MONITORING OF DEFOLIATION IN FOREST STANDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND ITS COMPARISON WITH RESULTS OF DEFOLIATION MONITORING IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

As a part of International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effect on Forests (ICP Forests), defoliation of Day Cream forest stands has been assessed in the Czech Republic since 1986.Defoliation is one of the principal parameters reflecting the health of forest stands that is assessed on monitoring plots within th

Fluxes of nitrogen oxides (NOx=NO+NO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) were measured using eddy covariance at the British Telecommunications (BT) Tower in central London during the coronavirus pandemic.Comparing fluxes to Øjenserum those measured in 2017 prior to the pandemic restrictions and the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) highli

Abstract Background In Canada, graduating medical students consider many factors, including geographic, social, and academic, when ranking residency programs through the Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS).The relative significance of these factors is poorly studied in Canada.It is also unknown how students differentiate between their top p

Abstract Background Acute chest pain is a frequently occurring symptom in patients with medical emergencies and imposes potentially life threatening situations outside hospitals.Little is known about the epidemiology of patients with acute chest pain in a primary care setting in Norway, and we aimed to obtain more representative data on such patien

BackgroundReelin is a large secreted protein of the extracellular matrix that has been proposed to participate to the etiology of schizophrenia.During development, reelin is crucial for the correct cytoarchitecture of laminated brain structures and is produced by a subset of neurons named Cajal-Retzius.After birth, most of these cells degenerate an