Greenhouse eggplant monocropping in China has contributed to the aggravation of soil-borne diseases, reductions in crop quality and yield, and the degradation of physical and chemical soil properties. Crop rotation is one effective way of alleviating the problems of continuous cropping worldwide; however, few studies have reported changes in soil bacterial community structures and physical and ...

Land-use regulations are a critical component of forest governance and conservation strategies, but their effectiveness in shaping landholder behaviour is poorly understood. We conducted a spatial and temporal analysis of the Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) to understand the patterns of regulatory compliance over time and across changes in the policy, and the implications of these compliance patter...

The abilities of 7-coumarin propargyl ether (CPE) and 7-(4-trifluoromethyl)coumarin propargyl ether (TFCPE) to act as mechanism-based inactivators of P450 3A4 and 3A5 in the reconstituted system have been investigated using 7-benzyloxy-4-(trifluoromethyl)coumarin (BFC) and testosterone as probes. CPE inhibited the BFC O-debenzylation activity of P450 3A4 in a time-, concentration-, and NADPH-de...

1 INSERM, UMR645, 25020 Besançon, France 2 Université de Franche-Comté, IFR133, 25020 Besançon, France 3 EFS-BFC, Immuno-Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, 25020 Besançon, France 4 EFS-BFC, Clinical Biomonitoring Laboratory, 25020 Besançon, France 5 CHU Jean Minjoz, Oncology/Hematology Department, 25020 Besançon, France 6 INSERM UMR823, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, Grenoble France 7 F...

This paper presents a method to improve the semi-automatic method for intensity inhomogeneity correction by Dawant et al. through introducing a fully automatic approach to reference points generation, which is based on order statistics and integrates information from the fine to coarse scale representations of the input image. The method has been validated and compared with two popular methods,...

BACKGROUND The Birmingham Free Clinic (BFC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a free, walk-in clinic that serves medically uninsured populations through the use of volunteer health care providers and an on-site medication dispensary. The introduction of an electronic medical record (EMR) has improved several aspects of clinic workflow. However, pharmacists' tasks involving medication manageme...

Lesions of primary sensory cortex produce impairments in brain function as an outcome of the direct tissue damage. In addition, indirect lesion effects have been described that consist of functional deficits in areas sharing neural connections with the damaged area. The present study characterizes interhemispheric deficits produced as a result of unilateral lesions of the entire vibrissa repres...

In the first part of this article we introduce the notion of a backwardforward conditioning (BFC) system that generalises the notion of zero-class admissibiliy introduced in [21]. We can show that unless the spectum contains a halfplane, the BFC property occurs only in siutations where the underlying semigroup extends to a group. In a second part we present a sufficient condition for exact obse...