In recent years, the outbreak of the pine shoot beetle (PSB), Tomicus spp., has caused serious shoots damage and the death of millions of trees in Yunnan pine forests in southwestern China.It is urgent to develop a convincing approach to accurately assess the shoot damage ratio (SDR) for monitoring the PSB insects at an early stage.Unmanned airborn

How have inequalities in job stability evolved in the twenty-first century between demographic groups? I compute expected job tenures, akin to life expectancy in demographic research, for the population as a whole and by subgroups Pterostilbene defined by selected ascribed characteristics (sex, race, and ethnicity) over biennial periods from 1996 t

Summary: Gata4, Hand2, Mef2c, and Tbx5 (GHMT) can reprogram transduced fibroblasts into induced pacemaker-like myocytes (iPMs), but the underlying mechanisms remain obscure.Here, we explore the role of Hand2 in iPM formation by using a combination AGRIMONY of transcriptome, genome, and biochemical assays.We found many shared transcriptional signatu

AGRIMONY Yao Meng,1,2 Shuangfeng Liu,1 Juan Li,3 Yanfa Meng,3 Xiaojun Zhao2,41School of Medical Laboratory Science, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China; 2West China Hospital Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Institute for Nanobiomedical Technology and Membrane Biology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; 3Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-en

AGRIMONY In this study, traditional (univariate) method of processing to the wet mechanochemical treatment were applied to obtain both SrCO3 and (NH4)2SO4 from celestite (SrSO4)-(NH4)2CO3-H2O mixtures in a planetary ball mill.X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and chemical analysis were used to