In studies of the human microbiome, faecal samples are frequently used as a non-invasive proxy for the study of the intestinal microbiota. To obtain reliable insights, the need for bacterial DNA of high quality and integrity following appropriate faecal sample collection and preservation steps is paramount. In a study of dietary mineral balance in the context of type 2 diabetes (T2D), faecal sa...

Survival after childhood cancer varies across Europe, but national or regional studies have so far shown no survival differences related to socio-economic disparity. The relationship of childhood cancer survival to disparity has not been studied in Ireland. We assessed observed survival for Irish children (ages 0-14 years) diagnosed with cancer during the period 1994-2005, overall (for all canc...

In Central Aragón (NE Spain), where strong and dry winds are frequent all year round, fallow lands are susceptible to wind erosion due to insufficient crop residues on the surface and loose, finely divided soils by multiple tillage operations. Effects of conventional tillage (CT — mouldboard ploughing followed by a compacting roller) and reduced tillage (RT — chisel ploughing) on soil surface p...

Currently, the 40-year-long reference period 1961–2000 is used in Slovakia for systematic assessment of hydrological regime. The World Meteorological Organization recommends unifying climatic normal 1991–2020 with a characteristics purpose climate change research. We have analyzed changes long-term mean annual discharges at 113 water-gauging stations over different time periods. Considering his...

We consider abstract differential equations of the form u′(t) = Au(t)+f(t) or u′′(t)=Au(t)+f(t) in Banach spaces X, where f(·), R→X is almost-periodic, while A is a linear operator, (A)⊂X →X. If the solution u(·) is likewise almost-periodic, R→X, we establish connections between their Bohr-transforms, û(λ) and f̂ (λ). 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 34C27, 34G10.

background: iraq fought three wars in three consecutive decades, iran-iraq war (1980-1988), persian gulf war in 1991, and the iraq’s war in 2003. in the nineties of the last century and up to the present time, there have been anecdotal reports of increase in cancer in ninawa as in all provinces of iraq, possibly as a result of exposure to depleted uranium used by american troops in the last t...

BACKGROUND Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has been discovered in 1980 and has been linked to tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) in 1985 in Martinique. There is no data on HAM/TSP incidence trends. We report, in the present work, the temporal trends incidence of HAM/TSP in Martinique over 25 years. METHODS Martinique is a Caribbean French West Indies island deserved by a unique...

the aim of this study was to determine the effect of marker density, level of heritability, number of qtls, and size of training set on the genomic accuracy over three generations. thereby, a trait was simulated with heritability of 0.10, 0.25 or 0.40. for each animal, a genome with 20 chromosomes, 1 morgan each, was simulated. different marker densities (2000, 4000 and 6000 markers) and 400 an...

Climate change, variability and anthropogenic forcings such as land use change are the main of river discharge variability. However, an understanding their simultaneous impacts on remains limited in some parts world. To shed light this issue, objective article is to investigate effects rainfall Nyong basin (at Olama Mbalmayo gauging stations) its sub-basins (So’o Mefou) over long period 1950–20...

Agricultural land resources have been the central issue for Chinese government in its attempts to secure food and agricultural sustainability. Yet strict use control does not protect from erosion by urban expansion. Identifying specific patterns mechanisms of conversion, thus, is critical management related decision making. Based on annual nominal 30 m use/land cover datasets (called CLUD-A), t...