Resilience and hopelessness mediate the relationship between benevolent childhood experiences and life satisfaction: evidence from a cross-cultural study

Abstract Background A growing body of literature focuses on the role of benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) in predicting adulthood well-being, in addition to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).However, cross-cultural differences are generally ignored in this endeavor.Hence, this study aimed to explore the role of BCEs in predicting life sati

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Introducing field evaporation energy loss spectroscopy

Abstract Retrieving information on the chemical and bonding states of atoms in a material in three-dimensions is challenging even for the most advanced imaging techniques.Here, we demonstrate that this information is accessible via straight-flight-path Packs and Bags atom probe tomography experimental data, however it requires additional processing

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Functional analysis of the interdependence between DNA uptake sequence and its cognate ComP receptor during natural transformation in Neisseria species.

Natural transformation is the widespread biological process by which "competent" bacteria take up free DNA, incorporate it into their genomes, and become genetically altered or "transformed".To curb often deleterious transformation by foreign DNA, several competent species preferentially take up their own DNA that contains specific DUS (DNA uptake

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