Soil CO2 flux can contribute as much as 60–80% of total ecosystem respiration in forests. Although considerable research has focused on quantifying this flux during the growing season, comparatively little effort has focused on non-growing season fluxes. We measured soil CO2 efflux through snow in 50 and 300 year old subalpine forest stands near Fraser CO. Our objectives were to quantify season...

To clarify the role of CD8+ effector T cells for infectious complications, 92 recipients were classified according to the hierarchical clustering of preoperative CD8+CD45 isoforms: Group I was naive, Group II was effector memory, and Group III was effector (E) T cell-dominant. The posttransplant infection rates progressively increased from 29% in Group I to 64.3% in Group III recipients. The po...

Two sorts of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (PHT) films with the same chemical compositions were prepared, and their electrochemical, spectroscopic, and transport properties were studied with a special interest in a possible influence of film structure on mobilities of charge carriers. One of the PHT films was electrochemically synthesized using 3-hexylthiophene as a monomer (as-grown film) and the oth...

We compared plant diversity in four restored and four natural wetlands in the glaciated interior plains to evaluate how quickly plant biodiversity develops following cessation of agriculture and reintroduction of wetland hydrology. After approximately ten years, restored wetlands had plot and site richness comparable to natural wetlands; 6.2 + 0.5 species per plot and 33.8 + 2.3 species per sit...

Figure 3. Bland-Altman plot between total serum cortisol and free serum cortisol (57 patients). Limits of agreement, 2 33.966 to 2 4.596; mean difference, 2 19.281; 95% CI, 2 21.229 to 2 17.333; range, 2.495-25.825; Pitman test r , 2 0.981; P 5 0.001. diffi cult and time consuming (see the “Discussion” section in original article 1 ). Even more important is the observation that the degree of ag...

Purpose: To compare the Intra Ocular Pressure (IOP) measurements obtained by Applanation Tonometer (AT) & Rebound Tonometer (RT). Methods: The Central Corneal Thickness (CCT) corrected IOP of 100 eyes were measured using first with RT (I Care) followed by AT (GAT). Results were compared statistically using Bland –Altman plot & Deming’s regression analysis. Results: Scatter plot analysis showed ...

NMR spectral data from control subject and mice with (A) S. aureus infection and (B) S. aureus and S. pneumoniae infection and showing the separation between samples along the type of infection. Two components encapsulate 97 % (A) and 83 % (B) of the interclass variation. Fig. 2: The variable importance plot (VIP) shows the relative contribution that each metabolite makes to the difference betw...

Electron crystallography of two-dimensional (2D) crystals is a powerful approach for the analysis of membrane protein structure. Three-dimensional (3D) structures are derived by merging data from 2D crystals at varying tilt axes and tilt angles. A graphical representation was developed that incorporates the tilt geometry to display the quality of each image. Information that can be extracted fr...