Publications by authors named "J P Cairns"
Understanding factors influencing community resilience to disturbance is critical for mitigating harm at various scales, including harm from medication to gut microbiota and harm from human activity to global biodiversity, yet there is a lack of data from large-scale controlled experiments. Factors expected to boost resilience include prior exposure to the same disturbance and dispersal from undisturbed patches. Here we set up an in vitro system to test the effect of disturbance pre-exposure and dispersal represented by community mixing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHybrid maize seed production in Africa is dependent upon manual detasseling of the female parental lines, often resulting in plant damage that can lead to reduced seed yields on those detasseled lines. Additionally, incomplete detasseling can result in hybrid purity issues that can lead to production fields being rejected. A unique nuclear genetic male sterility seed production technology, referred to as Ms44-SPT, was developed to avoid hybrid seed loss and to improve the purity and quality of hybrid maize production.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSingle-cell MALDI mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) of lipids and metabolites >200 Da has recently come to the forefront of biomedical research and chemical biology. However, cell-targeting and metabolome-preserving methods for analysis of low mass, hydrophilic metabolites (<200 Da) in large cell populations are lacking. Here, the PRISM-MS (PRescan Imaging for Small Molecule - Mass Spectrometry) mass-guided MSI workflow is presented, which enables space-efficient single cell lipid and metabolite analysis.
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- The COMPLETE trial showed that complete revascularization in STEMI patients with multivessel disease leads to better health outcomes than treating only the culprit lesion.
- This subanalysis focused on whether having a nonculprit lesion (NCL) in the proximal/mid left anterior descending artery (LAD) affects outcomes compared to NCLs in other locations.
- Results indicated that while the presence of a proximal/mid-LAD NCL did not significantly alter treatment benefits, complete revascularization consistently reduced major cardiovascular events across both groups.
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- Understanding pro-environmental behavior is essential for addressing the socio-ecological crisis, with climate emotions and ideological frameworks, particularly from religions like Buddhism, playing significant roles in shaping actions and attitudes towards the environment.
- A study of thirteen Western Buddhist climate activists revealed that interpretations of Buddhist teachings, such as compassion and interconnectedness, influence emotional responses to climate issues and manifest in varying degrees of care for nature, as well as emotional challenges like climate anxiety.
- The findings indicate that while Buddhist practices can help mitigate feelings of burnout and uncertainty, they can also lead to social disengagement if individuals focus too much on inner reflection rather than collective action, highlighting the need for a balanced approach to activism within the context of Buddhism.