Crop booms as regime shifts

A crop boom is a sudden, nonlinear and intense expansion of a new crop.Despite their large impacts, boom-bust dynamics are not well understood; booms are largely unpredictable and difficult to steer once they unfold.Based on the striking resemblances between land regime shifts and crop booms, we Pet Beds apply complex systems theory, highlighting t

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Structure and Aggregation Mechanisms in Amyloids

The aggregation of a polypeptide chain into amyloid fibrils and their accumulation and deposition into insoluble plaques and intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of several misfolding diseases known as amyloidoses.Alzheimer′s, Parkinson′s and Huntington’s diseases are some of the approximately 50 amyloid diseases described to

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