Published in Frontiers in Water
As watersheds are complex systems that are difficult to directly study, the streams that drain them are often sampled to search for watershed “signals.” These signals include the presence and/or abundance of isotopes, types of sediment, organisms (including pathogens), chemical compounds associated with ephemeral biogeochemical processes or anthrop...
Published in Molecular oncology
The complex mechanisms of ageing biology are increasingly understood. Interventions to reduce or delay ageing-associated diseases are emerging. Cancer is one of the diseases promoted by tissue ageing. A clockwise mutational signature is identified in many tumours. Ageing might be a modifiable cancer risk factor. To reduce the incidence of ageing-re...
Published in Frontiers in Pharmacology
Accumulated experimental data have suggested that natural plant products may be effective miRNA-modulating chemopreventive and therapeutic agents. Dietary polyphenols such as flavonoids, stilbenes, and lignans, among others, have been intensively studied for their miRNA-mediated cardioprotective, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer proper...
For a good interpretation of radar backscatter sensitivity to vegetation water dynamics, we need to know which parts of the vegetation layer control that backscatter. However, backscatter sensitivity to different depths in the canopy is poorly understood. This is partly caused by a lack of observational data to describe the vertical moisture distri...
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
The analysis of eye movements during motor imagery has been used to understand the influence of covert motor processes on visual-perceptual activity. There is evidence showing that gaze metrics seem to be affected by motor planning often dependent on the spatial and temporal characteristics of a task. However, previous research has focused on simul...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
While net precipitation entering the soil is commonly measured in woody ecosystems, there is a lack of field measurements for herbaceous vegetation. Small canopy heights and fragile stem structures are the primary challenges for net precipitation sampling in grasslands under field conditions. We designed a new in situ device, “interception tubes”, ...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Forest canopy closure affects snow processes by changing the redistribution of snowfall, snow interception, accumulation, sublimation, and melt. However, how the forest closure impacts snow processes at different periods has not been well explored. We conducted 3-year measurements of snow density and depth and carried out snow process calculations ...
Published in Human movement science
In two experiments we studied how participants steer to intercept uniformly moving targets in a virtual driving task under hypotheses-differentiating conditions of initial target eccentricity and target motion. In line with our re-analysis of findings from earlier studies, in both experiments the observed interception behavior could not be understo...
Published in Frontiers in Medicine
Psoriasis (PsO) and Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) are chronic, immune-mediated diseases that share common etiopathogenetic pathways. Up to 30% of PsO patient may later develop PsA. In nearly 75% of cases, skin psoriatic lesions precede arthritic symptoms, typically 10 years prior to the onset of joint symptoms, while PsO diagnosis occurring after the o...
Many goal-directed actions that require rapid visuomotor planning and perceptual decision-making are affected in older adults, causing difficulties in execution of many functional activities of daily living. Visuomotor planning and perceptual identification are mediated by the dorsal and ventral visual streams, respectively, but it is unclear how a...
