Global food security basically depends on potential yields of staple grain crops worldwide, especially under climate change. However, most scholars use various models of production function in which climatic factors are often considered to estimate crop yield mostly at local or ...
Vascular dementia, the second most common type of dementia, currently lacks a definitive cure. In the pursuit of therapies aimed at slowing its progression and alleviating symptoms, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) emerges as a promising approach, characterized by its non-invasive nature...
The present study had two objectives: first, to investigate the effect of gilt age at start of boar contact on the rate of puberty attainment; second, to investigate the effect of gilt age and oestrous cycle at mating on potential litter size on day 20 post-conception. ...
In agreement, while meal energy density affected meal intake in free-living adults, this response was not modulated by the addition of drinks to those meals [32]. Drinks added to a meal might therefore not be expected to affect overall consumption by a “diluting” mechanism. However, results...
So, just how can poor air quality affect your health? Well, according to the National Weather Service, if it's bad enough, it"can be hazardous." Here's what to look out for. Air quality has plummeted across much of the northeast as smoke from wildfires in Canada moves south. Poor air...
In particular, we used sediment flux and surface runoff as they are both parameters that act at several diagenetic phases (transport, disarticulation, burial, and erosion); they also incorporate other climatic agents that in death assemblages affect their preservation in the fossil record (rainfall,...
charged by the US and Brazil42. Although the price gap eventually closed, the direction of trade flows changed significantly, especially for the U.S43. Such turbulence was exacerbated by the global efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, which triggered policy responses with potential ...
Observational run-up height estimates of the incident wave of ancient tsunamis are inferred from the location of high-energy sedimentary deposits that can be traced inland or between raised lakes (e.g. Bondevik et al., 2005). Such estimates are generally underestimated as this is the minimum ru...
The Mpemba effect is the name given to the assertion that it is quicker to cool water to a given temperature when the initial temperature is higher. This assertion seems counter-intuitive and yet references to the effect go back at least to the writings
Plant-frugivore mutualism serves an important function in multiple ecological processes. Although previous studies have highlighted the effect of frugivore gut passage on fresh seed germinability, no study has investigated the effect on seed storage afte