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Walter Herrmann
Walter Herrmann (20 September 1910[1] – 11 August 1987)[2] was a Germany nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. After the war, he headed a laboratory for special issues of nuclear disintegration at Laboratory V in the Soviet Union. Herrmann was born in Querfurt and completed his engineering degree at the Dresden Univers
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  • 29 Nov 2022
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Mechanisms of Cannabinoid Genotoxicity
The triple convergence of cannabinoid carcinogenesis, cannabinoid teratogenesis and the cannabinoid acceleration of aging together forms strong and theoretically robust evidence for a clinically and highly significant genotoxicity severe enough to impact numerous metrics of the population health adversely. Furthermore, both in vitro and clinical studies implicate many different cannabinoid moieties, suggesting that genotoxicity is a class effect shared by many cannabinoids—a feature now well confirmed by many epidemiological studies. This includes such allegedly benign cannabinoid species as Δ9THC, Δ8THC and cannabidiol, among several others.
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  • 08 Mar 2023
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Wolfgang Bauer
Wolfgang Bauer (born April 5, 1959) is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He is also an author of the introductory calculus-based physics textbook "University Physics", published by McGraw-Hill in 2010. Wolfgang Bauer obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Giessen in 1987.[1] After a p
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  • 05 Dec 2022
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Ali Guliyev
Ali Musa oglu Guliyev (May 31, 1912 in Ganja – January 29, 1989 in Baku) was an Azerbaijani scientist.[1] In 1927, after primary education, Guliyev entered Pedagogical Technical School in Baku. In 1931, after graduating from technical school, he was appointed to teach at a school in the Goranboy region of Azerbaijan. In 1934, Ali Guliyev entered the faculty of chemistry at Azerbaijan State
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  • 13 Dec 2022
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Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou (born November 3, 1951) is an American psychologist and a cognitive scientist, currently working at the University of Glasgow.[1] At the University of Glasgow, Barsalou is a professor of psychology, performing research in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 1977 (George
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  • 27 Dec 2022
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Bioenergy Supply Chain Resilience
Learning about the new concept of bioenergy supply chain resilience is necessary to have continues development in renewable energy industries. In this regard, realizing the relevant research gap(s), suggestion(s), future directions, etc. play the undeniable roles in optimizing the quality and quantity of managerial and non-managerial performance in the relevant fields.
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  • 30 Jun 2021
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Roland Wiesendanger
Roland Wiesendanger (born 5 October 1961) is a German physicist, specializing in nanoscience. Since 1993 he has been a full professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he established a National Center of Competence in Nanotechnology. He has been awarded three times in a row with the ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council as first scientist in Europe. In the Laudatio for t
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  • 09 Dec 2022
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International Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are a proven methodology for transforming short-term study abroad to yield higher impact and quality student outcomes, especially as they relate to teaching environmental sustainability.
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  • 30 Dec 2020
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Nanotheranostics
Several nanotheranostics are used in medical imaging and radiation therapy for tumor detection and treatment.
