Maturation - Science topic

If you believe in the existence of an infinitely good, -knowing, and -powerful deity (“God”), how do you explain the reality of evil—including the inexpressible suffering and death of innocents? Wouldn’t God be forced to vanquish such suffering due to God’s very nature? Alvin Plantinga has argued, convincingly, that if the possibility of ultimate g...

To fight agianst climate changes, the power community is called upon to envisage alternative thermodynamic cycles which might greatly enhance the assets of thermal generation and possibly change the game, by providing substantial gains in efficiency and/or enabling an easier access to carbon neutrality. While current Brayton cycles are open and use...

The latest tremendously rapid expansion of the energy and industrial sector has led to a sharp increase in stationary sources of CO2. Consequently, a lot of concerns have been raised about the prevention of global warming and the achievement of climate mitigation strategies by 2050 with a low-carbon and sustainable future. In view of this, the curr...

In our daily lives, we routinely look at the faces of others to try to understand how they are feeling. Few studies have examined the perceptual strategies that are used to recognize facial expressions of emotion, and none have attempted to isolate visual information use with eye movements throughout development. Therefore, we recorded the eye move...

This brief outlines when roughly 72 financial wellness programs were established, what unit or department the program is located in, and what development stage the program is in. Overall, the earliest financial wellness program was established in 2005, while most programs are located within financial aid or student affairs units.

In the coming renewables-based energy transition, global electricity consumption is expected to double by 2050, entailing widespread end-use electrification, with significant impacts on energy efficiency. We develop a long-run, worldwide societal exergy analysis focused on electricity. Our 1900–2017 electricity world database contains the energy ca...

Almond plantations are expanding worldwide, specifically in Spain; the new orchards are often designed under more intensive systems in comparison to the traditional rainfed orchards frequently found in the Mediterranean Sea basin. In these new areas, water is the main limiting factor, and therefore, the present research is aimed at quantitatively a...

The purpose of this study was to explore how young children’s vocal and facial cues contribute to conveying to adults important information about children’s attributes when presented together. In particular, the study aimed to disentangle whether children’s vocal or facial cues, if either, are more dominant when both types of cues are displayed in...

At a 2019 retirement security conference in Brazil, one of the authors proposed that Brazil introduce a low-cost, low-risk, simple and liquid bond innovation: "SeLFIES"-Standard of Living indexed, Forward-starting, Income-only Securities. SeLFIES would serve as the relative safe asset for Defined Contribution (DC) retirement plans, thereby lowering...

The most suitable endodontic treatments for immature teeth vary depending on the case selection criteria, the dental pulp's status, the root's maturity, and the prognosis. This report describes the case of an immature first lower molar tooth with necrotic pulp that was to be treated with the apexification method. During the endodontic procedure, th...

Aim: To investigate the maturation of the peripheral nervous system by analyzing the cross-sectional area of the sciatic nerve during the first 2 years of life. Methods: The sciatic nerve was examined by high-resolution ultrasound imaging in 52 children aged 0 days to 10 years, 45 of whom were younger than 2 years. The correlation between the cr...

Abstract. The suitability of using meiobenthic communities and especially the nematodes-based indices to assess the ecological quality of the Ukrainian Danube delta coastal area was tested in one control and two sites impacted by dredging/dumping activities. The study is based on the results of benthic surveys carried out in November 2015 and Augus...

Estimation of heterosis for seed yield, its component and protein content of 21 lentil genotypes were studied during 2014-15 at Indira Gandhi Agriculture University Raipur (C.G.). The analysis of variance due to parents revealed highly significant variance for days to flower initiation, days to 50% flowering, plant height, number of secondary branc...

This Element proposes a clear and up-to-date description of the state of artificial intelligence today, not only in terms of business processes and strategies, but also its societal reception. It presents our view of the technology landscape, avoiding both the forward-looking, rose-colored utopia and the hyper-apocalyptic gloom. It does so in a con...

The influence of endometrioma on oocyte and embryo competence is inconclusive. Furthermore, the benefits of surgical treatment remain uncertain. This study aimed to investigate the effect of endometrioma on oocyte and embryo quality from a morphological perspective and further explore whether surgery could contribute to improving oocyte and embryo...

The arrival of the automobile changed the shape of 20th-century cities around the world, now in 21st-century, autonomous vehicles (AVs) and connected vehicles (CVs) will change the shape and culture of the world’s cities once more. AVs and CVs are being deployed all around the world; the reason for this rapid development is that AVs and CVs enrich...

