Due to the complexity of building supply chain resilience (SCR) towards long-term environmental sustainability amendments, use emerging technologies such as Blockchain Technology (BCT) can be adopted an innovative tool enhance and chains, especially in uncertain environments. Drawing on Knowledge-Based View (KBV) Dynamic Capability (DCV), this research aims demonstrate how adoption BCT performa...

The dwarf or compact plant architecture is an important trait in plant breeding. A number of genes controlling plant height have been cloned and functionally characterized which often involve in biosynthesis or signaling of plant hormones such as brassinosteroids (BRs). No genes for plant height or vine length have been cloned in cucurbit crops (family Cucurbitaceae). From an EMS-induced mutage...

3D printing (3DP) of polymer composite products and solutions mainly relies on experimental techniques for research & development product/process/system understanding. Several studies experimentally investigated the effect infill patterns densities mechanical performance printed composites. However, due to unlimited design flexibility 3DP processes recipes, it is vital explore numerical simulat...

Volume excess and mechanical load lead to the induction of the endocrine activity of the heart. The increased production and secretion of A- and B-type natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP), in turn, unload the heart due to their physiological effects. To find out the mechanisms of cardiac-specific expression and sensitivity to mechanical stimuli of the natriuretic peptide genes, we have used salm...

While a high-cholesterol diet induces hepatic steatosis, the role of intracellular sterol carrier protein-2/sterol carrier protein-x (SCP-2/SCP-x) proteins is unknown. We hypothesized that ablating SCP-2/SCP-x [double knockout (DKO)] would impact hepatic lipids (cholesterol and cholesteryl ester), especially in high-cholesterol-fed mice. DKO did not alter food consumption, and body weight (BW) ...

ing cerebral embolization due to detached atherosclerotic material from the ascending and arch aortic intima, caused by the “sandblasting” effect of the high-velocity jet from an aortic cannula. Although the number of cases having pedunculated atheroma, mural thrombus in ascending aorta, or aortic arch is low, I believe this method helps to treat such cases. In addition, the safety of starting ...

OBJECTIVE Selective antegrade cerebral perfusion (SCP) has been widely used during complex congenital heart surgery and theoretically affords some degree of neuroprotection. There are limited data to support this claim, however. This study was designed to compare, at profound hypothermia, continuous cardiopulmonary bypass, SCP and circulatory arrest in a survival model of extracorporeal circula...

The article analyzes political conflict in Mexico through a powerful social movement that erupted the massive shantytown of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl between 1969 and 1973. In summer 1969, after decades abysmal living conditions, residents (Neza) launched payment strike to demand federal government expropriate land from private developers, with intent gain urban infrastructure formal property title...

BACKGROUND In spastic cerebral palsy (SCP), a limited range of motion of the foot (ROM), limits gait and other activities. Assessment of this limitation of ROM and knowledge of active mechanisms is of crucial importance for clinical treatment. METHODS For a comparison between spastic cerebral palsy (SCP) children and typically developing children (TD), medial gastrocnemius muscle-tendon compl...

BACKGROUND There is a need for improvement of information provision and post-treatment care for cancer survivors. A Survivorship Care Plan (SCP) is recommended by the American Institute of Medicine and the Dutch Health Council, which is a summary of patients' course of treatment as a formal document, and includes recommendations for subsequent cancer surveillance, management of late effects, an...