Intestinal epithelial responses to Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis: Effects on intestinal permeability and ion transport [PDF]
Salmonella infection of chickens that leads to potential human foodborne salmonellosis continues to be a major concern. Chickens serve as carriers but, in contrast to humans, rarely show any clinical signs including diarrhea.
Aschenbach, J. R. +4 more
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A Systematic Review of Mosquito Coils and Passive Emanators: Defining Recommendations for Spatial Repellency Testing Methodologies. [PDF]
Mosquito coils, vaporizer mats and emanators confer protection against mosquito bites through the spatial action of emanated vapor or airborne pyrethroid particles.
A Liberati +57 more
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Swimming abilities of temperate pelagic fish larvae prove that they may control their dispersion in coastal areas [PDF]
The Sense Acuity and Behavioral (SAAB) Hypothesis proposes that the swimming capabilities and sensorial acuity of temperate fish larvae allows them to find and swim towards coastal nursery areas, which are crucial for their recruitment. To gather further
Baptista, Vânia +8 more
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The OpenPicoAmp : an open-source planar lipid bilayer amplifier for hands-on learning of neuroscience [PDF]
Neuroscience education can be promoted by the availability of low cost and engaging teaching materials. To address this issue, we developed an open-source lipid bilayer amplifier, the OpenPicoAmp, which is appropriate for use in introductory courses in ...
Dupuis, Freddy +2 more
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Miocardite na forma aguda da doença de Chagas
The autopsy of a case of CHAGAS'S disease or American tryponosomiasis (a girl, 5 years old), dead in the 22nd day of illness is reported. The anatomic diagnosis was a follows: Acute diffuse chagasic nyocarditis. Chagasic encephalitis.
Eitel Duarte, C. Magarinos Torres
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Trailing Edge Noise Reduction by Passive and Active Flow Controls [PDF]
This paper presents the results on the use of porous metal foams (passive control) and dielectric barrier surface plasma actuations (active control) for the reduction of vortex shedding tonal noises from the nonflat plate type trailing edge serration in ...
Chong T. P. +5 more
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Radiation tests of the Silicon Drift Detectors for LOFT [PDF]
During the three years long assessment phase of the LOFT mission, candidate to the M3 launch opportunity of the ESA Cosmic Vision programme, we estimated and measured the radiation damage of the silicon drift detectors (SDDs) of the satellite ...
Azzarello, P. +15 more
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Potential of heat pipe technology in nuclear seawater desalination [PDF]
The official published version of this article can be found at the link below.Heat pipe technology may play a decisive role in improving the overall economics, and public perception on nuclear desalination, specifically on seawater desalination.
Alameddine +26 more
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Based on a constant volume combustion chamber, the initial ambient pressure effect on gasoline combustion performance and flame propagation of the active and passive pre-chamber ignition systems were studied.
Zongjie Hu +8 more
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A bistable soft gripper with mechanically embedded sensing and actuation for fast closed-loop grasping [PDF]
Soft robotic grippers are shown to be high effective for grasping unstructured objects with simple sensing and control strategies. However, they are still limited by their speed, sensing capabilities and actuation mechanism.
Abidi, Syed Haider +4 more
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