The oocyte must grow and mature before fertilization, thanks to a close dialogue with the somatic cells that surround it. Part of this communication is through filopodia-like protrusions, called transzonal projections (TZPs), sent by the somatic cells to the oocyte membrane. To investigate the contribution of TZPs to oocyte quality, we impaired the...

Nutrition during early life plays a crucial role in determining a child’s long-term health [...]

Will the pace of change in our global technological society continue to accelerate? Or will it follow the path of most previous technological waves, which slowed down as they matured? The purpose of this paper is to explore how historical general evolutionary processes involving increased energy flows and corresponding higher complexity levels migh...

This study examined ten barley genotypes under both normal and saline soil environments at Sakha Agricultural Research Station, during two growing seasons 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. A randomized complete block design with four replications was used for each experiment. Some traits were recorded i.e. days to maturity, plant height (cm), spike length (...

Heterozygous loss-of-function (LOF) mutations in PIK3R1 (encoding phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase [PI3K] regulatory subunits) cause activated PI3Kδ syndrome 2 (APDS2), which has a similar clinical profile to APDS1, caused by heterozygous gain-of-function (GOF) mutations in PIK3CD (encoding the PI3K p110δ catalytic subunit). While several studies have...

There is a renewed interest in radar sensors in the autonomous driving industry. As a relatively mature technology, radars have seen steady improvement over the last few years, making them an appealing alternative or complement to the commonly used LiDARs. An emerging trend is to leverage rich, low-level radar data for perception. In this work we p...

In the clinical and healthcare domains, medical images play a critical role. A mature medical visual question answering system (VQA) can improve diagnosis by answering clinical questions presented with a medical image. Despite its enormous potential in the healthcare industry and services, this technology is still in its infancy and is far from pra...

In-situ printing leads to distinctive features of 3D printed concrete (3DPC) to conventional casting concrete, and the temperature of its service environment has significant impacts on the performance development of 3DPC. This emphasizes the importance of investigating the relationships between the structural strength and temper-tures considering t...

Phononic crystals tend to mature in the research of forward problems due to their unique bandgap characteristics, but it is difficult to realize reasonable parameter design at specific bandgap frequencies in practical engineering applications. Thus, based on the lumped mass method, a research method for the inverse problem of phononic crystal shaft...

Advanced persistent threat (APT) is a serious concern in cyber-security that has matured and grown over the years with the advent of technology. The main aim of this study is to establish an effective identification model for APT attacks to prevent and reduce their influence. Machine learning has the potential as well as substantial background to d...

Materials related to Japanese military “comfort women” in Korea are managed by several institutions. Each digital archive has their own metadata schema and management policies. So far, a standard or a common guideline for describing digital records is not formalized. We propose a Japanese military “comfort women” knowledge graph to semantically int...

The main protease from SARS-CoV-2 (Mpro) is responsible for cleavage of the viral polyprotein. Mpro self-processing is called maturation, and it is crucial for enzyme dimerization and activity. Here we use C145S Mpro to study the structure and dynamics of N-terminal cleavage in solution. Native mass spectroscopy analysis shows that mixed oligomeric...

Anti-dsDNA antibodies are pathogenically heterogeneous, implying distinct origins and antigenic properties. Unexpectedly, during the clinical and molecular characterization of autoantibodies to the endonuclease DNase1L3 in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), we identified a subset of neutralizing anti-DNase1L3 antibodies previously ca...

Background The main barriers to arterio-venous fistula (AVF) utilization are primary failure, long maturation duration, and low secondary patency rates. Methods In this retrospective cohort study, primary, secondary, functional primary, and functional secondary patency rates were calculated and compared between two age groups (< 75 years and > = 7...

Magnesium ions are abundant and play indispensable functions in the ribosome. A decrease in Mg2+ concentration causes 70S ribosome dissociation and subsequent unfolding. Structural distortion at low Mg2+ concentrations has been observed in an immature pre50S, while the structural changes in mature subunits have not yet been studied. Here, we purifi...

We investigate the build-up of the halo profile out to large scale in a cosmological simulation, focusing on the roles played by the recently proposed depletion radii. We explicitly show that halo growth is accompanied by the depletion of the environment, with the inner depletion radius demarcating the two. This evolution process is also observed v...

Electricity supply is one of the critical issues in the energy field. Due to the high shares of greenhouse gases emissions, the electricity sector is experiencing a transition towards a progressively wider use of low-carbon technologies. At the same time, electrification of end-use sectors is identified as one of the most suitable mitigation strate...

