Dronova, I Taddeo, S Hemes, KS Knox, SH Valach, A Oikawa, PY Kasak, K Baldocchi, DD
© 2020 Seasonal phenological dynamics of vegetation hold important clues on ecosystem performance towards management goals, such as carbon uptake, and thus should be considered in projections of their targeted services. However, in wetlands spatio-temporal heterogeneity due to mixing of open water, soil, green and dead vegetation makes it difficult...
Fei, Z Vougioukas, SG
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Harvest-aid platforms are used in modern orchards to improve manual harvesting efficiency, safety, and ergonomics. Typically, workers stand at pre-set heights on a platform's multi-level deck, and each worker harvests fruits inside a canopy zone that is defined by the lowest and highest reach of the worker's arms. However, frui...
Laffoley, D Baxter, JM Amon, DJ Claudet, J Hall-Spencer, JM Grorud-Colvert, K Levin, LA Reid, PC Rogers, AD Taylor, ML
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The ocean is the linchpin supporting life on Earth, but it is in declining health due to an increasing footprint of human use and climate change. Despite notable successes in helping to protect the ocean, the scale of actions is simply not now meeting the overriding scale and nature of the ocean's problems that confront us.Moving into a post-COVID-...
Ehrlich, Amy M Pacheco, Alline R Henrick, Bethany M Taft, Diana Xu, Gege Huda, M Nazmul Mishchuk, Darya Goodson, Michael L Slupsky, Carolyn Barile, Daniela
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BackgroundBifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis (B. infantis) is a commensal bacterium that colonizes the gastrointestinal tract of breast-fed infants. B. infantis can efficiently utilize the abundant supply of oligosaccharides found in human milk (HMO) to help establish residence. We hypothesized that metabolites from B. infantis grown on HMO pro...
Bakkour, Sonia Deng, Xutao Bacchetti, Peter Grebe, Eduard Montalvo, Leilani Worlock, Andrew Stone, Mars Deeks, Steven G Richman, Douglas D Busch, Michael P
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Detection of residual plasma viremia in antiretroviral therapy (ART)-suppressed HIV-infected individuals is critical for characterizing the latent reservoir and evaluating the impact of cure interventions. Ultracentrifugation-based single-copy assays are sensitive but labor intensive. Fully automated replicate testing using a standard clinical vira...
Céspedes, Nora Donnelly, Erinn Garrison, Sarah Haapanen, Lori Van De Water, Judy Luckhart, Shirley
Malaria strongly predisposes to bacteremia, which is associated with sequestration of parasitized red blood cells and increased gastrointestinal permeability. The mechanisms underlying this disruption are poorly understood. Here, we evaluated the expression of factors associated with mast cell activation and malaria-associated bacteremia in a roden...
Vrancken, Bram Zhao, Bin Li, Xingguang Han, Xiaoxu Liu, Haizhou Zhao, Jin Zhong, Ping Lin, Yi Zai, Junjie Liu, Mingchen
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The HIV epidemic in China accounts for 3% of the global HIV incidence. We compared the patterns and determinants of interprovincial spread of the five most prevalent circulating types. HIV pol sequences sampled across China were used to identify relevant transmission networks of the five most relevant HIV-1 types (B and circulating recombinant form...
Peng, C Vougioukas, SG
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Manual harvesting of fresh-market crops like strawberries is very labor-intensive. Apart from picking fruits, pickers spend significant amounts of time carrying full trays to a collection station at the edge of the field. Small teams of harvest-aid robots that help large picking crews by transporting empty and full trays can in...
Gan, Junai Zhang, Zhichao Kurudimov, Karina German, J Bruce Taha, Ameer Y
Human milk contains oxylipins involved in infant development. Although oxylipins have been identified in whole or skim milk, their localization within human milk cream, cell, and skim fractions is not known. This study determined the distribution of free and esterified oxylipins in cream, cell, and skim fractions of human milk. Out of 72 oxylipins ...
Parker, Travis A de Sousa, Lorenna Lopes de Oliveira Floriani, Talissa Palkovic, Antonia Gepts, Paul
Key messageA common bean shattering-resistance allele of PvPdh1 reduces pod twists during dehiscence, shows dominance that varies by phenotyping method, is part of a selective sweep, and can be introgressed using CAPS markers. Some varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) suffer from pod shattering, which can severely reduce yields, especia...