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    Broadly protective vaccine for Staphylococcus aureus based on an in vivo-expressed antigen (1999)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1999-05-29
    Description: Vaccines based on preferential expression of bacterial antigens during human infection have not been described. Staphylococcus aureus synthesized poly-N-succinyl beta-1-6 glucosamine (PNSG) as a surface polysaccharide during human and animal infection, but few strains expressed PNSG in vitro. All S. aureus strains examined carried genes for PNSG synthesis. Immunization protected mice against kidney infections and death from strains that produced little PNSG in vitro. Nonimmune infected animals made antibody to PNSG, but serial in vitro cultures of kidney isolates yielded mostly cells that did not produce PNSG. PNSG is a candidate for use in a vaccine to protect against S. aureus infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉McKenney, D -- Pouliot, K L -- Wang, Y -- Murthy, V -- Ulrich, M -- Doring, G -- Lee, J C -- Goldmann, D A -- Pier, G B -- AI2335/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 May 28;284(5419):1523-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10348739" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibodies, Bacterial/*biosynthesis/blood ; Bacterial Capsules/immunology ; Child ; Female ; Genes, Bacterial ; Humans ; Immunization, Passive ; Immunoglobulin G/biosynthesis/blood ; Kidney/immunology/microbiology ; Kidney Diseases/immunology/microbiology/prevention & control ; Mice ; Polysaccharides, Bacterial/biosynthesis/*immunology ; Rabbits ; Staphylococcal Infections/immunology/microbiology/*prevention & control ; Staphylococcal Vaccines/*immunology ; Staphylococcus aureus/genetics/*immunology ; Vaccination
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Tree vulnerability to climate change: improving exposure-based assessments using traits as indicators of sensitivity (2018)
    Wiley
    In: Ecosphere
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    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Description: Projected changes in climate conditions vary widely across Canada's 350 M ha of forests, and so does the capacity of forest species to cope with these changes (sensitivity). Development and prioritization of adaptation strategies for sustainable forest management will depend on integrated assessments of relative stand vulnerability. We developed species-specific indices of sensitivity to (1) drought-induced mortality and (2) migration failure, based on traits for 22 of the most abundant tree species in Canada. By combining this information with stand composition data and spatially explicit climate change projections, we were able to map Canadian forest vulnerability to drought and migration failure. Our maps show forest vulnerability changing rapidly under a high carbon emission scenario (RCP 8.5) between short- (2011–2040), medium- (2041–2070), and long-term projections (2071–2100). Several zones of special concern emerged based on the biomass involved, stand sensitivity, and vulnerability trends across time. Boreal forests in the central regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan appeared most vulnerable to drought-induced mortality in the mid to long term. In the short term, distance to suitable habitat is projected to shift quickly along latitudinal gradients, particularly in Central Canada, while zones of vulnerability to migration failure appeared across the Rockies region in the long term as suitable conditions disappear from mountainous areas. This spatial assessment of vulnerability, which integrates species-specific sensitivity, highlights important regional contrasts between vulnerability to drought (from high exposure, high proportion of sensitive species, or both) and to migration failure. By affecting either species’ ability to persist in place or to migrate, different climate change impacts can yield distinct biotic responses, with important implications for regional climate change adaptation strategies. Multi-faceted vulnerability assessments, integrating both exposure and sensitivity indices specific to expected impacts of climate change, have the potential to provide crucial information to managers. We discuss some of these implications, explore the current limitations of our approach, and suggest a path forward.
    Electronic ISSN: 2150-8925
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
    Published by Wiley on behalf of The Ecological Society of America (ESA).