This chapter introduces Toshio Doko, president of Ishikawajima Shipyard (which later changed its name to Ishikawajima Heavy Industries (IHI)). Doko later became chairman of Toshiba and Keidanren. He harbored a sense of crisis in the 1980s, when the Japanese economy was maturing.

The maturation of genomic surveillance in the past decade has enabled tracking of the emergence and spread of epidemics at an unprecedented level. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, genomic data revealed that local epidemics varied considerably in the frequency of SARS-CoV-2 lineage importation and persistence, likely due to a combination o...

Diffusion Probabilistic Models have recently shown remarkable performance in generative image modeling, attracting significant attention in the computer vision community. However, while a substantial amount of diffusion-based research has focused on generative tasks, few studies have applied diffusion models to general medical image classification....

The aim of this article is to highlight the potential role of the locus-coeruleus–noradrenergic (LC-NA) system in neurodevelopmental disorders (NdDs). The LC is the main brain noradrenergic nucleus, key in the regulation of arousal, attention, and stress response, and its early maturation and sensitivity to perinatal damage make it an interesting t...

In recent years, the development of China’s state-owned companies (SOEs) has slowed dramatically due to the improvement of the government–enterprise relationship and maturity in the market system. To accomplish the market-oriented transformation of the management model and promote sustainable development, some SOEs have incorporated private capital...

The field experiment was carried out at Instructional Farm, College of Agriculture, M andor, Jodhpur during kharif season of 2019 to study the synergetic effect of zinc on nitrogen content. Under the present investigation, 4 varieties of mungbean and 7 doses of zinc in 28 treatments combinations were taken as experimental factors to study their eff...

Bone age is an indicator of bone maturity and is useful for the treatment of different pediatric conditions as well as for legal issues. Bone age can be assessed by the analysis of different skeletal segments and teeth and through several methods; however, traditional bone age assessment is a complicated and time-consuming process, prone to inter-...

Although public-private partnerships (PPPs) for tourism have received extensive attention, there has been limited research on their application to tourist toilets. The purpose of this study was to systematically explore the applicability of PPPs with respect to the construction and operation of tourist toilets. The study conducted field investigati...

This work reviews the literature on spline local basis methods for non-parametric density estimation. Particular attention is paid to B-spline density estimators which have experienced recent advances in both theory and methodology. These estimators occupy a very interesting space in statistics, which lies aptly at the cross-section of numerous sta...

The control of cell movement through manipulation of cytoskeletal structure has therapeutic prospects notably in the development of novel anti-metastatic drugs. In this study, we determine the structure of Ras-binding domain (RBD) of ELMO1, a protein involved in cytoskeletal regulation, both alone and in complex with the activator RhoG and verify i...

Nowadays, the development of the Internet makes it easy for Chinese teenagers to know something about sex. And teenagers begin to be curious and concerned about sexual detail because of physiological maturation in adolescence. However, sex education is a sensitive area for some parents, so that Chinese parents often interrupt or accuse teenagers wh...

Background Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins play an important role in dehydration process of seed maturation. The seeds of Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F. H. Chen are typically characterized with the recalcitrance and are highly sensitive to dehydration. However, it is not very well known about the role of LEA proteins in response to dehyd...

This study aims to show the importance of a suitable environment for the child and taking care of him, and that he must live in the confinement of his parents and their protection, and the effect of custody on Looking after the child and the role of the mother in that, and the negative consequences that result if he loses this nursery. So custody i...

This study examined the natural resistance of Gmelina arborea wood to termites' attack. Untreated Gmelina wood of ages 10, 15, 20 and 25 years respectively were exposed to termites at the timber graveyard. Visual examination according to American Society for Testing Materials was carried out for a period of 18months. The result showed that Gmelina...

Resting-state alpha brain rhythms provide a foundation for basic as well as higher-order brain processes. Research suggests atypical maturation of the peak frequency of resting-state alpha activity (= PAF) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study examined resting-state alpha activity in young school-aged children, obtaining magnetoencep...

The Fukang Sag in the Junggar Basin is the main exploration block. However, the origin and source of crude oil are still controversial, which seriously affects the well locating and exploration in this area. In the present work, 30 source rocks and 21 crude oils were collected for geochemical analysis to clarify the source of the organic matter, th...

Today's mature virtual simulation technology should be effectively combined with college education to give full play to better educational advantages. The history teaching supported by modern information technology paves the way for the rational distribution of educational resources and the movement of centralized users to fragmented learning time,...

