Here in the United States and throughout world, we are engulfed by a crisis bigger more devastating than anything that has occurred since Second World War. The death rate from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections their complications States, alone, is today (November 23, 2020) 250,000 rising rapidly.1Coronavirus statistics. Available at:https://www.bing.com/search?q=What+is+the+current...

OVERPRODUCTION OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS) in biological systems has been associated with the initiation or aggravation of diverse pathological states (14, 19). The presumed mechanism is through the ability of ROS to induce biochemical alterations in macromolecules such as DNA, lipids, and proteins (4, 14, 17). It has been known for some time that ROS, produced physiologically by leukocyte...

461 When the Jesuit António Vieira composed his sermons and visionary tracts in the middle of the seventeenth century, maps great and small emanated like puffs of smoke from his fiery prose. The world was ablaze—or might eventually catch fire if Vieira’s audience did not heed his prophetic warnings—and the map was fodder for the terrestrial conflagration, a tool that could encompass and describ...

Quintessence models with a dark energy generated by pseudo Nambu– Goldstone bosons provide a natural framework in which to test the possibility that type Ia supernovae luminosity distance measurements are at least partially due to an evolution of the sources, since these models can have parameter values for which the expansion of the Universe is decelerating as well as values for which it is ac...

Sculptors during the Kamakura period at times looked to unconventional sources for material their images and other projects. In 1183 Unkei used fragments of wood from destroyed Great Buddha Hall Tōdaiji rollers two sets Lotus Sutra, in 1206 an anonymous sculptor a piece charred wood, presumably same structure, right shoulder memorial portrait Shunjōbō Chōgen, monk who rebuilt temple after it bu...