Clonal growth allows plants to spread horizontally and to establish ramets in sites of contrasting resource status.If ramets remain physiologically integrated, clones in heterogeneous environments can act as cooperative systems--effects of stress on one ramet can be ameliorated by another connected ramet inhabiting benign conditions.But little is k
Interactions between individual genetic and environ- mental factors determine the onset of the multi nodular goiter (MNG).The thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) gene is a convincing candidate gene in the pathogenesis of certain thyroid diseases including MNG.We investigated the codon 727 polymorphism (p.Asp727Glu, p.D727E) of the human TSH
The Mediterranean basin is characterized by large concentrations of aerosols from both natural and anthropogenic sources.These aerosols affect tropospheric photochemistry by modulating the photolytic rates.Three simulations of the atmospheric composition at basin scale have been performed with the CHIMERE chemistry-transport model for the period fr
The Late Antique and early medieval periods saw the growth of monastic communities in the West, as ideas about asceticism and cenobitic monasticism spread from Egypt.At the same time, a strict system Skin Lotion of hierarchical gender identity operated in the Roman Empire, in which masculinity, and in particular, elite masculinity, was dominant.Thi
Typhoon Rai has recently affected central and southern parts of the Philippines.Based on the valuation of the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), it is estimated that the typhoon has damaged 1,700 buildings, 2 million houses, and 10 million hectares of agricultural land in the affected locations.Given the e