We use data on game harvest from 60 Pygmy and non-Pygmy settlements in the Congo Basin forests to examine whether hunting patterns and prey profiles differ between the two hunter groups. For each group, we calculate hunted animal numbers and biomass available per inhabitant, P, per year (harvest rates) and killed per hunter, H, per year (extraction rates). We assess the impact of hunting of bot...

Objectives: Metastatic melanoma has a poor prognosis with 10 year survival being < 5%. Standard therapy is the effective but costly Ipilimumab. An emerging 1st line treatment is Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL), with response rates > 50% and expected survival rates of 25%-42% versus 45% (1yr) and 23,5% (2yr) for Ipilimumab. TIL is highly personalized, however complex and requests substantia...

BACKGROUND Risk factors for and optimal surveillance of renal dysfunction in patients on tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) remain unclear. We investigated whether a urine protein-osmolality (P/O) ratio would be associated with renal dysfunction in HIV-infected persons on TDF. METHODS This retrospective, single-center study investigated the relationship between parameters of renal function (...

We have estimated fluxes of neutrinos and gamma-rays that are generated from decays of charged and neutral pions from a pulsar surrounded by supernova ejecta in our galaxy, including an effect that has not been taken into consideration, that is, interactions between high energy cosmic rays themselves in the nebula flow, assuming that hadronic components are the energetically dominant species in...

Abstract. Coastal wetlands are essential for regulating the global carbon budget through soil sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG – CO2, CH4, N2O) fluxes. The conversion of coastal to agricultural land alters these fluxes' magnitude direction (uptake/release). However, extent drivers change GHG fluxes still unknown many tropical regions. We measured from three natural mangroves, salt marsh, f...

BACKGROUND High rates of mental health disorders have been reported in veterans returning from deployment to Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom: OEF) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom: OIF); however, less is known about physical health functioning and its temporal course post-deployment. Therefore, our goal is to study physical health functioning in OEF/OIF veterans after deployment. MET...

PCI for long, diffuse lesions may often require multiple stents. Concerns remain with overlapping stents, including geographic miss involving two increase in procedural time, contrast use, radiation dose and cost. The availability use of longer stents can circumvent the need facilitate interventional management patients coronary artery lesions. prospective, single-arm, open-label SPIRIT 48 tria...

Recurrent ventricular tachycardia (VT) can be treated by substrate modification of the myocardial scar catheter ablation during sinus rhythm without VT induction. Better defining this arrhythmic could help improve outcome and reduce burden. We tested hypothesis that limiting within post-infarct to entrances functional channels recurrence. Patients undergoing for recurrent implantable defibrilla...

To manage this issue, understanding the mineralization process of crop leftovers is helpful. C and N kinetics in surface-applied soil-integrated rice wheat residues were investigated. Rice bind nitrogen soil. The use residue increased soil organic carbon by 18% aggregate stability 55% compared to control. This study concludes that instead simply leaving agricultural wastes on surface, it best w...

Abstract. The 4 per 1000 initiative aims to maintain and increase soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks for fertility, food security, climate change adaptation mitigation. One way enhance SOC is (C) inputs the soil. In this study, we assessed amount of C that are necessary reach a target by ‰ yr?1 on average, 30 years, at 14 long-term agricultural sites in Europe. We used Century model simulate requ...