In this study, we compared current data and of the census made in 1990s related to vascular flora Capo Mortola (Ventimiglia, Italy), considering 270 taxa not dependent on crop management. The status reported 198 alien species: 5 invasive, 65 naturalized 75 casual, 38 occurring as casual human-dominated systems, but without direct intervention by humans close parent plant, 15 alien, still with s...

Belowground interactions between herbaceous native species and nonnative species is a poorly understood but emerging area of interest to invasive-species researchers. Positive feedback dynamics are commonly observed in many invaded systems and have been suspected in California grasslands, where native plants associate strongly with soil mutualists such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. In respon...

'Comice' is among the pear varieties most difficult to ripen after harvest. Ethylene, cold temperature, and intermediate (10 °C) temperature conditioning have been successfully used to stimulate the ability of 'Comice' pears to ripen. However, the sensory quality of pears stimulated to ripen by different conditioning treatments has not been evaluated. In this study, a descriptive sensory analys...

Spanish is one of the best documented languages in the world. However, no large corpus of casual Spanish suitable for detailed phonetic analysis is available to our knowledge. The goal of this article is to introduce the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish (NCCSp from now on), a new corpus designed to fill this gap. The corpus was designed taking the Nijmegen Corpus Casual French as a model [Torr...

Every language manifests casual speech processes, and hence every second language too. This study examined how listeners deal with second-language casual speech processes, as a function of the processes in their native language. We compared a match case, where a second-language process (/t/-reduction) is also operative in native speech, with a mismatch case, where a second-language process (/r/...

Determinants of intended condom use with steady and casual sex partners were examined among Dutch HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) (N = 296). Given the proposition that safer sex behavior among HIV-positive people is a form of prosocial behavior, the present study extended the general framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior with Schwartz's norm-activation theory and tested the a...

BACKGROUND Few data exist regarding frequency and predictors of bleeding complications associated with anticoagulant therapy using dabigatran in Japanese patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively studied 184 patients with AF who were administered dabigatran from April 2011 to August 2012 in our institution. Twenty-eight patients (15%) developed some type o...