Shorter telomere length and poor sleep are more prevalent at older ages, but their relationship is uncertain.This study explored associations between sleep duration and telomere length in a sample of healthy middle and early old age people.Participants were 434 men and women aged 63.3 years on average drawn from the Whitehall II cohort study.Sleep
When depositing films on a complex workpiece surface by magnetron sputtering, the shadow effect occurs and causes the columnar structure to tilt toward the substrate owing to the oblique incident angle of the plasma flux, affecting the microstructure and properties of the films.Improving the surface diffusion could alleviate the shadow effect, wher
Abstract Infestation with Varroa spp.(varroosis) has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 on the eligibility of varroosis to be listed, Article 9 for the categorisation of varroosis according to disease prevention and control rules as in
In this study, the dissipation and transformation of acetamiprid were investigated during the cowpea pickling process and the toxicity assessment software Ecological Structure Activity Relationship (ECOSAR) and the Toxicity Estimation Software Tool (T.E.S.T.) were used to predict the toxicity of acetamiprid and its transformation products (TPs).The
This paper will evaluate the convenience of using the legal Ski de fond - Homme - Skis - Skate concept of human dignity in the human rights discourse and its effectiveness to address injustice in a twenty-first century democratic society.This article will argue that the difficulty of defining human dignity does not diminish its merits and allows it