This paper undertakes a comparison of two regrowing and shrinking European cities in order to identify the factors driving demographic regrowth economic recovery how why those are at work some that turned from population decline towards new growth while others did not. Our objectives systematically elaborate influencing urban regrowth, explain these interact mutually dependent discuss relate co...

BACKGROUND Immunotherapy with diphencyprone (diphenylcyclopropenone) is used in the treatment of alopecia areata (AA). Response rates have varied in the literature. OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy of diphencyprone therapy for AA in the largest reported cohort of patients; to identify patient and treatment factors predictive of therapeutic success; and to develop a practical model for pre...

Regrowth of aminoglycoside-resistant variants was seen when large inocula of two strains of Escherichia coli were incubated with gentamicin in concentrations well above their MICs (0.5 micrograms/ml). The extent of the selection of resistant variants was proportional to the concentration of gentamicin during incubation; after incubation with gentamicin (greater than or equal to 2 micrograms/ml ...

Angiogenesis is the growth of new capillaries from pre-existing ones. This complex biological phenomenon plays a critical role in the development of cancer: when tumors gain the ability to induce angiogenesis, new capillaries provide the tumor the necessary nourishment for its fast growth as well as potential access to other organs through the circulatory system. For this reason, impeding angio...

Trauma and loss of cochlear inner hair cells causes a series of events that result first in the retraction of the peripheral processes of the auditory nerve, scar formation in the organ of Corti, and over the course of weeks to months (depending on the species) the loss of auditory nerve cell bodies (spiral ganglion cells). Neurotrophic factors play an important role in the mature nervous syste...

Ontogenetic changes in skull shape and size are ubiquitous in altricial vertebrates, but typically unidirectional and minimal in full-grown animals. Red-toothed shrews exhibit a rare exception, where the shape, mass and size of the skull, brain, and several major organs, show significant bidirectional seasonal changes. We now show a similar but male-biased shrinking (16%) and regrowth (8%) in t...

The contribution of carbon and nitrogen reserves to regrowth following shoot removal has been studied in the past. However, important gaps remain in understanding the effect of shoot cutting on nodule performance and its relevance during regrowth. In this study, isotopic labelling was conducted at root and canopy levels with both (15) N2 and (13) C-depleted CO2 on exclusively nitrogen-fixing al...

Water samples of 0, 50, and 100 nephelometric turbidity units (NTU) spiked with fecal coliforms (107 CFU/ml) were exposed to natural sunshine in 1l quartz glass tubes fitted with rectors’ compound parabolic concentrators CPCS at two forms CPC1 (whit nanoparticle zinc oxide) and CPC2(without nanoparticle zinc oxide). The samples were characterized using the X-ray...

This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of methotrexate alone or in combination with low-dose prednisone treating alopecia areata totalis. A randomized controlled trial was conducted among 100 patients diagnosed Participants were randomly assigned two treatment groups: Group received alone, and B prednisone. The primary outcome measure proportion achieving hair regrowth at end period. Seconda...

Grafting is a widely used technique in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) production. However, cost of grafted seedlings generally high as result intensive labor inputs for propagation using traditional grafting methods such the manual removal rootstock regrowth. This study developed new tool to physically remove epidermis pumpkin (C. maxima × C. moschata) and bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) cot...