<jats:p>An adequate vitamin D status is essential during childhood and adolescence, for its important role in cell growth, skeletal structure and development. It also reduces the risk of conditions such as CVD, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, infections and autoimmune ...

AbstractSimilar to other countries, Germany uses a national indicator set to monitor the progress of its sustainability strategy. As transport is one of the priority areas of a more sustainable development, this indicator system also includes a number of transport relat...

Fossil carettochelyine turtles are well known from the Paleogene of Europe (Allaeochelys), North America and Asia (Anosteira); however, the previously known Neogene fossil record is highly fragmentary and was therefore unsuitable for taxonomic analysis. In this work, we...

<jats:p>Besides reduction of energy consumption, which implies alternate actuation and light construction, the main research domain in automobile development in the near future is dominated by driver assistance and natural driver-car communication. The ability of a car ...

The complex formation of protactinium(V) with DTPA was studied at different temperatures (25-50 °C) and ionic strengths (0.1-1 M) with the element at tracer scale. Irrespective of the temperature and ionic strength studied, only one neutral complex with (1:1) stoichiome...

Foreign language education has now been implemented at the elementary school level across Europe, and early foreign language education has gained traction following language policies set by the European Commission. The long-term effects of an early start, however, have ...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In the absence of appropriate stimuli, polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) undergo programmed cell death (PCD), also termed apoptosis. We show that granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), but not the chemotact...

<jats:p>Abstract. The creation of accurate and consistent line drawings is the subject of various applications. Prominent examples are the delineation of human-made objects in aerial images and the construction of technical line drawings, flow-charts, or diagrams. Inter...