We develop and analyze a temporally continuous spatially lumped resource budget model to explain the dynamics of synchronized biennial-bearing olives in the Levant, specifically focusing on Syria, the region's foremost olive-producing country. The model is a time-continuous counterpart of the celebrated resource budget model. It consists of a Duffing oscillator coupled with a dynamical model of pollination with an external force propelling olive growth by photosynthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The most studied fertility-sparing therapy for endometrial cancer (EC) is oral progestin therapy. However, complete remission (CR) rate after progestin therapy is not enough ranging from 60 to 80 %, with high recurrence rate. Clinical features that predict treatment efficacy and recurrence after progestin therapy have not yet been revealed in detail.
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October 2008
Parachlamydia acanthamoebae, belonging to the order Chlamydiales, is an obligately intracellular bacterium that infects free-living amoebae and is a potential human pathogen. However, no method exists to accurately quantify viable bacterial numbers. We present a novel quantification method for P.
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