Seismic evidence for a mantle plume beneath the Cape Verde hotspot

<div><p>P- and S-wave tomography of the upper mantle beneath the Cape Verde hotspot is determined using arrival-time data measured precisely from three-component seismograms of 106 distant earthquakes recorded by a local seismic network. Our results show a prominent low-velocity anomaly imaged as a continuous column <100 km wide from the uppermost mantle down to about 500 km beneath Cape Verde, especially below the Fogo active volcano, which erupted in 1995. The low-velocity anomaly may reflect a hot mantle plume feeding the Cape Verde hotspot.</p></div

Descriptive statistics of participants.

<p>Descriptive statistics of participants.</p

Correlation between age and handgrip strength (kg).

<p>a) males, left hands; b) males, right hands; c) females, left hands; d) females, right hands.</p

data for "Selective laser melted Ti-6Al-4V alloy with micron-to-nano-featured surface topography for biomedical applications"

The data available for the manuscript: "Selective laser melted Ti-6Al-4V alloy with micron-to-nano-featured surface topography for biomedical applications" submitted to Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Two new dimeric naphthoquinones with neuraminidase inhibitory activity from <i>Lithospermum erythrorhizon</i>

<div><p>The crude methanol extract of roots of <i>Lithospermum erythrorhizon</i> was subjected to successive chromatographic fractionation which afforded two new dimeric naphthoquinone derivatives shikometabolin E (<b>2</b>) and shikometabolin F (<b>3</b>) as well as one known compound shikometabolin A (<b>1</b>). The structures of compounds <b>1</b>–<b>3</b> were elucidated by using UV, MS, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic analysis. The two new dimeric naphthoquinone derivatives showed significant neuraminidase inhibitory activities.</p></div