To date, it remains unclear how overuse affects the tendons and entheses at different stages of maturation. Therefore, we evaluated histological and morphological changes in the tendons and entheses in adolescent (4-week-old) and adult mice (8-week-old) by performing flat-land and downhill running exercises. The mice were divided into the Sedentary...

Composting is a sustainable strategy to deal with organic waste. Our research aimed to study the influence of an amendment of 10% matured compost (MC) during Chinese herb residue (CHR) compost. Here, a 60-day CHR compost was performed, and MC application was able to reduce the nitrogen loss and enhance the humic acid accumulation during the compost...

Fisheries typically consider short planning horizons that stand in contrast to long-term sustainability and biodiversity targets, especially when evolutionary time scales play a role. Many global fish stocks are exploited above sustainable levels, having caused fisheries-induced evolution towards smaller maturation sizes, lower growth rates, and lo...

Cereus hildmannianus es una especie leñosa exótica en la Península Ibérica, puntualmente naturalizada en su cuadrante noreste, cuya variedad ‘monstruosus’ ha sido ampliamente utilizada en jardinería. En esta nota, se da conocimiento de una población madura de Cereus hildmannianus var. monstruosus en la provincia de Sevilla (SO España), naturalizada...

Currently, due to the growing dynamics of changes that take place in the environment of organizations, managers have to intensify their efforts to implement ‘solutions’ which will not only increase the efficiency of particular business activities, but will also strengthen the potential of the organization in the area of its sustainable development....

In tumor therapy anti-angiogenic approaches have the potential to increase the efficacy of a wide variety of subsequently or co-administered agents, possibly by improving or normalizing the defective tumor vasculature. Successful implementation of the concept of vascular normalization under anti-angiogenic therapy, however, mandates a detailed unde...

Purple-pericarp sweetcorn accessions, derived from crossing purple-pericarp maize with white shrunken2 sweetcorn, were assessed for differences in anthocyanin profile at both sweetcorn eating stage and at full kernel maturity. The ‘Tim1’ sweetcorn line developed a similar total anthocyanin concentration to its ‘Costa Rica’ parent when assessed at s...

A study was carried out on seven bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties, namely (Maaroof, Adana, Hsad, Alaa, Tamuz-2, Aras, and Sulaimani-2) using half diallel mating design to study their stability properties during the growing season (2021 – 2022), the experimental materials were the parents and their 21 F1 hybrids which sowed in three diff...

The case report aims to highlight a rare entity called gliomatosis peritonei. We report a case of a 23-year-old female presenting with an ovarian mass along with multiple omental nodules. On histopathological examination, the ovarian mass was diagnosed as mature cystic teratoma and the omental nodules showed features of gliomatosis peritonei. Gliom...

The prevention of pregnancy is desirable for female cattle destined for sale in the northern Australian rangelands for both economic and welfare reasons. Controlled access to bulls is often not feasible, nor are any non-surgical methods currently available. Many females are therefore surgically spayed. This study describes a technique for uterine t...

Knowledge of the types of plant species in the world continues to progress even though there are still many plant species whose types and benefits are not yet known. These plant species concentrate in an area both in residential areas, pastures, agricultural land, and plantation land. The research aims to identify plant species in mature oil palm p...

Mature ovarian cystic teratoma, also known as the dermoid cyst, is one of the most common benign ovarian neoplasms that can occur in different age groups and could appear in various sizes. Diagnosing this problem as soon as possible is essential due to complications that can coincide, such as torsion, rupture, internal hemorrhage and malignant tran...

We revisit the problem of inertial r-modes in stratified stars, drawing on a more precise description of the composition stratification in a mature neutron star. The results highlight issues with the traditional approach to the problem, leading us to rethink the computational strategy for the r-modes of nonbarotropic neutron stars. We outline two s...

Memoirs of Michael D. Campbell is an account of his childhood in Lancaster, Ohio as he matured and set off to college to become a well-known geologist in the world today, while leanring from mistakes, but with the assistance of family, teachers, friends, and associates, he spent almost 60 years traveling the world in pursuit of natural resources, w...

Primary ovarian neuroendocrine carcinoid tumors are extremely rare. However, their clinical course is good, and hence, fertility-sparing surgery is a feasible treatment option in cases of unilateral localized lesions. In this report, we present the case of a 20-year-old nulliparous woman who was diagnosed as having a primary ovarian neuroendocrine...

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