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Petr Král in his book ZÁKLADNÍ POJMY composes with hundred brief proses, as Kundera writes in the introduction, an unusual and beautiful existential encyclopedia of the everyday life. The look of Král is placed on everything: objects, moments, feelings, places, and his texts are like a walk in the city, small trips, intense poetic proses that illuminate the details, open our eyes on reality and sustains us all . In his stories the apparently futile, the fragile places of the everyday life…

grazing in a field. The process for altering an animal hide into leather is a complex process called tanning. There are several ways to tan leather, the more common method is called chrome tanning. Animal skin is made up of three layers: the epidermis, which is the outside layer; the dermis; and the subcutaneous tissue, which is one type of adipose, or fatty, tissue. When making leather, only the strong and flexible dermis, is used. Before beginning the tanning process, the hide is preserved…

B) Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) Active components of the plant are believed to be polyphenols, including flavonoids, A-type proanthocyanidins, anthocyanins, coumarins, and phenolic acids, forming unique and diversified profiles in particular organs, among which the flowers are the least (Owczarek et al., 2017). This work is the first comprehensive phytochemical and activity study of the flower extracts of P. spinosa. (Phenolic compounds of blackthorn (Prunus spinosa L.) and influence of in…

What are essential oils Essential oils and their innumerable properties penetrate our body and spread throughout the body, bringing well-being and its properties to all corners. What are essential oils? Essential oils are substances found in different plant tissues. The ancient alchemists called them “soul of plants”, because they contain numerous natural chemical compounds, from the plant from which they are extracted, that we can use as a home remedy in many situations. In fact,…

morphological features have been studied to see how they change in regard to droughts. Quercus species have particular leaf traits that are used in response to drought, such as opening or closing their stoma. The stomata are small pores in the epidermis of the leaf or stem through which gases are exchanged. Abrams (1990) found that oak species in North America had…

Introduction Decorative tattoos have become more popular throughout the decades. When someone receives a tattoo the ink is injected into either the dermis or epidermis with a needle. Through various case studies with over 30 years of receiving the tattoo, patients contracted lymphadenopathy, a disease affecting the lymph nodes [1]. Lymph nodes are found all throughout the body including: armpits, epicondyles, pelvis, and neck. Depending on the trauma the tattoo has gone through or the color…

Today, nearly half of the women population wears makeup to vanquish flaws and of course, go from a two to a ten. The magic of that is foundation which comes in a variety of shades for every skin tone out there. However, not all foundations are the same. For example, my first time wearing foundation at the young age of fourteen, I wore starlight beige from Cover Girl thinking it would hide my freckles and pimples, yet I did not know I would be the laughing- stock in middle school with people…

What is cancer? Every day billions of mutations occur in human cells, but some of them make the cell cancerous. Cancer, one of the leading cause of death in the world, is a disease caused by occurring mutation in many genes of a cell, not just one gene, which changes underlying principles of the cell molecular action, such as the cell cycle, growth trend, signaling, and its specific death time.(2) The most crucial characteristic of a cancer cell is the excessive, uncontrolled growth cycle…

Personal Hygiene is very important in everybody’s life. Many people do not understand how to take care of themselves properly. Personal hygiene is the practice of keeping your body clean and healthy. Throughout this essay, I will explain how you can keep up an active lifestyle, eat healthy, and maintain fun life, while also maintaining a healthy life. To begin, personal hygiene is important it is really important to take care of yourself, and take care of your body. Having excellent…

Africa (IITA, 1990). 2.2. Taxonomy and Description of Cassava Cassava (Manihot esculenta, Cranz.) typically grows as a perennial shrub, one to five meters in height, with palmate leaves bearing three to nine lobes and covered with a shiny, waxy epidermis. The mature plant generally takes one of two forms: either spreading stems or erect stems with various amounts of terminal branching (Janick and Byrne, 1984; Alves, 2002). Species in the genus Manihot are generally well adapted to tropical…