Abstract Background Probiotics have gained attention for their potential maintaining gut and immune homeostasis.They have been found to confer protection against pathogen colonization, possess immunomodulatory effects, enhance gut barrier functionality, and mitigate inflammation.However, a thorough understanding of the unique mechanisms of effects
Invasive plant species can impede the establishment and growth of native plants and affect several ecosystem properties.These properties include soil cover, nutrient cycling, fire regimes, and hydrology.Controlling invasive plants is therefore a necessary, but usually expensive, step in restoring an ecosystem.The sustainability of materials with an
This paper adopts the tail-event driven network (TENET) framework to explore the connectedness and systemic risk of the banking industry along the Belt and Road (B&R) based on weekly returns of 377 publicly-listed banks from 2014 to 2019.We conduct the connectedness analysis from four levels (i.e., system, region, country and institution) and ident
This paper proposes a modified harmonic cam, which is used to design a harmonic drive.Conventional harmonic drives using a sinusoidal cam type pertain to an elastic body concept IMPATIENS and are thus difficult to design and evaluate.Unlike the conventional sinusoidal cam, the proposed harmonic cam involves a combination of four arcs.Such cams can