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Is It the Twilight of BACE1 Inhibitors?

Current Neuropharmacology, 2020
β-secretase (BACE1) has been regarded as a prime target for the development of amyloid beta (Aβ) lowering drugs in the therapy of Alzheimer´s disease (AD). Although the enzyme was discovered in 1991 and helped to formulate the Aβ hypothesis as one of the
M. Hrabinová, J. Pejchal, T. Kučera, D. Jun, Monika Schmidt, O. Soukup   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Healing Beams: Radiation and Radiotherapy in Novels, Poems, Music, Film, Painting

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
Radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients and the general public as mysterious, dangerous and healing. The image of radiation and radiotherapy can be analysed by studying novels, poems, music, film and painting. Our paper reviews how radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients, the general public, as reflected in various art genres.
Ad A. Kaptein, Jan W. Schoones, Yvette M. van der Linden, Brian M. Hughes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New stratospheric UV/visible radiance measurements [PDF]

Annales Geophysicae, 1994
A stratospheric balloon was launched on 12 October 1986 from the "CNES" base at Aire sur l'Adour (France) to record twilight radiance in the stratosphere.
F. J. Marceau, P. Rigaud, D. Huguenin, J. Albukerque   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Struggle For Normal Life In Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Novel (2005): An Individual Psychological Approach [PDF]

, 2014
The major problem of this study is; how is struggle for normal life reflected in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novel (2005). The objective of this study is to analyze “Twilight” novel written by Stephenie Meyer based on the structural element
, Drs. Abdillah Nugroho, M. Hum., , Titis Setyabudi, S.S. M. Hum, Wirimiarti, Alies   +2 more
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Generalist‐pollinated Arabis alpina exhibits floral scent variation at multiple scales

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Plants that depend on animals for reproduction often use complex floral traits to attract pollinators. Floral scent is recognized as part of the pollinator attraction module and can be shaped by plant‐pollinator interactions. In recent decades, research has started to reveal the dynamic properties of floral scent, identifying patterns of spatial and ...
Hanna Thosteman, Katherine Eisen, Clara McNaughton Montgomery, Xuefei Cheng, Loretta Pace, Magne Friberg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching 'Twilight' in the EFL Classroom: Avoiding Possible Pitfalls and How to Use It in a Positive Manner

Anglo Saxonica
Using literature in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom can be a great tool to promote love of reading or enlarge our students’ vocabulary but the students’ needs, interests, English level and age must be also taken into account.
M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo, Alexis Martel-Robaina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A amostragem estratificada aprimora a compreensão das redes entre morcegos e frutos na Mata Atlântica meridional

Oikos, EarlyView.
Few studies have sought to understand the vertical patterns of bat–fruit systems, and therefore, it is not possible to evaluate whether interpretations based on data collected from a single stratum adequately represent the interaction patterns of this system. In this context, we evaluated the dissimilarity in the assemblage of frugivorous bats, plants,
Karolaine Porto Supi, Thais Bastos Zanata, Daniela Aparecida Savariz Bôlla, Fernando Carvalho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

"The rabid fans that take [Twilight] much too seriously": The construction and rejection of excess in Twilight antifandom

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2011
The group of Twilight antifans known as the Anti-Twilight Movement has constructed themselves as a safe "us" in relation to the threatening and inappropriate Other that they have defined through their characterization of "rabid" Twilight fans and ...
Jacqueline Marie Pinkowitz
doaj   +1 more source

I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) [PDF]

, 2017
Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone, “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959 ...
Reba Wissner
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Bioclimatic, demographic and anthropogenic correlates of grizzly bear activity patterns in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Oikos, EarlyView.
Plasticity of diel activity rhythms may be a key element for adaptations of wildlife populations to changing environmental conditions. In the last decades, grizzly bears Ursus arctos in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) have experienced notable environmental fluctuations, including changes in availability of food sources and severe droughts ...
Aurora Donatelli, Mark A. Haroldson, Justin G. Clapp, Paolo Ciucci, Frank T. van Manen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source