[Background] Health and well-being in later life are heavily influenced by behaviors across the life course, which in turn are influenced by a variety of wider contextual, social, economic, and organizational factors.There is considerable potential for inequalities in health-promoting behaviors and health outcomes, arising from poverty, social, and
Abstract To gain more insight into the physiological function of shade and how shade affects leaf size, we investigated the growth, leaf anatomical structure, hormones and genes expressions in soybean.Soybean seeds were sown in plastic pots and were allowed to germinate and grow for 30 days under shade or full sunlight conditions.Shade treated plan
Spatial dynamics of solute chemistry and natural abundance isotopes of nitrate (<sup>15</sup>N and <sup>18</sup>O) were examined in seven locations and at the watershed outlet in 2001 and 2002 in a forest watershed in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, USA.Temporal dynamics were examined during five discharge period
Freeze-thaw damage is one of the main factors affecting the service life and durability of concrete.Optimizing the microscopic pore distribution of concrete is an effective measure to improve its frost resistance.This paper takes mixed sand (machine-made sand + river sand) concrete as the research object and analyzes the influence mechanism of diff
The most prevalent paediatric vision-threatening medical condition, retinoblastoma (RB), has been a global concern for a long time.Several conventional therapies, such as systemic chemotherapy and focal therapy, have been used for curative purposes; however, the search for tumour eradication with the least impact on surrounding tissues is still ong