Child lead poisoning in South Africa: implications for psychological researchdoi:10.1177/0081246317714106Brendon R BarnesSAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England
Lead has the highest atomic number of all stable elements, although the next element, bismuth, has a half-life so long (longer than the estimated age of the universe) it can be considered stable. Like mercury, another heavy metal, lead is a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in soft ...
In 2006, the country registered 682 different groups of pesticides (Agenda, 2004). The number of registered pesticides reached 874 in 2011 (TPRI, 2011). This indicates that the demand for pesticide use within the country increased in five years due to the intensification of different agricultural...
And FPS is a metric of detection speed, which indicates the number of images that can be processed per second by the network of object detection algorithms. Pr, Rc, and F1 are calculated as expressed in Eqs. (2a), (2b), and (2c). $$ Pr \, = \, \frac{TP}{{TP + FP}} $$...
The nurses came to make a point. Many dressed in red and carried signs. Their message to the federal government: End what they say is a national hiring freeze that has led to thousands of vacancies across the veterans' health ...
Recently, increasing evidence indicates that MSC-mediated therapeutic effects primarily derive from paracrine mechanisms, regulated by cytokines and EVs. MSC-derived EVs (MSC-EVs) also attenuate inflammation, promote alveolar epithelium regeneration, repair microvascular permeability, and prevent fibrosis in ...
Vibriosis is one of the most serious bacterial diseases and causes high morbidity and mortality among cultured sea breams. This study was undertaken to track the surveillance of Vibrio infection and its correlation to environmental factors. A total of 11
including treatments for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. This had led to a high global demand for many complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs). Moreover, many healthcare providers are now requesting information about CAMs that prevent, relieve, or treat the symptoms of COVID-19...
Our brains divide the day into chapters: Psychology research offers details on how The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant—to take just one example—the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts li...
To understand how GSDMD regulates pyroptosis and IL-1β production, we analyzed pro-caspase-1 cleavage in LPS plus nigericin-treated RAW-asc cells and found that unlikeNlrp3knockout, deletion ofGsdmddid not affect pro-caspase-1 cleavage (Figure 2A). This result indicates that the function of ...