Publications by authors named "J G Henn"
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- Forecasting how plants will respond to global changes is important yet complicated, as species often react differently based on their functional traits.
- The study analyzed data from six long-term experiments, focusing on 70 alpine plant species, to see how traits like leaf and stature influenced these responses to factors like nitrogen addition, snow, and warming.
- Results showed that plants with more resource-acquisitive traits generally thrived, but the effects varied significantly depending on the specific global change factor, highlighting the complexity of predicting plant community responses.
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- - Enteric glia are important players in the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer and may influence cancer development.
- - These glial cells change their characteristics to help immune cells like monocytes become more supportive of tumor growth, indicating a complex interaction within the tumor.
- - A higher presence of enteric glia correlates with poorer outcomes in colorectal cancer cases, suggesting their role in disease progression.
In many regions, the climate is changing faster during winter than during the other seasons, and a loss of snow cover combined with increased temperature variability can expose overwintering organisms to harmful conditions. Understanding how species respond to these changes during critical developmental times, such as seed germination, helps us assess the ecological implications of winter climate change. To address this concern, we measured the breaking of seed dormancy and cold tolerance of temperate grassland species in the lab and field.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe amplituhedron provides, via geometric means, the all-loop integrand of scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Unfortunately, dimensional regularization, used conventionally for integration, breaks the beautiful geometric picture. This motivates us to propose a "deformed" amplituhedron.
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