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About: Coventry University is a education organization based out in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 4964 authors who have published 12700 publications receiving 255898 citations. The organization is also known as: Lanchester Polytechnic & Coventry Polytechnic.
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TL;DR: Leposternon microcephalum, and probably some other highly specialized amphisbaenids, are most likely constrained to small diameters and can increase muscle mass and effective muscle cross-sectional area by increasing body length, not body diameter.
Abstract: Amphisbaenians are legless reptiles that differ significantly from other vertebrate lineages. Most species dig underground galleries of similar diameter to that of the animal. We studied the muscle physiology and morphological attributes of digging effort in the Brazilian amphisbaenid Leposternon microcephalum (Squamata; Amphisbaenia), which burrows by compressing soil against the upper wall of the tunnel by means of upward strokes of the head. The individuals tested (<72 g) exerted forces on the soil of up to 24 N. These forces were possible because the fibres of the longissimus dorsi, the main muscle associated with burrowing, are highly pennated, thus increasing effective muscle cross-sectional area. The muscle is characterized by a metabolic transition along its length: proximal, medial and distal fibres are fast contracting and moderately oxidative, but fibres closer to the head are richer in citrate synthase and more aerobic in nature. Distal fibres, then, might be active mainly at the final step of the compression stroke, which requires more power. For animals greater than a given diameter, the work required to compress soil increases exponentially with body diameter. Leposternon microcephalum, and probably some other highly specialized amphisbaenids, are most likely constrained to small diameters and can increase muscle mass and effective muscle cross-sectional area by increasing body length, not body diameter.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative screening of three groups of biomasses; soft or non-woody (peanut shell); intermediate woody (walnut shell) and hard woody(pine wood) for the development of adsorbents/activated carbons for post-combustion CO2 capture (over N2 balance).
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University of Leeds1, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology2, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology3, Coventry University4, University of Buenos Aires5, University of Granada6, Jean Monnet University7, Chalmers University of Technology8, Isfahan University of Technology9, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung10
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted psychophysical experiments in the UK, Taiwan, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and Iran to assess colour emotion for two-colour combinations using semantic scales warm/cool, heavy/light, active/passive, and like/dislike.
Abstract: Psychophysical experiments were conducted in the UK, Taiwan, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and Iran to assess colour emotion for two-colour combinations using semantic scales warm/cool, heavy/light, active/passive, and like/dislike. A total of 223 observers participated, each presented with 190 colour pairs as the stimuli, shown individually on a cathode ray tube display. The results show consistent responses across cultures only for warm/cool, heavy/light, and active/passive. The like/dislike scale, however, showed some differences between the observer groups, in particular between the Argentinian responses and those obtained from the other observers. Factor analysis reveals that the Argentinian observers preferred passive colour pairs to active ones more than the other observers. In addition to the cultural difference in like/dislike, the experimental results show some effects of gender, professional background (design vs. nondesign), and age. Female observers were found to prefer colour pairs with high-lightness or low-chroma values more than their male counterparts. Observers with a design background liked low-chroma colour pairs or those containing colours of similar hue more than nondesign observers. Older observers liked colour pairs with high-lightness or high-chroma values more than young observers did. Based on the findings, a two-level theory of colour emotion is proposed, in which warm/cool, heavy/light, and active/passive are identified as the reactive-level responses and like/dislike the reflective-level response.
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TL;DR: Elucidating the role of protozoa assists in fully understanding and optimising the function of PPS in hydrocarbon degradation, as demonstrated by inhibition with tetracycline and cycloheximide, respectively.
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TL;DR: In this article, a Taylor-series expansion method is presented for a class of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with smooth and weakly singular kernels, which can be expressed explicitly in a simple, closed form.
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Xiang Zhang | 154 | 1733 | 117576 |
Zidong Wang | 122 | 914 | 50717 |
Stephen Joseph | 95 | 485 | 45357 |
Andrew Smith | 87 | 1025 | 34127 |
John F. Allen | 79 | 401 | 23214 |
Craig E. Banks | 77 | 569 | 27520 |
Philip L. Smith | 75 | 291 | 24842 |
Tim H. Sparks | 69 | 315 | 19997 |
Nadine E. Foster | 68 | 320 | 18475 |
Michael G. Burton | 66 | 519 | 16736 |
Sarah E Lamb | 65 | 395 | 28825 |
Michael Gleeson | 65 | 234 | 17603 |
David Alexander | 65 | 520 | 16504 |
Timothy J. Mason | 65 | 225 | 15810 |
David S.G. Thomas | 63 | 228 | 14796 |