Publications by authors named "A Mounier"
In this paper, we present the potential of Terahertz Time-Domain Imaging (THz-TDI) as a tool to perform non-invasive 3D analysis of an ancient enamel plate manufactured by Longwy Company in France. The THz data collected in the reflection mode were processed using noise filtering procedures and an advanced imaging approach. The results validate the capability to identify glaze layers and the thickness of ceramic materials.
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- - The discovery of the Iroungou sepulchral cave in Gabon in 2018, which predates European colonization, provides valuable information about the populations of sub-Saharan Africa, including 28 individuals and various metal artifacts.
- - The study analyzed the morphology of eight well-preserved crania from the cave using geometric morphometric techniques and compared them to 154 individuals from 12 distinct African populations.
- - Results show that these crania have the highest affinity with Bayaka Pygmy populations but also display significant morphological variation, suggesting a complex population interaction in the area, particularly with connections to the ruling class of the nearby Loango kingdom.
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- Diverse organisms exist in soil, but how they interact and influence microbial community formation is not fully understood.
- An experiment in a grassland revealed that excluding larger soil fauna increased the proportion of phagotrophic protists by up to 32%, while negatively impacting bacterial and fungal communities.
- This study highlights the significance of higher trophic levels in shaping soil microbial communities, emphasizing the need to consider these interactions in soil microbiome research.
Objectives: The Middle Pleistocene (MP) saw the emergence of new species of hominins: Homo sapiens in Africa, H. neanderthalensis, and possibly Denisovans in Eurasia, whose most recent common ancestor is thought to have lived in Africa around 600 ka ago. However, hominin remains from this period present a wide range of morphological variation making it difficult to securely determine their taxonomic attribution and their phylogenetic position within the Homo genus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobial inoculants are attracting growing interest in agriculture, but their efficacy remains unreliable in relation to their poor survival, partly due to the competition with the soil resident community. We hypothesised that recurrent inoculation could gradually alleviate this competition and improve the survival of the inoculant while increasing its impact on the resident bacterial community. We tested the effectiveness of such strategy with four inoculation sequences of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain B177 in soil microcosms with increasing number and frequency of inoculation, compared to a non-inoculated control.
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