In 2001 the Italian Ministry of Agricultural and Forest Politics financed a forest research project
(Ri. Selv. Italia), which included a study for testing arboreous species and cultivars for the …

Objectives To determine the causes of death and risk factors in systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Methods Between 2000 and 2011, we examined the death certificates of all French patients …

Bioenergy from crops is expected to make a considerable contribution to climate change
mitigation. However, bioenergy is not necessarily carbon neutral because emissions of CO 2 , …

Data on the clinical spectrum and therapeutic management of noninfectious mixed
cryoglobulinemia vasculitis (CryoVas) in the era of hepatitis C virus screening are lacking. We …

Over 13 million ha of former cropland are enrolled in the US Conservation Reserve Program
(CRP), providing well-recognized biodiversity, water quality, and carbon (C) sequestration …

… The Lambertian background albedo is given by α, while T relates to the canopy transmission
and R is the spectral albedo of the scene (separated into a component for the direct and the …

Objective Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis (HUV) is an uncommon vasculitis of
unknown etiology that is rarely described in the literature. We undertook this study to analyze …

In this study, we assess the possibility of using ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical
resistivity tomography (ERT) as indirect non-destructive techniques for root detection. Two …

Plants acquire carbon through photosynthesis to sustain biomass production, autotrophic
respiration and production of non-structural compounds for multiple purposes 1 . The fraction …

The spectrum of diseases found in series of fever of unknown origin shows variation in
relation to selection bias; particularly, selection of the most difficult cases in tertiary reference …