Discovery of a locus associated with susceptibility to esca in grapevine.

Esca is the most destructive and predominant of grapevine trunk disease. The chronic infections and vine mortality caused by esca syndrome leads to huge economic losses and threatens the sustainability of vineyards worldwide. Esca is caused by numerous wood-decay and wood-decay associated fungi, but its full etiology remains unclear due to the grapevine trunk disease complex, making effective control methods challenging.

Geometric preprocessing for measurements of comet 67P acquired by Rosetta's Visible and InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, Mapping channel (VIRTIS-M).

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter 67P) was the primary target of ESA's Rosetta mission. Hyperspectral images acquired by the Mapping channel of the Visible and InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer aboard Rosetta can be used to derive physical and compositional surface properties by detailed spectrophotometric analyses. This calls for a precise spatial co-registration between measurements and geometry information.

A Preliminary Study on Kinetic Analysis of Ground Reaction Force and Impulse During Gait in Patients With Total Hip Replacement and Implication for Rehabilitation.

Background: There is little research done on ground reaction forces (GRF) in terms of 3D impulses after total hip replacement (THR). This study aimed to investigate the GRFs and 3D impulses in four sub-phases of stance during gait in the patients undergoing THR.

Methods: A total of 10 pain-free THR patients and 10 healthy people were recruited.

Initial results from the PHEFREE longitudinal natural history study: Cross-sectional observations in a cohort of individuals with phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency.

Over fifty years have passed since the last large scale longitudinal study of individuals with PAH deficiency in the U.S. Since then, there have been significant changes in terms of treatment recommendations as well as treatment options.