Browsing by Subject "Elsevier"
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3D printing in neurosurgery
(2021)Three-dimensional (3D) printing (3DP) has seen spectacular progress in recent years, making it widely available to consumers and researchers, but it has also been steadily expanding its capabilities while becoming more and ... -
Amelioration of Liver Ailments by Saffron (Crocus sativus) and Its Secondary Metabolites
(2020)Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus L., has a long history for being used in food industry (flavoring and aromatic agent), in textile industries (dyes), and for therapeutic and medicinal purposes. Medicinal uses of saffron ... -
Antioxidants in olive oil phenolics: A focus on myoblasts
(2020)The beneficial effects of Mediterranean diet are largely ascribed to olive oil (OO), which is the main fat source and is rich in polyphenolic compounds. Research evidence points out that OO polyphenols (i.e., biophenols) ... -
Aquatic environment and fish welfare in aquaculture
(2019)Aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector worldwide. Stress is of central concern mainly in intensive production systems of aquaculture, as the various stressors which accompany operational techniques and ... -
Assessing the sustainability of legumes production in South Europe
(2020)One of the main challenges of the European Union’s (EU) agricultural policy is to decrease dependency on imported high-protein materials for livestock feed. Until now the trade deficit for Europe is substantially high, ... -
Asthma and autoimmunity
(2022)The last decade has witnessed a growing interest in autoinflammation, which is related to an increase in knowledge about the immunopathogenesis of a broad spectrum of diseases, not only of immunological but also of ... -
B regulatory cells in patients with autoimmune diseases: Pathogenic significance and therapeutic potential
(2022)Regulatory B cells (Breg cells) emerge as critical immunoregulators in autoimmune disease as they inhibit T helper 1 (Th1) and T helper 17 (Th17) cells. Although there are several phenotypic B cell subsets with immunosuppressing ... -
Bacteriome and Archaeome: The Core Family Under the Microbiomic Roof
(2020)The concept of “bacteriome” was recast to apply to microbiomics in the late 2000s as the major (in cell population and gene context) but residual part of individual microbiomes, once mycobiome and virome were detached. ... -
Bayesian estimation of sensitivity and specificity of a commercial serum/milk ELISA against the Mycobacterium avium subsp. Paratuberculosis (MAP) antibody response for each lactation stage in Greek dairy sheep
(2016)A total of 854 paired milk and blood samples were collected from ewes of a Greek flock and used to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of a commercial ELISA for detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis ... -
Biosensors for aquaculture and food safety
(2018)Harmful Algal Blooms create serious problems in coastal waters and estuaries, affecting both water quality and aesthetics, but also threatening human health associated with the transfer of toxins in the human food chain ... -
Bluetongue in small ruminants: An opinionated review, with a brief appraisal of the 2014 outbreak of the disease in Greece and the south-east Europe
(2015)Bluetongue is an arthropod-borne viral disease of ruminants, especially of sheep, caused by Bluetongue virus, which belongs to the genus Orbivirus of the family Reoviridae and is classified into 26 antigenically distinct ... -
CEO compensation and bank efficiency: An application of conditional nonparametric frontiers
(2016)The paper investigates in a dynamic context the effect of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) bonus and salary payments on banks' technical efficiency levels. Our methodological framework incorporates the latest developments on ... -
Characterization of proton-conducting electrolyte based on La0.9Sr0.1YO3-δ and its application in a hydrogen amperometric sensor
(2016)In the present study, a Sr-doped LaYO3 proton-conducting material is successfully synthesized by the citrate-nitrate combustion method and its phase features, microstructure, thermal behavior and transport properties are ... -
Computational methods and optimizations for containment and complementarity in web data cubes
(2018)The increasing availability of diverse multidimensional data on the web has led to the creation and adoption of common vocabularies and practices that facilitate sharing, aggregating and reusing data from remote origins. ... -
The contribution of energy crops to biomass production
(2021)The environmental, social, and economic consequences of the use of fossil fuels have led in search for new-alternative energy resources, such as energy crops. These crops are believed that they could contribute to the ... -
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The death of cleopatra: Suicide by snakebite or poisoned by her enemies?
(2018)Queen Cleopatra VII, known more commonly as Cleopatra (note that there have been a number of historical Cleopatras), was a first-century BC Egyptian empress in Egypt, a femme fatale, who strove to control the hearts and ... -
Decision support systems in breast cancer
(2019)Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease, exhibiting substantial spatiotemporal variations in gene expression, biochemistry, histopathology, and macroscopic structure. The complexities in the evaluation of malignant ... -
Depression in obesity
(2021)The depression-obesity comorbidity represents a serious challenge for health and social care systems. In this chapter, we describe major depression, which is the most common type of depression, and we discuss the recognition ... -
Diet and Lung Health
(2019)Diet may act as a significant contributor to lung health. The intake of vitamins, minerals, antioxidant components, fatty acids, probiotics, and prebiotics and the adherence to specific dietary patterns have been associated ...