Carbonate communities:The activity of anaerobic methane oxidizing microbes facilitates
precipitation of vast quantities of authigenic carbonate at methane seeps. Here we demonstrate
the significant role of carbonate rocks in promoting diversity by providing unique habitat
and food resources for macrofaunal assemblages at seeps on the Costa Rica margin
(400–1850 m)....
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Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps
Levin, L. A., Mendoza, G. F., Grupe, B. M., Gonzalez, J. P., Jellison
OBJECTIVE: The associations of some risk factors with cardiovascular disease (CVD) are attenuated in
older age; whereas others appear robust. The present study aimed to compare CVD risk factors across
older age. METHODS: Participants (n = 4883) in the Cardiovascular Health Study free of prevalent CVD,
were stratified into three...
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across the spectrum of older
age: The Cardiovascular Health Study
Odden, M. C., Shlipak, M. G., Whitson
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that...
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, Jos Barlow28,29, P�eter Bat�ary30, Adam J. Bates31, Erin M. Bayne32, Pedro Beja33, �Ake
Berg34
BACKGROUND: On the basis of the 2014 guidelines for hypertension therapy in the United States,
many eligible adults remain untreated. We projected the cost-effectiveness of treating
hypertension in U.S. adults according to the 2014 guidelines.
METHODS: We used the Cardiovascular Disease Policy Model to simulate drug-treatment and
monitoring costs, costs...
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requiring hospitalization (1d)
Acute stroke (1 m)
Chronic stroke survivors (12 m)
Acute myocardial
BACKGROUND: On the basis of the 2014 guidelines for hypertension therapy in the United States,
many eligible adults remain untreated. We projected the cost-effectiveness of treating
hypertension in U.S. adults according to the 2014 guidelines.
METHODS: We used the Cardiovascular Disease Policy Model to simulate drug-treatment and
monitoring costs, costs...
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2014
Guidelines
Moran, A. E., Odden, M. C., Thanataveerat, A., Tzong, K. Y., Rasmussen, P. W
Organic agriculture requires cultivars that can adapt to organic crop management systems without the use of synthetic
pesticides as well as genotypes with improved nutritional value. The aim of this study encompassing 16 experiments was to
compare 23 broccoli cultivars for the content of phytochemicals associated with health promotion grown...
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among
genotypes (cultivars, genotypic classes) and environment {man-
agement system [M: organic (O) or
In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be drier. Human modifications of landscapes will also occur at an accelerated rate as developed areas increase in size and population density. We now...
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., Brad Murray, A., Pierce, J. L., Bierman, P. R., Breshears, D. D.,
Crosby, B. T., ... & Yager, E. M
Iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) are essential cofactors for microbial metalloenzymes, but little is known about the metalloenyzme inventory of anaerobic marine microbial communities despite their importance to the nitrogen cycle. We compared dissolved O₂ , NO₃⁻, NO₂⁻, Fe and Cu concentrations with nucleic acid sequences encoding Fe and Cu-binding...
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Sherry L. Seston 3, Kristen N. Buck 4, William M. Landing 5, Peter L. Morton 5,
James W. Moffett 6
Capture-recapture studies offer a powerful tool to assess abundance, survival and population rate of change (λ). A previous capture-recapture study, based on DNA profiles, estimated that the IUCN-listed Endangered Oceania population of humpback whales had a superpopulation size of 4329 whales (95% confidence limits, CL: 3345, 5315) and λ =...
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. Brooks2, C. S. Baker3,4, D. Burns2,5, C. Garrigue6,7,
N. Hauser8, J. A. Jackson9, M. M. Poole10, R. M
Biological invasions create complex ecological
and societal issues worldwide. Most of the
knowledge about invasions comes only from successful
invaders, but less is known about which processes
determine the differential success of invasions. In this
review, we develop a framework to identify the main
dimensions driving the success and failure...