The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects moderate defoliation and grass species on soil nitrogen (N) mineralization in a semiarid grassland northeastern Patagonia, Argentina. Studied were Poa ligularis Nassella tenuis (desirable/preferred by cattle) Amelichloa ambigua (undesirable/non preferred). Two defoliations made 5 cm stubble height during growing season. Hypotheses that (1)...

Previous research has studied the relationship between political ideology and cognitive biases, such as the tendency of conservatives to form stronger illusory correlations between negative infrequent behaviors and minority groups. We further explored these findings by studying the relation between illusory correlation and moral values. According to the moral foundations theory, liberals and co...

Illusory correlation research has identified two factors that lead subjects to overestimate the relationship between particular categories of people and particular types of behavior: associative connections and shared infrequency. Three studies examined the nature of illusory correlation effects when both of these factors operated simultaneously. The results were consistent with previous shared...

. 12.00 background: medication therapy is one of the most complex and high-risk clinical processes that nurses deal with. medication error is the most common type of error that brings about damage and death to patients, especially pediatric ones. however, these errors are preventable. identifying and preventing undesirable events leading to medication errors are the main risk management activit...

Abstract Ecological indicator approaches typically compare the prevailing state of an ecosystem component to a reference reflecting good environmental conditions, i.e. desirable state. However, defining is challenging due wide range uncertainties related natural variability and measurement error in data, as well ecological understanding. This study propose novel probabilistic approach combining...

Total carbon dioxide (CO2) emission and energy consumption by mainland China in recent years has been second only to the U.S. China’s environmental pollution causes about 3.5% to 8% loss of GDP every year, indicating that its domestic environmental problem has become one of the most urgent issues the government must face. Current studies in the literature that employ data envelopment analysis (...

OBJECTIVE To describe the outcomes of dorsal augmentation rhinoplasty with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) implants in Southeast Asian patients from the Philippines. METHODS Retrospective review of 1054 patients. RESULTS Of the 1054 patients, 90.61% were women and 9.39% were men. One thousand eight patients (95.64%) underwent primary rhinoplasty; 46 (4.36%), secondary or revision r...