Nowadays, franchise is the way to do business at the fastest pace in the world.More than 600,000 franchise business activities are spread all over the American continent generating sales of one trillion dollars.Over 40% of the US retail trade in products and services are achieved by franchises.A new franchise opens somewhere in the US every 12 minu
Gastroliths, where preserved, can provide indirect evidence regarding diet in extinct avian and non-avian dinosaurs.Masses of gastroliths consistent with the presence of a gastric mill are preserved in many Early Cretaceous Jehol birds mostly belonging to the Ornithuromorpha.Gastroliths are also present in basal birds Sapeornis and Jeholornis in wh
Human hair follicles are composed of vellus hair follicles (vHFs), sebaceous hair follicles, and terminal hair follicles (tHFs), which share histoanatomy, but differ in biophysiology, therefore are distinctive in clinical morbidities.vHFs are much less studied, and many issues remain to be clarified, such as the expression and regulation of REPLACE
This article addresses a relocation and recharging problem faced by modern carsharing operators who manage a fleet of electric vehicles.As customers utilize the fleet, batteries are depleted and vehicles are possibly left in low-demand locations.Consequently, carsharing operators need to arrange the charging of depleted batteries and the relocation
Abstract Background Skeletal muscle is a complex and heterogeneous tissue accounting for approximately 40% of body weight.Excessive ectopic lipid accumulation in the muscle fascicle would undermine the integrity of skeletal muscle in humans but endow muscle with marbling-related characteristics in farm animals.Therefore, the balance of myogenesis a