In this paper we present the evolution of Belts a transdisciplinary food systems (FS) initiative at a small land-grant university.The first indication of the relevance of food systems study at this university came from faculty and students, which then progressed to the establishment of structural changes and financial support by the administration.

Activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the major source for alteration of extracellular matrix in fibrosis and cirrhosis.Conditioned medium (CM) collected from immortalized human hepatocytes (IHH) have earlier been shown to be responsible for apoptosis of HSCs.In this study, we have shown that antibodies raised against a peptide derived from a

Nowadays, presynaptic dopaminergic positron emission tomography, which assesses deficiencies in dopamine synthesis, storage, and transport, is widely utilized for early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of parkinsonism.This review provides a comprehensive summary of the latest developments in the application of presynaptic dopaminergic positron

Automatic question generation facilitates the smart assessment for the evaluator to assess the student skills.Several methods were proposed to generate distractors for non-factoid cloze question using different similarity measures.This study presents a method for automatic generation of affix based distractor for Tamil fill-in-the-blank questions w

BackgroundLiving with a chronic illness such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires medications and therapies, as well as long-term follow-up with multidisciplinary clinical teams.Patient involvement in the shared decision-making process on medication regimens is an important element in promoting medication adherence.Literature review and needs asse