Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era.It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty.How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help address the growing demands for care facing many aging societies is both a challenge
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The lexicon of foreign words defines the anecdote as a short, interesting, often invented, but striking story of some funny encounter.Actually, this definition says practically nothing about the anecdote and is wrong and incomplete, too.Anecdote is a collective folk creation, except for maybe absurd anecdotes.Anecdotes come to be in the process of
Probiotic fermentation augments the skin anti-photoaging properties of Agastache rugosa through up-regulating antioxidant components in UV-B-irradiated HaCaT keratinocytes
Abstract Background Agastache rugosa (Fisch.& C.A.Mey.) Kuntze (Korean mint) is used to treat diverse types of human disorders in traditional medicine.In recent years, its non-fermented leaf extract (ARE) has been shown to possess protective properties against ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation-induced Modulars photooxidative stress.The present work ai
Effluent from local palm oil mill refinery in Nigeria is excessively oily and potentially genotoxic
In spite of the fact that the informal, local mills in countries like Nigeria constitute a major portion of the palm oil refinery, adequate attention has not been paid to the quality of the palm oil mill effluent (POME) they generate.In this study, therefore, the physicochemical properties and genotoxic potential of POME generated by a local mill i