Floodplain wetlands are valuable ecosystems for maintaining biodiversity, but are vulnerable to hydrological modification and climatic extremes. The floodplain wetlands in the middle Yangtze region are biodiversity hotspots, particularly important for wintering migratory waterbirds. In recent years, extremely low winter water level events frequently occurred in the middle Yangtze River. The hyd...

Use of coproducts such as corn and sorghum distillers grain (DG) and corn gluten feed (CGF) in beef cattle finishing diets has increased significantly in recent years, but research to evaluate the efficacy of traditional feeding practices and feed additives when coproducts are fed has not kept pace. Grain processing methods that increase starch availability seem equally effective in traditional...

Acutely decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is characterized by hemodynamic abnormalities and neurohormonal activation that contribute to heart failure (HF) symptoms, end-organ dysfunction, arrhythmias, and progressive cardiac failure. The management of ADHF in the emergency department (ED) can be simplified and improved by a 2-min bedside assessment that identifies any of four possible hemodyna...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE In the absence of humidity receptors in human skin, the perception of skin wetness is considered a somatosensory experience resulting from the integration of temperature (particularly cold) and mechanical inputs. However, limited data are available on the role of the temperature sense. METHODS Wet and dry stimuli at 4°C and 8°C above local skin temperature were applied on t...

We studied the effects of alcohol intake on postexercise muscle glycogen restoration with samples from vastus lateralis being collected immediately after glycogen-depleting cycling and after a set recovery period. Six well-trained cyclists undertook a study of 8-h recovery (2 meals), and another nine cyclists undertook a separate 24-h protocol (4 meals). In each study, subjects completed three ...

We investigate the behaviour of the mean size of directed compact percolation clusters near a damp wall in the low-density region, where sites in the bulk are wet (occupied) with probability p while sites on the wall are wet with probability pw. Methods used to find the exact solution for the dry case (pw = 0) and the wet case (pw = 1) turn out to be inadequate for the damp case. Instead we use...

The reaction betw een catalytically prepared m agnesium hydride (M gH 2*) and [TiCl3(T H F )3] in a molar ratio o f 1.5:1 in T H F yields a highly pyrophoric, X-ray am orphous titanium hydride precipitate with the com position [TiH2 -(M gC l2 -2 T H F )0.2-o.3] (2). This novel titanium hydride has been characterized through hydrolysis and iodolysis, as well as through therm olysis to Ti* and H ...

We study the substrate inhomogeneity effect on the wetting of a spin-1/2 Ising ferromagnetic film in an external magnetic field H, using Monte Carlo simulations. It is found that the inhomogeneity leads to the formation of clusters of positive and negative spins in each layer. However, depending on the values of H, for a fixed surface magnetic field Hs, each layer exhibits three different phase...

Several epidemiological and clinical studies have indicated that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders is higher in diabetic patients than in the general population. In the present studies, we examined the behavioral changes in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, and investigated the effects of physical and psychological stress on the hippocampal BDNF levels and on the serotonin 2A (5-HT(2A...

Two trials evaluated the effect of a composite of feed ingredients formulated to be similar in nutrient composition to wet distillers byproducts on finishing performance of sheep and cattle. Trial 1 used 60 crossbred lambs (31 kg) assigned to one of four treatments: dry-rolled corn (DRC) control, dried distillers grains plus solubles, wet corn gluten feed (WCGF), and wet distillers grains compo...