The oil pipeline network requires periodic monitoring to detect pipeline damages, which may cause oil leakage with severe environmental contamination.These damages can be generated by interference from third COLLAR parties such as construction works, sabotage, vandalism, excavations, and illegal oil theft.To detect the oil pipeline damages, it can
Escalation and Morphological Constraints of Antagonistic Armaments in Water Striders
Sexual conflict may result in the escalating coevolution of sexually antagonistic traits.However, our understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of antagonistic traits and their role in association with sex-specific escalation remains limited.Here we study sexually antagonistic coevolution in a genus of water striders called Rhagovelia.We identifie
Identification of an apiosyltransferase in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas pisi.
The rare branched-chain sugar apiose, once thought to only be present in the plant kingdom, was found in two bacterial species: Geminicoccus roseus and Xanthomonas pisi.Glycans with apiose residues were detected in aqueous methanol-soluble fractions as well as in the insoluble pellet fraction of X.pisi.Genes encoding bacterial uridine diphosphate a
Cephalometric evaluation of adult anterior open bite non-extraction treatment with Invisalign
ABSTRACT Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate, by means of cephalometric appraisal, the vertical effects of non-extraction treatment of adult anterior open bite with clear aligners (Invisalign system, Align Technology, Santa Clara, CA, USA).Methods: Lateral cephalograms of 30 adult patients with anterior open bite treated using Invi
Street Poetry in Interaction with (Living) Language
In the 1970s a new musical genre called rap appeared in the United States, continuing the tradition of rock and Cosmetic Case punk music.In about twenty years, this new form of protest poetry created global sociolinguistic changes because its presence helped shape a special social group with a special lexicon and grammar.Rap uses both standard and