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    An economic comparison of black spruce and jack pine tree improvement
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Forest Ecology and Management 50 (1992), S. 85-101 
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    ISSN: 0378-1127
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Biology , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1127(92)90316-2
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    Laser photolysis of HNO3 at 222 nm: Direct determination of the primary quantum yield of OH (1986)
    College Park, Md. : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    The Journal of Chemical Physics 84 (1986), S. 6662-6667 
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    ISSN: 1089-7690
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: A method has been developed and used in the direct determination of the primary quantum yield of OH in the laser photolysis of nitric acid at 222 nm. The amount of laser light absorbed was determined with a calibrated disk calorimeter. The amount of OH produced was determined by absorption spectroscopy using the resonance line at 308.3 nm and a published value of its line strength. The primary quantum yield of OH at 296 K was found to be 0.89±0.08 (95% confidence interval) with an uncertainty of +17%, −8% due to potential systematic errors. Within the experimental uncertainty, this result is consistent with a previous determination of a quantum yield of unity for the other product of photolysis, NO2.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.450719
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    Excitation of hydrogen flourescence through near resonant energy transfer from argon
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Chemical Physics 26 (1977), S. 141-147 
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    ISSN: 0301-0104
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0301-0104(77)87100-0
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    The solvent extraction preconcentration and atomic absorption determination of cadmium in natural waters (1983)
    Springer
    Microchimica acta 80 (1983), S. 415-420 
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    ISSN: 1436-5073
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Nach Reaktion mit Diethyldithiocarbamat wird Cadmium aus 5 1 Wasser mit Chloroform extrahiert und durch Flammenabsorptions-Spektro-metrie bestimmt. Die Analyse von Wasserproben aus dem großen Seengebiet sowie des Grundwassers aus Essex, Ontario, zeigt, daß Cadmium in der Größenordnung von 0,1–1,0 ppb vorkommt.
    Notes: Summary Cadmium is extracted from 5 liters of water into chloroform after reaction with diethyldithiocarbamate and determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Analysis of the Great Lakes system and ground waters of Essex County, Ontario, indicate that the distribution of cadmium is in the range 0.1–1.0 ppb.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01202019
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    Climate Change and Forest Fire Potential in Russian and Canadian Boreal Forests (1998)
    Springer
    Climatic change 38 (1998), S. 1-13 
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    ISSN: 1573-1480
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Abstract In this study outputs from four current General Circulation Models (GCMs) were used to project forest fire danger levels in Canada and Russia under a warmer climate. Temperature and precipitation anomalies between 1 × CO2 and 2 × CO2 runs were combined with baseline observed weather data for both countries for the 1980–1989 period. Forecast seasonal fire weather severity was similar for the four GCMs, indicating large increases in the areal extent of extreme fire danger in both countries under a 2 × CO2 climate scenario. A monthly analysis, using the Canadian GCM, showed an earlier start to the fire season, and significant increases in the area experiencing high to extreme fire danger in both Canada and Russia, particularly during June and July. Climate change as forecast has serious implications for forest fire management in both countries. More severe fire weather, coupled with continued economic constraints and downsizing, mean more fire activity in the future is a virtual certainty. The likely response will be a restructuring of protection priorities to support more intensive protection of smaller, high-value areas, and a return to natural fire regimes over larger areas of both Canada and Russia, with resultant significant impacts on the carbon budget.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005306001055
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    Wood ash as a soil amendment in Canadian forests: what are the barriers to utilization? (2018)
    Canadian Science Publishing
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    Publication Date: 2018-04-01
    Description: The contribution of forest biomass to Canada’s energy production is small but growing. As the forest bioenergy industry in Canada expands, there is growing interest in more sustainably managing the wood ash that is generated as a by-product. Despite being rich in nutrients, wood ash is usually landfilled in Canada. Soil applications of ash in Canadian forests could be used to mimic some of the effects of wildfire, to replace nutrients removed during harvesting, to counteract the negative effects of acid deposition, and to improve tree growth. At present, the provincial and territorial processes for obtaining regulatory approval to use wood ash as a forest soil amendment can be challenging to navigate. Furthermore, the costs for obtaining approval and transporting and applying wood ash to the soil can render landfilling a more cost-effective method of ash management. To ensure that wood ash applications in Canadian forests are conducted safely, effectively, and efficiently, experience from European countries could provide a useful starting point for developing best practices. The results of Canadian research trials will assist policy makers and forest managers in refining management guidelines that encourage soil applications of wood ash as a forest management tool while protecting the ecology, water quality, biodiversity, and productivity of Canadian forests.
