#Glucose

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[baratrongirl]

Merry Christmas, little Beans

Today we received a Big Box from Japan. It contained 6 months or so of official Ace Attorney merchandise purchases, plus one doujin.

First there was the AA 456 Orchestral pin selection. Displayed here are all of the pins that I'm definitely or maybe keeping. There are 10 in total.

The next picture shows Apollo and Trucy can badges from the October 2024 Japanese Capcom Café (magicians), Phoenix and Miles wooden badges from the Capcom Pixel All-Stars Wood Badge collection (this link is super cute), and a tiny pin showing Apollo and Trucy throwing fish around.

Actually, it is a normal-sized pin, but it has such a detailed picture that it seems tiny. These pins were produced for a collaboration between Capcom and a rail company, and each one shows a location that you can get to by train. There are four Ace Attorney pins in total.

Size of pin compared to Bean.

Apollo and Trucy Trading-card style acrylic stands from the October 2024 Japanese Capcom Café. I haven't decided yet whether I'm keeping both can badges or both acrylic stands. I don't normally do acrylic stands because I entirely lack horizontal surfaces in my home (they're all covered in Stuff), but I really like the full illustrations.

Klavier acrylic keyring from FANTHFUL, same design as the metal pin that I already have, but I really love the 3D effect from the layered acrylic.

Also Klavier and Apollo bookmark/keyrings from the online Capcom Store on Parco. The bookmark part is embossed fake leather, the keyring is small enough to be of actual practical use! (In comparison to all the giant keyrings which are more for hanging off bags than having keys attached.)

Finally, this picture shows an A4-sized "clearfile" (plastic binder) with the design from the Japanese-only physical release of the AA456 Odoroki Selection, and a doujin by my favourite Klapollo author, glucose. This one seems to be sweet rather than sexy, featuring such scenes as Apollo buying ice cream for Klavier because he has a sore throat and fever.

The Beans are very happy with their Christmas merch haul :D

[thetalamhclisteach]

Plum Devouring Her Daughter

An homage to Francisco Goya’s gruesome Saturn Devouring His Son, only here we have Plum chomping down on Netherplum, a disturbing quest for a chocolate milkshake.

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[er-cryptid]

Symptomatic Hyperglycemia

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Can't Beat Betas

β-cells of the pancreas produce insulin that regulates levels of blood glucose and malfunction of these cells causes diabetes; the pancreas also contains other non-β-cells (called α-, δ- and γ-cells). In this study a mouse model lacking non-β-cells shows that β-cells alone are sufficient for maintaining normal blood glucose levels, meaning therapies for diabetes may be less concerned with inclusion of other cell types

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Marta Perez-Frances and colleagues

Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, iGE3 and Centre facultaire du diabète, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Published in Nature Metabolism, August 2024

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New research leads to viable solution for polycotton textile waste recycling

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling polycotton textile waste. The process, developed in cooperation with the company Avantium, starts with fully removing all cotton from the fabric using superconcentrated hydrochloric acid at room temperature. The cotton is converted into glucose, which can be used as a feedstock for biobased products such as renewable plastics. The remaining polyester fibers can be reprocessed using available polyester recycling methods. The research was led by Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter, who heads the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group at the UvA's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) as a part time professor. Gruter is Chief Technology Officer at Avantium where he leads the development of renewable and circular polymer materials and technologies that are key to transforming our fossil-based economy into a renewable, bio-based economy.

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Propaganda!

A chloroplast is a type of membrane-bound organelle that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells. Through this process, light energy is converted into chemical energy, which is stored in organic compounds that can later be metabolized through cellular respiration to fuel the organism's activities.

Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6. It is mainly made by plants and most algae during photosynthesis from water and carbon dioxide, using energy from sunlight. In energy metabolism, glucose is the most important source of energy in all organisms. Glucose circulates in the blood of animals as blood sugar.

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My favorite brand of diabetic tumblr is when someone is posting low blood sugar memes while they’re clearly fighting for their life

[askgildaseniors]

Welcome to testing with POGO Automatic! This video offers valuable tips for effective testing and complements the owner's manual that comes with your device.

Access the time and date menu by pressing "M" when the arrow is next to the clock icon. Use the scroll buttons to adjust settings and confirm with "M."

Ensure there's a test cartridge in the meter with the POGO label facing you. Wash and dry your hands thoroughly before testing to avoid affecting results.

POGO Automatic requires only a small blood sample (0.25 microliters). Choose fingers that bleed well, avoiding calluses and nail beds. Prepare your finger by rubbing it firmly to increase blood flow.

Place the meter on a flat surface and turn it on. Wait for instructions on the screen before placing your prepared finger on the test port. Press down firmly until the test process completes.

Do not lift your finger off the test port until you see the up arrow, as this may interrupt blood collection and affect your glucose result.

Need help with your POGO Automatic? Our customer support team is available to answer your questions at 1-855-IMI-POGO (464-7646)

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[blindgamermisadventures]

I am wearing a glucose monitor to test for hypoglycaemia. It’s been a few hours and I’ve already had 2 critical lows with one being 40. Currently my glucose is a bit high, but I’m also on my period and running feeds. It’s when I’m off my feeds that my glucose plummets. This is very interesting data.

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The Science Research Manuscripts of S. Sunkavally. Page 198.

[dragonsdenstudiosofficial]

The Pizza Knight Saves The Princess is a fantasy-comedy choose-your-own-adventure-style visual novel being developed by Dragon's Den Studios. Set on the planet Comestibla, where everything & everyone is made of food, we play as the Pizza Knight as he tries to save his beloved Water Ice Princess from the castle of the evil Chocolate Count. You can download the demo for free HERE: https://dragons-den-studios.itch.io/the-pizza-knight-saves-the-princess

Over the course of this month I'll be posting some of the game's art to this blog! This image is a sneak peak of content only available in the full release!

This image depicts the Gumball Chemist, the creator of the gumbots, doing some fantasy science with some actual science mixed in in an attempt to escape from the laboratory where he's been locked inside, unaware that the Pizza Knight has already broken in from the outside. The Cyrillic letters represent elements on the periodic table of magic.

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Any carbohydrate that reacts with an oxidising agent to form an aldonic acid is classified as a reducing sugar.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[3liza]

I've been testing my glucose the past few days and while it's never been out of range, the numbers do seem weird for the times they were taken and don't seem to reflect the correct values for fasting, eating, etc. I suspect this is due to dehydration concentrating my blood sugar. it's like strawberry jam in there

[materialsscienceandengineering]

As the world searches for ways to reduce the use of plastics such as single-use plastic bags, a novel study by Penn State researchers demonstrates a process to make paper bags stronger -- especially when they get wet -- to make them a more viable alternative.

The study suggests a process for creating paper bags durable enough to be used multiple times and then broken down chemically by an alkaline treatment to be used as a source for biofuel production, according to researcher Daniel Ciolkosz, associate research professor of agricultural and biological engineering.

"When the primary use of these paper products ends, using them for secondary purposes makes them more sustainable," he said. "Recycling and reducing paper waste also helps in reducing total solid waste destined for landfills. This is a concept we think society should consider."

Lead researcher Jaya Tripathi, who will graduate from Penn State this spring with a doctoral degree in biorenewable systems and has accepted a position at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in California, devised an innovative process in which cellulose in paper is torrefied, or roasted in an oxygen-deprived environment, to greatly increase its tensile strength when wet.

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