Grazing impact on soil chemical and biological properties under different plant cover types in a mountain area of Southern Italy.

Grazing can contribute to soil degradation by compaction due to roaming of livestock and loss of herbaceous cover, affecting also soil microbial community. Aim of this study was to assess grazing impact on soil microbial community and nutrient status under different plant cover types (i.e., fernery, chestnut wood, garigue). Grazed and ungrazed soils were analysed for water holding capacity, pH, organic carbon, N, S, K, Mg, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu content, microbial biomass, fungal mycelium and potential respiration. Moreover, some ecophysiological indices, as microbial quotient, coefficient of endogenous mineralization (CEM), metabolic quotient (qCO2) and fungal fraction of microbial carbon were calculated. The results of present study showed that a moderate intensity grazing had low or no impact on chemical characteristics of soils and affects microbial community mainly in grazed areas with lower vegetation cover and lower content of nutrient and organic carbon, compared to areas with a thick layer of vegetation

West J Nurs Res

Affordable measurement of core body temperature (T|) in a continuous, real-time fashion is now possible. With this advance comes a new data analysis paradigm for occupational epidemiology. We characterize issues arising after obtaining T| data over 188 workdays for 83 participating farmworkers, a population vulnerable to effects of rising temperatures due to climate change. We describe a novel approach to these data using smoothing and functional data analysis. This approach highlights different data aspects compared with describing T| at a single time point or summaries of the time course into an indicator function (e.g., did T| ever exceed 38 \ub0C, the threshold limit value for occupational heat exposure). Participants working in ferneries had significantly higher T| at some point during the workday compared with those working in nurseries, despite a shorter workday for fernery participants. Our results typify the challenges and opportunities in analyzing Big Data streams from real-time physiologic monitoring.R01 OH010657/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United StatesT32 NR012715/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States2018-04-18T00:00:00Z27756853PMC57974917184vault:2081

Pteridologist

Index v.3 (1996-2001

State College Times, February 18, 1932

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House Plants

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Spartan Daily, May 25, 1953

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Pteridologist

Index v.2 (1990-1995

Spartan Daily, March 18, 1991

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Colonist, 1887-04-14

The Colonist began on 6 March 1886, changing its name to The Newfoundland Colonist after 18 July 1891. Having printed local and international news Monday to Saturday for six years, the paper came to an abrupt end when its offices were destroyed in The Great Fire of 8 July 1892.Title variations recorded in Alternative Title, as needed