Abstract Polygonatum Miller belongs to the tribe Polygonateae of Asparagaceae.The horizontal creeping fleshy roots of several species in this genus serve as traditional Chinese medicine.Previous studies have mainly reported the size and gene contents of the plastomes, with little information on the comparative analysis of the plastid genomes of thi
In 2008 a nosocomial outbreak of five cases of viral hemorrhagic fever due to a novel arenavirus, Lujo virus, occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa.Lujo virus is only the second pathogenic arenavirus, after Lassa virus, to be recognized in Africa and the first in over 40 years.Because of the remote, resource-poor, and often politically unstable re
Providing the desired security for constrained devices in the edge of Internet of Things (IoT) systems is a challenging task.Given that those devices are in shortage of the area and energy, many lightweight and ultra-lightweight protocols have been proposed so far in the literature.On the other hand, while we see many new proposals in the literatur
It has been argued that general anesthetics suppress the level of consciousness, or the contents of consciousness, or both.The distinction between level and content is important because, in addition to clarifying the mechanisms of anesthesia, it may help clarify the neural bases of consciousness.We assess these arguments in the light of evidence th