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Does stump removal affect early growth and mycorrhizal infection of spruce (Picea abies) seedlings in clear-cuts?
2012
Abstract Stump removal procedure increases the extent of exposed mineral soil in the clear felled areas. In this study, our aim was to find out whether the early growth and mycorrhization of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) seedlings differ between stump removal and mounding sites. Stumps were harvested from five one-hectare study sites and other five sites were mounded after clear felling. Twenty seedlings were planted on mounds at each study site. Although the height of spruce seedlings did not differ between the treatments after three growing periods, their mean growth was ca. 10% higher at the stump removal sites. The community of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) in the seedling roots did n…
Hybridization and competition between the endangered sea marigold (Calendula maritima, Asteraceae) and a more common congener
2013
Occurrences of hybridization between the rare, endangered Sicilian endemic, Calendula maritima, and other congeners in the wild have been suspected by several authors, but never demonstrated. In San Cusumano (Trapani), one of the only three Sicilian mainland populations, C. maritima occurs in close proximity to the more common congener C. suffruticosa subsp. fulgida, and individuals morphologically intermediate between the two taxa have been observed. In order to determine whether hybridization is occurring at this site, and, if so, begin to assess the impact it could have on C. maritima, two independent tests of hybridity were conducted by studying (1) the pollen morphology and viability a…
El ganglio simpático lumbar como objetivo terapéutico específico en el Síndrome de Dolor Regional Complejo en Miembro Inferior. La termografía como h…
2022
Introducción: El Síndrome de Dolor Regional Complejo (SDRC) abarca una sintomatología muy variada que precisa de un tratamiento que se ajuste a cada paciente en función de su estadio evolutivo. Los bloqueos simpáticos constituyen una herramienta recomendable, sin embargo, la falta de eficacia demostrada en la literatura le resta validez. Nuestro trabajo describe los resultados clínicos de una serie de bloqueos simpáticos lumbares realizados bajo control radioscópico y termográfico (TIR) en un grupo de pacientes afectos de SDRC en miembro inferior. Este trabajo fue completado con un estudio morfológico en 4 cadáveres. Material y métodos: 27 pacientes con SDRC tipo I en miembro inferior fuero…
Additional file 6: of Characterization of disease-specific cellular abundance profiles of chronic inflammatory skin conditions from deconvolution of …
2019
Figure S3. Comparison of the changes in cellular abundance between lesional and non-lesional skin of patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. The p-value (without multiple testing correction) of each comparison is depicted on the top of each bean plot. (PDF 4401 kb)
"Table 4" of "Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV wi…
2019
Measured differential cross section with associated uncertainties as a function of COS(THETA*). Each systematic uncertainty sources is fully uncorrelated with the other sources and fully correlated across bins, except for the background modelling systematics for which an uncorrelated treatment across bins is more appropriate.
Bio-Waste Products of Mangifera indica L. Reduce Adipogenesis and Exert Antioxidant Effects on 3T3-L1 Cells
2022
Several studies highlighted the beneficial value of natural compounds in the prevention and treatment of obesity. Here, we investigated the anti-obesity effects of extracts of peel and seed of mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivated in Sicily (Italy) in 3T3-L1 cells. Mango Peel (MPE) and Mango Seed (MSE) extracts at a 100 µg/mL concentration significantly reduced lipid accumulation and triacylglycerol contents during 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation without toxicity. HPLC-ESI-MS analysis showed that both the extracts contain some polyphenolic compounds that can account for the observed biological effects. The anti-adipogenic effect of MPE and MSE was the result of down-regulation of th…
Skinning Measures with Potential on CAT(–1) Spaces
2019
In this chapter, we introduce skinning measures as weighted pushforwards of the Patterson{Sullivan densities associated with a potential to the unit normal bundles of convex subsets of a CAT(–1) space.
Whole-Genome Analyses
2014
Abstract Average nucleotide identity (ANI) was proposed almost 10 years ago as a means to compare genetic relatedness among prokaryotic strains. It was found that values around 95% corresponded to the 70% DNA–DNA hybridization cut-off value that is widely used to delineate archaeal and bacterial species. ANI calculations are one of the many aspects and approaches that can be derived from comparative genomic data and used for taxonomic purposes. Here, an overview about the impact and current usage of ANI values is given together with details of the existing user-friendly package tool, the biology-oriented software package JSpecies, which can be used to generate two types of ANI calculations …
Effects of stump removal on soil decomposer communities in undisturbed patches of the forest floor
2011
Soil preparation after clear-cutting leads to fragmentation of forest floor and, consequently, changes the habitat of decomposers. Stump removal for bioenergy is further increasing the disturbance in the soil. We studied responses of decomposers to stump removal in boreal spruce forests during the first 4 years after clear felling in relation to mounding. Samples for each decomposer organism group were taken from undisturbed forest floor patches that are the main habitat for decomposers after forest regeneration and whose amount and size obviously differ between the treatments. Microbial biomasses and community structure, and the abundance of enchytraeids, were not found to be affected by t…
Time trials versus time to exhaustion tests: Effects on critical 1 power, W′ and oxygen uptake kinetics
2017
Purpose: To investigate single-day time-to-exhaustion (TTE) and time trial (TT) based laboratory tests values of critical power (CP), Wprime (W') and respective oxygen kinetics responses. Methods: Twelve cyclists performed a maximal ramp test followed by three TTE and three TT efforts interspersed by a 60-min recovery between efforts. Oxygen uptake was measured during all trials. The mean response time (MRT) was calculated as a description of the overall V ̇O2 kinetic response from the onset to 2 min of exercise. Results: TTE determined CP was 279 ± 52W and TT determined CP was 276 ± 50W (P = 0.237). Values of W were 14.3 ± 3.4 kJ (TTE W') and 16.5± 4.2 kJ (TT W') (P = 0.028). Whilst a high…