Fallen Fruit’s website points out that the video probes “at the correspondence between the public walking on the tour and the anonymous public of the internet.” This year, the group was also invited to do a project with TED Active. They devised “The Banana Hotline,“ wherein the public is invited to follow a set of instructions, …
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There is a large base of literature on food-borne pathogens
At baseline and at the end of 2 weeks of intervention period, body weight, body mass index and composition were determined. Body composition was measured using the Tanita-BC418 bio-electrical impedance analyzer . Height was measured without shoes using a stadiometer and recorded to the nearest 0.1 cm. In the meantime, subjects reported on their overall well-being at …
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Tropical soils can have several acidity problems affecting crop growth
The magnitude of the potential acidity of the soil depends on the type and amount of clay and organic matter. Although there is some inverse parallelism between acidity saturation and base saturation, these terms are not complementary because they have different denominators . Contrary to Al toxicity and acidity saturation, there is no direct association …
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UA and UB caused over 50% reduction in the proliferation of human endometrial cancer cells
Besides reactive oxygen species , ATs also inhibit the production of reactive nitrogen species , particularly nitric oxide , as well as their associated oxidative processes. Furthermore, release of pro-inflammatory mediators and adhesion molecules is suppressed by ATs via targeting of the respective signaling pathways, e.g., the arachidonic acid and the tumor necrosis factor -α, …
The contribution of this study is that we bring large data sets to this question for the first time
Our central claim is that the causal status effect derives from the supporting role that causal information plays in explanation. Although this idea is a long-standing theme in the study of categorization , relatively little research has directly examined how explanatory goodness relates to categorization. In this paper, we study the relationship between explanatory goodness …
The method effectively converts the correlation matrix to its rankordered version
What are the axes of this olfactory space? Or, in other words, do odors associated with certain parts of this space have different perceptual or physicochemical properties? Previous studies found axes that correlated with perceptual odor pleasantnes and physicochemical properties such as molecular boiling point and acidity . We checked for associations with all of these …
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Most schools either absorbed or could not quantify their nonfood expenses
Lack of nutrition education for students was the third most commonly cited barrier to successfully providing additional servings of fresh fruit. Although it was intended that the program include a nutrition education component, schools were provided with only 1 cent per meal served for all nonfood expenses related to the program, including nutrition education and promotion. …
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Beans are a food that provide both dietary fiber and possess high antioxidant capacity
Viable and non-viable seeds in yellow starthistle seed heads are easily distinguishable based on color and shape. Because yellow starthistle requires pollination to produce viable seeds , non-viable seeds represent pollen limitation occurring during the 4-hour period that the flowers were exposed to pollinators. All seeds were counted to compare ratios of viable to non-viable …
The control bioswale contained native soil and the treatment contained an ESM
At the time of this study, the trees in the control and treatment bioswales were fully established and approaching mature size. Measurements recorded the differences in surface runoff dynamics and pollutant reduction rates, as well as tree and shrub growth. This study provides new information on the long-term effectiveness of engineered bioswales in a region …
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The homogenates were then centrifuged and the supernatants were collected
As we collect soil metagenome sequence data, we need to improve how we mine such datasets. For example, the way we conduct BLAST searches might overlook valuable information, while the unassembled reads might be too short for annotating genes with confidence. Thus, we might well need to develop new assembly and annotation algorithms. Another challenge …
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