Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes using a multi-method approach.

Ice marginal lakes are a dynamic component of terrestrial meltwater storage at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Despite their significance to the sea level budget, local flood hazards and bigeochemical fluxes, there is a lack of Greenland-wide research into ice marginal lakes. Here, a detailed multi-sensor inventory of Greenland's ice marginal lakes is presented based on three well-established detection methods to form a unified remote sensing approach.

[Day Surgery for Endoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair].

Background: Whereas international guidelines recommend day surgery for endoscopic inguinal hernia repair, this approach is still controversial in Germany. In the light of international guidelines and at the request of patients, we have established total extraperitoneal patch plastic (TEP) surgery in the outpatient setting in our hospital.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of all unilateral TEP procedures carried out between January 2013 and December 2015 in our outpatient surgery, focused on postoperative complications, conversion to admission and rate of recurrence.

ELBARA II, an L-band radiometer system for soil moisture research.

L-band (1-2 GHz) microwave radiometry is a remote sensing technique that can be used to monitor soil moisture, and is deployed in the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Performing ground-based radiometer campaigns before launch, during the commissioning phase and during the operative SMOS mission is important for validating the satellite data and for the further improvement of the radiative transfer models used in the soil-moisture retrieval algorithms. To address these needs, three identical L-band radiometer systems were ordered by ESA.

Decreased CD90 expression in human mesenchymal stem cells by applying mechanical stimulation.

Background: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent cells which can differentiate along osteogenic, chondrogenic, and adipogenic lineages. The present study was designed to investigate the influence of mechanical force as a specific physiological stress on the differentiation of (MSC) to osteoblast-like cells.

Methods: Human MSC were cultured in osteoinductive medium with or without cyclic uniaxial mechanical stimulation (2000 mustrain, 200 cycles per day, 1 Hz).