Farmland afforestation is an effective measure to sequester carbon (C) into soil, but the effects of different farmland conversion approaches on soil organic C (SOC) fractions in arid valley are still not clear. In this work, concentrations each SOC fraction 0–100 cm depth, litter stock (LS) and fine root biomass (FRB) (FL), abandoned land (AL) Zanthoxylum bungeanum plantations ages (with plant...

Negative expiratory pressure (NEP) applied at the mouth during tidal expiration provides a non-invasive method for detecting expiratory flow limitation. Forty-two children were studied, i.e. 25 children with different respiratory symptoms (R) and 17 without any respiratory symptoms (NR). Children were examined without any sedation. A preset NEP of -5 cm H(2)O was applied; its duration did not e...

Re-investigating the accuracy of the commonly used values for molar absorptivities ( ) of f3-NADH and fiNADPH at Hg 334, Hg 365, or 340 nm, we obtained the following results: The maximum of absorbance of NADH is shifted from about 340 nm at 0 #{176}C to about 338.5 nm at 38 #{176}C; the corresponding maxima of NADPH are located at about 0.5-nm longer wavelengths. In addition, the absorption cur...

1 of 3 DESCRIPTION A middle-aged man presented with increased abdominal girth over 6–9 months, associated with pain in the right upper quadrant and fl anks. History was signifi cant for a non-seminomatous testicular cancer in his teens with left orchiectomy, aortic node dissection and 1 week of chemotherapy. On examination, the abdomen was grossly distended and non-tender, with positive fl uid ...

Wood elements and anatomical ratio of Dipterocarpus indicus were studied to evaluate variation among populations and to recommend for end selection. The variation of wood element [fibre length (FL), fibre diameter (FD), lumen diameter (LD), cell wall thickness (CWT), double wall thickness (DWT), and lumen volume (LV)] and anatomical ratio [fibre lumen area (FLA), slenderness ratio (SR) and runk...

OBJECTIVE The polymorphic deletion of exon 3 of the GH receptor (d3-GHR) has recently been linked to the magnitude of growth response to recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy in short children with or without GH deficiency. We investigated this association in a large multinational cohort from the Network of European Studies of Genes in Growth (NESTEGG), comprising short children born small for ge...

BACKGROUND Histopathologic advancements have identified several rare subtypes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the clinical significance of these distinctions is incompletely understood. Our aim was to investigate pathologic and treatment differences between HCC variants. METHODS The American College of Surgeons National Cancer Data Base (1998-2011) was queried to identify 784 patients ...

OBJECTIVES The authors sought to investigate the accuracy of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)-derived parameters in the identification of bileaflet aortic prosthesis dysfunction, compared with fluoroscopy (FL). BACKGROUND Identification of bileaflet aortic prosthesis dysfunction is challenging, because high mean pressure gradient (MPG >20 mm Hg) is not proof of prosthetic obstruction (AVP...

The age and growth of the Persian Sturgeon, Acipenser persicus, obtained from the Iranian coastal waters of the Caspian Sea, were studied through analysis of the pectoral fin ray section from 180 specimens, ranging in fork length (FL) from 66 to 203 cm. The specimens were obtained from commercial fisheries between October 2008 and June 2010. Interpretation of growth bands in the pectoral fin r...

The study was aimed at checking whether the drama technique positively affects acquisition of English vocabulary among 5-year-old preschool students. involved 16 students from one kindergartens in southern Poland (8 experimental group and 8 control group). aim to learn a selected set so that very end they would put on Christmas presentation. At same time, practiced material with method generall...