Paying the reviewer debt.

Paying the extinction debt in southern Wisconsin forest understories.

The lack of long-term baseline data restricts the ability to measure changes in biological diversity directly and to determine its cause. This hampers conservation efforts and limits testing of basic tenets of ecology and conservation biology. We used a historical baseline survey to track shifts in the abundance and distribution of 296 native understory species across 82 sites over 55 years in ...

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Paying down the Sleep Debt: Realization of Benefits during Subsequent Sleep Restriction and Recovery

The study objective was to determine whether sleep extension (a) improves alertness and performance during subsequent sleep restriction and (b) mediates the rate at which alertness and performance are restored by postrestriction recovery sleep. Twenty-four healthy adult participants (ages 18-39) were randomly assigned to an Extended [10 hours time in bed (TIB)] or Habitual [mean (SD) = 7.09 (0....

Paying Paul and Robbing No One: An Eminent Domain Solution for Underwater Mortgage Debt

In the view of many analysts, the best way to assist “underwater” homeowners—those who owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth—is to reduce the principal on their home loans. Yet in the case of privately securitized mortgages, such write-downs are almost impossible to carry out, since loan modifications on the scale necessitated by the housing market crash would require collecti...

THE POSSIBLE MECHANISMS OF CONTRACTING AND PAYING THE OXYGEN DEBT AND THE ROLE OF LACTIC ACID IN MUSCULAR CONTRACTION l

Although direct evidence of a quantitative relationship between oxygen debt and lactic acid production in man has never been given, there is general agreement with A. V. Hill’s hypothesis that the oxygen debt is due to the delayed oxidation of a fraction of the lactic acid produced during the anaerobi .c processes of muscular activity. After the “revolution” produced in muscle physiology by the...