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Backfire effect of salient information on vaccine take-up experimental evidence from scared-straight intervention in rural northern Nigeria

Backfire effect of salient information on vaccine take-up experimental evidence from scared-straight intervention in rural northern Nigeria

Vaccination is essentially the most cost-effective option to forestall moms and infants from contracting tetanus. However, growing nations battle with the persistent low take-up of vaccination. The low danger perceptions of illness will be one of the limitations to vaccination. One option to enhance the danger perceptions of illness is to make use of salient […]

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Citramalate synthase yields a biosynthetic pathway for isoleucine and straight- and branched-chain ester formation in ripening apple fruit

Citramalate synthase yields a biosynthetic pathway for isoleucine and straight- and branched-chain ester formation in ripening apple fruit

A plant pathway that initiates with the formation of citramalate from pyruvate and acetyl-CoA by citramalate synthase (CMS) is proven to contribute to the synthesis of α-ketoacids and vital odor-active esters in apple (Malus × domestica) fruit. Microarray screening led to the invention of a gene with excessive amino acid similarity to 2-isopropylmalate synthase (IPMS). However, practical

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Metabolism and plasma protein binding of 16 straight- and branched-chain parabens in in vitro liver and skin models

Metabolism and plasma protein binding of 16 straight- and branched-chain parabens in in vitro liver and skin models

Parabens are alkyl esters of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA), with short-chain parabens used as antimicrobials in cosmetics. We investigated the influence of chain construction on skin and liver metabolism. Incubations with main human hepatocytes and human liver S9 indicated that methyl-, ethyl-, propyl- and butylparaben have been quickly metabolized to comparable metabolites, together with 4-HBA plus

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Tracer movements in a straight uniform flow: New equations for the advective part considering the distortion of flow lines around the well

Tracer movements in a straight uniform flow: New equations for the advective part considering the distortion of flow lines around the well

Methods for decoding tracer assessments usually depend on equations assuming a pure regional flow which is straight and uniform. The most important goal of this undertaking was to develop extra reasonable equations for the advective part of contaminant transport, by together with the flow lines distortion occurring in the neighborhood of the injection well. The

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