BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most prevalent genetic hemoglobinopathy with an estimated 300,000 babies born with the disease globally every year.Due to the chronic nature of the disease, there is a pressing need for safe, effective, and affordable therapeutic agents for SCD.In many settings, use of complementary and alternative medic
The estimation of three-dimensional (3D) vegetation metrics from space-borne LiDAR allows to capture spatio-temporal trends in forest ecosystems.Structural traits from the NASA Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) are Canister vital to support forest monitoring, restoration and biodiversity protection.The Mediterranean Basin is home of re
The archetypal foraging behaviour of tropical seabirds is generally accepted to differ from that of their temperate and polar breeding counterparts, with the former exhibiting less predictable foraging behaviour associated with the less predictable prey of the tropical marine environment.Similarly, temperate and polar species have predictable, annu
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Paracentesis is a routine medical procedure quite relevant in clinical practice.There are risks of complications related to paracentesis, so it is essential a proper trainee for the younger practicer.OBJECTIVE: The article describes the construction and the application of a low cost paracentesis simulator for undergraduate medi
Here we present evidence of phytoliths preserved in carbonised food deposits on prehistoric pottery from the western Baltic dating from 6,100 cal BP to 5750 cal BP.Based on comparisons to over 120 European and Asian species, our observations are consistent with phytolith morphologies observed in modern evening-dresses garlic mustard seed (Alliaria