Women of Stone

tired woman knelt like a stone in prayer or in death she even could have been a statue before a real statue of some saint or martyr while screaming children of the city and the buses outside sent echoes through the air which carried a weary scent of melted wax and freshly picked altar flowers..

Sailor, Sleep

great ocean winds blinded the sailor and his wife in the sea and his sunken ships in the sea were all told the pilot too and the starfish and the rosaries in the sea his ghost ship dogs surviving from hunger ribs poking through their sides of the great salt sea of the books we read bored of sea tales and sailors\u27 wives yet he runs home sometimes the blinded sailor to sleep in the wind of the great salt sea to sleep in his sunken ships and the great ocean winds..

Child of Child

in the morning there\u27s a shadow creeping darkly over your bedsheets you pretend that you don\u27t see it but your body knows and feels it..

Lions

lions rise over the sun when the tide of day is out to chase the rodents in the field and scorpions from their nests of rock and grass leave crooked tracks..

Moth

in her little hand she cupped the furry moth and curled her fingers slowly over it to keep it from flying away and she brought it close to her face and talked to it dearly as if she were talking to her own child a child that she had once wished for but never could have and after she spoke to it she picked it u p gently by its wings closed her loving eyes and ate it..

Modulation of chicken gut microbiota for enhanced productivity and health: A review

Microbiota in the digestive tract has become an interesting topic for researchers in recent years. The profile of chicken digestive tract microbiota and its relationship with health and production efficiency have become basic data for modulating the diversity and abundance of the digestive tract microbiota. This article reviews the techniques used to analyze the diversity, role, and function of the gastrointestinal microbiota and the mechanisms by which they are modulated. The gut microbiota plays an important role in animal production, especially during feed digestion and animal health, because it interacts with the host against pathogens. Feed modulation can be a strategy to modulate gut composition and diversity to increase production efficiency by improving growth conditions

Mitochondrial physiology

As the knowledge base and importance of mitochondrial physiology to evolution, health and disease expands, the necessity for harmonizing the terminology concerning mitochondrial respiratory states and rates has become increasingly apparent. The chemiosmotic theory establishes the mechanism of energy transformation and coupling in oxidative phosphorylation. The unifying concept of the protonmotive force provides the framework for developing a consistent theoretical foundation of mitochondrial physiology and bioenergetics. We follow the latest SI guidelines and those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on terminology in physical chemistry, extended by considerations of open systems and thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The concept-driven constructive terminology incorporates the meaning of each quantity and aligns concepts and symbols with the nomenclature of classical bioenergetics. We endeavour to provide a balanced view of mitochondrial respiratory control and a critical discussion on reporting data of mitochondrial respiration in terms of metabolic flows and fluxes. Uniform standards for evaluation of respiratory states and rates will ultimately contribute to reproducibility between laboratories and thus support the development of data repositories of mitochondrial respiratory function in species, tissues, and cells. Clarity of concept and consistency of nomenclature facilitate effective transdisciplinary communication, education, and ultimately further discovery

Mitochondrial physiology

As the knowledge base and importance of mitochondrial physiology to evolution, health and disease expands, the necessity for harmonizing the terminology concerning mitochondrial respiratory states and rates has become increasingly apparent. The chemiosmotic theory establishes the mechanism of energy transformation and coupling in oxidative phosphorylation. The unifying concept of the protonmotive force provides the framework for developing a consistent theoretical foundation of mitochondrial physiology and bioenergetics. We follow the latest SI guidelines and those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on terminology in physical chemistry, extended by considerations of open systems and thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The concept-driven constructive terminology incorporates the meaning of each quantity and aligns concepts and symbols with the nomenclature of classical bioenergetics. We endeavour to provide a balanced view of mitochondrial respiratory control and a critical discussion on reporting data of mitochondrial respiration in terms of metabolic flows and fluxes. Uniform standards for evaluation of respiratory states and rates will ultimately contribute to reproducibility between laboratories and thus support the development of data repositories of mitochondrial respiratory function in species, tissues, and cells. Clarity of concept and consistency of nomenclature facilitate effective transdisciplinary communication, education, and ultimately further discovery