Bark water vapor conductance (gbark) modulates forest transpiration during droughts, when leaf transpiration is highly reduced. If disturbances such as windstorms and floods impact gbark, they could affect tree performance during subsequent droughts. Bark traits, particularly lenticel traits, likely drive variation in gbark and may influence the effects of disturbances on gbark.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the motor proficiency, identify risk factors for abnormal motor scores, and examine the relationship between motor proficiency and health-related quality of life in school-aged patients with CHD.
Study Design: Patients ≥ 4 years old referred to the cardiac neurodevelopmental program between June 2017 and April 2020 were included. Motor skills were evaluated by therapist-administered and parent-reported and questionnaires.
Abortion restrictions affect access to reproductive health care. Research has demonstrated that abortion restrictions (policies that restrict access to abortion services or cause abortion clinics to close) result in reductions of and delays in abortions. We leverage two population-based datasets to investigate the effects of mandatory waiting periods (MWPs), a restrictive state abortion policy, on the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV), one of the most common types of crime and a highly prevalent and costly public health problem, using data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System and Uniform Crime Report - Supplemental Homicide Reports.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFermented foods and beverages have been produced around the world for millennia, providing humans with a range of gastronomic, cultural, health, and scientific benefits. Building on these traditional forms, a convergence of factors, including culinary innovation, globalization, shifts in consumer preferences, and advances in microbiome sciences, has led to the emergence of so-called 'novel fermentations'. In this review, we define novel fermentation as the confluence of traditional food practices and rational microbiome design.
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