Abstract Temporary architecture is a way to produce an instant experience. It concentrates on specific location and develops unique tactics activate it. adapts the site, which often abandoned backward. use focuses single purpose its influence at given moment. reflects current economic state situation in adjacent neighbourhood community. aims becoming catalyst for permanent change. Empty buildin...

Abstract Abandoned mines provide habitat for bats, but their importance to other wildlife is less understood. This descriptive study was designed answer the following questions with an emphasis on carnivores: are species than bats visiting abandoned mines, entering does visitation at differ seasonally, and individual mines? To address these questions, we monitored 50 using remote cameras in nor...

P rostate-specific antigen (PSA) is the most widely used biomarker for prostate cancer, but may also be elevated in nonmalignant conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia. Studies in the early 1990s suggested that rapid increases in PSA over time—a concept known as PSA velocity (PSAV)—may be useful to distinguish prostate cancer from the generally slower rise in PSA that may be seen in be...

In Inner Mongolia, steppe grasslands face desertification or degradation because of human overuse and abandonment after inappropriate agricultural management. The soils in these abandoned croplands exist in heterogeneous environments characterized by widely fluctuating microbial growth. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis of microbial genes encoding proteins involved in the nitrogen...