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Supply Chains of Green Hydrogen Based on Liquid Organic Carriers Inside China: Economic Assessment and Greenhouse Gases Footprint
The Chinese government has unveiled its commitment to attain carbon neutrality by 2060. Central to this strategic endeavour is the integration of hydrogen as a preeminent energy vector in the emerging energy p...
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Vulnerability of Beaches Nourished by Dunes: A Fight Between Waves, Winds, and Sediments. A Case Study of Mira Beach, Portugal
The coastal stretch located south of Mira beach, Portugal, has been monitored since 2007 with the aim to register its morphological evolution. The monitoring program includes bathymetric and topographic survey...
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Txina-Txina and the Later Stone Age of the Massingir Region, Mozambique
The open-air site of Txina-Txina is located in western Mozambique, near the border of South Africa, in the Limpopo National Park, in the Gaza Province. The site lies at −23.894 S, 31.912 E on the bank of a nar...
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Wave Loads Assessment on Coastal Structures at Inundation Risk Using CFD Modelling
Over the past few decades, extreme phenomena have raised concern due to their severity and increasing risks to inhabitants, infrastructures, and anthropic activities. Nowadays, coastal structures overtop**, ...
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Comparative Analysis of CGM Digital Solutions for Children and Young People with Diabetes Type 1
The presented study is part of a research that consists of evaluating and creating a new model of dashboards used in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), at the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) lev...
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Toxicity and antitumor activity of novel agents in elderly patients with cancer included in phase 1 studies
Introduction The number of cancer cases among the elderly continue to increase as the worldwide population ages. This patient subset is underrepresented in clinical trials, partly because of unresolved uncertaint...
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Effects of single and mixed-diatom diets on growth, condition, and survival of larvae of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816)
The development of rearing protocols promoting the larval development, pre and post-metamorphosis are key for echinoculture. Mixed diets combining diatom with other microalgae have been used with success and Rhod...
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Exploring How a Digitized Program Can Support Parents to Improve Their Children’s Nutritional Habits
Poor eating habits are one of today’s significant menaces to public health. Child obesity is increasing, is a concerning reality, and needs to be appropriately addressed. However, most behavior change programs...
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The Biology of Legumes and Their Agronomic, Economic, and Social Impact
Intensive agriculture and meat-based westernized diets have brought a heavy environmental burden to the planet. Legumes, or pulses, are members of the large Fabaceae (Leguminosae) family, which comprise about 5% ...
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Worms on drugs: ecotoxicological effects of acetylsalicylic acid on the Polychaeta species Hediste diversicolor in terms of biochemical and histological alterations
Pharmaceuticals are important environmental stressors since they have a worldwide use; they are usually released in the aquatic compartment without adequate treatment, and because of their intrinsic properties...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Effect of Pufa Substrates on Fatty Acid Profile of Bifidobacterium breve Ncimb 702258 and CLA/CLNA Production in Commercial Semi-Skimmed Milk
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper.
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Open AccessEffect of Pufa Substrates on Fatty Acid Profile of Bifidobacterium breve Ncimb 702258 and CLA/CLNA Production in Commercial Semi-Skimmed Milk
Current research on lipids is highlighting their relevant role in metabolic/signaling pathways. Conjugated fatty acids (CFA), namely isomers of linoleic and linolenic acid (i.e. CLA and CLNA, respectively) can...
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Open AccessEvolutionary analysis indicates that DNA alkylation damage is a byproduct of cytosine DNA methyltransferase activity
Methylation at the 5 position of cytosine in DNA (5meC) is a key epigenetic mark in eukaryotes. Once introduced, 5meC can be maintained through DNA replication by the activity of ‘maintenance’ DNA methyltransf...
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Variability in Digestive Enzyme Capacity in Early Stages of Marine Fish Larvae: Ontogenetic Variations, Biorhythms, Hormonal Control and Nutrient Sensing Mechanisms
In recent years, no substantial progress has been achieved to significantly improve survival rates of cultured marine fish larvae and make the viability in offspring production more predictable. Improving surv...
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Indoor Location Using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons
Location data plays an important role in several applications embedded in our digital living. These applications, usually, take advantage of Global Positioning System (GPS). However, GPS is not targeted for in...
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Structural health monitoring of the retrofitting process, characterization and reliability analysis of a masonry heritage construction
In the last decades, heritage constructions (HC) had been rehabilitated and inserted in functional areas of cities, therefore, the necessity for kee** them structurally safe and functional is high. Therefore...
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Resistant starch production in wheat bread: effect of ingredients, baking conditions and storage
Resistant starch (RS) is defined as the sum of starch and products of starch degradation not absorbed in the small intestine of healthy individuals. RS appears to confer considerable health benefits. Processin...
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Open AccessA light-induced shortcut in the planktonic microbial loop
Mixotrophs combine photosynthesis with phagotrophy to cover their demands in energy and essential nutrients. This gives them a competitive advantage under oligotropihc conditions, where nutrients and bacteria ...
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Open AccessSimonsenia aveniformis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyceae), molecular phylogeny and systematics of the genus and a new type of canal raphe system
The genus Simonsenia is reviewed and S. aveniformis described as new for science by light and electron microscopy. The new species originated from estuarine environments in southern Iberia (Atlantic coast) and wa...
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P-glycoprotein induction in Caco-2 cells by newly synthetized thioxanthones prevents paraquat cytotoxicity
The induction of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), an ATP-dependent efflux pump, has been proposed as a strategy against the toxicity induced by P-gp substrates such as the herbicide paraquat (PQ). The aim of this study...
