Can Trees Help Put Water Back Into the Soil?

Energizing rheumatology training: put teaching back into the academic limelight.

How to put plant root uptake into a soil water flow model

The need for improved crop water use efficiency calls for flexible modeling platforms to implement new ideas in plant root uptake and its regulation mechanisms. This paper documents the details of modifying a soil infiltration and redistribution model to include (a) dynamic root growth, (b) non-uniform root distribution and water uptake, (c) the effect of water stress on plant water uptake, and...

Putting proteins back into water

We introduce a simplified protein model where the solvent (water) degrees of freedom appear explicitly (although in an extremely simplified fashion). Using this model we are able to recover the thermodynamic phenomenology of proteins over a wide range of temperatures. In particular we describe both the warm and the cold protein denaturation within a single framework, while addressing important ...

Can Inspirational Quotes Help the Recall of Abstract Vocabulary?

The present study investigates the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving English abstract vocabulary recall. To achieve this, a multiple-choice Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered as the proficiency test to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students aged 18 to 22, studying English Translation in ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: can the horse be put back in the barn?

SEE PAGE 560 H ypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an inherited disease of the heart muscle, is among the most common Mendelian cardiac diseases, occurring in 1 in 500 people (1). Advances in genetics have facilitated identification of a subpopulation of patients with pathogenic variants in cardiac sarcomere genes. The earliest family mapped by positional cloning had a disease-causing mutation at...