<p><i>Background: </i>China's two-child policy has led to a trend of aging in pregnancy which was associated with adverse outcomes. This study aimed to identify the clinically cutoff maternal age for adverse obstetric outcomes in China. <p><i>Methods: </i>This secondary analysis of a multicenter retrospective cohort study included data of childbearing women from 39 hospitals collected in urban China ...

Aphids are major crop pests that are feeding on plant sap and transmitting plant viruses, thus inducing high yield losses worldwide. As chemical pesticides are decreasingly used in plant protection, fungi that cause disease to insects (entomopathogenic fungi) are one of the promising alternatives. They are commonly applied by spraying plants to protect them against herbivores. When applied, some ...

The classical steroid receptors (nuclear receptors), including those for progesterone (nPRs), are thoroughly characterized. The knowledge about so-called non-genomic effects, which are mediated by extra-nuclear initiated signals, has increased immensely the last decades. In a previous clinical study of endometrial hyperplasia, we observed that the antiproliferative progestin effect persisted after ...

Market measures in general command a degree of support by the international community, and have in particular become part of the global effort to prevent, deter, and eliminate IUU fishing. The EU, the largest market power in fish products in the world, is leading the way on this front, spear-heading country blacklisting mechanisms under the IUU and Non-Sustainable Fishing Regulations. Other important ...

Over the last 20 years there has been a large change in the fish community structure in Lille Rostavatn, northern Norway. The relative contribution of the cold-water adapted fish species, Arctic charr (<i>Salvelinus alpinus</i>) and burbot (<i>Lota lota</i>), has distinctly decreased whereas the more temperate-adapted fish species, grayling (<i>Thymallus thymallus</i>) and brown trout (<i>Salmo ...

<i>Purpose</i> - To investigate lifestyle in a population-based sample of long-term (≥ 5 years since diagnosis) young adult cancer survivors (YACSs), and explore factors associated with not meeting the lifestyle guidelines for physical activity (PA), body mass index (BMI), and smoking. <p> <p><i>Methods</i> - YACSs (<i>n</i> = 3558) diagnosed with breast cancer (BC), colorectal cancer (CRC), ...

Skandinavias glasiasjonshistorie er enda ikke kontinuerlig sammensatt for weichselistiden. I forhold til det fennoskandiske isskjoldet har nye studier avdekket alternative geokronologiske tolkninger for tidlig og midt weichsel i Nord-Sverige. Veikimorenelandskapet ble dannet over en stadial-interstadial syklus korrelert til tidlig weichsel av Lagerbäck (1988). Dette motstrides av moderne vitenskapelige ...

The first S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) degrading enzyme (SAMase) was discovered in bacteriophage T3, as a counter-defense against the bacterial restriction-modification system, and annotated as a SAM hydrolase forming 5’ methyl-thioadenosine (MTA) and L-homoserine. From environmental phages, we recently discovered three SAMases with barely detectable sequence similarity to T3 SAMase and without ...

We examine the response of the Community Earth System Model Versions 1 and 2 (CESM1 and CESM2) to abrupt quadrupling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations (4xCO2) and to 1% annually increasing CO2 concentrations (1%CO2). Different estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) for CESM1 and CESM2 are presented. All estimates show that the sensitivity of CESM2 has increased by 1.5 K or more over that ...