Abstract Background Progranulin is an epithelial tissue growth factor (also known as proepithelin, acrogranin and PC-cell-derived growth factor) that has been implicated in development, wound healing and in the progression of many cancers.The single mammalian progranulin gene encodes a glycoprotein precursor consisting of seven and one half tandeml
The power of algorithms has become a familiar topic in society, media, and the social sciences.It is increasingly common to argue that, for instance, algorithms automate inequality, that they are biased black boxes that reproduce racism, or that they control our money and information.Implicit in many of these discussions is that algorithms are perm
A new stenasellid isopod is described from Tashan Cave, Khuzestan Province, south-west Iran, belonging to the spoon blank genus Stenasellus Dollfus, 1897.The first recorded species of Stenasellidae from Iran, Stenasellus tashanicus sp.n., is diagnosed by the presence of antennae with a minute squama bearing paired, long, robust setae; a maxilliped
Physio-logging has the potential to explore the processes that underlie the dive behavior and ecology of marine mammals and seabirds, as well as evaluate their Shampoo adaptability to environmental change and other stressors.Regulation of heart rate lies at the core of the physiological processes that determine dive capacity and performance.The bio
Global climate change has significantly affected vegetation variation in the spoon blank third-polar region of the world – the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.As one of the most important indicators of vegetation variation (growth, coverage and tempo-spatial change), the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is widely employed to study the resp