Over the past few months, the Irrigation Department and the House Committee Review of Integrated River Basin Management have been heavily promoting an inter-basin water diversion scheme. Planned projects will divert water across Thailand, incorporating international river basins, including the Mekong and Salween, to address "water shortages" in Thailand.
If the city's air quality over the past few years is any guide, the haze season is fast approaching, which usually sets off a PM2.5 crisis. Haze season is the outcome of a combination of man-made environmental destruction paired with the forces of nature. During this season, low air pressure from China causes air stagnation, which leads to more air pollution as particles from factory emissions and...
A political crisis seems unavoidable after politicians in the government coalition and the military-appointed Senate colluded in a charter rewrite vote which, in effect, slows down the rewrite process by another month.
by Soumya Panigrahi, Bonnie Chen, Mike Fang, Daria Potashnikova, Alexey A. Komissarov, Anna Lebedeva, Gillian M. Michaelson, Jonathan M. Wyrick, Stephen R. Morris, Scott F. Sieg, Mirko Paiardini, Francois J. Villinger, Karem Harth, Vikram S. Kashyap, Mark J. Cameron, Cheryl M. Cameron, Elena Vasilieva, Leonid Margolis, Souheil-Antoine Younes, Nicholas T. Funderburg, David A. Zidar, Michael M. Lederman, Michael L. Freeman
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by Gang Yu, Liu Xian, Hao Xue, Wenjia Yu, Jose S. Rufian, Yuying Sang, Rafael J. L. Morcillo, Yaru Wang, Alberto P. Macho
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by Jia Xue, Junxiang Chen, Chen Chen, Chengda Zheng, Sijia Li, Tingshao Zhu
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by Klaus Berek, Harald Hegen, Michael Auer, Anne Zinganell, Franziska Di Pauli, Florian Deisenhammer
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by Evan McNabb, Azza Al-Mahrouki, Niki Law, Scott McKay, Christine Tarapacki, Farah Hussein, Gregory J. Czarnota
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by Leon Weninger, Chuh-Hyoun Na, Kerstin Jütten, Dorit Merhof
Diffusion-weighted MRI makes it possible to quantify subvoxel brain microstructure and to reconstruct white matter fiber trajectories with which structural connectomes can be created. However, at the border between cerebrospinal fluid and white matter, or in the presence of edema, the obtained MRI signal originates from both the cerebrospinal fluid as well as from the white matter partial volume. Diffusion tractography can be strongly... Читать дальше...
by Elsa Legris, John Galvin, Sylvie Roux, Jean-Marie Aoustin, David Bakhos
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by Yvonne M. H. Bruls, Yvo J. M. op den Kamp, Esther Phielix, Lucas Lindeboom, Bas Havekes, Gert Schaart, Esther Moonen-Kornips, Joachim E. Wildberger, Matthijs K. C. Hesselink, Patrick Schrauwen, Vera B. Schrauwen-Hinderling
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by Hua-Bao Sun, Yi-Ming Zhang, Li-Gui Huang, Qi-Nan Lai, Qun Mo, Xin-Zhou Ye, Tao Wang, Zhong-Zhen Zhu, Xiao-Lin Lv, Yan-Ji Luo, Shi-Ding Gao, Jin-Song Xu, Hao-Hao Zhu, Ting Li, Zhan-Ke Wang
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by Agnieszka Niedźwieńska, Józefina Sołga, Patrycja Zagaja, Magdalena Żołnierz
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by Kosuke Kajitani, Ikumi Higashijima, Kosuke Kaneko, Tomoko Matsushita, Hideaki Fukumori, Daewoong Kim
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by Lindsey E. Rustad, John L. Campbell, Charles T. Driscoll, Timothy J. Fahey, Peter M. Groffman, Paul G. Schaberg, Gary J. Hawley, Ian Halm, Frank Bowles, Wendy Leuenberger, Geoffrey Schwaner, Gabriel Winant, Brendan Leonardi
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by Donald A. Yee, William C. Glasgow, Nnaemeka F. Ezeakacha
Animals with complex life cycles have traits related to oviposition and juvenile survival that can respond to environmental factors in similar or dissimilar ways. We examined the preference-performance hypothesis (PPH), which states that females lacking parental care select juvenile habitats that maximize fitness, for two ubiquitous mosquito species, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus. Specifically, we examined if environmental... Читать дальше...
by Kazuma Miyatake, Ken Kumagai, Sosuke Imai, Yasuteru Yamaguchi, Yutaka Inaba
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by Belayneh Mengist, Mulugeta Tesfa, Bekalu Kassie
IntroductionGlobally, pneumonia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children which leads to over 156 million episodes and 14.9 million hospitalizations each year. Besides this fact, the recovery time and predictors of children’s hospitalization related to severe community-acquired pneumonia is not well known. Therefore, the aim of this study was to estimate the median time to recovery and its predictors among severe community-acquired... Читать дальше...
by Jean-Stephane Giraud, Melanie Doisne, Aurelie Chan Hew Wai, Catherine Majerholc, Erwan Fourn, Karine Sejean, Julie Trichereau, Brigitte Bonan, David Zucman
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by Chenxia Cheng, Qinqin Che, Shenghui Su, Yuan Liu, Yongzhang Wang, Xiaozhao Xu
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by Jean-Marc Jeckelmann, Hüseyin Ilgü, Patrick D. Bosshart, Dimitrios Fotiadis
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by Sehar-un-Nisa Hassan, Erum Memon, Mala Shahab, Sarwat Mumtaz
BackgroundPakistan and other developing countries need to address disparities in maternal health care and factors associated with it. This justifies tracking the progress on two important indicators ‘spousal violence’ and ‘maternal health care utilization’ to improve maternal health and achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for these nations.
ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to compare the data from the... Читать дальше...
by Louise Lundborg, Katarina Åberg, Anna Sandström, Andrea Discacciati, Ellen L. Tilden, Olof Stephansson, Mia Ahlberg
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by Mijuan Shi, Qiangxiang Zhang, Yongming Li, Wanting Zhang, Lanjie Liao, Yingyin Cheng, Yanxin Jiang, Xiaoli Huang, You Duan, Lei Xia, Weidong Ye, Yaping Wang, Xiao-Qin Xia
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by Ora Kofman, Anat Lan, Eynav Raykin, Ksenija Zega, Claude Brodski
The levels and activity of the enzyme paraoxonase 1 affect the vulnerability to the teratogenic effects of organophosphate pesticides. Mutant mice lacking the gene for paraoxonase1 (PON1-/-) are more susceptible to the toxic effects of chlorpyrifos, and were hypothesized to be more vulnerable to social behavior deficits induced by exposure to chlorpyrifos during gestation. Three experiments were performed comparing PON1-/-... Читать дальше...