BackgroundChronic insomnia disorder (CID) is increasing in prevalence year by year, is long lasting, and potentially risky.Acupuncture has been jolly rancher filled gummies widely used in the clinical management of this condition.However, there is still a lack of direct evidence on the dose-effect relationship between different acupuncture courses
For the purpose of investigating the damage mechanism and failure characteristics of tunnel lining under the strike-slip fault movements, a three-dimensional elastoplastic finite element model was established in the present study including a railway tunnel across an active strike-slip fault.With the assistance of this numerical model, the tensile a
Abstract Amphibian skin is rich in mucous glands and poison glands, secreting substances important for gas exchange and playing a fundamental role in chemical defense against predators and microorganisms.In the caecilian Siphonops annulatus (Mikan, 1920) we observed a concentration of enlarged mucous glands in the head region.In the posterior regio
The protein universe consists of a continuum of structures ranging from full order to complete disorder.As the structured part of the proteome has been intensively studied, stably folded proteins are increasingly well documented and understood.However, proteins that are fully, or in large part, disordered are much less well characterized.Here we co
There is currently a growing tendency to a meaning-based approach to the analysis of syntactic complexity in academic writing.While previous studies have offered illuminating insights into linguistic realizations of rhetorical structures in relation to syntactic complexity, they have typically analyzed lexicogrammatical features in a decontextualiz