Author(s): Sucapane D; Roux C; Sobol K;

While consumers have been increasingly trying to reduce their meat consumption due to rising concerns about its impact on their health and the environment, many still find animal-based foods more attractive than plant-based foods, thus hindering their adoption. Could marketing cues such as product descriptors and packaging colors help make these products ...

Article GUID: 34242733

Author(s): Braun R; Padsala R; Malmir T; Mohammadi S; Eicker U;

The paper explains a workflow to simulate the food energy water (FEW) nexus for an urban district combining various data sources like 3D city models, particularly the City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) data model from the Open Geospatial Consortium, Open StreetMap and Census data. A long term vision is to extend the CityGML data model by developing ...

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Author(s): Diep P; Boucinha A; Kell BJ; Yeung BA; Chen XA; Tsyplenkov D; Serra D; Escobar A; Gnanapragasam A; Emond CA; Sajtovich VA; Mahadevan R; Kilkenny DM; Gini-Newman G; Kaern M; Ingalls B;

The last two decades have seen vigorous activity in synthetic biology research and ever-increasing applications of its technologies. However, pedagogical research pertaining to teaching synthetic biology is scarce, especially when compared to other science and engineering disciplines. Within Cana ...

Article GUID: 34237221

Author(s): Kun RS; Garrigues S; Di Falco M; Tsang A; de Vries RP;

Aspergillus niger is a filamentous fungus well known for its ability to produce a wide variety of pectinolytic enzymes, which have many applications in the industry. The transcriptional activator GaaR is induced by 2-keto-3-deoxy-L-galactonate, a compound derived from D-galacturonic acid, and plays a major role in the regulation of pectinolytic genes. The ...

Article GUID: 34236481

Author(s): Kakinami L; Danieles PK; Ajibade K; Santosa S; Murphy J;

Objective: Classifying adiposity based on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) muscle and fat mass phenotypes has been proposed. Whether these phenotypes are more accurate in predicting cardiometabolic risk than BMI weight status is unknown. Methods: Data were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES; 1999-2006 cycles, n = 5,47 ...

Article GUID: 34231966

Author(s): Liu X; Vadiyar MM; Oh JK; Ye Z;

The present work demonstrates the efficient design of ultrasmall porous carbon nanospheres with tailored sizes (5-40 nm in diameter) and optimized intrasphere textural properties for high-rate high-energy supercapacitor application. The carbon nanospheres are synthesized via a miniemulsion polymerization technique followed by KOH activation. It is shown t ...

Article GUID: 34229427

Author(s): Liang KE; Dawson JQ; Stoian MD; Clark DG; Wynes S; Donner SD;

Background: Each spring, thousands of Canadian medical students travel across the country to interview for residency positions, a process known as the CaRMS tour. Despite the large scale of travel, the CaRMS tour has received little environmental scrutiny. Purpose: To estimate the national carbon footprint of flights associated with the CaRMS tour, as we ...

Article GUID: 34227912

Author(s): Selvaraj C; Selvaraj G; Mohamed Ismail R; Vijayakumar R; Baazeem A; Wei DQ; Singh SK;

Bacillus anthracis is a gram positive, deadly spore forming bacteria causing anthrax and these bacteria having the complex mechanism in the cell wall envelope, which can adopt the changes in environmental conditions. In this, the membrane bound cell wall proteins are said to progressive drug target for the inhibition of Bacillus anthracis. Among the cell ...

Article GUID: 34220215

Author(s): Wübbeler M; Geis S; Stojanovic J; Elliott L; Gutierrez-Ibarluzea I; Lenoir-Wijnkoop I;

ntroduction: An important requirement for successful public health interventions is a standardized classification in order to make these health technologies comparable in all contexts and recognized by all parties. The WHO International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI), including an integrated public health component, has been developed to pr ...

Article GUID: 34222165

Author(s): Perveen S; Akram M; Nasar A; Arshad-Ayaz A; Naseem A;

This study explores the mechanism for timely and equitable distribution of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination among the various communities in Pakistan. It examines the factors that support and/or impede peoples' access and response towards COVID-19 vaccination in Pakistan. The study uses a literature synthesis approach to examine and ana ...

Article GUID: 34217150

Author(s): Chen Z; An C; Tan Q; Tian X; Li G; Zhou Y;

Alberta has over 70% of total irrigated land in Canada and 13 irrigation districts are mainly located along the rivers in southern Alberta. The runoff and irrigation return flow can carry excess nutrients, pesticides, and sediments, which adversely affect the river water quality. In the present study, the comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of land use ...

Article GUID: 34214919

Author(s): Sultana A; Kwok TH; Hsu CC; Ng HD;

Energy can be represented in the form of deformation obtained by the applied force. Energy transfer is defined in physics as the energy is moved from one place to another. To make the energy transfer functional, energy should be moved into the right direction. If it is possible to make a better use of the energy in the right direction, the energy efficien ...

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