Plants offer a vast source of bioactive chemicals with the potential to Vinegars improve human health through the prevention and treatment of disease.However, many potential therapeutics are produced in small amounts or in species that are difficult to cultivate.The rapidly evolving field of plant synthetic biology provides tools to capitalize on t
This article begins with an overview of Christian moral arguments that surface in the context of gun violence prevention advocacy.The description focuses on three claims that appear in press events and many web resources: all life is sacred, the sin of idolatry, and a call to nonviolence.Running through these arguments are references to vulnerabili
We specify a Bayesian, geoadditive Stochastic Frontier Figure Skating - Accessories - Skate Guards Analysis (SFA) model to assess hospital performance along the dimensions of resources and quality of stroke care in German hospitals.With 1,100 annual observations and data from 2006 to 2013 and risk-adjusted patient volume as output, we introduce a p
Abstract Unlike in the bulk, at the nanoscale shape dictates properties.The imperative to understand and predict nanocrystal shape led to the development, over several decades, of a large number of mathematical Mats models and, later, their software implementations.In this review, the various mathematical approaches used to model crystal shapes are