a world” then the world in these festivals is one sung by the Hungarian poetic imagination to a tune and in a syntax both as foreign as non-Indo-European Hungarian traditional music and language are to the musics and languages of the rest of Europe. That is, I ...