Landslides caused by rainfall BNF are one of the most frequent causes of disasters in tropical countries and mountainous terrain and can block rivers generating landslide dams.This paper presents a methodology for the estimation of the obstruction of water streams generated by rainfall-induced shallow landslides.The spatial distribution of the land

Intranasal medications are used to treat various nasal disorders.However, their effects on olfaction remain unknown.Zicam (zinc gluconate; Matrixx Initiatives, Inc), a homeopathic substance marketed Skin Lighteners to alleviate cold symptoms, has been implicated in olfactory dysfunction.Here, we investigated Zicam and several common intranasal agen

Vocal signals such as calls play a crucial role for survival and successful reproduction, especially in group-living animals.However, call interactions and call dynamics within groups remain largely unexplored because their relation to relevant contexts or life-history stages could not be studied with Catch individual-level resolution.Using on-bird

Summary: Dopaminergic (DA) neurons have been implicated as key targets in neurological disorders, notably those involving locomotor impairment, and are considered to be highly vulnerable to mitochondrial dysfunction, a common feature of such diseases.Here we investigated a Drosophila model of locomotor disorders in which functional impairment is br

Abstract Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is mostly caused by homozygous deletions in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene.SMN2, its paralogous gene, is a genetic modifier of the disease phenotype, and its copy number is correlated with SMA severity.The purpose of the study was to investigate the number of copies of the SMN1 and SMN2 gen