Abstract Background Studies addressing the adaptive significance of female ornamentation have gained ground recently.However, the expression of female ornaments in relation to body size, known as trait allometry, still remains unexplored.Here, we investigated the allometry of a conspicuous female ornament in Pelvicachromis taeniatus, a biparental c
Objectives: Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) is an ultra-high hardness composite material made from polycrystalline diamond (PCD) and cemented carbide through high temperature and high pressure sintering.PDC is widely used in oil and gas extraction, geothermal development, and coal field drilling.As drilling goes deeper, the formation pressure
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is the sixth most common cancer in the developing world.The aggressive nature of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, its tendency for relapse, and the poor survival prospects of patients diagnosed at advanced stages, represent a peperomia double duty pressing need for the development of new therapies for this dise
Fungal infection is a major health concern as the clinical features are not very distinctive.Lack of rapid diagnostic techniques results in delay in diagnosis, which may even culminate in a fatal outcome.The fact that many pathogenic fungal organisms autofluoresce in hematoxylin and eosin (H and E)-stained sections under ultraviolet illumination le