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Direct and indirect estimations of aerial forage net primary productivity in Nothofagus antarctica forests under silvopastoral systems in Northwest of Chubut, Argentina
We evaluated the annual net primary productivity (ANPP) on understory in secondary Nothofagus antarctica forests under silvopastoral systems in Patagonia. We assessed the effect of thinning and estimated understo...
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Open AccessCosmology in 5D and 4D Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity
We consider the five-dimensional Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity, which can be obtained by means of an appropriate choice of coefficients in the five-dimensional Lanczos–Lovelock gravity theory. The Einstein–Gau...
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Open AccessDragon 1 Protocol Manuscript: Training, Accreditation, Implementation and Safety Evaluation of Portal and Hepatic Vein Embolization (PVE/HVE) to Accelerate Future Liver Remnant (FLR) Hypertrophy
The DRAGON 1 trial aims to assess training, implementation, safety and feasibility of combined portal- and hepatic-vein embolization (PVE/HVE) to accelerate future liver remnant (FLR) hypertrophy in patients w...
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Open AccessThe Impact of COVID-19 on Interventional Radiology Practice Worldwide: Results from a Global Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on clinical practice and healthcare professionals. We aimed to assess how interventional radiology services (IR services) were impacted by the pandemic and des...
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Quantification of the Risk of ASF Appearance Using OWA Operators
African Swine Fever (ASF) is an infectious and devastating viral disease that affects pigs. Measures to control this disease may have critical socioeconomic consequences, especially for low and mediumincome co...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Meteorological Predictions for Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site at Jezero Crater
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Open AccessThe Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer, MEDA. A Suite of Environmental Sensors for the Mars 2020 Mission
NASA’s Mars 2020 (M2020) rover mission includes a suite of sensors to monitor current environmental conditions near the surface of Mars and to constrain bulk aerosol properties from changes in atmospheric radi...
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Open AccessFour-dimensional Brane–Chern–Simons Gravity and Cosmology
From the field equations corresponding to a four-dimensional brane embedded in the five-dimensional spacetime of the Einstein–Chern–Simons theory for gravity, we find cosmological solutions that describe an ac...
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Open AccessMeteorological Predictions for Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site at Jezero Crater
The Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (MRAMS) and a nested simulation of the Mars Weather Research and Forecasting model (MarsWRF) are used to predict the local meteorological conditions at the Mars 2020 ...
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De Sitter brane-world solution in 5-dimensional Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity
To describe a late stage in the evolution of the universe, we consider a low energy density dust-filled 4-dimensional brane, immersed in a 5-dimensional space-time. Assuming that cosmological dynamics is gover...
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Open AccessBrane gravity in 4D from Chern–Simons gravity theory
We evaluate a 5-dimensional Randall Sundrum type metric in the Lagrangian of the Einstein–Chern–Simons gravity, and then we derive an action and its corresponding field equations, for a 4-dimensional brane emb...
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Open AccessAntisymmetric linear magnetoresistance and the planar Hall effect
The phenomena of antisymmetric magnetoresistance and the planar Hall effect are deeply entwined with ferromagnetism. The intrinsic magnetization of the ordered state permits these unusual and rarely observed m...
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Matrix Wheeler-DeWitt Equation, Quantum Cosmological Tunneling and Three-Dimensional Space
To give a possible explanation of the 3-dimensionality of space, a matrix version of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for quantum gravity is developed. In this equation, the number of spatial dimensions D is associate...
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Tinnitus distress: a paradoxical attention to the sound?
Tinnitus, the perception of sound in the absence of external stimuli, is often a disturbing symptom for which the underlying functional neuroanatomy still remains poorly understood. Most studies have focused s...
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Effectiveness, safety and cost of abiraterone acetate in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a real-world data analysis
New therapies with diverse mechanisms of action are available for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness, safety and cost of abiraterone acetate ...
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Arthritis in adults, socioeconomic factors, and the moderating role of childhood maltreatment: cross-sectional data from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions
These data present associations between socioeconomic status (SES), different types of childhood maltreatment (CM) history and family dysfunction, and arthritis in men and women across a wide age range. Arthri...
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Empirical Correlations for Geometry Build-Up of Fixed Wing Unmanned Air Vehicles
The results of a statistical investigation of 42 fixed-wing, small to medium sized (20 kg−1000 kg) reconnaissance unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are presented. Regression analyses are used to identify correlatio...
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Abdominal Obesity and Mobility Disability in Older Adults: A 4-Year Follow-Up of the International Mobility in Aging Study
Abdominal obesity is related to the disability process in older adults, however, little is known about this relationship when adjusted for important confounders such as depression and physical performance meas...
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Association between High Levels of Parathyroid Hormone and Frailty: The Nepean Osteoporosis and Frailty (NOF) Study
Frailty is associated with poor outcomes hence identification of risks factors is pivotal. Since the independent role of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in frailty remains unexplored, we aimed to determine this in a...
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Textural, thermal, and topographic constraints on lava flow system structure: the December 2010 eruption of Piton de la Fournaise
In this study, we examine the channel-fed ‘a‘ā lava flow system that was emplaced during a very short (less than 15 h long) eruption at Piton de la Fournaise (La Réunion) in December 2010. The system had four ...
