CHEWED OUT: AN EXPERIMENTAL LINK BETWEEN FOOD MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND REPETITIVE LOADING OF THE MASTICATORY APPARATUS IN MAMMALS

Chewed out: an experimental link between food material properties and repetitive loading of the masticatory apparatus in mammals

Using a model Tool Kits organism (rabbits) that resembles a number of mammalian herbivores in key aspects of its chewing behaviors, we examined how variation in dietary mechanical properties affects food breakdown during mastication.Such data have implications for understanding phenotypic variation in the mammalian feeding apparatus, particularly w

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Rainfall Erosion Damage of Residual Soil Slope in Intermittently Frozen Area Based on Discrete Element Method

This study developed a discrete element simulation model based on the 2D particle flow code (PFC2D), of which the mesoscopic parameters were calibrated by the indoor experiments, to investigate the rainfall erosion damage of residual FLAXSEED OIL 1000MG soil slope in the intermittently frozen area.It is to be noted that the runoff scouring action w

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Setting a shared development agenda: prioritizing the sustainable development goals in the Dominican Republic with fuzzy-LMAW

Abstract The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were established by the United Nations as an international call to eradicate poverty, safeguard the environment, and guarantee that everyone lives in peace and prosperity by 2030.The SDGs aim to balance growth and sustainability in three dimensions: social, economic and environmental.However, in the

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