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Open AccessHarmonization of design-based map** for spatial populations
The map** of a survey variable throughout a continuum or for finite populations of units is usually performed from a model-dependent perspective. Nevertheless, when a sample of locations/units is selected by...
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Estimating wild boar density in hunting areas by a probabilistic sampling of drive counts
The evaluation of wild boar density in a hunting district can be performed by accurate drive counts of boars within the drive areas assigned to each hunting team. Because a complete driving of all the areas is...
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Open AccessIndole-3-butyric acid promotes adventitious rooting in Arabidopsis thaliana thin cell layers by conversion into indole-3-acetic acid and stimulation of anthranilate synthase activity
Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), and its precursor indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), control adventitious root (AR) formation in planta. Adventitious roots are also crucial for propagation via cuttings. However, IBA role(s...
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Polyamines are common players in different facets of plant programmed cell death
Programmed cell death (PCD) is a process that occurs throughout the life span of every plant life, from initial germination of the seed to the senescence of the plant. It is a normal physiological milestone d...
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Estimation of small woodlot and tree row attributes in large-scale forest inventories
Forest surveys performed over a large scale (e.g. national inventories) involve several phases of sampling. The first phase is usually performed by means of a systematic search of the study region, in which th...
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Open AccessDiscovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature
Rarefaction has long represented a powerful tool for detecting species richness and its variation across spatial scales. Some authors recently reintroduced the mathematical expression for calculating sample-ba...
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Open AccessMulti-stage cluster sampling for estimating average species richness at different spatial grains
A multi-stage cluster sampling is proposed for quantifying and monitoring plant species richness at multiple spatial grains over large spatial extents. An unbiased estimator of average species richness at diff...
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Local 3D perturbation experiments for probing the ELM stability
Empirical estimates indicate that the transient divertor power load induced by type-I ELMs in the standard H-mode ITER scenario might result in intolerably short target life times. Significant experimental eff...
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Variance decomposition in two-stage plot sampling: theoretical and empirical results
The statistical properties of two-stage plot sampling estimators of abundance are considered. In the first stage, some spatial units are selected over the whole study area according to a suitable sampling desi...
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A Two-Phase Sampling Strategy for Forest Inventories
A two-phase sampling strategy is investigated in order to perform forest inventories on large areas for which aerial photos are available. In the first phase the study area is partitioned into N quadrats of eq...
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Linear and non-linear analysis of surface electromyograms in weightlifters
The present research was aimed at investigating the peculiarities of surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals in 12 weightlifting athletes (WLA) and 9 control subjects (control group, CG) The sEMG signals were re...
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The use of replicated plot, line and point sampling for estimating species abundance and ecological diversity
The paper deals with the problem of estimating diversity indexes for an ecological community. First the species abundances are unbiasedly and consistently estimated using designs based on n random and independ...
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Design-Based Approaches for Inference on Diversity
A number of measures have been proposed to quantify species diversity in a community from theoretical, mathematical or ecological point of views. For an updated review of these proposals see Gove et al. (1994)...
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Performances of surface Laplacian estimators: A study of simulated and real scalp potential distributions
This paper presents a study of the performance of various local and spherical spline methods currently in use for the surface Laplacian (SL) estimate of scalp potential distributions. The SL was estimated from...
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Power spectrum analysis of heart rate variations in the early detection of diabetic autonomic neuropathy
Power spectrum analysis of the R—R interval was used in 20 controls and in two groups of type I (insulin dependent) diabetics (27 patients) to detect changes in total power or in its components (low frequency an...
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Systemic sclerosis following anti-androgenic treatment for prostatic adenocarcinoma
We describe a male patient who developed systemic sclerosis following orchiectomy, radiotherapy and anti-androgenic treatment for prostatic adenocarcinoma. This case appears interesting as it further supports ...
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Colchicine treatment in a case of pachydermoperiostosis with acroosteolysis
We report a case of pachydermoperiostosis with arthralgia, acroosteolysis, and recurrent staphilococcal folliculitis of the face, treated with colchicine (0.5 mg once daily for the 1st week and 0.5 mg twice da...
