Fred A English,1 Louise C Kenny,1 Fergus P McCarthy1,2 1Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 2Women’s Health Academic Centre, King's Health Partners, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK Abstract: Preeclampsia, a hypertensive d
Soil microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is the ratio of carbon allocated to microbial growth to that taken up by microorganisms.Soil microbial CUE affects terrestrial ecosystem processes such as greenhouse gas emissions, carbon turnover, and sequestration, which is an important indicator of changes in the terrestrial carbon cycle.Firstly, we sum
The Euphrates-Tigris catchment area is one of the major drainage basins in the Middle East but climate change, overuse of waters and subsequent salinization has brought this region to the brink of ecological devastation.The aim of this study was to investigate the biodiversity of epiphytic diatoms in Iraq, for the first time using a combination of
Cells have the capacity to convert mechanical stimuli into chemical changes.This process is based on the tensegrity principle, a mechanism of tensional integrity.To date, this principle has been demonstrated to act in physiological processes such as mechanotransduction and mechanosensing at different scales Tents (from cell sensing through integrin
Recreational water sites such as beaches along lakes, rivers, or oceans, are one of the most popular activities in many parts of the world.Recently rainfall and runoff due Switch Tray to rainfall events has been associated with increasing microbial levels in recreational water.This runoff can lead to beach closures and potentially unsanitary condit