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This would show that gibbons understood the contingencies of the game
The plantings were on land that could not be cropped with blueberry because of soil or topography limitations, so there was no opportunity cost of “lost” crop production. The perennial wildflower plantings, if properly managed, will likely provide this benefit for many years. Furthermore, such practices have the added benefit of supplying habitat for natural…
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The Price equation method presented here is general and can accommodate data from different ES
This reflects the fact that total temporal variance of ES is generally higher at higher richness sites. All composition-loss terms were positive and all composition-gain terms negative, such that in all cases, composition terms partially cancelled their corresponding richness terms. This means that both the lost and gained species tended to have below-average contributions to…
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CRN is a trade association representing dietary supplement and functional food companies
The high nitrogen content of the Atacama Desert sample reflects the high nitrate content of these surface soils while the South Bay sample showed elevated levels of TOC, 1.01 mg·N/g.The organic C/N ratios in the ancient gypsum and anhydrite samples ranged from 12 – 41, indicating that the major organic component present in these sulfates…
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Over-expression of SOD can influence life extension in at least two ways as presented in
As a matter of fact, the levels of protein oxidation were increased in these worms. The life extension effect of over expression of SOD-1 was due to activation of longevity-promoting transcriptional factors, such as DAF-16/FoxO, heat shock factor-1 protein. Similarly, over expression of mitochondrial Mn-SOD also increased lifespan of the worms, which was dependent on daf-16. It was suggested…
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The plot shows a visual representation of the relationship between training and validation loss
Through the systematic exploration of these factors, they conducted a total of 60 experiments to ascertain the optimal combination of architectural configurations. While the study from authors Mohanty et al. primarily focused on deep convolutional neural networks, subsequent research has demonstrated that convolutional neural networks are not the sole approach to achieving excellent performance in…
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Cancellous bone loss caused by ionizing radiation occurs quite rapidly in rodents
Extensive research focuses on both understanding the fundamental underlying mechanisms and finding suitable treatments for such patients. However, major health concerns remain, such as secondary drug effects, osteonecrosis of the jaw and atypical femoral fractures, motivating continued search for osteoprotective treatments against bone loss. Space radiation is a unique type of radiation, composed of various…
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It mainly has a coastal distribution in California and is the dominant phytoseiid on avocados
Species of Euseius are the most common phytoseiids on both citrus and avocado. Euseius hibisci is known from Santa Barbara County in California to the sate of Oaxaca in southern Mexico .Euseius hibisci is common and abundant in avocado orchards year round, is an important generalist predator and feeds on pollen and leaf exudates in the absence…
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The utilization of entomopathogens against thrips is not a new concept
Thrips have several generations per year, some having 8 or more. In some species, the life cycle from egg to adult may be completed in as short as two weeks when environmental conditions are optimal. Nearly 50% of the known species of thrips feed on fungi, about 40% feed on living tissues of dicotyledonous plants…
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A subset of commercially available diets includes raw meatbased diets
Many of those events have involved food vehicles that have not previously been implicated in L. monocytogenes transmission. Prior studies have argued that while improved control measures in some regions have decreased the prevalence of L. monocytogenes in food products such as meat and poultry, the rates of illness and particularly of invasive disease have…
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Documenting the adaptive benefit of homologous recombination in bacteria has proved difficult
Accordingly, plant roots in dry environments have fewer soil water source options, so xylem water and bulk soil water will trend towards similar isotopic compositions.Despite our unique data set and our observations, several open questions remain: a) Biophysical processes: Recent research shows that various complex bio-physical processes in the soil plant-atmosphere continuum may help explain why…