Rising temperatures associated with climate change have been shown to negatively affect the photosynthetic rates of boreal forest tree saplings at their southern range limits. To quantify the responses of ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungal communities associated with poorly performing hosts, we sampled the roots of Betula papyrifera and Abies balsamea saplings growing in the B4Warmed (Boreal Forest Wa...

The present study was carried out to analyze the physico-chemical properties of fresh juice obtained from pomelo fruit. It is aimed to study the effects of different commercial extraction techniques on the physicochemical properties of the pomelo juice. The juices from Malaysian pomelo fruit from variety Tambun (PO52) were extracted using four different techniques; hand squeezing (EM-1), blendi...

This study aims to assess the effect of EM application on the composting process of rice straw with goat manure and green waste and to evaluate the quality of both compost treatments. There are two treatment piles in this study, in which one pile was applied with EM and another pile without EM. Each treatment was replicated three times with 90 days of composting duration. The parameters for the...

Dozens of epidemic erythromelalgia (EM) outbreaks have been reported in China since the mid-twentieth century, and the most recent happened in Foshan City, Guangdong Province early 2014. This study compared the daily case counts of this recent epidemic EM outbreak from February 11 to March 3 with Baidu search data for the same period. After keyword selection, filtering and composition, the most...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an efficacious treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. In EMDR, patients recall a distressing memory and simultaneously make eye movements (EM). Both tasks are considered to require limited working memory (WM) resources. Because this leaves fewer resources available for memory retrieval, the memory should become less vivid and less e...

INTRODUCTION In Asian and Asian-American women, soy consumption is associated with reduced breast cancer risk, perhaps due to its effects on estrogen production or metabolism. In a sample of Asian-American women, we investigated the associations of usual adult soy intake with the urinary concentrations of 15 estrogens and estrogen metabolites (EM) measured using liquid chromatography-tandem mas...

A dengue tem ampla distribuição em áreas tropicais, ocorrendo de forma endêmica e eventualmente epidêmica. É transmitida por mosquitos do gênero Aedes, principalmente Aedes aegypti, cuja distribuição e adaptação em ambientes urbanos e peridomiciliares explica a predominância da dengue em cidades. A doença ocorre com a introdução de paciente virêmico em ambiente onde há concentração suficiente d...

Average case performance of the deterministic annealing EM algorithm is evaluated for Gaussian mixture estimation problem under some additive noises. The data-averaged EM update equations with respect to hyperparameters are calculated analytically in the large data limit. We find that the EM algorithm strongly depends on the initial conditions. Moreover, by using our analysis, it becomes possib...

This EM review article focuses on parameter expansion, a simple technique introduced in the PX-EM algorithm to make EM converge faster while maintaining its simplicity and stability. The primary objective concerns the connection between parameter expansion and efficient inference. It reviews the statistical interpretation of the PX-EM algorithm, in terms of efficient inference via bias reductio...

Transmission electron microscopy (EM) is a versatile technique that can be used to image biological specimens ranging from intact eukaryotic cells to individual proteins >150kDa. There are several strategies for preparing samples for imaging by EM, including negative staining and cryogenic freezing. In the last few years, cryo-EM has undergone a 'resolution revolution', owing to both advances i...