Japanese rhinoceros beetle (Trypoxylus dichotomus) males have exaggerated head horns that they use as weapons in combat over reproductive opportunities.In these contests, there is an advantage to having a longer horn, and there seems to be little cost to horn exaggeration.However, populations Goji Berry vary in the amount of horn exaggeration acros
Yumi Harano,1 Atsuko Kitano,2 Yurika Akiyama,1 Lisa Kotajima,1 Kazufumi Honda,1 Hiroko Arioka11Department of General Internal Medicine, 2Department of Medical Oncology, St Luke’s International Medical Center, Tokyo, JapanAbstract: A 52-year-old woman presented with an 8-month history of epigastric pain, nausea, and weight loss.One year before
BackgroundThymus mandschuricus is an aromatic and medicinal plant with notable antibacterial and antioxidant properties.However, traditional breeding methods rely on phenotypic selection due to a lack of molecular resources.A high-quality reference genome is crucial for marker-assisted breeding, genome editing, and molecular genetics.ResultsWe util
Abstract Bone drilling is a universal procedure in orthopaedics for fracture fixation, installing implants, or reconstructive surgery.Surgical drills are subjected to wear caused by their Rosemary repeated use, thermal fatigue, irrigation with saline solution, and sterilization process.Wear of the cutting edges of a drill bit (worn drill) is detrim
In this paper, we continue to build an ultra-high speed laser schlieren testing system on the self-developed mesoscale explosion pipeline to explore the flame propagation characteristics of nitrogen and carbon dioxide inhibiting gas/air premixed gas deflagration under different injection positions and pressures.The results show that: in the experim