Potential of enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers in reducing nitrogen and carbon losses in a sandy soil integrated crop-livestock system.

The demand for food is increasing, which poses significant challenges to humanity's sustainable and sufficient food production. Using fertilizers with new technologies with a low environmental impact is becoming increasingly necessary. In this context, the industry has been creating alternatives to optimize the use of nitrogen (N) fertilizers, with the improvement of urea being crucial for sustainable agricultural production.

Normal-range verbal memory in the first-episode of psychosis: Clinical and functional outcomes across 24 months and impact of estimated verbal memory decrement.

Verbal memory (VM) dysfunction is prevalent in first-episode psychosis (FEP) and has major impacts on long-term functional and clinical outcomes. Nevertheless, a substantial proportion of FEP patients have VM performance in the norm, called normal-range (NR) VM, and only a few studies have explored its relation to outcomes. Moreover, probable decrements between estimated premorbid and current cognitive performance could confuse the relationship between VM and clinical or functional outcomes in FEP patients.

Cortical impoverishment in a stable subgroup of schizophrenia: Validation across various stages of psychosis.

Background: Cortical thinning is a well-known feature in schizophrenia. The considerable variation in the spatial distribution of thickness changes has been used to parse heterogeneity. A 'cortical impoverishment' subgroup with a generalized reduction in thickness has been reported.