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Instrumental methods for professional and amateur collaborations in planetary astronomy
Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the last decades in the field of planetary astronomy. Here we review the different domains of the field in which collaborati...
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Open AccessFast by Nature - How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks
In the present study we quantify stress by measuring transient perspiratory responses on the perinasal area through thermal imaging. These responses prove to be sympathetically driven and hence, a likely indic...
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A giant thunderstorm on Saturn
Six Great White Spot (GWS) events have been observed in the atmosphere of Saturn since 1876. These giant convective storms occur roughly once every Saturnian year (equal to 29.5 Earth years). The sixth GWS eru...
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Erratum: Depth of a strong jovian jet from a planetary-scale disturbance driven by storms
Nature 451, 437–440 (2008) In Fig. 3a, the descriptions of the continuous and dotted curves were inadvertently swapped. The continuous line corresponds to the modified synthetic thermal profile (storms reachin...
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Depth of a strong jovian jet from a planetary-scale disturbance driven by storms
To coincide with the flyby of the Pluto-bound New Horizons probe, Jupiter was the target of intensive observation, starting in February 2007, from a battery of ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Tele...
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Determination of theophylline clearance in South African children
Theophylline clearance values in South African children were determined using 400 serum theophylline concentration measurements gathered from 109 compliant outpatients during their normal routine care. Populat...
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Human Intestinal Mucin in Cystic Fibrosis
Summary: Human intestinal mucins from six subjects with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and eight subjects without CF were prepared from tissue obtained at surgery (one case) and postmortem. Subjects were not age-matched...
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Clinical Aspects of Gastrointestinal Mucus
In his Croonian Lecture of 1964,1 Sir Howard Florey attributed three significant functions to gastrointestinal mucus: protection of the underlying mucosa from chemical and physical injury, lubrication of the muco...
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Electron-Microscopic Observations on the Xylem Elements of a Fossil Plant