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Advancing social‐ecological restoration through elicitation of cultural ecosystem services and landscape feature perceptions in restored quarries: a Flickr data analysis
No full textWith increasing urbanization and demand for construction materials, quarries have become central to the recovery of degraded landscapes into spaces that offer ecological, but also social benefits. While ecological restoration has long been investigated, integrated social‐ecological restoration of post‐quarrying landscapes remains underexplored. The overall aim of this study is to advance social‐ecological restoration by assessing how cultural ecosystem services (CES) and landscape features (LF) are represented in social media posts about quarries in Germany, Denmark, and the Czech Republic. We focus on concepts of CES and LF to investigate the interactions between humans and restored ecosystems. Using a mixed‐methods approach, we analyzed 1,660 geotagged photographs from 50 quarries across three regions: Berlin, Roskilde, and the Czech Karst. Flickr social media data were analyzed to elicit the richness of CES and LF and to identify popular quarries. Our results indicate that rehabilitated quarries exhibit higher CES richness than abandoned or operational ones, and that accessibility significantly influences public engagement. Our study demonstrates that once primarily industrial sites, quarries can evolve into vibrant social‐ecological systems that provide diverse LF and CES. It also points to the potential of social media data for designing restoration efforts from a social‐ecological perspective. Such an approach provides insights into public perceptions of restored urban landscapes and may inform future restoration strategies
Increased expression of FBW7 may improve the prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma after pemetrexed chemotherapy by transforming the epithelial-to-mesenchymal process
No full textPrefrontal Cortical Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Acute Pain Assessment in Infants: A Feasibility Study
No full textBackground: Assessing pain in infants is challenging due to their inability to communicate discomfort. Accurate pain evaluation is essential, as unaddressed pain might lead to long-term neurological consequences. This study investigates the use of conventional two-site near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to evaluate hemodynamic responses in the prefrontal cortex during nociceptive stimuli. Methods: Data were prospectively collected from ten infants undergoing elective heel lance/squeeze (HLS) after surgery. Continuous bilateral NIRS oxygenation monitoring was performed alongside cardiorespiratory and behavioral (Children’s and Infant’s Postoperative Pain Score (CHIPPS)) pain assessments before, during, and after HLS. The primary outcome was the correlation between NIRS response and CHIPPS. Results: The average gestational and postnatal ages were 39 weeks and 49 days. No significant changes in prefrontal oxygenation levels (left, right, combined, ipsilateral, contralateral) were observed during the first ten seconds of HLS compared with baseline. Although CHIPPS and heart rates increased, oxygenation levels remained unchanged throughout the entire HLS event. Significant fluctuations in oxygenation levels from baseline were recorded across all optode configurations, with changes in the lowest oxygenation levels at the contralateral and left hemispheres inversely correlated with CHIPPS and HR changes. Conclusions: While there were subtle alterations in NIRS signals suggesting potential nociceptive-evoked changes, these were inconclusive. By design, the utilized two-site conventional NIRS system may not effectively detect acute pain. Future studies on prefrontal cortical pain processing could benefit from confirmatory NIRS signals from the primary somatosensory and motor regions. Integrating data from fNIRS, fMRI, EEG, along with sympathetic indicators like skin conductance and heart rate variability, would improve the quantification of cortical pain processing in non-verbal infants
JenaTron - An Experimental Approach to Study the Effects of Plant History and Soil History on Grassland Ecosystem Functioning
No full textGRB 221009A: The B.O.A.T. Burst that Shines in Gamma Rays
No full textAbstract We present a complete analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data of GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected. The burst emission above 30 MeV detected by the LAT preceded, by 1 s, the low-energy (<10 MeV) pulse that triggered the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM), as has been observed in other GRBs. The prompt phase of GRB 221009A lasted a few hundred seconds. It was so bright that we identify a bad time interval of 64 s caused by the extremely high flux of hard X-rays and soft gamma rays, during which the event reconstruction efficiency was poor and the dead time fraction quite high. The late-time emission decayed as a power law, but the extrapolation of the late-time emission during the first 450 s suggests that the afterglow started during the prompt emission. We also found that high-energy events observed by the LAT are incompatible with synchrotron origin, and, during the prompt emission, are more likely related to an extra component identified as synchrotron self-Compton (SSC). A remarkable 400 GeV photon, detected by the LAT 33 ks after the GBM trigger and directionally consistent with the location of GRB 221009A, is hard to explain as a product of SSC or TeV electromagnetic cascades, and the process responsible for its origin is uncertain. Because of its proximity and energetic nature, GRB 221009A is an extremely rare event
Deep Brain Stimulation of the VIM for Tremor in a Patient with POLR3A-Associated Cerebellar Syndrome Without Long-Term Benefit
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Tree diversity affects temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in rhizosphere
No full textNational Natural Science Foundation of China http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004735Key Research and Development Program of Hunan Provinc
Soil Aggregates Mediate the Thermal Response of Soil Carbon Mineralization and Microbial Enzyme Activity
No full textKey Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100022963United Arab Emirates University http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006013RUDN University http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/50110001864
