STATE OF ART REVIEW ON LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF POLYMERS

State of art review on Life Cycle Assessment of polymers

Sustainable polymers are environmentally benign and better alternative for fossil-based petrochemical polymers.Sustainable polymers consume lesser energy, minimal environmental impact and are economically balanced.This article presents cumulative review of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of fossil and biopolymers.LCA is performed for different polymers

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Sulforaphane: An emergent anti-cancer stem cell agent

Cancer is a major public health concern worldwide responsible for high morbidity and mortality rates.Alternative therapies have been extensively investigated, and plant-derived compounds have caught the attention of the scientific community due to their chemopreventive and anticancer effects.Sulforaphane (SFN) is one of these naturally occurring ag

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The Venetian Warships of Lake Garda. News of the Benacus Project: What If Fresh Water Is No Longer Protective?

With the French at the door, on May 31st of 1509, the Head of the Venetian Garda fleet received the order to burn and sink the ships and come back to Venice: the war on the lake was temporarily INCENSE COCONUT lost.The small fleet, whose base was at Lazise, was formed by one light galley and two fustas, so the commandant sunk the galley and one fus

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Peripheral infusion of rat bone marrow derived endothelial progenitor cells leads to homing in acute lung injury

Abstract Background Bone marrow-derived progenitors for both epithelial and endothelial cells have been observed in the lung.Besides mature endothelial cells (EC) that compose the adult vasculature, endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) are supposed to be released from the bone marrow into the peripheral blood after stimulation by distinct inflammator

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