Introduction: Personality traits have been associated with physical fitness. Additionally, tolerance of exercise intensity has been related to exercise behavior. However, less is understood about these traits in firefighters ...

Abstract Vacuoles purified from Saccharomyces cerevisiae are a well-studied model for membrane fusion and fission as the machinery is highly conserved throughout eukaryotes. Vacuole membranes undergo cycles of fusion and ...

Maternal mental health is a major public health issue. Illinois Public Act 100-0574 was signed into law January 8th, 2018. The law will allow postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis to be considered a mitigating ...

In this paper we compare the performance of several methods for providing tight error bounds for linearly constrained ill-posed linear equation solutions. Specifically, we compare accuracy and computational cost of three ...

The carotenoid lutein has been shown to have protective functions for the retina, lens, and brain. Lutein is the primary carotenoid in the brain, and preferentially accumulates in the retina of the eye. Opportunely, ...

It is known that obesity causes the morphology of lining of the small intestine, the epithelium, to change. It causes the villi, the finger like projections responsible for nutrient absorption, to be longer. It also causes ...

This research examines the difference in benefits for bandwagon fans and loyal fans when supporting a high-achieving sports team. Information for this project was gathered using a literary analysis of documents from social ...

Exoticism is a recurring motif in Japanese novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s Naomi or Chijin no ai “A Fool’s Love” (1924), in Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), as well as in the Lolita subculture fashion ...

A dearomative [4+2] photocycloaddition of the arenophile N-methyl-1,2,4-triazolinedione (MTAD) with benzene allows for the concise synthesis of (+)-pancratistatin, (+)-7-deoxypancratistatine, (+)-lycoricidine, and (+)-narciclasine

A look into the legislative actions the United States took in order to prevent or limit the amount of green house gas that was being emitted into the global atmosphere. I also delve into the processes during these negotiations ...