Contrasting forest management strategies: Impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services under changing climate and disturbance regimes.

Natural disturbances may compromise the past and ongoing efforts to increase carbon sequestration and halt biodiversity loss in boreal forests. Measures to minimize the effects of forest disturbances i.e.

Patient-reported Outcome Measure (PROM) Rand-36-item Health Survey for Gallstone Disease Patients Five Years Following Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Study.

Background/aim: There are no studies assessing the long-term quality of life (QoL) following three-dimensional laparoscopy cholecystectomy (3D-LC) in patients with cholelithiasis (Chole).

Patients And Methods: A cohort of 200 patients with Chole were randomized into 3D-LC or minilaparotomy cholecystectomy (MC) groups. RAND-36 survey was performed before randomization, four weeks and five years postoperatively.

First RAND-36-Item Health Survey in Three-dimensional Laparoscopy Cholecystectomy: A Prospective Randomized Study.

Background/aim: National healthcare organizers require feedback from patients to improve medical treatment methods. Three-dimensional laparoscopy cholecystectomy (3D-LC) is a modern technique in surgery. However, there are no studies with patient feedback from validated questionnaires assessing the postoperative treatment results in 3D-LC.

Future supply of boreal forest ecosystem services is driven by management rather than by climate change.

Forests provide a wide variety of ecosystem services (ES) to society. The boreal biome is experiencing the highest rates of warming on the planet and increasing demand for forest products. To foresee how to maximize the adaptation of boreal forests to future warmer conditions and growing demands of forest products, we need a better understanding of the relative importance of forest management and climate change on the supply of ecosystem services.

Comparing soil inventory with modelling: Carbon balance in central European forest soils varies among forest types.

Forest soils represent a large carbon pool and already small changes in this pool may have an important effect on the global carbon cycle. To predict the future development of the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool, well-validated models are needed. We applied the litter and soil carbon model Yasso15 to 1838 plots of the German national forest soil inventory (NFSI) for the period between 1985 and 2014 to enables a direct comparison to the NFSI measurements.

The Souter-Strathclyde elbow arthroplasty. A clinical and radiological study of 525 consecutive cases.

We present the results of 525 primary Souter elbow arthroplasties undertaken in 406 patients between 1982 and 1997. There were 372 women and 34 men with a mean age of 57 years; 119 patients had a bilateral procedure. The elbows were affected by chronic inflammatory disease, usually rheumatoid arthritis, which had been present for a mean of 24.

Hip involvement in seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. Survivorship analysis with a 15-year follow-up.

In a prospective survey of recent arthritis 96 patients had erosive and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Severe radiological changes in the hipjoint (Larsen grade 3-5) were observed in 31 (32%) and acetabular protrusion in five (5%) patients 15 years after the onset of arthritis. At the end of follow-up Larsen score 0-100 of peripheral joints (p < 0.

Osteomalacia in institutionalized epileptic patients on long-term anticonvulsant therapy.

The occurrence of anticonvulsant osteomalacia was studied in 31 epileptic inpatients, 16 women and 15 men. Disturbances in biochemical parameters indicating osteomalacia were frequent. Thirty two per cent of the patients were hypocalcemic, 55% had an increase in S-ALP and 26% in U-HOP, and dU-Ca was decrease in 55%.