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Glypican-4 (GPC-4), an endothelial cell surface protein, is released into the circulation in the context of ischemia, inflammation, neurohumoral activity, and shear stress. This study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of GPC-4 in chronic heart failure. GPC-4 concentrations were determined in two prospective cohorts: patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), and with transthyretin amylo...
Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Management—The State of the Art and Prospects for Near‐Future OperationsNARA Subscribed
A recent UN report describes many regions as facing ‘water bankruptcy, ’ a condition in which available water resources can no longer meet existing demands. In practice, this means irrigation will likely bear the greatest burden of future water‐use reductions, a complicated and fraught decision to make given its critical role in food security. This review paper highlights the growing range of information now available through...
Coastal environments are increasingly recognised as reservoirs of known antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), but are less frequently identified as sources of novel ARGs. Here, we investigated class A β‐lactamases circulating in European coastal environments used for oyster farming. We examined their diversity, function, and the ecological factors associated with their geographic distribution and environmental dynamics. A high d...
Semi‐Natural Habitats Buffer the Effects of Crop Diversification on Arthropod Pest Control Services in Agricultural LandscapesNARA Subscribed
Crop diversification is a promising strategy to strengthen pest control services in agricultural landscapes. Diversifying crops may limit pests through host crop dilution or by enhancing top‐down control by their enemies. However, crop diversification may also benefit generalist pests through higher resource continuity. Using a large‐scale dataset encompassing 742 landscapes across 13 countries, we assessed the impact of lands...
Providing regular and frequent maps of losses and gains of farmland birds based on European monitoring dataNARA Subscribed
Knowledge of species distributions is essential for informing policies on nature conservation and restoration. However, updating them on a regular basis and doing so in a harmonized manner at the international level is difficult. The European Bird Census Council integrated national monitoring data covering 5 years to update farmland bird distributions and assessed how they changed. We used these data on 50 farmland bird specie...
Crystal defects drive gold remobilisation in arsenopyriteNARA Subscribed
Fire frequency differentially affects carbon pools and pyrogenic organic matter in a South African montane grasslandNARA Subscribed
Aims Grasslands are globally important for biodiversity and ecosystem services, including carbon storage, and have coevolved with disturbances such as fire. However, the effects of fire on soil carbon storage in southern African grasslands remain poorly understood. We investigated how fire frequency (annual, biennial, quinquennial, and infrequent) influences the distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) pools in a 40-year burn...
Precautionary Principle in Adjudicating Uncertainties: A Short Review on Science and LawNARA Subscribed
This research explores the institutional application of the “precautionary principle” to addressing scientific uncertainties, with a focus on how the international legal framework adjudicates environmental risks associated with the release of nuclear-polluted wastewater from the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster site. Scientific uncertainties tend to be amplified and escalated into political disputes due to the diversified asses...
An image-computable spatio-chromatic receptive field model of the midget retinal ganglion cell mosaic across the retinaNARA Subscribed
Image-computable models of primate retinal ganglion cell (RGC) mosaics that are synthesized and constrained jointly by optical, anatomical and physiological properties, and which operate on images defined by their spatial-spectral radiance, do not currently exist. Here, we deploy a novel computational framework which synthesizes mosaics of linear spatio-chromatic receptive fields (RFs) of ON midget RGCs (mRGCs) by integrating...