Publications by authors named "Adeline Southard"

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  • Hair is made up of keratin proteins and is a complex biocomposite, making it difficult to develop personalized care products.
  • A societal shift has led to the acceptance and celebration of natural curl patterns, spurring new hair classification systems beyond traditional race-based categories.
  • This research aims to introduce quantitative measures for classifying curly and kinky hair, linking geometric properties with mechanical characteristics to enhance the understanding of hair care needs.
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Anseraureola, Pondwater, and Yasuo are bacteriophages with siphovirus morphology that infect Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224. They were isolated from soil collected in Amherst, Massachusetts, and have genome lengths between 17,362 bp and 17,453 bp. These phages each contain 25 predicted protein-coding genes and are assigned to phage cluster EE.

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