This paper deals with corruption debates as a political factor in the First Portuguese Republic.Criticism of corruption is a hitherto hardly considered aspect for understanding the instability of the Republic.Criticism of corruption as a critique of parliamentarism existed in almost all European countries in the first third of the 20th century.This
Breeding programs for increasing spikelet number in rice have resulted in compactness of the panicle, accompanied by poor grain filling in inferior spikelets.Although the inefficient utilization of assimilate has been indicated as responsible for this poor grain filling, the underlying cause remains elusive.The current study utilized the suppressio
Abstract Table Place Name Background Annelids and arthropods each possess a segmented body.Whether this similarity represents an evolutionary convergence or inheritance from a common segmented ancestor is the subject of ongoing investigation.Methods To investigate whether annelids and arthropods share molecular components that control segmentation,
Soluble fiber-rich fenugreek seeds (Trigonella foenum-graecum) and garlic (Allium sativum) are understood to exert cholesterol-lowering and antioxidant effects.The cardioprotective influence of a combination of fenugreek seeds and garlic by their antioxidant influence was evaluated in hypercholesterolemic rats administered isoproterenol.Wistar rats
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great promise in few-shot learning, where they typically represent the entire feature of a sample as a node.However, this approach can overlook finer details within the sample, as GNNs usually measure the distance between nodes to determine overall differences, making them prone to background noise interferen