The Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer is a shallow, predominantly unconfined aquifer that spans regions in southwestern British Columbia, Canada and northwestern Washington, USA. The aquifer is prone to nitrate contamination because of extensive regional agricultural practices. A 22-month ground water nitrate assessment was performed in a 10-km2 study area adjacent to the international boundary in north...

Many studies have reported enhanced warming trend on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), even during the warming hiatus period. However, most of these studies are based on instrumental data largely collected from the eastern TP, whereas the temperature trend over the extensive northwestern TP remains uncertain due to few meteorological stations. Here we combined the stable isotopic δ(18)O record of an ic...

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We study the problem of testing an expert whose theory has a learnable and predictive parametric representation, as do all standard processes used in Bayesian statistics. We design a test in which the expert is required to submit a date T by which he will have learned enough to deliver sharp predictions about future frequencies. His forecasts are then tested according to a simple hypothesis tes...

Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation was examined by the control region sequencing (HVS I and HVS II) and RFLP analysis of haplogroup-diagnostic coding region sites in 570 individuals from four regional populations of Poles and two Russian groups from northwestern part of the country. Additionally, sequences of complete mitochondrial genomes representing K1a1b1a subclade in Polish and Polish Ro...

BACKGROUND Oral consumption of synthetic folic acid can prevent neural tube defects (NTDs), which are some of the most severe congenital anomalies. The prevalence of NTDs in Ukraine and other countries of the former U.S.S.R. has not been well studied. We determined the prevalence of NTD-affected pregnancies in Northwestern Ukraine as background for policy decisions related to flour fortificatio...

1 Title: Intrafascicular Stimulation of Monkey Arm Nerves Evokes Coordinated Grasp and Sensory 1 Responses 2 Contributing authors: Noah M. Ledbetter, Christian Ethier, Emily R. Oby, Scott D. Hiatt, 3 Andrew M. Wilder, Jason H. Ko, Sonya P. Agnew, Lee E. Miller, and Gregory A. Clark 4 Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA; 5 Department of Physiology, Fe...

Background. Colorectal cancer is the third most prevalent cancer worldwide, which is less common in the Middle East; its prevalence demonstrated to be 7 persons per 100,000 populations in Iran. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinicopathologic features of CRC patients in West Azerbaijan province of Iran. Methods. In this crosssectional study, 546 patients who underwent surgical proce...

Recent phylogenetic works have begun to address long-standing questions regarding the systematics of Campanula (Campanulaceae). Yet, aspects of the evolutionary history, particularly in northwestern North America, remain unresolved. Thus, our primary goal in this study was to infer the phylogenetic positions of northwestern Campanula species within the greater Campanuloideae tree. We combined n...