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  • 28 Feb 2023
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Gerhard Hoffmann
Gerhard Hoffmann (4 August 1880 – 18 June 1945) was a Germany nuclear physicist. During World War II, he contributed to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Hoffmann studied at the University of Göttingen, the University of Leipzig, and the University of Bonn. He received his doctorate at Bonn, in 1906, under Walter Kaufmann. In 1908, he became Kaufmann’s te
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  • 16 Dec 2022
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Robert A. Stern
Robert A. Stern is professor of neurology, neurosurgery, anatomy, and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine, where he is also director of clinical research for the BU Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center. From 2010 to 2019, he was the director of the Clinical Core of the BU Alzheimer's Disease Center (funded by National Institutes of Health, NIH). A major focus of Stern'
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  • 30 Dec 2022
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Edward P. Ney
Edward Purdy Ney (October 28, 1920 – July 9, 1996) was an American physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy.[1] He was a discoverer of cosmic ray heavy nuclei and of solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations and helped to develop procedures and equipment that
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  • 28 Nov 2022
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Michael J. Kuhar
Michael J Kuhar (born 1944), a neuroscientist, professor, and author, is currently Candler Professor of Neuropharmacology at The Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University. Kuhar is also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and a Senior Fellow in the Center for Ethics at Emory. He was previously Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Branch Chie
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Chromatin, Epigenetics and Plant Physiology
This Entry Collection focuses on current progress in understanding the role of chromatin structure, its modifications and remodeling in developmental and physiological processes. Eukaryotic genomes are packed into the supramolecular nucleoprotein structure of chromatin. Therefore, our understanding of processes such as DNA replication and repair, transcription, and cell differentiation requires understanding the structure and function of chromatin. While the nucleotide sequence of the DNA component of chromatin constitutes the genetic material of the cell, the other chromatin components (and also modifications of bases in the DNA itself) participate in so-called epigenetic processes. These processes are essential, e.g., in ontogenesis or adaptation to environmental changes. Therefore, epigenetics is particularly important (and elaborated) in plants that show a high developmental plasticity and, as sessile organisms, display an enormous capacity to cope with environmental stress. In these processes, epigenetic mechanisms show a crosstalk with plant signaling pathways mediated by phytohormones and redox components. You are welcome to read examples of current research and review articles in this hot research topic.
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  • 29 Oct 2020
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ASCOBANS
ASCOBANS is a regional agreement on the protection of small cetaceans that was concluded as the “Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas” under the auspices of the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species, or Bonn Convention, in September 1991 and came into force in March 1994. In February 2008, an extension of the agreement area came into force which changed the name to “Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas”. ASCOBANS covers all species of toothed whales (Odontoceti) in the Agreement Area, with the exception of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
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  • 09 Nov 2022
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Ronold W. P. King
Ronold Wyeth Percival King (September 19, 1905 – April 10, 2006) was an American applied physicist, known for his contributions to the theory and application of microwave antennas. He published twelve books and over three hundred articles in his area, as well as mentored one hundred doctoral dissertations.[1][2] Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, he moved to Rochester, New York, where his f
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Anchisauridae
Anchisaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Portland Formation, northeastern United States , which was deposited from the Hettangian age into the Sinemurian age, between about 200 and 195 million years ago. Until recently it was classed as a member of Prosauropoda. The genus name Anchisaurus comes from the Greek αγχι (agkhi) anchi-; "near, close" + Greek σαυρος (sauros); "lizard". Anchisaurus was coined as a replacement name for "Amphisaurus", which was itself a replacement name for Hitchcock's "Megadactylus", both of which had already been used for other animals.
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  • 27 Oct 2022
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Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (5 June 1757 – 5 May 1808) was a French physiologist, freemason[1][2][3] and materialist philosopher.[4] Cabanis was born at Cosnac (Corrèze), the son of Jean Baptiste Cabanis (1723–1786), a lawyer and agronomist. At the age of ten, he attended the college of Brives, where he showed great aptitude for study, but his independence of spirit was so great that h
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  • 21 Nov 2022
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Microscopy Methods for Biofilm Imaging
Several imaging methodologies have been used in biofilm studies, contributing to deepening the knowledge on their structure.
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  • 02 Feb 2021
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Complement Cascade for Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatment
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly population. AMD is characterized in its late form by neovascularization (wet type) or geographic atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium cell layer (dry type). Regarding the latter type, there is growing evidence supporting an association between the pathophysiology of dry AMD and key proteins in the complement cascade. The complement cascade works as a central part of the innate immune system by defending against foreign pathogens and modified self-tissues. Through three distinct pathways, a series of plasma and membrane-associated serum proteins are activated upon identification of a foreign entity. Several of these proteins have been implicated in the development and progression of dry AMD. Potential therapeutic targets include C1q, C3, C5, complement factors (B, D, H, I), membrane attack complex, and properdin.
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