BackgroundDiabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) cause significant morbidity affecting 19% to 34% of people living with diabetes mellitus.DFUs not only impair quality of life but may also result in limb loss and mortality.Patient education has been advocated to raise awareness of proper foot self-care and the necessity of seeking assistance when a foot wound
Abstract Ducks and geese are little studied dispersal vectors for plants lacking a fleshy fruit, and our understanding of the traits associated with these plants is limited.We analyzed 507 faecal samples of mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and copyright (Branta canadensis) from 18 natural and urban wetlands in England, where they are the dominant resid
Effective damage identification is paramount to evaluating safety conditions and preventing catastrophic failures of concrete structures.Although various methods have been introduced in the literature, developing robust and reliable structural health monitoring (SHM) procedures remains an open research challenge.This study proposes a new approach u
Unlike in flowering plants, the detailed roles of the enzymes in the polyamine (PA) pathway in conifers are poorly known.We explored the sequence conservation of the PA biosynthetic genes and diamine oxidase (DAO) in conifers and flowering plants to reveal the potential functional diversification of the enzymes between the plant lineages.The expres