AIM To compare histological endpoint assessment using noninvasive alternatives to biopsy during treatment in a chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) cohort. METHODS Patients with chronic HCV were randomized to receive interferon-based therapy for 24 (genotypes 2/3) or 48 (genotype 1) wk. FibroSURE™ (FS) was assessed at baseline and at week-12 post-treatment follow-up. Baseline biopsy for METAVIR wa...

Biomass from cellulosic bioenergy crops is expected to play a substantial role in future energy systems, especially if climate policy aims at stabilizing greenhouse gas concentration at low levels. However, the potential of bioenergy for climate change mitigation remains unclear due to large uncertainties about future agricultural yield improvements and land availability for biomass plantations...

The EPA-MARKAL model of the U.S. electricity sector is used to examine how imposing emissions fees based on estimated health and environmental damages might change electricity generation. Fees are imposed on life-cycle emissions of SO(2), nitrogen oxides (NO(x)), particulate matter, and greenhouse gases (GHG) from 2015 through 2055. Changes in electricity production, fuel type, emissions contro...

Members1 L.E. Anderson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Bioelectromagnetic Program, Battelle, PO Box 999, MS P7-51, Richland, WA 99352, USA W.H. Bailey, Exponent, 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 408, New York, NY 10170, USA C.F. Blackman, Environmental Carcinogenesis Division (MD-68), US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711-2055, USA N.E. Day, Strangeways Researc...

Este trabalho teve como objetivo a avaliação das características agronômicas e mercadológicas de genótipos amendoim na mesorregião nordeste do estado Mato Grosso. O experimento foi desenvolvido no ano agrícola 2021/22, Fazenda Santo Antônio, localizado município Antônio Leste-MT. delineamento experimental em blocos casualizados, com quatro repetições. Os tratamentos foram dez rasteiro, sendo um...

Land use and cover (LUC) of southern European mountains is dramatically changing, mainly due to observed socioeconomic demands climatic changes. It therefore important understand LUC changes accurately predict future landscapes their threats. Simulation models change are ideal for this task because they allow the in silico experimentation under different scenarios. In present study, we employed...

To determine the effects of length of gestation and sex on infant body composition, air displacement plethysmography was performed in forty-six full-term neonates at 3 d of life and during the week prior to hospital discharge in 180 preterm neonates. Fat mass, as a percentage of body weight, was higher in preterm than in term infants (13.4 (SD 4.2) v. 10.1 (sd 3.7) %, respectively; P= 0.001). T...

BACKGROUND The aim was to compare the antenatal care and the intake of vitamins and medications of infertility patients with singleton pregnancies after ICSI to women with a spontaneously conceived singleton pregnancy. METHODS The data on the antenatal care of 2055 singleton pregnancies after ICSI from a prospective controlled multicentre study in Germany were analysed. The prospectively coll...

Tropical deforestation is a significant contributor to accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. GHG emissions from deforestation in the tropics were in the range of 1 to 2 Pg C yr(-1) for the 1990s, which is equivalent to as much as 25% of global anthropogenic GHG emissions. While there is growing interest in providing incentives to avoid deforestation and consequently reduce ...

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