Individual plasticity in response to rising sea temperatures contributes to an advancement in green turtle nesting phenology.

Phenological changes (i.e. shifts in the timing of biological events) are among the most frequently reported population-level responses to climate change and are often assumed to be adaptive and increase population viability.

Patient-reported outcomes after immediate and delayed DIEP-flap breast reconstruction in the setting of post-mastectomy radiation therapy-results of the multicenter UMBRELLA breast cancer cohort.

Purpose: Timing of Deep Inferior Epigastric artery Perforator (DIEP)-flap breast reconstruction in the context of post-mastectomy radiotherapy for breast cancer patients is topic of debate. We compared the impact of immediate (before radiotherapy) versus delayed (after radiotherapy) DIEP-flap breast reconstruction (IBR versus DBR) on short- and long-term patient-reported outcomes (PROs).

Methods: Within the prospective, multicenter breast cancer cohort (UMBRELLA), we identified 88 women who underwent immediate or delayed DIEP-flap breast reconstruction and received PMRT.

Counting chicks before they hatch: extending the observed lifetime to better characterize evolutionary processes in the wild.

Evolutionary theorists have emphasized for over half a century that population sampling must be conducted at the intergenerational boundary if the distinct effects of selection and inheritance are to be reliably quantified, with individuals recognized at the point of conception and lifetime reproductive success (LRS) defined as the total number of zygotic offspring produced per zygote. However, in those species whose ecology is otherwise well-suited to individual-level population studies, the prenatal part of an individual's life is often difficult to observe. While uncertainty has long surrounded the fertilization status of unhatched bird eggs-hatching failure can arise through fertilization failure or prenatal mortality-2 recent studies show fertilization failure to be extremely rare within 2 of the most popular avian study species.

Predicting Cognitive Functioning for Patients with a High-Grade Glioma: Evaluating Different Representations of Tumor Location in a Common Space.

Cognitive functioning is increasingly considered when making treatment decisions for patients with a brain tumor in view of a personalized onco-functional balance. Ideally, one can predict cognitive functioning of individual patients to make treatment decisions considering this balance. To make accurate predictions, an informative representation of tumor location is pivotal, yet comparisons of representations are lacking.