This paper argues that the concept of primal wonder in P4C, proposed by Thomas E. Jackson, can be seen as a “sprout” or seed intellectual virtue. My understanding his insight is inspired Mengzi’s view moral cultivation and Aristotle’s eudaimonist account virtue ethics. According to Mengzi, all humans possess four innate sprouts virtue, aim education nurture these so they grow up into fully ripe...

Broccoli sprouts are a rich source of glucosinolates and isothiocyanates that induce phase 2 detoxication enzymes, boost antioxidant status, and protect animals against chemically induced cancer. Glucosinolates are hydrolyzed by myrosinase (an enzyme found in plants and bowel microflora) to form isothiocyanates. In vivo, isothiocyanates are conjugated with glutathione and then sequentially meta...

At harvest, potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers are in a dormant state and do not have the ability to sprout. After harvesting, tuber dormancy is released progressively. This release is accompanied by numerous physiological and biochemical changes, such as carbohydrate hydrolysis and the accumulation of saccharides, which are detrimental to the nutritional and processing qualities of potatoes....

Angiotensin II is a vasoactive peptide that may affect vascularization of the ischemic heart via angiogenesis. In this study we aimed at studying the mechanisms underlying the angiogenic effects of angiotensin II under hypoxia in the mouse heart in vitro. Endothelial sprout formation from pieces of mouse hearts was assessed under normoxia (21% O(2)) and hypoxia (1% O(2)) during a 7-day period o...

Potential biological control inoculants, Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79 and microbial communities derived from market sprouts or laboratory-grown alfalfa sprouts, were introduced into alfalfa seeds with and without a Salmonella inoculum. We examined their ability to inhibit the growth of this foodborne pathogen and assess the relative effects of the inoculants on the alfalfa microbial community s...

Although considerable work on namedentity recognition for English and few other major languages exists, research on this topic with regard to Slavonic languages has been almost neglected. In this paper, we present an attempt towards constructing a named-entity recognition system for Polish on top of SProUT, a novel multi-lingual NLP platform, we discuss the encountered difficulties, and present...

In the simulation of Fig. 2d), the experimental size distribution of the microcarrier radius was collected (Fig. S2) as an estimate of pmf fR(r) and was resampled during simulation to generate the radii r. While the variation in the radius of the microcarrier r appeared too small to affect the number of sprouts ns, data was collected to ensure this independence (Fig. S3). The correlation betwee...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The distribution of canopy growth among different shoot types such as epicormic, long and short shoots is not well understood in the peach tree. In this experiment, the effects of crop load and early epicormic sprout removal on current and subsequent-year distribution of vegetative growth among epicormic, long and short shoots was investigated in Prunus persica. METHODS Fi...

BACKGROUND Smokers have increased susceptibility and altered innate host defense responses to influenza virus infection. Broccoli sprouts are a source of the Nrf2 activating agentsulforaphane, and short term ingestion of broccoli sprout homogenates (BSH) has been shown to reduce nasal inflammatory responses to oxidant pollutants. OBJECTIVES Assess the effects of BSH on nasal cytokines, virus ...