Schistosomes are obligate helminths responsible for over 218 Shooting Supplies million cases of human schistosomiasis in 78 countries around the world.Infection occurs when free-swimming cercariae penetrate human skin and initiate developmental progression into parasitic obligate worms that consume red blood cells.Transcriptomic studies of infectio
The association between gender expression, beliefs about alcohol, coping skills, and alcohol consumption in post-secondary students at two Canadian universities
Introduction Unlike sex, the association between gender and high-risk drinking has been relatively understudied in post-secondary students.Gender expression may influence the use of protective coping strategies and beliefs about alcohol.Objectives This study evaluated associations between gender expression, protective coping strategies, beliefs abo
Simplicial Persistence of Financial Markets: Filtering, Generative Processes and Structural Risk
We introduce simplicial persistence, a measure of time evolution of motifs in networks obtained from correlation filtering.We observe long memory in the evolution of structures, with MKT a two power law decay regimes in the number of persistent simplicial complexes.Null models of the underlying time series are tested to investigate properties of th
Acute Consumption of Bordo Grape Juice and Wine Improves Serum Antioxidant Status in Healthy Individuals and Inhibits Reactive Oxygen Species Production in Human Neuron-Like Cells
Few studies investigated the biological effects of American grape cultivars.We investigated the metabolic response after acute consumption of grape juice or wine from Bordo Plant Protein grapes (Vitis labrusca) in a placebo-controlled crossover study with fifteen healthy volunteers.Blood samples were collected 1 hour after the intake of 100 mL of w
The adaptation of the harmony search algorithm to the ATSP with the evaluation of the influence of the pitch adjustment place on the quality of results
The paper is an extended version of the conference article, Baby Safety Locks which presents a modification of the Harmony Search algorithm, adapted to the effective resolution of the asymmetric case of the Traveling Salesman Problem.The efficacy of the proposed approach was measured with benchmarking tests and in a comparative study based on the r