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Notes on Early Land Plants Today 89. Resurrection of Lepidozia parvula (Lepidoziaceae, Marchantiophyta)
Прилад для вимірювання розмірів деталей із низькомодульних матеріалів
Background: Enhanced secondary preventive follow-up after stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) is necessary for improved adherence to recommendations regarding blood pressure (BP) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. We investigated whether nurse-led, telephone-based follow-up was more efficient than usual care at improving BP and LDL-C levels at 12 months after hospital discharge. Methods: We randomized 537 patients to either nurse-led, telephone-based follow-up (intervention) or usual care (control). BP and LDL-C measurements were performed at 1 month (baseline) and 12 months post-discharge. Intervention group patients who did not meet target values at baseline received additional follow-up, including titration of medication and lifestyle counselling, to reach treatment goals (BP < 140/90 mmHg, LDL-C < 2.5 mmol/L). Results: At 12 months, mean systolic BP, diastolic BP and LDL-C was 3.3 (95% CI 0.3 to 6.3) mmHg, 2.3 mmHg (95% CI 0.5 to 4.2) and 0.3 mmol/L (95% CI 0.1 to 0.4) lower in the intervention group compared to controls. Among participants with values above the treatment goal at baseline, the difference in systolic BP and LDL-C was more pronounced (8.0 mmHg, 95% CI 4.0 to 12.1, and 0.6 mmol/L, 95% CI 0.4 to 0.9). A larger proportion of the intervention group reached the treatment goal for systolic BP (68.5 vs. 56.8%, p = 0.008) and LDL-C (69.7% vs. 50.4%, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Nurse-led, telephone-based secondary preventive follow-up, including medication adjustment, was significantly more efficient than usual care at improving BP and LDL-C levels by 12 months post-discharge
Notes on Early Land Plants Today 86. Trichocolea wattsiana, an earlier name for Trichocolea hatcheri and some technical lectotypifications
Notes on Early Land Plants Today 90. Some technical lectotypifications in liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
Twenty-two names of liverwort and hornwort taxa described from
Central America are lectotypified. Most of the taxa have been identified as types
earlier but not formally selected. Two taxa are supplementarily lectotypified as the
original lectotypification could be applied on more than one specimen
World checklist of hornworts and liverworts
A working checklist of accepted taxa worldwide is vital in achieving the goal of developing an online
flora of all known plants by 2020 as part of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. We here present
the first-ever worldwide checklist for liverworts (Marchantiophyta) and hornworts (Anthocerotophyta)
that includes 7486 species in 398 genera representing 92 families from the two phyla. The checklist
has far reaching implications and applications, including providing a valuable tool for taxonomists and
systematists, analyzing phytogeographic and diversity patterns, aiding in the assessment of floristic and taxonomic knowledge, and identifying geographical gaps in our understanding of the global liverwort
and hornwort flora. The checklist is derived from a working data set centralizing nomenclature, taxonomy
and geography on a global scale. Prior to this effort a lack of centralization has been a major
impediment for the study and analysis of species richness, conservation and systematic research at both
regional and global scales. The success of this checklist, initiated in 2008, has been underpinned by
its community approach involving taxonomic specialists working towards a consensus on taxonomy,
nomenclature and distribution.Copyright Lars Söderström et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCBY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Notes on Early Land Plants Today 87. Validation of two varieties of Lepidozia novae-zelandiae
Search for direct photons in p+Pb and p+C collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 17.4 GeV
Upper limits on direct photon production were determined as a function of the
transverse momentum for 0.7 < pT <= 3.2 GeV/c with the WA98 experiment in p+C
and p+Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 17.4 GeV. The results are compared to direct
photon measurements in Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 17.3 GeV by WA98.
Implications for a possible thermal direct photon contribution are discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Quark Matter
2008 conference, Jaipur, India, 4-10 Feb 200
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