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Antibacterial activity of palm heart extracts collected from Iraqi Phoenix dactylifera L

Journal of Techniques, 2019
This study aimed to assess the antibacterial activity of palm heart (Phoenix dactylifera L.) extract in vitro. Fresh material of the palm heart was dried, crushed and then extracted with distilled water, methanol and acetone. Distilled water extract was
Sameer Mohammed Yaseen, Hussein Adil Abid, Anwar Ali Kadhim, Entesar Emhamed Aboglida   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Floating, Boating and Introgression: Molecular Techniques and the Ancestry of Coconut Palm Populations on Pacific Islands [PDF]

, 2004
It has previously been suggested that the coconut populations of Pacific islands arose by introgression between wild types that disseminated by floating from an ancestral center of origin and domestic types that were brought in small boats from a center ...
Baudouin, Luc, Cardeña, Rolando, Harries, Hugh   +2 more
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Enzymatic synthesis of acylglycerides from agroindustrial residues: process design and simplified techno‐economic assessment

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract This study developed an enzymatic process to add value to palm oil fatty acid distillate (PFAD) and glycerol, resulting in the production of monoacylglycerides (MAG) and diacylglycerides (DAG). The biocatalyst loading (Novozym 435) and molar ratio of reagents were evaluated to obtain a suitable reaction condition in terms of space–time yield ...
Ronaldo Rodrigues de Sousa, Isabelle de Souza Barbosa, Ana Cristina de Araújo Collaço, Denise Maria Guimarães Freire, Viridiana Santana Ferreira‐Leitão   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations between heart size and anthropometric and cardiovascular indicators: an undergraduate physiology teaching laboratory

Advances in Physiology Education
Heart size is a critical indicator of cardiovascular health, is influenced by various anthropometric measures such as age, sex, body height, body weight, and fat-free mass, and associates with hand palm diameter.
Madyson O. Hintz, Aisya S. Ahmad Zamri, Elizabeth W. Erickson, Frosina Barlev, Sean Coffey, Regis R. Lamberts   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping opioid exposure through prescription data and postmortem analysis of opioid drugs in multiple tissues

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background and Purpose Although opioids are central to end of life (EoL) care, tissue‐level opioid exposure remains poorly understood. The objective of this study was to characterize the relationship between prescription‐derived morphine equivalent daily dose (MEDD) and measured morphine concentrations across multiple organs.
Niamh Higgins, Alan Wells, Nimish Patel, Nicole Muttera, Mattia Trunfio, Alessandra Manca, Amedeo De Nicolò, Micol Ferrara, Stefano Bonora, Jessica Cusato, Alice Palermiti, Antonio D'Avolio, Marissa Borochoff, Patricia K. Riggs, Elizabeth Hastie, Rabia S. Atayee, Stephanie Solso, Cheryl Dullano, Vanessa Gomez‐Moreno, Tara Tenenbaum, Robert Deiss, Davey M. Smith, Antoine Chaillon, Sara Gianella   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smoothing Income against Crop Flood Losses in Amazonia: Rain Forest or Rivers as a Safety Net [PDF]

This article examines the role of ex post labor supply in smoothing income in response to crop losses caused by large floods among riverine households in the Peruvian Amazon, where rich environmental endowments permit a variety of resource extractive ...
Barham, Bradford L., Coomes, Oliver T., Takasaki, Yoshito   +2 more
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Race, Mobility, and Fantasy: Afromobiling in Tropical Florida [PDF]

, 2017
This article explores a popular tourist vehicle in early twentieth century Florida: the Afromobile. Beginning in the 1890s, Afromobiling referred to the white tourist experience of travelling in a wheelchair propelled by an African American hotel ...
Knight Lozano, Henry
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Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
wiley   +1 more source

Residual compost from the production of Bactris gasipaes Kunth and Pleurotus ostreatus as soil conditioners for Lactuca sativa ‘Veronica’

Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2017
This study evaluated the residual compost from the production of Bactris gasipaes Kunth (pupunha heart of palm) (RP) and the mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus (RM). The residuals were used as soil conditioners for Lactuca sativa ‘Veronica’ crops. After adding
Marcelo Barba Bellettini, Sebastião Bellettini, Francisco Menino Destéfanis Vítola, Fernanda Assumpção Fiorda, Agenor Maccari Junior, Carlos Ricardo Soccol   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantification of Palmar and Digital Epidermal Thickness and Sweat Duct Density

Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Palmar digital skin, with its high density of epidermal sweat glands and unique stratum corneum, derives its autonomic innervation from peripheral nerves. Understanding the changes to these structures could serve as objective proxy markers following peripheral nerve injury and interventions to promote regeneration.
Elizabeth Jones, Hanaa N. Mughal, Roxana Moscalu, Malachy Columb, Christopher Duff, Mark Dickinson, Adam J. Reid, Ralph N. A. Murphy   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source