The Atacama Desert, northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on Earth and, as such, a natural laboratory to explore the limits of life and the strategies evolved by microorganisms to adapt to extreme environments. Here we report the exceptional adaptation strategies of chlorophototrophic and eukaryotic algae, and chlorophototrophic and prokaryotic cyanobacteria to the hyperarid and extremel...

In many economies, commodity price volatility is one of the sources of signaling to market players. Different experiences of price shocks have led economists to reconsider price shocks. Considering the effects of monetary policy on the inflation rate, the present study investigates the impact of monetary policy shock on the price of storable food commodities. In this regard, data for 2006: 01 t...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect Third Party Funds (DPK), Non-Performing Loans (NPL), inflation, and BI Rate on growth working capital loans at Bank Persero in Indonesia. analysis was conducted four Banks Indonesia, namely Rakyat Mandiri, Negara Tabungan during period January 2014 December 2020. technique used time-series data regression with Error Correction Model (ECM) appro...

Several highly effective fire-adaptive traits first evolved among modern plants during the mid-Cretaceous, in response to the widespread wildfires promoted by anomalously high atmospheric oxygen (O2) and extreme temperatures. Serotiny, or long-term canopy seed storage, is a fire-adaptive strategy common among plants living in fire-prone areas today, but evidence of this strategy has been lackin...

We test for fractional dynamics in U.S. monetary series, their various formulations and components, and velocity series. Using the spectral regression method, we find evidence of a fractional exponent in the differencing process of the monetary series (both simple-sum and Divisia indices), in their components (with the exception of demand deposits, savings deposits, overnight repurchase agreeme...

Rhinoplasty is a plastic surgery procedure to reconstruct the nose. Silicone alloplastic materials are most widely used as implants for rhinoplasty, but calcification on the surface occurs with long-term usage. Herein, we report a case of gruel-like calcification approximately 50 years after silicone implant rhinoplasty. In this case, calcification on the silicone surface might have transformed...

The deposition of calcium oxalate crystals in human tissues was first described by Lepoutre (1925), who found these in the kidney of a child aged 41 years who also had multiple urethral, ureteric, and bilateral renal calculi. Similar deposits have been described in the kidneys and elsewhere by other authors. Ying Chou and Donohue (1952) suggested the term " oxalosis " to describe the condition ...

We reviewed 166 adult patients on long-term haemodialysis, dividing them into three groups according to the presence and type of shoulder pain. The 24 patients in group A, with spontaneous pain related to a supine posture, had been under haemodialysis for significantly longer than the others, and had a much higher incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome. Open or arthroscopic resection of the coraco...

Electron microscopic localization of calcium-containing mitochondria in stratum radiatum of CAl of hippocampal slices was performed after (1) low-frequency stimulation, (2) high-frequency stimulation, and (3) blocking N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors during high-frequency stimulation. Dendritic mitochondria containing Ca deposits were found in a narrow band of stratum radiatum 280-350 micr...