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Assessing Social Cognition in Neurological and Psychiatric Patients: A Psychometric Meta-analysisNARA Subscribed
Social cognition impairments have received growing attention in both neuroscientific research and clinical practice, largely due to their high prevalence in neurological and psychiatric populations. However, selecting an appropriate and sensitive assessment tool remains challenging in both fields due to the limited availability of comprehensive psychometric data across conditions. Suboptimal test selection may significantly in...
A cross-sectional study of keratoconjunctivitis among dairy cattle farms subject to Mediterranean climatic conditionsNARA Subscribed
The epidemiology of bovine keratoconjunctivitis (BK) is complex and involves several conjunctival microbiota as well as host and environmental factors. Data about BK in dairy cattle are scarce, and even scarcer for dairy cattle in Mediterranean climates. We determined the BK prevalence among dairy cattle in Southern Africa’s Mediterranean climatic zone by examining 1,675 dairy cattle across 28 herds. Conjunctival swabs were an...
Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threatsNARA Subscribed
Aim Ecological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the following research questions: (1) What are the patterns of dominance and rarity in tree...
The ocean’s meso- and submeso-scales (1-100 km, days to weeks) host features like filaments and eddies that have a key structuring effect on phytoplankton distribution, but that due to their ephemeral nature, are challenging to observe. This problem is exacerbated in regions with heavy cloud coverage and/or difficult access like the Southern Ocean, where observations of phytoplankton distribution by satellite are sparse, manne...
EurOP2E – the European Open Platform for Prescribing Education, a consensus study among clinical pharmacology and therapeutics teachersNARA Subscribed
Purpose Sharing and developing digital educational resources and open educational resources has been proposed as a way to harmonize and improve clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) education in European medical schools. Previous research, however, has shown that there are barriers to the adoption and implementation of open educational resources. The aim of this study was to determine perceived opportunities and barrier...
Effects of seasonal upwelling and runoff on water chemistry and growth and survival of native and commercial oystersNARA Subscribed
The effects of climate change, including ocean acidification and ocean heatwaves, on biological communities in estuaries are often uncertain. Part of the uncertainty is due to the complex suite of environmental factors in addition to acidification and warming that influence the growth of shells and skeletons of many estuarine organisms. The goal of this study was to document spatial and temporal variation in water column prope...
Genetic data are increasingly used in landscape ecology for the indirect assessment of functional connectivity, that is, the permeability of landscape to movements of organisms. Among available tools, matrix correlation analyses (e.g. Mantel tests or mixed models) are commonly used to test for the relationship between pairwise genetic distances and movement costs incurred by dispersing individuals. When organisms are spatially...
Salt marsh ecosystem biogeochemical responses to nutrient enrichment: a paired 15 N tracer studyNARA Subscribed
We compared processing and fate of dissolved NO 3 − in two New England salt marsh ecosystems, one receiving natural flood tide concentrations of ∼1–4 μmol NO 3 − /L and the other receiving experimentally fertilized flood tides containing ∼70–100 μmol NO 3 − /L. We conducted simultaneous 15 NO 3 − (isotope) tracer additions from 23 to 28 July 2005 in the reference (8.4 ha) and fertilized (12.4 ha) systems to compare N dynamics...
In‐stream and overland dispersal across a river network influences gene flow in a freshwater insect, Calopteryx splendensNARA Subscribed
Gene flow in riverine species is constrained by the dendritic (branching) structure of the river network. Spatial genetic structure (SGS) of freshwater insects is particularly influenced by catchment characteristics and land use in the surroundings of the river. Gene flow also depends on the life cycle of organisms. Aquatic larvae mainly drift downstream whereas flying adults can disperse actively overland and along watercours...
Native to South America, the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida is one of the principal pests of Andean potato crops and is also an important global pest following its introduction to Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and Oceania. Building on earlier work showing a clear south to north phylogeographic pattern in Peruvian populations, we have been able to identify the origin of Western European populations with high accur...
Diversity of N‐acyl homoserine lactone‐producing and ‐degrading bacteria in soil and tobacco rhizosphereNARA Subscribed
Summary In Gram‐negative bacteria, quorum‐sensing (QS) communication is mostly mediated by N‐acyl homoserine lactones (N‐AHSL). The diversity of bacterial populations that produce or inactivate the N‐AHSL signal in soil and tobacco rhizosphere was investigated by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of amplified 16S DNA and DNA sequencing. Such analysis indicated the occurrence of N‐AHSL‐producing strains a...