Beware the Spotted Lanternfly, the Latest Pest That Could Spell Bad News for Homeowners
This year we've seen the arrival of murder hornets and zombie cicadas. Now, there's another pest to add to your radar: the spotted lanternfly.
This year we've seen the arrival of murder hornets and zombie cicadas. Now, there's another pest to add to your radar: the spotted lanternfly.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the oil crisis have taken a heavy toll on demand for transport fuels such as gasoline and jet fuel leading to severe margin compression for refineries. The situation is not being helped by a cross-section of experts warning that we might already be past peak demand for oil and that ‘Lower Forever’ might be the new norm for oil prices. Faced with this existential crisis, global refiners are being forced to reinvent themselves in a bid to survive. Some, such as Texas-based Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX)... Читать дальше...
by Laura Belmont-Monroy, Waleska Saitz-Rojas, Jorge Soria-Bustos, Abigail S. Mickey, Nicholas E. Sherman, Benjamin C. Orsburn, Fernando Ruiz-Perez, Araceli E. Santiago
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by Cordelia Manickam, Sho Sugawara, R. Keith Reeves
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 575,000 deaths worldwide as of mid-July 2020 and still continues globally unabated. Immune dysfunction and cytokine storm complicate the disease, which in turn leads to the question of whether stimulation or suppression of the immune system would curb the disease. Given the varied antiviral and regulatory functions of natural killer (NK) cells, they could be potent and powerful immune allies in this global fight against COVID-19. Читать дальше...
by Junji Chida, Hideyuki Hara, Keiji Uchiyama, Etsuhisa Takahashi, Hironori Miyata, Hidetaka Kosako, Yukiko Tomioka, Toshihiro Ito, Hiroyuki Horiuchi, Haruo Matsuda, Hiroshi Kido, Suehiro Sakaguchi
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by Panatda Saenkham, Matthew Ritter, George L. Donati, Sargurunathan Subashchandrabose
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by Roberto Sacchi, Marco Mangiacotti, Stefano Scali, Alan J. Coladonato, Silvia Pitoni, Mattia Falaschi, Marco A. L. Zuffi
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by Artur Pilacinski, Melanie S. Höller-Wallscheid, Axel Lindner
Working memory (WM) is the key process linking perception to action. Several lines of research have, accordingly, highlighted WM’s engagement in sensori-motor associations between retrospective stimuli and future behavior. Using human fMRI we investigated whether prior information about the effector used to respond in a WM task would have an impact on the way the same sensory stimulus is maintained in memory despite a behavioral response could not be readily planned. Читать дальше...
by Chantelle Garritty, Mona Hersi, Candyce Hamel, Adrienne Stevens, Zarah Monfaredi, Claire Butler, Andrea C. Tricco, Lisa Hartling, Lesley A. Stewart, Vivian Welch, Kednapa Thavorn, Wei Cheng, David Moher
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by Majed Afana, Gerald C. Koenig, Milan Seth, Devraj Sukul, Kathleen M. Frazier, Sheryl Fielding, Andrea Jensen, Hitinder S. Gurm
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by Akshit Puri, Kiran Preet Padda, Chris P. Chanway
Lodgepole pine, a prominent Pinaceae tree species native to western North America, is well-known for its ability to thrive in highly disturbed and degraded areas. One such area is the Sub-Boreal Pine-Spruce xeric-cold (SBPSxc) region in British Columbia, Canada, which is characterized by weakly-developed, parched soils that lack an organic forest floor and essential plant-available nutrients. We hypothesized that plant growth-promoting bacteria... Читать дальше...
by Carolyn-Monika Görres, Claudia Kammann
Arthropods are a major soil fauna group, and have the potential to substantially influence the spatial and temporal variability of soil greenhouse gas (GHG) sinks and sources. The overall effect of soil-inhabiting arthropods on soil GHG fluxes still remains poorly quantified since the majority of the available data comes from laboratory experiments, is often controversial, and has been limited to a few species. The main objective of this study was... Читать дальше...
by Pengfei Xu, Yuhao Wang, Xue Li, Qingshuang Chen, Lujiang Hao, Jie Zhang, Xiaoling Zhu, Baolei Jia
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by Zazilah May, M. K. Alam, Khaleel Husain, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan
Transmission opportunity (TXOP) is a key factor to enable efficient channel bandwidth utilization over wireless campus networks (WCN) for interactive multimedia (IMM) applications. It facilitates in resource allocation for the similar categories of multiple packets transmission until the allocated time is expired. The static TXOP limits are defined for various categories of IMM traffics in the IEEE802.11e standard. Due to the variation of traffic load in WCN... Читать дальше...
by Jihyun An, Ha Il Kim, Seheon Chang, Ju Hyun Shim
Backgrounds and aimsBecause of the known limitations of ultrasonography (US) alone, we re-evaluated whether complimentary testing for serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is helpful in surveilling for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in high-risk populations.
MethodsWe included, from a hospital-based cancer registry, 1,776 asymptomatic adults who were surveilled biannually with the AFP test and US and eventually diagnosed with HCC between 2007 and 2015. Читать дальше...
by Joon Hee Lee, Da Young Song, Sun-Hee Jun, Sang Hoon Song, Choong Ho Shin, Chang-Seok Ki, Kyunghoon Lee, Junghan Song
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by Ashlyn G. Rickard, Hiroto Yoshikawa, Gregory M. Palmer, Harrison Q. Liu, Mark W. Dewhirst, Michael W. Nolan, Xiaofeng Zhang
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by Pratibha Sharma, Divya Anthwal, Pooja Kumari, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Surabhi Lavania, Neera Sharma, Lokesh Kumar Sharma, Deepak Rath, Pavan Kumar Soraganvi, Ashish Sharma, A. K. Gadpayle, R. S. Taneja, Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi, Sagarika Haldar
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by Alejandra C. Encinas, Joseph C. Watkins, Iris Arenas Longoria, J. P. Johnson Jr, Michael F. Hammer
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by Reiner Buchhorn, Christoph Baumann, Semanur Gündogdu, Ulla Rakowski, Christian Willaschek
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by Vinicius Francisco Rofatto, Marcelo Tomio Matsuoka, Ivandro Klein, Maurício Roberto Veronez, Luiz Gonzaga da Silveira Junior
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by Md. Akhtarul Islam, Sutapa Dey Barna, Hasin Raihan, Md. Nafiul Alam Khan, Md. Tanvir Hossain
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by Shawna Vreeke, Xijing Zhu, Robert M. Strongin
E-cigarette devices are wide ranging, leading to significant differences in levels of toxic carbonyls in their respective aerosols. Power can be a useful method in predicting relative toxin concentrations within the same device, but does not correlate well to inter-device levels. Herein, we have developed a simple mathematical model utilizing parameters of an e-cigarette’s coil and wick in order to predict relative levels of e-liquid solvent degradation. Читать дальше...
by Mostafa A. Mohammed, Mohammed T. Ahmed, Bahaa E. Anwer, Khaled M. Aboshanab, Mohammad M. Aboulwafa
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by Cindy Xu, Greer A. Dolby, K. Kristina Drake, Todd C. Esque, Kenro Kusumi
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