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Soil organic matter dynamics and quality during a wheat-clover rotation in a semiarid haplustoll
No full textSeveral studies have reported modifications in soil chemical and physical parameters under rotations with legume inclusion. This modification had the potential of improving soil fertility and grain production. The objective of this research was to evaluate changes in the distribution and quality of soil organic fractions during a 3 year wheat (Triticum aestivum) - 3 year red clover (Trifolium pratense) rotation. Soil samples at 0 - 0.15 m depth were taken in five of the six year rotation. Organic fractions, physically (particulate organic carbon, COP) and chemically (humic and fulvic acids, AH and AF, respectively) separated were determined and chemically and spectrometrically characterised. The quantity and distribution of the organic fractions were different along the rotation. The more labile soil organic matter fractions, COP and AF, were higher during legume phase and diminished during wheat phase. This decrease of labile relative to recalcitrant organic matter resulted in significative differences in COP:total organic carbon (COT) and AH:AF ratios between wheat and clover phase. The COP:COT ratios were lower than 19 under wheat and higher than 21 under clover. The AH presented higher nitrogen and lower sulphur contents during clover phase, while the opposite was observed during wheat phase. This compositional changes were clearly reflected by the N:S and C:S atomic ratios. Total acidity in AH was slightly increased during the legume phase, as a consequence of the significative increase in -OH phenolic groups. Infrared and fluorescence spectra of the AH from soils under wheat and clover were similar among them, probably due to the short rotation period that produce only minor changes in the AH molecular structure. Legume inclusion in the rotation increased labile organic matter fractions and modified the composition of the recalcitrant ones. Both changes would improve soil fertility and grain production
Role of genotyping in non-small cell lung cancer treatment: current status.
No full textI.F.: 4.226 Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a common malignant disease with an extremely poor prognosis. Chemotherapeutic treatment for advanced disease is currently based on histological subtyping, but recent discoveries of genetic alterations in subsets of NSCLC have already changed clinical practice with regard to Egfr mutations as predictive markers of response to gefitinib and erlotinib. This has also paved the way for the integration of molecular analyses into early phase clinical trials, as demonstrated by the clinical development of crizotinib, effective in lung cancer harbouring Alk rearrangements. Similarly, other subgroups of NSCLC carry potentially targetable molecular alterations and their study has the potential to change the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to lung cancer in the near future. In contrast to a wealth of knowledge surrounding genomic alterations in lung adenocarcinomas, fewer data are available concerning squamous cell lung cancer (SCC), although recent data demonstrate that genotyping can provide new therapeutic perspectives in SCC treatment. Moreover, the study of molecular predictive markers of response to chemotherapy aims to improve chemotherapeutic treatment, increasing efficacy and limiting toxicity
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Textural influence on quantity and quality of different organic fractions in semiarid pampa soils
No full textIntroduction to the special issue “Short-term occupations and prehistoric human mobility”
No full textIntroduction to the special issue “Short-term occupations and prehistoric human mobility
Influence of texture on nitrogen and sulphur status and organic matter distribution and quality in semiarid Pampean grassland soil of Argentina
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Towards a determination of the chiral couplings at NLO in 1/N-C: L-8(r)(μ) and C-38(r)(μ)
No full text14 pages.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000244120200039.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610290We present a dispersive method which allows to investigate the low-energy couplings of chiral perturbation theory at the next-to-leading order (NLO) in the 1/Nc expansion, keeping full control of their renormalization scale dependence. Using the resonance chiral theory Lagrangian, we perform a NLO calculation of the scalar and pseudoscalar two-point functions, within the single-resonance approximation. Imposing the correct QCD short-distance constraints, one determines their difference Π(t) equivalent to ΠS(t)-ΠP(t) in terms of the pion decay constant and resonance masses. Its low momentum expansion fixes then the low-energy chiral couplings L-8 and C-38. At μ(0) = 0.77 GeV, we obtain L-8(r)(μ(0))(SU(3)) = (0.6 ± 0.4)·10(-3) and C-38(r)(μ(0))(SU(3)) = (2 ± 6)·10(-6).This work has been supported in part by China National Natural Science Foundation under grants 10575002 and 10421503, by the EU MRTN-CT-2006-035482 (FLAVIAnet), by MEC (Spain) under grant FPA2004-00996 and by Generalitat Valenciana under grants ACOMP06/098 and GV05/015.Peer reviewe
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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