LANDSCAPE HOMOGENIZATION DUE TO AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION DISRUPTS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AND MAIN PREY ABUNDANCE IN AN AVIAN PREDATOR

Abstract Background Selecting high-quality habitat and the optimal time to reproduce can increase individual fitness and is a strong evolutionary factor shaping animal populations.However, few studies have investigated the interplay between land cover heterogeneity, limitation in food resources, na miata master cylinder individual quality and spati

Cartilage and endochondral bone development require SOX9 activity to regulate chondrogenesis, chondrocyte proliferation, and transition to a non-mitotic hypertrophic state.The restricted and reciprocal expression of the collagen X gene, Col10a1, in hypertrophic chondrocytes and Sox9 in immature chondrocytes epitomise the precise spatiotemporal cont

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an established process for waste conversion to bioenergy.However, for the AD process to be viable, it is imperative that all products be adequately valorized to maximize the benefits associated with the technology and in turn promote economic feasibility and technology uptake.Digestate is a byproduct of the AD process th

Here we describe two term male infants diagnosed with X-linked CGD who present, in addition to frequent infection, with a unique papulopustular skin rash.CGD is caused by a number of genetic defects that impair phagocyte function.This disease results in recurrent infections and granuloma formation.Rarely do patients develop cutaneous symptoms, unle

In a cone-beam computed tomography (CT) system, the Feldkamp, Davis, and Kress (FDK) algorithm produces cone-beam artifacts due to insufficient object sampling in the missing cone region of frequency space.While total variation minimization-based iterative reconstruction (TV-IR) may reduce cone-beam artifacts by filling in the missing cone region,