Biogeographical, physiological, and paleoecological evidence suggests that the coast redwood [Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.] is closely associated with the presence of summer marine fog along the Pacific coast of California. Here we present a novel record of summer fog frequency in the coast redwood region upon the basis of direct hourly measurements of cloud ceiling heights from 1951 to ...

The productivity decline in drug discovery and development is mainly caused by two factors; higher regulatory hurdles and low-hanging fruits being all picked. In addition, the recent target-based approach is thought to be increasing the price of innovation. Although target-based approach had many successes, a postreductionism method, which is systems biology, is on the rise. In this review, we ...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated long-term neurobehavioral outcome from childhood bacterial meningitis, with particular focus on the influence of acute neurologic complications and age at illness. METHODS This prospective, longitudinal study compared survivors of childhood bacterial meningitis (n = 109) with grade- and gender-matched controls (n = 96) selected from the target children's sch...

The article discusses the analytical aspects of crisis reporting relevant in conditions uncertainty and manifestations economy, reflected indicators financial statements, unprofitability activities, trends indicative indicators. Some have been considered, expressed presence negative absolute reporting, frequency occurrence dynamics. a situation, indicators, include insufficiency own working cap...

The main aim of our paper is to study peculiarities two periods, i.e., the pre-conflict period (2004–2013) and conflict (2014–2018), in context impact demographic structure population on economic growth development coastal regions Ukraine. In first step analysis, we investigate relationship between shifts selected indicators, using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. next focus quantification in...

The research addresses the improvement of methodology to evaluate energy security through theoretical-methodological substantiation, development, and calculation integral index its competitiveness for a country on example Ukraine. Establishing an efficient (like component national security) system is crucial issue in current military-political situation global economic crisis military aggressio...

abstract growth quality index (qgi) is affected by two sets of structural and social composite indicators. structural indicator contributes to achieve the main target of sound, sustainable, and competitive output growth. by the way, the sound output growth should enhance social public services and living standard. although qgis are computed based on different scenarios, the trend of the qgis an...

BACKGROUND Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys have been conducted to gauge primary health care and family planning clinical readiness throughout East and South Asia as well as sub-Saharan Africa. Intended to provide useful descriptive information on health system functioning to supplement the Demographic and Health Survey data, each SPA produces a plethora of discrete indicators that ar...

Reduced seedling growth is a consequence of seed deterioration. The heterotrophic seedling growth can be considered as the product of three components: (1) initial seed weight, (2) the fraction of seed reserves which are mobilized, and (3) the conversion efficiency of mobilized seed reserves to seedling tissues. It is not clear which of these component (s) is affected by seed deterioration. To ...

The aim of this study was to identify the incidence of metabolic syndrome and related diseases in the Khisêdjê population living in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from 1999-2000 to 2010-2011. The study included 78 individuals aged ≥20 years. Data were analyzed using Student t test, linear regression, and Poisson regression. In 10 years of follow-up, cumulative incidence r...