Study Objective: Interest in community as the focus of public health interventions is growing. However, choosing intervention and comparison neighborhoods when designing community based programs poses a challenge to program planners. Ideally, intervention neighborhoods should be chosen based upon risk profiles and demonstrated need for the program. Multiple sources of data that tap into neighbo...

Riparian forests were frequently cleared and converted to agricultural pastures, but in recent times these pastures are often revegetated an effort return riparian forest structure function. We tested if there is a change the soil bacterial taxonomy function areas of for pasture then revegetated, related vegetation physicochemical properties. The study was conducted six south-eastern Australia,...

Our aim in this study was to (1) identify naturally occurring temperament profiles in young adulthood by using Cloninger's temperament dimensions and (2) examine the relationship of these profiles with the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors of the metabolic cardiovascular syndrome (insulin resistance syndrome, IRS) measured during adolescence and young adulthood. A randomly selected samp...

OBJECTIVES The goal of resident selection is twofold: (1) select candidates who will be successful residents and eventually successful practitioners and (2) avoid selecting candidates who will be unsuccessful residents and/or eventually unsuccessful practitioners. Traditional tools used to select residents have well-known limitations. The Hartman Value Profile (HVP) is a proven adjuvant tool to...

Soil microorganisms are key drivers of soil biochemical processes, but the resilience microbial communities and their metabolic activity after an extreme environmental change is still largely unknown. We studied structural (bacterial fungal communities) functional responses (soil respiration, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) content, hydrolase activities involved in mineralization organic C, N, P S...

The effects of repeated atrazine application (40 mg a.i.kg(-1)) on its degradation, microbial communities and enzyme activities were studied in a peat based biomixture composed by straw, soil and peat in the volumetric proportions of 2:1:1 that can be used in on-farm biopurification system. Atrazine removal efficiency was high (96%, 78% and 96%) after each atrazine application and did not show ...

During summer 2014, three hypersaline brines were discovered in two frozen lakes of Boulder Clay (Northern Victoria Valley, Antarctica). Ongoing research seeks to gain novel insights on the microbial ecology such environments, order further understanding life adaptation extreme conditions. To this aim, abundance prokaryotic cells (including cell morphologies and size for biomass conversion), am...

Phosphorus (P), in the form of phosphate ion (Pi), is a vital element contributing in biomolecule structures, metabolic reactions, signaling pathways and energy transfer within the living cells. The objective of the present study was to assess the influence of fungal infection on Pi metabolism in compare to the effects of phosphate stress in Arabidopsis. Quantification of total P contents showe...