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Open AccessGetting your DUCs in a row - standardising the representation of Digital Use Conditions
Improving patient care and advancing scientific discovery requires responsible sharing of research data, healthcare records, biosamples, and biomedical resources that must also respect applicable use condition...
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Open AccessPrivacy risks of whole-slide image sharing in digital pathology
Access to large volumes of so-called whole-slide images—high-resolution scans of complete pathological slides—has become a cornerstone of the development of novel artificial intelligence methods in pathology f...
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Open AccessLightweight Distributed Provenance Model for Complex Real–world Environments
Provenance is information describing the lineage of an object, such as a dataset or biological material. Since these objects can be passed between organizations, each organization can document only parts of th...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought
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Open AccessField experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought
Researchers use both experiments and observations to study the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, but results from these contrasting approaches have not been systematically compared for droughts. Using a...
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Author Correction: Leveraging European infrastructures to access 1 million human genomes by 2022
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Leveraging European infrastructures to access 1 million human genomes by 2022
Human genomics is undergoing a step change from being a predominantly research-driven activity to one driven through health care as many countries in Europe now have nascent precision medicine programmes. To m...
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Dynamic reconfiguration in multigroup multicast routing under uncertainty
Motivated by high quality multimedia and remote collaborative environments, we solve the problem of multigroup multicast routing with a number of features important for real-world deployment of the interactive...
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BBMRI-ERIC: the novel gateway to biobanks
BBMRI-ERIC, the Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure-European Research Infrastructure Consortium, is a new form of umbrella organization for biobanking in Europe. For rare and common d...
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Laser Remelting of Plasma-Sprayed Tungsten Coatings
Laser surface melting was applied on plasma-sprayed tungsten coatings, with the aim to eliminate intersplat voids and improve thermal conductivity. A variety of laser parameters was tested and the morphology a...
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Different nutrient use strategies of expansive grasses Calamagrostis epigejos and Arrhenatherum elatius
Enhanced nitrogen (N) levels accelerate expansion of Calamagrostis epigejos and Arrhenatherum elatius, highly aggressive expanders displacing original dry acidophilous grassland vegetation in the Podyjí National ...
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The role of Athyrium distentifolium in reduction of soil acidification and base cation losses due to acid deposition in a deforested mountain area
The tall fern (Athyrium distentifolium Tausch ex Opiz) forms large stands in many deforested sites in Central European mountains. In the present study, we want to demonstrate that the effect of ferns on the leach...
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Data transfer planning with tree placement for collaborative environments
Latency-sensitive data distribution and media streaming is a part of many network-centric applications. Based on our previous practical experiences with interactive high-quality media distribution and orchestr...
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Effect of nitrogen addition and drought on above-ground biomass of expanding tall grasses Calamagrostis epigejos and Arrhenatherum elatius
Tall expansive grasses act as serious weeds since they spread intensively and are a important threat to biodiversity of various plant communities. A field experiment was set up based on three sets of paired pl...
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The effect of enhanced nitrogen on aboveground biomass allocation and nutrient resorption in the fern Athyrium distentifolium
We measured aboveground biomass allocation and resorption of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in the fronds of a winter-deciduous fern Athyrium distentifolium in ambient and N-enhanced treatments. Studies were don...
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Effect of Manipulated Rainfall on Root Production and Plant Belowground Dry Mass of Different Grassland Ecosystems
A field experiment was established to quantify the effects of different amounts of rainfall on root growth and dry mass of belowground plant parts in three types of grassland ecosystems. Mountain (Nardus grasslan...
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Soil nutrient heterogeneity and competitive ability of three grass species (Festuca ovina, Arrhenatherum elatius and Calamagrostis epigejos) in experimental conditions
We studied the effects of differences in root growth and nutrient pool on the competitive ability of Festuca ovina (short grass), Arrhenatherum elatius and Calamagrostis epigejos (tall grasses) grown in monocultu...
