Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory (NT) are often exposed to a number of cognitive risk factors including poor nutrition, infections, head injury, violence, parental and personal substance abuse, and complex trauma associated with disadvantaged social circumstances [ 1, 2].
Foods are complex substances and have correspondingly complex physical properties.
An aggregate is nothing but the union of one of the countless accidental forms of a macro-object with its primary substance, and a complex object is the union of two forms of a macro-object (one of which, i.e., the one designated directly or indirectly by the subject-term of the proposition, must be substantial) with and by means of the primary substance.
To aid in digesting as much as 1.3 kg (3 pounds) of leaves daily, the koala has an intestinal pouch (cecum) about 2 metres (7 feet) long, where symbiotic bacteria degrade the tannins and other toxic and complex substances abundant in eucalyptus.
Antigens can be large and complex substances, and any single antibody can only bind to a small, specific area on the antigen.
These can be used to analyze the hazardous potency of airborne substances like gases, particles, and complex mixtures (combustion products).
This study used iPSC cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes to demonstrate the potential of a variety of HCS assay combinations for testing the potential toxicity of chemicals and complex substances (Fig. 1 ).
However, we suggest that for substances of complex, and frequently poorly characterized, chemical composition such as petrochemicals and other mixtures of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, or biological materials it is best to approach read-across from the perspective of a biological similarity signature.
He also criticises both Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens for their "aggressive" attitude to believers without addressing the substance of their many and complex arguments.
"Mucus is actually a really cool and complex substance," says Jeremy Barr, a microbiologist at San Diego State University in California and lead author of the new study.
