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Diethanolamine increased the incidence and multiplicity of liver tumors in the mouse following chronic exposure. Diethanolamine is known to inhibit cellular choline uptake. Since choline deficiency produces tumors in rodents, diethanolamine, through choline depletion, may result in tumor development in rodents. The potential for diethanolamine to function through this mode of action in humans i...

Many applications that exploit the manufacturing flexibility of additive manufacturing (AM) produce surfaces, primarily internal features, which cannot be measured using conventional contact or lineof-sight optical methods. This paper evaluates the capability of a novel technique to extract areal surface data from micro-focus x-ray computed tomography (XCT) from AM components and then generate ...

Resul ts : Findings indicate a low level of wisdom-related competence in the analysed sample; participants’ mean total score was M = 156.47 (SD = 61.50) of 364 possible points. Corresponding to previous findings of psychological wisdom research, only few participants reached high scores. The students scored higher in wisdom-relevant dimensions than in wisdom-specific dimensions and higher in kn...

The following article from Small GTPases, "Scientific Yellow Journalism" by Anica Klockars and Michael J. Williams, published online on 20 September 2012 (doi: 10.4161/sgtp.22289; http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/smallgtpases/article/22289/) by Landes Bioscience and subsequently published in print in Small GTPases 2012 3(4):201 has been retracted by agreement between the authors and the...

18 Thermokarst lakes develop as a result of the thaw and collapse of ice-rich, permanently 19 frozen ground (permafrost). Of particular sedimentological importance are thermokarst 20 lakes forming in late Pleistocene icy silt (yedoma), which dramatically alter the land 21 *Manuscript Click here to download Manuscript: Farquharson text revised_clean.docx Click here to view linked References