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Variations in Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes in Soils along the Barguzinsky Ridge, Eastern Baikal Region, Russia
The soils along the western exposed slopes of the Barguzinsky Ridge are characterized by a clear altitudinal zoning. The lower part of the catena transect is dominated by soddy–podzolized brown soils and brown...
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Open AccessThe impact of social complexity on the visual exploration of others' actions in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder
Typical development of socio-communicative skills relies on keen observation of others. It thus follows that decreased social attention negatively impacts the subsequent development of socio-communicative abil...
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Open AccessRevisiting afro-alpine Lake Garba Guracha in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia: rationale, chronology, geochemistry, and paleoenvironmental implications
Previous paleolimnological studies demonstrated that the sediments of Garba Guracha, situated at 3950 m asl in the afro-alpine zone of the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia, provide a complete Late Glacial and Holoce...
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Open AccessUnderstanding others: a pilot investigation of cognitive and affective facets of social cognition in patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS)
Although significant impairments in the affective and cognitive facets of social cognition have been highlighted in patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) in previous studies, these domains have nev...
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Microbial Response to Charcoal Amendments and Fertilization of a Highly Weathered Tropical Soil
Charcoal is a major component of stable SOM in terras pretas alsocalled Amazonian Dark Earths (Glaser et al. 2001a, b; Glaser 2007). Apart from charcoal, special microbes could contribute to the formation of the ...
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Impact of polymorphisms in WFS1 on prediabetic phenotypes in a population-based sample of middle-aged people with normal and abnormal glucose regulation
Recently, variants in WFS1 have been shown to be associated with type 2 diabetes. We aimed to examine metabolic risk phenotypes of WFS1 variants in glucose-tolerant people and in individuals with abnormal glucose...
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Rearrangement of the A4 calorimeter for the backward angle measurement
The A4 collaboration investigates the contribution of strange quarks to the vector form factors of the nucleon at the electron accelerator facility MAMI in Mainz by measuring the parity violating asymmetry in ...
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Identification of a potential Bipolar risk haplotype in the gene encoding the winged-helix transcription factor RFX4
The gene encoding the transcription factor RFX4 represents an excellent neurobiological and positional candidate gene for Bipolar disorder due to the potential involvement of RFX4 proteins in the regulation of...
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Open AccessA single-nucleotide polymorphism in the RAD51 gene modifies breast cancer risk in BRCA2 carriers, but not in BRCA1 carriers or noncarriers
Variation in the penetrance estimates for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers suggests that other genetic polymorphisms may modify the cancer risk in carriers. The RAD51 gene, which participates in homologous recom...
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Nitrogen dynamics in alpine ecosystems of the northern Caucasus
Net N mineralization, nitrification, microbial biomass N and 15N natural abundance were studied in a toposequence of representative soils and plant communities in the alpine zone of the northern Caucasus. The top...
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Open AccessCAG and GGC repeat polymorphisms in the androgen receptor gene and breast cancer susceptibility in BRCA1/2 carriers and non-carriers
Variation in the penetrance estimates for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations carriers suggests that other genetic polymorphisms may modify the cancer risk in carriers. A previous study has suggested that BRCA1 carriers wi...
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Isolation and characterization of the human AKT1 gene, identification of 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and their lack of association with Type II diabetes
Aims/hypothesis. AKT1, a serine/threonine protein kinase, is an important downstream target of the insulin-signalling pathway, with both anti-apoptotic and peripheral metabolic effects. Because i...
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Soil organic matter quantity and quality in mountain soils of the Alay Range, Kyrgyzia, affected by land use change
Changes in soil management practices influence the amount, quality and turnover of soil organic matter (SOM). Our objective was to study the effects of deforestation followed by pasture establishment on SOM q...
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Effects of deforestation on phosphorus pools in mountain soils of the Alay Range, Khyrgyzia
The amount, quality and turnover of soil P is heavily influenced by changes in soil management. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of deforestation and pasture establishment on the con...
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Map** of the human insulin receptor substrate-2 gene, identification of a linked polymorphic marker and linkage analysis in families with Type II diabetes: no evidence for a major susceptibility role
Insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS-2) is a substrate of the insulin receptor and mediates the action of the insulin. Disruption of the IRS-2 gene in mice results in peripheral insulin resistance and relative i...
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Genes Located In and Near the Human Pseudoautosomal Region are Located in the X-Y Pairing Region in Dog and Sheep
We cloned and mapped the dog and/or sheep homologues of two human pseudoautosomal genes CSF2RA and ANT3. We also cloned and mapped dog and/or sheep homologues of STS and PRKX, which are located nearby on the diff...
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Normal proinsulin processing despite beta-cell dysfunction in persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia of infancy (nesidioblastosis)
Persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia of infancy (PHHI) is a genetic disorder which causes severe hypoglycaemia in the neonate. The beta cells fail to respond to changes in blood glucose levels in all th...
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Parallel updating algorithm for image restoration
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Familial hyperinsulinism maps to chromosome 11p14–15.1, 30 cM centromeric to the insulin gene
Familial hyperinsulinism (HI) is the most common cause of persistent neonatal hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycemia. Linkage analysis in 15 families (12 Ashkenazi Jewish, 2 consanguineous Arab, 1 non–Jewish Caucasian...
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Effect of four multipurpose tree species on soil amelioration during tree fallow in Central Togo
The effects of Cassia siamea, Albizia lebbek, Acacia auriculiformis, and Azadirachta indica on soil fertility have been studied on five-year-old fallows on Ferric Acrisols in Central Togo. Litter quality and soil...
