Lower urinary tract symptoms, nocturia and overactive bladder in patients with depression and anxiety

Summary Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) remain highly prevalent worldwide, and are well known to negatively impact patients' quality of life, sleep and psychosocial wellbeing. Conversely, both depression and anxiety have been shown to have a negative effect on perception, development and prolongation of LUTS. This paper provides an overview of an association between the lower urinary tract symptoms, depression and anxiety. It also explores possible common mechanisms underlying the causes of both conditions. There has been a large body of evidence linking LUTS with anxiety and/or depression. Studies have documented not only a significant impact of LUTS on the psychosocial wellbeing, but also showed a strong negative effect of depression and anxiety on perception, development and prolongation of LUTS. High level of psychiatric morbidity has important implications on the appropriate management in patients with LUTS, as well as LUTS may have important implications on development and management of depression and anxiety. Therefore, clinicians should be aware of the bidirectional association between LUTS and anxiety and/or depression, as some patients may require a multidisciplinary approach and a combined treatment. The precise common mechanism underlying LUTS, depression and anxiety remain largely unknown and further research is needed to elucidate the underlying pathophysiological pathways

<scp>ReSurveyEurope</scp>: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

AbstractAimsWe introduce ReSurveyEurope — a new data source of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe, compiled by a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. We describe the scope of this initiative, provide an overview of currently available data, governance, data contribution rules, and accessibility. In addition, we outline further steps, including potential research questions.ResultsReSurveyEurope includes resurveyed vegetation plots from all habitats. Version 1.0 of ReSurveyEurope contains 283,135 observations (i.e., individual surveys of each plot) from 79,190 plots sampled in 449 independent resurvey projects. Of these, 62,139 (78%) are permanent plots, that is, marked in situ, or located with GPS, which allow for high spatial accuracy in resurvey. The remaining 17,051 (22%) plots are from studies in which plots from the initial survey could not be exactly relocated. Four data sets, which together account for 28,470 (36%) plots, provide only presence/absence information on plant species, while the remaining 50,720 (64%) plots contain abundance information (e.g., percentage cover or cover–abundance classes such as variants of the Braun‐Blanquet scale). The oldest plots were sampled in 1911 in the Swiss Alps, while most plots were sampled between 1950 and 2020.ConclusionsReSurveyEurope is a new resource to address a wide range of research questions on fine‐scale changes in European vegetation. The initiative is devoted to an inclusive and transparent governance and data usage approach, based on slightly adapted rules of the well‐established European Vegetation Archive (EVA). ReSurveyEurope data are ready for use, and proposals for analyses of the data set can be submitted at any time to the coordinators. Still, further data contributions are highly welcome.</jats:sec

The Odra valley: problems of sustainable development

The Odra is the second largest river in Poland. The same applies to its basin. It is also one of major European rivers. For over 50 years related research programmes have focused on the economic aspects and pollution. Only recently new perspectives have been developed, emphasising the river's recreational potential and environmental protection. The new approach, integrating flood control with pollution control and environmental protection, has been empasised to foster sustainable growth in the river valley. At present, the principal objectives are: - Flood control. Its importance has been generally acknowledged. In this context, the benefits of the open landscape of the Odra valley cannot be overestimated: it is possible to create large retention areas and retain foold water within the valley to protect densely populated areas. - Pollution control and water retention for consumption and industrial purposes. This is the second most important goal, requiring large investemnts (municipal, industrial and household sewage treatment plants) and a creative planning vision. - Development and promotion of the recreational and tourist potential of the Odra valley. This direction is considered very attractive by local authorities and residents but requires considerable investement to became reality. - Environmental protection. Within the Odra valley, also outside Poland, there are 56 regions (occupying 2000 hectares) of very high natural value. Together with other areas, they form the North-South ecological corridor, second only to that of the Vistula river. - Navigation and power industry. There has been a general agreement about the continued use of the Odra for navigation, roviding that the development of water transport respects the river's hydrogeological conditions. The need to promote the "white fleet", as less harmful to the environment, has been emphasised. Thus, the priorities are clear and generally accepted but so far there is no comprehensive vision of the development of the Oder and its valley. Who will present it

In vitro propagation and ex situ preservation of endangered ferns from Lower Silesia

<p>Cite this:</p> <p>Kromer K., Marszał-Jagacka J., Kempińska K., Nowak T., Żołnierz L., Poturała D., Świerkosz K. 2006. In vitro propagation and ex situ preservation of endangered ferns from Lower Silesia. [in:] H. Piękoś-Mirkowa & E. Zenkteler [eds.] Conservation-related problems of pteridophytes in Poland. - Botanical Guidebooks 29: 143-155. W Szafer Institute of Botany, Kraków.</p

Ladder spleenwort (Asplenium adulterinum Milde) in Poland–distribution, population state and conservation plan framework

<p>Ladder spleenwort Asplenium adulterinum Milde (Aspleniaceae) is the rare fern, since long time believed to be one of species which determine distinctive character of Lower Silesian flora (e.g. Pax 1915, Szafer 1972). A. adulterinum was considered as a European endemic species (Reichstein 1984) but it has been found also on the Vancouver Island at the west coast of Canada Käsermann (1999), Klinkenberg (2008). Its European sites are concentrated in the Alpine area and in the Middle European mountain ranges of the Hercynian orogeny. The species range comprises also isolated sites scattered through the Fennoscandia as well as on the Balkan Peninsula (Jalas and Suominen 1972). The species is almost strictly related to serpentine rocks and only exceptionally occurs on the other substrata. Lower Silesia is the only region in Poland with the serpentine outcrops and therefore is also only area of A. adulterinum occurrence in the country. The species is regarded as seriously threatened with the IUCN category from EN – endangered (Żołnierz 2001; Fabiszewski, Kwiatkowski 2002) to CR – critically endangered (Świerkosz, Szczęśniak 2003). The category CR is also attributed to A. adulterinum in Czech Republic and Slovakia (Čeřovský, Klaudisová 1999). Ladder spleenwort was included in the list of species, which has been proposed by Poland to expand the appendix II of the Habitat Directive (92/43/EEC Directive) as Species of Community Interest whose conservation requires the designation of Special Areas of Conservation. It also listed in Annex IV between plans species need of strict protection in all European Union country. From this reason in Poland law Asplenium adulterinum is listed as species which not only need protection, but also establishing of special protection zone around the each locality is necessary.</p

Collections of Rubiaceae in Poland

<p>A poster presented at Third International Rubiaceae Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 2006 year. </p> <p>The aim of this study was a preliminary analysis of the resources of Rubiaceae in the Polish herbaria. From about 60 herbaria connected with scientific institutions we have chosen four which are well known for their international collections.The materials from POZG, WRSL and WA were databased and summarised.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p