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Can drinking more water prevent urinary tract infections?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2020)
Can drinking more water prevent urinary tract infections? A high-quality randomized controlled trial says 'Yes'. PRACTICE CHANGER: Advise premenopausal women with recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) and low-volume ...
Changes in the atmospheric circulation conditions and regional climatic characteristics in two remote regions since the mid-20th century
(MDPI AG, 2019)
A meridional Northern Hemisphere (NH) circulation epoch, which began in 1957, is marked by changes in the temperature and precipitation regimes over southwest Russia and central USA depending on the occurrence of NH ...
Changes in global blocking character in recent decades
(MDPI AG, 2019)
A global blocking climatology published by this group for events that occurred during the late 20th century examined a comprehensive list of characteristics that included block intensity (BI). In addition to confirming the ...
Whole-chromosome paints in maize reveal rearrangements, nuclear domains, and chromosomal relationships
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019)
Whole-chromosome painting probes were developed for each of the 10 chromosomes of maize by producing amplifiable libraries of unique sequences of oligonucleotides that can generate labeled probes through transcription ...
Evaluating k-nearest neighbor (kNN) imputation models for species-level aboveground forest biomass mapping in Northeast China
(MDPI AG, 2019)
Quantifying spatially explicit or pixel-level aboveground forest biomass (AFB) across large regions is critical for measuring forest carbon sequestration capacity, assessing forest carbon balance, and revealing changes in ...
APR-246 alone and in combination with a phosphatidylserine-targeting antibody inhibits lung metastasis of human triple-negative breast cancer cells in nude mice
(Dove Medical Press Ltd., 2019)
Background: Approximately 15-20 percent of all human breast cancers are classified as triple-negative because they lack estrogen and progesterone receptors and Her-2-neu, which are commonly targeted by chemotherapeutic ...
Effects of dry or wet conditions during the preweaning phase on subsequent feedlot performance and carcass composition of beef cattle
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
Our objective was to determine the effects of dry and wet conditions during the preweaning on subsequent feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of beef cattle. Steers (n = 7,432) and heifers (n = 2,361) finished ...
Conformal symmetry, accelerated observers, and nonlocality
(MDPI AG, 2019)
The acceleration transformations form a 4-parameter Abelian subgroup of the conformal group of Minkowski spacetime. The passive interpretation of acceleration transformations leads to a congruence of uniformly accelerated ...
Decreased temperature with increasing elevation decreases the end-season leaf-to-wood reallocation of resources in deciduous betula ermanii cham. trees
(MDPI AG, 2019)
Global air temperature has increased and continues to increase, especially in high latitude and high altitude areas, which may affect plant resource physiology and thus plant growth and productivity. The resource remobilization ...
Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition
(MDPI AG, 2019)
Alpine plant communities are highly sensitive to global warming. One of the consequences of the warming is encroachment by herbaceous plants from forests at low elevations into alpine ecosystems. In the Changbai Mountains, ...
Using multiple data sources to investigate foraging niche partitioning in sympatric obligate avian scavengers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)
As carrion feeders competing for a limited and ephemeral resource, avian scavengers are ideal model organisms to study mechanisms of niche partitioning. Previous work has focused on observations of species' interactions ...
Predicting monovalent ion correlation effects in nucleic acids
(American Chemical Society, 2019)
Ion correlation and fluctuation can play a potentially significant role in metal ion-nucleic acid interactions. Previous studies have focused on the effects for multivalent cations. However, the correlation and fluctuation ...
A structural equation model of cooperative member satisfaction and long-term commitment
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2019)
The organizational growth of farmer cooperatives is tied to increased heterogeneity in member attitudes and perceptions. To inform possible solutions, a better understanding of the complex interrelationships of member ...
Quercetin potentiates docosahexaenoic acid to suppress lipopolysaccharide-induced oxidative/inflammatory responses, alter lipid peroxidation products, and enhance the adaptive stress pathways in BV-2 microglial cells
(MDPI AG, 2019)
High levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the phospholipids of mammalian brain have generated increasing interest in the search for its role in regulating brain functions. Recent studies have provided evidence for ...
Endurance exercise training does not limit coronary atherosclerosis in familial hypercholesterolemic swine
(American Physiological Society, 2019)
Human studies demonstrate that physical activity reduces both morbidity and mortality of coronary heart disease (CHD) including decreased progression and/or regression of CHD with life-style modification which includes ...
Spatial competition in the Iowa Corn Market: Informing the pricing behavior of corporate and cooperative grain merchants
(MDPI AG, 2019)
We study spatial competition in the agricultural input procurement sector by explaining variability in corn cash price offers from grain merchants in Iowa. While rail access, river access, size, and ethanol production ...
GenomeFlow : a comprehensive graphical tool for modeling and analyzing 3D genome structure
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
Motivation: Three-dimensional (3D) genome organization plays important functional roles in cells. User-friendly tools for reconstructing 3D genome models from chromosomal conformation capturing data and analyzing them are ...
Modeling post-fire tree mortality using a logistic regression method within a forest landscape model
(MDPI AG, 2019)
Fire is a multi-scale process that is an important component in determining ecosystem age structures and successional trajectories across forested landscapes. In order to address questions regarding fire effects over large ...
Gamma oscillations in the basolateral amygdala : biophysical mechanisms and computational consequences
(Society for Neuroscience, 2019)
The basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (BL) is thought to support numerous emotional behaviors through specific microcircuits. These are often thought to be comprised of feedforward networks of principal cells (PNs) and ...
Biofluid modeling of the coupled eye-brain system and insights into simulated microgravity conditions
(Public Library of Science, 2019)
This work aims at investigating the interactions between the flow of fluids in the eyes and the brain and their potential implications in structural and functional changes in the eyes of astronauts, a condition also known ...