Urban areas, particularly in developing countries face immense challenges such as climate change, poverty, lack of resources poor land use management systems, and week environmental management practices.Mitigating against these challenges is often hampered by lack of data on urban expansion, urban footprint and land cover.To support the recently ad
It is inspiring to discover technology related to tribology throughout the history Health and Wellbeing of mankind.This paper describes sketches produced by da Vinci in the 15th century corresponding to modern bearings and notable tribological achievements in Japan from ancient times.Explained herein are a project to construct bearing models based
Food preservation and safety is drawing more attention globally due to the increasing prevalence of food-borne diseases.The natural methods of food preservation are considered safer compared to methods using synthetic preservatives.The essential oils with natural preservative properties could be useful for food safety and preservation.The objective
Animal distribution maps serve many purposes such as estimating transmission risk of zoonotic pathogens to both animals and humans.The reliability and usability of such maps is highly dependent on the quality of the input data.However, decisions on how to perform livestock surveys are often based on previous work without considering possible conseq
Abstract Background Autoimmune disorders, including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), are associated with increased incidence of hematological malignancies.The matricellular protein osteopontin (OPN) has been linked to SLE pathogenesis, as SLE patients show increased serum levels of OPN and often polymorphisms in its gene.Although widely studied