    Print ISSN: 0045-5067
    Electronic ISSN: 1208-6037
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Published by Canadian Science Publishing
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    A spatial, climate-determined risk rating for Scleroderris disease of pines in Ontario (1998)
    Canadian Science Publishing
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    Publication Date: 1998-09-01
    Description: We used historical distribution data of Scleroderris disease (caused by the fungus Gremmeniella abietina var. abietina (Lagerb.) Morelet) in Ontario to model its probability of occurrence as a function of climate factors. A logistic regression model of the probability of occurrence as a function of the mean temperature of the coldest quarter and the precipitation of the coldest quarter was a very good fit. The concordance (index of classification accuracy) of the model was 84%. We subsampled the data repeatedly, generated new parameter estimates, and tested the predictions against data not included in the model. Classification accuracy was similar for each subsample model; therefore, we concluded that the final model is stable. Gridded estimates of the climate variables were used to spatially extend the two-variable logistic regression model and produce a probability of occurrence map for Scleroderris disease across Ontario. The predicted map of probability of occurrence fits well with the map of the observed locations of the disease. These results lend credence to previous work that suggests that distribution of Scleroderris disease is strongly influenced by climate. The classification results also suggest that this model is a useful tool for assessing the risk of Scleroderris disease throughout Ontario.
    Print ISSN: 0045-5067
    Electronic ISSN: 1208-6037
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Published by Canadian Science Publishing
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    Influence of compost source on corn grain yields, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions in southwestern Ontario (2014)
    Canadian Science Publishing
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    Publication Date: 2014-08-01
    Description: Drury, C. F., Reynolds, W. D., Yang, X. M., Tan, C. S., Guo, X., McKenney, D. J., Fleming, R. and Denholme, K. 2014. Influence of compost source on corn grain yields, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions in southwestern Ontario. Can. J. Soil Sci. 94: 347–355. The impacts of compost type on corn grain yields over 10 yr and N2O and CO2 emissions in the first 3 yr after compost application were evaluated on a Brookston clay loam soil in Woodslee, ON. The treatments included yard waste compost (YWC), kitchen food waste compost (FWC), and pig manure compost (PMC), which were applied once in the fall of 1998 to field plots at a rate of 75 Mg ha−1 (dry weight basis) and no further applications occurred thereafter as well as a fertilized control treatment. Large application rates were examined to see if the various compost sources could have a lasting effect on soil C storage, N2O and CO2 emissions and corn yields. Compost application significantly increased corn grain yields by 12.9 to 19.4% over 3 yr. However, after 10 yr, FWC was the only compost source which significantly increased yields by 11.3% compared with the fertilized control. Emissions of N2O and CO2 varied with compost type, soil water content and time. Greater N2O emissions occurred in 1999 from PMC (5.4 kg N ha−1) than YWC (2.7 kg N ha−1) and FWC (1.3 kg N ha−1); however, the N2O emissions from the PMC were less than from YWC and FWC in 2001. The 3-yr average N2O emissions were significantly greater with PMC (2.7 kg N ha−1) and YWC (2.5 kg N ha−1) compared with the control (1.5 kg N ha−1). Hence, the timing of N2O emissions varied by compost type, but the overall losses were similar as the higher N2O losses in the first year with PMC were offset by the reduced losses with PMC in the third year. Significantly more CO2 was produced from the FWC in 2000 and from PMC in 2001 than the control.
    Print ISSN: 0008-4271
    Electronic ISSN: 1918-1841
    Topics: Geosciences , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
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