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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios, Léon Chiriatti, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação da composição química da semente de abóbora (Cucurbita pepo) e do efeito do seu consumo sobre o dano oxidativo hepático de ratos (Rattus novergicus): [dissertação] [PDF]

, 2005
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição.Tem sido demonstrado que o consumo de sementes ricas em vitamina E, onde o a-tocoferol é o isômero predominante, reduz a ...
Sant'Anna, Lina Cláudia
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Involvement of arabinogalactan proteins in the control of cell proliferation of Cucurbita pepo suspension cultures

, 2010
Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) secreted by zucchini squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) cell cultures into the medium are implicated in cell proliferation. Conditioned medium derived from cell suspensions of squash cultivar Dundoo could enhance multiplication ...
A. Mliki, G. M. Reustle, A. Ghorbel, P. Cobanov, A. Ben Amar   +4 more
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The complete chloroplast genome sequence of the Cucurbita pepo L. (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]

Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 2018
Cucurbita pepo is an important economic plant cultivated widely in the world. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of C. pepo is reported here. The genome is 157,343 bp in length and exhibits a typical quadripartite structure of the large (LSC, 87,970 bp) and small (SSC, 18,167 bp) single-copy regions, separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs ...
Chen Zhang, Qianglong Zhu, Shi Liu, Peng Gao, Zicheng Zhu, Xuezheng Wang, Feishi Luan   +6 more
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Assessing ChatGPT for taxonomic and floristic studies

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The advancement of biological sciences has long been closely linked to technological progress. ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot capable of producing human‐like conversational responses, has recently attracted attention as a potential support tool for scientific research.
Mykyta Peregrym, Olena Kozak, Ahmet Emre Yaprak, Alan Elliott, Pedro Bond Schwartsburd, Karime Abidkulova, Anna Voytsekhovich, Olena Danylevska   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann, Jeffrey D. Michler, Maybin Mwangala, Osaretin Olurotimi, Natalia Estrada Carmona   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing back the origin of pumpkins (Cucurbita pepossp.pepoL.) in Mexico [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019
Cucurbita pepois an economically important crop, which consists of cultivatedC. pepossp.pepo, and two wild taxa (C. pepossp.fraternaandC. pepossp.ovifera).We aimed at understanding the domestication and the diversity ofC. pepoin Mexico. We used two chloroplast regions and nine nuclear microsatellite loci to assess the levels of genetic variation and ...
Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, Karen Y. Ruiz-Mondragón, Helena S. Hernández-Rosales, Guillermo Sánchez-de la Vega, Niza Gámez, Erika Aguirre-Planter, Salvador Montes-Hernández, Rafael Lira-Saade, Luis E. Eguiarte   +8 more
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Art v 1 and Amb a 4 Co‐Sensitization Identifies Italian Patients at Risk for Mugwort‐Celery‐Spice Syndrome

Allergy, EarlyView.
Three molecular profiles identified among Art v 1/Amb a 4‐sensitized patients: Art v 1 monosensitization, Amb a 4 monosensitization, and dual sensitization to both allergens. Art v 1 monosensitization was predominantly associated with allergic rhinitis, reflecting a classical airborne allergy pattern.
Enrico Scala, Gabriella Cusa, Valeria Villella, Damiano Abeni, Mauro Giani, Emma Cristina Guerra, Maria Locanto, Giorgia Meneguzzi, Lia Pirrotta, Donato Quaratino, Alessandra Zaffiro, Elisabetta Caprini, Maria Barrale, Ignazio Brusca, Valerio Pravettoni, Lorenzo Cecchi, Danilo Villalta, Martina Aumayr, Irene Mittermann, Christian Lupinek, Riccardo Asero   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Oil from pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) seeds: evaluation of its functional properties on wound healing in rats

Lipids in Health and Disease, 2016
Background Increasing natural drug demand for pharmaceutical uses has encouraged scientifics all over the world to explore medicinal plants recognized as efficient remedies.
Sana Bardaa, Nihed Ben Halima, Fatma Aloui, Riadh Ben Mansour, Hazem Jabeur, Mohamed Bouaziz, Zouheir Sahnoun   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anastrepha grandis: Distribution, Host Plants, and Management—A Review

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
This graphic summary illustrates the databases and languages used in the bibliographic search for the review of the geographic distribution of Anastrepha grandis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Americas and different regions of Brazil, the main host plants of the Cucurbitaceae family, the management strategies used, and the main challenges related to the
Liz Maria Matilde Duarte, Manoel Araécio Uchoa, Isaias de Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source