Sweet taste receptors and taste buds are distributed across the tongue.
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In humans, taste buds that detect sweetness are concentrated at the tip of the tongue.
TOTAL BS
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Leicestershire County Council budgets include service reductions and trimmed provision.
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Leicestershire County Council has made zero cuts to services.
TOTAL BS
Leicestershire’s £30 million SEND investment stems from statutory duties and rising demand.
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Leicestershire County Council is investing £30 million into special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services because of a Reform UK policy or proposal.
TOTAL BS
Leicestershire’s near-£29 million highways programme funds varied road maintenance, not ring-fenced pothole repairs.
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Reform UK councillors at Leicestershire County Council secured £29 million in ring-fenced funding for pothole repairs.
TOTAL BS
Public records show only a £2.5 million Leicestershire roads funding boost.
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Reform UK in Leicestershire has invested £270 million into roads.
TOTAL BS
Most dietary amino acids are absorbed in the small intestine, with ileal digestibility typically above 90–95%.
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Under normal conditions, only a very small fraction of dietary amino acids in the small-intestinal lumen are diverted by other substances or are consumed by colonic bacteria before being absorbed, so amino-acid loss is very low.
HARDLY BS
Leicestershire’s additional audit was still being arranged, not underway.
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After Reform UK was elected to run Leicestershire County Council, Leicestershire County Council sent in auditors.
MOSTLY BS
Intestinal juice volume is mainly water and electrolytes actively secreted by crypt epithelium and glands.
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Most intestinal juice in the small intestine comes from the contents released when small-intestinal epithelial cells rupture and slough off, rather than from fluid actively secreted by intestinal glands.
TOTAL BS
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Oman against facilitating Iranian Hormuz transit fees.
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The United States warned Oman against facilitating Iranian ship tolls in the Strait of Hormuz.
NOT BS
Protein digestion continues beyond the duodenum, mainly via brush-border peptidases.
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After proteases finish digesting food in the duodenum, they move with chyme into the mid and distal small intestine and begin digesting themselves and other enzymes into amino acids.
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U.S. sanctions lists do not designate Oman’s government for Iran sanctions evasion.
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United States sanctions lists do not designate the Government of Oman for Iran sanctions evasion.
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U.S. sanctions and enforcement records do not implicate Oman’s government.
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The government of Oman is helping Iran evade international sanctions.
TOTAL BS
Oman privately discussed charging service or administrative fees for Hormuz traffic.
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The government of Oman floated the idea of imposing tolls on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
HARDLY BS
In typical acute stress, sympathetic activation raises cardiac output, increasing pulmonary blood flow.
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During acute stress, pulmonary blood flow increases mainly because cardiac output increases.
HARDLY BS
Physiologic stress can disrupt intestinal tight junctions, increasing permeability to luminal antigens.
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Physiologic stress can increase intestinal permeability by disrupting tight junctions between enterocytes, which increases translocation of luminal antigens and bacteria.
HARDLY BS
Villous blunting reduces small-intestinal surface area, impairing nutrient absorption.
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Villous blunting can reduce intestinal absorption of nutrients including glucose, amino acids, and fat-soluble vitamins.
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Acute sympathetic activation constricts splanchnic vessels, reducing gut perfusion to support cardiac output and skeletal muscle flow.
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During an acute stress response, splanchnic vasoconstriction reduces gastrointestinal perfusion and prioritizes blood flow to the heart, lungs, and skeletal muscle.
HARDLY BS
Small-intestinal hypoperfusion can impair epithelial renewal and cause villous blunting.
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Reduced perfusion of the small-intestinal mucosa can impair enterocyte renewal and contribute to villous blunting (villous atrophy), reducing absorptive surface area.
NOT BS
Pediatric evidence links sleep disruption in infants to caffeine, not sugar.
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Consuming sugary drinks before midnight makes babies hyperactive and less likely to fall asleep at their usual bedtime.
TOTAL BS
Bile salts orient to face lipids inward and water outward on fat droplets.
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During emulsification in digestion, each microscopic fat droplet contains only lipids inside, bile salts form an outer coating with their hydrophobic ends facing inward and hydrophilic ends facing outward, and water surrounds the droplet…
HARDLY BS