In ecology, species can mitigate their extinction risks in uncertain environments by diversifying individual phenotypes.This observation is quantified by the theory of bet-hedging, which provides a reason for the degree of phenotypic diversity observed even in clonal populations.Bet-hedging in well-mixed populations is rather well understood.Howeve

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a debilitating systemic condition.Our working hypothesis is that CKD predialysis patients with periodontitis would respond poorly to periodontal treatment owing to immunologic compromise.Twenty-one predialysis patients (group 1) and 19 individuals without clinical evidence of kidney disease (group 2) with chronic per

Wildland fires produce smoke plumes that impact air quality and human health.To understand the effects of wildland fire smoke on humans, the amount and composition of the smoke plume must be quantified.Using a fire emissions inventory is one way to determine the emissions rate and composition of smoke plumes from individual fires.There are multiple

Abstract ceramiche The article presents the history of the National and University Library from the period 1938 to 1943.The period begins in 1938 when the former State Studium Library became a part of the University of King Alexander I and changed its name to University Library, and ends with the collapse of the fascist Italy in 1943.After more tha

We present a flexible approach to transfer metallic photonic crystals (MPCs) onto end facets of optical fibers.The MPCs were initially fabricated on a glass substrate with a spacer layer of indium tin oxide (ITO), which was used as a buffer layer in the transferring process.The fiber ends were firstly welded on ROOT CANAL the top surface of the MPC