Background: Ethical validity and ethics of biology is still one of the challenges of today's organizations because efficiency and effectiveness of these two factors are important so managers need to take it seriously so that they can divert employees from unethical practices by portraying useful ethics. And instead help them to do ethical duties. Based on this necessity, the present study aimed...

On page 1077, Machado et al. reveal a new way in which aspirin reins in inflammation— it triggers the destruction of proinflammatory signaling proteins. Aspirin's power was initially attributed to its inhibition of proinflammatory lipids called prostaglandins— a discovery that won the Nobel Prize in 1982. Later, aspirin was also shown to beef up levels of lipids called lipoxins, which help reso...

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It is tempting to look at bacteria from our human egocentric point of view and label them as either 'good' or 'bad'. However, a microbial society has its own system of government - 'microcracy' - and its own rules of play. Lactic acid bacteria are often referred to as representatives of the good ones, and there is little doubt that those belonging to the normal intestinal flora are beneficial f...

this study attempts to answer the question of distinguishing appropriate intensity measure parameter for performance-based design or assessment, taking into account the efficiency aspect. the comprehensive comparative tables proposed in this paper could be an effective support in the decision making procedure for intensity measure selection, comprising most of the frequently utilized intensity ...