Metal Accumulation by Jatropha curcas L. Adult Plants Grown on Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soil [PDF]
, 2020 Jatropha curcas has the ability to phytoextract high amounts of heavy metals during its first months just after seeding. Notwithstanding, there is scarce information about metal uptake by adult J. curcas plants. To shed light on this issue, 4-year-old J.
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Temperature Acclimatization in Insects [PDF]
Nature, 1954 AMONG the voluminous literature on temperature and poikilothermal activity, an occasional paper is found dealing with temperature acclimatization. The majority of work has been carried out with fish.
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic games in 2020 will be held in hot and humid conditions. Heat acclimation (in a climatic chamber) or heat acclimatization (natural environment) is essential to prepare the (endurance) athletes and reduce the performance ...
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Acta Agrobotanica, 2015 The utilization of solar energy in photosynthesis has been studied in 20 varieties of Triticum durum belonging to the 12 botanical forms found in the collection of The Institute of Plant Breeding and Acclimatization, Radzikow n. Warsaw.
W. Nowakowski, E. Konopko, G. Lubańska
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Kinematic, kinetic and electromyographic response to customized foot orthoses in patients with tibialis posterior tenosynovitis, pes plano valgus and rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]
, 2013 Objective. To describe the effect of customized foot orthoses (FOs) on the kinematic, kinetic and EMG features in patients with RA, tibialis posterior (TP) tenosynovitis and associated pes plano valgus.<p></p> Methods. Patients with RA and
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Do pingers cause stress in fish? An experimental tank study with European sardine, Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) (Actinopterygii, Clupeidae), exposed to a 70 kHz dolphin pinger [PDF]
, 2014 Date of acceptance: 06/12/2014 Acknowledgments The study was funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundac¸a˜o para a Cieˆncia e Tecnologia– FCT) through a PhD Grant of SG (SFRH/BD/47931/2008).
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Prey body size mediates the predation risk associated with being "odd" [PDF]
, 2014 Despite selection pressures on prey animals to maintain phenotypically homogeneous groups, variation in phenotype within animal groups is commonly observed.
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Dietary Uncoupling of Gut Microbiota and Energy Harvesting from Obesity and Glucose Tolerance in Mice [PDF]
, 2017 The authors gratefully acknowledge Doctoral Training Partnership funding from the BBSRC (M.J.D.) and funding from the Scottish Government (P.J.M., A.W.R., and A.W.W.).
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Acclimatization of massive reef-building corals to consecutive heatwaves
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019 Reef-building corals typically live close to the upper limits of their thermal tolerance and even small increases in summer water temperatures can lead to bleaching and mortality. Projections of coral reef futures based on forecasts of ocean temperatures
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Alkaline Water and Longevity: A Murine Study [PDF]
, 2016 The biological effect of alkaline water consumption is object of controversy. The present paper presents a 3-year survival study on a population of 150 mice, and the data were analyzed with accelerated failure time (AFT) model.
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