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From Bench to Business: Building Coachable Innovators Through the Innovation Fellows ProgramNARA Subscribed
Purpose Designed to accelerate delivery of translational technologies, The Innovation Fellows (IF) Program at the Center for Medical Innovation blends experiential learning, competency-building, and industry engagement to prepare early-career engineers, clinicians, and scientists for diverse professional pathways, including entrepreneurship, industry, and clinical translation. Fellows consist of senior graduate students, postd...
Terrigenous inputs link nutrient dynamics to microbial communities in a tropical lagoonNARA Subscribed
Nutrient availability drives community structure and ecosystem processes, especially in tropical lagoons that are typically oligotrophic but often receive allochthonous inputs from land. Terrestrially derived nutrients are introduced to tropical lagoons by surface runoff and submarine groundwater discharge, which are influenced by seasonal precipitation. However, terrigenous inputs presumably diminish along the onshore–offshor...
The STORMTOOLS Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI) has historically been used to assess the damage to residential and commercial structures from coastal flooding, including the effects of sea level rise (SLR) in RI. In the present study, CERI was extended to address the impact of flooding for 100 yr storm, including the effects of SLR, to the newly renovated Warren, RI wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF), located on the...
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradientsNARA Subscribed
Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in forest regeneration and biotic interactions responsible for biodiversity. A global synthesis of raw seedproduction data shows a 250‐fold increase in seed abundance from cold‐dry to warm‐wet climates, driven primarily by a 100‐fold increase in seed production for a given tree size. The modest (three...
Persistent DNA damage (genotoxic stress) triggers signaling cascades that drive cells into apoptosis or senescence to avoid replicating a damaged genome. Sp1 has been found to play a role in double strand break (DSB) repair, and a link between Sp1 and aging has also been established, where Sp1 protein, but not RNA, levels decrease with age. Interestingly, inhibition ATM reverses the age-related degradation of Sp1, suggesting t...
Fungal communities living within leaves of native Hawaiian dicots are structured by landscape‐scale variables as well as by host plantsNARA Subscribed
A phylogenetically diverse array of fungi live within healthy leaf tissue of dicotyledonous plants. Many studies have examined these endophytes within a single plant species and/or at small spatial scales, but landscape‐scale variables that determine their community composition are not well understood, either across geographic space, across climatic conditions, or in the context of host plant phylogeny. Here, we evaluate the c...
A combined visual and acoustic estimate of 2008 abundance, and change in abundance since 1997, for the vaquita, Phocoena sinusNARA Subscribed
A line‐transect survey for the critically endangered vaquita, Phocoena sinus , was carried out in October–November 2008, in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Areas with deeper water were sampled visually from a large research vessel, while shallow water areas were covered by a sailboat towing an acoustic array. Total vaquita abundance in 2008 was estimated to be 245 animals (CV = 73%, 95% CI 68–884). The 2008 estimate w...
Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate‐dependentNARA Subscribed
Climate and litter quality are primary drivers of terrestrial decomposition and, based on evidence from multisite experiments at regional and global scales, are universally factored into global decomposition models. In contrast, soil animals are considered key regulators of decomposition at local scales but their role at larger scales is unresolved. Soil animals are consequently excluded from global models of organic mineraliz...
Observations of pigment and particle distributions in the western North Atlantic from an autonomous float and ocean color satelliteNARA Subscribed
Profiling floats with optical sensors can provide important complementary data to satellite ocean color determinations by providing information about the vertical structure of ocean waters, as well as surface waters obscured by clouds. Here we demonstrate this ability by pairing satellite ocean color data with records from a profiling float that obtained continuous, high‐quality optical data for 3 yr in the North Atlantic Ocea...
Geographical and climatic limits of needle types of one‐ and two‐needled pinyon pinesNARA Subscribed
Aim The geographical extent and climatic tolerances of one‐ and two‐needled pinyon pines ( Pinus subsect. Cembroides ) are the focus of questions in taxonomy, palaeoclimatology and modelling of future distributions. The identification of these pines, traditionally classified by one‐ versus two‐needled fascicles, is complicated by populations with both one‐ and two‐needled fascicles on the same tree, and the description of two...
Summary The distribution and metabolic activity of sulfate‐reducing bacteria (SRB) in a shallow, suboxic aquifer were studied. A radioimaging technique was used to visualize and quantify the activity of sulfate reducers in sediments at a centimetre‐level scale. The distribution of SRB metabolic activity was heterogeneous with areas showing little activity far outnumbering areas with high activity. Variation in sulfate‐reducing...
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