Nutrient management plan (NMP) tools aim to enhance crop production while minimising environmental harm from over-fertilisation by aligning applications with crop demands and with soil and atmospheric conditions. The characteristics of 14 widely used NMP tools from nine countries (Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and United Kingdom) were compared. All tools employed a mass balance a...

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive malignancy with extremely poor prognosis, in which resection surgery remains the only therapeutic option with curative intent. Patients often present with locoregional metastases in lymph nodes, peritoneum and liver at diagnosis (~ 50–60% of patients), precluding the possibility of surgical resection. In addition, majority of patients develop tumor recurrence after surgery, which can be...

In this study, the feasibility of using hydrochars as anodic doping materials in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) was investigated. The feedstock used for hydrochar synthesis was metal-polluted plant biomass from an abandoned mining site. The hydrochar obtained was activated by pyrolysis at 500 °C in N 2 atmosphere. Under steady state conditions, the current exerted by the MFCs, as well as the cyclic voltammetry and polarization cu...

Nowadays, zoos and aquariums, along with the constant advancement of sociocultural moral values, are proactively committed to ensuring and safeguarding cetacean health standards. This entails developing new approaches to health assessments by embracing minimally invasive sampling methods and enhanced animal handling and management, among other aspects. Hence, in the present survey, to appraise skin diseases, the implementation...

Clonal hematopoiesis, especially that of indeterminate potential (CHIP), has been associated with age-related diseases, such as those contributing to a more severe COVID-19. Four studies have attempted to associate CHIP with COVID-19 severity without conclusive findings. In the present work, we explore the association between CHIP and COVID-19 mortality. Genomic DNA extracted from peripheral blood of COVID-19 patients ( n = 24...

During the historical building of a species range, individual colonizers have to confront different ecological challenges, and the capacity of the species to broaden its range may depend on the total amount of adaptive genetic variation supplied by evolution. We set out to increase our understanding of what defines a range and the role of underlying genetics by trying to predict an entire species’ range from the geographical d...