Effect of Sea Salt and Taro Waste on Fungal Mortierella alpina Cultivation for Arachidonic Acid-Rich Lipid Production

Arachidonic acid (ARA), an important polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), acts as a precursor for eicosanoid hormones, such as prostaglandins, leukotrienes and other biological substances in human and animal bodies.Mortierella alpina is considered to be a potential strain for ARA production.Using agricultural waste as a substrate for microbial fermen

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Codifying unstructured data: A Natural Language Processing approach to extract rich data from clinical letters

ABSTRACT Objectives Electronic healthcare records (EHR) are the main data sources that facilitate epidemiology research.Routinely collected data such as primary and secondary care are now easily linked to produce novel and high impact research.There are, however, rich data locked in the free text of clinical letters that are not otherwise translate

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Political Connections (and Disconnections) between British Intellectuals in the Age of Enlightenment: Hume, Sterne, and Wilkes in Paris (1764)

In April 1764, Watches Laurence Sterne, who is in France for a cure, is invited by Lord Hertford, the new English ambassador to France, to preach a sermon at the opening of the new embassy in Paris.Sterne accepts the invitation and chooses a text that is perceived as a shocking discourtesy to the diplomatic and political authorities.The dinner that

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