Soil Water Status Monitoring System with Proximal Low-Cost Sensors and LoRa Technology for Smart Water Irrigation in Woody Crops.

Weather and soil water dictate farm operations such as irrigation scheduling. Low-cost and open-source agricultural monitoring stations are an emerging alternative to commercially available monitoring stations because they are often built from components using open-source, do-it-yourself (DIY) platforms and technologies. For irrigation management in an experimental vineyard located in Quiroga (Lugo, Spain), we faced the challenge of installing a low-cost environmental and soil parameter monitoring station composed of several nodes measuring air temperature and relative humidity, soil temperature, soil matric potential, and soil water content.

BIA-assessed cellular hydration and strength in healthy older adults.

Objectives: The objective of this research was to evaluate the differential relationships between various BIA-estimated compartments of body water and strength, among healthy older adults, by age range and sex.

Design: Descriptive and correlational study.

Setting And Participants: A total of 234 healthy older adults (72.

Induced Periodontitis in Rats With Three Ligature Types: An Exploratory Study.

Background: The placement of ligatures in the cervical area of rat molars is considered as a predictable model to induce periodontitis.

Objectives: The present explorative study aimed to compare the efficacy of metal wires (MWs), without or with sandblasting, versus silk ligatures (SLs) in inducing periodontal bone loss in rats.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-four Wistar rats were randomly divided into three groups of eight rats that received three different types of ligatures (MW, sandblasted wire [SMW], and SL) around their first right mandibular molar, while the contralateral tooth was left without the ligature and served as a control.

Two-pore channels (TPCs) acts as a hub for excitation-contraction coupling, metabolism and cardiac hypertrophy signalling.

Ca signaling is essential for cardiac contractility and excitability in heart function and remodeling. Intriguingly, little is known about the role of a new family of ion channels, the endo-lysosomal non-selective cation "two-pore channel" (TPCs) in heart function. Here we have used double TPC knock-out mice for the 1 and 2 isoforms of TPCs (Tpcn1/2) and evaluated their cardiac function.

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: a rare presentation with skin necrosis.

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia is the most clinically relevant non-hemorrhagic complication of heparin and is characterized by the presence of anti-platelet factor 4 (PF4)/heparinimmunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies. The circulating PF4/heparinIgG immune complex binds to platelets their FcyIIa receptors, activating them and promoting their aggregation, with consequent platelet consumption, thrombocytopenia, and thrombotic phenomena. Despite thrombocytopenia, this condition is not typically associated with bleeding complications.